Diana Tixier Herald
@didididit.bsky.social
Reader/writer/librarian/bookseller. Lover of family, sustainability, and nature.
Two of my favorite novels this year highlighted in today's Colorado Sun. Murder by Memory and The Adventures of Mary Darling. 💙📚🪐 #SFF coloradosun.com/2025/12/14/o...
Out West Books suggests tales of music, murder and a ferocious mom
The Grand Junction bookstore recommends stories of an aspiring songwriter, deleting minds and a mother who fights to save her kids.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Two of my favorite novels this year highlighted in today's Colorado Sun. Murder by Memory and The Adventures of Mary Darling. 💙📚🪐 #SFF coloradosun.com/2025/12/14/o...
This week’s new #sff releases and too tall books shelves. 💙📚🪐🐉 #OutWestBooks
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week’s new #sff releases and too tall books shelves. 💙📚🪐🐉 #OutWestBooks
We have now lived in our #off-grid, #sustainable, #earthship for as many years as we worked toward being able to build it. Life is good. lifeontheedge.substack.com/p/our-sustai...
Our Sustainable Home
A silent movie of the images of building our house and a few of what it looked like when done.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We have now lived in our #off-grid, #sustainable, #earthship for as many years as we worked toward being able to build it. Life is good. lifeontheedge.substack.com/p/our-sustai...
💙📚 #YA The Morris Award is one of my favorites. I was thrilled to be a member of the 2011 committee and every year I look for this list to find the best new authors of YA/teen books.
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YALSA announces 2026 William C. Morris finalists
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selected five books as finalists for the 2026 William C. Morris Award.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
💙📚 #YA The Morris Award is one of my favorites. I was thrilled to be a member of the 2011 committee and every year I look for this list to find the best new authors of YA/teen books.
www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
💙📚🪐🌶️🎧🐉⏳⚡ Books finished in November.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
💙📚🪐🌶️🎧🐉⏳⚡ Books finished in November.
#SFF 💙📚🪐 One of the things I love about booktalking at Out West Books every week is people recommending books to me. Just finished listening to the audiobook of Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio recommended by several book buyers. A great recommendation.
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#SFF 💙📚🪐 One of the things I love about booktalking at Out West Books every week is people recommending books to me. Just finished listening to the audiobook of Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio recommended by several book buyers. A great recommendation.
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West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."
I woke up at 2:30 this morning and decided to work on a top 10 list of books read and published in 2025. It was an impossible task. So I then decided to just list 1 book per genre which gave me doable parameters but was it really fair to the genres I loved and read voraciously?
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I woke up at 2:30 this morning and decided to work on a top 10 list of books read and published in 2025. It was an impossible task. So I then decided to just list 1 book per genre which gave me doable parameters but was it really fair to the genres I loved and read voraciously?
Western Colorado
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Western Colorado
💙📚 #SFF New books shelves at Out West Books. Marissa Meyer’s THE HOUSE SAPHIR also released today but was on display in YA. Definitely worth the read.
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
💙📚 #SFF New books shelves at Out West Books. Marissa Meyer’s THE HOUSE SAPHIR also released today but was on display in YA. Definitely worth the read.
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Books finished reading in October 2025.
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Books finished reading in October 2025.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
💙📚 Books are my life so I was thrilled to see Hank's vlogbrother episode PRINT IS THE FUTURE. I do read lots of ebooks and subscribe to Libro.fm as well as borrowing audiobooks, print & ebooks from my local public library but I do love print on paper the most. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyX0...
What Will Books Become?
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
💙📚 Books are my life so I was thrilled to see Hank's vlogbrother episode PRINT IS THE FUTURE. I do read lots of ebooks and subscribe to Libro.fm as well as borrowing audiobooks, print & ebooks from my local public library but I do love print on paper the most. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyX0...
💙📚🐉 #SFF Somehow I missed Carol Berg's TRANSFORMATION when it was published 25 years ago. It is magnificent! Superb world building makes it epic fantasy at its finest featuring an unique and imaginative magic system and complex characters. 2 libraries in Colorado still have it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
💙📚🐉 #SFF Somehow I missed Carol Berg's TRANSFORMATION when it was published 25 years ago. It is magnificent! Superb world building makes it epic fantasy at its finest featuring an unique and imaginative magic system and complex characters. 2 libraries in Colorado still have it.
💙📚🪐🌶️⚡🎧🐉🔍⏳ Catching up on books I missed after being on juries and/or committees for book awards for the last 35 years or so, reading more than 200 per year. I loved reading new and exciting books each year but often it constrained me to only a specific genre, format, region, etc. What did I miss?
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
💙📚🪐🌶️⚡🎧🐉🔍⏳ Catching up on books I missed after being on juries and/or committees for book awards for the last 35 years or so, reading more than 200 per year. I loved reading new and exciting books each year but often it constrained me to only a specific genre, format, region, etc. What did I miss?
💙📚🐉 #SFF 11/4/25 pub. Just finished The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer. Mallory and her sister eke out a shabby living giving tours of an abandoned mansion where years ago a Bluebeard-like count murdered his first wife before going back to his vineyard where the family fortune was built with a rare
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
💙📚🐉 #SFF 11/4/25 pub. Just finished The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer. Mallory and her sister eke out a shabby living giving tours of an abandoned mansion where years ago a Bluebeard-like count murdered his first wife before going back to his vineyard where the family fortune was built with a rare
💙📚🪐 #SFF Just finished Sunward by William Alexander. When the docks on Luna collapse and all bots seemingly disappear, Captain Tova Lir, a courier hunts down what happened and on a quest to find help for his baby "bot" mentee,
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
💙📚🪐 #SFF Just finished Sunward by William Alexander. When the docks on Luna collapse and all bots seemingly disappear, Captain Tova Lir, a courier hunts down what happened and on a quest to find help for his baby "bot" mentee,
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ICYMI earlier this month, I wrote this about going to the Broadview ICE facility and the horrors ICE & DHS are inflicting on Chicago (and Chi is certainly not alone in this) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard
Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.
www.vanityfair.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ICYMI earlier this month, I wrote this about going to the Broadview ICE facility and the horrors ICE & DHS are inflicting on Chicago (and Chi is certainly not alone in this) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
💙📚🪐 #SFF Just finished The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. It will be in indie bookstores 2/17/26 and you do not want to miss it...As terraforming creates changes on the vast empty vistas of the planet, rain becomes a possibility. Told with tenderness and sensitivity, the stories of the lives of
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
💙📚🪐 #SFF Just finished The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. It will be in indie bookstores 2/17/26 and you do not want to miss it...As terraforming creates changes on the vast empty vistas of the planet, rain becomes a possibility. Told with tenderness and sensitivity, the stories of the lives of
💙📚🐉 #SFF Just finished reading Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore. When the dark sorcerer who raised Violet to be the powerful Thornwitch is vanquished, she decides to leave evil behind and moves to the depressed village of Dragon's Rest where she opens a flower shop. Her landlord
October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
💙📚🐉 #SFF Just finished reading Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore. When the dark sorcerer who raised Violet to be the powerful Thornwitch is vanquished, she decides to leave evil behind and moves to the depressed village of Dragon's Rest where she opens a flower shop. Her landlord
💙📚🐉 Didn't get a photo of #outwestbooks new #SFF releases this week. My fave was Kill the Beast by Serra Swift. Lyssa a hunter of monsters has vowed to avenge her brother who was killed by the Beast. When Alderick, an immensely wealthy foppish man advertises
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
💙📚🐉 Didn't get a photo of #outwestbooks new #SFF releases this week. My fave was Kill the Beast by Serra Swift. Lyssa a hunter of monsters has vowed to avenge her brother who was killed by the Beast. When Alderick, an immensely wealthy foppish man advertises
💙📚 For someone who has never been a children’s librarian or taken a kid lit class I feel pretty good about the 33 books I’ve read and remembered from The Atlantic’s list of 65. One of my favorites, Mr. Wuffles, sadly is not on the list. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
65 Essential Children’s Books
Illustrated titles that teach kids to love literature
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
💙📚 For someone who has never been a children’s librarian or taken a kid lit class I feel pretty good about the 33 books I’ve read and remembered from The Atlantic’s list of 65. One of my favorites, Mr. Wuffles, sadly is not on the list. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...