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emma 📖✨
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📚 library book reader (she/her)
🌈 lit fic | SFF | nonfiction | anything
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10 books to get to know me:
- The Fifth Season
- Dawn
- The Spear Cuts Through Water
- Song of Solomon
- Freshwater
- Jade Legacy
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- In the Dream House
- Blood Over Bright Haven
Reading update for Mon 2/9

✅ Sula (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ Kin (pub 2/24/26), 5⭐️
▶️ With Love From Harlem 🎧, 55%
▶️ The Grace of Kings, 2%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 2/2

✅ The Scammer 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Bluest Eye (reread), 4⭐️
❌ Burn Down The Master's House, DNF @ 27%
▶️ Sula (reread), 62%
▶️ Kin, 2%
⏭️ With Love From Harlem 🎧
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/26

✅ Ella Minnow Pea, 4⭐️
✅ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ To Ride a Rising Storm, 4⭐️
⏭️ The Scammer 🎧
⏭️ The Bluest Eye (reread)
⏭️ Kin or Ours, depending on library holds!
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
February 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Reading update for Mon 2/2

✅ The Scammer 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Bluest Eye (reread), 4⭐️
❌ Burn Down The Master's House, DNF @ 27%
▶️ Sula (reread), 62%
▶️ Kin, 2%
⏭️ With Love From Harlem 🎧
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/26

✅ Ella Minnow Pea, 4⭐️
✅ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ To Ride a Rising Storm, 4⭐️
⏭️ The Scammer 🎧
⏭️ The Bluest Eye (reread)
⏭️ Kin or Ours, depending on library holds!
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/19

✅ Jade City (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 31%
▶️ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 33%
▶️ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 3%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
February 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Reading update for Mon 1/26

✅ Ella Minnow Pea, 4⭐️
✅ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ To Ride a Rising Storm, 4⭐️
⏭️ The Scammer 🎧
⏭️ The Bluest Eye (reread)
⏭️ Kin or Ours, depending on library holds!
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/19

✅ Jade City (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 31%
▶️ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 33%
▶️ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 3%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/12

✅ Natural Beauty 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ Enshittification 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Jade City (reread), 10%
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 12%
▶️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 6%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% (due back at the library; will return to it later)

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Reading update for Mon 1/19

✅ Jade City (reread), 4.5⭐️
✅ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 31%
▶️ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 33%
▶️ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 3%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/12

✅ Natural Beauty 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ Enshittification 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Jade City (reread), 10%
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 12%
▶️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 6%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% (due back at the library; will return to it later)

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/5

✅ Exhalation, 5⭐️
✅ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Everlasting, 5⭐️
▶️ Natural Beauty 🎧, 71%
▶️ The Bee Sting, 3%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Reading update for Mon 1/12

✅ Natural Beauty 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ Enshittification 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Jade City (reread), 10%
▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 12%
▶️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 6%
⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% (due back at the library; will return to it later)

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 1/5

✅ Exhalation, 5⭐️
✅ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Everlasting, 5⭐️
▶️ Natural Beauty 🎧, 71%
▶️ The Bee Sting, 3%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/29

✅ I, Medusa 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Disorientation, 4⭐️
✅ Solidarity with Children, 4⭐️
✅ A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 37%
▶️ Exhalation, 66%
▶️ The Everlasting, 12%

1 book away from my reading goal!

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Reading update for Mon 1/5

✅ Exhalation, 5⭐️
✅ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 3⭐️
✅ The Everlasting, 5⭐️
▶️ Natural Beauty 🎧, 71%
▶️ The Bee Sting, 3%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/29

✅ I, Medusa 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Disorientation, 4⭐️
✅ Solidarity with Children, 4⭐️
✅ A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 37%
▶️ Exhalation, 66%
▶️ The Everlasting, 12%

1 book away from my reading goal!

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/22

✅ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Salt Grows Heavy 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 42%
▶️ I, Medusa 🎧, 81%
▶️ Disorientation, 55%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
January 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Reading update for Mon 12/29

✅ I, Medusa 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Disorientation, 4⭐️
✅ Solidarity with Children, 4⭐️
✅ A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 37%
▶️ Exhalation, 66%
▶️ The Everlasting, 12%

1 book away from my reading goal!

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/22

✅ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Salt Grows Heavy 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 42%
▶️ I, Medusa 🎧, 81%
▶️ Disorientation, 55%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/15

✅ Cry, Voidbringer, 3.5⭐️
✅ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 73%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 50%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reading update for Mon 12/22

✅ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 4⭐️
✅ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Salt Grows Heavy 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 42%
▶️ I, Medusa 🎧, 81%
▶️ Disorientation, 55%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/15

✅ Cry, Voidbringer, 3.5⭐️
✅ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 73%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 50%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/8

✅ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Cry, Voidbringer, 66%
▶️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 31%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 10%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by emma 📖✨
This is WILD.

Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!

We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Reading update for Mon 12/15

✅ Cry, Voidbringer, 3.5⭐️
✅ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 73%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 50%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/8

✅ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Cry, Voidbringer, 66%
▶️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 31%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 10%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/1

✅ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Bad Cree, 5⭐️
✅ even this page is white: poems, no rating
✅ Life on Mars: poems, NR
✅ Growing Papaya Trees, 3.5⭐️
✅ Gliff, 3.5⭐️
▶️ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 35%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reading update for Mon 12/8

✅ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Cry, Voidbringer, 66%
▶️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 31%
▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 10%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 12/1

✅ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Bad Cree, 5⭐️
✅ even this page is white: poems, no rating
✅ Life on Mars: poems, NR
✅ Growing Papaya Trees, 3.5⭐️
✅ Gliff, 3.5⭐️
▶️ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 35%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/24

✅ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4⭐️
✅ Manifest Destiny: Poems, no rating
✅ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, no rating (but loved it)
▶️ Gliff, 40%
▶️ Bad Cree, 54%
▶️ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 61%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Still breastfeeding a bit at almost 14mo but today I packed away all the electric pump supplies 😭🙌🏼 finallyyyyy
December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yuppp 12 mins. If it analyzes tone and facial expressions, it will tag me as monotone and defeated lol
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just had my first "job interview" with an AI bot. It was exactly as soul-sucking as you might imagine.
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reading update for Mon 12/1

✅ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Bad Cree, 5⭐️
✅ even this page is white: poems, no rating
✅ Life on Mars: poems, NR
✅ Growing Papaya Trees, 3.5⭐️
✅ Gliff, 3.5⭐️
▶️ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 35%
▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/24

✅ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4⭐️
✅ Manifest Destiny: Poems, no rating
✅ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, no rating (but loved it)
▶️ Gliff, 40%
▶️ Bad Cree, 54%
▶️ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 61%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/17

✅ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 61%
▶️ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, 10%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reading update for Mon 11/24

✅ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4⭐️
✅ Manifest Destiny: Poems, no rating
✅ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, no rating (but loved it)
▶️ Gliff, 40%
▶️ Bad Cree, 54%
▶️ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 61%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/17

✅ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 61%
▶️ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, 10%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/10

✅ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 53%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I passed my dissertation defense 🎉 (woo!)
Now I'm sinking hours into inane formatting workarounds because Microsoft Word was designed to destroy our sanity 🍅🍅🍅 (boooo)
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Reading update for Mon 11/17

✅ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 3.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 61%
▶️ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, 10%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/10

✅ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 53%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/3

✅ Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, 3⭐️
✅ Julie Chan Is Dead 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ Dominion, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 36%
▶️ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reading update for Mon 11/10

✅ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50%
▶️ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 53%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 11/3

✅ Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, 3⭐️
✅ Julie Chan Is Dead 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ Dominion, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 36%
▶️ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 10/27

✅ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietician’s Guide… 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 28%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reading update for Mon 11/3

✅ Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, 3⭐️
✅ Julie Chan Is Dead 🎧, 3.5⭐️
✅ Dominion, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 36%
▶️ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 50%
▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 10/27

✅ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietician’s Guide… 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 28%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 10/20

✅ The Volcano Daughters 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Orange Wine, 2.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 23%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 5%
▶️ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 86%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reading update for Mon 10/27

✅ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietician’s Guide… 🎧, 4.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 28%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 24%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 10/20

✅ The Volcano Daughters 🎧, 4.5⭐️
✅ Orange Wine, 2.5⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 23%
▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 5%
▶️ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 86%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
Reading update for Mon 10/13

✅ Solito 🎧, 4⭐️
▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 7%
▶️ Orange Wine, 85%
▶️ The Volcano Daughters 🎧, 62%

📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by emma 📖✨
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sameeee it’s so gross! The dc area is truly infested
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Every time I open the front door there are at least three right outside! I hate it!!
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I just killed a lantern fly INSIDE my apartment. They’ve gone too far. This is out of hand
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM