Norwescon panel But is it a Romantasy? @amandacherry.bsky.social @kendareblake.bsky.social

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Norwescon @tkingfisher.com & @inktofilm.bsky.social

Norwescon panels on authenticity and myth

HOPEFUL MONSTERS is one of my favorite novels and much of it and Mosley’s other writing was a reckoning with having a fascist father.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Just read LOST LAMBS by Madeline Cash, a quirky debut about an imploding family. The overall tone reminded me of Barbara Gowdy’s MR. SANDMAN, a novel I always meant to read that is hard to find these days. Anyone read both? Curious if I am correct about this read-alike hunch!

This.

I think about this a lot.

Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Wait, Friday March 13th? Didn't we already have a Friday the 13th? I looked over the calendar year and there's a Friday the 13th in November as well. It's numbers and stuff, it could be nothing. It could also be everything: Make what you will of it.

Love Molly’s Mark as Read columns for @reactorsff.bsky.social The divide between so-called “literary” & genre works persists, sadly. Book round up pages forget & ignore SFFH often. It doesn’t help that book reviewers are being cut—we are losing champions of all kinds of books.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

I am loving PageBound and see why others love StoryGraph (still doesn't display accounts with a lot of books read in an easy to browse way for my purposes), but I remain on Goodreads for a number of reasons. A major reason being some of the prolific reviews by authors themselves.

Incredible to attend the @nicolaz.bsky.social reading and Q&A at Third Place Books last night - thanks for the invite, @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social 🥰 Wonderful discussion around queerness in literature, inspiration and what it means to take over someone's senses through story

Lara Elena Donnelly - No Such Thing As Duty (Neon Helmock) W Somerset Maugham as intelligence agent + vampire story. It gets in a way a lot of modern vampire fiction doesn't why vampires are both sexy and scary and how the two are linked. Does exactly what it intends in perfect novella length form.

Such sad news for the library community. So appreciative of Ettarh’s voice and work.

New pod is out featuring my convo(s) with @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social and Donna Seaman, and a note from @booklistaudio.bsky.social! Listen now! Or later!

The nurses are pissed

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

notice something: there were 50k out there yesterday and there were no incidents. ICE was not there. ICE is back today and this happens. guess who the problem is

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

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It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years. We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved. www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...

If you like post-modern lit, do I have a recommendation for you! LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) is a work of genius. Hazel Jane Plante creates a world, a world within it, and vivid characters in both. It's one of the best things I've read in years. www.hazeljaneplante.com/little-blue

Amazon owns Goodreads, so yes your choice in reading tracker is political. Choose Pagebound instead, we’re 🌱 indie & self-funded 🧃 anti-AI & ad-free 🧙‍♀️ built by 2 women #booksky

Loved this piece

The paradox of reading (and writing) is that you go away from the world in order to come back to it closer than you were before. (It’s the same way that returning from a trip temporarily makes home more visible.) All good books provide this experience in some measure. Probably most good art.

I agree that we should frame reading as a pleasure and that reading is not necessarily a virtue. But why do we persist in allowing the framing that learning and expanding your thinking or even defending democracy can’t also be pleasurable and joyful?

Floptologist in chief

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Listening to Pulp’s “We Love Life” after learning that Jarvis Cocker is a Booker Award judge! What!?

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

you know you elected a good mayor when the NYT does this in a headline

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It was a hilarious lesson

Good news for once www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

It’s absolutely terrific.

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Looking for big scares during the Big Dark? Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social shares some of her favorite horror anthologies on our Shelf Talk blog: blog.spl.org/2025/11/03/n... Becky discusses her latest book, "Why I Love Horror," this Thursday (Nov. 6) at the Central Library! Register 👇

*uncontrollable screaming intensifies*

An excellent conversation tonight with Cory Doctorow @edzitron.com & Whitney Beltran @clarionwest.bsky.social on ENSHITTIFICATION and the rot economy.

In the current @uncannymagazine.bsky.social I interview @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social about "Whalesong," a gripping tale of communication, family relationships, and whales. Read the story: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal... And the interview: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/inte...

My neighbor’s Halloween decor is legit 👌🏼

Excellent conversation last night with @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social & Alan Boyle. Wilson’s latest novel HOLE IN THE SKY is a story of first contact that also explores our relationship with the unknown. Indigenous technology & interrelatedness to the unknown also themes.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Goodreads asked me to curate some October-Inspired Book Recommendation lists for them, so here they are! www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30... . @caitlinstarling.com @spookypurcell.bsky.social @stejhoward.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social and more

STARRED review in Library Journal for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social and me! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...