Finished reading: Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian 📚
This book is about the queer subtext and text in every Star Trek, the found family in Farscape and Firefly, the excruciating emotional pain of anxiety and physical pain of... kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/04/15/finished-read...
On this note, my daughter is helping my son with A level essay prep. She remarked, "Bro, hella commas" and I just thought of the acres of time I spent composing careful critique across an entire fucking editorial career and how 'bro, hella commas' would have done so much and yeah, woods/crone it is.
💬📚 “It’s one of those rare moments when everything in his life fits where it belongs, when his skin is the right size and his brain isn’t a total liability.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
💬📚 “… he’d prefer to pretend everyone in the world thinks he’s fine, but that ship has sailed. That ship is at the bottom of the sea.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
💬📚 “Simon stays perfectly still, like he’s hiding from a Tyrannosaurus rex and not the existence of social norms.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
Finished reading: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley 📚
Finished reading: Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas 📚
Finished reading: Haiku, Ew! Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature by Lynn Brunelle 📚
Finished reading: Stalactite & Stalagmite A Big Tale from a Little Cave by Drew Beckmeyer 📚
Finished reading: Our Lake by Angie Kang 📚
Finished reading: Every Monday Mabel - (Caldecott Honor) by Jashar Awan 📚
Finished reading: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan 📚
The sitting president of the United States has zeroed out the budget for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in his next budget, which would effectively eliminate the institute. EveryLibrary has a petition you can sign to let your legislators know you don’t want them to pass that budget.
We ARE the same!
🎮🎲 I tried the Tiny Bookshop demo a while back. The part where I didn’t have the books people wanted felt too much like being at work, and I found myself frustrated by the limited genres. Likewise, I looked at the demo copy of A ... kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/04/07/i-tried-the-t...
Grab yourself some fantastical farm sims and we will be.
📝 Tiny Weeknotes (idea by @brie@social.lol, introduced to me by @cygnoir@social.lol)
📖 Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
🎧 Fated Mates, Tarot for the Wild Soul
📺 DS9, Shrinking
🎮 Disney Dreamlight Valley, Poke... kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/04/06/tiny-weeknote...
Where Did I Put That One Video Game Peripheral? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
(It’s my Ring Fit to go with the Nintendo Switch, it’s stored somewhere but not an obvious place so this probably buried in the attic or basement storage space.)
“… for the purposes of personal action research, the standards used by professional researchers might not be required.” Jennifer Robins, “Action Research Empowers School Librarians,” School Library Research, Volume 18 (2015) 💬📓
No formal proposal needed for a work project.
🔖 Read My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi by Carli Cutchin (Electric Literature).
I love this essay.
In the US, you can use Civic Mail to send postcards to your legislators urging them to oppose legislation revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so that school librarians can’t exercise their professional judgment to determine what materials belong in their collections.
Use this ALA tool to encourage your senators to sign the “Dear Appropriator” letters in support of the Library and Services Technology Act, which provides grants to states to support a wide variety of library programs and services.
When I read prose generated by AI unprompted, I feel like all the training data was techbros saying things irrelevant to my interests. Not everyone’s interests, but definitely mine.
Finished reading: Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo 📚
Finished reading: The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase 📚
Finished reading: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 📚
Another one I read with my kid.
💬 “In almost every case, our manner of appearing is our manner of being. The mask is the face.” Susan Sontag, “On Style” in Against Interpretation
🎮 Because I know you were on tenterhooks waiting to hear what Dreamlight Valley Belle’s book preservation advice was: she gave me a tube of super glue.
🎮 My character in Disney Dreamlight Valley: Belle likes reading, so surely she can repair this damaged rare book!
Me, a librarian, in real life: No. No no no. Enjoying reading does not automatically confer preservation expertise.
