Alexandra likes books
@aocwrites.bsky.social
I try to be attentive to my own writing, but mostly I'm attentive to other ppl's. Indie book editor, language nerd, outdoors enthusiast, novice potter.
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Hello, world! 👋🏼 New here, having fled the wreckage of another site. Interests include, in no particular order:
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
Taking myself to the museum for an art fix was the best decision I made all week. Saw an incredible exhibition of Andrea Carlson’s work. The detail, wow!
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Taking myself to the museum for an art fix was the best decision I made all week. Saw an incredible exhibition of Andrea Carlson’s work. The detail, wow!
I vote yes.
I've been obsessed with the fanciful idea of catstronauts for so long. Cats in Space. In cat space suits. Loafing on the moon. And so on.
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I vote yes.
Current #amreading is If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black. I wasn't enamored of the story that starts the collection, but the rest have been wonderful reads. The titular story is incredible. Oof, that hits. 💙📚
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Current #amreading is If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black. I wasn't enamored of the story that starts the collection, but the rest have been wonderful reads. The titular story is incredible. Oof, that hits. 💙📚
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Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
But it's the future!
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
But it's the future!
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Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
— ★°•| November 7 |•°★ —
Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
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Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
[Tags: #booksky 💙📚 #BookishQOTD 📖🦋]
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
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After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
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My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
“If a comedic work is successful, you probably can’t see the effort. If it’s very successful, it will seem almost off-the-cuff, like it was created that moment. This is why a lot of ponderous books end up over-praised." - @somers.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
countercraft.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
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The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
It seems my editorial brain is not improved by lunch. Instead of #amediting, my body is requesting a nap.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It seems my editorial brain is not improved by lunch. Instead of #amediting, my body is requesting a nap.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
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Crunchy bats forever! 😂😂
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Crunchy bats forever! 😂😂
I'm late to the discourse on this book, but Madeline Miller's Circe has been slow going for me. I was about to put it down when finally something started happening. And now, it seems like I'm heading into a scene of sexual assault. It's too much for me atm. #booksky #amreading
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm late to the discourse on this book, but Madeline Miller's Circe has been slow going for me. I was about to put it down when finally something started happening. And now, it seems like I'm heading into a scene of sexual assault. It's too much for me atm. #booksky #amreading
Timeline cleanse!
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Timeline cleanse!
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I basically feel like if you watch War Games and Heathers, you’ve hit most of the Eighties.
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I basically feel like if you watch War Games and Heathers, you’ve hit most of the Eighties.
Rolling into the weekend with gratitude & thanks for everyone who cancelled a meeting this week 😂
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Rolling into the weekend with gratitude & thanks for everyone who cancelled a meeting this week 😂
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My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
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Timeline cleanse!
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Timeline cleanse!
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
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I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?