It's #NationalLibraryWeek! Take time to discover what brings you joy at your library: browse the shelves, join a book club, attend a program, or get started on your next creative project in a makerspace. Be sure to visit your library or ilovelibraries.org and celebrate your library all week long!

It’s April 18! You know what that means! In 1938 the world saw the first sustained appearance I one of the single greatest fictional characters to ever exist: LOIS LANE. Some other notable great chars also appeared in that same Action Comics #1. But none quite as awesome as Lois.

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science by Diana Turnbow www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths... #womeninstem #computerscience

Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure. Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. Died #OTD in 1958, age 37. #WomenInSTEM

April 16 is National Librarian Day in the US. To celebrate this day, we offer fifteen books and one film for those who love libraries and the people who make them places for everyone: the librarians. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/booklis...

Don't forget, April 16th is National Librarian Day in the U.S. If I were still working, I would appreciate gifts of chocolate. Maybe other librarians would too.

Rhode Island is working on a bill that would mandate school librarians in every building: rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/04/14/b...

Literally recreated the meme.

We must consider a Very Important Cat in Sabriel:

LB is a sleuth by accident by sheer dint of location and being immobile. Just like Miss Marple, that means he needs someone more able bodied to do his dirty work #RearWindow 5/

Honestly a miracle that Gothic heroines aren't dead in the first 5 pages with this logic: 'After revolving the circumstance more deeply, she believed it impossible that a person of his appearance should be engaged in a stratagem to betray a fellow-creature' He's cute! Couldn't possibly be evil!

One of my favorite books! 💙

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a trend...

Netflix has unveiled the voice cast and first look at Ray Gunn, the next animated film from The Incredibles and Ratatouille director Brad Bird. Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits will voice the “Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers" sci-fi detective movie. https://bit.ly/47PRoow

My wish for you: That you always feel safe and warm, and that you'll someday find a map in an old book that leads to secret libraries, hidden portals to other worlds, and all the best burrito spots in town.

2014 me vs me now

The IRENE system at the Library of Congress can be used to create a digital file of a record using optical imaging, without ever coming into physical contact with the item. It was recently used to scan a 94-year-old recording of an Amelia Earhart speech. Read more: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/04/...

“The first thing newsrooms can start by doing is making it ridiculously easy for their own journalists to discover their internal archives,” Lawal said. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/how-...

I'm heading to bed to snuggle down and read. Too tired to be vertical.

"What if my book never gets published?" What if it does, though? What if the cover is amazing, and you can go see it in the bookstore and point it out and say, "I wrote that"?

English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë died #OTD in 1855 at age 38. Her novel, 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘳𝘦, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. #litsky #booksky #WomensHistoryMonth

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie

Librarians are badass 🫡

Lobsters roll prices are approaching $50 at many local restaurants. There are several reasons for this, including the declining lobster catch and tariffs.” FIFTY DOLL HAIRS????? I like a lobster roll now and then but it will never be that serious for moi.

Just a friendly reminder to support and appreciate your local library ghost.

📚 Women have always been at the heart of books. Writing them, preserving them, reading them, and sharing them. Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the women who keep stories alive. #Bookish #LibbyApp #LibraryLove #LibraryJoy #Booksky

Beloved BBC comedy Ghosts is set to return with Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House, a new movie that starts shooting next month. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Pack your bags as Oscar goes to Italy tonight with a lineup of films exploring la dolce vita. We begin our journey with ROMAN HOLIDAY at 8pm ET.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

It's National Chocolate Mint Day! All things chocolate + mint. Marilyn Ricketts invented mint chocolate chip ice cream (as we know it today) in 1973 as a culinary student. She created the flavor, originally named "Mint Royale," for a competition to design a dessert for Princess Anne's wedding (UK).

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Going to use this as an opportunity to market my manuscript as romantasy. www.travelandleisure.com/rhode-island...

The mini Samantha Parkington doll on my desk and I are being very calm and rational about this news. www.americangirl.com/products/sam...

Still can't believe this is (a) real and (b) live action.

If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/

Dancing Moka coffee pots at the Olympics opening ceremony! Italy, I love you

Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate in this event tomorrow, but I love this concept as an incessant snacker who makes food an integral part of every manuscript. Best of luck to my fellow foodie writers! These are the four food groups of my latest mystery:

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

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A Wrinkle in Time & Ella Enchanted

'Gaslight' comes from a play and movie of the same name in which a man attempts to trick his wife into believing that she is going insane. We promise we're telling the truth.

#OTD in 1934, Agatha Christie's 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 was first published. Christie is the world’s best-selling fiction writer and, per UNESCO, is the most-translated author in history. #literature #litsky #booksky #HappyNewYear