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Anna M
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Libraries, LibraryReads, cats, RPGs, sff, romance * she/her * Abolish ICE, trans rights are human rights
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leemandelo.bsky.social
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, @erewhonbooks.bsky.social has kicked off an ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!

Only $3.99 everywhere until Nov. 30th, so if you’ve been waiting to snag a copy—
Sales graphic for $3.99 ebook discount on Amplitudes
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
A worthwhile read
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I can't for the life of me remember the names of any of the Murderbot books
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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rubyopalmindy.bsky.social
THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power.

Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Flatlay yellow background (it's my coffee table) with white circular trivet and a copy of the book in the center. Book is dark blue with a darker blue hand with gold sparks flying from it. Title in gold.
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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oliviawaite.com
After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian is out today so nobody has any excuse for reading anything else.

This romance is like six coping mechanisms in a trench coat and not all of them are healthy, but everyone’s trying their best. I am desperate to hear other people react to it.
After Hours at Dooryard Books
The manager of secondhand bookstore takes in a mysterious drifter. And then his best friend and her newborn move in. Everyone spends a lot of time thinking about Walt Whitman and badly processing t…
catsebastian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
@surlyspice.bsky.social you'll be glad to know that our favorite is on here
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 2d
And if you're one of the twos of folks who then wondered, Well, what would your Top 25 all-time Hallmark holiday movies be? Well, here you go

A little off the cuff, so subject to some shifting, but feel like this pretty accurately reflects the ones that stuck with me

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November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
Fucked up seeing someone else live the life you deserve
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I can tell how I'm doing by how many times I fail to log in to things that I use all the time. It's not looking good today.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Next on the LibraryReads December 2025 Top 10 list is EVERY DAY I READ: 53 WAYS TO GET CLOSER TO BOOKS by Hwang Bo-reum. Our annotator recommends keeping your TBR list handy while reading! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Next on our December 2025 Top 10 is AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by Kamilah Cole! Our annotator deems this one a "dark academia delight"! @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
ALL OF US MURDERERS by @kjcharleswriter.bsky.social is available now from @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #gothic #historical #dartmoor #queer #family #inheritance #fortune #terror #BookSky
book cover for all of us murderers by kj charles with yellow and white mid century style lettering over an illustration of a shadowy manor house with glowing windows and two suit wearing figures exiting into the foreground
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
david.noll.org David Noll @david.noll.org · 3d
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!
Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
Speaking of reality show romances, @quicunquevult.bsky.social's *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* (releasing 12/9), is a delightful conclusion to the trilogy set in the world of Bake Expectations, a cozy cooking competition with a foul-mouthed producer who finally gets her happy ending! #romance #books
The cover of *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* by Alexis Hall, featuring an illustration of two white women standing back to back on top of a table with giant cupcakes around and behind them. The one on the left is wearing a red polka-dotted dress and writing in a notebook, while the one on the right is dressed in a suit jacket and holding a pile of binders. Two union jack flags are poking out of the top left and top right cupcakes.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
4 f/f romances feat. dating show contestants who fall in love:
Can I Steal You for a Second? - @jodimca.bsky.social
Here For the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen & @lydiaetc.bsky.social
Never Ever Getting Back Together - @sgonzalesauthor.bsky.social
Hot Summer - Elle Everhart #books #queer #readadv
The cover of the book "Can I Steal You for a Second?" by Jodi McAlister. The background is a bright pink with a suggested outline of a spotlight at the top and a camera on the left. A brown-skinned woman stands at the top left and a white-skinned woman stands at the bottom right. The cover of the book "Here for the Wrong Reasons" by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang. The background is a bright pink and the illustration features two white women holding hands with a white man visible between them in the distance, with his back turned. There are shadowed suggestions of lights and cameras in the spaces around the characters. The cover of "Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Sophie Gonzales. The art is an illustration of a grand staircase and balconies in blue and pink, with the back of a white man holding a rose at the bottom of the staircase, and two white women above him on either side of the staircase at the first landing. The cover of the book "Hot Summer" by Elle Everhart. This illustrated cover features a pair of white women floating on a large inflatable cushion in a pool dotted with rose petals. A brown-skinned couple are chatting in the background in the pool. The title is presented as if it were pink neon against a cut-out heart that shows a summery sky and open water. A person holding a boom mic comes in from the top left.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Not too early to think about what to read and vote for by December 1st! Thanks for the reminder and leading by example, @booklistsusan.bsky.social !
booklistsusan.bsky.social Susan Maguire @booklistsusan.bsky.social · 6d
I can't believe I'm thinking about it this early BUT here are some suggestsions for the January 2026 @libraryreads.bsky.social LibraryReads list! Votes are due Dec. 1!
Book cover for SUCH A PERFECT FAMILY by Nalini Singh; a large suburban house engulfed in red and orange flames with white letters across the center Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9816461 Book cover for THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by Samahtan Sotto Yambao; a figure in a yellow jacket hangs gleefully off a train headed toward the reader against a pastel blue and pink and white clouded background. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815757 Book cover for GRACELESS HEART by Isabel Ibañez; ornate red and gold and blue frame containing a woman with long brown hair and a blue and red and white dress, holidng a small glowing gem against a sepia-toned backdrop of Florence. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815198 Book cover for THE LAST LETTERS OF SALLY AND WALTER by Cammie McGovern; two small blue figures hold hands against a blue and orange and green Scrabble-checked background. Booklist Review: http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Last-Letters-of-Sally-and-Walter-McGovern-Cammie/pid=9816652
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I have a day off tomorrow before seven consecutive days of work, so naturally I have *checks calendar* five appointments.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
Tonight Little G asked me if I wanted to watch an hourlong video about Judith Butler with them. I couldn’t be happier!
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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dharmascholar.bsky.social
Capitalism doesn't seek to fill needs other than greed of CEOs & shareholders. They build it first then try to convince you (or force you) to need it.
GenAI was not a need. It's still not needed. It will never be needed.
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
yesterday @helgagrace.bsky.social and i made a whirlwind trip to #nyc for the tri-state #BookBuzz where we saw many dear ones, learned about spring 2026 releases and scored some excellent advance reader copies @libraryreads.bsky.social thanks friends!
stack of 15 books from the spine side: every day I read by hwang bo-reum, jackson alone by jose ando, what boys learn by andromeda romano-lax, the jills by karen parkman, the glowing hours by leila siddiqui, the found object society by michelle maryk, good people by patmeena sabit, the star from calcutta by sujata massey, enemy of my enemy by alex segura, mothers and other strangers by corey and haydu, wifehouse by sonia walger, start at the end by emma grey, boring asian female by canwen xu, yesteryear by caro claire burke, and marion by leah rowan
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
one of my least favorite new publishing "truths" is that books only deserve consistent marketing & publicity if they are already doing well, it's the new "needs experience to get experience" 🤡
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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divyampersaud.com
5 hours left ⚠️ PLEASE share!

I don’t know how else to express the urgency for these six families’ lives. With no support anymore, how will eat in persisting famine, protect their kids from the deadly cold in tents—deliver a baby in two weeks ⁉️

389/1000 by tonight…
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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cathypegau.bsky.social
A MURDEROUS BUSINESS, read by the incredible Quinn Riley, is available thru Spotify!
But I'm going to #giveaway a couple of codes for copies too!
Tell me your favorite sound or song that brings you joy.
On Nov. 9, I'll pick 2 winners to receive codes to redeem.
👂🏻🎧📚
#Booksky #contest #audiobook
Cover of A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau with a faded background of the cover background. Text reads: A Murderous Business A Harriman and Mancini Mystery Read by Quinn Riley on Spotify
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I did not have the return of Kathryn Stockett on my Forthcoming Books Bingo Card #ReadersAdvisory #CollectionDevelopment #TriStateBuzz #Books
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM