Claire St. Olafian @clairebearian Twitter profile

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Claire St. Olafian

4 years

Really having a lot of nostalgia for these bookstores lately. These photos are from 1986 at the mall closest to our house. I grew up going to them all the time.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

The Venn diagram of people saying Kate has a right to privacy and the ones who said Meghan didn't must be a complete circle.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

6 months

Happy Halloween from Edie as Jimin from BTS @bts_bighit !🎃Her outfit is based on one he wears in the video for his solo song Like Crazy. @JiminGlobal

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 months

I’m not really one for conspiracies so much anymore, but this whole Kate Middleton thing is weird, weird. Something is really wrong and I don’t think it was abdominal surgery. If it wasn’t bad there would’ve been a photo op in a garden or something at least.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

6 months

@prntgdcolonized I did this for my daughter! Well, I didn’t invite people and have food, but we still had an art show.😊

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@LouisatheLast Also the collection was donated with the stipulation that it be made available for people to play. :)

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

I know she’s already getting ratioed, but I am once again begging people to actually talk to librarians before suggesting stuff like this!

Molly

@mollyfleck

4 months

I am once again begging the city to open indoor playgrounds at public libraries. My child needs somewhere to burn off energy without getting frostbite, and all the private indoor trampoline parks and such are SO expensive.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

Chefs on tv are always saying “these are all things you already have in your pantry” and like, sorry, no.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

Got a new mug at Half Price Books. Couldn’t resist!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 months

How about we all just go back to reading Flowers In the Attic when we’re 10 and call it a night?

Guardian Books

@GuardianBooks

3 months

Children exposed to ‘spicy’ adult fiction by BookTok influencers

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@ambergontrail This is amazing and honestly Dr. Carrington deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for this research, especially if it leads to testing or another measure that can help prevent/cure the possibility of SIDS.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

Something I think a lot of people don’t realize is how hard it is to defend libraries for having to say no to certain things. We already try really hard to be all things to people. But there is a line.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

Like so many, I'm very sad about Flaco's untimely passing. I created a coloring page using the @BirdCentralPark Wikipedia photo as a tribute to him. A full size printable version is availavble at this link:

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Library raccoons!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

24 days

This is not a drill!!! Target has #GoldenGirls notebooks for Mother’s Day in the dollar section!!!😍

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

Who wore it better?🤣 #GoldenGirls #Pantone2024

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

The sound that came out of my mouth when I opened this book to scan the barcode for weeding…

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

7 months

@Swilua “Unironically yes” 🤣

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

@sageboggs @TheRealTriscuit How could...how could Nabisco not know that?? They need to hire a new company archivist and obviously that person is you.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

@AITA_reddit WWBD (What would Blanche do?)

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

Important thread which explains that even though playgrounds do exist in libraries and just because you can find photos of them still doesn’t mean that they’re always a good idea.

Alyssa Wees

@AlyssaWees

4 months

All right, here we go. I worked in youth services at one of the libraries listed here for 8 years, and while it's a lovely library run by lovely people and I was really proud of the work I did while I was there, the slide was the absolute BANE OF MY EXISTENCE. Here's why:

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

@moorehn Exactly. I feel like Queen Elizabeth would’ve had them follow that strategy, but now that she’s gone they decided to try it their way which obviously did not go well.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

@Tuphlos Amazing. His face shows that he was just purely happy to do this for her.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

7 years

@IvankaTrump Perhaps you can tell your father to not cut funding for libraries and to read some books about history while you're at it. Thanks!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

I feel like if you are a white librarian of a certain age (like, 30+) that there is just no possible way that you could not know that certain very specific insults are racist.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@MattDeres @ambergontrail Whichever! I always forget there’s a separate one for medicine.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

You know what libraries need? Self-serve frozen yogurt machines

May Sunshine ☀️💜

@msmaysunshine

4 months

You know what libraries need? Indoor rock climbing walls.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

Can I...should I...cite myself in my own book chapter??

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@ashleyn1cole Refusing to go to Sunday school at Korean church was worth it for this photo

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

Finally figured out my parenting take that’ll have me like this. There is no reasoning with bullies. Don’t tell your kid to use therapy speak with a bully to turn it around. That 100% will not work. Help your kid to feel confident in telling the bully to fuck off.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

A nice Betty White tribute table at my local B&N! #BettyWhite #GoldenGirls

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

Ok cool so you’re not a library anymore then.

Houston Chronicle

@HoustonChron

2 months

League City library will check for cards 'like a Costco' and charge non-residents a $50 fee

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

@sewistwrites It is. I get it. I’m a mom and a librarian! But I assure you that libraries are already literally doing THE MOST with what they have.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

Somebody needs to just start a #BettyWhite TV channel. She was on more than enough shows to make this happen! #GoldenGirls

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

8 months

@clhubes When my daughter was 2.5 and taking like a 10 year old people always asked how she was so well spoken. Eventually I just started stating the truth: I don’t know. She watches a lot of tv.🤣

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 months

@inktablet That was my first thought, too, but the recovery is not generally that long these days especially with no complications.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

Here’s my library’s Transgender Day of Visibility display! It will stay up through through April 5th.💖 #TransRightsReadathon

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

Gonna wear my new bright pink tie dyed Strawberry Shortcake T-shirt to work tomorrow just to spite this insufferable curmudgeon.

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@lis_grievances

1 year

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

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

@HonkIfUrHoary Here's one of my favorites from a few years ago when I was buying these keys for toddler.😆

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

9 months

@emilykmay @TmacSeatac Pretty sure we just have social media now to more openly share our parenting trials and travails.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

TMZ is now walking back the video of Kate. Let me tell you. I grew up reading all the tabloids in the supermarket checkout line and, while they certainly pulled some stunts in their day, none of them hold a candle to Kategate.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

27 days

If you don’t support libraries as they are able to operate now then you don’t deserve one that’s open late simply for your convenience.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

The argument that libraries will stay relevant by continuing to provide services that pick up the slack of other publicly funded institutions is a really tired one.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 years

What a great way to get people to NOT go to the library and finally fully exclude immigrant and homeless populations! Extreme hard pass.

alex daw

@luvviealex

5 years

I knew it! Library cards are a thing of the past. #ALIALibDesign

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

@AITA_reddit “I, a man” 🤣

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

LULU CAME BACK!!!🥰

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

10 months

Hey, uh, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but are libraries aware that there’s another solar eclipse coming in April of next year?

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

@treehousepoetry @corsent I am so sorry! I would’ve taken that as an issue with the foster mother and not with you as a baby, which seems obvious.

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@clairebearian

2 years

@JoyceCarolOates You should write a book about Henry VIII with a take like that.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

@mollyfleck Ok but where’s the nighttime trampoline park you asked for?

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

In case you forgot Batman Returns is a Christmas movie.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

I mean, I have a lot of nostalgia for malls in general. I grew up in them. I think there was something homey about the mall bookstores because they were small.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

@MsCasssandra @Maladroithe Imagine telling your child you think you should “reevaluate” things in a few months. Wow.😢

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Get in, losers, it's #GoldenGirls sweater season!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

27 days

Attention #GoldenGirls fans! Feast your eyes on the amazing ornaments we’re getting from Hallmark this year!! A pink TV with sound and minis of the Girls!!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Did a thing today.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

18 days

Just because you spent all day by yourself at the library under the age of 10 when you were a kid doesn’t mean it was a good idea then, either.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

@clhubes Because Lena Dunham

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

18 days

If you wouldn’t leave your child under 10 alone at a Barnes and Noble then you shouldn’t leave them alone at the library, either.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

You know, whatever reason made you decide to become a librarian is just fine. Truly.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

I don’t know. I just wish I could go to a mall bookstore again.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

Stop whatever you're doing right now and Google Betty White!❤️🌹 #HappyBirthdayBettyWhite #GoldenGirls

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

Watching Bea Arthur's Intimate Portrait episode, and she talks about her complicated feelings playing Vera in Mame on Broadway... 🧵

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 years

Here she is: Edie Irulan, born 9/6/19!💖 Healthy, happy, and extra cuddly.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

@clhubes So true. Also my favorite part of that whole thing was how every baby loves it and if they don’t you should just keep trying. Reader, my baby most definitely did NOT like swaddling.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

Unsubscribe: a podcast about what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real on library listservs

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 month

Some kids color on the walls. Mine colors on the cat apparently.😆

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 months

Imagine if the Palace had just said that Kate has cancer in the first place. Good grief.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@c_cauterucci Uh. Yes. Sometimes recorded cartoons and movies off the TV were the only things we had as kids. We couldn't cue up whatever we wanted off YouTube!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

Finally got my 1975 copy of People with Bea on the cover!! #GoldenGirls #BeaArthur

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 months

@VeroniqueAlba Maybe. But it just seems to me that whatever it was that a photo or a more concrete statement would clear things up if that were so. Almost nothing has that long of a recovery time.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Probably the prettiest bundt cake I’ve ever made. I got the icing exactly right for once.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 months

@Arditi_d_Popolo @cjp_still Exactly!!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

26 days

So this is the latest lady that wants late night libraries. Just so you know what she really thinks. Also those of us who have pointed out her flawed logic are “naysayers” who should “stop being so negative or you’ll never have nice things.”

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

@ambernoelle Secretly composing his new future🙄

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

7 years

@IvankaTrump I mean, you wouldn't want to be complicit in helping to eliminate libraries, right?

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

Listen. I know that I am almost 37 years old, but yes I bought all the Lisa Frank notebooks from the school supply section at Target. Had to.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

@Scott_Thought Peak three year old energy!🤣

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 years

A moment of silence for Maria’s wedding dress, please, which never gets the appreciation it deserves. #SoundOfMusic

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Trash pandas, trash pandas. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Trash pandas...

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

@belugabiscoll Ugh they couldn’t even use the form letter correctly. So sorry this happened to you. :(

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

The other malls in the area had them, too, but for some reason I remember these locations the best. Not really sure why I’m having such nostalgia for mall bookstores.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

Proposal to provide each employee with an electric kettle instead of a desk phone if they prefer.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

20 days

Got the last #GoldenGirls notebook @Target this morning!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

Wow!! Those James Webb telescope photos are really something! Beam me up! #GoldenGirls

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 months

And if you think libraries should be doing more then the people to take that up with are your elected representatives. You know, the ones who are also usually responsible for cutting library budgets.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

7 years

@Armely_ I'd really like to hear the reasoning behind men who won't take their wife's last name.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

Hold onto your herring! Apparently there will be #GoldenGirls Hallmark Christmas ornaments this year!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

1 year

The thing is that not only is the library world a very small place but, when one decides to air their anti-Semitism on a library listserv, it also turns out that their institutional e-mail tells everybody exactly where they work!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

Just a little #GoldenGirls project I’m working on!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

I just rescued a bunch of old air mail envelopes from the recycling bin at work!💌 #penpalooza

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

WE’VE GOT AN OWL IN OUR OWL HOUSE!!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

Why? Why do we have so many copies of this?!!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

New #GoldenGirls T-shirt!

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

2 years

My Betty White photo has gone kinda viral on Instagram. #GoldenGirls

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

4 years

We got some Barnes and Nobles in the late 90s, both of which are still there. A Borders, too. I think the mall bookstores closed in the early 2000s, but I don’t remember.

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

8 months

Somebody in the library displays FB group asked for tips on how to explain book bans without getting “too political” or “risking offending someone” and I just…

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

5 months

@SAMUELJWEINBERG You tweeted this from 1992, didn’t you?

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Claire St. Olafian

@clairebearian

3 years

It feels weird to be excited about getting a shot because I don’t like shots but anyway I’m getting the J&J vaccine this afternoon.

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