Amanda B

@bookcurious

Lurking around the English Department 📚🚲🦫 Once a librarian, always a librarian

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Amanda B@bookcurious· Apr 30

Forgot who I was dealing with

NY Times Interesting Times Opinion column "Why Are We Still Driving? Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future." Hosted by Ross Douthat

Amanda B@bookcurious· Apr 30

I thought this was going to be about biking or busses or something lol

NYTimes Opinion headline "Why Are We Still Driving?"

Amanda B@bookcurious· Feb 17

NYT opinion headline from 2017 "Yes, this is a witch hunt. I'm a witch, and I'm hunting you."

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jan 26

Screenshot of skeet from Daniel Suitor "no absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies"

Amanda B@bookcurious· Oct 19

My husband was very proud of his No Kings sign today

Poster with Charzard, Metagross, Machamp, and Archanine that says "We're super effective against ICE"

Amanda B@bookcurious· Oct 6

Old tweet from The Golden Sir

Me sowing: Haha duck yeah! Yes!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Sep 11

Firearms are allowed in the dorms but Nerf guns are not. Ok.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jul 31

Did you know that a Pringles can fits perfectly in the car cup holder?

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jul 16

Rolling Stone headline Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jun 10

Go, bird parents! You got this!

Comic called Instinct is Weird with mama bird admiring her eggs. One egg hatches and she says "oh no now it's loud." 5 eggs hatch and she says "help"

Amanda B@bookcurious· May 27

If this is true, it both explains a lot about our present moment and we are cooked. "I think that, if you shorten people's attention span a great deal, you are left with only the attraction of power."

Ophuls knew that by creating hours-long documentaries, he ran the danger of "not only seeming pretentious, but being pretentious." But, as he told NPR in 1978, "there's a relationship between attention span and morality. I think that, if you shorten people's attention span a great deal, you are left with only the attraction of power."

Amanda B@bookcurious· May 2

This part made me so sad. It's like they see all reading as homework.

Gen Z parents are more likely than millennial or Gen X parents to say children's reading is "more a subject to learn than a fun thing to do."

Amanda B@bookcurious· Apr 3

It's just so great

Building front that looks like a cat crouching with window eyes and a door mouth.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Apr 3

Took a mental break to think about this cat-shaped kindergarten in Germany designed by Tomi Ungerer and Ayla Yondel.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Apr 3

Holy shit

Amanda B@bookcurious· Mar 12

Found this great explainer for the current administration

Cover of the picture book Who Wet My Pants. A bear in a scout uniform who has wet himself asking "who wet my pants?"

Amanda B@bookcurious· Mar 9

The face that launched a thousand English majors.

Wishbone, a Jack Russell terrier, dressed in Victorian costume with a rose in his mouth.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Mar 4

Where am I? What century is it?

Screenshot of New York Times headline As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies like Cod Liver Oil

Amanda B@bookcurious· Feb 19

Thanks for fighting for the library and the community. Here's the plaque in question, if anyone is curious. Newspaper says city council approved it unanimously. Pretty obviously a stretch to get the acronym in there. Extremely weird words for describing a library.

Plaque approved for posting at Huntington Beach Public Library for commemorating its 50th Anniversary. Black with gold font and a big bald eagle on one side. Along bottom says Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous

Amanda B@bookcurious· Feb 16

The person in charge is shrugging and normalizing this as just what happens when administrations change. Shameful.

Screenshot that says: DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvsez said "This is just what we do when administrations change, and we continue."

Amanda B@bookcurious· Feb 3

Open the schools.

Screenshot of Kash Patel's children's propaganda book ranked #9 in children's historical fiction on Amazon with an eye roll emoji added by me

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jan 24

Do yourself a favor and read up on Benjamin Lay, a Quaker abolitionist and animal rights activist who brought the energy we sorely need rn www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quak...

Illustration of Benjamin Lay in Quaker garb, using a cane and holding a small book that says African Emancipation

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jan 22

Lots of people talking about The Phantom Tollbooth, but Jules Feiffer also gave us one of the all time great, funny read aloud picturebooks in Bark, George! May his memory be a blessing.

Illustration of a doctor falling over backward off a stool, pulling a pig out of the mouth of a puppy as his surprised mother looks on.

Amanda B@bookcurious· Jan 20

Channeling this guy who has no idea that today is different than any other day.