@gisellestclaire.bsky.social
Very bookish. Slightly peevish. 🦔 Aspiring recluse. 🌸🐈📚🍷🌼
📚💙 Starting tonight: darkly comic novel I See You've Called In Dead by John Kenney.
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“You’re gonna need a bigger house.” 🕷️
06.10.2025 02:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy World Teachers Day to all the fantastic educators out there! 🎉 My dad (now retired) was a math teacher for over 50 years, even having me as a student for a year. 👨🏻🏫
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📚💙 Starting tonight: intergenerational feel-good mystery The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully.
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📚💙 Book of the day: My Murder by Katie Williams - unusual speculative murder mystery where the victim is cloned and tries to solve her own murder. A little hard to follow at times, but engaging.
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📚💙 Starting today: Japanese sci-fi murder mystery The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa.
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Post something random, or you'll have an AWFUL October!
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📚💙 Starting tonight: Chinese domestic fiction novel Women, Seated by Zhang Yueran.
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📚💙 Starting today: twisty psychological thriller The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark.
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Hooray! Can’t wait to receive it. And my first book! 🩷
26.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Totes are just for annual memberships? 😢 I signed up as a monthly member …
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📚💙 Book of the day: Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera - speculative sci-fi short story collection. Many of the stories were extremely short & experimental, making them rather unsatisfactory. 🤷♀️
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📚💙 Starting tonight: dystopian science fiction novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us by Yiming Ma.
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A great little novella, full of suffocating dread. I’m ordering the author’s The Wall tonight!
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📚💙 Starting tonight: dark domestic novella Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer.
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📚💙 Starting today: British cozy mystery Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood. 🛟
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📚💙 Book of the day: Death Valley by Melissa Broder - a woman’s solo trip to the desert leads to some darkly comic ponderings on love, death, responsibility, and grief. 🌵
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I struggled to like My Friends (I find Backman to be very hit or miss for me) and The Bone Clocks is too intimidating! 😂
18.09.2025 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📚💙 Starting today: British political murder mystery The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe.
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Confusing and convoluted, but also funny and quirky, with a difficult main character. I’m on the fence about this one.
17.09.2025 02:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0HOV lane here I come!
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📚💙 Starting tonight: amateur sleuth murder mystery The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer.
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12.09.2025 16:07 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0I signed up a few days ago!
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📚💙 Book of the day: Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian - Short story collection about Asian/American women in their 20s and their relationships. Well-written, but I didn’t really connect with the stories. 🤷♀️
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📚💙 Starting tonight: Korean magical realism sequel The Dallergut Dream-Making District by Miye Lee.
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📚💙 Starting tonight: debut bildungsroman Pan by Michael W. Clune.
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I’ve also read, and enjoyed Canoes, The Cook, The Heart, and Painting Time. Hope you find something you like!
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