Lauren 🏹📖🌿
@illustratedlauren.bsky.social
🌷 Librarian, reader, nuisance
📌 Oxford
🫧 Mostly weird, literary & translated fiction
💌 illustrated.librarian@outlook.com
🔗 illustratedlibrarian.carrd.co
📌 Oxford
🫧 Mostly weird, literary & translated fiction
💌 illustrated.librarian@outlook.com
🔗 illustratedlibrarian.carrd.co
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Hi #booksky 👋🏻 here are some good-to-know things about me:
- I'm a librarian based in Oxford
- I read most genres but love weird and lit fic especially
- I post about books, libraries and daily life
- for longer form book reviews, my bookstagram is www.instagram.com/illustrated.librarian
- I'm a librarian based in Oxford
- I read most genres but love weird and lit fic especially
- I post about books, libraries and daily life
- for longer form book reviews, my bookstagram is www.instagram.com/illustrated.librarian
I'm BOOKED UP on proofs at the mo & have this on preorder, but I'm spreading the word in case anyone else wants in. This sounds like a fantastic read!
psssst....
Any UK-based instagrammers/tiktokers out there in desperate need of (Don't) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski? We have a very limited amount of physical proofs left. If you're keen, give us a shout.
https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/request
Any UK-based instagrammers/tiktokers out there in desperate need of (Don't) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski? We have a very limited amount of physical proofs left. If you're keen, give us a shout.
https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/request
February 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm BOOKED UP on proofs at the mo & have this on preorder, but I'm spreading the word in case anyone else wants in. This sounds like a fantastic read!
Library holds on new releases are so fun, like lil preorders I don't have to pay for
February 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Library holds on new releases are so fun, like lil preorders I don't have to pay for
These stories dip into the lives of ordinary Nigerians and examine the mundane madnesses they try to keep at bay.
An eloquent and polished debut collection thrumming with life. It was full of tiny humane moments that haunted me days after finishing!
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Full review: tinyurl.com/4jmjer43 💙📚
An eloquent and polished debut collection thrumming with life. It was full of tiny humane moments that haunted me days after finishing!
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Full review: tinyurl.com/4jmjer43 💙📚
January 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
These stories dip into the lives of ordinary Nigerians and examine the mundane madnesses they try to keep at bay.
An eloquent and polished debut collection thrumming with life. It was full of tiny humane moments that haunted me days after finishing!
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Full review: tinyurl.com/4jmjer43 💙📚
An eloquent and polished debut collection thrumming with life. It was full of tiny humane moments that haunted me days after finishing!
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Full review: tinyurl.com/4jmjer43 💙📚
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I wish I knew who had done this, re the bunnies in the Southern Reach series, but it's brilliant.
January 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I wish I knew who had done this, re the bunnies in the Southern Reach series, but it's brilliant.
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I apologise to everyone who follows this account for investment advice and who lost money due to my recent post “invest all your money in hamburgers”. It turns out I was just hungry
January 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I apologise to everyone who follows this account for investment advice and who lost money due to my recent post “invest all your money in hamburgers”. It turns out I was just hungry
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there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
Huge day to be a weird girl
January 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Huge day to be a weird girl
What a unique, compelling gem! Bear Season asks which matters most — the stories we live, those we tell, or the ones we dream up for ourselves — and probes the boundaries around each until they fold in on themselves.
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
Full review: tinyurl.com/4xfe7eey
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social 📚💙
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
Full review: tinyurl.com/4xfe7eey
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social 📚💙
January 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What a unique, compelling gem! Bear Season asks which matters most — the stories we live, those we tell, or the ones we dream up for ourselves — and probes the boundaries around each until they fold in on themselves.
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
Full review: tinyurl.com/4xfe7eey
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social 📚💙
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
Full review: tinyurl.com/4xfe7eey
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social 📚💙
Can AI just go the way of NFTs already
January 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can AI just go the way of NFTs already
Do I email the student who has checked out every single Otessa Moshfegh book we have to see if they're okay????
January 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Do I email the student who has checked out every single Otessa Moshfegh book we have to see if they're okay????
Current read // current view 📚💙
January 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Current read // current view 📚💙
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Still recall a "futures" convention saying their payment to me for doing an event would be a half-hour lunch with Musk. I laughed so hard I was crying. When they asked what was so funny, I hung up.
January 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Still recall a "futures" convention saying their payment to me for doing an event would be a half-hour lunch with Musk. I laughed so hard I was crying. When they asked what was so funny, I hung up.
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Every tech guy wants to introduce something game-changing like the smart phone and all they got is "office meetings with a pair of giant goggles strapped to your head" or "chatbot that can't spell strawberry" and they're going to destroy society if we don't pretend these are necessary to our lives
January 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Every tech guy wants to introduce something game-changing like the smart phone and all they got is "office meetings with a pair of giant goggles strapped to your head" or "chatbot that can't spell strawberry" and they're going to destroy society if we don't pretend these are necessary to our lives
My love language is coming up with the right word or synonym when someone is struggling to find it
January 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My love language is coming up with the right word or synonym when someone is struggling to find it
💙📚 New to my shelves
Here's a peek at some new things I've added to (read: jammed onto) my shelves recently — a mixture of Christmas gifts and purchases with gifted book tokens!
Anything here from your tbr? What should I be prioritising?
Here's a peek at some new things I've added to (read: jammed onto) my shelves recently — a mixture of Christmas gifts and purchases with gifted book tokens!
Anything here from your tbr? What should I be prioritising?
January 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
💙📚 New to my shelves
Here's a peek at some new things I've added to (read: jammed onto) my shelves recently — a mixture of Christmas gifts and purchases with gifted book tokens!
Anything here from your tbr? What should I be prioritising?
Here's a peek at some new things I've added to (read: jammed onto) my shelves recently — a mixture of Christmas gifts and purchases with gifted book tokens!
Anything here from your tbr? What should I be prioritising?
I love checking my Blackwell's wishlist because very occasionally they have something for a wacky price and I must pounce
January 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I love checking my Blackwell's wishlist because very occasionally they have something for a wacky price and I must pounce
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We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
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I will NEVER be impressed by your money, car, looks, social status or job title. I'm impressed by the way you treat other people and myself.
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I will NEVER be impressed by your money, car, looks, social status or job title. I'm impressed by the way you treat other people and myself.
All this criticism of 'overconsumption' in the book community, at a time when I think owning your own media and not leasing access to it from a corporation is about to become very important, has me sideyeing
January 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
All this criticism of 'overconsumption' in the book community, at a time when I think owning your own media and not leasing access to it from a corporation is about to become very important, has me sideyeing
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Here are some nice mushrooms
January 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
Plural of horse should be heese, change my mind
January 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Plural of horse should be heese, change my mind
When & why did we decide to move away from the term 'self-published' and towards using 'indie author'? Because, unless I'm mistaken, that's what indie authors are doing: self-publishing. Is that seen as a negative term now? Or are the two groups seperated in a way I don't understand?
January 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
When & why did we decide to move away from the term 'self-published' and towards using 'indie author'? Because, unless I'm mistaken, that's what indie authors are doing: self-publishing. Is that seen as a negative term now? Or are the two groups seperated in a way I don't understand?
Not to be flippant about The Horrors but in the UK Trump means fart, and I can't stop computing it as that every time I read that stupid orange windbag's name
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Not to be flippant about The Horrors but in the UK Trump means fart, and I can't stop computing it as that every time I read that stupid orange windbag's name
The winter light filtering through these dried wildflowers is so beautiful to me ✨
January 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The winter light filtering through these dried wildflowers is so beautiful to me ✨