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Library Mary
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She/her, Reader, Dog Person, School Librarian, LFL Steward, Pop Culture curious, Consistently inconsistent

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#currentlyreading @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚
🔥135 Current Reads (3) Book covers left to right: Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture turned a generation of women against themselves by Sophie Gilbert, Twist by Colum McCann, Big Chief by Jon Hickey
June 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Surprised and grateful to encounter a description of atheism that is unapologetic and thoughtful in this book. Some believers have treated me so unkindly when they learned I am not one, and Knox echoes my response, that not believing in god does not mean I have no beliefs. #booksky 💙📚
Book cover for the audiobook of Free: My search for meaning by Amanda Knox
June 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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In May, I found the books I enjoyed the most were books I wouldn’t have chosen without recommendations from others. @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚
Books: 7 Pages: 1,357 Hours: 33.15 Avg. Rating 3.79 Highest rated reads Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith - 4.5 The Funny Thing About Norman Foremen by Julietta Henderson - 4.25 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - 4.25 Average book length 311 pages Average time to finish 13 days Pie chart - Fiction (pink) 71%; Non-Fiction (purple) 29% Bar chart of genres Memoir - pink - 2 Contemporary - yellow - 1 Horror - Black - 1 Poetry - Blue - 1 Politics - Gray - 1 Line graph Pages read (green) ranging from 0-200 per day Minutes listened (yellow) ranging from 0-580 per day Pie chart - audio (purple) 43%; print (blue) 43%; digital (pink) 14% Black StoryGraph logo 7 book covers in grid. Top row, left to right Enough Rope: a book of light verse by Dorothy Parker Dog town by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King That Librarian: The fight against book banning in America by Amanda Jones Bottom row, left to right Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
June 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Live your life so The NY Times doesn’t spend an entire paragraph speculating everyone who wants to punch you.
The list of possible suspects seemed long. An abridged lineup of people and constituencies currently unhappy with Mr. Musk includes: at least two of the many women with whom he has fathered children; pretty much the entire federal bureaucracy; his neighbors in a suburb of Austin, Texas; Tesla shareholders; old friends of his; Republicans on Capitol Hill; his 20-year-old daughter; all those people who have lit Teslas on fire; and even some Trump voters. But it wasn't any of those people who gave him the black eye. It was, he said, his progeny X, age 5.
May 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#currentlyreading #middlegrade #scifi #memoir #audiobooks #litfic #mystery #booksky 💙📚
Three book covers - The Giver by Lois Lowry; Free: My search for Meaning by Amanda Knox (audiobook); and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
May 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Just finished this heartwarming coming of age / road trip book, which I first heard about a couple weeks ago on the literary + genre episode of “What Should I Read Next?” #podcast.

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#audiobooks #booksky 💙📚
Audiobook cover for The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson. Rear view of a boy in a spotlight on a blue background.
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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This is one of the wildest, juiciest #memoirs I have ever read. I read Janelle Monae is attached to a possible film adaptation. Another great rec from @bookriot.bsky.social TBR! #truecrime #booksky 💙📚
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBl and the Entire Banking System-and POCKETED $40 MILLION By Tanya Smith "Unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving . . . a wild ride from start to finish." -ISSA RAE Square audiobook cover with a photo of an attractive young Black woman wearing a large brimmed fuschia hat that obscures her eyes with a matching blazer and lipstick on a dark green background.
May 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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On my 100th day of consecutive reading, I finished my first Stephen King book, which I enjoyed & might not have picked up if not for #BannedBookSkyClub. Looking forward to the discussion threads this week. Read out of your comfort zone sometimes! #booksky @thestorygraph.com @stephenking.bsky.social
Streak, 1 page, or 1 minute, every day Current streak: 100 Longest streak: 100 Line graph of past 28 days of reading. Yellow line representing minutes listening to audiobooks per day, ranging from 0 to approximately 250. Green line representing pages read per day, ranging from approximately 10 to approximately 220. A paperback library copy of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon resting open, cover side up, on crossed legs wearing jeans. The reader is sitting on a blue canvas camp chair just outside a little league ballfield. Blurry baseball players can be perceived warming up in the background on the first baseline.
May 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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April 2025 Reading Wrap up! @thestorygraph.com #booksky #fiction #litfic #graphicnovels #middlegrade #ya #nonfic #truecrime #poetry
13 Books, 3,001 pages, 25.87 hours, avg rating 3.96 Highest rated reads: James by Percival Everett, 5 stars; The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, 5 stars; Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, 4.5 stars. Pie graph showing 58% fiction and 42% nonfiction Bar graph showing distribution of genres Literary - 4 books Historical - 3 books Poetry - 3 books Graphic Novel - 2 books History - 2 books Line graph showing minutes listened to audiobooks per day in yellow, ranging from 0 to approximately 250 and number of print pages read per day in green, ranging from 1 to approximately 230. Pie graph showing book format breakdown: print 62%, audio 23% and digital 15% Grid showing 13 book covers BANNED BOOK CLUB No Rules Tonight by KIM HYUN SOOK & RYAN ESTRADA controvertibles by Quan Barry JAMES by PERCIVAL EVERETT CUE THE SUN! I FUNNY by JAMES PATTERSON AND CHRIS GRABENSTEIN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain WE RIDE UPON STICKS A novel by Quan BARRY THE FEATHER THIEF by KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON JAMES BALDWIN JIMMY'S BLUES AND OTHER POEMS MARIANNE MOORE Observations BEAUTYLAND THE FRIEND A NOVEL by SIGRID NUNEZ
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Closing out #NationalPoetryMonth with some Dorothy Parker #currentlyreading #booksky
Book cover for “Enough Rope” by Dorothy Parker, featuring a colorful line drawing of a woman with dark hair in profile, wearing a blue hat with a red ribbon and a fox stole, sitting at a table with a martini in front of her. UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
April 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Books and ballfields. #bannedbookskyclub #currentlyreading
A paperback copy of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon open page-side down on a lap wearing jeans with the right leg crossed over the left. The reader is sitting in a canvas camp chair at a ball field with young players warming up in the background.
April 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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My 3rd book of #poetry for #poetrymonth! #jamesbaldwin #booksky 💙📚
A hand holding a copy of the book Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by James Baldwin. The cover features a blue tinted monochrome portrait of Baldwin, wearing a light collared shirt and looking slightly toward his left. The darkest hour The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that, I see, which does not guarantee power to draw the next breath, nor abolish the suspicion that the brightest hour we will ever see occurs just before we cease to be.
April 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A delightful after-work wind-down. #currentlyreading #islathewhoodle #mcdoodles #booksky #dogsofbsky
The happy face of a light brown medium doodle wedged between the arm of a gray upholstered chair and a human lap. A hand with lavender manicured nails holding the book The Friend by Sigrid Nunez above a lap with legs extended on a yellow and white patterned upholstered ottoman.
April 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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No New Things is a great #nonfic worth a try if you’ve wanted to ditch Amazon and failed (or just want to save money, live a more sustainable and environmentally friendly lifestyle, or embrace minimalism)! Dogtown is the very charming #middlegrade fiction I’m currently reading with my kid. #booksky
Four book covers in a quadrant: James by Percival Everett (audiobook) in the top left and The Friend by Sigrid Nunez in the top right. Bottom left: No New Things: aa radically simple 30-day guide to saving money, the planet and your sanity. Bottom right: Dogtown by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko
April 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I read Huck Finn for the first time to set myself up for James, which is so far wonderful and has the same narrator as The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. First time with Sigurd Nunez, and I’m really enjoying it. #currentlyreading #hisfic #litfic #booksky
Four book covers in a quadrant: James by Percival Everett (audiobook) in the top left and The Friend by Sigrid Nunez in the top right. Bottom left: No New Things: aa radically simple 30-day guide to saving money, the planet and your sanity. Bottom right: Dogtown by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko
April 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Nothing justifies a lazy day like an animal deciding to share a chair with you. Everything on my to do list can wait. #islathewhoodle #mcdoodles
A light brown dog sleeping on a yellow cushion with her body flush against the leg of a person
April 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Freshly groomed puppy to cleanse the feed! #missmally #mcdoodles #bernedoodle #doodles #dogsofbsky
A tricolor bernedoodle with a fresh haircut standing on a gray sofa with a green rubber bone next to her right foot.
April 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Reading from The Portable Feminist Reader a little bit almost every day. I’m not sure how to explain this, but you know how some books just FEEL good in your hands? This one is the perfect size and thickness and the paper flops perfectly. @roxanegay.bsky.social #currentlyreading #booksky 💙📚
A pink polished manicured hand holding a copy of The Portable Feminist Reader, edited by Roxane Gay, resting on a leg stretched out on an ottoman.
April 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#quanbarry #poetry #poetrymonth #booksky 💙📚
Lazarus as Ambiguity How much has passed? Only yesterday I cut my finger on a piece of glass—-how it's still bleeding, & the way the latest theory claims time is fabricated, non-existing. Or think of the miracle of the once-dead man, how when Jesus heard the news He abode two days still in the same place before coming. In this story time is nothing, just a stone rolled out of the way. I can live w/the idea of this: that time is like a roll of film, each moment present simultaneously, & that there has always been a frame of yesterday, the glass breaking in my hand. But tonally the story of Lazarus is horrific to me: the idea that Jesus called him back not because He should have but because He could. & he that was dead came forth, bound hand & foot w/graveclothes; & his face was bound about w/a veil. Was He saying: this is the miracle-that nothing is absolute? & fundamentally is creation an act of power or grief-the soul consoling itself? Think of Lazarus staggering forth in the rags of his body again wondering what it means. "Loose him, & let him go."
April 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I’ve been trying to read poetry almost every day this month. It’s a literary blind spot for me. I picked this book up after finishing Quan Barry’s novel We Ride Upon Sticks recently. #currentlyreading #poetry #poetrymonth #booksky 💙📚
A hand holding the book Conteovertibles by Quan Barry, a collection of poetry. The book has library labels affixed, and the spine label overlaps and covers the C in the title.
April 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Today or tomorrow, I’ll be able to finish reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, which is dryly funny but heartwarming. #currentlyreading #fiction #bookquotes #newyork #booksky 💙📚
Book cover for Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino “Living in New York, she writes, is like sitting at a nine-million-person blackjack table. We work together against the dealer. If you call on 11 (request a fresh bagel to be toasted), the table scowls at you. You can trust the group. If a group of New Yorkers are walking against the light, you can cross. If a group of New Yorkers avoid a subway car, it is covered in feces. If a group of New Yorkers leave their cars parked on ASP day, alternate side of the street and parking meter rules have been suspended. Like it or not, you’re part of the team. Uptown or down? Express or local? Yell Hold the train, and at least three New Yorkers will wrench their hands between the closing doors. Life in New York is a series of no-look passes. Not true in cities like Philadelphia where, if humans are participating in an activity, much more follow-up is required.”
April 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#currentlyreading #nonfic #truecrime #graphicnovels #yafic #poetry #poetrymonth #middlegrade #booksky 💙📚
4 Book covers: The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (audiobook); No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada; Observations: Poems by Marianne Moore; and I Funny by James Patterson with Chris Grabenstein
April 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The #BannedBookSky discussion of Banned Book Club is starting today and we are lucky to have author @ryanestrada.com chiming in! It’s a fast read, so join in!
Book cover for Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada
April 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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“Poetry” by Marianne Moore poets.org/poem/poetry

#poetrymonth #booksky 💙📚
Book cover for “Observations” by Marianne Moore. A portrait of Marianne Moore in a sepia tone.
April 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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5 months old! Time for another haircut soon. #missmally #mcdoodles #doodles #dogsofbsky
Fluffy tricolor bernedoodle puppy sitting on grass
April 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM