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I’ve been waiting for this beauty for a while!!

It’s finally arrived! #bookmail

The Life Of Violet by Virginia Woolf

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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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October through books : what a wonderful chaotic month!! Quite moody too 😂 Recognised any of these?

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📚🌎 #diversebooks
#latinbooksky
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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wanderolah.bsky.social
🍁November Reading Update🍄‍🟫

🎧▶️Hazelthorn
🎧⏭️The Everlasting
📳▶️By Silk Tones
📖▶️Rag and Bone

💙📚 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧
#booksky #readersky #queerbooksky #diversebooksky #currentread
Hazelthorn The Everlasting
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.

The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.

That’s a win for basic law.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 19d
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Human, animal by Seth Insua
#currentlyreading #audiobook
Hybrid reading

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October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Completely floored
Blood Over Bright Haven M L Wang

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October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚
The cover of "Gender Queer: Annotated Edition" by Maia Kobabe. A digital drawing shows Maia (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair) seating in profile on a hillside covered in California native wildflowers overlooking the Sonoma County coastline. Golden hills covered in oak trees recede into the distance around a grey pebble beach and a richly blue ocean under a blue sky
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It's been a sapphic vampires kind of month. 💙📚🩸📚🌈📚🤎
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab. Dark blue roses on a black background. Lucy Undying by Kiersten White. A pale woman in a puffy crimson dress twists to face the viewer. Blood is smeared on her neck, and in the waves of her loose blonde hair, you can make out the impression of snarling wolves. A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger. A pale woman averts her gaze from the viewer. She wears a black dress and lots of heavy jewellery. Her red hair is piled into a bouffant updo, contrasting the green foliage in the background. A drop of blood spills over her lip. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn. A portrait of a woman holding a hen, cut off above her nose. A tabled piled with rich foods and fruits surrounds her.
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Truly loving these Chuck Wendig novels:

The Wanderers: an apocalyptic epic that’s as timely as it is terrifying.

The Book of Accidents: chilling, twisty haunted house tale with a beating heart

💙📚 #booksky
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October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Finished reading Palaver by Brian Washington and feeling nostalgic

I loved it. It’s a subtle, powerful, complex, feel-good novel about healing past wounds and the joys of new found family.

💙📚 #booksky
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October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Have y’all read “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler? I’m (finally) reading it right now for the first time, and I HIGHLY recommend it - especially for this time, right now 👀🔥

(Published in 1993 but set NOW 😳)

(It’s now available as a graphic novel, too) #scifi #classicnovel #BookSky #reading
White book cover with stylized image of a Black woman in a flame-colored long sleeve dress and head wrap: "Brilliant, endlessly rich... pairs well with 1984 or The Handmoid's Tale." -JOHN GREEN, New York Times Parable of the Sower With a new foreword from award-winning author N. K. JEMISIN NEW YORK TIMES OCTAVIA E BUTLER Graphic novel cover in reds and oranges with drawing of a Black girl with dreadlocks and flames: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S PARABLE OF THE SOWER From the award-winning, #I New York Times bestselling team of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Catalina by Karla C Villavicencio deserves more hype!

An undocumented student discovers her grandfather ignored immigration letters, putting their futures at risk.

A bold campus debut: ambition, belonging & the immigrant experience.

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#latinbooksky
October 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I own the first listed banned book An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz. And plan on adding other banned books to my personal library such as Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Peña.

You can ban the books. But you can’t erase our legacies nor our spirits.

#LHM2025
penamerica.bsky.social PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · Oct 12
One of the best ways to mark #HispanicHeritageMonth is with a book exploring the rich cultural heritage of Hispanic-Americans and their countries of origin.

But for countless school children across the country, those stories are out of reach: pen.org/books-that-e... #BannedBooksWeek #FreeTheBooks
Hispanic Heritage Hidden: Books That Explore Cultural Heritage Removed from School Shelves
For countless school children across the country, books that explore the rich cultural heritage of Hispanic-Americans are out of reach.
pen.org
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The "banned books" stairway at Newport Public Library❣
October 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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'Dr. Frank Monaghan, historian of the 1939-40 World’s Fair, confers a degree on Donald Duck, 1939.'
man giving a terrible duck a scroll. some guy dressed like a toy soldier looks on
May 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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One hundred percent!
motomatters.com David Emmett @motomatters.com · Oct 8
"If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies."

Absolutely a billion % this. "Mickey Mouse" - oh you mean the wee drawing that became a multi billion corporation and spawned a new industry?
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Oct 8
This is a good game.

I have an English degree and boosted a major publishing house’s share price, and saved a high street retail chain from closure.

If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies.
October 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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One hundred percent
laurenforry.bsky.social Lauren A. Forry @laurenforry.bsky.social · Jan 5
Book 1 - I was saving this one to the start the new year! Loved returning to Area X. If you’ve read the Southern Reach trilogy, then I think you’ll like this new addition. (I 100% did.) 💙📚
Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Love this series so much!! 💯
clacksee.bsky.social Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · Oct 11
Book 11 was Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (narrated by Nicola Coughlan).

Witches, sisterhood, trans affirmation new love, old love, acceptance, rejection, found family… This book has everything.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a9e2...

#booksky
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (narrated by Nicola Coughlan)
October 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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📚 The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely was a total hoot.

Unfiltered MC, divine body horror, cults, chaos. It’s Gideon the Ninth with fewer bones, more knives.

Drops Oct 21!

Thanks @sagapressbooks.bsky.social and NetGalley for the arc 😊🫶🏽

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October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Good morning!It's #bookshopday so the perfect excuse to take yourself to @gaystheword.bsky.social and nab yourself a #signed copy of MartIn Sherman's memoir ON THE BOARDWALK. #booklovers #happyplace
October 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A lovely surprise from Harper Collins and Vintage! I wasn’t planning to pick any of these up next, but of course I’m eyeing them up.

✨ Macabre by Kosoko Jackson
✨ The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
✨ Flesh by David Szalay

💙📚 #booksky
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October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Wild
pamacious.bsky.social Atlas Mugged (Wears an N95)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · Oct 10
"This week, libraries across the U.S. are observing Banned Books Week. In Hawai‘i, the national event has been rebranded ...

New guidelines issued by the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System ahead of the 41st annual event prohibit the use of the words 'censorship' and 'banned,' ...
Hawai‘i State Library Bans Displays For Banned Books Week
The state librarian says the new guidelines help people avoid any confusion that the library is banning books.
www.civilbeat.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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📚Reading is a fundamental right – connecting ideas across diverse communities and cultures and creating new possibilities. This week, LA County is celebrating the freedom to read during Banned Books Week! (1/2)
October 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM