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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · 8d

It's Officially Spooky Season!
🏚️🕸️🌲💀
1st spooky read of the season:
The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy (of the Wildwood Chronicles and the band, The Decemberists)

Which book(s) are you reading this October?

#currentlyreading

A copy of The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy is resting on a patch of grass and clover, where brown and crunchy autumnal leaves are naturally scattered.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · 11d

💯, perfection. So relaxing, and the weather was amazing the entire time.

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · 11d

I may be going back to work tomorrow, but mentally, I am still here.

A very scenic photo of haystack rock just a few minutes after peak sunset.

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The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 11d

Here's some amazing news... READING RAINBOW is back and @mychal3ts.bsky.social is the new host!

Congrats, Mychal!

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Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian

After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 18d

We work every day to encourage more people to read, all while supporting their local, independent bookshop ❤️⁠

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · 18d

🔔💕✨We did it! ✨💕🔔

Two newlyweds looking fondly at each while also making goofy faces and wearing matching shirts with wedding geese and the text "Mr. & Mrs. Silly Goose"

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · 24d

Why yes, I did schedule a book club meeting mere days before my wedding. 🤪

Good thing the book we will be discussing is the fun & extremely Minnesotan Rom-Com, Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer! 🥰

#currentlyreading #books

A hand holding a copy of Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer while riding the bus to work.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25d

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Currently reading Strong Roots by @oliahercules.bsky.social, and this book is fascinating, heartbreaking, insightful, & poignant.

As someone w/ Estonian heritage marrying someone w/ Ukrainian heritage, this book feels a bit like finally learning about our own family histories, and more.

#books

A copy of Strong Roots by Olia Hercules has been placed on a set of concrete steps there are leafy shadows landing softly on the front cover of the book.

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wholesome news: I grew potatoes! I successfully grew potatoes! In my own backyard! 🥰🥔

A hand holding an abundance of tiny red and gold potatoes, with more potatoes seen on a table behind.

Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am still very much in my tiny book era, but this book calls for an exception to be made.

#Currentlyreading : Katabasis by R.F. Kuang.

A copy of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang is resting on a concrete step.

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Brigid Barr-ied Secrets 👻 @brigidbarryme.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you need to be enabled for buying more books, treating yourself to that coffee, or anything in the self-care sphere, I'm here for you.

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Next Chapter by @kelloggcamille.bsky.social is absolutely delightful. I chose it for the upcoming @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social romance bookclub, because duh, & I think I did quite well with this choice, if I do say so myself. 😜

#currentlyreading #books

A cup of coffee and a copy of 'The Next Chapter' by Camille Kellogg sit in the grass, with hints of sun landing in a couple of spots.

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Jodie Griffin @jodiegriffin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Be kind to yourself and take a few moments to enjoy something you love, whatever it is. ❤️

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

fairies are real. 🧚‍♂️🧚🧚‍♀️

two tiny and blurry white fairies disguised as white butterflies are flying around a lush garden.

A fairy, disguised as a small white butterfly is flying around a lush garden.

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

I am really enjoying this Tiny Book Era that I seem to be in.
(reading books with fewer than 250 pages)

#currentlyreading : Say Say Say by Lila Savage

A copy of Say Say Say by Lila Savage has been placed on a cement staircase. The crumbling remains of a ceramic gnome are just out of focus in the background.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · Aug 12

a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones
text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Aug 2

It's finally nice enough outside (the smoke/haze is starting to clear & it isn't a million degrees outside🥵); I can read my current book, Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch, under a nice & big tree.🌳

#currentlyreading #books

A large maple tree is looming behind a copy of Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Jul 30

Might fuck around and get into cardamom

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Jul 26

Perks of being a bookseller: sales reps/publishers supplying you w/ amazing books in translation that'll probably destroy you emotionally, but you are 💯 here for it.

#currentlyreading : The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from Estonian by Darcy Hurford. ( @worldedbooks.bsky.social )

A hand holding up an advanced reader copy of The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas and translated by Darcy Hurford.

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Alex Pendragon @alexp336.bsky.social · Jul 25

Have you backed up your writing recently?

If you have, you get this gold star: ⭐️

If you haven't, go back it up! Those words are important! You still get a gold star too, though: ⭐️

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Emily, Bibliophile @emilybkbooks.bsky.social · Jul 25

I came home to find a delightful treat from @elizabethdavis.bsky.social on my doorstep!

Thank you - I am so excited to read and hype up this book!

(Not pictured: my other doorstep gnome that has literally crumbled to bits.😂😭 R.I.P. O.G.Gnome.)

An advanced reader copy of 'Time For You' by Elizabeth Davis is set before a very zen looking garden gnome.

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