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right? I made a first attempt! tinyurl.com/IGbookspt1 and tinyurl.com/IGbookspt2 - see what you can catch that I missed or got wrong?

TEAM. This 1989 paperback from Tor is NOT ONLY a double feature Vonda McIntyre / James Tiptree Jr. NOT ONLY a flip-it-upside-down do-si-do. In the middle? Completely hidden and not mentioned anywhere? IS THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF SWORDSPOINT. just hanging out! LEGENDARY.

So thrilled to be #BackAtGGC22 ! Completed the Seattle Art Friends Scavenger Hunt and got to share with @eileendraws and @kittykatmeroow that my #1 rare ship is GBBO '18's Karen/Terry/Mr Karen (who we see in the background vacuuming). Tldr: buy cute stuff on the 4th floor!!

YOU CANNOT TELL ME NOT A SINGLE PERSON HAS WRITTEN A MYCELIUM SHIFTER BOOK (Image: Google search box says "it looks like there aren't many great matches for your search")

The dramatic yet naive @MyFedLoan hold message voice is killing me right now. "Due to high call volumes, you may have to wait more than 20 MINUTES to connect to a loan counselor." Me, 3 and a half hours in: 😂😭💀 (Image: phone hold screen with timer showing 3:29:33)

Apple decided it was time to pose for his school photo.

So thrilled to get to talk about family gaming as a tool for community-building, literacy, and language acquisition with @FOBoard_Game for @UW_iSchool students in LIS 565! I learned SO MUCH about how games support every aspect of literacy. #bestcolleagues

JENN. My mind is blown. So all these years... when I was talking to booksellers about MG... they thought I meant, like, anything that wasn't a transitional chapter book for emerging readers?!?

We're actually hanging the clean ones on a repurposed banana hook on a table by the front door. Works pretty well!

Another reason to love Leah Johnson's YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN: there are not enough YA covers w photos of smiling Black & Brown girls! There are younger titles, drawings, plenty of gorgeous more somber covers. But few that grab the reader with a fun, joyful first impression.

Time to buy books! (Not just ones about oppression! Black beach reads! Black mysteries! Black contemporary and historical romance! Black SFF! Black paranormals! Clean out ALL those shelves.)

In a library career first: I hosted today's online community storytime from the car while participating in the #blacklivesmatter protest organized by the Nathan Hale HS students & racial equity team! We talked about solidarity, preventing bystander freeze, and love as action.

This week's moment of unexpected delight: discovering in a staff meeting that one of my coworkers has cut his own hair USING A FLOWBEE since he was a teen. Watching as he unironically convinced three other coworkers to buy one. 🤯😂

Thank goodness for Spring Break: both for the chance to reset my brain and because we had to pack and move! This guy decided to celebrate online school being back in session tomorrow by unprompted posing for Picture Day. (He's entranced by Windows With Birbs.)

Created this today for colleagues, students, families, and community members! As a Zoom newbie, I've really appreciated the many safety articles but hadn't seen it in a quick-ref format. Many thanks to Santa Barbara City College (credited) for condensing the settings so well!

Oh hell yes. I created a graphic from all the great safety ppstd like, please let's get the word out there! My kids are telling me they're using it for soccer, dance, music lessons, movies, everything. The platform is solid, but got too big too fast and was too new to too many.

Saturday morning at 10:15 PST, bring your 1-3yos to sing about fire trucks and count whatever I can find in my house! Expect a not-fancy, unofficial storytime from the midst of moving boxes, familiar, repetitive songs and corny jokes. Zoom ID 763 884 496

AND have you experienced the Great British Model Railway Challenge? S2 is on YouTube! Teams race to design model trains w themes like "The Restless Earth" (ie quakes) while a v earnest judge explains how she expects to be blown away by the special effects. youtu.be/f8axo8zJA54

Saturday (tomorrow) morning at 10:15 PST, join us online to sing about fire trucks and more! Trying especially to spread the word to former SPL Northgate storytimers who are missing some familiar, repetitive songs and corny jokes. zoom.us/j/763884496 Meeting ID: 763 884 496