The most consequential game of solo jenga Iโll ever play (Nachos by Cliffโs PDX, favorite old ๐ friend is On Such A Full Sea)
19.04.2025 02:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@hayleyotrope.bsky.social
Writer, reader, toddler parent, Pacific Northwest city-dweller, given to saying โWOW!โ a lot & meaning it
The most consequential game of solo jenga Iโll ever play (Nachos by Cliffโs PDX, favorite old ๐ friend is On Such A Full Sea)
19.04.2025 02:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Hexologists โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ I so enjoyed this husband and wife detective duo investigating badly behaved steampunk magic that I made all kinds of excuses to sneak away with the audiobook. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
17.04.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0China Mieville comes to mind first? Less on the absurdity side, but Naomi Alderman feels like a good fit next to your other faves here too!
09.04.2025 05:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hobbit girl summer illustration: โPlant seedsโ beside a sprout coming out of the dirt โDress in bright colorsโ beside a yellow cardigan โWater your hopeโ beside a green watering can โEat nourishing foodsโ beside a bowl of soup โDrink teaโ beside a cup of tea And at the bottom of the image, a still of Barad-dรปr crumbling with the caption โbeing about Sauronโs downfallโ.
Hobbit Girl Spring is here. ๐๐ฟ
29.03.2025 23:04 โ ๐ 3313 ๐ 553 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 38Sentient plants to jolt me out of my reading slump โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ.5 for Usurpation - great conclusion to a favorite series: bookshop.org/p/books/usur...
29.03.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(Itโs me! Iโm the we!)
28.03.2025 00:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(If someone finds my bad teenage fiction on some refurbished tech, please do not tell me, I donโt want to know)
15.03.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Secondly: the only previous time I donated to an e-waste recycling program, somehow my old cell phone ended up refurbished and sold to someone I knew, and it had all my contacts in it still so they figured out it was mine and it was all very weird.
15.03.2025 23:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Spouse asked why getting rid of dead laptops is so hard for me (as I am otherwise very eager to purge junk / clutter): Realized partly, itโs nostalgia for all the writing I did on these machines (!) from bad teenage beginner fiction to college papers. Itโs like throwing out notebooks! Or my brain!
15.03.2025 22:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0a clear bin filled with tangled cords, old cell phones, and defunct laptops set for donation
E-waste recycling day comes but once every 20 years ๐ฑ absolutely battling my deeply Millenial impulse to k e e p a l l e l e c t r o n i c s including a troubling amount of original packaging I kept just in case (???) I think Iโve got a first gen Kindle and an Apple laptop from 2005 in here.
15.03.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Alien Clay โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Scientists exiled to a research labor camp โ๏ธ creepy gross Scavengers Reign body horror planet โ๏ธ Very satisfying โ๏ธ Need this cover on my bookshelf
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Starting a literary mag is the โI got bangsโ of writer mental health
28.02.2025 23:29 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Executed what I thought was a very ambitious plan to change outfits mid-morning so I could throw my favorite weekend pants in the wash; realized upon completing the laundry that the pants never made it to the washer. More coffee needed, apparently.
16.02.2025 20:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My Possessive Boyfriend โข๏ธ says, โno writing, only petting Cid.โ
15.02.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fire Exit by Morgan Talty โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Great novel debut! bookshop.org/p/books/fire...
14.02.2025 22:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just discovered the Final Architecture series & took the opportunity to abandon all my friends / family / responsibilities while I finished reading it in as few sittings as possible - amidst power outage on my last 10% phone battery ๐ bookshop.org/p/books/shar...
13.02.2025 17:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@nebraskalaska.bsky.social are we secretly in a 2-person book club together โ๏ธ reading list in sync โจ
01.02.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Todayโs free toddler Halloween costume idea for couples: โI want to be a BAG!!!โ
Me: โOkay then! What should I be?โ
Toddler: โYou can be the poop!โ
Me: ๐ง
Fun fact: Many many years ago, the author visited a kids shop where I worked in LA in my youth, and I was too starstruck to say anything ๐ like, selling baby gear to all of Hollywood but book people walk in and Iโm rendered ๐ถ
01.02.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Colored Television! It might be perfect ๐ I loved: a novel about a novelist, about writing, about what art is and isnโt, about LA, about trying to write diverse Hollywood content.
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Added! What a cover too ๐
30.01.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Annie Bot โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ I never tire of a self-aware AI robot tale, and this story and voice are so original. A sex robot who goes to couples counseling! Brilliant. bookshop.org/p/books/anni...
29.01.2025 15:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0(A very hot tip from the creative genius behind 2024โs โKitty Cell Phone Tower,โ or as our neighbors liked to refer to her costume โโฆ a what?โ)
29.01.2025 04:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Todayโs free Halloween costume idea, courtesy of my toddler: โTiger Baby Gollumโ
29.01.2025 04:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Ah I see weโre calling it Booksky โ I hope we pronouncing this like โbook-skiโ
27.01.2025 21:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(Here it goesโฆ!) My first Bluesky book post! Just finished the book I yearned for at Halloween - ghosts and hauntings of all kinds! Ghostie ghosts, friendly ghosts, angry ghosts, ghosts of guilt and regretโฆ! A Sunny Place for Shady People โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ
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