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057: The Word of the Day is “Lovely”
Welcome back to the Book Squad Podcast! Today's episode features a special guest to give you all the scoop on Read Across Lawrence. Listen to the end to hear all about it. You'll also get book recs for times of stress, and you'll get to listen to Kimberly finally master upspeak and Polli give a…
056: The One Where We Start Again
Polli Kenn and Kimberly Lopez are back at it (again) for more shenanigans (again), and this time they have even more books to discuss! Listen to the podcast to hear Kimberly completely butcher the premise of The School for Good Mothers (the main character has to take care of a toddler doll, not a robot…
Women Screaming Into the Void: A Reading List
Kimberly rediscovers their love of reading and they noticed a trend...
Welp, I Guess I Might Be Old Now
By the time you're reading this, I will have already turned thirty. My feelings about this new decade are complicated, complex, a combination of external messaging and internal angst. Somehow I have made it to this age, the age where I am supposedly an adult, and yet, contradictorily, the year 2000 still does seem that…
No Books Were Read in the Making of This Blog Post
Confession: I haven’t read a single book in over a month. For the average person, that might not seem like such a big deal, but for someone whose entire identity for as long as they can remember has revolved around reading… It’s a difficult realization to wrap my brain around. Can I even consider myself…
Don’t You Wish You Were Here?
Recently, I celebrated my five-year anniversary of working at this most beautificent of public libraries, and despite having worked at the same place long enough my job experience is the equivalent age of a child found old enough to begin their official education… I must admit, I still feel like a little kid with a…
A Virtual Hug, From Me To You
I don’t know about the rest of you, but during these past six months, I’ve been chasing every serotonin high I can possibly wrap my brain around. For a while, my entire life was video games. The cheerful certainty of Animal Crossing: New Horizons kept me company when the world was too big and too…
Spy Don’t You Try Something New?
One of the ironic parts about technically having more time to read, write, and generally get my life together, is that I have zero motivation to do so. In the rare moments where I feel a burst of energy to do something - other than internally debate whether I can pull off hot pink eyeshadow …
When Your Childhood Hero Fails You
I don't remember how old I was when I first read Harry Potter. One day, it's like this boy wizard magically appeared, with his scar on his forehead, ready to go on a new, thrilling, often terrifying adventure. Like most people of my generation, I grew up with this unexpected and often reluctant hero, and I…
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