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Michelle πŸ“šβœ¨

@michelleaster.bsky.social

Writer, Reader, Visual Artist and Feminist

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This is creeping dread,
haunting fear.

It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.

History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.

#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry

06.05.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
April 2025 books 
Shaedes of Power
Ravager
Blood Orange
Feminism is for Everybody 
The art of Small Talk

April 2025 books Shaedes of Power Ravager Blood Orange Feminism is for Everybody The art of Small Talk

April was super busy IRL and I didn’t read as much as I hoped. Blood Orange as a re-read, this time in audio, was so good.

Got in some good non-fiction too!

#booksky πŸ“šπŸ’™ #romantasy

02.05.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

Happening right now!!

πŸ”₯πŸ›οΈ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts β€” including attacks on Medicaid β€” and defend democracy! πŸ“’

Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...

27.04.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 386    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 35
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So excited for this upcoming book from @authorkarinahalle.bsky.social
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!

#booksky πŸ“šπŸ’™ #paranormalromance

04.04.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54408    πŸ” 10242    πŸ’¬ 940    πŸ“Œ 499

Yesssss!!! So good.

31.03.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few of these are on my TBR. I need to get to them!

31.03.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t plan to apply that approach to my books πŸ˜†

31.03.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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March was a light reading month but a really good one!

What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?

#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy πŸ“šπŸ’™

31.03.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

100% - my friend and I said the same!

30.03.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When Women Were Dragons is a fiery reminder that sometimes the only way to take up space is to transform and burn brighter.

This is fun and relevant with just the right amount of escapism.

#booksky #feminist πŸ“šπŸ’™

29.03.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LOVE this! 😍

10.03.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That is one of my FAVORITES. 😍

02.03.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve got a hold at the library for that one!

02.03.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book covers and star ratings for books read by me in Feb 25

Book covers and star ratings for books read by me in Feb 25

In February I read some meaningful, important and some fun books.

Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?

02.03.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yup.

28.02.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 54574    πŸ” 9927    πŸ’¬ 730    πŸ“Œ 277
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

28.02.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40976    πŸ” 17044    πŸ’¬ 823    πŸ“Œ 644

5⭐️ I will post a review shortly but it was fantastic!

28.02.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Les MisΓ©rables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus
YouTube video by The DailyFAFO Les MisΓ©rables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus

I need more people talking about that they added parts from One More Day into the epilogue

Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much

youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI

25.02.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep going!

24.02.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²

21.02.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2227    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 29

Claiming the save act is anything other than an attack on women is gaslighting.

#saveact #womensrights

21.02.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m enjoying it so far. I’ll be sure to share when I’m done!

20.02.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This book is off to a good start. A poignant epigraph and then chapter one starts with this gem

β€œShe didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”

- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

#booksky
#currentread

19.02.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I spent my whole life listening to cis straight men talk about their dicks. It's about time they get jump scared by women talking about smutty romantasy books in crude detail on TikTok.

18.02.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Visual of book review with cover

Visual of book review with cover

This Will Be Fun πŸ“š
4.5⭐️

Cozy fantasy can sometimes be hard for me to get into but this book engaged me from the start. It was funny and light while still finding meaning and moving the story. I really liked this one.

#booksky

17.02.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

16.02.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 28072    πŸ” 13104    πŸ’¬ 2037    πŸ“Œ 1619

My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.

21.11.2024 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6609    πŸ” 2229    πŸ’¬ 227    πŸ“Œ 181

Did you like the audio for The Song of Achilles? It’s on my TBR

16.02.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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