my absolute favorite!
my absolute favorite!
Fireworks (And When You Reach Me) really is a perfect book! I'm so glad it won!
This is the niche drama I crave
The first time a storytime kid started calling me auntie I felt like I was on top of the world. It's a regular thing now and I cherish it every time.
Wait, we still needed more music from D'Angelo.
he dropped it at 12:30 CT. My shift is 12:30-9. I was watching the instagram live in the parking lot and clocked in as he said it was going live NOW. That's just rude!
A President on the roof? Sounds crazy, no?
what perfect timing that this showed up in my feed! I'm playing it with a group of excited 3-6th graders on the 14th!
<3
Silly days are the best days
But there were SO MANY Hardy Boys. I'm sorry!
It's especially obnoxious that this AI book list news is all over the place today, a Tuesday, a day for talking about new releases. There's a new Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li's memoir! Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? Caitlin Starling's Starving Saints! Madeleine Thien's Book of Records! & more!
So far I've just bound them with discs so I got a happy planner hole punch and I got the discs at goodwill. The library I work at has a binding machine that uses the combs I've debated using and a friend has a spiral binding machine but I've never used either for this.
I have pages with fountain pen writing at home, but I brought the wrong bag to work today! I can show you how it works with ink tonight
The full size notebook
The small planner
fountain pens) and I'm currently experimenting with designing my own pretty internal pages with canva
I bought this clear notebook cover that's "classic size" (7x9.25 inches) which is wildly annoying to cut down every time (thank goodness I work somewhere with access to guillotine style cutters but I also bought a used happy planner notebook, ripped out all the used pages (that are awful for
great minds think alike! Perfect!
specifically this stuff (please forgive the Amazon link, it's the best source I've found for this):
expensive for a ream of printer paper, cheap for 500 notebook pages.
www.amazon.com/dp/B000099O2W
it's wildly unorthodox but I adore HP Premium 32 lb printer paper (it really is lovely for fountain pens) so I just use that in a disc bound notebook. Then I can print a dot grid on some pages a monthly calendar on others, and leave most of them blank.
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Old Style beer and Malort are combined in a shot glass to make a Chicago Handshake
The peace during Mass will now be expressed by sharing a Chicago Handshake
OH my god
EXCUSE ME NOT MY FRIEND @jessicaroy.bsky.social π₯°π₯°π₯°ππ½ππ½ππ½π₯π₯π₯
you canβt break them apart
This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky
I really needed this list right now!!! Thank you!!!
Gem Room Games was founded in Los Angeles. We love it deeply.
So we're putting our whole @itch.io catalog on sale, 25% off for the rest of January, to raise some funds to support relief efforts from these horrific fires.
Whether as a bundle or individual games, 100% of every $ spent goes to help.