claire s.

Help! I'm having the worst time finding clear guidelines for SLJ / PW / Kirkus reviewers. Trying to teach MLIS students the format, and the super useful Anatomy of A Review from Kiera Parrott has disappeared. Anybody got current detailed guidelines for reviewers?

@GeekGirlCon what an amazing audience at the Love Your Shelf teen book panel! The QR code was wrong 🤦‍♀️ but pls boost bit.ly/teensatGGC23 for the list of recs!

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

Part 2 (the lower shelves) is here: tinyurl.com/IGbookspt2. Definitely some titles that are hard to make out from my concert tee - lmk what you recognize that I missed and I'll update!

How many librarians swooned when we saw the set backdrop for @Indigo_Girls and @NekoCase on tour? I used my tee and lots of years in kid/YA lit to take a first stab at the reading list: tinyurl.com/IGbookspt1. Available at your local library (we hope)! @SPLBuzz

Oh no, it looks like they skipped the pioneer valley this tour, wtf?? Medford and CT and then ending in NJ and PA.

The Venn diagram of Indigo Girls fans and queer librarians of a certain age is practically a circle... how did nobody mention the very specific books in the set backdrop and the MERCH? @surlyspice not to put you on blast but what the heck? 😂

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.

Raffi is on tour this year and I GOT TICKETS

that was 18 years ago yesterday! Truly our first years together in SF had adventures for the ages.

...and I was holding my scavenger hunt stuff: a calla lily, a pair of glasses, a physics book, I forget what else. I WAS MEG MURRY **MY** FAVORITE 😮😭 reader, I married her

...so I got to guess every single person's kidlit character. and THEN my friend said, "who are you dressed up as?" and I said, oh, I did not KNOW I was going to a surprise kidlit themed costume birthday party!" and then JRB said, "look again"...

...we went back to her apt, where practically everybody I knew was waiting to shout surprise. Somebody said, "Can you guess the theme?" and I realized that EVERYBODY THERE was dressed as their fave kidlit character including my French roommate who had moved in the day before...

JRB's 1st bday party for me was a scavenger hunt across SF w/things to collect at each location + a clue. At the end I put the clues together to get to the final location, where we met in Dolores Park. THEN...

A little bit ago we heard CRASH *car alarm* outside: an Uber driver whose fare up the block cancelled when he arrived, and then he slid down the street into a truck. We're on a small slope, not hill really. Bad choice to go out today AND BUT gig folks need workplace protections!

Microclimates are wild! I'm barely north of you in Seattle and we had snow on and off from 4pm yesterday, with enough accumulation for me to do some shoveling!

Holy cow!!!!!! Congratulations!!!