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Reading update for Mon 3/9

✅ The Grace of Kings, 3.5⭐️
✅ The Merge 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Jade Legacy (reread; and I meant to write Jade War in the last update), 31%
▶️ I Love You Don't Die (pub 3/24/26), 23%
▶️ Heart the Lover 🎧, 20%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Literally every year I forget that birthday notifications on LinkedIn are a thing, and literally every year I'm annoyed by responding to kind birthday greetings from people I barely know or have never even met...

This Is How The World Ends by Disco Barrington. An eye with tech details and fire around it.

COVER REVEAL!

I’m so so excited to reveal the cover for my queer dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, publishing on 16th September from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social.
Available for preorder now (links below)!

Designed by the incredible @drewhuff.bsky.social.
I love it so much! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

Reading update for Mon 3/2

✅ Heated Rivalry 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ Jade Legacy (reread), 4.5⭐️
▶️ The Grace of Kings, 82%
▶️ The Merge 🎧, 40%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 2/23

✅ With Love From Harlem 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ The Leaving Room 🎧, 5⭐️
▶️ The Grace of Kings, 61%
▶️ Heated Rivalry 🎧, 12%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 2/9

✅ Sula (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ Kin (pub 2/24/26), 5⭐️
▶️ With Love From Harlem 🎧, 55%
▶️ The Grace of Kings, 2%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 2/2

✅ The Scammer 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Bluest Eye (reread), 4⭐️
❌ Burn Down The Master's House, DNF @ 27%
▶️ Sula (reread), 62%
▶️ Kin, 2%
⏭️ With Love From Harlem 🎧
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/26

✅ Ella Minnow Pea, 4⭐️
✅ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ To Ride a Rising Storm, 4⭐️
⏭️ The Scammer 🎧
⏭️ The Bluest Eye (reread)
⏭️ Kin or Ours, depending on library holds!
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/19

✅ Jade City (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 31%
▶️ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 33%
▶️ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 3%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/12

✅ Natural Beauty 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ Enshittification 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Jade City (reread), 10%
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 12%
▶️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 6%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% (due back at the library; will return to it later)

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/5

✅ Exhalation, 5⭐️
✅ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Everlasting, 5⭐️
▶️ Natural Beauty 🎧, 71%
▶️ The Bee Sting, 3%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/29

✅ I, Medusa 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Disorientation, 4⭐️
✅ Solidarity with Children, 4⭐️
✅ A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 37%
▶️ Exhalation, 66%
▶️ The Everlasting, 12%

1 book away from my reading goal!

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/22

✅ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Salt Grows Heavy 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 42%
▶️ I, Medusa 🎧, 81%
▶️ Disorientation, 55%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

This is WILD.

Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!

We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.

Reading update for Mon 12/15

✅ Cry, Voidbringer, 3.5⭐️
✅ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 73%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 50%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/8

✅ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Cry, Voidbringer, 66%
▶️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 31%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 10%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Still breastfeeding a bit at almost 14mo but today I packed away all the electric pump supplies 😭🙌🏼 finallyyyyy

Yuppp 12 mins. If it analyzes tone and facial expressions, it will tag me as monotone and defeated lol

Just had my first "job interview" with an AI bot. It was exactly as soul-sucking as you might imagine.

Reading update for Mon 12/1

✅ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Bad Cree, 5⭐️
✅ even this page is white: poems, no rating
✅ Life on Mars: poems, NR
✅ Growing Papaya Trees, 3.5⭐️
✅ Gliff, 3.5⭐️
▶️ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 35%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/24

✅ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4⭐️
✅ Manifest Destiny: Poems, no rating
✅ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, no rating (but loved it)
▶️ Gliff, 40%
▶️ Bad Cree, 54%
▶️ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 61%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

I passed my dissertation defense 🎉 (woo!)
Now I'm sinking hours into inane formatting workarounds because Microsoft Word was designed to destroy our sanity 🍅🍅🍅 (boooo)

Reading update for Mon 11/17

✅ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 61%
▶️ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, 10%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/10

✅ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 53%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/3

✅ Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, 3⭐️
✅ Julie Chan Is Dead 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ Dominion, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 36%
▶️ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 10/27

✅ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietician’s Guide… 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 28%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Sameeee it’s so gross! The dc area is truly infested

Every time I open the front door there are at least three right outside! I hate it!!

I just killed a lantern fly INSIDE my apartment. They’ve gone too far. This is out of hand