Katherine
@katherinebook.bsky.social
punk ass book jockey. If reading gives you superpowers, I am Edna Mode. she/her
@universalhub.com Any word on what might be happening that has the 39 detoured— which is currently covering for the green line shutdown? So there is actually currently no way to get from here to there?
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
@universalhub.com Any word on what might be happening that has the 39 detoured— which is currently covering for the green line shutdown? So there is actually currently no way to get from here to there?
It’s funny. Restaurant folk always remember me- orders, preferences. I always assume it’s because I’m the fat lady by myself reading,
This lady just told me last time I was here, they were slammed & I told her as I left to breathe & she was doing a great job. She says I made her day.
This lady just told me last time I was here, they were slammed & I told her as I left to breathe & she was doing a great job. She says I made her day.
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It’s funny. Restaurant folk always remember me- orders, preferences. I always assume it’s because I’m the fat lady by myself reading,
This lady just told me last time I was here, they were slammed & I told her as I left to breathe & she was doing a great job. She says I made her day.
This lady just told me last time I was here, they were slammed & I told her as I left to breathe & she was doing a great job. She says I made her day.
I got an envelope that was sent to me from a publisher by UPS ground. Inside it is a postcard telling me happy holidays from a picture book. That is all.
This makes me incandescent with rage.
This makes me incandescent with rage.
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I got an envelope that was sent to me from a publisher by UPS ground. Inside it is a postcard telling me happy holidays from a picture book. That is all.
This makes me incandescent with rage.
This makes me incandescent with rage.
Why does this picture of Glenn Close look like one of the big head books?
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Why does this picture of Glenn Close look like one of the big head books?
No one really warns you about the grieving you’ll end up doing as a service worker. That maybe you’re not family, but when someone stops in the store once a week, you are family.
It’s been a tough week of losses. A regular. A beloved doggie regular. The cat I’ve lived with 3 years.
I’m sad.
It’s been a tough week of losses. A regular. A beloved doggie regular. The cat I’ve lived with 3 years.
I’m sad.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No one really warns you about the grieving you’ll end up doing as a service worker. That maybe you’re not family, but when someone stops in the store once a week, you are family.
It’s been a tough week of losses. A regular. A beloved doggie regular. The cat I’ve lived with 3 years.
I’m sad.
It’s been a tough week of losses. A regular. A beloved doggie regular. The cat I’ve lived with 3 years.
I’m sad.
Is the novel even about World War II if you can’t see the woman’s back on the cover?
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Is the novel even about World War II if you can’t see the woman’s back on the cover?
Ok everyone is seeing auroras and I can’t see an aurora and I hate every one of you.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Ok everyone is seeing auroras and I can’t see an aurora and I hate every one of you.
Picture books on the brain this week and I remembered Mac Barnett saying “If we don’t think picture books are real literature, then we don’t believe that children are real people.” Yes, sir.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Picture books on the brain this week and I remembered Mac Barnett saying “If we don’t think picture books are real literature, then we don’t believe that children are real people.” Yes, sir.
I just found out my newest roommate thinks it was a good thing to put Hayden Christensen as the force ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi and seriously, I don’t know if this is going to work out.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I just found out my newest roommate thinks it was a good thing to put Hayden Christensen as the force ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi and seriously, I don’t know if this is going to work out.
It’s literally on the Freedom Trail
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It’s literally on the Freedom Trail
Actually like “If Mamdani won NYC, I can change the sheets on my bed” today.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Actually like “If Mamdani won NYC, I can change the sheets on my bed” today.
Reposted by Katherine
Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share!
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Donate to Support The Twisted Spine's Flood Recovery Efforts, organized by Lauren Komer
On Thursday, October 30th, the remnants of Hurricane Melissa hit NYC, … Lauren Komer needs your support for Support The Twisted Spine's Flood Recovery Efforts
www.gofundme.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Do Bezos next! #Orcas2026
New drone videos show orcas stalking and disemboweling young great white sharks, flipping them over and plucking out their nutritious livers.
Orca vs. great white shark: an unusual battle between apex predators
Great white sharks have virtually no predators. But newly released video shows orcas flipping great whites and eating their livers near Mexico.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Do Bezos next! #Orcas2026
I love teenagers rick or treating. A while ago though, my niece told me angrily about a group of boys in the neighborhood dressed as bush people. I agreed with her that was absolutely inappropriate. But then it turned out they were actually dressed as bushes and just jumping up and scaring people
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October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I love teenagers rick or treating. A while ago though, my niece told me angrily about a group of boys in the neighborhood dressed as bush people. I agreed with her that was absolutely inappropriate. But then it turned out they were actually dressed as bushes and just jumping up and scaring people
All I want to do is make displays of stuffies and read picture books to kids in goofy voices.
Needing to argue about free speech absolutism while Oh Right! panicking for coworkers under a shelter in place order is not it.
There’s a reason I’m behind on everything these days.
Needing to argue about free speech absolutism while Oh Right! panicking for coworkers under a shelter in place order is not it.
There’s a reason I’m behind on everything these days.
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
All I want to do is make displays of stuffies and read picture books to kids in goofy voices.
Needing to argue about free speech absolutism while Oh Right! panicking for coworkers under a shelter in place order is not it.
There’s a reason I’m behind on everything these days.
Needing to argue about free speech absolutism while Oh Right! panicking for coworkers under a shelter in place order is not it.
There’s a reason I’m behind on everything these days.
When will someone convince publicists that they should always include an isbn in their emails?
October 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
When will someone convince publicists that they should always include an isbn in their emails?
Working for years at bookstore information desks has given me the skill to assume that half the information people are giving me is incorrect and hear what they really mean instead….
Niece: mom told me I needed to watch Weird Science and it was horrible.
Me: Oh, she actually meant Real Genius.
Niece: mom told me I needed to watch Weird Science and it was horrible.
Me: Oh, she actually meant Real Genius.
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Working for years at bookstore information desks has given me the skill to assume that half the information people are giving me is incorrect and hear what they really mean instead….
Niece: mom told me I needed to watch Weird Science and it was horrible.
Me: Oh, she actually meant Real Genius.
Niece: mom told me I needed to watch Weird Science and it was horrible.
Me: Oh, she actually meant Real Genius.
When all the books have sprayed edges, then none of the books will have sprayed edges.
Is that a thing?
Is that a thing?
October 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
When all the books have sprayed edges, then none of the books will have sprayed edges.
Is that a thing?
Is that a thing?
Nah, I don’t really need that book… but wait! What is this? Sprayed edges???? Who ever HEARD of such a thing. In that case, I’ll take 700! It doesn’t even MATTER what the book is about.
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nah, I don’t really need that book… but wait! What is this? Sprayed edges???? Who ever HEARD of such a thing. In that case, I’ll take 700! It doesn’t even MATTER what the book is about.
Why am I crying? People getting sent home on a four year old episode of Lego Masters. Which I’ve seen before.
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Why am I crying? People getting sent home on a four year old episode of Lego Masters. Which I’ve seen before.
I know I am a horrible killjoy, but the idea of there being a monetary reward for the best Banned Books Week display makes me want to vomit.
A display contest? Like it’s a freaking party? Can’t we just give that money to a store actually spending their labor time fighting legal battles?
A display contest? Like it’s a freaking party? Can’t we just give that money to a store actually spending their labor time fighting legal battles?
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I know I am a horrible killjoy, but the idea of there being a monetary reward for the best Banned Books Week display makes me want to vomit.
A display contest? Like it’s a freaking party? Can’t we just give that money to a store actually spending their labor time fighting legal battles?
A display contest? Like it’s a freaking party? Can’t we just give that money to a store actually spending their labor time fighting legal battles?
I’m working on a catalog reading picture books and a dude just read over my shoulder and said “hard at work, huh?” and I am happy to inform you I did not actually punch him in the face.
September 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’m working on a catalog reading picture books and a dude just read over my shoulder and said “hard at work, huh?” and I am happy to inform you I did not actually punch him in the face.
Someone pointed out a VERY well paying bookstore job to me and I couldn’t even get a quarter of the way through the job description before it made me want to jump into the ocean.
August 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Someone pointed out a VERY well paying bookstore job to me and I couldn’t even get a quarter of the way through the job description before it made me want to jump into the ocean.
Does AMZ seriously have an ad campaign about how you can spend less on your children because you can’t stand them? Is this the thing that will get me to pay for no ads on peacock?
July 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Does AMZ seriously have an ad campaign about how you can spend less on your children because you can’t stand them? Is this the thing that will get me to pay for no ads on peacock?
I went on vacation for two weeks. For 3 of the days I had ZERO cell phone service. And there were no TVs. There was a very sweet baby water buffalo. I kind of want to go back.
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I went on vacation for two weeks. For 3 of the days I had ZERO cell phone service. And there were no TVs. There was a very sweet baby water buffalo. I kind of want to go back.