A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian at the door waving to members of the community outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for American Library Association and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

It's #NationalLibraryWeek! Take time to discover what brings you joy at your library: browse the shelves, join a book club, attend a program, or get started on your next creative project in a makerspace.

Be sure to visit your library or ilovelibraries.org and celebrate your library all week long!

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My game are on sale until May 1st! It's a great weekend to pick them up for cheap!

A Golden Wake - 80% off
Lamplight City - 40% off
Rosewater - 25% off

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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

If you’re looking for diverse titles to consider for LibraryReads nomination and to add to your library collection, be sure to check out: www.edelweiss.plus/?catalogID=5... #ewgc

I want to get to this one! My daughter is currently loving both his recently published take on Rumpelstiltskin and his delightfully silly THE FUTURE BOOK. #ewgc

I've been busily recommending CELESTIAL LIGHTS to everyone this past week! Such a beautiful novel. #ewgc

The cover of Country People is a painting of several dogs keeping watch over a hole in the ground with intent expressions.

The cover of Furious Violet is a severed Medusa head with the small letter 'o' in "Violet" perfectly positioned over Medusa's open mouth.

The cover of An Infinite Love Story depicts a space shuttle shooting upward against a gorgeous blue sky.

The cover of Lost in Curiosity depicts leaves, flowers, planets, and animals in a border around the book's subtitle: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown.

July reads high up on my TBR: FURIOUS VIOLET by Sarai Walker, AN INFINITE LOVE STORY by Chanel Cleeton, COUNTRY PEOPLE by Daniel Mason, LOST IN CURIOSITY by Roberta Kwok. #ewgc

The cover of Muñeca depicts a woman in a white dress clutching a flower to her bosom. Her face is not visible but we see several choker necklaces around her neck as well as rings and bracelets on her hands.

The cover of Sublimation shows a dark reddish-brown line vertically cleaving the cover in two. Emerging from it on either side are identical copies of the same woman clad in a black suit.

The cover of There's Only One Sin in Hollywood depicts a Black man in a sharp blue suit with bowtie within a golden triangle suggesting a spotlight.

The cover of The Unicorn Hunters depicts a medieval-style scene within an ornate building with pillars and stained-glass windows that opens out onto a seeming forest. A unicorn atop a hill of flowers and grass looks down on a woman who stands in light streaming towards her from the unicorn's direction.

June reads I'm hoping to get to soon: THE UNICORN HUNTERS by Katherine Arden, SUBLIMATION by Isabel J. Kim, THERE'S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD by Rasheed Newson, MUÑECA by Cynthia Gomez. #ewgc

The cover of the Cruelty of Nice Folks depicts a black and white photo in which a Black person looks straight at the camera over the shoulder of a wealthy white woman in pearls and gloves, seen from the mouth down. The white woman grips her purse strap with one hand and her mouth is set in a grimace. The subtitle reads "Why Minneapolis is the Story of America."

Also reading THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS by Justin Ellis, an incredibly timely book about the history of Minneapolis and the distance between its reputation as a very progressive place and the truth of how white supremacy has shaped it. A really fascinating and thought-provoking read. #ewgc

Ooh, your description intrigues me! Off to Edelweiss I go. #ewgc

The cover of Mudlark depicts a foggy New York with a tall building faintly visible through the clouds. A group of black birds fly across the sky while a woman standing in a small boat appears at the bottom of the cover.

Currently reading MUDLARK by Mary Helen Specht, a dystopian novel about a woman who unexpectedly stumbles across the master for her rock star mother's long lost solo album while "mudlarking" in a flooded NYC. Could her missing mother also be out there looking for it? #ewgc 📚 💙

The cover of Nasty Little Secrets depicts a hand holding scissors that are snipping through a small white paper cutout of a house.

I tore through NASTY LITTLE SECRETS by Gabbie Hanks. A twisty and suspenseful read about a writer returning to her hometown after her sister's disappearance...a place where she is far from popular after writing a book pinning a murder on the victim's father rather than her convicted brother. #ewgc

I loved this one! I was just talking it up to my coworkers a few days ago. #ewgc

The cover of Vervain Hollow depicts an old house seen through the silhouette of a young woman.

VERVAIN HOLLOW by Catriona Silvey brings some seriously creepy vibes in a tale of a woman returning to the house where she once lived in a cult centered around the mysterious Vervain and his unsettling powers. The house burned down years ago...but something has survived. #ewgc 📚 💙

The cover of Crocodilopolis features two vertically oriented crocodiles whose top halves emerge in opposite directions from green jungle-like plants. The crocodiles are depicted in vibrant shades of red and dark turquoise.

CROCODILOPOLIS by John Manuel Arias is a brutal literary tale brimming with toxic masculinity. The tale of two brothers, a bitter feud, and violence rippling across generations of a family. The crocodiles aren't the only bloodthirsty characters here! #ewgc

The cover of the Windsor Affair shows a drawing of two women in fancy gowns in front of a mirror. A woman in red applies lipstick while a woman in blue haughtily looks on in seeming judgement.

THE WINDSOR AFFAIR by Melanie Benjamin was a fun lighter, gossipy read about the rivalry between Wallis Simpson and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Read this when you're in the mood for rich women behaving badly. #ewgc 📚 💙

The cover of Last Night in Brooklyn depicts the silhouette of a city rooftop in red within a light purple-pink circle, with people's silhouettes visible on the rooftop.

I really enjoyed the audiobook of LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN by Xochitl Gonzalez, a modern take on The Great Gatsby with a compelling plot, vivid characters, and a vibrant Brooklyn setting. #ewgc 📚 💙

The cover of Marla depicts a woman's face framed by tree branches, all in dark purple and black except for the whites of her eyes, staring straight at the viewer from the center of the cover.

MARLA by Jonathan Janz is another horror read that had me 100% hooked from start to finish. A series of violent murders traumatizes a small community, and the beautiful but reclusive Marla Gorman seems to hold the secret behind them all. So creepy!!! #ewgc 📚 💙

The cover of Mazywood depicts a film strip proceeding towards a reel in the distance like a road leading to it. A small house and some trees sit on top of the film reel and the smoke from the house's chimney forms the book's title.

MAZYWOOD by Tananarive Due skyrocketed to the top of my TBR the moment the e-galley was available...and it completely met my high expectations. A fantastic, suspenseful read that artfully blends chilling horror with old Hollywood glamour. Loved all the celebrity cameos! #ewgc 📚 💙

Checking in for today's Galley Chat! Looking forward to chatting about upcoming books with everyone! #ewgc

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Artwork of a lady swooning in shock as she opens the door and finds a man dressed in a white rabbit costume (although the costume also has a long tail unlike a rabbits).

Hoppy #Easter, hope the annual visit of the Easter Bunny wasn't too shocking to you 🐰

🖼️ by Italian artist Walter Molino, 1957

if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy

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Just watched Illinois move one step closer to a consumer protection bill that would put a stop to the price gouging of libraries for digital materials.

Someone said they didn't know why they didn't do this sooner, and I agree. Enough is more than enough. ilga.gov/Legislation/...

If your books are in the Anthropic copyright settlement...don't be this guy.

Yes, a crappy gift card is the expectation in many class action settlements, but not this time: per work payout is at least $3,000, & may be higher.

If you don't file, you get nothing. Deadline is 3/30. File today.

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

1776 Sit down, John...

a preliminary survey for the next component of my research: if you're willing to tell me about your connection to the movie/musical 1776...

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‘The Terror: Devil In Silver’ Sets Premiere Date At AMC+ & Shudder AMC+ and Shudder have set Thursday, May 7 for the premiere of The Terror: Devil in Silver, the third installment in the popular anthology series.

WE MADE A TELEVISION SHOW.

@victorlavalle.bsky.social & I adapted his incredible book The Devil in Silver into a new season of THE TERROR alongside Karyn Kusama & Ridley Scott.

Dan Stevens will blow you away this. So will Judith Light. CCH Pounder. Stephen Root. The cast is stacked.

May 7th. 😈 🚪🔒