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Kal @ Reader Voracious

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poe hoe & queer bookish content creator • INTJ • nihilist • cat lover • over-educated & under-loved millennial (she/her) https://readervoracious.com

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Thank you! Time FLIES

08.03.2025 01:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Jenna!

07.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Representative Green for your courage to stand alone for what’s right. I’m not your constituent but they are lucky to have you.

Thank you for meeting the moment. Let this be a clarion call for more dems to speak out & resist like you, AOC, & Bernie.

I feel the faintest glimmer of hope.

06.03.2025 02:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of the Happy Anniversary achievement from Wordpress, showing that Reader Voracious was started 7 years ago!

Screenshot of the Happy Anniversary achievement from Wordpress, showing that Reader Voracious was started 7 years ago!

Seven years ago today, readervoracious.com was born!

06.03.2025 01:16 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
3 books finished, 653 pages read, in February 2025. Infographic provided by The Storygraph

3 books finished, 653 pages read, in February 2025. Infographic provided by The Storygraph

3 books finished in February and 653 pages read total. What did you read last month?

02.03.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for including my post, Celeste!

02.03.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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February 2025 On My Radar A roundup of book blog posts that were on the radar of A Literary Escape during the month of February 2025.

🚨 February On My Radar ft posts by @suebavey.bsky.social @pepperandpages.bsky.social @kalventure.bsky.social @yourbookfriend.bsky.social @jolinsdell.bsky.social @maggythestray.bsky.social @dinipandareads.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @booksare42.bsky.social
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27.02.2025 14:19 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

Glad to hear you love your Kobo! I’ve been trying to decide between Kobo and Nook for awhile now. Most of my reading is physical these days, but I have the kindle app for library books / to read earcs.

24.02.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
YouTube video by Anti Trump 2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!

You GUYYYYSSSSSSS

The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

23.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 6169    🔁 1834    💬 82    📌 605
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How to break up with Amazon as a Book Lover | Reader Voracious How to break up with Amazon as a book lover and vote with your wallet: bookish alternatives for physical books, eBooks, audiobooks, and more!

As book lovers, it feels like Amazon’s everywhere. But it’s NOT inescapable. We need to vote w/ our wallets & stop supporting oligarchy.

This isn’t an exhaustive list but is a good starting point if you’re looking for alternatives to shift your bookish consumption away from Amazon! #BookSky #RESIST

23.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1

Glad you found it useful! Writing it was therapeutic earlier this month and it’s been nice to feel like I’m doing something, even small.

23.02.2025 23:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From the Anticonsumption community on Reddit: Amazon/Kindle may remove your ability to download your ebooks soon, you should download them now! Explore this post and more from the Anticonsumption community

Amazon is removing the ability to Download & Transfer your Kindle books on February 26, 2025. (Announced after the post was written.)

If you’re interested in Calibre, time is of the essence. More Info & resources:

23.02.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

22.02.2025 20:07 — 👍 107940    🔁 23197    💬 2107    📌 1384
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How to break up with Amazon as a Book Lover | Reader Voracious How to break up with Amazon as a book lover and vote with your wallet: bookish alternatives for physical books, eBooks, audiobooks, and more!

As book lovers, it feels like Amazon’s everywhere. But it’s NOT inescapable. We need to vote w/ our wallets & stop supporting oligarchy.

This isn’t an exhaustive list but is a good starting point if you’re looking for alternatives to shift your bookish consumption away from Amazon! #BookSky #RESIST

23.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1
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made this little tool, govwayback.com. add “wayback.com” to “.gov” on any US gov website and it’ll redirect you to that page on @archive.org … from before January 20th 2025

06.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 297    🔁 155    💬 17    📌 11

this is called obeying in advance and it’s BAD, ACTUALLY.

make no mistake: labels like these are not for readers; they’re for adults who want to control content. this is the voluntary facilitation of censorship.

07.02.2025 02:25 — 👍 42    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0

Happy belated blogiversary, Dini!

11.02.2025 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Twisted Love: 7 books with vampires (that aren't Twilight) | Reader Voracious Vampires are BACK! It seems only fitting for this season of love and disillusionment to share a list of books with vampires that aren't Twilight.

Vampires are finally having a bit of a renaissance in publishing. Love & lust are often at the fore of these stories, but it is a twisted love that lacks consent and is rife with exploitation.

This season of love & overconsumption, I’m sharing a list of vampire books. #booksky

10.02.2025 05:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#CurrentlyReading GHOST WORLD for graduate school and it’s incredible??? I picked up on media omnipresence, but by far my fave thing so far was our 20 minute psychoanalysis of Enid’s dream and discussion of how important her friendship with Becky is.

05.02.2025 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting

The Cheeto in Chief wants to overwhelm everyone with the constant barrage of bullshit. Not even 2 weeks and I am exhausted. Do not succumb to nihilism. Keep on fighting and focus energy locally.

01.02.2025 20:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Cultivate a Reading Habit and Read More Books | Reader Voracious It's a new year and every resolution list should include how to cultivate a reading habit and read more books this and every year!

If cultivating a reading habit is on your list of New Years resolutions, I've got the post for you...

readervoracious.com/how-to-culti...

30.01.2025 02:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sneaky photo taken during FLOW featuring the cat, bird, and capybara atop a bit of land overlooking a vast sky at dusk

Sneaky photo taken during FLOW featuring the cat, bird, and capybara atop a bit of land overlooking a vast sky at dusk

Just spent 90 minutes watching FLOW in theaters. What an absolute delight of a film. Not a single line spoken but such an amazing story told

No notes, 15/10. #KalDoesMovies2k25

15.01.2025 02:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#BookBloggers , here is a 2025 reading challenge with some unique prompts to focus on reading deeply

08.01.2025 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is so exciting, Nicole!

09.01.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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2025 Ultimate Book Blogger / Reader Spreadsheet Template | Reader Voracious New year, new spreadsheet! The sixth edition of Reader Voracious' Book Blogger & Reader Spreadsheet Template is now here so you can organize your 2024 reading!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for those of us who love all things data -- the FREE 2025 Ultimate Reader Spreadsheet Template is available on Reader Voracious (and 2 premium options available on ko-fi)!

readervoracious.com/2025-reader-...

03.01.2025 17:31 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2
FROM tv poster (MGM+) featuring a small town surrounded by woods and a few people, one Black man (Boyd played by Harold Perrineau) in the foreground)

FROM tv poster (MGM+) featuring a small town surrounded by woods and a few people, one Black man (Boyd played by Harold Perrineau) in the foreground)

I'm not surviving the night lol

05.01.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HI NICOLE, sorry for disappearing on you and hope you're doing well! I owe you an email... expect one this week!

I am so mad that we didn't get snow at all while I was in the mountains for the holidays. But these pics heal my heart a bit!

05.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

LOOK AT THAT HAPPY PUP 😭

05.01.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trends I Think We’ll See in Book Blogging in 2025 I’ve been writing this post annually for a few years now, but this is the first year I feel as if I truly have no idea what 2025 will bring to book blogging. Generative AI Ruins the Internet?…

✨ Trends I Think We'll See in Book Blogging in 2025 ✨

pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/t...

05.01.2025 17:20 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

I've read 2 books in the last 3 days after literally not reading anything for pleasure for ELEVEN MONTHS.

I feel like myself again and all it took was a 2 week vacation from work & grad school

05.01.2025 19:23 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0