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I couldn't find the old post I had on this so I could reblog so here's a new reminder of the Internet Archive account I use to list poetry collections and poetry-related nonfiction available on the Internet Archive for free.

I favorited another bunch of poetry collections today.

There are 3,559 books listed as of this morning.

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Strange, isn't it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are.

— Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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Teaching them young

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Saving this here for later:

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Hi Dr. Tingle, have you ever considered writing a kids book? I think your combination of earnestness, whimsy, and a keen sense of the weird and wonderful would be a great combo for kids lit. Keep on being awesome!

yes i think it would be really nice to do a childrens book about a nice bigfoot or a space raptor but i would not want any buckaroos who were too young to accidentally stumble onto my other tinglers before that is appropriate.

solution i have come up with is that i could use a new pen name that is ALSO basically my name i already use maybe something like CHARLES T or something like that.

so yes i think i would like to do that someday i am just really dang busy at the moment but i think that would prove love and be very dang fun

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Thorton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock in Santa Rosa scouting locations for Shadow of a Doubt.

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Ron Mael (from the band Sparks)

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Forever bringing in lilacs even though I know they will not last for long.

I am not 100% sure why but whenever I smell lilacs I think of this quote from to kill a mockingbird.

“Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”

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“Books are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“E-books are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Audiobooks are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Video games are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

“Subscriptions to magazines/newspapers are too expensive” -> GET A LIBRARY CARD!!!

For real, get a library card for your local public library and you will have almost unlimited access to all kinds of media for free. Libraries also often have many different kinds of classes you can take, often for free or very cheap. Oh, and don’t forget the computers and internet access you can also use for free.

In conclusion, yet a library card.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY!!!

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Amy Tan and Joyce Carol Oates

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Books on the Loch Ness Monster acquired recently.

Strange Secrets of the Loch Ness Monster, Warren Smith, Zebra Books, 1976

The Loch Ness Story, Nicholas Witchell, Penguin Books, 1975

The Monster of Loch Ness, James Cornell, Scholastic Book Services, 1977

The Great Orm of Loch Ness, F. W. Holiday, Avon Books, 1969

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it feels bad to have someone say ‘we will not accommodate your unique way in our space’. that is what the texas library association did to chuck

the thing is, WE have the power to create our own spaces. sometimes that space is SO SMALL, just one cubic foot inside of a pink mask, and sometimes that space is a whole ballroom full of buckaroos cheering and laughing and proving that LOVE IS REAL

thank you to true buckaroos MARK OSHIRO and TJ KLUNE for creating that space with me last night. thank you to NOWHERE BOOKSHOP and BONHAM EXCHANGE and JENNY LAWSON for hosting, and thank you to NIGHTFIRE for going along with this wild idea when chuck said ‘hey if the dang TXLA does not want unique buckaroos inside their convention, then lets have our own across town’

every day there are strong forces pushing back against love, but when we trot together we can make spaces where love thrives