Bookworm In Space

Holy shit. This is extremely relevant -- like, it's eerie how relevant -- to a story called "Lily the Immortal" by Kyile Lee Baker, that I narrated for It's Storytime last week.

Officially digging Hemlock & Silver out of the #TBR abyss. ✨🪐 😽 #Booksky Who's read it? Give me one spoiler-free word.

Eight days, one shattered heart, and zero social life later, #Alchemised was worth every minute.

#Goodreads #BookReview
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#Booksky #SenLinYu #DarkFantasy #EmotionalDamage #Romantasy #BookwormInSpace #Necromancy #Alchemy #Fantasy

Lmfao!!!!! This is too funny!

New Book Releases: February 10, 2026 Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Adams, Guy: The Thirteenth Floor Anthology (Rebellion UK 978-1837866038, $16.99, 352pp,…

#SecondhandLuck is already sitting in my #TBR
My TBR tower has issued a restraining order against book lists. 📚🪐😼☠️💀

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#BookHoarderProblems #TBRShaming #BookwormInSpace #booksky #fiction #readfaster #readmore #read

25 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward To In 2026 We are so lucky to have such an incredible year ahead of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative works from a mix of established and debut authors. In an unsurprising bit of kismet, a lot of thes…

My TBR is drafting my obituary. 📚🪐😼☠️

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#BookHoarderProblems #TBRShaming #BookwormInSpace #sci-fi #booksky #fantasy

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward; Pagans by James Alistair Henry; Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo; Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman; A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang

My TBR tower full-body cringes every time I scroll past another "top books you must read." As if my unread stack wasn't already judging me. 📚🪐😼

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#BookHoarderProblems #TBRShaming #BookwormInSpace #science-fiction #horror #fantasy

The mass market paperback is vanishing The mass market paperback — born in 1935, boomed after WWII — is vanishing from airports, drugstores, and groceries.

For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.

Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.

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10 books for fans of slow burn, character-driven science fiction Science fiction is often known for big ideas and high-stakes plots that move quickly from one moment to the next. It's a genre that usually thrives on faced-pac

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The book cover of Alchemised by SenLinYu

The Ministry of Mayhem has rendered its verdict. #Alchemised by #SenLinYu has been paw-selected from the #TBR tower. Resistance is futile when your book club has claws. 😼✨🐾

#BookishCats #Booksky #Romantasy #BookwormInSpace

#Spellcaster possessed me like a rogue hex, then left me dangling off a cliffhanger so brutal I'll need an #ARC of book 2 because I won't survive the wait. My cats are already drafting my obituary.
#Goodreads #review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#BookSky #Romantasy #WitchyReads #SendTheARC

🐾 A single paw extends from the velvet cushion throne. A page turns itself. The verdict is in. 🐾 Thou shalt read #Spellcaster by #JayminEve. 🐾 😼📚✨

#Romantasy #WitchPlease #BookSelectedByCats #BookwormInSpace #Booksky #SendHelpAndSnacks #TBR

This book had me pawsitively pun-struck, and Chai's already drafting her will to leave everything to Bartleby, her leafy soulmate with killer instincts. 🌱😼

#Goodreads review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#VioletThistlewaite #Booksky #Romantasy #PunsAndPetals #BartlebyThePlantAssassin

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

(A sticker I bought on Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/ShopWil... )

Tea reading Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

Cracked open Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz this week. Chai has already appointed herself official page-flipper & literary advisor. 📚🐱

What are you reading?

#TBR #CatApprovedReading #Romantasy #BookSky #Bookish

Spurs officially retired after this yeehaw-tastic cliché parade.
My heart beats for vampires, sci-fi & mysteries, not men who wear cowboy hats like it's a personality trait.

#Goodreads review:
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#RomanceReads #Booksky #VampiresOverYeehaw #NoThankYou #BookReview

Alas, my thread about #RebelWithBrokenStrings has vanished into the digital abyss. Apparently my phone has stronger opinions about cowboy clichés than I do. 😅📱 I didn't mean to delete it. #Romance #BookSky 📚🌶️

Spurs officially retired after this yeehaw-tastic cliché parade.
My heart beats for vampires, sci-fi & mysteries, not men who wear cowboy hats like it's a personality trait.

#Goodreads review:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#RomanceReads #Booksky #VampiresOverYeehaw #NoThankYou #BookReview

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

Farewell to the mass market paperback (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so diverse that you would be just as likely to hear kids speaking Spanish or Vietnamese as …

Gioia Woods reflects on the legacy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights.

BREAKING: Sumi, esteemed feline literary critic, has issued an official decree: cowboy romances are hereby deemed "cliché and boring AF." 🤠❌ Not her cup of sweet tea. However, being the gracious cat goddess she is, she'll finish the two gifted copies in the TBR stack. #CowboyNope #SpiceNotSaddles

Tackling my TBR My TBR tower is now a fire hazard, yet I still can't resist whispering "Ooooh, shiny" and adop...

10/10 napping surface. Mission: liberate these stories from feline real estate duty and absorb their wisdom over the next few months. The cats have been notified. They are… skeptical.😼
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#BookHoarder #BookwormInSpace #PhysicalBooksOnly #CatApproved #ReadYourShelf

Behold: My newly minted #StoryGraph challenge! A majestic #TBR tower of gifted treasures and ARCs patiently waiting for their wisdom extraction ceremony! 📚✨
Currently serving as a 5 star climbing gym for my furry cat gods who have personally blessed each volume with paw prints and purrs. 🐾😻💫

Bookworm In Space's review of Red Paint 4/5: Red Paint is a lightning bolt of a read, brief but blazing with heart. As a PNW transplant forever hungry to understand this land's stories, I was drawn to Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's journey thro...

"Goonies never say die but Goonies never had to say colonization or relocation or small pox" - #RedPaint #SashaLaPointe
💙📚🌲

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#PNWBooks #Memoir #Booksky #BookwormInSpace

Page from the “Death of Cock Robin”, also known as “The Death and Burial of Cock Robin”, a somewhat macabre English nursery rhyme describing the murder and the funeral of a robin. More here: http://buff.ly/2lPWScJ

My #TBR tower has decreed: Red Paint by Sasha LaPointe is next. Sumi, my most literary of cat gods, has already curled up in approval. #PNW authors are, apparently, her genre. 🐾📚✨

#RedPaint #PNWAuthor #LiteraryMemoir #BookishCats 🐈‍⬛

#January Wrap up: 8 books, zero genre loyalty 😼 #StoryGraph challenges yeeted me across literary dimensions, but #Murderland left me for dead. #PNW true crime that rewired how I see my own backyard. 💀 History doesn't whisper here; it stares. Still side-eyeing my neighbors. 📚💥 #Booksky #JanuaryReads

40% through the #StoryGraph onboarding challenge
2/5 books devoured. 📚 Sumi has supervised every page. 😼 Loving these prompts for shoving me into literary blind dates I'd never swipe right on myself.

#ReadingChallenge #PNWReader

Bookworm In Space's review of Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) 4/5: Divine Rivals left me emotionally damaged and Sumi, my most discerning feline critic, even paused her sunbeam meditation to glare at me for the dramatic sighs. Rebecca Ross crafts wartime devasta...

When your office arch-nemesis starts sending you love letters via magical typewriter, HR's gonna need a much bigger handbook. 🖋️⚔️💌📰💞

🐾 Sumi's official stamp of approval

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#Booksky #Romantasy #TypewriterTrauma #OfficeSparks #Fantasy #Romance

a photo of a stack of books including: THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION SUSTAINABLE ACTIVISM FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MAKE GOOD TROUBLE SOLIDARITY "THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!* AND 20 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION MICRO ACTIVISM The Project THE JACK SMITH REPORT HERE to STAY READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART RESISTENCIA Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal I WANT TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION THE HARD WORK OF HOPE On the Side of ICE POLICING IMMIGRANTS IN A SANCTUARY STATE

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." (the Declaration of Independence)
If you're looking for a place to start, guide, inform, or reaffirm your resistance, our booksellers assembled some reading: buff.ly/mgsUQST