Sometimes I bake when I’m stressed. Today I made this caramelized banana cheesecake strudel and it helped to elevate my mood!

How do people read FOUR BOOKS by an author they seem to hate and then bash them constantly on the internet?! Just stop reading them, IT’S NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU! Not every piece of art is for everyone. I give an author two chances and move on if I’m not vibing. There are a lot of books on my TBR!

Foggy Sunday coffee and bookshop date with my ❤️

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I don’t read a lot of classics but Patricia Highsmith is an exception. She had a talent for getting inside a twisted mind. Everything I’ve read about her suggested she was an unpleasant person to be around, but she somehow gets me to root for this villain, Mr Tom Ripley.

Started my book for Belgium 🇧🇪 for the Global Reading Challenge. It’s a spy novel that takes place during the 1958 World Expo in Brussels. Not a typical read for me but I’m learning a lot already!
📖 Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe

Multiple colleagues of mine have had their public health research funding frozen. Pulling back biomedical research and dismantling systems that allow our country to collaborate with great minds (both within the US and across the world) is going to hurt population health in the long run.

My two doggos keeping each other warm! The blankets are fresh out of the dryer. ❤️🥰

Dear #Goodreads, please let me delete all of Neil Gaiman’s books from my lists. I am heartbroken and my heart breaks over & over again whenever I go to the site. Enough with the error messages about “unusual activity” on his books. It’s NOT unusual! I loved his books once, but I want them gone now!!

Started 2 buddy reads, snuggled with my pets, fell on some black ice, baked some pistachio dark chocolate chip cookies. Not a bad Sunday!

I read pretty diversely but noticed most of the BIPOC authors I read are either Black or Asian. I’d love to read more Latinx or Hispanic authors. Please send book recommendations if you have them #books #latinxauthors

I’ll add book atlas pages to this thread! Starting with Afghanistan, these are the countries I’ve finished so far in my #TravelThroughBooks project started on #booktok.
Afghanistan 🇦🇫 book: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

My top 10 books I read in 2024

I’m brand new here, looking for book friends after I had to say goodbye to booktok. 😭
I read ALOT! This list is my finished books so far in 2025 along with my ratings. I read a variety of genres. Do you have similar taste and if so, can we be friends? ☺️