Kimberly Hirsh

🗨️📚 “When I die, I guess I’ll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other.”

🔖 Read A Self-Care Guide For Teachers (From A Teacher).

📓Read The New Federal Funding Problem by Matt Hartman (The Assembly).

Finished reading: The True Ugly Duckling by Sandra Nickel 📚 A beautiful story of Hans Christian Andersen with stunning cut paper illustrations by Calvin Nicholls.

Finished reading: Hold by Randy Ribay & Zeke Peña 📚

Finished reading: I Am the Mountain by Steven Weinberg 📚 Beautiful watercolors.

Finished reading: Goldfinches by Mary Oliver 📚 Gorgeous illustrations from Melissa Sweet to go with a gorgeous poem.

Finished reading: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish by Carole Boston Weatherford & Bagram Ibatoulline 📚

Finished reading: Bing’s Cherries by Livia Blackburne & Julia Kuo 📚 I love that this tells the story of a Chinese immigrant in the style of American Tall Tales.

Finished reading: Chooch Helped by Andrea L.

🔖📝 Read The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page by Ronda Beaman (Literary Hub).

I am just really leaning into my whole personality being BOOKS!

📚🗨️ “…to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.”

How many Halloween cardigans does a goth librarian need?

Finished reading: The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover) by Rick Riordan 📚

Pretty sure it’s time for bifocals or progressive lenses and I’m just about due for my annual eye exam, so this should work out well

Read 🔖 The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto.

Why Am I Like This?

🔖Read I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece.

📚🗨️ “Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.”

📚🗨️ “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard—it got harder to do that every year.

Finished reading: Officer Off Limits by Tessa Bailey 📚

Happy Bookstore Romance Day!

📚 If you want to read more and with more focused attention, maybe try one of these programs: reading training using progressive overload designed by librarian Hana Lee Goldin or couch to 5k for reading with author Naomi Alderman.