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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · 7d

Got my Automatic Noodle merch!

Person with short black hair holding chopsticks in right hand and wearing a maroon t-shirt with the words “Automatic Noodle” and a robot hand holding chopsticks over a drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · 13d

Just finished Automatic Noodle and it was delightful!! I had a feeling it would be. Now I want the merch! Lol!
#LibrarianRecommended #Robots

Audiobooks cover of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Cover is robin’s egg blue with an illustration depicting the skyline of San Francisco and a robot hand holding chopsticks pulling noodles from a bowl in the background

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Aug 30

Current read, ‘All We Have Is Time’ by Amy Tordoff. About 70% in and I can’t stop reading this book about an immortal woman and a time traveler, but I also have no idea how this is going to play out and I’m hella nervous!
#BookSky

Book cover for All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff. Dark blue sky with silhouetted images of a person sitting on a bench, standing under a lamp, and a building with a dome and spires.

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh man! Wish we were there!

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Aug 2

That was fantastic!

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ordered! Love the name of the book store!

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jul 16

Beautiful book! Told my reader’s advisory group (of librarians) all about it this week and they were so excited!

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jul 13

Oh, that just sucks

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just finished ‘The Prince and the Silver Platter,’ and cannot wait for the next!

Photo of hand holding book with a cat in the background. The cover has two men, one behind a counter pouring coffee into a cup and the other sitting on the countertop holding his cup out and leaning towards the other

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jul 10

Loved this! If you haven’t read ‘The Stars Over Bittergate Bay’, I recommend that first.

#mmromance #quozyromance #queerromance #historicalfiction
#librarianrecommended #cozyromance

Review by alienlibrarian - The Prince and the Silver Platter

Fantastic sequel! I think I might love Asterion and Dom even more than Jonas and Sidney! Their...

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 28

Someone was on a mission! Donated at the library yesterday:

Photo of old books: The Complete Kama Sutra, The Household Searchlight Recipe Book, Getting the Most Out Of Life, General Foods Cook Book, Earth Sheltered House Design, How the Play Pinochle, and The Art of Wild Game Cooking.

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 25

Love this book!
#LibrarianRecommended

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jun 24

Lessons in Magic and Disaster comes out in less than two months!

See what people are saying about this fantastical mother-daughter story and check out my pinned post for more info — including how to get a signed/personalized copy *and* receive some excellent pre-order rewards!

"Lessons in Magic and Disaster has everything I like: an utterly absorbing story, a huge heart, emotional intelligence, the real problems and delights of queer families and communities, a book-within-a-book, a couple of graduate students, and legit queer magick. -- Andrea Lawlor" The background is a picture of a schoolhouse in the woods

"a breathtaking work of magic, grief, and love. The vulnerable depiction of relationships and challenges within queer and trans communities is heart-wrenching but still reflects hope and optimism throughout." -- Library Journal. Background is pink sparkles, and there's a dandelion and the cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

"With a lovably messy trans protagonist and a deep, tender-hearted exploration of grief, guilt, and the difficulty of asking for the things one wants, this is perfect for seasoned readers of queer feminist speculative fiction looking for a cozy escape that still challenges." Publishers Weekly. Background is daisies against a light purple backdrop.

"This compact novel is about many things: a literary treasure hunt that strongly recalls A.S. Byatt’s Possession; the struggle to negotiate obligations to parents, spouses, and oneself; moving forward from grief; and a self-taught witch’s fraught journey toward understanding her own magic." -- Kirkus. Background is a field of flowers

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 25

Love Monsoon Wedding! What a cool connection!

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 24

Seen in the wild!
#BookSky

Hand holding up The Fan Who Knew Too Much at the circulation desk in the library

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 10

It’s absolutely fantastic! So much fun! Again, thanks for sending 😄

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 4

Details of kimono quilt
#quilt #kimono

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 4

While living in Japan from 2010-2014, a close friend gifted me with several kimono! I had them in a storage box that I moved with from Japan to Vermont to California and to Maryland, but had no real way to display or wear them. A friend’s daughter made them into a quilt for me!

Two women holding up a quilt made of kimono fabric in a design of smaller kimono!

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 2

Maryland librarian training: The Joy of Queernorm! Featuring so many great titles including Someone You Can Build A Nest In, Ancillary Justice, Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying and many more!
#LibrarianRecommended #Queernorm #HappyPride

Screenshot of PowerPoint showing the book cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell.

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 1

Saw the musical theater version in DC a few years ago and it was mind-blowing!

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · Jun 1

Same!!! I recommend this book to patrons 3 or 4 times a week! Can’t wait

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · May 31

I gave an advance reader copy to my son in college and on the board of the St. Mary’s River Watershed Assoc. (Southern Maryland) He’s obsessed with the book and fired up for river rights!

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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · May 29

I keep thinking about ‘Service Model’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · May 28

Master the unexpected!

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · May 28

This is a poster I want.

Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social · May 22

Great to know! Thank you!