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The new job has been overwhelming and my attention here has been underwhelming. So new goal: post the name of one book I am teaching with that school week and what aspects I am touching on -- curricular, criticism, artistic, etc.
BF: your TBR pile is massive. You dont need another book.
Me:
Every Day...
getting up at 6 am by choice: wow what a beautiful sunrise! the house is so peaceful and quiet. i feel really tired but i don't have to do anything but just sit here and enjoy the morning. what a pleasant feeling
getting up at 6 am because you have to: these covers draped upon my mortal coil have become the dirt above my casket. my corpse refuses to unsettle the earth to rise from its grave. i have been dead for centuries and have no intentions to assimilate once more into the tragic world of the living
Priscilla Tolkien
I was curious about something, because with the light of the Amazon announcements, I realized that as a fandom, we treat Christopher, Tolkien’s 2nd youngest child, like he’s a second JRR Tolkien–and don’t get me wrong, I love his work with the Histories, but I realized a major error in our fandom as well. For all our talk of “but what about women in Tolkien’s works” I realized that there are no search results for his only daughter and youngest of his children. Not on tumblr at least. She’s not devoid of interaction, either, as she has written articles, given talks, and supported general fanworks (such as the Tolkien Ensemble). She co-published the Tolkien Family Album, with her older brother, John (now deceased). Why does it bother me so much that she has no search results, despite also the severe irony of “We only care about his surviving son, and not at all his only daughter, who her parents had long hoped for.”? Because all of his children are extremely crucial to his work, and not just his sons. Frodo is named after her stuffed bear (Bingo Bolger-Baggins), which is highly delightful to me. He eventually altered the name, obviously, to Frodo. She attends the Oxonmoots frequently. She has a BA degree in English and worked as a social worker. (Hence why she isn’t so “famous” as her older brother.) She is a member of the Tolkien Society (last I checked, honorary VP).
As Tolkien’s only daughter, Priscilla has noted her father’s “complete belief in higher education for girls; never in my early life or since did I feel that any difference was made between me and my brothers, so far as our educational needs and opportunities were concerned.” [x] She typed out some of the early chapters of Lord of the Rings for her father (around the age of 14). She has written for Amon Hen. She was one of the heading trustees for suing Warner Brothers over a breach of contract.
She is one of the founding members of the Tolkien Trust, along with her three brothers. My point isn’t to devalue Christopher at all, but rather to highlight that while the brothers are important to Tolkien’s works, so was his daughter and for some reason, at least among the American fandom, I almost always see Christopher the only mentioned surviving Tolkien when Priscilla is still alive and active. I get why we don’t have search results for John Francis Reuel Tolkien (his name is so similar to JRR’s, obviously), but you do have results for Michael Tolkien (one tagged post, it seems, but still far more than Priscilla has; she doesn’t even have general Tolkien posts pop up for her as her brothers do). I’d also like to point out that while Christopher is no longer a board officer of the Tolkien Estate, his younger sister is. Just because she didn’t write the Histories doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about her father’s work.
Ugh, I studied Tolkien forr my honors thesis in undergrad and NEVER stumbled across much on her. My focus wasn’t much on Tolkien’s family but shame on me.
Far from being caretakers of objects, librarians take on the emotional load of their patrons, caring for their communities in joy and pain.
For librarians, as with many other professions, “Other duties as assigned” is code for tasks that are distasteful, off-kilter, or just plain gross. For librarians, “other duties as assigned” has another meaning, too.
Most people intuitively understand the emotional load taken on by professions like social workers, nurses, 911 operators, and teachers. Rarely, however, do people consider the emotional labor of librarians. Spend a day at the service desk of a busy library and you’ll see people on their best and, too often, their worst days. Spend a few months and you’ll begin to follow the lives of your repeat visitors — you’ll be privy to, and sometimes help them solve, life’s hardest problems. Spend a few years and it becomes increasingly difficult not to become emotionally involved; you are now a member of the community, hearing about and witnessing the tragedies of everyday life, families breaking up, accidents, the decline of your favorite wisecracking old lady, and death.
Being a librarian is not an easy job, and it’s not because we occasionally have to clean up vile messes. It’s because people sometimes come to us at a crossroads. They’re afraid of making a mistake that may put their lives in turmoil. Heck, sometimes their lives are already in turmoil. Librarians take on that chaos; we have no choice but to face down the power, joy and suffering both, that people bring into our space. That’s the emotional labor of librarianship. It’s not something we often talk about to the public, or even that much to each other.
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Libraries are free, mostly. Pretty much everything millennials are “killing” costs money.
Plus, unlike half the stuff we’re killing, libraries actually have a practical use
we out here
Not to be *that* millennial, but as a librarian I’d just like to say that the greatest thing you can do to support your local library is to understand how they are funded and to support their funding with your vote. Libraries can do a lot all on their own but quite often they cannot legally “toot their own horn” so-to-speak when it comes to advocating for sustaining or increasing funding, getting levies or bond issues passed, etc. Libraries need you to love them not just with your checkouts and attendance at programs.
We can do that too.
build libraries on dead golf courses.
We Are Dewey’s Army X3
Friendly reminder that many Libraries double function as free schools and other free resources, sometimes including otherwise inaccessible technology, like 3D printers.
The libraries in my city host ‘English as a Secondary Language’ classes, cooking classes, classes on how to use that 3D printer, local history classes, responsible naturalistic gardening classes, beekeeping classes, and all sorts of other fun topics. Plus the plethora of clubs that use the library conference rooms as their meeting place.
All for free.
Support and visit your local library. Ask about their services and classes. VOTE TO KEEP THEM FUNDED
Alan Moore, the comic books writer known for creating Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has threatened to halt the filming of a television project set to take place in Northampton if the midlands town's council goes ahead with plans to close local libraries.
An interesting way to put money where your mouth is, even though Alan Moore is a very complicated figure.
While cities and states across the nation celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, why not pick up one of these outstanding books by an outstanding Native American author? The following ten titles are linked to their excerpted Booklist reviews. An American Café, by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe Ready for
Our friends over at Booklist put together this great list of books by Native American authors!
The Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Oregon, August 21, 1903
always reblog
Maybe? I have perhaps too many novels going at once.
V I B E S
Holy crap that’s specific, but yeah, I do.
Star Trek: Discovery Premiere Episode Releases Today (Sep 24)
Discovery’s first season consists of 15 episodes that will air between now and early next year, with a two-month mid-season break extending from November 7 through January 7. The show is set 10 years before Star Trek: The Original Series.
Watch the series/movies here
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ITS HAPPENINGGG!!!
UGH. 15 minutes late because of 60 Minutes (and football I presume?) means my DVR cut off before the end of the episode, which was already just half the pilot and then you have to pay for the rest of the episodes. I already pay for Netflix, split Amazon Prime, pay for Starz, borrow HBO Go, pay for Hulu, and now to keep my marriage together, CBS All Access?
Afro: The Girl with the Magical Hair (2016)
When the people of Yackiland run out of Kanek weaves, the kingdom is thrown into chaos. Ruled by an evil, straight hair-obsessed queen for so many years, the people of Yackiland have forgotten how to grow their own hair. It is up to Afro, the girl with the magical hair, to save the kingdom. But the queen has plans of her own…
by Okechukwu Ofili (Author), Sharee Miller (Illustrator)
Get it now here
Okechukwu Ofili is an author, motivational speaker and engineer. His previous books include How Laziness Saved My Life and How Stupidity Saved My Life. Afro: The Girl with the Magical Hair is his first children’s book.
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Love this! I could pair it with Zoe Fleefenbacher as a compare-contrast lesson for my younger kids and an opportunity to discuss race and hair with older students.
As a recovering perfectionist, I was thrilled when author Jon Acuff asked me to draw a poster for his new book Finish. Visit Jon on his book tour to get a poster, or find it at my shop.
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Your best is enough.
Me: I'll stop reading at 11
Clock: 11:02
Me: oops too late better stop at 12
600s
Weeding in the 600s today and angsting over the Embryology, Human Juvenile literature subject. Joanna Cole’s How You Were Born is still the best title I can find, for being pretty inclusive--for the 90s. The language assumes everyone reading it has a mother, vaginal birth (the intro directs parents to talk to their kids about cesareans), and hetero parents. Anyone have recommendations for another title that present factual information about birth for kids with families outside this presumed norm?
lms if u spent a large part of ur young adulthood like ‘what the everloving fuck is turkish delight”
reblog if u found out as an adult and were extremely disappointed
My 10th grade religion teacher, the only priest left at my Catholic school, warned us against Turkish Delight. And I’ve never looked back.
