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Steve Chisnell - Educator, writer, podcaster, book critic, democracy advocate, Creator of Waywords Studio - Wanderings on Literature and Language WaywordsStudio.com
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Image by Erik Ruin, 2023 #booksky #edusky #education #literacy #freedomtoread #righttoread #publiccommons #libraries

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"Big Reader" by Alec Dunn - Growing our critical literacy is healthy for us and healthy for democracy. Reading is essential, supporting it critical. #literacy #reading #knowledge #books #education #booksky #edusky #libraries #bookworm #ala #justseeds 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴.𝘰𝘳𝘨.

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"Keep Growing, Keep Learning," an image by Laurel Bell & Kevin Caplicki

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So much to do! What should be next? --Catch up on my reading --Move forward on a novella --Get the next podcast outline set for Friday --Catch up on my February book review videos --Work on the Teachers Guide for my poetry book I think I can pick two today! #booksky #edusky #poetry #bookreview

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Now this is the kind of reading challenge I can get behind! #booksky #edusky #reading #readingispolitical

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So what have I been up to? The easiest way to find out is to just subscribe to my newsletter from Waywords Studio! Just drop your email (which I never share) in the appropriate place & subscribe! I've left a few samples there to look at, too! waywordsstudio.kit.com/profile #booksky #edusky

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Excited to get the podcast back up and going today! Here is the first drop, a Winter Solstice ghost story by Edith Nesbit, "The Shadow." 🙂 waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/way...

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Among other things, recording the Winter Solstice story for the podcast today.

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Today's arrivals! But have to start with the new translation of EotW&HBW! #murakami #sophushelle

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An even dozen of my favorite fiction reads of 2024! #booksky #edusky #bskybookclub #fiction #bestof2024 #books #bookreviews --Paul M. M. Cooper: River of Ink --Upadhyay: The Royal Ghosts (short stories) --Hemon: The Lazarus Effect --Leroux: The Future

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Five of my favorite graphic novel reads of 2024 (the first 3): --Black Hole by Charles Burns (deeply disturbing) --Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki (real and beautiful) --Blue is the Warmest Color by Jules Maroh (Uneven but evocative)

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Six of my favorite NF reads in 2024. The first 3: --Mendelsohn: An Odyssey (memoir) --Howe: My Emily Dickinson (personal lit crit) --Vonnegut: Man Without a Country (essays) #booksky #books #bestof2024 #tbr

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Five of my favorites poetry reads in 2024: --Howe: Concordance --Taylor: Work and Days --Milton: Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained --Yeats: The Tower --Kapil: Ban en Banilieue Kapil's work is arguably not poetry, exactly, but neither is it exactly memoir or traditional prose: inter-genre! #booksky

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Putting together my #tbr list 2025. Looking for global & genre diversity, but recs for solid reads supporting democratic principles, writing, action, resistance, community . . . Any ideas are appreciated! My starting list also follows in comments. #reading #booksky #edusky #writingcommunity

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My TBR pile for December (and catching up on some others left somewhat behind this year! #tbr #booksky #tbrpile #spiritualliteracymonth #books #bskybookclub

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