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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 3h

If I’m not up the second my alarm goes off to get her breakfast, my new cat has started jumping onto my nightstand and knocking off everything on it 😒

Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 4h

Whenever I put furniture together I am constantly having to move cats off the pieces and/or my lap

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 5h

2nd grader: “I’m painting a huge whale shark at school! It’s a fantasy whale shark though.”

“Oh so like it has wings or a unicorn horn?”

*2nd grader looks pityingly at me*

“No, Mom. It loves fantasy books. It stays up all night reading them. When it detects a good book, its spots flash. Sheesh.”

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I just started it this morning and the vibes are immaculate so far

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

CR:

Reading: WE CALL THEM WITCHES (Netgalley ARC). Post apocalyptic horror pitched as a sapphic melding of Stephen King + T. Kingfisher

Listening: THE LAMB
I guess this October’s horror theme is cannibalism (but make it lesbian)

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Cover of WE CALL THEM WITCHES, a horror novel by India-Rose Bower

Cover of The Lamb, a horror novel by Lucy Rose

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 2d

Academia has lost the art of reading. If we're not writing or in meetings or teaching or uploading shit on moodle we're considered not productive or not doing our job. Reading is work!!

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I am learning so much history today

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I had to look this up since I was too little to remember it and…I’m sorry, I’m crying I’m laughing so hard

Portion of Socks the cat’s Wikipedia page under the “Investigation” heading: “Indiana Representative Dan Burton, then the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, once publicly questioned the use of White House staff, postage, and stationery to answer mail addressed to the cat.”

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I am, however, probably gonna reread Priory now lol god i love that book

Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I wish this really had been a big fat tome instead of barely novel length. Felt less like a stand-alone and more like expanded backstory for a couple of the minor characters in The Priory of the Orange Tree.

I loved it bc I love Priory but not sure I’d recommend it on its own

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 3d

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AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS by Samantha Shannon

Priory prequel!!!!!!!! I’m almost disappointed how short this is? Samantha where is my tome???

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Cover of AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS by Samantha Shannon. Cover depicts wyverns drowning a city in flames.

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

That was circa 2019 I think? Anyway kick out the nazis, always

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 1d

My only contribution to the Nazi tattoo discourse is for a little bit I worked the front desk at my friend & her husband’s tattoo shop and once a guy came in wanting to get a 1488 tattoo and i went “oh shit” while doing the paperwork and told the artist it was a Nazi tat and he kicked the guy out

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t read YA often anymore because. Well. I’m 31, they are not written for me and look high school is not a time in my life I’m dying to relive, but I’m glad I took a chance on this one!

Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all The Falling in Love Montage is so cute and so real. I may have been charmed partly by the audiobook narrator’s Irish accent but it’s such a good, emotional little romance that doesn’t make the teens too adult but doesn’t talk down to/about them either
5/5!

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 6d

CR: Libby roulette has determined a bit of light reading for the weekend

Reading: ALCHEMY AND A CUP OF TEA
Finally get the cliffhanger from the last book resolved!!! Anyway I love these dorky lesbians

Listening: FALLING IN LOVE MONTAGE. Loving this little Irish YA sapphic romance so far!

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Cover of Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne

Cover of The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth. Cover is orange and depicts two white teens holding hands in front of a Ferris wheel

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 2d

I realize in the grand scheme of things a building doesn’t matter nearly as much as all the lives being destroyed by this administration. But I am still really upset by this. That’s the *White House*!!!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 3d

I’m about to go put a hold on everything she’s written once I finish this! It’s so well-written and SO funny while also dealing with some heavy themes in a way that doesn’t make light of them. Hard balance to pull off!

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 3d

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AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS by Samantha Shannon

Priory prequel!!!!!!!! I’m almost disappointed how short this is? Samantha where is my tome???

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 3d

Finished Alchemy. The third book didn’t quite hit for me but the fourth was just as charming as the first two, I’m happy to report!

If you like your cozy fantasies with a side of kidnapping, dragons, lesbians, and horrible puns, highly recommend the Tomes and Tea series.

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 6d

CR: Libby roulette has determined a bit of light reading for the weekend

Reading: ALCHEMY AND A CUP OF TEA
Finally get the cliffhanger from the last book resolved!!! Anyway I love these dorky lesbians

Listening: FALLING IN LOVE MONTAGE. Loving this little Irish YA sapphic romance so far!

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Beca Dreadful🌙🐈‍⬛✨ @becadreads.bsky.social · 3d

Come scream with me in the cow pasture during golden hour while the cryptids watch from the forest.

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 4d

This is the progression of every T. Kingfisher horror novel I’ve read:

1. Delightful spooky vibes

2. Oh no what the fuck

3. OH NO WHAT THE FUCK

4. THANKS I HATE IT

5. *incoherent internal screaming*

6. Are we safe now?

7. HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

/end

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 4d

This is a brave stance for me to take while living in rural texas, but I stand by it. Also people who drive large trucks are the worst drivers by far.

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 4d

If you buy a large pickup truck and you don’t have an actual need for it, you are an entitled and probably shitty person who doesn’t care about the environment. Especially if you have a long commute.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 7d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

I simply don't believe "the economy" is real if you can say "everyone's putting their groceries on Klarna but Larry Ellison bought two new yachts, so things are great overall"

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d

NYT made an astounding discovery: the rich have money, the poor don't.

Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 4d

You know when you have a fever and your skin just kind of hurts. Like just touching it. I hate that.

Also being sick when you live alone sucks. At least the cats are mostly being sweet and cuddly (as long as it isn’t mealtime 😒)

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to the Houston chronicle on the conditions that I only be referred to as frog

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