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Nothing quite like having to wake up at 5am on your day off to take an exam for three hours for your job.
I’m so, so tired 😭
I’m so, so tired 😭
January 31, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Nothing quite like having to wake up at 5am on your day off to take an exam for three hours for your job.
I’m so, so tired 😭
I’m so, so tired 😭
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Bones at the Crossroads Review
I think this series has a lot of good in it, but this college thing throws me off so much! idk if anyone else feels the same about this series. Or maybe this is a private school thing? This definitely wasn't my college experience.
#booksky #bookreview
I think this series has a lot of good in it, but this college thing throws me off so much! idk if anyone else feels the same about this series. Or maybe this is a private school thing? This definitely wasn't my college experience.
#booksky #bookreview
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Bones at the Crossroads Review
I think this series has a lot of good in it, but this college thing throws me off so much! idk if anyone else feels the same about this series. Or maybe this is a private school thing? This definitely wasn't my college experience.
#booksky #bookreview
I think this series has a lot of good in it, but this college thing throws me off so much! idk if anyone else feels the same about this series. Or maybe this is a private school thing? This definitely wasn't my college experience.
#booksky #bookreview
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Finished one novella yesterday, will probably finish another on Sunday. So I ordered two more books, which will arrive next week.
That's how a to-be-read stack is supposed to work, right?
#Booksky
That's how a to-be-read stack is supposed to work, right?
#Booksky
January 31, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Finished one novella yesterday, will probably finish another on Sunday. So I ordered two more books, which will arrive next week.
That's how a to-be-read stack is supposed to work, right?
#Booksky
That's how a to-be-read stack is supposed to work, right?
#Booksky
✨🌟Bookish Checkpoint 🌟✨
✧ current read: Third Loch from the Sun by Rex Burke
✧ last book re-read: uhhh ... probably If We Could Go Back by Cara Dee (over a year ago) lmao
✧ last non-fiction book read: uhhhhhh ... Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa D. Meyer
✧ last book added to TBR: Patience by Lark Taylor
✧ current read: Third Loch from the Sun by Rex Burke
✧ last book re-read: uhhh ... probably If We Could Go Back by Cara Dee (over a year ago) lmao
✧ last non-fiction book read: uhhhhhh ... Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa D. Meyer
✧ last book added to TBR: Patience by Lark Taylor
January 31, 2026 at 3:19 AM
✨🌟Bookish Checkpoint 🌟✨
✧ current read: Third Loch from the Sun by Rex Burke
✧ last book re-read: uhhh ... probably If We Could Go Back by Cara Dee (over a year ago) lmao
✧ last non-fiction book read: uhhhhhh ... Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa D. Meyer
✧ last book added to TBR: Patience by Lark Taylor
✧ current read: Third Loch from the Sun by Rex Burke
✧ last book re-read: uhhh ... probably If We Could Go Back by Cara Dee (over a year ago) lmao
✧ last non-fiction book read: uhhhhhh ... Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa D. Meyer
✧ last book added to TBR: Patience by Lark Taylor
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halt! this is a bookish checkpoint.
last book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
current: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune
newest on TBR: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
next: The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab
#booksky 💙📚
last book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
current: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune
newest on TBR: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
next: The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab
#booksky 💙📚
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 AM
halt! this is a bookish checkpoint.
last book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
current: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune
newest on TBR: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
next: The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab
#booksky 💙📚
last book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
current: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune
newest on TBR: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
next: The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab
#booksky 💙📚
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❄️ #FantasyIndiesJanuary ❄️ Jan 30
My series (and current WIP) is firmly old-school urban/contemporary fantasy, with an emphasis on the mystery and the action, but there are romantic and cozy sub-genres tucked into the stories.
My series (and current WIP) is firmly old-school urban/contemporary fantasy, with an emphasis on the mystery and the action, but there are romantic and cozy sub-genres tucked into the stories.
❄️ #FantasyIndiesJanuary ❄️
All genres welcome! You can use the prompts for WIPs or published books.
Feel free to ask the hosts questions!
Love,
Faeries at Fantasy Indies
@lvrussell.bsky.social @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social
All genres welcome! You can use the prompts for WIPs or published books.
Feel free to ask the hosts questions!
Love,
Faeries at Fantasy Indies
@lvrussell.bsky.social @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 PM
❄️ #FantasyIndiesJanuary ❄️ Jan 30
My series (and current WIP) is firmly old-school urban/contemporary fantasy, with an emphasis on the mystery and the action, but there are romantic and cozy sub-genres tucked into the stories.
My series (and current WIP) is firmly old-school urban/contemporary fantasy, with an emphasis on the mystery and the action, but there are romantic and cozy sub-genres tucked into the stories.
🧙 wild witches
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
January 30, 2026 at 11:53 PM
🧙 wild witches
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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bruh
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Hey! My name is Elías Ramos, or Owl. I'm a writer, actor, creator, and author of Sam White Owl's Letters from a Cryptid Hunter, the short stories originally heard from Swamp Dweller on YouTube.
Volume 1 of the Letters releases November 25, and you can pre-order it here!
books2read.com/u/bwD7gZ
Volume 1 of the Letters releases November 25, and you can pre-order it here!
books2read.com/u/bwD7gZ
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Letters from a Cryptid Hunter: Volume 1 by Elias Ramos
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September 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hey! My name is Elías Ramos, or Owl. I'm a writer, actor, creator, and author of Sam White Owl's Letters from a Cryptid Hunter, the short stories originally heard from Swamp Dweller on YouTube.
Volume 1 of the Letters releases November 25, and you can pre-order it here!
books2read.com/u/bwD7gZ
Volume 1 of the Letters releases November 25, and you can pre-order it here!
books2read.com/u/bwD7gZ
👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships
🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
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☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships
🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
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January 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships
🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
[ #booksky ]
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships
🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
[ #booksky ]
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Catherine O’Hara died?! Rest in glorious wellness, you queen 😭😭😭
a picture of a woman from schitt 's creek with the caption you are radiant
Alt: You are radiant!
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January 30, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Catherine O’Hara died?! Rest in glorious wellness, you queen 😭😭😭
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"Forest of Dreams and Whispers" by Katherine Macdonald. I'm really enjoying it! 😊
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
"Forest of Dreams and Whispers" by Katherine Macdonald. I'm really enjoying it! 😊
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I’m moving on to Cradle books 11 and 12… can’t believe how quickly I’ve gone through this series!
What’s everyone reading lately?
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I’m moving on to Cradle books 11 and 12… can’t believe how quickly I’ve gone through this series!
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Post a favourite TV/movie mother! 👑
January 30, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Post a favourite TV/movie mother! 👑
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
January 30, 2026 at 1:39 PM
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨
🎭 a magician’s last act
💖 a burgeoning romance
🗡️ brothers at odds
📓 21 pages
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/H6oGDdB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-final-ac...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
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🎭 a magician’s last act
💖 a burgeoning romance
🗡️ brothers at odds
📓 21 pages
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/H6oGDdB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-final-ac...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
[ #booksky ]
January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨
🎭 a magician’s last act
💖 a burgeoning romance
🗡️ brothers at odds
📓 21 pages
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/H6oGDdB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-final-ac...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
[ #booksky ]
🎭 a magician’s last act
💖 a burgeoning romance
🗡️ brothers at odds
📓 21 pages
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/H6oGDdB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-final-ac...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
[ #booksky ]
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What’s everyone reading lately?
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 AM
What’s everyone reading lately?
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I'm feeling an urge to add my 2 cents to a booktok discourse and I must not let the devil win
January 30, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I'm feeling an urge to add my 2 cents to a booktok discourse and I must not let the devil win
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need a break from trad fantasy?
step into the world of The Serrulata Saga - a speculative sci-fantasy adventure that takes place in the far-distant future...
the first book in the series, Gathering of the Four, is only $0.99!
what have you got to lose?
www.booksbybennett.com
step into the world of The Serrulata Saga - a speculative sci-fantasy adventure that takes place in the far-distant future...
the first book in the series, Gathering of the Four, is only $0.99!
what have you got to lose?
www.booksbybennett.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
need a break from trad fantasy?
step into the world of The Serrulata Saga - a speculative sci-fantasy adventure that takes place in the far-distant future...
the first book in the series, Gathering of the Four, is only $0.99!
what have you got to lose?
www.booksbybennett.com
step into the world of The Serrulata Saga - a speculative sci-fantasy adventure that takes place in the far-distant future...
the first book in the series, Gathering of the Four, is only $0.99!
what have you got to lose?
www.booksbybennett.com
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January 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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#WIPSnips - "Suggest"
From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, my queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber who follows a video of is presumed-dead mom to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness.
#transbooks #indiehorror #transhorror #booksky #queerhorror
From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, my queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber who follows a video of is presumed-dead mom to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness.
#transbooks #indiehorror #transhorror #booksky #queerhorror
![When you make a living on nonsense like me and Josh do, you travel to a lot of weird and wacky small towns. I’ve seen everything: Giant Turnipville, Michigan, where every gift shop—and there are at least five, plus enumerable corner stores and gas stations that triple as the same—features snowglobes filled with to-scale models of town and turnip; Mermaid Bay, Maryland, where the cryptid du jour isn’t homo aquaticus as the name would suggest, but yet another Big Foot rip-off, whose proud simian visage can be purchased in mask or burger form from a hundred seaside stalls; Alien, New Mexico where—well, that should be obvious. Point is, all of them are wacky in this uniquely manufactured way. Every Bumfuck, Nowhere is some variation of artificial, and the artificiality is always necessitated by the genuinely heartbreaking story of how the town slowly suffocated from the death of [insert industry here] till all its young folk moved to Baltimore, or Albuquerque, or whatever passes for a moderately-sized city in Michigan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6hyreanhalpev6wrfx7e7xb6/bafkreicfiz2yeqkqzhbvbbjq5uhtoiwl5uherhrj7elgz5hnjbu3vp2mzm@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
#WIPSnips - "Suggest"
From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, my queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber who follows a video of is presumed-dead mom to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness.
#transbooks #indiehorror #transhorror #booksky #queerhorror
From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, my queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber who follows a video of is presumed-dead mom to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness.
#transbooks #indiehorror #transhorror #booksky #queerhorror
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🧙 wild witches
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
January 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🧙 wild witches
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
🐦⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨❤️👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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January 29, 2026 at 1:26 AM
📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
[ #booksky ]
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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