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Happily married knitting obsessed dog owner. Lepidopterophobic kamilaphile. Book hoarder. Milky tea drinker. Cheesy AF and proud of it. Takes a good 5 minutes to solve a 3x3 rubiks cube.

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2025 - Book 86

T.C. Parker
Hummingbird

app.thestorygraph.com/books/4f0f1a...

3.5 ⭐

It's a bloody mess

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Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 3.5 ⭐ I get the point it's trying to make, but it's all a little excitable 6-year-old breathlessly recounting a terrible horror movie. "And then murder, and then werewolvrs, and then the DEVIL!" There's a lot of gore and very little character. Everybody seems flat and going through the motions. Nobody's motives are really believable and everything just sort of happens. Because plot. I like the premise. The execution (pun intended) not so much
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Beaudille - Patch 176

They almost look like adorable little Christmas trees 🎄

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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2025 - Book 85

Barbara Truelove
Of Monsters and Mainframes

app.thestorygraph.com/books/53b589...

5 ⭐

Murderbot but make it campy horror

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Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ Immediately on the favorites list. What. A. Ride. I want a sequel, but I don't want a sequel. The story is perfect as it is, but I could live in this world forever. No notes, just gush. A bajillion out of ten, do heavily recommend.
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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2025 - Book 84

C.J. Powell
I Eat Mushrooms For Breakfast

app.thestorygraph.com/books/196ba5...

4 ⭐

Unexpectedly funny and unabashedly gross, that's how I like my SciFi

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Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 4 ⭐ Honestly very wholesome for a pretty teenage-boy-coded level of humor. I laughed, I cringed, I had a time. There are insane twist, the heavy moral is even more heavily telegraphed and near the end it gets marginally preachy, but what a ride! The definition of a ROMP.. Not even that sophomoric, ramming-the-message-home, fully plot-redundant last chapter can dampen the mood. Read it and have a blast.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This book review was too sexually violent for tiktok, apparently 👀 Read at your own risk
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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2025 - DNF 9

Simon Jimenez
The Spear Cuts Through Water

app.thestorygraph.com/books/423e81...

Paused it back in September and couldn't find it in me to pick it back up.

DNF at 15 % - 80 pages

What's the literary equivalent of overacting?

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #DNF
Screenshot of my reason to DNF the book on The Storygraph, which reads: Did not finish: 15% Second. Person. Perspective. Absolutely not. NK Jemisin managed it (barely), but this is no Broken Earth Trilogy. It's also desperate to be profound. Everything is sweeping, steeped in lore and tradition, positively dripping with drama. I got so bored.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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2025 - Book 83

Rebecca Ross
A Fire Endless
Elements of Cadence 2

app.thestorygraph.com/books/feb552...

4 ⭐

If you skip the squelchy bits, the romantasy aspect is very bearable.

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 4 ⭐ Cute. Adorable. A perfect fairytale, complete with A Big Message and clear goodies and baddies. Very cozy, very sweet. Maybe a little predictable here and there, but with an intricate story, a well constructed magical system and a whole lot of heart. I enjoyed myself immensely.
November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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2025 - Book 82

Terry Pratchett
The Truth
Discworld 25

app.thestorygraph.com/books/604baf...

5 ⭐

It shall make ye fret

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The last page of the book, featuring Terry Pratchett's bio, which ends with the sentence "He died in March 2015" To which I've added: I'm never prepared for this bio. I miss the old ones, where he still lives 😭 GNU Sir Terry Pratchett Screenshot 1 of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ One of my top 5 favorite Discworld books and the reason PTerry got mildly annoyed at me. That's not the review. The review is "it's great, go read it". Back to the anecdote. A plot point in this book is that the Patrician's dog Wuffles bites somebody, leaving recognizable tooth marks. But way back in Sourcery, Wuffles is explicitly described as having no teeth. Screenshot 2 of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: My pedantic ass decided to point this out to the great man at a book signing. To which I got an over-the-glasses look, a sigh, and an "Ah, one of the alt.pratchett people." The answer to the apparent paradox was simply "different trousers of time". God, I miss him. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Beaudille - Patch 175

Sometimes there is very little to say about a patch. Knits and purls make pattern. That's it.

But I do like the result.

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

#knitting #slowcraft #madebyme #portugueseknitting #knitsky
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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2025 - Book 81

M.L. Wang
Blood Over Bright Haven

app.thestorygraph.com/books/f112bc...

5 ⭐

Now *that's* how you do on-the-nose oppression olympics, goshdarnit!

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ Doesn't fall into wishful hopecore, doesn't sugarcoat (much), doesn't flip to grimdark despair either. The magic system is new, with actual consequences for fantastical feats. And the people are messy and real. Hard to call it "fun", as such, but definitely an enjoyable read.
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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2025 - Book 80

Rivers Solomon
An Unkindness of Ghosts

app.thestorygraph.com/books/c4dd9b...

2.5 ⭐

Meh

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 2.5 ⭐ I see the vision, I get it and I had high hopes for the premise. But the execution is mediocre and very "look at me being raw and real". The plot is flimsy at best and mostly supported by a disappointing attempt at exploration of gender and sexuality. It felt clunkily tacked on, very expositional and almost voyeuristic. "Look at these people! This is who they want to have sex with! Their gender will surprise you!" Not to mention the exhausting amount of constant cruelty and over the top sexual violence. And then it just ends.
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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2025 - Book 79

C.K. McDonnell
Ring the Bells
Stranger Times 5

app.thestorygraph.com/books/0d0f5d...

5 ⭐

New seasonal reread unlocked 🎄🎅

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ Simultaneously phenomenal and unhinged and endearing. And also hateful, but only in the fact that Clint exists and is thrust upon an innocent reader. I'm clinging to the delusional hope that a certain character is actually Mrs Tachyon, as a wildly obscure Pratchett tribute/reference. That is my Christmas wish, please let me have this. This could have easily been a one afternoon breathless read, but I paced myself to be able to savor it for longer. I hate that it's over. It's going straight to the top of t he reread pile.
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Beaudille - Patch 174

This pattern alternating yo-k2tog and yo-ssk per trellis row, only for it to make no visible difference in the end product 😭 could've just done k2togs all the way

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

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October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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2025 - Book 78

Rebecca Roanhorse
Mirrored Heavens
Between Earth and Sky 3

app.thestorygraph.com/books/c31009...

2.5 ⭐

Sweeping epic fantasy is tortuously epic and violently sweeping

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 2.5 ⭐ There is just too much going on. I don't know how she'd kept it all contained and manageable in the first two books, but this is all over the place. Where was the editor in all of this? There are too many characters, too many alliances, too many time jumps and far, far too many cruelties. The casual atrocities against children, the gore, the body horror, it's all a bit much. This was a hate-read, but I finished it, because I adored book 1 and 2. I'll never pick up this trilogy again.
October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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2025 - Book 77

Ben Aaronovitch
Stone & Sky
Rivers of London 10

app.thestorygraph.com/books/49ad49...

3.5 ⭐

Have we jumped the selkie yet?

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 3.5 ⭐ If he wanted to crack that lucrative YA romantasy market, he should've written a separate Abigail novel, so I could've skipped it. But even ignoring Abigail's weird fox/mermaid love triangle, there are too many superfluous characters. Mom, dad and the whole jazz band tag along, only because he needs Zach in the last chapter; the twins do some obvious but never resolved foreshadowing; Nightingale is mostly (unsuccessful) comic relief; nobody adds anything to the plot and the new characters barely have room to breathe. This could have been at least 3 separate novels. Only one of which would have needed Abigail. At most.
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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2025 - Book 76

T. Kingfisher
Hemlock & Silver

app.thestorygraph.com/books/fe00d1...

5 ⭐

Mirrors freak me out anyway. This didn't help

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ I'm not au fait enough with Snow White lore to know how close this is to the original story (if told from a different angle), but to me, if she hadn't called the kid Snow, I don't think I would have clocked it. Either way, it had me giggling and a little creeped out the whole way through. Solid Kingfisher.
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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2025 - Book 75

Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Expert System's Champion
Expert Systems 2

app.thestorygraph.com/books/02d39d...

5 ⭐

This is the slimiest, most horrific loveletter to humanity I have ever read.

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph
A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ I say this with all the respect, admiration and awe in the world: Adrian Tchaikovsky is deranged. Full hingeless behavior. Genius levels of complete cuckooness. This is beautiful, the way a cluster of mushrooms growing out of decaying roadkill could be beautiful. For a given definition of beauty.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Beaudille - new yarn cake update

It's ✨WIP Wednesday✨ and I just started yarn cake 5 💪

Only 97 more patches to go. By this schedule, that'll be December 2027 😅

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

#knitting #slowcraft #update #madebyme #portugueseknitting #knitsky
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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2025 - Book 74

Grady Hendrix
Horrorstör

app.thestorygraph.com/books/63601a...

5 ⭐

Cancel that trip to IKEA, babe, I'll knit the couch covers myself

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph
A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ Okay, so maybe if you're a big ol' tough cookie who watches Poltergeist to fall asleep to, then maybe to you this isn't scary. Me, I'm made of marshmallows and rainbows and the Care Bear movie gave me nightmares for weeks. This was creepy. I was holding the book at arms length the whole time. Nope nope nope. Loved it, never reading it again. 5 stars.
September 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I visited Hay-on-Wye to celebrate my 1000 day streak of reading at least 1 page every day 📚

The streak counter is by far my favorite @thestorygraph.com feature 🤓

#booksky #HayonWye #TheStorygraph
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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2025 - Book 73

Robert Jackson Bennett
Foundryside
The Founders Trilogy 1

app.thestorygraph.com/books/88e269...

4.5 ⭐

Programming, but make it magic archeology

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A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 4.5 ⭐ Robert Jackson Bennett got into an argument with his Alexa and decided to mock her through anti-capitalist anti-establishment YA heist fantasy. And it works. Do I care that it's maybe a little clunky or a little overly explanatory here and there? Absolutely not, because the world building is fantasric and the magic system is ridiculous and very well crafted. The characters are believable, the story is twisty, the tech is incredibly stupid; it's perfect.
September 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Beaudille - Patch 173

If you hate knitting seed stitch as much as I do, give Portuguese knitting a shot.

Marginally easier, and now you've learned a new way to hate seed stitch 🤷

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

#knitting #madebyme #portugueseknitting #knitsky
September 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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2025 - Book 72

Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Expert System's Brother
Expert Systems 1

app.thestorygraph.com/books/42167f...

5 ⭐

Post-apocalyptic hopepunk, my beloved 💖

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph
A screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 ⭐ Fan-bloody-tastic. The only gripe I have, is that it's too short. I know Tchaikovsky is perfectly capable of churning out thicc tomes and I could've done with the Children of Time treatment on this. Similar vibes to M.R. Carey's Rampart Trilogy (so good), but with added Tchaikovskian Monstrosities (tm). Why is this man so obsessed excessively-legged critters?
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Beaudille - Patch 172

I love deceptively simple lace like this.

(I'm a big girl creator now; tiktok restricted this video for promoting a brand, product or service 🙃)

More info and previous patches: beaudille.tumblr.com

#knitting #madebyme #portugueseknitting #knitsky
September 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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2025 - DNF 8

James Islington
An Echo of Things to Come
The Licanius Trilogy 2

app.thestorygraph.com/books/52f62c...

DNF - 9% - 66 pages

My kingdom for an email and a 90 slide PowerPoint

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A screenshot of my reason to DNF the book on The Storygraph, which reads: Did not finish - 9% I usually DNF when reading becomes a chore. This felt more like going to the office. 66 pages in and so far it's basically been the overly detailed minutes of a series of unconnected meetings, full of people smiling wryly, or keeping their faces smooth while internally seething. I think Islington was bitten by a radioactive memo in his previous career.
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM