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amayna60.bsky.social
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@amayna60.bsky.social
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Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory.
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
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Liked the author’s debut The Truth According to Ember, so next up will be Love Is A War Song by Danica Nava. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Woman with long dark hair and a guitar and man in western wear holding a hat in a field of flowers.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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On my container ship-sized TBR and for a book challenge, I have Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. Displaced young people in Nigeria find love, then must part.
What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Orange sky framed by trees on the cover
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Close to finishing The Wolf and the Girl, a sapphic Red Riding Hood set in early 20thC Russia, by Aster Glenn Gray. Raisa has been punitively transformed to a wolf, and she and Masha try to avoid a seemingly inevitable showdown with the villain. What are you reading this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
dark haired young woman with a red cloak embraces a wolf that's sitting down (looks more a husky though) in the snow
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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My October roundup from StoryGraph! Mostly a mix of romance and mystery/thriller. Glad I got to the modern trans classic Nevada! The only dud was A Trap for Fools. 📚💙
Covers of Daughter of Mine, Megan Miranda; Read Me Slow, Charish Reid; The Darkest Evening, Ann Cleeves; A Dire Isle, RV Raman; The Finest Print, Erin Langston; Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh; A Trap for Fools, Amanda Cross; Nevada, Imogene Binnie; Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead; The Woman in the Library, Sulari Gentill; The Consorts, Melissa Addey; The Woman Who Lied, Claire Douglas
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Embiggening my TBR and little piles everywhere!
In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Not quite a blob cover, featuring a crowd of people without faces wearing colorful clothes.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Prepping for a doomsday that might be near— sounds like a day ending in Y! 😱Looking forward to starting The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley. What do you have for #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
X-ray effect of a backpack filled with rope, utility knife, bullets, water bottle, headphones against a black background. The items are in blue, purple, gold
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Scrap cardboard sign with a pink heart for love America, no kings, hate fascism
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Gritting my teeth for Ray Carney’s safety—how he ‘earned’ those Jackson 5 tix 😱—in Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto for library book discussion. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
Cd version, might listen to some to help finish in time! Black and white images in a stained glass window effect on yellow background, including skyline, part of a woman’s face, briefcase, matches
October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Today I have Generations, a memoir by Lucille Clifton, who was nominated for two poetry Pulitzers in one year! This edition features an introduction by Tracy K. Smith. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat?
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Cover image is Black and White, from 2002 by Thornton Dial. Sort of a rusted chain link effect.
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Here’s my September wrap-up from StoryGraph. What are your favorites from last month? 📚💙
Read 16 books. My top rated included Fare Play by Tove Jansson, Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi MacFarlane, and Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell. Almost all fiction and,op mostly in print. A mix of historical, books with LGBTQIA themes, literary, and romance
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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For this travel day #ThirsdayBookChat, how about the aptly titled Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi, translaged by Lin King. What are you reading or looking forward to? 📚💙
train compartment window with a blue and white bowl in the center. Surrounded by a portion of a black and white street scene sepia tones.Sticker noting National Book Award Winner.
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I’m so sorry, that sucks.

Here’s a contented Feni, Turnip’s mom
Brown tabby with green eyes looks up at the camera from a comfort blankie
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Really enjoyed Fair Play, Tove Jansson. “She began to anticipate a solitude of her own. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.“ #SapphicSeptember
*technically* #SpinsterSeptember 📚💙
Image of a paining by Jansson of the artist Tuukikki Pietla, her longtime companion. Bent over her artists table in a studio surrounded by art.
September 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Starting Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel for #ThursdayBookChat. Drawn from the author's family history, mid 1600's Weskarini (Algonquin) women are given voice.
#SapphicSeptember
Simplified image of the backs of two long-haired women facing toward the sun or moon.
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Similar to ghosts, I guess?
As long as they don’t sparkle 😉I really enjoy an authorial spin on lore
Ghost winking with a red heart
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Best wishes! Here’s one of my cats!
Feni, a brown tabby with green eyes peers up at the camera.
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It’s a #ThursdayBookChat book haul from Wonder Book in Hagerstown. Always detour for books! 🥳
All mysteries, some from the #GoldenAge. 📚💙
Display of The Whisper in the Gloom, Nicholas Blake; Trent’s Last Case, E.C. Bentley; political Suicide, Robert Barnard; Inside Information, Nicholas Bentley; Oblivion , Peter Abrahams,; The Fashion in Shrouds, Margery Allingham
September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My vacation stack, a pile of mystery, romance, translated lit. Last year, I forgot my stack at home 😱 This time, it will be packed early. What are you reading or looking forward to starting this #ThursdayBookChat? #BookSky 📚💙
Row of Madam by Phoebe Wynn, Tokyo These Days by TaiyoMatsumoto, The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen, The Starlet and the Spy by Ji-Min Lee, A Woman Entangled by Cecilia Grant
September 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Read The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, entrant for #SpinsterSeptember. Early on, schoolteacher and artist Nora says she’s single, “what they used to call a spinster, but don’t anymore, because it implies you‘re dried up, and none of us wants to be that.” 📚💙
Perhaps a photo of extreme closeup of the middle of a wave, certainly an abstract effect.
September 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It’s #ThursdayBookChat time again! Please share what you are reading or looking forward to starting. Here’s the graphic novel Fox Maidens by Robin Ha. In 16th c Korea, Kai Song learns she is descended from Gumiho, the legendary nine-tailed fox. #BookSky📚💙
Face of a young woman in a white robe, the moonlit night and a white fox in the background
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Zokorclooking at you snout forward, a roly poly grayish creature
September 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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My August reads from StoryGraph. These were outstanding in romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and all debuts! #BookSky📚💜
Read 11 books. Since some were duds, the average was 3.25 rating. My top reads were How to End a Love story, Yulin Kang; Fortune Favors the Dead, Stephen Spotswood; Saint X, Alexis Schaitkin. All reads ere fiction and a mix of print, digital, audio.
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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All right #SpinsterSeptember, let’s go! Ready to start Fair Play by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal. Mentioned on a podcast on which @pear-jelly.bsky.social appeared, a gold seal of approval 😁.
Also #SapphicSeptember 📚💙
Cover a painting by Jansson, Portrait of Tuulikki petit ti. Person working at an artist’s table, surrounded by art.
September 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Steaming through Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood this #ThursdayBookChat. Is young client Becca a femme fatale or could detective assistant Willowjean safely date her?🧐
What are you reading or looking forward to?
#BookSky📚💙
Young woman in shirt and trousers and shoulder holster eyes a blonde in a form fitting red dress across a nighttime city street with a large full moon in the background
August 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I see it’s time to share this recent find!
A canister of green tea labeled William Morris At Home with a green, peach and white floral pattern
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM