@emilynine.bsky.social
Work: TV/Film
Interests: painting, reading, science, horseback riding, people smarter than me and what they have to say
Interests: painting, reading, science, horseback riding, people smarter than me and what they have to say
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett - one of my favorite reads of a very big reading year! This and The Tainted Cup are such fun and inviting fantasy mystery novels. The world building and lovable characters are just 👩🍳💨💋. I hope he writes 1 million more of these. 💙📚
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett - one of my favorite reads of a very big reading year! This and The Tainted Cup are such fun and inviting fantasy mystery novels. The world building and lovable characters are just 👩🍳💨💋. I hope he writes 1 million more of these. 💙📚
Katabasis is so enjoyable I read it in one weekend! An adventurous, satirical journey through hell that kicked me out of a reading slump. The use of paradoxes as magical elements was genius, a lot of attention paid to making that "logic" work. The book felt like a mental sandbox in every way. 📚💙
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Katabasis is so enjoyable I read it in one weekend! An adventurous, satirical journey through hell that kicked me out of a reading slump. The use of paradoxes as magical elements was genius, a lot of attention paid to making that "logic" work. The book felt like a mental sandbox in every way. 📚💙
No clue where I got this book rec, which makes this book feel even more mystical. You stumble into the Alaskan wilderness with Bear Season, walk around a bit, then leave with more questions than answers. The structure is playful without being too obscure. A well done mystery! #booksky 📚💙
July 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
No clue where I got this book rec, which makes this book feel even more mystical. You stumble into the Alaskan wilderness with Bear Season, walk around a bit, then leave with more questions than answers. The structure is playful without being too obscure. A well done mystery! #booksky 📚💙
Really had to couch my last couple of reads with something whimsical, Cackle 100% satisfied that itch. Cozy horror tale about a woman befriending a spooky witchy lady in her new upstate NY town after a bad breakup, it was very enjoyable, escapist, and not a white supremacist in sight 😅 #booksky 💙📚
July 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Really had to couch my last couple of reads with something whimsical, Cackle 100% satisfied that itch. Cozy horror tale about a woman befriending a spooky witchy lady in her new upstate NY town after a bad breakup, it was very enjoyable, escapist, and not a white supremacist in sight 😅 #booksky 💙📚
I read The Hate Next Door quickly, because I knew I wouldn’t get through it otherwise. Written by an ex-cop about his work against white supremacists, it's a great overview of white nationalist markers & how to recognize these dangerous people in the US. He gives a needed, important viewpoint. 📚💙
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I read The Hate Next Door quickly, because I knew I wouldn’t get through it otherwise. Written by an ex-cop about his work against white supremacists, it's a great overview of white nationalist markers & how to recognize these dangerous people in the US. He gives a needed, important viewpoint. 📚💙
Say Nothing is an account of the Troubles built entirely from interviews and reports of the time, and wholly worth reading even if you are a novice. There are hunger strikes, crazy bombings, neighbors shunning and informing on each other…and they didn’t want to call it a real war! Insane. 📚💙
June 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Say Nothing is an account of the Troubles built entirely from interviews and reports of the time, and wholly worth reading even if you are a novice. There are hunger strikes, crazy bombings, neighbors shunning and informing on each other…and they didn’t want to call it a real war! Insane. 📚💙
As many audiobookers who have Googled "best audiobooks of all time reddit" will attest, Mythos is an engaging and funny retelling of Greek myths from Stephen Fry. And bonus, it helped me with the challenging New Yorker crossword this week. #booksky 💙📚
June 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As many audiobookers who have Googled "best audiobooks of all time reddit" will attest, Mythos is an engaging and funny retelling of Greek myths from Stephen Fry. And bonus, it helped me with the challenging New Yorker crossword this week. #booksky 💙📚
another #WIPWednesday, on Thursday. I should set a calendar alert or something. The tank top is almost finished, I'll try it on tonight to figure out the strap situation. Very happy with it so far ✨🧶
June 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
another #WIPWednesday, on Thursday. I should set a calendar alert or something. The tank top is almost finished, I'll try it on tonight to figure out the strap situation. Very happy with it so far ✨🧶
The real lesson of this book is you can just be an art thief. Apart from a few years here and there in prison, it's fine! Just grab all the stuff you want from museums, throw it in a river, get caught a few times even, no one will really do much or be that mad! (this book is great) #booksky 💙📚
June 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The real lesson of this book is you can just be an art thief. Apart from a few years here and there in prison, it's fine! Just grab all the stuff you want from museums, throw it in a river, get caught a few times even, no one will really do much or be that mad! (this book is great) #booksky 💙📚
Entirely written in slack messages, Several People... reads more like an art project than a book. super fast read that was bizarre, silly, ultra-millennial. def a fun "discuss with friends" book. I appreciated how challenging it would be to write something in this restrictive format. #booksky 💙📚
June 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Entirely written in slack messages, Several People... reads more like an art project than a book. super fast read that was bizarre, silly, ultra-millennial. def a fun "discuss with friends" book. I appreciated how challenging it would be to write something in this restrictive format. #booksky 💙📚
Jan Carson's short stories reminded me a bit of Lorrie Moore, I think. She also makes meals out of everyday characters' rich inner lives, but with a funny, surreal, very Irish bend to them. Loved this book, I hope it gets more attention (and I totally rec the Irish audiobook for regional flavor). 💙📚
May 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Jan Carson's short stories reminded me a bit of Lorrie Moore, I think. She also makes meals out of everyday characters' rich inner lives, but with a funny, surreal, very Irish bend to them. Loved this book, I hope it gets more attention (and I totally rec the Irish audiobook for regional flavor). 💙📚
Taking a break from reading scripts to work on my KFO Olive top. My first cotton blend knit, I like it so far. I’m always “definitely” going to post for #WIPWednesday, but then somehow it’s Thursday, whoops! 🧶
May 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Taking a break from reading scripts to work on my KFO Olive top. My first cotton blend knit, I like it so far. I’m always “definitely” going to post for #WIPWednesday, but then somehow it’s Thursday, whoops! 🧶
Serious Face is a smorgasbord of essays by Jon Mooallem, the variety too great to describe in a blurb. Moving, tense, funny, it's all connected by his personable, genuinely empathetic voice - subjects are treated with respect and gratitude. 5 stars, and I want to read more from him! #booksky 💙📚
May 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Serious Face is a smorgasbord of essays by Jon Mooallem, the variety too great to describe in a blurb. Moving, tense, funny, it's all connected by his personable, genuinely empathetic voice - subjects are treated with respect and gratitude. 5 stars, and I want to read more from him! #booksky 💙📚
The Husbands: a woman comes home to a husband she doesn’t recall marrying, and every time he goes into her attic, a new husband (and life) materializes. I adored this one! A fun rollercoaster I was sad to dismount. Would love to work on the TV adaptation tbh 🤓 #booksky 💙📚
May 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The Husbands: a woman comes home to a husband she doesn’t recall marrying, and every time he goes into her attic, a new husband (and life) materializes. I adored this one! A fun rollercoaster I was sad to dismount. Would love to work on the TV adaptation tbh 🤓 #booksky 💙📚
Finished knitting this Charles sweater recently! Mohair is itchy on me, so I opted for alpaca lace instead. Swatching for a summer tank next, with a pretty all over leaf pattern - then I’ll probably have to start the bouclé coat (!) my husband requested. 🧶
May 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finished knitting this Charles sweater recently! Mohair is itchy on me, so I opted for alpaca lace instead. Swatching for a summer tank next, with a pretty all over leaf pattern - then I’ll probably have to start the bouclé coat (!) my husband requested. 🧶
Had to take multiple breaks from Careless People, but finally finished today. What a bunch of narcissistic, unremarkable people running a giant company looks like. The criticism of an unreliable POV is deserved, sure, but even if only 20% of this is true, it's still wildly bad. #booksky 💙📚
May 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Had to take multiple breaks from Careless People, but finally finished today. What a bunch of narcissistic, unremarkable people running a giant company looks like. The criticism of an unreliable POV is deserved, sure, but even if only 20% of this is true, it's still wildly bad. #booksky 💙📚
Lorrie Moore could write about paint drying and it would be the most beautiful prose you've read (maybe she already has?). Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? makes me want to revisit Birds of America again. So lonely, so beautiful, so inspiring! #booksky 📚💙
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Lorrie Moore could write about paint drying and it would be the most beautiful prose you've read (maybe she already has?). Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? makes me want to revisit Birds of America again. So lonely, so beautiful, so inspiring! #booksky 📚💙
I was equally repulsed & entranced by Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection - if pimple extraction and earwax clearing videos were short stories, this is how I imagine they'd be. Totally recommend this book, but only to people who can stomach reading about modern internet society's pimple ooze. #booksky 📚💙
May 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I was equally repulsed & entranced by Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection - if pimple extraction and earwax clearing videos were short stories, this is how I imagine they'd be. Totally recommend this book, but only to people who can stomach reading about modern internet society's pimple ooze. #booksky 📚💙
On a lighter, living in the present note, I made this banana pudding pie from my new cookbook! My first crème legere, and first ladyfinger cookie from scratch.
April 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
On a lighter, living in the present note, I made this banana pudding pie from my new cookbook! My first crème legere, and first ladyfinger cookie from scratch.
I try to limit my cookbook buys, but I borrowed Sift by Nicola Lamb from the library and loved it enough to purchase. It's got great all-purpose tips and tricks, and the charts are incredibly helpful. Like reading an organized culinary student's color coded notes. #booksky 💙📚
April 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I try to limit my cookbook buys, but I borrowed Sift by Nicola Lamb from the library and loved it enough to purchase. It's got great all-purpose tips and tricks, and the charts are incredibly helpful. Like reading an organized culinary student's color coded notes. #booksky 💙📚
my husband claims I'll never catch up to his knowledge of the Roman empire - but he also doubted I could knit a sweater as my first knitting project this year. I'm now finishing my 4th sweater, so, prepare to get Carthage'd my love!!
April 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
my husband claims I'll never catch up to his knowledge of the Roman empire - but he also doubted I could knit a sweater as my first knitting project this year. I'm now finishing my 4th sweater, so, prepare to get Carthage'd my love!!
I've been doing a lot of audiobooks lately to go along with my new knitting obsession (I am on sweater #4 and started knitting in January). Fall of Civilizations has been great. I just finished the chapters on Carthage, so wild. Hannibal really tried it with Rome!! #justice4carthage #booksky 💙📚
April 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I've been doing a lot of audiobooks lately to go along with my new knitting obsession (I am on sweater #4 and started knitting in January). Fall of Civilizations has been great. I just finished the chapters on Carthage, so wild. Hannibal really tried it with Rome!! #justice4carthage #booksky 💙📚
Also obsessed with Rabid: A Cultural History..'s description of medical "treatments" prior to knowledge rabies was virtually incurable by the time symptoms presented. One of the nicer ones was to smear butter on the patient's wound, then make them a cake. One of the less nice ones, waterboarding. 💙📚
January 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Also obsessed with Rabid: A Cultural History..'s description of medical "treatments" prior to knowledge rabies was virtually incurable by the time symptoms presented. One of the nicer ones was to smear butter on the patient's wound, then make them a cake. One of the less nice ones, waterboarding. 💙📚
trying to read more nonfiction in 2025, tackling a beginner's interest in philosophy right now with A Little History of Philosophy. really approachable and quick bite overviews of what questions occupied some seminal western philosophers. perfect for seeing who i'd like to dig into! #booksky 💙📚
January 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
trying to read more nonfiction in 2025, tackling a beginner's interest in philosophy right now with A Little History of Philosophy. really approachable and quick bite overviews of what questions occupied some seminal western philosophers. perfect for seeing who i'd like to dig into! #booksky 💙📚
I'm currently going thru the Earthsea books - that they're categorized as "YA high fantasy" is honestly sad, there are very adult themes of power, self-identity, sex, etc. especially in Tehanu. Writing is beautiful, character development/world building is amazing, so, classic Le Guin. #booksky 💙📚
December 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I'm currently going thru the Earthsea books - that they're categorized as "YA high fantasy" is honestly sad, there are very adult themes of power, self-identity, sex, etc. especially in Tehanu. Writing is beautiful, character development/world building is amazing, so, classic Le Guin. #booksky 💙📚