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Ardent bibliophile 📚 | dog person 🐶🐶 | fundraiser for KERA, KXT 91.7 & WRR 101.1 | 🧶🧵🪴🍞| moon child 🦀 | #booksky
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I just finished #everyonewhoisgoneishere by Jonathan Blitzer. It’s a powerful look at the complex history between the US and Central America, and how it has fueled the ongoing #migration crisis. Excellent for understanding the root causes & human impact of this critical issue. 5⭐️ #immigrationpolicy

I made this #headingnorthhat a couple years ago using Malabrigo Washted in Pearl and Heirloom Vegetables colorways. This yarn is divine! #showmeyourknits #malabrigo

I spent two days in Libby Limbo because my library card wouldn’t verify. Just when the March issue of Booklist Reader and a book hold became available. Longest two days of my life! 🥺 Thanks to the amazing librarians at my local branch for helping a sister out. I’m back in borrowing business again! 🥳

In February, I read Liz Cheney’s memoir Oath and Honor, about J6 and the resulting investigation by the House Select Committee. It illuminated how fragile our democracy was during the events of J6 and how imperative it is to protect it from enemies foreign and domestic. Highly recommend. 4⭐️

My son and I made a starter last night and have been proofing the dough all morning for baguettes. My kitchen smells amazing! Recipe: Classic Baguettes by @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social #baguettes 🥖👨‍🍳👩‍🍳

Books pulled off the newsroom bookshelf. Which to read first? OUTRAGED! or Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know 🤪 #booksky

I’m finally getting around to reading BABEL by R.F. Kuang. It delves into colonialism, power, identity, and resistance, exploring whether oppressive systems can be reformed or must be dismantled. A timely tale of language, exploitation, and the fight for justice in a fractured world. #booksky

5⭐️. I co-read this with my mother and we were both captivated by its beauty and depth. Atmospheric, lush, vivid, poignant, multilayered and haunting. The story was so much more than I expected it would be. #booksky

PBS Newshour's books of 2024 #books all fours you dreamed of empires james colored television the wide wide sea everyone who is gone is here a wilder shore the letters of emily dickinson karla’s choice the dog who followed the moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUu-...

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Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): Favourite by Fontaines D.C. youtu.be/0a_vpigwDb4?...

Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): We Were Never Alive by Brigitte Calls Me Baby youtu.be/EjpUBmCOkVY?...

Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): Twist and Turn by The Cardinals youtu.be/k4MudE2zZyo?...

Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): Walk Through Fire by Yannis & The Yaw youtu.be/QPPT_FrH5zw?...

Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): Messy by Lola Young youtu.be/k-k2_Liofy8/

Songs on repeat in 2024 (in no particular order): Kool-Aid by Royel Otis youtu.be/JRi4V2486V8?...

Christmas may be over, but I’m still on vacation with lots of time to relax and read. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter is a holiday + romance + mystery novel which checks all my favorite boxes. 🕵️🥰🎄📚

Vacation reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason. Young lovers flee a Puritan colony to a cabin in the woods. It is a story of the home and the lives of its many inhabitants (both human and non) over generations: an English soldier, spinsters, a con man and a panther. #northwoodsbook #danielmason

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 20/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 18/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 17/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 15/20

This is a fantastic episode of KERA’s Think with Krys Boyd, featuring an interview with Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, discussing the best books of 2024. think.kera.org/2024/12/12/t...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 14/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 9/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 8/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge 7/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #ReadBannedBooks 6/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #ReadBannedBooks 5/20