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Micheline
@thespicelessreader.bsky.social
Ace ♠️ | Millennial Mom | Genre Reader | YEG | 🍁
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Also @readingtocabbage.bsky.social‬
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/thespicelessreader
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Updated 2025/08/05

Source
🏛️ = Library
🕊️ = ARC
💸 = Purchased
🛋️ = Physical TBR
💝 = Gifted
🟢 = Spotify

Format
🎧 = Audiobook
🎥 = GraphicAudio
💥 = Comic/Graphic Novel
📖 = Physical
📱 = eBook

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#booksky #bookskychat
Got to indirectly quote Ada Palmer today re: the Alberta Separatists garbage
The issue is that this fringe minority is so loud and the idea of it so ridiculous that its getting all of the attention.
February 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
EDIT:
Its going to take all of my free will to NOT dive right back in, be it audio, GA, or print.

My kingdom for an edit button.
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Perhaps the Stars (Graphic Audio, Parts 1-3) by @adapalmer.bsky.social
🏛️🎥
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This entire series is perfection, and this, the finale, the shining jewel.
Its going to take all of my free will to dive right back in, be it audio, GA, or print.
💙📚💬 💙📚🪐

#bookreview #audiobooks #fullcast
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Almost lost my reading streak on @thestorygraph.com this weekend. Thankfully my daughter likes to read books while potty training, so I was able to sneak in a couple read throughs of her current favorite picture books.
💙📚
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Mass Mothering: A Novel by Sarah Bruni
🕊️🎧
⭐⭐⭐.75
Stark and beautiful, heartbreaking and infuriating.
I don't recommend the audio, found it made for a very confusing initial read.
💙📚💬
#bookreview #arcreader #audiobooks
app.thestorygraph.co...
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 AM
January Reading Wrap-up
A solid reading month with a heavy focus on clearing out some of those lingering ARCs.
💙📚💬
#readingwrapup #januarywrapup #storygraphstats #storygraph #reader #yegreader #comics #audiobooks #arcreader
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Everything Else
28% 🛋️📖Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
12% 💸🎧The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
26% 🛋️📱The Secret People, John Wyndham
02% 🏛️🎥Perhaps the Stars 3/3, Ada Palmer
💙📚💬
#books #audiobooks
February 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
ARC Edition
5% 🕊️🎧The Forest on the Edge of Time, Jasmin Kirkbride
15% 🕊️📱The Unravelling of Ou, Hollay Ghadery
💙📚💬
#books #audiobooks #arcreader
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
🕊️💥
⭐⭐⭐⭐.25
Timely & poignant. Doesn't shy away from the rippling impact that book bans have on both society and individual students.
app.thestorygraph.co...
💙📚💬
#booksky #arcreader #graphicnovel #bookreview
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Blankets, Craig Thompson
🛋️💥
⭐⭐⭐
Check your trigger warnings for this one.
Gorgeously rendered, deeply reflective, but viscerally upsetting as someone with childhood trauma.
That last part is on me.
💙📚💬
#booksky #graphicnovel #bookreview
February 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I was out sick Friday and Saturday, but come Monday be prepared for two ARC reviews and one TBR mini review.

#booksky
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 AM
They are a blast! I have to go then in pencil tho 😅. Not good enough to do in pen.
February 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The evening ended with us being allowed to select a couple of books from their giant collection written and illustrated by first nations peoples from all over Turtle Island. We were so excited to find new titles to add to our home library.
💙📚 💙📚💬
#books #indigenous
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
We were also luck enough to hear traditional oral storytelling from Dene and Cree elders from the community. Our daughter in particular loved hearing about how the weasel got his winter coat and why the bear sleeps all winter.
💙📚 💙📚💬
#books #localauthor #indigenous
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Celebrated Family Literacy Day yesterday at the Canadian Native Friendship Centre here in #yeg.
Tammy Rae Lamouche read from her upcoming picture book and gifted us with her Cree singalong colouring book. She even treated us to sing along of one of the songs.
💙📚 💙📚💬
#books #localauthor #indigenous
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
100% agree about it being under represented!
The author just built such an incredible and detailed world, I wish a little more of the focus could have been there? Not going to pretend I have any idea of how they could have done it, but thats what the rest of the series is for. 😅
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This does mean however that when I went searching for my puzzle books I found 3 seperate ones that were all half finished cause I hadn't flipped to the left side yet. 😅😅😅
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
lol also anyone else go through their puzzle books and only do the right hand pages first and then go back through and fill our the left hand side? 😅
I find it so much easier to roll up the puzzle book the one direction rather than going back and forth.
January 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Anyone else use word puzzles to keep their hands busy while listening to audiobooks? I can't manage a crossword, but a simple fill-in or wordsearch is the perfect level of complex that still lets me concentrate on the story.
💙📚🎧💙📚💬
#booksky #audiobooks #analog
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
🏛️🎧 | Reread
OG rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25
Updated rating: ⭐⭐⭐.25
Still a solid read, but it read more YA than I remembered. Also the FMC's rage, tho founded, was written in a way that overwhelmed the story and world.
💙📚💬💙📚🪐
#booksky #audiobook #bookreview #reread
January 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I am definitely resonating the most with the intense feminine rage this round of listening to Iron Widow. Its nice to have something a little softer, and bookish in the form for Bookshops & Bonedust.
January 26, 2026 at 8:48 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Everything Else
28% 🛋️📖Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
05% 💸🎧The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
22% 🛋️📱The Secret People, John Wyndham
52% 🏛️🎥Perhaps the Stars 2/3, Ada Palmer
42% 🛋️💥Blankets, Craig Thompson
💙📚💬
#booksky #audiobooks
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Rereads
82% 🏛️🎧Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
17% 💸🎧Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree
💙📚💬
#books #booksky #audiobooks #reread
January 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
ARC Edition
22% 🕊️🎧Mass Mothering: A Novel, Sarah Bruni
77% 🕊️💥Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel, AJ Dungo, Jarrett Dapier
15% 🕊️📱The Unravelling of Ou, Hollay Ghadery
💙📚💬
#books #booksky #audiobooks #arcreader
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Shout out to my girl Jaime for this amazing custom eReader cover. I adored the previous cover she had made me but when I upgraded my Kobo this year I was gutted when it didn't fit. When she posted fabric and new I had to order a replacement.
www.gingerandsage.ca...
💙📚
#ereader
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM