potato reads 🥔

loving how atmospheric it is so far 🍁

The image shows a book, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, held up by someone’s hand against a light green background.

let’s get this autumn started 🍁

#booksky 🪐📚💙

and for the characters, i felt that most of them had clear “outside” motivations (moved by the story) but bit less fleshed out intrinsic motivations. so i hope to see development resulting from the events of this book and some deeper character work

(i liked Ruko’s arc though, holy sh*t)

i was mainly drawn in by how reality and mythology are interwoven in the book and def want more of that. it also takes place in a small area of a fairly large map, and ends with hinting at an expansion, so i’m hopeful for a more vivid and detailed worldbuilding 🏰

The picture shows a book, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, standing on a shelf in front of other books.

🐦‍⬛The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

✅read for:
- an action-driven fantasy that raises the stakes constantly and sucks you in
- tournaments and conspiracies

❓caveats:
- the world is interesting but a bit shallow, hopefully the sequels deepen it
- some predictable plot twists

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#booksky 🪐📚💙

walked into my local bookstore and found this 😵 I thought it wasn’t supposed to come out for another week or so??

#booksky 🪐📚💙 #dungeoncrawler

current read 🐦‍⬛🖤
really enjoying it so far, review coming soon

#booksky 🪐📚💙

A book and a coffee mug on a wooden table, the book is “the cinnamon bun book store” by Laurie Gilmore. The picture has a warm, autumn-y aesthetic.

i don’t care that it’s still august, the weather is chilly and it’s raining and the leaves are rustling and i have a pumpkin spice cappuccino

#booksky 🌶️📚💙

dark matter. I didn't enjoy fourth wing nor quicksilver (definitely personal preference but the characters and relationships were too immature/problematic for me). dark matter is a really well-written, unique book that will stay with you for a while.

both are on my TBR and I have this beautiful illustrated edition of Frankenstein that is becoming harder and harder to ignore 👀

Ghosts reading books

Me if there’s an afterlife #booksky

depends on what kinds of books you read 🐺👀

Two beautifully squat jack o lantern mushrooms grow between papery fallen leaves next to a decayed log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

✨book review✨
If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social

✅read if:
- you are tired of the "your productivity = your value" narrative
- you want a light and easy but meaningful palette cleanser
- you need a werewolf-at-law (phone number: 1-800-AWO-0000)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#booksky 🪐📚💙

i became a sellout in Stardew Valley today

only 10 weekends left until autumn, so excited 🍁🍄🍂☔️

The book cover of “A house with good bones” by T. Kingfisher. A bronze skull door knocker in the middle, surrounded by roses.

🪰book review🪰
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

✅ read for:
- T. Kingfisher’s signature creepy vibes
- believable villain and gripping plot twist
- clever and non-conventional main character, though a bit frustratingly obstinate at times

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

#booksky 🪐📚💙

it was the same for me! I also don’t have the danmei craving that often anymore, so it was nice to be pulled back into this genre ^_^

The cover of the book “Thousand Autumns”. It shows two men standing back to back. The smaller man on the left has his eyes closed, and is wearing light blue robes and holding a bamboo staff. The larger man on the right is wearing dark blue robes and holding a scroll.

🍁book rec🍁
Thousand Autumns 1 by Meng Xi Shi

95% high fantasy/character journey, 5% danmei. seems like an expansive story, excited to read more

✅ read if:
- you like your danmei with politics and intrigue
- you like main characters that are each other’s total opposites

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

#booksky 🪐📚💙

15-minute crochet breaks make the workday more bearable 🧶

added another one to the ever-growing bucket of crafts obsessions

A large-and-in-charge cluster of golden oyster grow from a supine log lying between Virginia creeper and green cleavers, their golden caps are lifted skyward on gilled funnel-like-stems. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

heh, nice.

10 video games to get to know me:

🍄 Gris
🍄‍🟫 Stardew Valley
🍄 Strange Horticulture
🍄‍🟫 Baldur’s Gate 3
🍄 Zelda Breath of the Wild
🍄‍🟫 Dave The Diver
🍄 Suzerain
🍄‍🟫 We. The Revolution
🍄 Hades
🍄‍🟫 Death and Taxes

If you enjoyed Harry Potter but hate transphobia, here are better books about having teen angst at magic school 💙📚:

• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

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😭

now i can put aside stardew valley for a bit and play other games

a pixel art illustration of a green apple ALT: a pixel art illustration of a green apple

i am a golden clock away from stardew valley perfection, FINALLY

9 books read in 2025 so far. doesn’t sound like much, but it’s perfectly good. most importantly, it’s realistic for me, and it allows me to enjoy my books as it suits me best individually.

this is your reminder to judge your hobbies on how much joy they bring and not on how productive they are

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i think there’s a huge difference between reading books, and reading books with intention. i would rather appreciate all my books slowly and fully, light and more complex reads alike, than fall into the trap of viewing reading as another productivity goal to fulfill.

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which books got you over a reading slump? the after-good-book slump is real after Sunrise in the Reaping

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