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The most consequential game of solo jenga I’ll ever play (Nachos by Cliff’s PDX, favorite old 📖 friend is On Such A Full Sea)

The Hexologists Check out The Hexologists - <b>The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve ...

The Hexologists ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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-...

China 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!

Hobbit girl summer illustration: “Plant seeds” beside a sprout coming out of the dirt “Dress in bright colors” beside a yellow cardigan “Water your hope” beside a green watering can “Eat nourishing foods” beside a bowl of soup “Drink tea” beside a cup of tea And at the bottom of the image, a still of Barad-dûr crumbling with the caption “being about Sauron’s downfall”.

Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿

Usurpation Check out Usurpation - <p><b>After her rollicking standalone <i>Dual Memory</i>, </b><b>Sue Burke </b><b>returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in <i>Usurpation,</i> which combines the th...

Sentient plants to jolt me out of my reading slump ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 for Usurpation - great conclusion to a favorite series: bookshop.org/p/books/usur...

(It’s me! I’m the we!)

(If someone finds my bad teenage fiction on some refurbished tech, please do not tell me, I don’t want to know)

Secondly: 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.

Spouse asked why getting rid of dead laptops is so hard for me (as I am otherwise very eager to purge junk / clutter): Realized partly, it’s nostalgia for all the writing I did on these machines (!) from bad teenage beginner fiction to college papers. It’s like throwing out notebooks! Or my brain!

a 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 😱 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 I’ve got a first gen Kindle and an Apple laptop from 2005 in here.

Alien Clay Check out Alien Clay - <b>"A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity." - Esquire, Best of the Year. <p/> From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic th...

Alien Clay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scientists exiled to a research labor camp ✔️ creepy gross Scavengers Reign body horror planet ✔️ Very satisfying ✔️ Need this cover on my bookshelf

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Starting a literary mag is the “I got bangs” of writer mental health

Executed 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.

My Possessive Boyfriend ™️ says, “no writing, only petting Cid.”

Fire Exit Check out Fire Exit - From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neigh...

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great novel debut! bookshop.org/p/books/fire...

Shards of Earth Check out Shards of Earth - <p><b>The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i> brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man...

Just 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 👌 bookshop.org/p/books/shar...

@nebraskalaska.bsky.social are we secretly in a 2-person book club together ✌️ reading list in sync ✨

Today’s free toddler Halloween costume idea for couples: “I want to be a BAG!!!”
Me: “Okay then! What should I be?”
Toddler: “You can be the poop!”
Me: 🧐

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 😂 like, selling baby gear to all of Hollywood but book people walk in and I’m rendered 😶

Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel A Novel

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Colored Television! It might be perfect 👌 I loved: a novel about a novelist, about writing, about what art is and isn’t, about LA, about trying to write diverse Hollywood content.

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Added! What a cover too 😍

Annie Bot: A Novel A Novel

Annie Bot ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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...

(A very hot tip from the creative genius behind 2024’s “Kitty Cell Phone Tower,” or as our neighbors liked to refer to her costume “… a what?”)

Today’s free Halloween costume idea, courtesy of my toddler: “Tiger Baby Gollum”

Ah I see we’re calling it Booksky ✅ I hope we pronouncing this like “book-ski”

A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories a book by Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by "Buenos Aires's sorceress of horror" (Samanta Schweblin, The New...

(Here it goes…!) 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 regret…! A Sunny Place for Shady People ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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