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I did! It will definitely be worth the wait.

The cover of The Girl with a Thousand Faces depicts a woman's doll-like face with pale glowing eyes. The face is surrounded by black, gold and red brushstrokes suggesting water, clouds, and maybe the tentacles of some sort of sea creature.

Currently reading THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES by Sunyi Dean. All I had to hear was "Gothic ghost story set in historical Hong Kong" to want to pick it up, and the characters captured my interest right away! #ewgc 💙📚

It's out June 2nd! I received an advance e-galley from the publisher.

The cover of Wife Shaped Bodies depicts the lower part of a woman's face completely surrounded by brightly colored fungus and hands pressing in around her.

WIFE SHAPED BODIES by Laura Cranehill was one of the most viscerally unsettling books I've read in a long time and honestly I still feel a little shudder of "ick" when I think about it...but if you like feminist body horror it's absolutely a Can't Miss title. #ewgc 💙📚

The cover of Land depicts several brightly colored layers of what looks like paper or cloth with a hole in the middle.

I also loved, loved, loved LAND by Maggie O'Farrell. So gorgeous that I'm already tempted to re-read it! Hamnet's many fans will find something even richer here. #ewgc 💙📚

The cover of Boring Asian Female is red with blue ovals. Each of the ovals contains a seemingly identical woman's eye looking ahead, but the eye closest to the center looks up at the word "ASIAN" in the title.

I absolutely loved BORING ASIAN FEMALE by Canwen Xu, one of those books where the main character is making just spectacularly bad decisions but you can't look away. #ewgc 💙📚

My rep is currently pretending to be far more progressive than she is so she can fend off a primary challenger, after which I’m sure she’s planning to be back to voting to thank ICE and all sorts of other hugely disappointing things. As for senators, don’t even get me started on Durbin.

Historian here yes on the 250th the uber patriotic White House does not know when the American Revolution began. The shot heard around the world? Not an by unAmerican regime hell bent on destroying the American republic!

Wyoming lawmakers' proposal to ban 'explicit' books from libraries falters as clock runs out The Legislature was advancing a bill that backers saw as a common sense way to keep "sexually explicit" books out of kids hands. Critics saw it as a book ban, and Teton County librarians have lined up...

THE HORRIFIC BOOK BANNING BILL IN WYOMING WAS KILLED.

IT'S DEAD!!!!!!

If your knee-jerk right now is "yeah but so many other ones," cool. *Not right here or right now.*

Celebrating advocacy and hard work matters.

www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/state/w...

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

Another day, another presentation about AI at a library conference that totally ignores its environmental impacts. Sigh.

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past

Pendragon is a delightful Arthurian strategy game with stained glass window art and also I voice a lot of the character laughs and oofs!
It deserved a lot more attention on launch, but it got tanked by an early negative steam review.

You can currently grab it for 60% off!

Pickens Public Library (SC) "is indefinitely cancelling many youth programs in order to allow library staff to review more than 80,000 books for themes or other content deemed inappropriate by the library board of trustees."

Staff time is being used to ban books.

www.wspa.com/news/upstate...

photo collage of book covers for LibraryReads Top 10 March 2026

Dear Readers' Advisory Librarians--Here are new forthcoming books to love and share with your patrons in March '26: the LibraryReads Top 10! An easy to print list can be found at libraryreads.org. #BookSky

book cover image and annotation

Next on the March 2026 LibraryReads Top 10 is THIS STORY MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE by Tiffany Crum! @macmillanlib.bsky.social

Mr. Douglass rose, and, taking the violin, played once more to the delight of the PRESS representative "The Star Spangled Banner, and the goodbye was exchanged, and thus closed the longest interview ever obtained with the "Sage of Cedar Hill."

How to end an interview:

In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud."

Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything.

We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

at least we’re all united in our horror. none of us had to experience the Dunkin ad alone.

I definitely do not need to see it again!

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.

added a few dozen books to the 2026 list this week (lots of sept/oct books have been announced in the last month), take a look!

Just watched the new #MuppetShow with my daughter and really enjoyed it! We want more Muppets, Disney!

I canceled my Post subscription a while ago thanks to Bezos, but Ron Charles’s book reviews would have been one of my most compelling reasons to keep it. Sad news about the Books section today.

Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.

Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson & Demeanor briefly performed on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.