Hi, I’m Emma.
I’m a librarian. I write things. I read a lot.
I’m in love with the sea.
book reviews
Sometimes I write something and put it out into the world. I guess you could call that a blog. Right now it lives on Substack.
poems
other
advocacy
c.v.
I buy, read, review, and recommend a lot of books!
Find my favorites here: https://bookshop.org/shop/emmaradosevich
I spend a lot of time thinking about books as objects, as commodities, and as disposable. Here are my thoughts on how you can do ethical consumption under capitalism when it comes to your reading:
Use the library! Libraries are a public good that disproves the Tragedy of the Commons: the more people use the library, the better is. When more of the collection is checked out, we have more space to buy more books to share with more people, and more information about what kind of books people like. And the library isn’t tracking your data.
If you can’t find a book at your local library: did you know that most libraries have a request/suggestion process?
If you can’t find a book on Libby: did you know you can search for titles not owned by your library and let librarians know what books you want to be added? It’s true. And if you can’t a find book on Libby with deep search: sorry, digital publishing is mysterious and Amazon is evil.*
Local indie bookstores are special places and I don’t want them to go away! This one is my favorite.
If you want to own a physical or digital copy: bookshop.org is a great online bookstore alternative to Amazon. All purchases support indie bookstores! You can read a long but good article about how it got started and how it works here.
If you want to own an audiobook copy: Libro.fm is like bookshop.org for audiobooks!
the sea
I am in constant awe of the place I call home. I live on the ancestral homeland of the Lhaq’temish and Nuxwsá7aq, the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, who have fished and traversed the waters of the Salish Sea since time immemorial.
