I spent that whole book making this face: š³ Inhad NO IDEA.
Iāll add that to my mountain of a TBR. My child drug me out of the library today while informing me I did NOT have time for more library books! š
Weāve also discovered our local branch has been self censoring. A book my kid checked out one month suddenly disappeared off the shelf when they went to get it againā¦ itās still in the catalog but nobody knows where it is. Itās a mystery how a book titled QUEER is missing after being returnedā¦
Which is to say, FUND LIBRARIES! But I fear even if they did fund ours it would t help much. Every building is falling apart. Our main brand is permanently closed and being bulldozed soon. And the admin really doesnāt believe in digital services. Any digital services. Research, ebooks, nada.
I literally pay $27 a year for this service. Our local library is HORRIBLY under funded and has zero of my 14 current holds in their digital collection, so I pay for a non resident card from a different library system. Worth every penny. If our library has it I prioritize their service but itās rare
Three more library holds have come available since then, but because theyāre digital I can delay delivery a few weeks. I either have no holds available for months or I get them all in two days. No in between!
ADA LOVELACEās GREAT GRANDFATHER was a castaway in this book. Weāre also reading Frankenstein together right now so yet ANOTHER connection to Lovelace!
I kinda hope they all get court martialed. Except Byron. Yes. That Byronās grandfather. You KNOW I was sending that to my kids too. That dude is everywhere right now.
And yes Iām over here highlighting and making screen caps of sections to text to my kids. Everything from ālook how they used pyrite to make fire!ā to ābut the irony is that they had orders to āsaveā indigenous tribes but the indigenous people saved them, then left them to starve for being savages!
Itās also due back at the library in 3 days and I canāt renew it because thereās a wait. The estimated time to get it back is 10 weeks. š«