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Tracy Winchell
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📚 Unhustled reader: Reading for enjoyment is personal growth | ❤️ Kindle > Paper | 🐗 From the land of Woo Pig | 🧠 ADHD-fueled curiosity | 📖 Book notes and rants, incoming!

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Creating a thumbnail for Friday's Unhustled newsletter.
Pretty good illustration of a guy working with AI bot to select a "stretch" read.

Me: Let's make a female version of the human.
ChatGPT:
April 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Started with a free Kindle version. Nearly quit.

Switched translations. Brought in ChatGPT.

Finished Monte Cristo 1,200 pages later with a lot of feelings and some light trauma.

New Unhustled is live. #BookSky

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April 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Would you ever read a 1,200-page book with ChatGPT?

🟦 I already do
🟩 I would now
🟨 Only if it helps me survive Russian lit
🟥 Nope, still scared
April 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you’ve ever wanted to finish a classic, rage-quit halfway, or yell “OH NO HE DIDN’T” at a 1,200-page French revenge saga…
I made this for you.

Reading with AI — out soon. 👇

#BookSky
April 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Me: “I’ll read a classic.”

Monte Cristo: 1,200 pages, 80 characters, 4 fake deaths, and a revenge plot with a spreadsheet.

Also me: “Hey ChatGPT, who the hell is Benedetto again?”

#BookSky
April 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
You get to send one book villain to therapy instead of jail.

Who’s getting a second chance—and why?

(Monte Cristo not eligible, he’d just manipulate the therapist.)

#BookSky
April 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reading advice that starts with “Here’s the best way to…”
Instant nope.
There’s no “right” way to read. Just your way.
April 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Tracy Winchell
It's National Library Week in the US! Visit your local library and read a banned book!

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#booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀
National Library Week
National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and library profressionals play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.
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April 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reading The Count of Monte Cristo made me realize:

Danglars is the guy who’d hoard canned goods in a zombie apocalypse… and still try to sell them. #BookSky
April 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The book villain I’d most like to slap? Oh, we’re making a list. #Booksky
April 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What’s a book you were hyped to read… only to go, “This? This is it?” #BookSky
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Fish That Ate the Whale is basically Succession, but with bananas. Samuel Zemurray did not play. #BookSky
March 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Count of Monte Cristo.
March Madness heartbreak.
Stories that don’t end cleanly.

This week’s Unhustled is about what we gain from the endings that hurt.
#BookSky #MarchMadness
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What Cinderella stories don't tell you...
What we can learn from endings that leave us aching—and why we keep reading anyway.
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March 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Count of Monte Cristo update: I knew vengeance was coming, but I wasn’t ready. Edmond is out here serving 5-star revenge meals, and I’m eating them up. #BookSky
March 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Your last five-star read vs. your last DNF. Let’s hear it. #booksky
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My Razorbacks are still dancing in #MarchMadness
If we beat Texas Tech tonight, it’s Elite 8 time.

Reading? Barely. Between March Madness and knowing The Count of Monte Cristo is gonna wreck me…I’m dragging my feet with 90 mins left.

Ever delay a book because the ending scares you?
#BookSky
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Happy Opening Day!
two men are sitting at a table in front of a microphone talking .
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a microphone talking .
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March 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Do you have a reading nemesis? A book you keep trying and failing to finish? #booksky
March 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Engagement Game
🔹 Three Truths and a Lie – Book Edition:
📚 I’ve stayed up all night reading
✨ I’ve met my favorite author
📖 I always finish book club picks
📘 I’ve read War and Peace cover to cover.

Your guess? 👇
March 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Count of Monte Cristo is devastating. Gritted my teeth through the first half. Now can’t put it down. Thankfully, ChatGPT provides some levity. 😆
March 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Cross-Era Match-Ups:
Drop Poirot into a modern murder mystery. Does he solve it… or subtweet suspects until one confesses?
March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Cross-Era Match-Ups:
Drop Poirot into a modern murder mystery. Does he solve it… or subtweet suspects until one confesses? #booksky
March 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Caption this from
Trevon Brazile:

What did these NCAA people put in my cup? 😆

1. Razorback pre-game presser ahead of St. Joe’s?

2. Y’all keep asking us about Calipari and Pitino. We weren’t even born yet. Stop it!

#MarchMadness
March 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Reposted by Tracy Winchell
John Calipari gets his first NCAA Tournament win with Arkansas.
March 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How bout these Hogs! #WPS #MarchMadness
March 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM