Adele Buck

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Author. Librarian. FAKE FLAME and THE ANTI-SOCIAL SEASON out now. Books: https://adelebuck.com/books-3/ Newsletter: https://adelebuck.com/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/ she/her

Ali Trotta’s new poetry collection, offerings for ordinary gods
Same kitten, but face on, not profile
A small Gray and white kitten sleeping looking rather smug
A gray and white kitten with her tongue sticking out
Map of DC with a line between Georgetown in the northwest part of the city and Navy Yard in the southeast. They are not next door by any imagination except the people who made the movie Ghosted.
Side view of tiny gray kitten with large ears
An ad graphic for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a play to be staged by a local theater company. The graphic includes a background of Victorian wallpaper with a top hat, a bee, a jar of poison and a saw cutting around them. It looks very much like a KJ Charles book cover.
A gray and white kitten with her tiny pink tongue out
A gray and white kitten (and me, but that's not important) who is, shall we say, willful.
Same kitten stretched out ridiculously. Still asleep.
Same kitten, floppier.
A small gray and white kitten curled up in my lap.
Mrs. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice making everything about herself and me giving her the middle finger
A cake frosted in whipped cream and decorated with strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries.
Butter yellow fingernails and spring green toes
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Col. Fitzwilliam in his regimentals, at the wedding of Lizzy and Darcy and the yearning he brought to the role is right there on his face.
A gray and white kitten sitting at the threshold of the bathroom
Julie Ann Long’s Game of Rogues on a cafe table with a glass of wine
Gray and white kitten squashing her soft-sculpture cat bed that looks like a shark.
Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social • 38m Just don't use A.l. for writing, ever, and if A.l. fucks up a rhetorical device you have to stop using it, your chortling "I wish people were as clever as MEEEE" whimsy can get fucked
My dirty-blond bob
A cartoon brown dog ridiculously flopping its way toward a blue bowl labeled "goal."
An email to me. It goes: Miss Wonderfull Wildflower! How wouldya like to write a millitrillion X googolquinplex ... @my Big Ol Majestic Mansions Upstairs? nevr-endn-amenities? 'outta-dis-world' chocolate for eternity and gobbsa playtime?? Love's extremely crucial to me; love is crucial to 007th Heaven: ● psychopathicmath.blogspot.com ● Cya soon, ya gorgeous girly girl... -Dr.kold_kadavr_flatliner, MD ( boxxawoxx@gmail.com )
The audiobook cover of Fake Flame
Milo, a very good ginger cat with a white heart on his chest, looking up with his tongue the littlest bit out.
An Alphabear madlibs page where the bear is saying "Romans, lend me your shit."
Me in the rødlue I made last weekend.
Me in the rød lue that I knit last weekend (and thank god because it's been so cold here and this thing is dense and seriously warm).
For anyone who still has MAGA or MAGA-adjacent folks in their lives, I would like to give you a response script if you find it useful. MAGA: "Well, s/he should/n't have..." You: "Oh, so they deserved an immediate, extrajudicial death sentence? Please show me where in U.S. law this is a lawful use of force."* They cannot because it is not. Also, for the record, ICE has not killed 2 people in 2026. They have killed 9. Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luiz Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos all deserve to be remembered as well. *Do not accept vibes in lieu of citations. That way lies the breakdown of civil society. "I believe" or "Well, I just think" are not valid citations to U.S. law.
Me, a tired white woman in oversized cat eye frames.
Meet-Cat cover, with five-stars to indicate review ranking and: “I'm beginning to think that Adele Buck's superpower is the novella...If you enjoy compact stories that don't skimp on realistic character conflict, and if you enjoy later-in-life romance, then you need to pick up this novella right now!” – Jillian David, Author of Dr. Alaska
A white gold ring with diamonds and peridots
You think people who can teach media literacy are becoming extinct? I heard the exact same thing when I was getting my degree about 20 years ago, but then it was about Google.
An AI-generated spam email which references “Embers on The Anti-Social Season,” only part of which is an actual title of an actual book I actually wrote.
Three loaves of glossy julekake - Norwegian Christmas bread, with dried/candied fruit, cardamom, and walnuts.
Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.
Graph showing income inequality exploded as a result of Reagan's policies.
A gray, green-eyed cat with annoyed helicopter ears.
My mother, brown hair, white skin, high cheekbones, pointed chin, and me, strawberry blond hair, high cheekbones, square chin. We're cuddled up and smiling.
My mother, a white woman with dark hair, aged eighteen, with a typical early-mid-60's bob.
A gas fireplace with a swag of greenery, candles, and ornaments on the mantel
Her POV: “Excellent.” He set the tools down beside him and picked up another wrench, doing something else with it, then scooting out to get to his feet and pull the whole assembly out, absorbed in his task, seemingly not even remembering Kari was there.
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New scene, his POV: Having Kari looking on while he worked was distracting as hell. Rob tried to cover by examining the old faucet, though there was no need. The thing was going in the trash. It should have gone there years ago from the look of it.
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson in Down Cemetery Road.
Fine Young Cannibals, album name The Raw & the Cooked
AJ Cousins post: I used to think of Chicagoans as generally being good drivers, but now that I spend time posted on a corner most days and see how many people are blowing through full on red lights, I have reservations. Poster named Ian's response: That's the whole east coast, not just Chicago.
A beautiful celadon fountain pen
Chotiner: Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam [meaning Kissinger's involvement], I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. Sunnstein: Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn't be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.
A very shiny black cat looking annoyed
Milo (derpy orange cat) grooming Pickle (derpy black cat) on a fluffy gray blanket
Writing pal: "Hope springs eternal" Me: "Hope needs to get a cream for that."
Simple Dog from Hyperbole and a Half, excited about a cup.