September 28, 2019
Greetings, dark lords! Hail, horrors! Friends and fiends, hearken to my call: welcome back to the realms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror! We’ve returned with another roundup of the best of Speculative Chic this week, coinciding with the Autumnal Equinox. The veil between worlds is lifting — what strange, unknowable things will you see? Fear not! We’ll keep you…
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September 24, 2019
Because I work as a librarian, the way I discover new-to-me books has changed from when I was younger and not a librarian. I see what titles cross the circulation desk; peruse the records in the library catalog; read entries in themed book lists from Barnes & Noble and Orbit; and find books or DVDs when I straighten the library…
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August 31, 2019
The week’s almost over! The weekend is here! How’d it go for you? Did you achieve the Holy Grail of work-life balance? Did you get to relax? Try something new? Find comfort in the familiar? No matter what, I hope you made it through the week ok! This marks my first weekend to myself in three weeks (!!) and I…
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July 27, 2019
Hey, hey, kiddos, and what a week it’s been! Weather armageddon continues throughout the world, manifesting in varied and extreme ways, and I got to experience my own scare during the start of the week, when everyone’s phones exploded with emergency alerts about my hometown in a level-4 evacuation emergency for floods and mudslides. Remember how I complained about tsuyu…
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July 23, 2019
How do librarians choose books for their libraries? If you’ve ever asked that question, pull up a beanbag. You’ve come to the right place. But first, a confession. (This is how all good stories start, right?) I didn’t set out to become a librarian. I was going to be an archaeologist or a writer. Or both, I guess. I ditched…
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August 16, 2016
You see this here? Other than an alphabetically-arranged-by-author shelf of books, what you may not know is…they’re all unread. They’re not alone. I currently own 381 unread books, which have come from various sources — bought new, bought second-hand, from the publisher, from the author. And because I prioritize reading library books with their due dates, my own books remain…
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