Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Book cover of “The Burnout” by Sophie Kinsella. The background is a tangerine color. In the lower half of the cover is a women laying on pillows with a pink blanket that is pulled up to cover half of her face. Above her is the title in white text and then the author’s name is above that in pink text.
Book cover of “The Reappearance of Rachel Price” by Holly Jackson. In the middle is a move slate with the title written in it with chalk. There is a red cord that is running behind the slate. There are random bloody fingerprints and handprints on the cover. Below the slate is the author’s name in black text.
Book cover of “I Hope This Finds You Well” by Natalie Sue. The top two thirds of the background is pink, and the bottom is orange. The title takes up most of the pink section and is 3D block text with the sides being orange and the front being cream. To the left of the title is a cream watercooler and in front of the title is a cream desk. Hidden behind the desk wall on the right is woman lying on the ground but you can see from her waist down. The author’s name is at the bottom of the cover in black text.
September continued 🍂
🏖️ The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella – 3/5
🎬 The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson – 5/5
📧 I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue – 2/5
41/60
Reading 7 books this month helped get me back on track but still need to read a book every 5 days 😶
Cover of “Totally and Completely Fine” by Elissa Sussman. The background color is teal. Each word of the title is on its own line and takes up three fourths of the cover. ‘Totally’ and ‘fine’ are in yellow block text and ‘and’ and ‘completely’ are in dark blue loopy text. Next to the word ‘and’ is a city landscape illustration and next to the word ‘fine’ is a mountain landscape illustration. At the bottom is the author’s name.
Book cover for “The Last Murder at the End of the World” by Stuart Turton. The background of the cover depicts the world in the book. At the bottom is water with two boats in it then it transitions to mountains that are flowing ombres of orange, red, yellow, and blue. Above the mountains is a blue sky and in the middle of the mountains is a lighthouse. The author’s name is at the top in yellow text, and the title spans the rest of the cover over the world depiction in white text.
Cover of “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” by Se-hee Baek. The top one third has a yellow background and has a woman laying in a bed on her stomach on the right half. The other two thirds have a purple background and there is a bowl of Tteokbokki that the woman is reaching towards with chopsticks. Below the bowl is the title in yellow text then the author’s name is below that in white text.
Book cover for “Every Tom, Dick & Harry” by Elinor Lipman. The cover has an illustration of a big house with a lawn around it and a blue sky above it. There is a line of men in front of the door and onto the law. In the sky is the title in white text. Below the line of men in the lawn is the author’s name in white text.
A mixture of great and bad books in September
💚 Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman – 4/5
🌄 The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton – 4/5
🥘 I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Se-hee Baek – 1/5
🏠 Every Tom, Dick & Harry by Elinor Lipman – 1/5
Book cover for “Georgie, All Along” by Kate Clayborn. The background is a bright yellow and in the middle is an illustration of a girl holding a pink book that is covering her face so you can only see her eyebrows and hair and then part of her shirt below the book. Next to the girl are some line drawings of flowers and plants. The title is in black text and spans three lines and is partially covering the girl. The author’s name is in pink text at the top.
One more for August
📕 Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn – 4/5
💖 34/60 💖
Feel free to ask about my thoughts for any of the books in this thread! Or for my StoryGraph account 📚
Book cover of “Ride with Me” by Simone Soltani. The background is a racetrack set in Las Vegas with a race car and a checkered flag. On the left side is a guy in a teal race suit with his arms behind a girl in a white dress, her arms are around his neck. The title is at the top of the cover in white text and the author’s name is at the bottom in white text.
Cover for “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green. The background is yellow and in the middle of the cover is a red circle with a green triangle on top of it pointing towards the top edge. In the red circle are yellow microorganisms and it has the words “the history and persistence of our deadliest infection”. At the top is the title in black text and the author’s name is at the bottom in black text.
Book Cover for “The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold” by Ally Carter. The cover is black with the author’s name at the top in white text. Under that is the title in blue text. Under the title in the lower half is a woman with blonde hair and is wearing a plaid blue headband. Her blonde hair is blowing from left to right. She is wearing a blue jacket and blue sunglasses that have a man in the reflection of the glasses.
Book cover of “The Collected Regrets of Clover” by Mikki Brammer. There is a person wearing a dark blue coat holding a bouquet of flowers on the cover, but you can only see from their neck to the knees. The bouquet has yellow, purple, orange, pink, and green flowers wrapped in brown paper. Over the bouquet is the title of the book and at the bottom is the author’s name.
August was a month of solid books that I highly recommend
🌆 Ride with Me by Simone Soltani – 3/5
🦠 Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green – 5/5
🕵️♀️ The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold by Ally Carter – 5/5
💐 The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer – 4/5
Book cover for “The Favorites” by Layne Fargo. The cover features a male ice skater lifting up a female ice skating that is bending their back and legs to have their head close to their skates. They are both wearing black sparkly uniforms. Overlayed on top of them to create texture is a photo of ice that has been skated on. In the middle in gold text is the title of the book and below that in the lower third is the author’s name. At the top of cover are the sentences “to the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.”.
Book cover of “Past Present Future” by Rachel Lynn Solomon. In the middle of the cover is a black light pole that has a scarf draped across it that is blowing from the right to the left. On the left side is a girl that is holding a book and walking towards the left but is looking to the right towards the guy. On the right side of the pole is a guy that has one hand in his pocket and one hand behind his neck and is walking towards the right but is looking towards the left at the girl. Behind them is city skyline of buildings that has a black sky above with white dots as stars. The title is in white text in the top third over the black sky. Below the title it says, “the sequel to today tonight tomorrow”. At the bottom of the cover is the author’s name in black text.
July continued
⛸️ The Favorites by Layne Fargo – 5/5
🧣 Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon – 3/5
29/60 almost back on track to hit my goal. 31 books in 5 months can’t be that hard… right???
Book cover of “One Golden Summer” by Carley Fortune. The cover is a painted scene of a deep blue lake with a sunset that is blue to orange ombre. There is a yellow speedboat with a man driving and a female sitting at the back. The author’s name is in the top third of the cover and is white text. The title is in the lower two thirds of the cover and is in a tallow color.
Book cover for “The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise” by Colleen Oakley. The cover is a blue base with yellow-green streaks pointing towards the middle. Two thirds down is a green convertible car with the top down. Driving the car is a younger woman with long brown hair and a dark blue baseball hat and in the passenger, seat is an older woman with short gray hair. Behind the car is an orange half circle that is mimicking the sunsetting. The title is in the top two thirds of the cover in white text. The author’s name is across the bottom in white text.
Book cover for “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky. The cover is a lime green color. In the top right corner is a small photo of a man from the knees down who is wearing grey suit pants and black dress shoes. To the left of the photo is the title in small black text. At the very bottom of the book is the author’s name in white text.
Book cover of “Today Tonight Tomorrow” by Rachel Lynn Solomon. The cover is a bright blue color. At the top is the author’s name in black text. If you divide the cover into 3 sections horizontally there is an illustration and one part of the title in each section. The top section has a guy sitting on the far-left side of the bench looking left with one arm draping towards the middle of the bench. There is a girl on the right side of the bench that is looking down at her phone. The word today is below them in white text that looks handwritten. In the middle section there are the same two people sitting on the bench but closer to each other now. The guy on the left is now looking right towards the girl with his right hand on the bench close to the girl. The girl on the right is now looking left towards to the guy with her left hand on the bench close to the guy. Under them is the word tonight in white text that looks handwritten. In the bottom section are the same two people sitting on the bench wearing black graduation caps and gowns. The guy is now in the middle of the bench, and the girl is right next to him with her legs crossing his lap. They are looking at each other and the guy has his hand holding the girl’s legs. Under them is the world tomorrow in white text that looks handwritten.
July was full of great reads!
🚤 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune – 5/5
🚗 The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley – 4/5
👔 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – 4/5
🎓 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon – 4/5
i am honestly surprised my team did well. i’m probably going to lose this week unless some of my players have amazing games.
13.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That said, if any hockey fans want to join our league we are still looking for 5 more people, minimum. Any location in the world.
05.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0is it fantasy hockey? i’m interested in joining!
05.10.2025 22:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0adding these to my tbr because i don’t read many lgbtq books & that needs to change. but here to 2nd maureen’s books because they are some of my favorite mystery books!
also going to throw out the good girls guide to murder series (mystery) & the blonde identity series (spy romances)
Image of a calendar for September and October with the text: “Listen to Taylor’s discography in September (& October).” At the bottom it says: “Follow the calendar and listen to one Taylor Swift album per day until The Life of a Showgirl release on October 3rd.” Each day of the calendar is color–coded with Taylor Swift’s album covers, showing which album to listen to as part of the countdown.
❤️🔥 | Swifties everywhere are joining the countdown to The Life of a Showgirl by listening to one Taylor album per day until release!
Repost so more fans can join in and celebrate Taylor’s music and eras together ✨
Credits to @/updateswiftbr on X for the idea!
Jeremy Culhane in a screengrab from 'Rulette' singing "It's the best fucking day of my life!"
JEREMY ON SNL?!!!
02.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 1159 🔁 79 💬 22 📌 24🚨There is a secret episode of Game Changer out now on Dropout -- the one @samreich.bsky.social doesn't want you to see! Go watch it now before he demands it needs to be taken down! It's the one we've all been waiting for!!!
#GameChanger
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21.08.2025 01:28 — 👍 2907 🔁 650 💬 94 📌 37Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
19.08.2025 17:26 — 👍 1170 🔁 331 💬 16 📌 8Ally Beardsley arriving on stage in her wardrobe change: orange sunglasses, an orange repairman button down, and camoflage orange shorts with tree branches on them.
dressing myself for kindergarten and getting applauded by my parents
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17.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 428 🔁 153 💬 12 📌 35Collage of four different cover variants for Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl.” Top left: Taylor submerged in a turquoise bathtub, wearing a beaded bra top and jewelry, looking up at the camera, with orange text overlaid. Top right: Taylor in a black bodysuit and fishnet tights crawling between red theater seats, red text overlaid. Bottom left: Taylor lit in green, surrounded by large ostrich feathers, resting her face in her hands with purple text overlaid. Bottom right: Taylor sitting against an ornate gold backdrop, wearing a jeweled bra and headpiece with nude fishnet tights, silver text overlaid.
dear showgirl:
ILYSM
I don't plant Easter eggs to my personal life 🍵
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13.08.2025 23:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everything about this is amazing. Her storytelling, their body language together, Jason watching them. I am here for alllllll of it.
13.08.2025 23:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0ON OCTOBER 3RD HE ASKED ME WHAT DAY IT WAS AND I SAID LIFE OF SHOWGIRL RELEASES
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08.08.2025 01:43 — 👍 3699 🔁 588 💬 124 📌 294A four panel text conversation. Panel 1: Demi says "Let me just check on the hot people. Ya'll good?" Panel 2: The hot people respond: "Yes, thanks so much for asking." Panel 3: Demi turns to Raph and says "Moneybags?" Panel 4: Raph responds "I'm also hot."
when he's a hot mr. mcmoneybags
13.08.2025 18:57 — 👍 1270 🔁 90 💬 6 📌 1Demi Adejuyigbe on the set of Game Changer with 3 cigarettes in his mouth which are sticking out in multiple directions. Chris Grace is standing beside him wearing a cigarette costume with his hand on Demi's shoulder.
It's a metaphor
13.08.2025 01:58 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0ahhh i can’t decide if it is worth preordering before hearing the album…
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