Bethany Crowe Powell
@bethanypowell.bsky.social
Speculative poet and YA novelist. Bookseller at Odyssey Bookshop. She/her. bethanypowell.com
Just found out my 2026 birthday is on a Tuesday…
because Ann Leckie’s new book is coming out on my birthday!!!
because Ann Leckie’s new book is coming out on my birthday!!!
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just found out my 2026 birthday is on a Tuesday…
because Ann Leckie’s new book is coming out on my birthday!!!
because Ann Leckie’s new book is coming out on my birthday!!!
TFW all your best laid plans apparently hinged on a good night’s rest
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
TFW all your best laid plans apparently hinged on a good night’s rest
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I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness'
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness
OPINION: “According to research published by the CDC, 3 in 4 Americans have a chronic illness. That’s nearly 200 million people, and Kennedy is helping none of us,” Effie Seiberg writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!
I have been working through a reread of the Kate Daniel series and every mention of Julie manifests physical pain that there is no follow up to Blood Heir yet. 😭
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I have been working through a reread of the Kate Daniel series and every mention of Julie manifests physical pain that there is no follow up to Blood Heir yet. 😭
Sometimes I worry I’m too literal minded for the Captcha image verification but so far it’s always been a glitch of the actual computer in the equation.
The day is yet coming, I fear.
The day is yet coming, I fear.
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sometimes I worry I’m too literal minded for the Captcha image verification but so far it’s always been a glitch of the actual computer in the equation.
The day is yet coming, I fear.
The day is yet coming, I fear.
I so enjoyed this & the dynamic of MCs with very public, cultivated personas that are safe to set aside with each other (whether they mean to or not!)
Oh hey, Enchanting the Fae Queen is available for reviewers to request on Edelweiss!
...& I cannot figure out how to link to it there. *facepalm* But I promise it really is, indeed there, and you can find out more about it (and preorder it!) here: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
...& I cannot figure out how to link to it there. *facepalm* But I promise it really is, indeed there, and you can find out more about it (and preorder it!) here: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I so enjoyed this & the dynamic of MCs with very public, cultivated personas that are safe to set aside with each other (whether they mean to or not!)
Today at the grocery store I asked an idiotic question of the customer service desk person but luckily they didn’t know the answer so when the super obvious answer came up in the system (distilled water is in the bottled water aisle) I just felt like a small part of the greater humanity.
October 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Today at the grocery store I asked an idiotic question of the customer service desk person but luckily they didn’t know the answer so when the super obvious answer came up in the system (distilled water is in the bottled water aisle) I just felt like a small part of the greater humanity.
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“This isn’t the America I know”
Black People:
Black People:
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“This isn’t the America I know”
Black People:
Black People:
In a subset of Murphy’s Law, the good free stuff is on the side of the road only when you have no time to stop 😩
September 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In a subset of Murphy’s Law, the good free stuff is on the side of the road only when you have no time to stop 😩
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In a little under two weeks’ time, the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts!
Make sure you get your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!)
Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!
www.penguinrandomhou...
Make sure you get your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!)
Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!
www.penguinrandomhou...
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In a little under two weeks’ time, the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts!
Make sure you get your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!)
Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!
www.penguinrandomhou...
Make sure you get your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!)
Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!
www.penguinrandomhou...
Radical self acceptance this week: buying 4 of the deodorant I like on Ye Evil Webbed Site as the company is clearly being axed 😢
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Radical self acceptance this week: buying 4 of the deodorant I like on Ye Evil Webbed Site as the company is clearly being axed 😢
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Thursday the 11th! @matociquala.bsky.social and @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in South Hadley!
Join here:
www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...
Join here:
www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thursday the 11th! @matociquala.bsky.social and @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in South Hadley!
Join here:
www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...
Join here:
www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...
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read this.
i spent most of it in the weird semiground between "rightness and wrongness are subjective perspectives" and "what the fuck is wrong with Kiwis"
and then at the end it was made clear that the answer was, as is so often the case, "the British"
i spent most of it in the weird semiground between "rightness and wrongness are subjective perspectives" and "what the fuck is wrong with Kiwis"
and then at the end it was made clear that the answer was, as is so often the case, "the British"
I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony
All science fiction has its basis in the real world. This is the real world I base mine in. It has jokes and cups of tea and big smiles. Sometimes I’m in awe of the power of fiction to unite us. I …
strangehorizons.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
read this.
i spent most of it in the weird semiground between "rightness and wrongness are subjective perspectives" and "what the fuck is wrong with Kiwis"
and then at the end it was made clear that the answer was, as is so often the case, "the British"
i spent most of it in the weird semiground between "rightness and wrongness are subjective perspectives" and "what the fuck is wrong with Kiwis"
and then at the end it was made clear that the answer was, as is so often the case, "the British"
Self-accommodation sometimes is answering “so what?” when your brain says “but we could tolerate this sensory thing yesterday!?”
It’s good to finally articulate that as a NEED and not a lapse.
It’s good to finally articulate that as a NEED and not a lapse.
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Self-accommodation sometimes is answering “so what?” when your brain says “but we could tolerate this sensory thing yesterday!?”
It’s good to finally articulate that as a NEED and not a lapse.
It’s good to finally articulate that as a NEED and not a lapse.
Reading the Temeraire series has forced me to look up information about the Napoleonic Wars.
I knew very little, including how *successful* he was at taking territory before his downfall.
Weirdly comforted by this information, both for Temeraire and myself??
I knew very little, including how *successful* he was at taking territory before his downfall.
Weirdly comforted by this information, both for Temeraire and myself??
August 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reading the Temeraire series has forced me to look up information about the Napoleonic Wars.
I knew very little, including how *successful* he was at taking territory before his downfall.
Weirdly comforted by this information, both for Temeraire and myself??
I knew very little, including how *successful* he was at taking territory before his downfall.
Weirdly comforted by this information, both for Temeraire and myself??
Hmm. Does this habit of stories about someone Accidentally In Charge come from being an eldest daughter of a “traditional” family?
…No, no, surely not.
…No, no, surely not.
August 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hmm. Does this habit of stories about someone Accidentally In Charge come from being an eldest daughter of a “traditional” family?
…No, no, surely not.
…No, no, surely not.
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The amount of times I have to stop and think about which way Western books open after wrapping one for a Blind Book Date is pretty startling.
The again, left and right is a challenge for me in general so it’s probably not manga-poisoning!!
The again, left and right is a challenge for me in general so it’s probably not manga-poisoning!!
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount of times I have to stop and think about which way Western books open after wrapping one for a Blind Book Date is pretty startling.
The again, left and right is a challenge for me in general so it’s probably not manga-poisoning!!
The again, left and right is a challenge for me in general so it’s probably not manga-poisoning!!
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Incredible new Omid Memarian interview with Vida Rabbani, a formerly imprisoned Iranian journalist who "created a language of resistance through painting. Using bedsheets as canvas, smuggled brushes, and colors brought in tube by tube, she documented the intimate textures of carceral life."
‘I painted so prison wouldn’t swallow us whole’: An interview with Iranian journalist Vida Rabbani
“[T]hrough brushwork and imagery, she documented what she could not publish: the contours of captivity and the quiet, defiant rituals of daily survival.”
globalvoices.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Incredible new Omid Memarian interview with Vida Rabbani, a formerly imprisoned Iranian journalist who "created a language of resistance through painting. Using bedsheets as canvas, smuggled brushes, and colors brought in tube by tube, she documented the intimate textures of carceral life."
There are some great reviews out there but here’s my bite size staff-pick. (Goes unmentioned in it but I *loved* how Anja is not so into the people but the problem of poisoning.)
www.odysseybks.com/book/9781250...
www.odysseybks.com/book/9781250...
August 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There are some great reviews out there but here’s my bite size staff-pick. (Goes unmentioned in it but I *loved* how Anja is not so into the people but the problem of poisoning.)
www.odysseybks.com/book/9781250...
www.odysseybks.com/book/9781250...
I just opened both AgentQuery and a dating site so apparently I’m feeling like being deflated & anxious about something new today!
August 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I just opened both AgentQuery and a dating site so apparently I’m feeling like being deflated & anxious about something new today!
If you can’t make your own strength to carry on, storebought is fine
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you can’t make your own strength to carry on, storebought is fine
Yesterday I realized as I walked up to the jail that the day’s earworm progression had gone from CHVRCHES to the Emotional Damage remix of Pompeii to the ACAB TikTok sound and that I needed to regress to CHVRCHES pretty quick before I got myself in trouble 😅
Thanks Vimes-knows-ACAB Tumblr post!!
Thanks Vimes-knows-ACAB Tumblr post!!
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Yesterday I realized as I walked up to the jail that the day’s earworm progression had gone from CHVRCHES to the Emotional Damage remix of Pompeii to the ACAB TikTok sound and that I needed to regress to CHVRCHES pretty quick before I got myself in trouble 😅
Thanks Vimes-knows-ACAB Tumblr post!!
Thanks Vimes-knows-ACAB Tumblr post!!
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So far there have been 1170 books collected. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated.
I'm collecting gently used and new books to support Bluestockings in keeping its doors open.
July 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
So far there have been 1170 books collected. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated.
So humid my eyebags are sweating today, so I’ve gone to stea-er, utilize the public service of AC!
July 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So humid my eyebags are sweating today, so I’ve gone to stea-er, utilize the public service of AC!