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a middle-aged librarian living on the flatlands of central Illinois magnificent weirdo, guardian of the corn trophy, teller of stories “music critic” at thebestthing.blog not a professional account by any means, it gets weird in here

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · Jan 2

most of you (probably) know that I am a librarian, specifically a public librarian who specializes in collection management

so in 2025 I’m going to post book stuff occasionally, when I read something that I want to share

currently thinking I will pin this thread and add to it throughout the year

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1h

I have beef with all of the Big 5 but S&S is enemy number one right now

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1h

oh nice, Simon & Schuster has increased the price for a whole bunch of their BACKLIST e-audiobooks to $99.99 for two years

guessing that two years from now they’ll jack the price up to $129.99

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 4h

sorry, “phoemixx classic books,” you will not be collecting $15.99 for the earlier of 52 checkouts or 24 months (one user) from me

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 4h

you can’t judge a (self-published version of a public domain) book by its cover

The cover of an ebook version of the city of god volume 1 by Bishop of Hippo St. Augustine, but the cover features theater masks in black and white against a very cybermodern purple and aqua neon background.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 6h

yeah that’s the only benefit, getting to unleash my rage on it

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 7h

please don’t make me listen to this Blake Babies album again

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 7h

today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match is between Nirvana and Blake Babies, but I’m going off about business majors in polo shirts and boat shoes at college parties and the audience at Nirvana Unplugged and yet another very 1989 video. Plus a plot twist!

Best Album of 1989: (6) Nirvana – Bleach vs. (59) Blake Babies – Earwig

Previous posts:Nirvana, in which Jon shares a couple of cassingle purchases and Nanette talks legacy artists and oldies radioBlake Babies, in which Jon defies expectations and Nanette has multiple …

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1d

my latest fantastic idea

Oh the other day I had a great idea
like what if it was the grocery store, the normal grocery store, but for music they only played spiritualized?

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match features the very 1989 Neneh Cherry vs the very timeless Steve Reich! we’ve got a ranty tangent, some middle-aged crankery, and an appreciation of the aesthetic of 1989. also: how cool is Neneh Cherry? Very!

(19) Neneh Cherry – Raw Like Sushi vs. (46) Steve Reich – Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint

Previous posts:Neneh Cherry, in which Nanette marvels at Cincinnati’s finest coke lord bathroom and Jon wants to wallow in some Don HenleySteve Reich, in which Jon would rather hear one of the albu…

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not letting you judge me

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 1d

Flora has discovered her special cat bed!

A white cat with a brown tabby half mask sitting in a little cubby

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d

everyone in my family still laughs about the store-brand crispix that were called “crispy hexagons”

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d

your list is incorrect

disintegration
technique
the stone roses
AUTOMATIC
on fire

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d

top 10? automatic is a top 5 album

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d

we return to @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social with a match between the Jesus and Mary Chain and 3rd Bass! what did 15 year old Nanette consider art? what does the gas face actually look like? also a new term is added to the dictionary of 1989 slang terms that never took off!

Best Album of 1989: (14) The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic vs. (78) 3rd Bass – The Cactus Album

Previous posts:The Jesus and Mary Chain, in which Nanette pens an open letter to Apple airing essential album grievance and Jon recalls plunging into the icy Atlantic3rd Bass, in which Nanette is l…

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 2d

ZIPS UPDATE. they won the national championship and Tim’s player won the heisman three years in a row (so far)

he still needs to play his senior year so he could ostensibly win two national championships and four heismans

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 3d

I have procured the second most festive of autumnal items*: the stackable pumpkins

*most festive is warty phallic gourds, I’ll get some of those next weekend maybe

A stack of three pumpkins: white on the bottom, dark green in the middle, orange on top.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 3d

I went all encyclopedia brown and walked past him when I was throwing away my trash so I could get a better look and I think Tim is right, in his late 30s but looks older because he drinks a lot of craft beer when he stays up late playing video games

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 3d

I am at Costco and there’s a man at the table next to ours who has a couple of young kids (like toddler/preschool) but he looks like he’s my age and he’s wearing a jimmy eat world t-shirt and these are things I associate with three very different possible ages, this is baffling

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 3d

we are out to dinner at the food hall and the golf shirt wearing grandpa at the table next to ours just said “this place is bussin’” and I want to crawl in a hole due to secondhand embarrassment

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 4d

new kallax has been built, Elsie has already claimed it as her own. Flora is more interested in the empty box.

A white medium haired cat with dilute calico accents on her head and tail reclining majestically on a black kallax. She looks fancy but she’s actually a giant doofus.

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 4d

bona drag was the peak of my obsessive Morrissey solo fandom, everything after that was disappointing and by vauxhall I had lost interest

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 5d

this is one of my all-time favorite books! It’s deeply weird, very funny, and has one of the all-time great endings

(trust me, I’m a librarian!)

Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 5d

I’m about 70% of the way through it but @drewmagary.bsky.social’s The Hike is currently on sale wherever ebooks are sold and it is very good and uncomfortable! There’s also a crab!

The cover of The Hike by Drew Magary. It features those words in large letters and in the middle is a blue crab. I don’t know if the species of crab is specifically a blue crab, only that the color of the crab is blue.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 5d

the mystery of why did my polyvinyl order ship from five blocks away from my workplace to CHICAGO rather than just coming directly to me? I live in the same town

it’s now arriving on “invalid date” or maybe October 8

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 5d

I forwarded the info to Tim with the comment “dj jettrokk is the dj at nutfest, maybe I should go” and obviously I am kidding, I was thrilled when the kid was able to attend independently so I could stay home