Kimberly Hirsh

🎮 My character in Disney Dreamlight Valley: Belle likes reading, so surely she can repair this damaged rare book!
Me, a librarian, in real life: No. No no no. Enjoying reading does not automatically confer preservation expertise.

💬📚🎨 “Perhaps you can put it this way. A man who does a man’s work is
a normal human being. A woman who does a man’s work is a kind of
superwoman. She must be two selves, one who supplies energy for
her part of the world’s work, the ... https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/03/13/perhaps-you-can-put-it.html

Finished reading: Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife by Julia Wolf 📚

You Can’t Uncast a Spell - Electric Literature “Wicked: For Good” blissfully forgets the lingering pain and permanent damage of fascism

🔖 Read You Can’t Uncast a Spell by Holli Flanagan (Electric Literature).

I haven’t seen Wicked: For Good. This is an interesting and poignant analysis of the changes it makes from the ending of the stage show.

Finished reading: Dear Grumpy Boss by Julia Wolf 📚

Romance Novel: has a cat in it
Me: This book is excellent.
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Finished reading: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 📚

Well. This was not what I expected. Heathcliff isn’t the ghost, the ghost is barely on page, and Heathcliff and Catherine have minimal time on-page together. Stil... https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/03/04/finished-reading-wuthering-heights-by.html

No because even when Cathy I is dead people are talking about when she was alive. The whole thing turns my brain to mush. Super compelling, but makes me mush.

How can you tell them apart? And yes, what a bunch of jerks.

I’m sure it is. I just wish there were more clarity about which person anyone is talking about in any particular instance.

I’m reading Wuthering Heights in hopes the Secret Goth Cabal will let me keep my Goth Card and I have to say, this book would make a lot more sense if people didn’t all have the same or similar names.

Finished reading: Viscount Vagabond by Loretta Chase 📚

Finished reading: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 📚

Read it aloud to my kid. I read it once about 15 years ago. Super fun.

Finished reading: A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught 📚

Brilliant and old school.

Let me try to do better at saying what I heard. Um. I guess I'm hearing that the chemistry is gay, but the way he puts it sounds to me like it's a thing that maybe Roy has clued into but Jamie hasn't? The vibe is gay but the relationship isn't there yet? Anyway, you're not wrong.

I mean you're not hallucinating but I wouldn't say he puts it quite that directly.

💬📺🖖🏻 “I’ve learned that I am a lot.” S.A.M., Starfleet Academy 1x08, “The Life of the Stars”

It's so easy. If your book is MF you can just say! "She's grumpy, he's sunshine" or "He's grumpy, she's sunshine." Boom!

Attempting to Garden My Way Out of Sadness - Electric Literature I didn’t know why I was doing it at the time, but something had short-circuited inside me and I now lived for these plants

🔖 Read Attempting to Garden My Way Out of Sadness by Geetha Iyer (Electric Literature).

This is a gorgeous essay.

Sometimes I’m trying to read and words won’t go into my head, and it makes me feel like not-myself. 📚

Finished reading: Bet me by Jennifer Crusie 📚

Brilliant. Perfect banter, achingly romantic. I miss the way we talked in 2004.

How Crocheting Is Bringing Me Back To Myself Our editor explores how crochet can be used for self-care and self-reflection during times of grief.

🔖🧶Read How Crocheting Is Bringing Me Back To Myself by Emily McGowan (The Good Trade).

This is a beautiful article about crafting not just beloved items, but our very lives.

Finished reading: Soulless by Gail Carriger 📚🎧

Been listening to this audiobook for literal years. It wasn’t as steampunk as I thought it would be. I was pleasantly surprised by how much romance it incorporated.

The things I was going to do in 2026 and haven't done yet: https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/02/18/the-things-i-was-going.html

Finished reading: Texas! Chase by Sandra Brown 📚

📚 Kelly Jensen continues to be a key voice informing readers about censorship in libraries and schools both at Book Riot and in her personal newsletter.

"“Government officials now ultimately determine what is on the shelves o... https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/02/16/kelly-jensen-continues-to-be.html

The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library. Founded in 1959, the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is home to NASA’s largest research library. For decades, scientists, engineers, students, and a curious public have lea…

🔖 Read The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library. by Brittany Allen (Literary Hub).

Read the article. Stand up for science every day, but especially March 7.

Finished reading: Texas! Lucky by Sandra Brown 📚

Finished reading: Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl 📚

Excellent contemporary cowboy romance.

📚💬 “She was as uncomfortable with her body as she was serene about her mind.” David Rieff of his mother, Susan Sontag, in the preface of Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947—1963