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Penultimate #LibFaves25 is MY FRIENDS. Backman's smooth as silk writing always makes even the most sentimental moments feel unhackneyed and this one has just enough twists about each character's life that you'd be hard pressed to anticipate just about anything in it.
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Penultimate #LibFaves25 is MY FRIENDS. Backman's smooth as silk writing always makes even the most sentimental moments feel unhackneyed and this one has just enough twists about each character's life that you'd be hard pressed to anticipate just about anything in it.
Not loving having a second weather day already this winter for kiddo. Very grateful for a job with significant flexibility, but bracing for more if this winter continues to be this serious!
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Not loving having a second weather day already this winter for kiddo. Very grateful for a job with significant flexibility, but bracing for more if this winter continues to be this serious!
Day 8 #LibFaves25 is THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS. I love a book of an older protag getting a new chance at life and also reluctant sudden parents (see also The Guncle, Nothing to See Here).
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Day 8 #LibFaves25 is THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS. I love a book of an older protag getting a new chance at life and also reluctant sudden parents (see also The Guncle, Nothing to See Here).
Day 7 of #LibFaves25 WE COULD BE RATS. I love everything Emily Austin writes (can't wait for her upcoming one featuring a librarian!), and this one is just so sharp and clever
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Day 7 of #LibFaves25 WE COULD BE RATS. I love everything Emily Austin writes (can't wait for her upcoming one featuring a librarian!), and this one is just so sharp and clever
Choice for day 6 of #LibFaves25 is GREENTEETH. Read this fairly early this year and still am thinking about this lovely reworking of a monster and the story's delicate thinking through of agency.
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Choice for day 6 of #LibFaves25 is GREENTEETH. Read this fairly early this year and still am thinking about this lovely reworking of a monster and the story's delicate thinking through of agency.
My Day 5 of #LibFaves25 is RUTH. Absolute catnip for me--snippets from a life finding all the meaning in the small moments, laugh out loud funny, and treating religion and its believers with the right blend of tenderness and exasperation.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My Day 5 of #LibFaves25 is RUTH. Absolute catnip for me--snippets from a life finding all the meaning in the small moments, laugh out loud funny, and treating religion and its believers with the right blend of tenderness and exasperation.
Three student recorded presentations in a row all adding an fi into two-factor authentication. I'm guessing a formation to align with "identification"? But weird that they are all doing it (while reading a text on the slides, even!)
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Three student recorded presentations in a row all adding an fi into two-factor authentication. I'm guessing a formation to align with "identification"? But weird that they are all doing it (while reading a text on the slides, even!)
Day 4 of #LibFaves25 is A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON. Epistolary-ish novel that hilariously and tenderly nails the different voices of characters, the weirdness of small towns, and the erosion of snobbery when you find a place you belong.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Day 4 of #LibFaves25 is A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON. Epistolary-ish novel that hilariously and tenderly nails the different voices of characters, the weirdness of small towns, and the erosion of snobbery when you find a place you belong.
#LibFaves25 Day 3: MAX IN THE LAND OF LIES. While I perhaps loved the first book more, this second one is a deeply powerful, wrenching holocaust story that connects with readers. When son is a few years older, this duology will certainly be an excellent way to spark conversations.
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#LibFaves25 Day 3: MAX IN THE LAND OF LIES. While I perhaps loved the first book more, this second one is a deeply powerful, wrenching holocaust story that connects with readers. When son is a few years older, this duology will certainly be an excellent way to spark conversations.
A bit frazzled today and just tried to eat my grapes with a fork.
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A bit frazzled today and just tried to eat my grapes with a fork.
Getting chuckle from this example from Adrienne Warner's article on library tours and the need to make educated guesses about what student feedback means:
'For example, the “torturing rooms on the third floor,” was inferred to mean “tutoring rooms on the third floor.”'
'For example, the “torturing rooms on the third floor,” was inferred to mean “tutoring rooms on the third floor.”'
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Getting chuckle from this example from Adrienne Warner's article on library tours and the need to make educated guesses about what student feedback means:
'For example, the “torturing rooms on the third floor,” was inferred to mean “tutoring rooms on the third floor.”'
'For example, the “torturing rooms on the third floor,” was inferred to mean “tutoring rooms on the third floor.”'
Day 2 of #LibFaves25: IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES. At a campus pushing hard for AI-fluency without much detail on what that means yet and a general grumbler about AI, this alarming look at a very plausible future unless we quickly make some big decisions is truly horrifying.
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Day 2 of #LibFaves25: IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES. At a campus pushing hard for AI-fluency without much detail on what that means yet and a general grumbler about AI, this alarming look at a very plausible future unless we quickly make some big decisions is truly horrifying.
My pick for day 1 for #LibFaves25 is THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL. It's riotously funny, but then sweetly tender and could easily have been written about my family.
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My pick for day 1 for #LibFaves25 is THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL. It's riotously funny, but then sweetly tender and could easily have been written about my family.
Had some 6th graders visit the library. When I opened it up to questions, two boys were VERY interested in my powers to ban people from the library (what acts merited it, how long I could do it, if I've ever done it, etc, etc). A very curious concern to have!
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Had some 6th graders visit the library. When I opened it up to questions, two boys were VERY interested in my powers to ban people from the library (what acts merited it, how long I could do it, if I've ever done it, etc, etc). A very curious concern to have!
Once again pulling myself from the edge of being radicalized by that almost painfully, willfully misconstrued review that has somehow become dogma whenever someone mentions liking the author targeted by it. Just bamboozled by poor critical reading skills by professed lovers of reading!
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Once again pulling myself from the edge of being radicalized by that almost painfully, willfully misconstrued review that has somehow become dogma whenever someone mentions liking the author targeted by it. Just bamboozled by poor critical reading skills by professed lovers of reading!
I'm not saying it's designed to annoy me specifically, but somehow my library's acoustics are piping somebody's earphone overflow into my office just loud enough to irk but not loud enough outside it for me to track down who it is.
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm not saying it's designed to annoy me specifically, but somehow my library's acoustics are piping somebody's earphone overflow into my office just loud enough to irk but not loud enough outside it for me to track down who it is.
On one hand, good for cleveland.com to admit the use of AI. on other hand, why is this buried at the bottom of the article and not in the byline? Also what assistance? What model? These things matter!
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
On one hand, good for cleveland.com to admit the use of AI. on other hand, why is this buried at the bottom of the article and not in the byline? Also what assistance? What model? These things matter!
Oh, cool, EBSCO, your new platform doesn't list volume or issue number in results page or item record. Super nice. Very useful. Not at all annoying.
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh, cool, EBSCO, your new platform doesn't list volume or issue number in results page or item record. Super nice. Very useful. Not at all annoying.
The context for this is a LDS theological stance that your ancestors are waiting the proxy ordinances you can submit their names for. But honestly, this ad sorta makes it sound like they are ghosts caught in your house. Also "Time is short. We are waiting" could be the tagline of a horror film.
August 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The context for this is a LDS theological stance that your ancestors are waiting the proxy ordinances you can submit their names for. But honestly, this ad sorta makes it sound like they are ghosts caught in your house. Also "Time is short. We are waiting" could be the tagline of a horror film.
If you want to see how dumb ChatGPT is and what people are saying is cool about it, check out these people awed by "secrets" told to them by models that read mostly like really, really bad self-help nonsense: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
I asked ChatGPT to tell me a secret that only it knows
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June 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you want to see how dumb ChatGPT is and what people are saying is cool about it, check out these people awed by "secrets" told to them by models that read mostly like really, really bad self-help nonsense: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
We all know recipe writers lie about time for carmelizing onions, but why must they also lie about how much a serving of soup is? Every recipe that serves four makes like 5 quarts of soup.
June 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We all know recipe writers lie about time for carmelizing onions, but why must they also lie about how much a serving of soup is? Every recipe that serves four makes like 5 quarts of soup.
This 1937 Time profile of a lady bank president is amazing. First of all what does "no gusher, she" even mean? It calls her "the prettiest" and comments on the color of her eyes. But the best bit is when you can practically hear her sigh when she says there are 75 other women bank presidents.
May 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This 1937 Time profile of a lady bank president is amazing. First of all what does "no gusher, she" even mean? It calls her "the prettiest" and comments on the color of her eyes. But the best bit is when you can practically hear her sigh when she says there are 75 other women bank presidents.
For a second I was confused about the upcoming biopic starring Eddie Redmayne and Tina Fey!
May 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For a second I was confused about the upcoming biopic starring Eddie Redmayne and Tina Fey!
Bring back reporting like this!
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bring back reporting like this!
Sure you all say you're going to flee to Canada as refugees, but is it a family tradition for you? Arza Judd, my 4th great-grandpa hopped across from Vermont in 1793 to "obtain His Majesties Protection".
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sure you all say you're going to flee to Canada as refugees, but is it a family tradition for you? Arza Judd, my 4th great-grandpa hopped across from Vermont in 1793 to "obtain His Majesties Protection".