about us

We’re still on hiatus until next week, but while we polish up our posts, we thought it would be worthwhile to let you know where else you can follow us on social media.

STACKED has launched an Instagram account. Both Kimberly and I will post to it, and it’ll be all books and bookish-related stuff. Nothing particularly brilliant but who doesn’t love book stacks or currently reading shots?

You can find us there as stackedbooks. And yes, we’d love to see your bookish Instagrams, too!

STACKED is also on Facebook. Though we haven’t been as regular posting our work and other fun things over there as much as we’d like, like all good bloggers, it’s our resolution to do better this year. You can find us on Facebook here.

We hope you had an excellent start to the new year and we’re glad you’re here to join us in our eighth (!!!) year of blogging about books, reading, libraries, feminism, social justice, and more.

Today, Kelly’s post about how to keep your privacy safe on the internet is featured over at BlogHer. Go check it out if you missed it the first time around.

Because of that, we thought we’d do a quick revisit of who we are and what we do at STACKED.

Welcome new readers who are stopping by STACKED. If this is your first time here or you’ve been away for a while, we thought we’d give you a quick introduction to our blog, our history, and what it is we like to write about here.

STACKED is run by Kelly Jensen and Kimberly Francisco, who met in graduate school for library/information studies at the University of Texas in Austin. The blog started in April 2009, with the goal of writing about books, reading, and other library-ish/book-ish content. We write critical book reviews, explore topics of interest to us in reading and books, and we’re both unabashed feminists in how we think, read, and discuss. We’re passionate about diversity, as well as passionate about matching books to readers. Though the bulk of our reading and blogging focuses on YA lit, we do talk about other categories of writing, too. We also offer up periodic week-long series on different topics of interest — this week, for example, we’ve got 5 guest bloggers talking about different aspects of contemporary/realistic YA fiction, along with accompanying book lists.

A few posts to give you a feel and flavor of what you’ll see around here: