Lexi Charles

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

Cover of Future Boy, by Michael J. Fox w/ Nelle Fortenberry

Number 130 for the year and book 91/100 for my library reading challenge! 🎉 I finished this one faster than you can say "flux capacitor." #booksky 📚

Such a beautiful book! 😭

I did think it was worthwhile! I expected to see the influences on Jane Austen (since that was how I found the book), but I was also surprised by how Dickensian it felt. Not sure we talk enough about what Dickens owed to the many women writers who came before him.

4/x Compare to the portrayal of John Belmont, who comes in for no criticism at all, having multiple children by multiple women that he doesn't support or keep track of. 🙄🙄🙄

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3/x Also cringey how much of the humor comes from punching down at Evelina's French grandmother and her poorer relations. Evelina looks bad in a modern light for her failure to stand against this. Mme Duval really has no sin other than being French. 🙄 #booksky

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2/x That said, I sort of understand why it has fallen from the canon. The epistolary format never lets us "know" Lord Orville in the way we feel we know Darcy or Capt. Wentworth.

Cover of Evelina by Frances Burney

128. Evelina, by Frances Burney. I'm glad I sought this out after reading Rebecca Romney's great Jane Austen's Bookshelf. The influence on Austen (even Dickens) is clear 1/x #booksky

2/2 Enshittification is a book with a timely message about big tech and the consolidation of everything. I didn't always agree with Doctorow, but I found it worth the read. #booksky

Love is a War Song by Danica Nava and Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

Books 125 and 127-- Acquisitions from Eagle Eye Bookstore in #ATL. Love is a War Song was an uplifiting #romance with a lot of positivity around Muscogee culture 1/2 #booksky

Portrait of a Scotsman was book 51 of the year and it's fully worth the bargain price! (Feels so long ago 😄)

I'm a Georgia Voter sticker

This #electionday don't sleep on your off-year races. Even if you don't have municipal races, the PSC races in #GA are vitally important. Turn out and send a message! #vote

It's been about 10 years since I first read it! Today, the themes of kleptocracy and ordinary people being left behind hit differently. 😔

Storygraph stats for October 2025: Read 9 books, 2817 pages

Derp. 13 days to finish is a killer. 😅 Not pictured is Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, a beautiful, heart-wrenching doorstop of a book that I forgot to rate. #booksky #StoryGraph

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Fully expecting my October #Storygraph stats to be trick more than treat. 😅 In my defense, I've had about three 500-page books on deck for this library challenge.

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Happy #Halloween to all (but especially to doggos in costumes)!

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Every time Google alerts me to "new features," I think about how great it is that we lost democracy but now I can talk to my watch about it using natural language.

Cover of Michelle McCraw "Trip Me Up"

118. I am behind on posting books again. 😅 Michelle is another #GA author. Fabulous person, wonderful book! This one has a plot featuring a struggle over gen AI. 👀 📚 #booksky

*stares in 90s kid*

I don't even think that is an unpopular opinion. 😄

Cover of The Stranger I Wed by Harper St. George

119. I got behind on posting my books. 😅 This was my local author entry for the library reading challenge. Lovely cover, spicy and fun. It was a surprise to find a signed copy! 🤩 📚 #booksky #romance

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Wat Lao Buddhist temple #ATL

Cover of Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time

In honor of #bannedbooksweek and Nobel week. Either the best or worst time to revisit a masterwork on the collapse of a society. #booksky 📚

Screenshot of a mechanical surveillance uterus, probably.

The mechanical surveillance uterus was probably the next logical step in techbro dystopia.

Anti-book ban display: Censorship is so 1984

More from Decatur Book Fest. 💯📚 #booksky

More from the Decatur Book Fest--Display @ the #library 💯📚 #booksky

A collage of photos from the Decatur Book Festival, with local vendors and a Visit Decatur booth

So much fun yesterday at the #Decatur Book Festival. #romancelandia was well represented. 😄📚 #booksky

A poem by Hazrat Inayat Khan-- All surrender to beauty willingly and to power unwillingly

Hitting a certain way today. #poetry #booksky 📚

Screenshot of StoryGraph stats for Sept 2025, showing 14 books completed.

Starting the drop-off from summer reading, as anticipated. 😅 But, look, I read some #classics! #booksky 📚 #StoryGraph