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Jessica T.
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Let us read & let us dance... I'm now here and on Insta as @JessLibrarian. MI Collection Development & Readers Advisory Librarian, Genealogist, and dancer.
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Day 10 #libfaves25: THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE by Frode Grytten. ‬It’s just beautiful and has stuck with me since I finished it back in June!
Book cover for “The Ferryman and His Wife.” An abstract figure of a red headed woman in the foreground but it is translucent over a scene of a boat in the water.
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Day 9 #libfaves25: THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY: A CREATIVE PRACTICE FOR AN INSPIRED LIFE by Suleika Jaouad. Such a wide range of fascinating essays and thought-provoking journaling prompts. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Elizabeth Gilbert, just to name a few.
Book cover for “The Book of Alchemy” is the title and author in white over a vibrant marbled backdrop in vibrant and neon pinks, greens and blues.
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Day 8 #libfaves25: National Book Award winner, ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. An important look at the failure of the West to live up to its vaunted values.
The book cover for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” A spare bright red cover with a rough charcoal drawing of a missile falling from the top of the cover pointed at the figure of a little girl waving up at it with her right hand and holding flowers in her left.
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Day 7 #libfaves25: AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz. August's
@libraryreads.bsky.social Top Pick--A cozy sci fic novella featuring obsolete robots opening up a noodle shop... because of course.
The book cover for “Automatic Noodle.” A busy cover centered on a robotic arm lifting noodles out of a square bowl with chopsticks, a exaggerated San Francisco skyline with the bridge is down in front of the bowl, along with out of proportion robots sitting in various spots and another set of robotic arms reaching into the page with a whisk.
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Day 6 #libfaves25: THE LISTENERS by Maggie Stiefvater. June’s @libraryreads.bsky.social Top Pick—Stateside WWII, espionage in a luxe setting, and a touch of Appalachian magic.
The book cover for “The Listeners.” The cover illustration is a black and white photograph looking down over the railing of a spiral staircase seeing the coil down into darkness and what looks like the back of a servant with a tray of refreshments walking up it.
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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And my pick for Day 5 #libfaves25: A MURDER FOR MISS HORTENSE by Mel Pennant featuring an exceptionally observant Aunty in a Windrush community outside of Birmingham, England. This a wonderful audiobook as well! I'm hoping it's a series starter!
Book cover for "A murder for miss Hortense" with the word "Murder" colored in red. The cover features a black woman in a bright yellow coat walking on a path of dominos. The pieces behind her are falling and two have red that looks like blood dripping on them. All on a solid dark purple background.
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The day almost got away from me. Day 4 #libfaves25: EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: THE HISTORY AND PERSISTENCE OF OUR DEADLIEST INFECTION by John Green. As noted to before TB has loomed large in my genealogy & historical research and this was done well. Great audiobook too.
Book cover for “Everything is Tuberculosis.” A yellow cover with an orange circle of bacterium under a spotlight as if it’s being viewed on a slide through a microscope.
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Day 3 #libfaves25: This one just hit at a perfect time and hooked right into nostalgia, hitting another stage in life, and needing a laugh. Accurately described as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls": SLAYERS OF OLD by Jim C. Hines
The book cover for “Slayers of Old.” The cover illustration is the lower half of a person using a cane, in a black button up shirt, high waist yellow slacks, and a white belt. Curling around the legs is a black cat with six eyes. It has two visible feet and its hind region might be all octopus-like tentacles.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Day 2 #LibFaves25, I should note these are not in order for the most part. This book has really stuck with me (and made me want to spend more time outside), and I want to explore more. NATURE AND THE MIND: THE SCIENCE OF HOW NATURE IMPROVES COGNITIVE, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING by Marc Berman.
Cover of "Nature and the Mind". The main title is in white nestled in the branches of a tree. The subtitle covers the trunk. The tree then roots in a what looks like the outline of a brain and incorporates the authors name, all on a green background.
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Day 1 #LibFaves25 This was an odd year and I have *so many* books I want to suggest but I'm starting with one of my earliest 2025 reads: THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar. Murder ballads, Fae, and romance. @libraryreads.bsky.social Pick!
Cover for "The River Has Roots" by Amal El-Mohtar. A off white cover featuring three large flowers, likely dahlias, in pink, orange, and red over an S-curved cutout with a pastoral scene showing through.
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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In non-fiction I'm interested in WHEN TREES TESTIFY: SCIENCE, WISDOM, HISTORY, AND AMERICA’S BLACK BOTANICAL LEGACY by Beronda L. Montgomery. She was recently a Michigan State prof, so I'm partial. #ewgc #booksky
Book cover: Green foliage including fruit, leaves, and flowers, frame the title on a black background.
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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And of course, also due to a very appreciated tip, I immediately grabbed WE BURNED SO BRIGHT by TJ Klune (4/2026). #ewgc #booksky
Book cover: A photograph of a 3d installation featuring a recreational vehicle on a road at night with it's lights on under a cracked moon that covers more than half the scene.The ground looks almost like a quilt. There are flowers in the foreground and and old looking billboard in the back.
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I haven't ready any Kate Quinn but this looked right up my alley. THE ASTRAL LIBRARY by Kate Quinn (2/2026). #ewgc #booksky
Book cover featuring a bookshelf in darkness framed by circles of enlarged sections of the shelves in different colors. All with a star sky showing through in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Because I have been a student of dance/dance history WHERE THE FALSE GODS DWELL by Denny S. Bryce (2/2026) looks really interesting. It's a historical novel based on the expeditions of the real dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham to Jamaica to study Caribbean dance forms. #ewgc #booksky
The book cover: A stylized picture of a black woman in profile with a tropical flower over her ear. The are four stars under her chin. The background is colorful with a hint of a Tiffany glass feel with a bright rainbow color pallette.
October 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I just noticed (and downloaded) THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE by John Chu (4/2026), which apparently combines physics, generational trauma and dim sum. #ewgc #booksky
Book cover for"The Subtle Art of Folding Space" by John Chu which shows a futuristic scene with various levels of stackable bamboo steamer bowl used in dim sum restaurants. The top own has dumplings, the second as a mix of dumplings and something else, and the third has objects that look more like planets. Hands with chopsticks reach in from each side.
October 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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First pick of the day is Murderbot!!!.... Thanks to a very kind heads up, I dove on PLATFORM DECAY by Martha Wells (5/2026) on Edelweiss, but had to wait until today to start it. #ewgc #booksky
The book cover for "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells featuring a humanoid figure in a space suit hanging onto a ladder in what appears to be a low gravity situation. It appears to be inside a structure with a window behind the figure showing points of light like a scene in space.
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older is also on my radar as I love each of those authors individually and am interested in their message. #ewgc #booksky
The cover for "We Will Rise Again" edited by Karen Lord Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older. Abstract blobs of color from purple to blue to green and lighter top to bottom. There are also wavy lines and dots in green.
September 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Just saw this one this week and was intrigued: EVERY DAY I READ by Hwang Bo-Reum (Dec)--non-fiction on reading from the author of "Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop". #ewgc #booksky
The cover of "Every Day I Read" by Hwang Bo-reum. It's a cartoon still illustration of a cluttered, cozy home library with a cat stretching in the seat of an armchair, walls of books, a cluttered desk in front of a large picture window looking out on a fall scene, and books strewn everywhere.
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I'm also still finishing the Native American Southern Gothic, IF THE DEAD BELONG HERE by Carson Faust (Oct) but would recommend. #ewgc #booksky
The cover for If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust. A Tree and floral design on a black background in intricate indigenous beading and embroidery.
September 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I'm enjoying ALL OF US MURDERERS by KJ Charles (Oct). #ewgc #booksky
Cover of All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. A Gothic scene. An old manor or castle with two Regency era gentleman in a field front of it.
September 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This one comes out next week & I love it! HEARTLAND MASALA: AN INDIAN COOKBOOK FROM AN AMERICAN KITCHEN by Jyoti & Auyon Mukharji. A Mother/Son duo--mother cooks, son has a social history take & a fun dry sense of humor (Plus he's in one of my favorite bands). #ewgc #booksky
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I also just started FULL OF MYSELF: BLACK WOMANHOOD AND THE JOURNEY TO SELF-POSSESSION by Austin Channing Brown (8/26/25), I'm not far at all but I love her writing and think it's important. #LibraryReadingWed #LibrarySky #BookSky @libraryreads.bsky.social
Slide with Library Reads logo (a stylized L and R as stacked books on a book cover titled Library Reads) and the book cover for “Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession.” The cover is purple with the title in black in large thick letters with a gold outline on the cover and gold shadows on the lettering.
June 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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It’s #LibraryReadingWed and I’m listening to and enjoying DEATH AT THE WHITE HART by Chris Chibnall (the creator of “Broadchurch”). #LibrarySky #BookSky @libraryreads.bsky.social
Slide with Library Reads logo (a stylized L and R as stacked books on a book cover titled Library Reads) and the book cover for “Death at the White Hart.” The cover illustration is the view looking down a country coastal road at night from the middle of it and through a pair of antlers framing the title, a full moon reflected in the coast waters, and an oncoming car.
June 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I’m also savoring THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE by Frode Grytten. Yes, @hachettelibrary.bsky.social,‬ it’s beautiful! #LibraryReadingWed #LibrarySky #BookSky @libraryreads.bsky.social
Slide with Library Reads logo (a stylized L and R as stacked books on a book cover titled Library Reads) and the book cover for “The Ferryman and His Wife.” The cover illustration is an abstract figure of a red headed woman in the foreground but it is translucent over a scene of a boat in the water.
June 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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It’s #LibraryReadingWed and I’m listening to and enjoying June’s @libraryreads.bsky.social Top Pick, THE LISTENERS by Maggie Stiefvater. #LibrarySky #BookSky
Slide with Library Reads logo (a stylized L and R as stacked books on a book cover titled Library Reads) and the book cover for “The Listeners.” The cover illustration is a black and white photograph looking down over the railing of a spiral staircase seeing the coil down into darkness and what looks like the back of a servant with a tray of refreshments walking up it.
June 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM