Audrey, CMS
@amayna60.bsky.social
Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory.
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
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I just did the same...
How many times a month, a week, a day do you look at a Wikipedia article? For me, it's a lot, so I'm viewing it like another monthly subscription but for something that gives me more value than most. Small amounts from lots of people adds up
How many times a month, a week, a day do you look at a Wikipedia article? For me, it's a lot, so I'm viewing it like another monthly subscription but for something that gives me more value than most. Small amounts from lots of people adds up
I just set up a small monthly payment to Wikipedia. In this post-truth era, it feels like a good choice.
December 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I just did the same...
How many times a month, a week, a day do you look at a Wikipedia article? For me, it's a lot, so I'm viewing it like another monthly subscription but for something that gives me more value than most. Small amounts from lots of people adds up
How many times a month, a week, a day do you look at a Wikipedia article? For me, it's a lot, so I'm viewing it like another monthly subscription but for something that gives me more value than most. Small amounts from lots of people adds up
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What I would love more than anything for the holidays is for our two most shy mama cats to find their forever homes.
Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year.
Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*
Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year.
Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What I would love more than anything for the holidays is for our two most shy mama cats to find their forever homes.
Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year.
Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*
Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year.
Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*
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Behold the autumnal color change of Los Angeles. Subtle. If you were driving a car, you might not realize that we have seasons #BloomScrolling
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Behold the autumnal color change of Los Angeles. Subtle. If you were driving a car, you might not realize that we have seasons #BloomScrolling
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Winter roses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #RavennaNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Roses #EastCoastKin
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #RavennaNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Roses #EastCoastKin
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For #LibFaves25
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT, Pagan Kennedy
Tracing not only the innovations of Marty Goddard in pushing for and relentlessly promoting the use of the rape kit and other tools to assist sexual assault survivors, but also the state of the field since.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT, Pagan Kennedy
Tracing not only the innovations of Marty Goddard in pushing for and relentlessly promoting the use of the rape kit and other tools to assist sexual assault survivors, but also the state of the field since.
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For #LibFaves25
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT, Pagan Kennedy
Tracing not only the innovations of Marty Goddard in pushing for and relentlessly promoting the use of the rape kit and other tools to assist sexual assault survivors, but also the state of the field since.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT, Pagan Kennedy
Tracing not only the innovations of Marty Goddard in pushing for and relentlessly promoting the use of the rape kit and other tools to assist sexual assault survivors, but also the state of the field since.
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My favorite drawings from 2025. ♥
What animals should I draw next year?
What animals should I draw next year?
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My favorite drawings from 2025. ♥
What animals should I draw next year?
What animals should I draw next year?
Partway into the graphic novel memoir Come Home, Indio by comic book artist Jim Terry. This child of alcoholics is about to have his first beer...😔What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Partway into the graphic novel memoir Come Home, Indio by comic book artist Jim Terry. This child of alcoholics is about to have his first beer...😔What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Maryland Thursday ordered the Trump administration to immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wron...
via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wron...
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia ordered released from ICE custody by federal judge
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland Thursday ordered the Trump administration to immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.Abrego Garcia is a ...
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge in Maryland Thursday ordered the Trump administration to immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wron...
via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wron...
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Cloud, Phyll, Nettle, and Pyewacket are all available for adoption now! All of them are extremely sweet, social, good with cats and dogs (Phyll would prefer dogs that are small and don’t want to bother him). Please help them find their homes for the holidays ❤️ Elkton, MD crits4cats.petfinder.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Cloud, Phyll, Nettle, and Pyewacket are all available for adoption now! All of them are extremely sweet, social, good with cats and dogs (Phyll would prefer dogs that are small and don’t want to bother him). Please help them find their homes for the holidays ❤️ Elkton, MD crits4cats.petfinder.com
Moby-Dick
Great Gatsby
Freezing on picking just a third one, so how about a very good one I read last year:
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, inspired by adwoman Margaret Fishback
Great Gatsby
Freezing on picking just a third one, so how about a very good one I read last year:
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, inspired by adwoman Margaret Fishback
Subject to change at a moment's notice, but...
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Moby-Dick
Great Gatsby
Freezing on picking just a third one, so how about a very good one I read last year:
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, inspired by adwoman Margaret Fishback
Great Gatsby
Freezing on picking just a third one, so how about a very good one I read last year:
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, inspired by adwoman Margaret Fishback
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Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner’s fingertips found a slight rise in the clay — a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who shaped the vessel nearly 175 years ago in South Carolina.
Descendants obtain works of enslaved potter in landmark restitution deal
Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake reclaim jars from MFA Boston in a landmark art restitution case.
amsterdamnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner’s fingertips found a slight rise in the clay — a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who shaped the vessel nearly 175 years ago in South Carolina.
Our December readalong! Anybody could join us merry few on the Discord chat 🤗
Mr. Collins in Love by @leewelchwriter.bsky.social. Truly a “hold my beer” romance premise — what if one of the most annoying characters in literature was the hero and he’s still Mr. Collins but now you loved him and wanted him to get the queer HEA he deserves? Landscapes Tolkien would die for.
New book! Mr Collins in Love – a Pride and Prejudice retelling
If you like Pride and Prejudice, you probably remember Mr Collins? He’s the odious clergyman who asks lovely heroine Elizabeth Bennet to marry him. She refuses. He’s one of the most ridiculed chara…
leewelchwriter.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Our December readalong! Anybody could join us merry few on the Discord chat 🤗
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Bold Moves by @authoremmabarry.bsky.social — A heroine determined to conquer the sexist world of chess, and the documentary filmmaker who wants to adapt her memoir about it. Oh, and they used to fuck before they broke each other’s hearts. Barry’s work is always nuanced, with memorable characters.
Bold Moves
From the author of Bad Reputation comes a smart and sexy second chance romance, where exes reunite to adapt a memoir, only to discover that after a decade apart, they might finally be ready for mor…
authoremmabarry.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Bold Moves by @authoremmabarry.bsky.social — A heroine determined to conquer the sexist world of chess, and the documentary filmmaker who wants to adapt her memoir about it. Oh, and they used to fuck before they broke each other’s hearts. Barry’s work is always nuanced, with memorable characters.
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5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
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hello hello I wrote about Eden Royce's novella about death, grieving, and what we owe each other. it's a fantastic read and felt particularly relevant (grief stories always do!) as we're all trying to process our pandemic emotions.
"Royce ably navigates the contradictions of caring deeply about family while recognizing people’s flaws and pursuing a life that aligns first and foremost with your own core values."
@readingtheend.bsky.social reviews Eden Royce's novella Psychopomp and Circumstance!
@readingtheend.bsky.social reviews Eden Royce's novella Psychopomp and Circumstance!
Horizons Beyond Grief: Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton reviews Eden Royce's "beautiful, spooky, and deeply heartfelt" novella.
reactormag.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
hello hello I wrote about Eden Royce's novella about death, grieving, and what we owe each other. it's a fantastic read and felt particularly relevant (grief stories always do!) as we're all trying to process our pandemic emotions.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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I promise I'm not going to complain about this anymore (today) but Readers' Advisory and Collection Development go. together. THEY GO TOGETHER! You don't have one without the other! If you're buying the books but nobody knows about them, you fail. If you want to tell everyone about the cool books
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I promise I'm not going to complain about this anymore (today) but Readers' Advisory and Collection Development go. together. THEY GO TOGETHER! You don't have one without the other! If you're buying the books but nobody knows about them, you fail. If you want to tell everyone about the cool books
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Join me, Diana Wichtel, and Sarah Shieff on Dec 9th as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join me, Diana Wichtel, and Sarah Shieff on Dec 9th as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
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It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
The 2025 Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)
Thirteen early contenders for the best transfeminine novel of 2025. Voting is open until December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
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The thing about the generational discourse is that if you do the research you can prove that the best generation lived from 399-429 CE.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The thing about the generational discourse is that if you do the research you can prove that the best generation lived from 399-429 CE.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
On my 2026 TBR! 🤗
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
Cloti & her spouses cling to each other in the hollow shell of their occupied city.
Rebellion brews among the Maer & in Cloti’s heart.
She has foreseen how this will end:
In flames.
But visions never tell the whole story.
CLOTI'S SONG
danifinn.itch.io/clotis-song
books2read.com/b/mgYKlD
Rebellion brews among the Maer & in Cloti’s heart.
She has foreseen how this will end:
In flames.
But visions never tell the whole story.
CLOTI'S SONG
danifinn.itch.io/clotis-song
books2read.com/b/mgYKlD
Cloti's Song by danifinn
A steamy F/F/M +M fantasy romance featuring a married throuple in their 50s who take on a fourth in their occupied city.
danifinn.itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On my 2026 TBR! 🤗
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
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I CAN make my friends laugh 😌
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I CAN make my friends laugh 😌
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you: “hey Darryl how can I become as cool and chic as you are?”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
you: “hey Darryl how can I become as cool and chic as you are?”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.