Charlotte Taylor
@charlotteslib.bsky.social
blogging about sci fi/fantasy books for kids and teens since 2007 at https://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com. Archaeologist for the RI State Historic Preservation Office, owner of old house and hundreds of unread books. She/her
chocolate books on display in a Barcellona shop window...wondering why these got chosen and how many they actually sell (and also what they taste like....)
April 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
chocolate books on display in a Barcellona shop window...wondering why these got chosen and how many they actually sell (and also what they taste like....)
Christmas decorating chez-moi is not going as planned. (last night my newest featherly friend was attractively perched; not so this morning...)
November 27, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Christmas decorating chez-moi is not going as planned. (last night my newest featherly friend was attractively perched; not so this morning...)
a gloomy day is good for sorting stocking stuffers. The kid is 21 and a senior in college but it's his favorite part of Xmas + I adore the hunt. The plastic bag has 2 4 leaf clovers found in an old book. The book about marine tragedies off Mount Saint Michel (free!) will be a special surprise (?).
November 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM
a gloomy day is good for sorting stocking stuffers. The kid is 21 and a senior in college but it's his favorite part of Xmas + I adore the hunt. The plastic bag has 2 4 leaf clovers found in an old book. The book about marine tragedies off Mount Saint Michel (free!) will be a special surprise (?).
went up to New Hampshire to canvas for dems. #didthistoday
October 27, 2024 at 1:57 AM
went up to New Hampshire to canvas for dems. #didthistoday
I hope you have at this point gotten answers, and all is better, but here's Crispin, demonstrating that a white chair was a bad choice.
October 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
I hope you have at this point gotten answers, and all is better, but here's Crispin, demonstrating that a white chair was a bad choice.
a book that my sister will be getting at Christmas arrived today, and I am tickled that over 100 years ago another sister had the same idea. (although their names are more unusual than ours are....)
October 24, 2024 at 1:56 PM
a book that my sister will be getting at Christmas arrived today, and I am tickled that over 100 years ago another sister had the same idea. (although their names are more unusual than ours are....)
I voted here in Rhode Island and asked if I could take an extra sticker so I'd have a fresh one to wear on Election Day....
October 23, 2024 at 1:13 AM
I voted here in Rhode Island and asked if I could take an extra sticker so I'd have a fresh one to wear on Election Day....
"Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, 1735 CE" from the Museum of Artifacts on facebook.
October 12, 2024 at 2:49 PM
"Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, 1735 CE" from the Museum of Artifacts on facebook.
A highlight of my day was this large rabbit aggressively holding a frame. Here I am holding the other side of the frame, trying to aggressively look right back at it.
September 21, 2024 at 11:33 PM
A highlight of my day was this large rabbit aggressively holding a frame. Here I am holding the other side of the frame, trying to aggressively look right back at it.
a valuable resource for us historic preservationists just emerged from the depths of our office library. Not sure if I am the gaslighter or the gaslit, but either way a guide could well come in handy.
June 19, 2024 at 2:22 AM
a valuable resource for us historic preservationists just emerged from the depths of our office library. Not sure if I am the gaslighter or the gaslit, but either way a guide could well come in handy.
glad my new chair is cat approved....but not big enough for the both of them. Poor Meeple (the grey one) eventually gave up.
May 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
glad my new chair is cat approved....but not big enough for the both of them. Poor Meeple (the grey one) eventually gave up.
My work today did not make me feel better about the state of the world--here I am looking at a cemetery where the headstones were clear cut along with the vegetation. It was grotesque.
May 1, 2024 at 1:20 AM
My work today did not make me feel better about the state of the world--here I am looking at a cemetery where the headstones were clear cut along with the vegetation. It was grotesque.
here is my baby Meeple. I hope the day gets better and tomorrow is better too!
February 19, 2024 at 11:09 PM
here is my baby Meeple. I hope the day gets better and tomorrow is better too!
what teases me the most is the bit in the author's note to Swordheart -- "I am already working on Angharad's book..." I'm grateful for all the good reading we have though, and am looking forward to filling the space left on my T. Kingfisher shelf (perhaps even with some more colorful spines...)
February 17, 2024 at 12:43 AM
what teases me the most is the bit in the author's note to Swordheart -- "I am already working on Angharad's book..." I'm grateful for all the good reading we have though, and am looking forward to filling the space left on my T. Kingfisher shelf (perhaps even with some more colorful spines...)
congratulations to The Grace of Wild Things, by Heather Fawcett, this year's Cybils Awards winner for Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction! And congratulations to all the shortlisted books too--they are all wonderful. www.cybils.com/2024/02/anno...
February 14, 2024 at 5:32 PM
congratulations to The Grace of Wild Things, by Heather Fawcett, this year's Cybils Awards winner for Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction! And congratulations to all the shortlisted books too--they are all wonderful. www.cybils.com/2024/02/anno...
a snow day has been called for tomorrow, and I have filled my kitchen with kindling in preparation (no melting to speak of for the next week, so better to keep the wood inside than out in the back of the barn....).
February 13, 2024 at 1:21 AM
a snow day has been called for tomorrow, and I have filled my kitchen with kindling in preparation (no melting to speak of for the next week, so better to keep the wood inside than out in the back of the barn....).
honored to be a blog tour stop for Not Quite a Ghost, by Anne Ursu...where I talk about liking the book lots and share my own creepy wallpaper charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2024/01/not-...
January 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
honored to be a blog tour stop for Not Quite a Ghost, by Anne Ursu...where I talk about liking the book lots and share my own creepy wallpaper charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2024/01/not-...
me, trying to put broadarts on Christmas present books, helped by a cat who didn't like me leaving him for a week...
December 30, 2023 at 10:51 PM
me, trying to put broadarts on Christmas present books, helped by a cat who didn't like me leaving him for a week...
have you read his earlier books? I love The Squirrel's Birthday in particular. The earlier ones have a different illustrator with a different art style that I find more to my taste, although it wouldn't have worked for the gestalt of No One Is Angry Today
November 20, 2023 at 11:36 PM
have you read his earlier books? I love The Squirrel's Birthday in particular. The earlier ones have a different illustrator with a different art style that I find more to my taste, although it wouldn't have worked for the gestalt of No One Is Angry Today
a magical mg dark middle grade fairy tale--The Song of the Swan, by Karah Sutton
📚👍https://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-song-of-swan-by-karah-sutton.html?spref=tw
📚👍https://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-song-of-swan-by-karah-sutton.html?spref=tw
October 28, 2023 at 2:41 PM
a magical mg dark middle grade fairy tale--The Song of the Swan, by Karah Sutton
📚👍https://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-song-of-swan-by-karah-sutton.html?spref=tw
📚👍https://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-song-of-swan-by-karah-sutton.html?spref=tw
the two floof bellies with which I am blessed (Crispin and Meeple)
October 23, 2023 at 10:32 PM
the two floof bellies with which I am blessed (Crispin and Meeple)
at the blog today--The Ghost Job, by Greg Van Eekhout (with interview! also with a picture of part of my bookshelf!) charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-...
October 5, 2023 at 10:33 PM
at the blog today--The Ghost Job, by Greg Van Eekhout (with interview! also with a picture of part of my bookshelf!) charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-...
In which I enthusiastically recommend The Demon Sword Asperides, by Sarah Jean Horwitz -(charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-demon-sword-asperides-by-sarah-jean.html)
September 15, 2023 at 1:32 AM
In which I enthusiastically recommend The Demon Sword Asperides, by Sarah Jean Horwitz -(charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-demon-sword-asperides-by-sarah-jean.html)
Have just posted about Finch House, by Ciera Burch, with thoughts on the subgenre of "house fantasy" (which I think can be further split into haunted/ full of many ways/and sentient, and how my own old house stacks up. (charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/09/finch-house-by-ciera-burch-with.html )
September 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM
Have just posted about Finch House, by Ciera Burch, with thoughts on the subgenre of "house fantasy" (which I think can be further split into haunted/ full of many ways/and sentient, and how my own old house stacks up. (charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2023/09/finch-house-by-ciera-burch-with.html )