Mars Hage

Nothing for you here.

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@seananmcguire Oh no, this is heartbreaking.

[EGOTKittens @EgotKittens]

Did you want to sleep here or something? Our bed now!

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Friends and allies who might wanna do something neat for the GSA I advise, give me a nudge, maybe? Dreaming a little bigger this year.

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@KayAyDrew @RebeccaPodos This book was so good I got mad at it. In the best way.

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@KosokoJackson I know I have a list that might dig up a few more of these, but Catriona Ward has a few books that might apply. LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET for sure, but also SUNDIAL and her newest LOOKING GLASS SOUND play really effectively with time-jump and multi-POV.

[Mars Hage @crosseroads]

My dude, I appreciate you are a very nice educator, but I think it is pretty valid to ask high school students what books are no-gos for readers' advisory. Kids are allowed to hate a book. Anyone is!

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I miss friends. I recognize that I have voluntarily signed up for a stretch of time with no social life and only head down work hard, but I miss friends very badly.

[Lousy Librarian @LousyLibrarian]

Coming in 2024 to a theater near you: a gritty update of "Scarface," in which Tony Montana's brutal book cartel comes to dominate the library underworld. "Say hello to my literate friend."

[Mars Hage @crosseroads]

@misskubelik One of our creative writing unit projects is making picture book dummies, and at least a couple students found that lightboxing a character who would appear on multiple pages was useful for them.

[Mars Hage @crosseroads]

@misskubelik I did get 'real ones', it's true -- they fell under WI's common school fund as a library resource. I'm fortunate that one good feature of my creation space is a bank of outlets to plug in. As for uses: photo tracery and lettering for projects, other art options.

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Yup.

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FREEEEEDOMMMMMMMM.

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My school year is basically over, hooray!

I am a deeply disconnected extrovert who has forgotten how to friend, oh no...

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Feeling more and more like I'm abandoning most social media -- and it's liberating, rather than sad.

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This entire GSA meeting is just going to be about THE SUN AND THE STAR and the extent to which @rickriordan and @MarkDoesStuff need hugs and/or to provide them with therapy for the plot twists.

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Gotta love how snobbish literacy clickbait tweet suggests that "read Moby-Dick, hate it, be competent at reading" or "lower yourself to love Wimpy Kid, be obviously intellectually inferior" are the either-or choices.

Readers can look like either, both, or something else.

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@LaurelSnyder My weirdest junior high social studies assignment involved my entire grade learning this song and bellowing it at the top of our lungs as a part of a social experiment that somehow demonstrated courtly love, and I still recall all the words as a result.

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I'd just like the world to be less of an ongoing constant trash fire. Please.

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Spouse has been endoscopied and biopsied and forced to a short term liquid diet and some supervision from me, and we made it home safe despite April Snowmageddon.

[Mars Hage @crosseroads]

It's snowing buckets and my spouse is in the ER and the rest of my week is full of stress and bad. I hate this.