Chantaal
@chantaal.bsky.social
40, she/her, married. SFF & Comics reader. I chat about books on YouTube and Goodreads. Also KPOP (GOT7), Formula 1 (Ferrari), and the internet at large, I guess.
📖: The Apothecary Diaries
https://linktr.ee/chantaal
📖: The Apothecary Diaries
https://linktr.ee/chantaal
holy crap, i forgot to put the audiobook for Twelve Months by Jim Butcher on hold so i'm looking at 14 weeks for it on libby, but one of my libraries has the ebook available right now??? LET'S GOOOO
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
holy crap, i forgot to put the audiobook for Twelve Months by Jim Butcher on hold so i'm looking at 14 weeks for it on libby, but one of my libraries has the ebook available right now??? LET'S GOOOO
i've finally joined the zeitgeist and i'm 3 episodes into heated rivalry
episode 3 felt like every coffee shop AU i have ever loved, and then i learn that it was originally a stucky AU?? HELLO???
episode 3 felt like every coffee shop AU i have ever loved, and then i learn that it was originally a stucky AU?? HELLO???
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
i've finally joined the zeitgeist and i'm 3 episodes into heated rivalry
episode 3 felt like every coffee shop AU i have ever loved, and then i learn that it was originally a stucky AU?? HELLO???
episode 3 felt like every coffee shop AU i have ever loved, and then i learn that it was originally a stucky AU?? HELLO???
This Humble Bundle!!!!!!! www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...
Humble Book Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Open Road Media
Our latest ebook bundle has over 60 of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books written by women! Every purchase supports Active Minds charity!
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January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This Humble Bundle!!!!!!! www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...
Massive, massive boost to any other Livejournal users out there. BACK IT UP.
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Massive, massive boost to any other Livejournal users out there. BACK IT UP.
Anyone else making sure their first read of the year is one they won't regret because it's gonna show up in all the 2026 wrapped graphics? 😂
I'm going with a volume of The Apothecary Diaries because I love Maomao
#booksky 💙📚👀
I'm going with a volume of The Apothecary Diaries because I love Maomao
#booksky 💙📚👀
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Anyone else making sure their first read of the year is one they won't regret because it's gonna show up in all the 2026 wrapped graphics? 😂
I'm going with a volume of The Apothecary Diaries because I love Maomao
#booksky 💙📚👀
I'm going with a volume of The Apothecary Diaries because I love Maomao
#booksky 💙📚👀
I haven't been talking about my #crochet here, but it's been eating my brain since I took it up back up in September? October? Anyway here's my latest finished project, a shawl/wrap that I call my Kaladin Stormblessed shawl.
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I haven't been talking about my #crochet here, but it's been eating my brain since I took it up back up in September? October? Anyway here's my latest finished project, a shawl/wrap that I call my Kaladin Stormblessed shawl.
My latest video: 2026 Anticipated Book Releases! There are going to be some absolute bangers coming out next yearrrrr #booktube #booksky 🪐📚💙 📚👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jy...
2026 Anticipated Book Releases | 40+ Sci-fi, Fantasy & More!
YouTube video by Chantaal
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January 2, 2026 at 12:38 AM
My latest video: 2026 Anticipated Book Releases! There are going to be some absolute bangers coming out next yearrrrr #booktube #booksky 🪐📚💙 📚👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jy...
what i NEED to do:
- edit 2025 best of video, i somehow yapped for a whole damn hour 🗣️
- plan & film 2025 end of year book tag video
what i WANT to do:
- set up my 2026 reading spreadsheet
- plan a 2026 books read blanket crochet project
- buy more yarn ⤴
- edit 2025 best of video, i somehow yapped for a whole damn hour 🗣️
- plan & film 2025 end of year book tag video
what i WANT to do:
- set up my 2026 reading spreadsheet
- plan a 2026 books read blanket crochet project
- buy more yarn ⤴
January 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM
what i NEED to do:
- edit 2025 best of video, i somehow yapped for a whole damn hour 🗣️
- plan & film 2025 end of year book tag video
what i WANT to do:
- set up my 2026 reading spreadsheet
- plan a 2026 books read blanket crochet project
- buy more yarn ⤴
- edit 2025 best of video, i somehow yapped for a whole damn hour 🗣️
- plan & film 2025 end of year book tag video
what i WANT to do:
- set up my 2026 reading spreadsheet
- plan a 2026 books read blanket crochet project
- buy more yarn ⤴
this video is 45 MINUTES LONG my god
I'm preparing my 2026 most anticipated releases video and next year is gonna be pretty promising! 2025 was a bit meh other than a few exciting big releases.
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
this video is 45 MINUTES LONG my god
i have never been so glad to finally reach a picture of a boring, gray hallway
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
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December 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i have never been so glad to finally reach a picture of a boring, gray hallway
Reposted by Chantaal
"Happy Place", endpaper illustration I drew for "Sistah Samurai" by @obeytheauthor.bsky.social .
For the special edition published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social !😊
For the special edition published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social !😊
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Happy Place", endpaper illustration I drew for "Sistah Samurai" by @obeytheauthor.bsky.social .
For the special edition published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social !😊
For the special edition published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social !😊
Here's my unboxing of @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social sci-fi box featuring The Vanished Birds by one of my favorite authors! AAAHHH!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8r...
#booksky #booktube 🪐📚💙 📚👀
#booksky #booktube 🪐📚💙 📚👀
Unboxing THE BROKEN BINDING sci-fi box!!!
YouTube video by Chantaal
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December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here's my unboxing of @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social sci-fi box featuring The Vanished Birds by one of my favorite authors! AAAHHH!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8r...
#booksky #booktube 🪐📚💙 📚👀
#booksky #booktube 🪐📚💙 📚👀
I GOT MY COPY AND I HAVE TERRIBLE LIGHTING FOR PICS SO THAT WILL HAVE TO WAIT BUT I HAVE TO SCREAM IN EXCITEMENT ABOUT IT AAAAAAHHHH IT'S SO GORGEOUS
We are thrilled to reveal that the next title featured on our Sci-Fi Sub is...
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The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez! 🐦⬛
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The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez! 🐦⬛
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I GOT MY COPY AND I HAVE TERRIBLE LIGHTING FOR PICS SO THAT WILL HAVE TO WAIT BUT I HAVE TO SCREAM IN EXCITEMENT ABOUT IT AAAAAAHHHH IT'S SO GORGEOUS
I LOVE THIS BOOK THIS IS SO EXCITINGGGGG
We our delighted to unveil our TBB Press Edition of Sistah Samurai by Tatiana Obey 🌸
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I LOVE THIS BOOK THIS IS SO EXCITINGGGGG
I'm preparing my 2026 most anticipated releases video and next year is gonna be pretty promising! 2025 was a bit meh other than a few exciting big releases.
December 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I'm preparing my 2026 most anticipated releases video and next year is gonna be pretty promising! 2025 was a bit meh other than a few exciting big releases.
Honestly kind of excited about this one
There is nothing on our minds but Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham! Follow Temmi, a trash collector stuck in a dead-end job, as she finds herself competing in an intergalactic dating show starring the brother and sister heirs to the galactic empire.
Preorder Love Galaxy!
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Preorder Love Galaxy!
buff.ly/tWmi2S6
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Honestly kind of excited about this one
Finally a Tingler that is literally me
please enjoy brand new tingler BISEXUALLY POUNDED TO CONTRASTING DEGREES BY THE LEFT AND RIGHT LENSES OF MY GLASSES BECAUSE MY PRESCRIPTION IS DIFFERENT IN EACH EYE out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1SDWK9V/ or true buckaroo tier patreon www.patreon.com/posts/bisexu...
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Finally a Tingler that is literally me
Just finished up We Will Rise Again, an ambitious, hopeful project about resistance in all its forms. Grab this on December 5th!
@older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social 💙📚🪐
Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
@older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social 💙📚🪐
Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Chantaal's review of We Will Rise Again
5/5: We Will Rise Again is such a fantastic, ambitious, hopeful, thoughtful project, and the care with which the editors have taken to really lay out their thesis is evident. Part of me is a bit biase...
www.goodreads.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Just finished up We Will Rise Again, an ambitious, hopeful project about resistance in all its forms. Grab this on December 5th!
@older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social 💙📚🪐
Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
@older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social 💙📚🪐
Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I still have tons of them saved in albums on my Livejournal account 👵🏾
I'm so old I remember when memes were called image macros
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I still have tons of them saved in albums on my Livejournal account 👵🏾
OMGGGGG IF YOU HAVEN’T READ HENCH, GET ON THAT NOW!!
I must re-read immediately in preparation for this!!
I must re-read immediately in preparation for this!!
Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
OMGGGGG IF YOU HAVEN’T READ HENCH, GET ON THAT NOW!!
I must re-read immediately in preparation for this!!
I must re-read immediately in preparation for this!!
I re-made my @pagebound.bsky.social account and now that I'm taking more time to interact, I'm LOVING how easy it is to chat and discuss books.
My account: pagebound.co/users/chanta...
My account: pagebound.co/users/chanta...
Pagebound | Welcome home, reader 📚
Pagebound is your community to chat books, make friends, and discover new reads ✨
pagebound.co
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I re-made my @pagebound.bsky.social account and now that I'm taking more time to interact, I'm LOVING how easy it is to chat and discuss books.
My account: pagebound.co/users/chanta...
My account: pagebound.co/users/chanta...
It's been a while since i picked up a book and devoured it in one sitting...Extremity by Nicholas Binge is a fun sci-fi mystery romp that I enjoyed last night. 👀📚💙 📚🪐 #booksky #bookreview #scifi #sff
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Chantaal's review of Extremity
4/5: Look. I picked this up at Barnes & Noble last night when I saw it out on the shelves early. I usually try to sit with a few books, read a chapter or two to see what I like, then buy it. I was HOO...
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October 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's been a while since i picked up a book and devoured it in one sitting...Extremity by Nicholas Binge is a fun sci-fi mystery romp that I enjoyed last night. 👀📚💙 📚🪐 #booksky #bookreview #scifi #sff
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
SCREAMINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
We are thrilled to reveal that the next title featured on our Sci-Fi Sub is...
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez! 🐦⬛
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez! 🐦⬛
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
SCREAMINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG