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Briane
@bookishbatz.bsky.social
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Choatic Mood Reader, Gamer, Introvert, T-shirt Enthusiast, Rebel Scum, strange and unusual.
📚🦇🍉 Mostly Reads Horror, Fantasy, & Rom-Coms
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Right now I'm reading Emberclaw.
Hardcover copy of Emberclaw by L.R. Lam
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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No cheating your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
Black and white photo of Steve Carell in character as Michael Scott from the Office with the quote "You Miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott
April 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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My spoiler free review of Sunrise on the Reaping
#Booksky
Screenshot from goodreads of my review of Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Gave it five stars with the review saying "SUZANNE!!!!" in all caps followed by 3 crying emojis
March 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Happy Birthday, Haymitch! I woke up early to go to my local bookstore for their breakfast event for Sunrise on The Reaping! They even had mimosas! #Booksky
A hardcover copy of Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping sitting beside 2 temporary tattoos that matches the gold snake/mockingjay emblem on the book, a purple and gold pin that has the same emblem as the book, a postcard featuring the book's cover, a red white and green bookmark that says "Arts & Letters Bookstore, and a mini donut with white icing and caramel drizzle and a blueberry mini muffin sitting on top of a white paper napkin
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I just started reading Legendborn today! I bought Oathbound on my lunch break and ordered Bloodmarked online (I couldn't find a copy in stores near me). I will spending the next few days binging this series! #Bookthreads
Hardcover copy of Oathbound by Tracy Deonn.
March 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I know it's been 84 years since I started Dragonfall (I started it in July 😬), and I finally picked it back up yesterday, and I could hardly put it down! I have 100 pages left! Just in time for Emberclaw on tuesday!

#Booksky
Hardcover copy of Dragonfall by L.R. Lam.
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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My hold for The Empire Wars by Akana Phenix became available, and I told myself I wouldn't start any new books until I finished my current reads, but I'm making an exception for this one (I've been on the waitlist for months!) #Booksky
My hand holding a kindle colorsoft displaying the cover of The Empire Wars by Akana Phenix
February 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I got some book mail today! Thanks to 3 am me for ordering this on a whim!
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My hand holding a hardcover copy of A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson. Gold cover with a blue and gold dragon with its wings extended out with the title in large white font on the center
February 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
Galveston Island, Gulf of Mexico. Empty beach with murky water full of waves and a blue sky with white clouds in the forefront and dark storm clouds in the the distance
February 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I finished the audiobook of Jackal earlier today, and I loved it! It's definitely going to be ib the running for one of my top horror reads of the year! #Booksky
Audiobook cover of Jackal by Erin E. Adams. Red cover with a Black woman with short cropped hair with a starry sky and trees in her silhouette and Jackal is written in white across the front
February 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I'm finally catching up on some of my ARC reads. Tonight, I'm finishing up The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. #Booksky
Kindle Colorsoft sitting on a blue pillow tablet stand with the cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter displayed on the screen.
February 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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I think this audiobook is going to cure me of this little reading slump I've been in. Now to find something cozy to play while I listen!

🎧📚 Jackal by Erin E. Adams

#Booksky
Screenshot from libro.fm cover of the book Jackal by Erin E. Adams.
February 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Thanks @sagapressbooks.bsky.social for the gifted copy of Pinquickle's Folly by R.A Salvatore! #sagasayscrew #booksky
My hand holding a paperback copy of Pinquickle's Folly by R.A. Salvatore
February 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I'm finally well enough to read again. I had started the new Ali Hazelwood book today but ended up DNFing it, so now I'm starting North is the Night by Emily Rath #Booksky
My hand holding a hardcover copy of North is the Night by Emily Rath the title is in red and author name in white. Dark blue cover with blue and white artwork along the edges featuring a reindeer, polar bear, a dark haired girl, birds and various trees and snow.
February 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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When this old sim came into my house and ate a piece of cake and then died.
January 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I'm obsessed with the fox and with edition of Good Mourning, Darling by Azalea Crowley. If you're looking for a cozy horror romance. I highly recommend this and Azalea Crowley's Odd Blood series!

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My hand holding a fox and wit edition of the book Good Mourning, Darling by Azalea Crowley the cover is pink featuring and Woman and a man facing back to back and there's a shadowy figure coming out of the man reaching out to the woman. The top of the book also has a skull on each corner and a pink pink bow in the center of them Good Morning, Darling without the book jacket. Pink cover with holographic designs that look like various mausoleum monuments with the title of the book at the center.
January 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I don't think she's on here, but she's on IG as @visual.maiden i have a few of her pieces displayed on my book shelf. Like this one of a hare that she sketched on an old antique book page
A yellowed, stained, antique torn book page with a sketch of a hare standing next to a bell laying on its side, displayed in a glass frame on a black shelf full of books behind it.
January 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Anytime I sell a book on Pangobooks, I use my credits to buy more books! It's like getting free books! Here's my latest find: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
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My hand holding a paperback copy of the book Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. Dark blue cover with stars with a Koi fish swimming behind big white text of the title.
January 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I wish "my cat is asleep on me" was a valid excuse to call in to work.
Sleeping tabby cat with her paws stretched out on a black blanket covering my legs.
January 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Tonight, I'm diving back into The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. I started it last month but then got distracted by other books. Tonight I'm in the mood for some cozy fantasy so I thought it was a good time to pick this one up again!

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A sleeping tabby cat "Poe" asleep across my legs with a paperback copy of the book The Teller of Small Fortunes beside her.
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A still of Art the clown from terrifier 2 standing in a halloween store next to a sunglasses rack wearing giant sunflower sunglasses with a sinister smile on his face while standing straight with his arms to his side. He is wearing white face paint with his mouth painted black and has on a black and white clown suit.
January 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Me and my mom finally checked out the new bookstore in town, and of course, I left with a stack!

📚 For She is Wrath by Emily Varga

📚 Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Works

📚 Mary by Nat Cassidy

📚 Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez

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A stack of four books with their spines facing out, titles include; For She is Wrath by Emily Varga, Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Works, Mary by Nat Cassidy, Where The Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez on a black bookshelf full of books and several funko pop figures of star wars and Beetlejuice characters along the bottom shelf
January 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Today's game: Coral Island (PS5)

Today's audiobook: Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Game cover for Coral Island Book cover for Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
January 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My choatic mood reading always ruins my "average time to finish" stats 😂

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Screenshot shot of storygraph stats: Read 4 books, 1,266 pages, 2.02 hours. Average time to finish, 2 months below that is a piece chart labeled "moods"
January 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Here are mine! #Booksky
Back of kindle colorsoft, a clear case displaying 6 stickers. Starting from top left a small sticker of belle from the animated beauty & the beast sitting cross legged holding an open book that covers her face, to the right, a pink open book with black text that reads "I live in two worlds: One is a world of books." Underneath belle there is a black and white sticker with a black dragon on it with big black text that reads " I'm a book dragon, not a bookworm." To the left of that a big sticker of Mario from Super Mario Brothers wearing a tanooki suit. Underneath the book dragon sticker is a animated sticker of Jess from Gilmore Girls with the text "What is much?" and to the left there's a sticker of Art the Clown from the Terrifier films, black and white clown suit with painted white face and black around eyes and lips mouth open shrugging. All stickers sit on top of a black background with white spiderwebs all over it
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM