Debbie

Photo shows the book The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood in the foreground and behind it a border terrier having a lie down on the sofa.

My reading companion is visiting this afternoon. I've been spending a lot of time in fantasy and/or dystopian books lately.

💙📚

On the left of the photo is the book Human Rites by Juno Dawson and next to it a cup of coffee.

Sunday (I'm posting late!) book and a coffee! I'm equally excited and reluctant to read this becuase I love the series but I also don't want it to be over!

#BookSky #QueerBooks 🪐📚💙

It really is! I found it quite unsettling.

In the foreground of the photo is a double page spread from the book Oryx and Crake and behind that is a border terrier having a snooze on the sofa.

Finished up Oryx and Crake this afternoon with this cute reading companion. She visits us once a week, occasionally twice if we're lucky!
I enjoyed the book, and while I've read darker ones, I have to admit that this is one of the most unsettling novels I've ever read.

💙📚

On the left hand of the photo is the book Oryx and Crake by Maragret Atwood, and on the right is a cup of coffee.

Dystopian fiction. Just what I need today. Very soothing. 🤦‍♀️

#BookSky #currentlyreading 💙📚

First shelf: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Reyes), Learning to Fall (Morris), I Love You S'more (Desombre), She Gets the Girl (Lippincott & Derrick) Second Shelf: All That's Left in the World (Brown), Caught in a Bad Fauxmance (Rose), Heartstopper Vol. 1 (Oseman), The Darkness Between Us (Schaeffer) Third Shelf: Going Bicoastal (Adler), Where the Dark Stands Still (Poranek), Never Ever Getting Back Together (Gonzales), Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (Hibbert), Flowerheart (Bakewell) Fourth Shelf: Hell Followed With Us (White), I Wish You All the Best (Deaver), The Sunbearer Trials (Thomas), Dead End Girls (Heard), The Sacrifice (Chupeco) Fifth Shelf: Loveless (Oseman), Icarus (Ancrum), Summer Bird Blue (Bowman), Radio Silence (Oseman), The Weight of Stars (Dow), Sawkill Girls (Legrand) Bottom Shelf: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (McQuiston), Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Albertelli), Nimona (Stevenson), Forget Me Not (Derrick)

A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??

Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙

Alison Bailey is the most "sideshow Bob stepping on an endless series of rakes" person that's ever lived

In the foreground is the book Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler and in the background is a part of the Eiffel Tower. The day is sunny with blue skies.

Time for a quick chapter at the Eiffel Tower. I've let the family scale the stairs alone 🤣

#BookSky #CurrentlyReading #DiverseBooks 💙📚

Illustration of Gandalf from Lord of the Rings standing overlooking water. Text reads “"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring”

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa.

A photo of Zetian in the rubble of Gaza

Another photo of Zetian in the rubble of Gaza

Safaa, one of the Palestinians I help fundraise for, crocheted this doll of Zetian from my book Iron Widow 😭

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.

Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

Today I ran. Actual running. Unheard of for this former (and often current) couch potato!

#running #couchto5k

A photo of the book The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, in the background is the Glasgow subway.

A friend of a friend recommended a terf read this. I somehow fear the terf won't read it, but I certainly will!

#BookSky #DiverseBooks 💙📚

Book: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet.

B

#AlphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚

Front cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi.

Current read! If Akwaeke Emezi writes it, I'll read it. I've adored absolutely everything I've read by them so far.

#BookSky 💙📚 #DiverseBooks

Book: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet.

A

#AlphabeticalTitleChallenge
#BookSky

Companies! Not too long ago a rainbow sticker indicated your store was a safe place for LGBTQ people. Time to start doing the same specifically for trans people. A little trans flag sticker in your window. I’d make a point to shop there.

I don't like people hugging me, but supportive head nods are most excellent and welcome!

The book Peter Pan by J M Barrie. The cover is green, the title is written in silver and quotes are embossed surrounding the title. A little bookworm bookmark pokes out the top - smiling!

Reading Peter Pan with the teen book club. I've never read it before..it's...uh...quite something!

#BookSky 💙📚

There's nothing feminist about transphobia.

Absolutely grim ruling from the UK supreme court yesterday.

The Supreme Court sided with FWS.

But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.

To enter just repost.

Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.

Winner chosen randomly from all entries.

Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.

A stack of the following books from left to right: Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins and The Mask Falling, The Song Rising and The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon.

Get you some friends with similar reading tastes who go "oh hey! Wanna borrow this book? And this? And this?" ❤️

#BookSky #FantasyBooks

I mean.....either? Both? Yes!

A photo of my hand holding the book The Lamb by Lucy Rose.

Finished The Bone Season. Really enjoyed it, need to get my hands on the second book. Time to start The Lamb by Lucy Rose. This is the book for Queer Horror book club this month.

#BookSky #DiverseBooks #QueerBooks 💙📚

A double page spread of the book The Bone Season, in front of it I am holding a blue mug that says "California State Railroad Museum. Sacramento, CA".

Back from the US. It was so wonderful to see my sister and 5 niblings, though I barely had time to read! Easing back in to home life by continuing The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon and enjoying a cup of bedtime brew!

#BookSky 🪐💙📚

Apparently my Trans Rights Readathon Latinx recommendations video is too long to post on #Booksky so here are the links to where you can find it—

Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DHgUBdw...

Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP824q2xn/