All the Council amendments to the library levy passed! These expanded budgets will give SPL a little breathing room over the next 7 years beyond bare survival. Fantastic news.
Now we just have to pass the levy.
Thank you for this. My legally blind father was able to use the Washington Metro easily and safely for years when he worked for the government there. It was wonderful!
Ooh! I will visit soon! Thanks.
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this.
You could go see the Seattle Torrent! Gold medal winners and no misogyny!
Right on!
I love that recipe! Yum!
The only thing I’ve seen in the last ten years that has given me hope for the future.
Book covers for the 9 books I read in January 2026. Image from StoryGraph. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Heart the Lover by Lily King The Uncool by Cameron Crowe The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burdon Real Life by Brandon Taylor Is This a Cry for Help? By Emily Austin
My January reads. Reread Heart the Lover, on audio this time, to prepare for Lily King’s local reading. Held up beautifully. Hope you’re also finding books you love. 💙📚
Wow, Mike. Very impressive! So well done. Can’t remember if I ever told you that I also worked at the Disney place, back when it was Starwave. Exciting early WWW times. I was a tech writer on the engineering team.
6,000 sq ft house with a water view and he’s still clueless about how Katie beat him
Via email? We’re not seeing anything. Thanks.
Had a similar experience recently. I help two blind relatives by searching for good audiobooks to suggest based on their reading interests. I was stunned when I started running into AI narrators. Never going to suggest those. My relatives want a rich listening experience, not soulless playback.
Book covers for 9 novels I loved reading in 2025: — So Far Gone by Jess Walter — Heart the Lover by Lily King — Small Rain by Garth Greenwell — The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas — Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors — Intermezzo by Sally Rooney — The Correspondent by Virginia Evans — Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Happy New Year, again! And here are my favorite fiction reads of 2025. What were yours? 💙📚
Book covers for nine nonfiction books I loved in 2025: — One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad — Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green — The Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case — Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy — Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams — The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates — I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True by Steve Wynn — Black in Blues by Imani Perry — Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
Happy New Year, friends. Here are my favorite nonfiction reads of 2025. What were yours? 💙📚
Cover of Wilco’s double album Being There
It’s a perfect double album.
Love Twilight Override and this interview. I could listen to Jeff talk about writing, creativity, and music all day.
Just turned it off. I’m out.
Okay FIFA. I’m out.
Bar graph of Preliminary Survey Results showing wildly high approval ratings for Seattle Public Library. Categories also include: - “Worth the money invested in it” - 97% agree, up from 92% in 2018 - “Critical educational resource in the community” - 96% agree, up from 91% in 2018 - “Welcoming to all” - 96% agree, up from 91% in 2018
SPL shared preliminary results of the 2025 patron survey, which included non-users. 98% said that the library improves overall quality of life in Seattle.
NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT. What else could 98% of Seattleites agree on? Baby goats? The Mariners? I doubt it. 98% approval is wild.
Fund libraries.
Flamed out once again but I still adore them.
Cover images of the books I read in September: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum Orbital by Samantha Harvey A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews Hip Hop Is History by Questlove Culpability by Bruce Holsinger Heart the Lover by Lily King
My September reads, summarized in StoryGraph. Another excellent month of reading and listening to books. Loved Small Rain and Heart the Lover the most. 💙📚
Got mine today with my new tie dye Salmon Bay shirt! Thank you!
Fortunate to have an excellent one within easy walking/stumbling distance of my house. And karaoke!
Whoops. Sorry for the typo!
A terrific novel I recently read that was engrossing and made me laugh and was You Are Here by David Nicholls. Have you read it? I think you might enjoy it. Excellent on audio.
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Book covers of my August 2025 reads: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami; Songs for Other People’s Weddings by David Levithan and Jens Lekman; James by Percival Everett; You Are Here by David Nicholls; You Wanna Be on Top by Sarah Hartshorne; The Corrospondent by Virginia Evans; Tonight in Jungleland by Peter Ames Carlin; and Loved One by Aisha Muharrar.
Inspired by @nelnelnellie.bsky.social to share my August 2025 reads, as recorded in StoryGraph. What a satisfying month of reading. I loved several of these. 💙📚
Oh wow. Same. Maybe I should try listening again!
