I was wondering if any of y'all know about other library cards that aren't region locked to your local library district? I was so excited when I found the Queer Liberation Library last year because they gave me a second library card I could use to get more books on Libby. I constantly need more books and my 5 hold slots are simply not enough.

When I was a teenager, I collected pretty copies of Alice in Wonderland because it was one of my favourite books and I found quite a few lovely versions with different illustrations (I’ve also ended up with three different versions of Pride and Prejudice but I think that’s more of an accident, I just kept forgetting I owned it already 😂)

So, now I’m curious to hear: Do you have a book (or books!) you’ve collected several versions of over the years? Why that particular book and what draws you to buy a new edition to add to the collection?

”A wiry man with cavernous eyes, [Henry] Ford attributed ‘all evil to the Jews or the Jewish capitalists,’ as one friend described.”

Yeah I wish this was common knowledge. Ford has been able to whitewash their historical image to be very patriotic, but did you know that in WWII “…in certain instances, American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to [Nazi] military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.”[^1] There’s a reason my granddaddy (a WWII vet) refused to drive a Ford!!

[^1] link for those interested

heya boundlings! two posts within an hour because i finally have time to catch up and doom scroll here for abit 🤪

anyway, what are some books that immediately caught your attention because of its first sentence?

did you end up enjoying or disliking it? why?

in this house we hate men