With it being National Library Week, I thought I would share some ways that we can all support our local libraries!

In Person Support: 🌿Check out books (seems like an obvious one, but circulation helps!!) 🌿 Attend events, workshops, story-time, classes 🌿 Use non-book resources: museum passes, tools, games, etc. - these are a hidden gem not everyone knows to utilize! 🌿 Donate gently used books if your branch accepts them 🌿 Volunteer if opportunities are available

Digital Support: ✨ Borrow ebooks/audiobooks through apps like Libby and Hoopla ✨ Stream movies, shows, or music through your library’s digital services ✨ Follow your library on social media and engage with posts ✨ Leave positive reviews online ✨ Use online databases for research, genealogy, or learning ✨ Recommend books for purchase through your library system - this can also help boost your fav indie authors! ✨ Sign up for newsletters

What are some of your favorite ways to support your local libraries?

Does your library offer anything unique you haven’t seen elsewhere?

I will be supporting my local library this week by continuing my Libby addiction, and also checking out physical books!

Hi - exactly as the title says - seeking some recs and healing from my fellow bookworms! My partner of 6 years, someone who very recently held my hand and said "I love you and I've got you" just broke up with me. I won't go into too many details because it will get long. But it came out of the blue. I thought we were family, he's literally been my best friend. Apparently not.

He's done this to me before and then walked back the statement. It hurt like shit, but I didn't tell anyone last time it happened. This time, I'm taking a different, "it takes a village" kind of approach. I want to get angry, I want to scream, and I want ALL the distractions I can get to heal my broken heart and move on for good. I didn't deserve the way it happened & how he's done this before and watched my world crumple around me along with my confidence. Then watch me build it up again to crush it, like clockwork, a year later.

Please throw any and all recs my way! Anything lift-you-out-of-the-funk, it will get better, build your confidence themes. Men-kinda-suck themes work too (he might be my last male partner, I'm BI). And smut, all the smut. I intend to heal up one page at a time.💔

Edit: Thank you so much boundlings. This thread has gotten me through a really rough few days. Your love, encouragement and recommendations is shining so much light my way. I'll slowly respond to everyone and add all recs to my own shelf. I've already hunted one of the recs down on Libby and have made a start, and it's warming my heart. If I get sulky I'll put my head in the recommended books & comments thread. If I haven't gotten back to you yet, know I've seen you and am so grateful. So much love from this internet stranger 🫶🫶🫶

I don't know what happened today, but I am in the mood to abandon all of my current reads and start all new ones. Does this happen to anyone else?

I am actually enjoying my current books, so it must be the weather (finally nice) or my upcoming ARCs that sounds good.

I am looking for any and all books related to at least the main character or real people's experiences with mental illness. So can be fiction or non-fiction. Can be any genre or reading level.

I deal with multiple mental illnesses, so a book having good rep is important to me.

I have already read the Heartstopper series and a couple of other books by Alice Oseman that I think have rep and The Collected Schizophrenias recently. I have also read I'm Glad My Mom Died. Brain On Fire and Girl, Interrupted is on my TBR. I cannot think of others I have read but I have read a bunch, mainly YA.

What I am not looking for:

• Books intentionally "demonizing" people with mental illnesses
• Books where the character is magically (with actual magic or otherwise) "cured" of their illness
• Psychology/Medical Texts

Please let me know/link to a synopsis/PB page for some of the books you recommend.

Thank you in advance for your recommendations!