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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

3 years

The little girl who lived at the library never could have dreamt of this day but here it is: Dear Librarian by Lydia M. Sigwarth with illustrations by Romina Galotta is now available on bookstore (and Library!!) shelves everywhere. Happy Reading💛

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

When you were 11 did you hand-write 3 chapters of the first book of a planned trilogy and then completely forget about it until you discovered the notebook as an adult and were horrified or were you normal

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2 years

My smartass of a brother told me he was coming home for Christmas as a surprise and I have been SO stressed keeping it secret. Then he shows up and I look around waiting for the big reaction… HE HAD TOLD EVERYONE HE WAS COMING BUT TO KEEP IT A SECRET FROM EVERYONE ELSE

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4 years

Social distance like you’re a regency couple that dare not be closer than 6 ft least you give into your feelings and embrace, thus ruining your reputation beyond repair

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@LibraryLydia

10 months

Why can't I find a doctor who will prescribe "sea air" for my nerves so I can spend a summer in a picturesque costal town in England "for my health" only to be caught up in a local scandal and forced to solve a murder???

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

MY PARENTS HAD BEEN KEEPING IT A SECRET FROM EACH OTHER TWO SISTERS SEPARATELY BOUGHT HIM STOCKINGS WE’VE ALL BEEN LYING TO EACH OTHER FOR WEEKS

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 months

If these movies were released today Harrison Ford wouldn’t have looked like this, they would have had the poor man buffed to a ridiculous degree, and dehydrated eating nothing but boiled chicken and he would look so much less attractive

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4 months

Can we talk about how hot Harrison Ford was?

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@LibraryLydia

5 months

I’m so sad Andre Braugher won’t ever guest star on Abbott Elementary as a retired Shakespearean college professor who thought subbing for 2nd grade would be easy and gets the surprise of his life

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

You’re just jealous of my giant strawberry sweater

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1 year

Millennial librarians who dress like 5 year old children thinking it’s “cute”. It is not cute. Stop.

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

I should mention that I have 8 siblings, 4 of which are married. So this was no small feat. There were at least a dozen people keeping up this ruse.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

Brother Reveal:

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

5 months

this is a friendly reminder that library cards are free and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don’t have to watch ads

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@beckhenreck No one should be entrusted with this level of power

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5 years

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3 years

Girls don’t want husbands. Girls want to be a effortlessly glamorous lady detective with a Victorian mansion, a orphan ward and a butler.

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@LibraryLydia

10 months

The #Barbiemovie reminded me of the original Ken™️: Nancy Drew’s boyfriend Ned Nickerson Ned is also hot, a little dim, and desperately in love with a girl who’s too busy going on adventures with her girls to fully commit

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

9 months

Took my baby sister on a bookstore binge this weekend. Here she is showing-off our haul 📚

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

@MattScalici May as well provide a little entertainment since they’re kind enough to visit

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

@gm_goddess He’s both the oldest son and one of the youngest in the family so… the optimal position of power

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@beckhenreck Also this means my family has a really bad case of “pick me” energy

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

Why hasn’t anyone invited me to a black tie event at an old mansion? I clean up nice and promise to scream and faint dramatically when I find the body in the library.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@netflix Jane Austen’s ghost watching this trailer:

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

@KylePlantEmoji Apparently 11 year olds have single handedly kept the notebook industry in business

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

I worry about all the murders going unsolved right now because little old ladies are stuck inside, not out listening to the neighborhood gossip and slowly piecing together the nafarious plot

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

Oh crap I totally forgot to use this to promo myself: If you liked THIS story about family you should totally buy my book, which also features a story about my family! Dear Librarian

Dear Librarian

www.amazon.com

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

5 years

Found an old book called “Cautionary Tales For Children” at an antique store today and the terrible chapter titles are giving me life. Tag yourself, I’m “JIM who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion”

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

Gonna quit my job and become a country vicar, cycling around the countryside, having tea and gossip with little old ladies, and then solving a murder or two before evening prayers.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

Universally accepted author advice: “Write what you know.” Notorious Spinster Jane Austen: *literally invents the Romance genre*

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

No human person has ever hated skirts as much as the YA protagonist of a historical fiction novel

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

GIVE👏FEMALE👏PROTAGONISTS👏HAIR👏TIES👏

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

(Then I wrote a picture book that thankfully wasn’t horrifying and it’s coming out in a month so I’m just gonna casually drop a link here)

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

5 months

In honor of Jane Austen’s birthday and inspired by me thinking the fish on this shirt were peacocks, I proudly present: Travis Kelce outfits as Jane Austen Books 1/🧵

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again: A friend break-up can be objectively much worse than a romantic break-up.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

My favorite historical fact is that Ada Lovelace’s mother was so pissed at her father for being Lord Byron, that she only let her daughter study math and logic, not poetry, and then Ada invented the computer. So next time you use a computer, you should thank Lady Byron’s spite.

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

BRING BACK HATS WITH VEILS SO I CAN MYSTERIOUSLY HIDE FROM PEOPLE WHILE LOOKING FABULOUS

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

Before you tweet about how everyone "came together" after 9/11 and the "unity" you felt remember that that unity was AGAINST the Muslim-American community, people "came together" and othered those they felt like weren't American enough for them.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

I made a thing

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

As a confirmed spinster I can't wait until I'm old enough to accidentally adopt a whimsical orphan girl.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

“Being a librarian must be so peaceful! I would love to read all day!!!”

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

The year is 2055. American Girl announces their newest Historical Girl™️. Izzy Davis: The 2020 Pandemic Doll.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

1 year

The real villain of Die Hard is the toxic company environment that hosts a mandatory work event on CHRISTMAS EVE

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

The only thing that could possibly tempt me back into society was if someone opened a Ladies Club that’s like those old London Gentlemen Clubs with plush chairs, fireplaces, libraries and rooms where literally no one is allowed to speak and only women are allowed in the club.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@ImMeganCollins I swear it feels like the Democratic Party is about to break up with me

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

When I said I wanted to live through history I meant I wanted to go fancy balls or meet Albert Einstein not whatever the hell is happening right now

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 months

@SketchesbyBoze These days the body diversity with men on screen seems to be either Timothee or The Rock with almost nothing in between, and I feel bad for young boys who are being told they have to either be a waif or a tank

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

@x_31st @arclight A prolonged dead silence while we all waited for someone to yell in surprise

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

Name a word that's more fun to say than SPELUNKING go ahead, I'll wait

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

1 year

When the new “Historical” American Girl Dolls are from 1999

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

Things I was overly concerned about as a child that turned out to be much less of a danger that I had expected: • Quick Sand • Desert Mirages • Getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle • Amnesia

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

🚨THERE'S BEEN A MURDER🚨 Which room of detectives do you want to be quarantined with while you discover whodunit?

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

I wake up every morning feeling like an old lady and yet I still haven’t managed to accidentally become housekeeper to a vain wizard and his magical fire demon

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@Rachael_Conrad I was absolutely LIVID when it happened but Twitter has convinced me that it’s actually funny 🤷‍♀️

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

1 year

Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.

Tilly Bridges (she/her)

@TillyBridges

1 year

Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 months

A few years ago I was a suffragette for Halloween and it was amazing to me, while walking down the street, how many people would yell out “Sister Suffragette!” to me, and want to take a picture “Like in Mary Poppins!” Glynis Johns will forever be a feminist icon, RIP to a legend

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

@iconawrites We had a 7 year old library kid who wanted to read Count of Monte Cristo because Charlie Brown read it

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

Honestly my favorite genre

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1 year

Movies where Stanley Tucci plays a supporting role in an iconic woman’s life is entire genre at this point, and I’m not mad at it.

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3 years

When this is all over let’s host formal house calls again. One afternoon each week I’ll dress up in my best outfit and all my friends can visit for 20 minutes at a time while we eat tiny sandwiches and drink tea.

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

Imagine this: It’s a crisp fall day in 2010. You’re excited about the new season of Lost. Obama is president but you haven’t thought about him in weeks. Taylor Swift’s “Mine” is on the radio. Life is good.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

4 years

THE LINING OF HIS JACKET MATCHES HER OUTFIT THIS IS THE KIND OF EXTREME EXTRA THAT I LIVE FOR

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

There’s nothing new under the sun and there never will be

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The Irritating Gentleman, by German painter Berthold Woltze (1874). In private collection.

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

One of our patrons printed their Taylor Swift #TheErasTour tickets and then just… left them sitting on the library printer Friends I have never been so very tempted to turn to a life of crime

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

@hankgreen That this viral TikTok video of a kitty and a baby being friends is adorable

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7 years

Me @ Myself: you are totally turning into your mother the older you get Me @ Myself: I'm not mad... I'm just disappointed.

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@LibraryLydia

8 months

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY SINCE I STARTED DOING WORDLE 2 YEARS AGO AND PICKED MY STARTER WORD Wordle 827 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I WAS RIGHT ON THE FIRST TRY BABY!

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

Mrs. Bennet when Bingley visits to see Jane

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

Someone just asked me about #LibraryLife saying they were happy I was a Librarian because that means I must only order "good clean Christian books" I'm livid because: A) Not a Christian anymore B) If I only ordered books that aligned with my faith I would be a terrible librarian

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

@acagoldsmith @gm_goddess 6 daughters then 2 sons and a baby sister.

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

In personal news: I have a new job! I am the new Community Engagement Librarian for the Dubuque County Library District. Which means I get to be a librarian for an entire county while also making funny reels and doing social media and talking books and meeting readers📚

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@LibraryLydia

7 months

It’s been a year since my old boss told me I needed to go somewhere else where “people might actually like you” I initially took this criticism to heart and it’s been a challenging 12 months, but after plenty of therapy I can now honestly say that she was the problem, not me.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

2 years

Every Christmas Eve my sister and I give each other books and stay up late reading. It’s called Jólabókaflóðið, an Icelandic word meaning “Christmas Book Flood”

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@LibraryLydia

10 months

If a man said this to my face I straight up swoon like a Victorian woman with TB

out of context abbott elementary

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4 years

My first babysitting job just announced she's pregnant so if anyone needs me I'll be loudly pondering my mortality in the corner

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

5 years

PSA: If you become a librarian just because you love reading you’ll probably hate most of the job. If you become a librarian because you love READERS, then you’ll do okay. #LibraryLife

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

Just LOOK at this sky!!!!!

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

New job means pretending I’m not terrified every moment of every day

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@LibraryLydia

5 years

Librarians having an existential crisis:

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5 years

am i smart or am i just very good at using Google?

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

5 years

Why can't I find a doctor who will prescribe "sea air" for my nerves so I can spend a summer in a picturesque costal town in Kent "for my health" only to be caught up in a local scandal and forced to solve a murder.

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

I am both broke and of delicate health, so I’ve come to the conclusion that I simply must move to Bath, England.

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

@unprintedbooks The most important elements of any wardrobe is that the wearer is a) clothed and b) happy, and yet the some people are still bitter when both elements are fulfilled

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

My little sister is carrying on the family tradition of fantastically nerdy handmade costumes and I love it so much

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

If middle aged white women felt as strongly about Black Lives Matter as they do about Colin Firth being the definitive Darcy then there would be no more racism

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

THIS I literally wrote my thesis on why modern retellings trying to “fix” fairy tales are missing the entire point of the original stories.

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Hot take: Cinderella’s strength is the perseverance of her kindness through endless hardship. That being the main quality of her character is still and always will be relevant to audiences. We don’t need her to girl-boss her way off a bridge guys.

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10 months

My worst character flaw and probably the main reason I’m single, broke and generally unsuccessful at life, is that every single minute of every day I honestly would just rather be taking a nap

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

Any moment I’m not solving a crime on a train somewhere in Europe is a complete waste of time.

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📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚

@LibraryLydia

3 years

It’s a pity “Vicar’s Wife in Small English Village” isn’t much a career option these days, I would be so good at hosting teas, gossiping and helping the local detective solve murders.

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@LibraryLydia

5 years

Inspired by @SparkNotes I present to you: Les Mis as John Mulaney quotes:

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

So did every single burned out formerly gifted kid you know, you’re not special Bill

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3 years

When Bill Gates was a child, he spent so much time reading that his parents eventually banned him from bringing books to the dinner table

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@LibraryLydia

10 months

@LynnAFraser @Caffienekitty The plaid blanket is at least 60% of the cure

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@LibraryLydia

1 year

Of course someone just had to be nasty 😑😑😑

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@LibraryLydia

3 years

I have Opinions™️ about this

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3 years

What’s your favorite animated movie that isn’t by Disney, Pixar, or Studio Ghibli?

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10 months

Also like Ken, Ned was fine, but Bess and George were better

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@LibraryLydia

7 years

OKAY IT HAPPENED We talked for half an hour I'm gonna try to remember the highlights and put them in a thread #23hourBS

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3 years

I want to live in a boardinghouse where some kind middle aged lady cooks and cleans for me and at dinner every night I verbally spar with the handsome professor who lives in the attic room.

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@LibraryLydia

4 years

Tag yourself, I’m the pink bunny

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2 years

Bonus round of #StrangerThings subtitles that make me ✨uncomfy✨ Tentacles Edition™️

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@LibraryLydia

2 years

#StrangerThings Vol. 2 synth music captions Tag yourself, I’m [anxious synth music playing]

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@LibraryLydia

11 months

I will always and forever judge libraries that call their users “customers”

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5 years

YALL have I got a #LibraryLife story for you or what: Tonight we had a magic show. Super fun. Kids loved it and the magician came with a promise to make every kid a balloon animal or sword! Everything was GREAT until a kid picked out a peach colored balloon & asked for a sword

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@susanlbrannigan If you have to be sick somewhere you may as well do it in a way that makes you sound like a literary heroine

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