Queer Texan here proud to vote for @ewarren! My tattoo could be about this election. I got extra stickers for my kids-I’m voting for them. I’m voting for my parents, sister, friends, to protect our democracy, for you & the 1st-time voter high school students at my polling place.
Sometimes you go to the library you no longer work at to pick up a reserve and scan something, and you find yourself fronting and filling stands in the new acquisitions, like a reflex 🤦♀️ #notmyjobanymore love ya @wblibrary
All over the country prisons are banning books and bills are being introduced to censor libraries. Authoritarians fear the free flow of information. Read a book to annoy a fascist.
Well, since we are going with the departures=death metaphor today, here's my goodbye gif. #AskALibrarian pals, it's been an honor and a privilege. Let's make #AnnaKareninaLibrarianReadAlong2020 happen (with a better hashtag, someone?) xoxoxo!
@dmniccoli Check out the Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden, or Spinning Silver and Uprooted by Naomi Novick! All Eastern European / Russian retellings of folk and fairy tales.
@NoetheMatt The Chosen by Chaim Potok has a really interesting use of silence in an Orthodox Jewish religious context. I haven't read it yet, but Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid McCulloch is supposed to be comprehensive! I love Silence by Thich Nhat Hanh.
@IllinoisLibrary @ReadItForward Oooh - And Then There Were None started my Agatha Christie kick when I was a teenager. Her work might be dated, but it never goes out of style!
@NoetheMatt Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is my favorite. There are a number of wonderful Buddhist texts about silence. Are you looking for a theoretical exploration of silence, isolation, spiritual, social, etc.?
#AskALibrarian is almost here! It's my last one as backup for @wblibrary. In the spirit of goodbyes - what departure in literature most affected you? Make us cry today.