"In 1975, a group of college students are murdered in a library. Ten years later, the son of the lead detective picks up the cold trail, and uncovers a mystery more terrifying and deadly than he could have ever imagined." #upcomingtitles #books #bookrecommendations

A great reads for kids grades 5 & up (and for any adults *cough* me *cough* who liked shows like Eerie Indiana or So Weird growing up). Shusterman does a fantastic job creating creepy, speculative stories.  Full review in bio.

A book for all the SCP Foundation girlies out there. Definitely give this a read if you liked R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour, Don't Think About It, or the concept of the false hydra in D&D.  Full review in bio.  #thereisnoantimemeticsdivision

I cannot recommend this enough. If you want more historical black characters in a narrative that doesn't focus on pain and trauma but also doesn't shy away from the reality of the past, this is a great book.  #bookreview #books #psychopompandcircumstance #bookreviews

Lovecraftian horror meets an action adventure narrative set in the Jim Crow south. There's a lot of myth-building and lore blended into real-world events that creates a kind of alternate history that manages to be both heartbreaking and also fun. #bookreview #bookreviews

Book one, The Witch Roads was one of my favorite books this past year and I am so hoping we get more out of this incredible world full of mutation-inducing fungus, body-possessing spirits, and long-dead sorcerers. Full review in bio #thenamelessland

This has a very specific vibe. Like if you like The Luminous Dead (lesbian horror novel by Caitlin Starling) and also The Owl House, you are going to eat this one up.  Full review in bio. #thisgildedabyss #bookreview

Love when I ask people what their books about and they take a deep breath. Like I'm about to hear the most wild shit.

This book was not about an alien romance like I thought (no idea why I thought that). It's more like a hallmark movie with a ghost. Since it's going to be a movie, if you like that kind of movie, this might be for you. It wasn't for me. Full review in bio.

If you're a fan of fairy-tale-inspired works, you'll like this. If you watched the TikTok series, you'll adore this. Since I'm both, I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through wild and weird folk tales from all over the world. Full review in bio. #bookreview

Why does Facebook suck, why is the internet a cesspool of ads, bots, and greed? This convincing narrative history of the internet, the rise of the Enshittocene, as Doctorow would say, is here to explain and offer solutions.  Full review in bio.

Ruth, queer and without funds, living in an Evangelist's paradise town, is forced to fight her way out the craft store she used to work in when she's caught shoplifting using, only the craft supplies she has on hand. full review in bio. #bookreview

Interesting read. Our library recently switched to Ingram in the last year from B&T. When I saw the merger fell through I thought this might happen but I didn't know half the details. #librarynews #news #booknews americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/08/b...

Arlo and Drienne are clones, indentured to the company that made them, when suddenly they  find the company goes under. Now they need to pull off a heist and earn their freedom. Full review in bio. #theheistofhollowlondon #bookreview

This third book in the Sworn Soldier series is based on Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness and follows Easton and co as they adventure into the heart of coal-mining: West Virginia, where an abandoned mine hold an otherworldly secret and people are dying.  #bookreview

This was my first Octavia Butler book. I think it altered my brain chemistry. Cannot recommend this series enough and I will never stop being sad that Butler never got the chance to finish it. #parableofthesower #bookreview

I do think that more people should give this book a read. It helps to bridge that gap in our understanding of antifascism in America between World War II and now. It's unfortunate that this book focuses on the lead into fascism because we're a bit past that now.

3.5/5 stars. Victorian Psycho succeeds in capturing an American Psycho meets penny dreadful atmosphere. It’s Jane Eyre meets Lizzie Borden. Our protagonist, Winifred, is truly psychotic. And the ending is gorey, over-the-top, and disturbingly satisfying.

3.5/5 stars. It's The Proposal but gay. Very fun. While essentially a roommates to lovers tale, Reyes isn't shying away from the horrors of immigration. Some minor pacing issues but overall a great romcom. #thebroposal #bookreview

I'll have to post a picture of the cover some time because 🤌Nnedi Okorafor never ceases to tell a story that is so thought-provokingly original that it keeps you thinking about it for days after. Full review on the blog in bio.  #bookreview #deathoftheauthor

My cuppa this morning was very spooky

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard. This expectation briefly wavered during the...George Floyd protests,...but largely restabilized over time." 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

Tote Designs from this month's Makespace project

Life Update: I've survived the CELTA, my hand is much improved and I've bought a new Agenda for 2026. Please look forward to my bite-sized book reviews returning shortly

So my hand IS infected :/// fortunately if I rest it just right I can manage to kind of type. So yay?

The pictures from the Japan photoshoot came back! So gorgeous 🥰

Projects from this summer so far. svg files for the cut stuff are in my bio.

love the Austine themed tote! thank you @prhlibrary.bsky.social

Hello #Youngstown! Our next food serve is the 28th, this Saturday. We are planning on serving from the parking lot across from Federal station, downtown! If the weather doesn't play nice, we will provide an update and the Youngstown Action Center will be the likely fallback.

All the emails about the annual ALA conference and I can't go bc I'm back in school 😭

This Saturday 6/14, stop by the Youngstown Action Center for a free dinner from 4 to 6PM! We have other supplies on offer as well, from toothpaste to Narcan. Check out our website youngstownfoodbrigade.org for info on the closest bus stop, ways to donate, and more

Guys. @prhlibrary.bsky.social is in my walls. A book about a queer women surviving a gang of murderous religious zealots using only the supplies from the local craft store she's trapped in is the ideal summer read for me. I always do my own little #summerscares and this will def be the first title

Love my IDR finally getting approved when I started going back to school.

"For me, our government-funded destruction and slaughter of families living in Gaza is an attack on justice, common decency, and what I had thought was the American way." www.eater.com/2025/5/15/24...

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

BREAKING: poison-tasters once again only for the rich.

Strange Houses acquired. #strangehouses

This is absolutely stomach churning. We're torturing immigrants. Call it what it is.

Okay, I had an amazing breakfast and super fun cricut program today. It was a much needed bit of rest and imagining.

My Cora Zeng review is out there in the wild. There's a specific edition of this that I desperately want to get my hands on. Fantastic and bloody read.

Rest in Peace, Lloyd.

If you haven't read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that's okay. It's good and short and makes a lot of excellent points about the creeping spread of fascism, but you've seen these same points retread over and over again since he wrote it... ...in 1935.

The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they were used and what we can learn from them today.

FANTASTIC cover

When a book opens with an Octavia E. Butler quote

This animatic (with a surprise fully-animated scene in the middle!) is an absolute delight. I have no magical girl story predispositions, and even I loved it. Please give it a watch!

I desperately want class consciousness to reach through the thick skulls of my fellow impoverished yt Americans and just give them a working knowledge of how hard it will be to unionize without the legal right to do so.

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

Department of Defense Censors Curriculum, Removes Books at Schools for Military Families | Censorship News

Putting together the floral displays for patrons to add to their make-your-own milk tea bath sachets. So much cute!