pick#CharacterCharm Day 30: Augusta Baker educated herself and became the first Black person to earn a degree from SUNY Albany in library sciences and information studies. As the first Black #Librarian, she curated the James Weldon Johnson Memorial collection in 1944 to find uplifting stories about people of color. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r3d
so-soAn idyllic village complete with a murder solving librarian. Sherry‘s investigative skills are needed for more than reference work as the bodies begin to pile up. When Sherry‘s boyfriend is killed, her investigations take a personal supernatural turn. Charming premise, but this was almost a DNF. The characters were pleasant enough, but it was only a 2.5 ⭐️read for me.
pick“Life is too short to waste on reading a book you‘re not enjoying…you should give a book fifty pages. But if you‘re over the age of fifty, take your age and subtract it from a hundred. So, if you‘re seventy, give the book thirty pages. “
Entertaining vignettes of the lives of librarians, and bookstore owners/employees from across the US.
#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025
pickFun little cartoon collection around the theme of books and literature.
Perfect palate cleanser for relaxing. Of course, some are better than others, but I'm always impressed by the imagination it takes to create so many vignettes.
so-soThis was a cute cozy mystery, but not one of my favorites. I actually found it a bit boring. But I did enjoy the setting at a Librarian‘s Conference. And the main character‘s Maine coon cat was a fun - if superfluous - addition.
This was my #ReadOrDonate selection for June. I‘ll bring it to our local Little Free Library. It would be a good beach read for our island‘s summer visitors - light, entertaining, and easily completed in a week.
Here‘s a late #hyggehourreadathon post. I was just too tired to post anything and make it make sense. :D
My youngest son and I read together because my youngest daughter was playing video games with her older siblings. My son got the Pokémon book because they gave away books to kids who signed up for the reading program at the library.
#summerreadingprogram
#libraries
My son picked this one out, but it‘s a bit long for him. We‘ll be reading it over two nights. A bittersweet beginning to this book. Deals a little with death of a loved one. Mostly about transitions in life. Something I‘m not sure my son can remember since we‘ve finally stayed in the same place for two years. (He has trouble with long term memory.) Would be a good book to read if a child is moving to a new place.
#childrensliterature
#storygraph
