Norah Schneider
@nschneider03.bsky.social
Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made.
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
It was a busy busy week but finished some books.
Fiction:
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Lost Names
Nonfiction:
The Worst Day - Bruce Goldfarb
Started The Children on the Hill today.
Fiction:
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Lost Names
Nonfiction:
The Worst Day - Bruce Goldfarb
Started The Children on the Hill today.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It was a busy busy week but finished some books.
Fiction:
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Lost Names
Nonfiction:
The Worst Day - Bruce Goldfarb
Started The Children on the Hill today.
Fiction:
The Sun Down Motel
The Book of Lost Names
Nonfiction:
The Worst Day - Bruce Goldfarb
Started The Children on the Hill today.
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All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Same.
I have read a ridiculous number of books this year and I’m honestly not even sure how, but I think it’s mostly a result of needing to hide from everything.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Same.
Rhode Island was home for 9 years. I went to school in Providence. I taught there. Including at RISD, lucky enough to work with Brown faculty and students. I am heartbroken for this amazing city and community.
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Rhode Island was home for 9 years. I went to school in Providence. I taught there. Including at RISD, lucky enough to work with Brown faculty and students. I am heartbroken for this amazing city and community.
There was an incident on my campus when I was undergrad involving a sparkly deer art installation. Every Christmas, the glittered reindeer decorations take me right back.
Fits and Starts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
There was an incident on my campus when I was undergrad involving a sparkly deer art installation. Every Christmas, the glittered reindeer decorations take me right back.
If you are near Brown University, please stay safe.
Multiple people shot on Brown University campus, shooter at large
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you are near Brown University, please stay safe.
For one of my reading challenges next year, I need to read a book from an unknown part of history.
The problem is I’m a historian. So I don’t really know what’s considered unknown.
The problem is I’m a historian. So I don’t really know what’s considered unknown.
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For one of my reading challenges next year, I need to read a book from an unknown part of history.
The problem is I’m a historian. So I don’t really know what’s considered unknown.
The problem is I’m a historian. So I don’t really know what’s considered unknown.
Yup. 15 year high school reunion. Day after Christmas. Just some of us, some teachers, and some cases of beer in the meeting hall. Small school. Very small class. So we didn’t need anything formal. It was cool to just hang.
In every movie or tv show where there’s a high school reunion, the reunion happens AT the school. It’s elaborately decorated, they can walk all over the school.
I’ve never heard of a real reunion at a school. Mine were at hotels or just bars.
Did you ever have a reunion at your high school?
I’ve never heard of a real reunion at a school. Mine were at hotels or just bars.
Did you ever have a reunion at your high school?
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yup. 15 year high school reunion. Day after Christmas. Just some of us, some teachers, and some cases of beer in the meeting hall. Small school. Very small class. So we didn’t need anything formal. It was cool to just hang.
Beau always gets so embarrassed when he does this.
Me: Ah, cats
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
December 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Beau always gets so embarrassed when he does this.
Weekend books.
The Tell - such an incredible and vulnerable memoir.
The Forest of Missing Girls - thriller with a unique twist.
Just started The Sun Down Motel which has been on my TBR for so long.
The Tell - such an incredible and vulnerable memoir.
The Forest of Missing Girls - thriller with a unique twist.
Just started The Sun Down Motel which has been on my TBR for so long.
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Weekend books.
The Tell - such an incredible and vulnerable memoir.
The Forest of Missing Girls - thriller with a unique twist.
Just started The Sun Down Motel which has been on my TBR for so long.
The Tell - such an incredible and vulnerable memoir.
The Forest of Missing Girls - thriller with a unique twist.
Just started The Sun Down Motel which has been on my TBR for so long.
Many of my closest friends are from a virtual book club that regularly reads books on cults (shoutout to The Morbidly Curious Book Club). Most of us have never met in person but they’re the people I go to when I need support, to share fun shit, and judge people.
After brainstorming this, I considered starting a book club but then I dreamed a little bigger, and I might just start a cult
The cool thing about the Midwest (though I suspect it’s this way everywhere) is that, if you don’t have a pre-set friend group from your high school and college years, you will probably have no real life friends
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Many of my closest friends are from a virtual book club that regularly reads books on cults (shoutout to The Morbidly Curious Book Club). Most of us have never met in person but they’re the people I go to when I need support, to share fun shit, and judge people.
For @christenrexing.bsky.social. Some books I read recently.
Nonfiction:
Child X
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
Nine Pints
Day of Rage (LOVED)
Megafire (LOVED)
The Suspect (LOVED)
Silent Witnesses
Fiction:
The Farmhouse
Bellevue (love Robin Cook thrillers)
#BookSky 📚💙
Nonfiction:
Child X
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
Nine Pints
Day of Rage (LOVED)
Megafire (LOVED)
The Suspect (LOVED)
Silent Witnesses
Fiction:
The Farmhouse
Bellevue (love Robin Cook thrillers)
#BookSky 📚💙
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
For @christenrexing.bsky.social. Some books I read recently.
Nonfiction:
Child X
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
Nine Pints
Day of Rage (LOVED)
Megafire (LOVED)
The Suspect (LOVED)
Silent Witnesses
Fiction:
The Farmhouse
Bellevue (love Robin Cook thrillers)
#BookSky 📚💙
Nonfiction:
Child X
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
Nine Pints
Day of Rage (LOVED)
Megafire (LOVED)
The Suspect (LOVED)
Silent Witnesses
Fiction:
The Farmhouse
Bellevue (love Robin Cook thrillers)
#BookSky 📚💙
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“…something triggered the system, but it wasn’t an earthquake.”
Sounds like the beginning of a Godzilla movie!
www.kqed.org/news/1206608...
Sounds like the beginning of a Godzilla movie!
www.kqed.org/news/1206608...
False Earthquake Alert Likely Triggered by ‘Something Out in the Field,’ USGS Says | KQED
The USGS, which said at least four seismic stations detected ground motion that signaled a quake, quickly canceled the warning that startled the Bay Area.
www.kqed.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“…something triggered the system, but it wasn’t an earthquake.”
Sounds like the beginning of a Godzilla movie!
www.kqed.org/news/1206608...
Sounds like the beginning of a Godzilla movie!
www.kqed.org/news/1206608...
If you’re curious about my
Apple Music wrap up I can make it real easy for you.
Check out Nicotine Dolls.
Apple Music wrap up I can make it real easy for you.
Check out Nicotine Dolls.
Nicotine Dolls
Nicotine Dolls Official YouTube Channel
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December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re curious about my
Apple Music wrap up I can make it real easy for you.
Check out Nicotine Dolls.
Apple Music wrap up I can make it real easy for you.
Check out Nicotine Dolls.
Reposted by Norah Schneider
Who else despises rain with temperatures in the 30s? 😡
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Who else despises rain with temperatures in the 30s? 😡
All the freaking time. If I didn’t keep a list it would be so many duplicates.
I have reached the point in my obsessive book-buying journey that I'm looking through sales on Kobo and finding myself going "That one looks interesting...oh, I have that one already, I just have so many books I haven't read it yet. Okay, how about this...oh, I have this one too. And this one. Hmm."
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
All the freaking time. If I didn’t keep a list it would be so many duplicates.
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Getting joint problems from sitting weird so the cat can stay comfy >>>>>>>>
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Getting joint problems from sitting weird so the cat can stay comfy >>>>>>>>
My hazards research gets awkward when I’m researching wildfires because I have a severe severe phobia of fires. Even afraid of smoke detectors.
Despite this, I am learning a lot from Megafire by Michael Kodas.
Despite this, I am learning a lot from Megafire by Michael Kodas.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My hazards research gets awkward when I’m researching wildfires because I have a severe severe phobia of fires. Even afraid of smoke detectors.
Despite this, I am learning a lot from Megafire by Michael Kodas.
Despite this, I am learning a lot from Megafire by Michael Kodas.
Just gonna pretend I didn’t see the small amount of snowflakes out my window.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Just gonna pretend I didn’t see the small amount of snowflakes out my window.
I can’t believe Beau is 12 today!!!
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I can’t believe Beau is 12 today!!!
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Tis the season for holiday teas. And therefore this helpful warning is necessary. Many of these holiday flavors have barley in them. If you have to be gluten free, check the ingredients. Many a celiac has been taken down by a holiday tea.
a cup of tea is being poured into a saucer with flowers on it
Alt: a cup of tea is being poured into a saucer with flowers on it
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Tis the season for holiday teas. And therefore this helpful warning is necessary. Many of these holiday flavors have barley in them. If you have to be gluten free, check the ingredients. Many a celiac has been taken down by a holiday tea.
Historian seeks high school coach to live in a cute house in the DMV suburbs with a few animals to be the fun aunt and uncle.
*house not provided.
*house not provided.
elmo from sesame street says " worth a shot "
Alt: elmo from sesame street says " worth a shot "
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Historian seeks high school coach to live in a cute house in the DMV suburbs with a few animals to be the fun aunt and uncle.
*house not provided.
*house not provided.