Kimberly Hirsh
@kimberlyhirsh.com
Mom. School librarian. Citizen of Romancelandia. Always cosplaying Wednesday Addams. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I love books and games. 🌈♿ Posts automatically cross-posted here from https://kimberlyhirsh.com. #FanLIS
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Kimberly Hirsh
@kimberlyhirsh.com
· Nov 16
Hello friends! If you’re seeing this on BlueSky, that’s because my website automatically syndicates there. Your replies get piped back into me via Micro.blog but I only see likes when I actually log in to BlueSky, which I only do every couple of days. Happy you found me there! 💛
Finished reading: Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Finished reading: Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin 📚
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Reply where you see it or e-mail me. Thanks!
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hi friend! Can you please let me know whether you are seeing this in/on:
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A Micro.blog timeline?
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Reply where you see it or e-mail me. Thanks!
I’m re-evaluating my online presence, so in the new year I will be changing the URL for my micro.blog site to archive.kimberlyhirsh.com and don’t plan to post anything new here until I’ve figured out my next move.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m re-evaluating my online presence, so in the new year I will be changing the URL for my micro.blog site to archive.kimberlyhirsh.com and don’t plan to post anything new here until I’ve figured out my next move.
Finished reading: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky 📚
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Finished reading: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky 📚
📚 Authors of children’s books, I am begging you: PLEASE have a newsletter. It’s hard for librarians to keep up with all your new releases and this would make it easier.
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📚 Authors of children’s books, I am begging you: PLEASE have a newsletter. It’s hard for librarians to keep up with all your new releases and this would make it easier.
🔖📚 Read Friendship Is My Writing Process by Ana Hein (Electric Literature).
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🔖📚 Read Friendship Is My Writing Process by Ana Hein (Electric Literature).
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.
🔖📚 Read Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔖📚 Read Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.
Finished reading: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 📚
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Finished reading: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 📚
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me and makes me feel like there’s somebody out there as awkward as me, somebody who feels things as deeply as I do. I’m so glad I read this book.
📚💬 “Farming is not for everyone, but society chooses what kind of farmers to support, and what those farmers get to grow; they’re part of a larger system.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
📚💬 “Farming is not for everyone, but society chooses what kind of farmers to support, and what those farmers get to grow; they’re part of a larger system.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
📚💬 “[The USDA’s] first loyalty has always been to the ag/food industry and to destroying any knowledge that would jeopardize the industry’s profits.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📚💬 “[The USDA’s] first loyalty has always been to the ag/food industry and to destroying any knowledge that would jeopardize the industry’s profits.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
🍿 Watched A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Excellent cast and Alicia Silverstone made me cry.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🍿 Watched A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Excellent cast and Alicia Silverstone made me cry.
📚 Quick Book Review: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen: https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2025/11/28/quick-book-review-golemcrafters-by.html
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚 Quick Book Review: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen: https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2025/11/28/quick-book-review-golemcrafters-by.html
Finished reading: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen 📚
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Finished reading: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen 📚
💬📚 “Hyperlexia is an early sign of golemcraft aptitude. Golems are made of words, just as Jews are made of books.” Emi Watanabe Cohen, Golemcrafters
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
💬📚 “Hyperlexia is an early sign of golemcraft aptitude. Golems are made of words, just as Jews are made of books.” Emi Watanabe Cohen, Golemcrafters
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.
🍿 Watched A Royal Montana Christmas.
I always love a horse movie and Warren Christie makes a great cowboy. Not much chemistry between the leads here, though. And I wish the horses had gotten more screentime.
I always love a horse movie and Warren Christie makes a great cowboy. Not much chemistry between the leads here, though. And I wish the horses had gotten more screentime.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🍿 Watched A Royal Montana Christmas.
I always love a horse movie and Warren Christie makes a great cowboy. Not much chemistry between the leads here, though. And I wish the horses had gotten more screentime.
I always love a horse movie and Warren Christie makes a great cowboy. Not much chemistry between the leads here, though. And I wish the horses had gotten more screentime.
Finished reading: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid 📚
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Finished reading: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid 📚
Finished reading: Game Changer by Rachel Reid 📚
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Finished reading: Game Changer by Rachel Reid 📚
📚 Thank goodness someone is thinking of the men (novelists). 🙄: https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2025/11/18/thank-goodness-someone-is-thinking.html
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
📚 Thank goodness someone is thinking of the men (novelists). 🙄: https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2025/11/18/thank-goodness-someone-is-thinking.html
Finished reading: Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells 📚
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Finished reading: Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells 📚
It’s a little embarrassing that it took me watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to understand that Mary Shelley is both Victor AND the creature, not just Victor. (It’s not news that I make too much of her alignment with either of them.) 🍿
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It’s a little embarrassing that it took me watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to understand that Mary Shelley is both Victor AND the creature, not just Victor. (It’s not news that I make too much of her alignment with either of them.) 🍿
🍿 Victor Frankenstein has postpartum depression.
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🍿 Victor Frankenstein has postpartum depression.
Finished reading: Dream A Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Finished reading: Dream A Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 📚
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
If your public library, like mine, is having a delay in ordering new books due to the closure of Baker and Taylor, may I suggest checking out an author’s backlist? Susan Elizabeth Phillips would be a great choice.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔖 Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Remarkable Data Visualizations in Jillian Hess’s newsletter, Noted.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🔖 Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Remarkable Data Visualizations in Jillian Hess’s newsletter, Noted.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.
It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.