Dylan (She/her)

#BookSky, I have #bookish updates:
- Finished The Bookshop by Evan Friss. Made me purchase two new hardcovers from my local indie $$$
- Finished Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Good multiverse story.
- Finished Bound to Fall by A.K. Caggiano. I love Caggiano’s writing. So whimsical, good romance.

Super-Fun Romantic Sexy Beach Read A little Proust, a little cancer, but in a light and sexy way. Isn’t melancholy the new quirky?

👏 jolly good time
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

#BookSky updates / most #RecentReads:
- Jaqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men. Brilliant, purchased, going on my shelf.
- Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis. I liked it.
- Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Thought-provoking, compelling. Liked.
- Hua Hsu's Stay True. Fantastic.
#Books #Bookish

Also recently read Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang. Amazing!! 5/5 ⭐️ #BookSky #BookishUpdates #Reading #Fantasy #Fiction #DarkFantasy #IndieReads

Started American War by Omar El Akkad today. Good stuff. #BookSky #Bookish #4thOfJuly #AmericanWar #Dystopian #Fiction

Before tearing my heart out with Chan’s School for Good Mothers, I padded it with Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater and Deep End by Ali Hazelwood. #Romance #Fantasy #Contemporary #Historical #ConfusingPost #BookSky

#BookSky,
Been a minute! Still reading. Just finished The School For Good Morhers by Jessamine Chan. So dark, so sad, and so good. As a parent of a young girls, it hit very hard. A challenging and fantastic read. #Fiction #Dystopian? #Mothers #Women #Reading #Bookish

Heyo, #BookSky:
I have been virtually attending my first book con this weekend: #Balticon! It's been wonderful. I love Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Guest of Honor), and I've added many new authors to my TBR! I hope to attend in person next year. #BookishThings #Books #Reading #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

Shoutout to my library's Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2025 newsletter. I want to read all of the recommended recent releases! I'm particularly drawn to Symbiote
by Michael Nayak. Adding it to the TBR! #BookSky #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Fantasy #TBR #LibraryReads #LibraryLove

#BookSky! Rivers Solomon... Rivers Solomon! Reading another fantastic book: Sorrowland. Very much looking forward to reading more of their work. #SpeculativeFiction #RiversSolomon #Horror #GothicFiction #Sorrowland

#BookSky,
Wow, Octavia E. Butler!!!!!! I’m about halfway through Wild Seed and it’s divine. Will definitely be reading more of her work. I’m also listening to Small Worlds by #CalebAzumahNelson. Such beautiful writing. Adding Open Water to my #TBR

#OctaviaEButler #Fiction #WildSeed #SmallWorlds

I've also got a paperback of #WhenWomenWereDragons by Kelly Barnhill from my local library for #BookClub. I'm about a third of the way in and really enjoying it! OHHHHHH, and #R.LeeSmith. I finished Cottonwood in April. I love everything I've read by R. Lee Smith. #BookSky #BookishUpdates

Hey #BookSky, been reading a lot over the past month. I discovered #PatriciaBrigg 's Alpha and Omega series. Listened to the first couple of those. Pretty solid and easy. I also started #TheMurderBotDiaries by #MarthaWells. Really excellent! I've finished the first couple of those as well.

#BookSky,
Finished #BraveNewWorld by Aldous Huxley and am on to 1984 by #GeorgeOrwell. #Dystopian reads this Spring. You know, because of renewal, new beginnings, and all that jazz. Considering adding McCarthy’s #TheRoad to my #TBR 🌷

Can’t forget the whimsical fun of India Holton’s #TheOrnithologistsFieldGuideToLove. Supremely enjoyable, and I look forward to reading more of her work.

#HistoricalRomance #IndiaHolton #LibbyBorrow #BookSky #FunnyFiction

#BookSky,
Since my last #bookish posts, I’ve finished Station Eleven and Lady Tan’s Circle of Women. Both were excellent!

Now, I’m reading #DeafCultureOurWay (4th Ed) by the Roy, Samuel, and Thomas Holcomb.

I’ve also started listening to #BraveNewWorld by #AldousHuxley.

#YayReading!

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

I also read my first #MurderMystery recently! The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. Easy, enjoyable first step into the genre. Very meta. #Thriller #Library #BooksAboutBooks

#Booksky!
Reading Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See #HistoricalFiction #Literature #Libby and listening to Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel #SciFi #Fiction #Audiobook

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#BookSky updates!
- Started listening to The Haar by David Sodergren. About 2 and a half hours in and amazing so far. Loving it. #HorrorNovel #DavidSodergren #ScottishFiction #TheHaar #Horror
- Reading Gina Oliva's Alone in the Mainstream #RequiredReading #HearingParents #DeafKids #NonFiction

Loved this part of Immerwahr's article:
Thomas Jefferson warned that once readers fell under the spell of novels—“this mass of trash”—they would lose patience for “wholsome reading.” They’d suffer from “bloated imagination, sickly judgement, and disgust toward all the real business of life.”

What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

An interesting read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

#NewYorker #AttentionSpan #AttentionDeficit #AttentionCrisis #DontGiveThemYourAttention #FocusShift #DanielImmerwahr

Finished Addie LaRue by VE Schwab today and started a novella called Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke! #Booksky #ShortStory #Horror #Fiction #CreepyCover

** Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See, for a March book club read

Also started listening to The Invisible Life of Addie Laurie by V.E. Schwab #FantasyReads #Fiction #VESchwab #Booksky

And I am very excited to read Lady Tan’s Circle of Women for a March book club by Lisa See. Might get to it early :) #BookClub #ASLBookClub #HistoricalFiction

#Booksky! Some #bookish updates:
- Finished The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen, 3.25 ⭐️
- Finished Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono on audiobook, 3 ⭐️ (2 for me, but excited to read with my daughters)
- Started #NeverWhistleAtNight for Feb book club #IndigenousFiction #DarkFiction #ShortStory

Howdy #Booksky,
I am resuming The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen after a 5-month pause. I noticed a paperback in my local indie bookstore and thought, “I never finished that! I should try again.” And what do you know, the vibes are vibing this time. #HorrorNovel #HistoricalFiction #GothicHorror

#Booksky! Finished On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden last night. Beautiful book! A rich YA LGBTQIA+ story with good world building and lovely characters. I didn’t know it was YA when I picked it up, and it felt youthful but not immature. Enjoyable read. #YoungAdult #Comic #GraphicNovel #OnASunBeam #Book

Hey #Booksky!
Just opened Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. Love the cover. Looking forward to understanding why the NYT Book Review calls it one of the 10 best books of 2011. #swamplandia! #paperback #karenrussell #fiction