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Standalone post link: Watching Log: Stranger Things 1

I suggested this title for a PD book club at work and they actually took me up on it!

I’m in kind of a weirdo role in my organization and so it is rare that PD offerings, book clubs, and similar activities align with my actual work and interests, so this was a refreshing change. And the other book we are reading - 5 Kinds of Nonfiction - to be logged here once I start reading it - is also of interest and applicable, not just for my work but maybe even for my secret personal goals of someday actually writing for young people.

So far this is really helpful. I’m learning some things but also getting reassurance that I have an understanding of this already and have made some good collection development decisions with manga (probably thanks to having already read around some of these authors' manga review websites.) In the past few months I’ve also been sampling a lot of manga that middle school students have requested for Sora or that I came across and think might be good to add to Sora. I should start writing reviews and sharing them on our reviews website (granitemedia.org) and/or here, because librarian and educator reviews of manga are sparse.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Manga Goes to School

Another book I’m happy to read for a PD book club at work.

(See also Manga Goes to School)

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: 5 Kinds of Nonfiction

Genre: creation story, mythopoetic science writing, psychedelic illuminated manuscript, nature, life, ecology, Earth, picture book for teens and adults…

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Forgotten Teachers

(Drafted handwritten a review this morning that I will likely finish and post on granitemedia.org and/or here. It’s been ridiculously long since I actually wrote and shared reviews, need to just do it.)

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: King of the Neuro Verse

“…what the meaning of this border line that’s been forced into my mind…everybody talk about it like it’s the greatest line that humans could ever draw…”
– Lonnie Holley, from “A Border is Just a Space Between Two Lines”

Related quote I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
– David Graeber, who I apparently need to read.

Album recommended by Benjamin Booker, who I’ve also been listening to a lot and has a song on the album.

I bought a digital copy, with proceeds going to American Gateways and Casa Marianella, and also donated to the following this morning:

Immigrant Rapid Response Fund of the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota

Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Passages - Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Moon Without Stars

This book deserves a weirder status update than this, but it’s all I’ve got at the moment: I’ve previewed, preordered, started, stumbled, and restarted this book a couple of times now, but this time it is taking and I’m sure I’ll continue…

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Re-read the first chapter, which I previously read as a digital sample, and which I believe I also read an early version of previous to that a year or two ago in The Atlantic or The New Yorker or somewhere like that, convulsively pre-ordered the book and impatiently waited for it to come out and arrive in the mail, only to not start it for a month or two since receiving the book, and I am only now getting to it. Ditto for The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson, which I also compulsively ordered in the same shipment. Will get to that soon as well, I think?

(Slipping in an “Items Obtained” sidepost here at the end as well, I guess - Hardcover copies of The Pathfinder by Adam Johnson and Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood. I’m kind of ashamed of where I ordered them from now, so I don’t want to say…okay it was Target of all places - we’ve had one of the 5% off credit cards there forever - but never again for preordering books, or much of anything else. WTEBAY does have at least one short scene in a Target so far, so might have been appropriate, actually.)

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Will There Ever Be Another You

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM

Well at least I’m not a whole year behind on every album…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Singin' to an Empty Chair