Tess || booksky 📚

I am simply not meant to work 40 hours a week. I am meant to sit at home with a warm drink and a good book and my small dog.

I haven't read this one yet. Did you enjoy it?

Get to know me with these 10 random things!

✨️Books
✨️Dogs
✨️Silver jewelry
✨️Banter
✨️Pin Collections
✨️Hozier
✨️Fall
✨️Theater
✨️Muppets
✨️Arts & Crafts

With the rising interest in physical media, be sure to check your local library out for DVDs, CDs, books, and more. It helps us keep those programs going and offers you a chance to use physical media without buying it all outright! #booksky 📚💙

Lovely War by Julie Berry! It's a WW2 story from the points of view of Ares and Aphrodite. It's a YA romantic fantasy and one of my favorites.

Voyager Notebooks Today, still family owned and operated, Peter Pauper Press continues to honor our founders’ legacy -- and our customers’ expectations -- of beauty, quality, and value.

For those who were invested, I found a modular notebook. I got a voyager notebook from my local bookstore. It's sold out from the publisher online right now, but here's the link! Eagerly awaiting the planner inserts. #booksky 📚💙

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Does anyone have any refillable journal/notebook recs? Looking for something with inserts that won't cost me an arm and a leg.

2025 spotify wrapped recap. Top artists: 1. Jorge Rivera-Herrans 2. Chappell Roan 3. Hozier 4. Sabrina Carpenter 5. Molly Grace Top Songs: 1. Would You Fall in Love With Me? 2. Hot to Go 3. Grim Grinning Ghosts 4. Good Luck Babe 5. The Ballad of Lucy Gray Minutes Listened: 46, 759 Top Genre: Bubblegum Pop

Apparently I have an EPIC problem.

Thanks, Spotify.

#spotify 📚💙

Haven't had it in almost a year. Thank goodness

Us:
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp

Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment

KEEP COOL GO TO THE LIBRARY

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This is going to be a devastating blow to the sciences and the crisis we're already seeing in research, education, and advancement.

What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.

“There’s a level of terror I haven’t seen before.” A psychiatrist who provides care to undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles talks about the psychological harm caused by recent ICE raids and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Okay... leaving everything i know behind is rapidly becoming the most appealing option... I'm in total disbelief at the way things are falling apart.

Hey pals! I disappeared for a moment. The state of the world is terrifying. But I've created a writing discord! We'll be doing bi-weekly meetings for critique on Fridays, if you're interested! Please feel free to join us! #writersky #booksky 💙📚

discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc

I cannot stand the fact that creatives are also blurring the lines of AI and making it "permissible" in our spaces. MIT is literally coming out with studies about the harm AI does to our brains. Maybe try a book for research perhaps? A single article? Anything but AI, generative or assistive?

I've been doing a lot of deconstructing and reconstructing over the last year/year and a half. It's been so eye-opening reading these books and studied that feel so "taboo" simply for offering diverse perspectives on harm, history, and the Bible.

Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚

Storygraph May reading Roundup for @hallht98

#booksky 💙📚 Another decent month where I somehow read 16 books!

Review: The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙

Review: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙

Ahhhhh! I'm in a bit of a slump right now :/ but Nettle And Bone will come soon!

It's most useful to me as a tool for keeping up with book releases and authors I love.

I don't love being connected to Meta, but IG as a platform is fine!

I'm still on IG (I know, I know), but nothing makes me angrier than seeing all of the stupid target ads/influencers and people gushing in the comments and breaking boycotts. New pet peeve unlocked.

I'll be at M. Judson in Greenville, SC!

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I am sick of this timeline. Get me off this bus pals.

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#writersky, is there any interest in a discord group/writing support club for critiques and review? I've been part of several, and would love to create something to fill a niche if needed. #booksky 📚💙

Yeah I'll be taking a bit of a break.