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Alexandrea Bořèk
@alexwritesreviews.bsky.social
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

I’m a writer, reader, reviewer. I’m just trying to figure life out.

#endowarrior #lupuswarrior

Past Read: Wintering, Katherine May
Current Read: The Book of Eve, Carmen Boullosa
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Wordle Jan. 19, 2025

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This is the first time I haven’t gotten it since I first started playing years ago :( 💔

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January 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Hello bookish friends 👋🏻

Are there any lit fic(-ish) starter packs? All the love for sci fi/romantasy/mystery/horror/etc.

Just looking to expand my feed and encounter more things that fit my tastes 😊

#books #booksky #bookreviews
#authorsky #writer

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January 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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A Dickensian novel about my winter cold called 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴
January 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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# 7 of 2024 is:
Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti
Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social

This book hurt me while it healed me, and again, and again. Heti is powerful in her recounting of what it is to be human and more than. It feels like talking to a friend, a wise mentor, or both.
#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
Photo of the novel Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti “Are you sad to be living in the first draft—shoddily made, rushed, exuberant, malformed? No, you are proud to be strong enough to be living here now, one of God’s expendable soldiers in the first draft of the world. There is some pride in having been created to make a better world come. There is some pride inn being the ones who were made to be thrown out.” Page 151 quotation of Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti
January 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
streaks of rapid unscheduled disassembly in the sky
January 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Wordle 1/17/25

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How frustrating 😒

#wordle
January 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I’m half a month late, but lupus flare-ups “demand to be felt” (thanks @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)

I only managed 14 books in 24, but life is hard and I’m still proud of that. Top 7 list to follow.

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#2024wrap
#bookreview
#chronicillness
January 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18:
Averno, Louise Glück

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 31, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17:
Lord of the Flies, William Golding

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#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 27, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Fellow bookish people of blue sky—

There are few things I enjoy more than arranging and rearranging my books on their bookshelves, but I’m running out of ideas on how to switch things up;

How do you all like to orient your books in their respective spaces?

#books
#booksky 📚💙
#bookish
#bookshelves
December 15, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Reader, I googlied him
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Googly eyes have been added to the cover artwork
December 13, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Last winter was so warm, and unusual, and frightening

I almost forgot the squish of tires driving over compacted snow (the dirty, pebbled kind, in the path of least resistance)

The utter silence of snowfall. The way the snow eats up the sound. The apricity

#apricity
#winter
#midwest
#wisco
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16:
Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
#endowarrior
A picture of the book Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, published by Europa, seen next to a stuffed plushie ovary, which was gifted to me after I had to have one of mine unexpectedly removed because it became dead and enveloped by a large tumor due to endometriosis.
December 13, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15:
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

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#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 12, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14:
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 11, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13:
William Blake

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#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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booksthatburn.com
You may know about Project Gutenberg, which is an online repository of older, public domain works where copyright has expired.
Its offshoot, Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing, lets authors upload their own modern works while retaining all rights.

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December 9, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12:
Autumn, Ali Smith

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 9, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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We are open and ready to satisfy your curiosity! -Sally
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December 6, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Choose empathy. Read.
December 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11:
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 7, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10:
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard

#books 💙📚
#booksky 📚💙
#bookchallenge
December 6, 2024 at 2:40 AM