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Emily
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Historian and Librarian | Full time Reader/part time Human |HOH and #endometriosis | 🚫 AI | 📌 NY State | 79/80 Books

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (6/5)
I'm not crying, you're crying 💀 No but fr, I WILL buy this book. So many Fantastic quotes!

"But you're not a bad person trying to get good. You're a sick person trying to get well"

@thebookanalysts.bsky.social #booksky #Martyr #photography #reviews 💙📚🎧🌈🖋️
Review: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar audiobook on a phone. 6 out of 5 stars
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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"Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain" by Margaret Willson
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

One of the BEST non-fic I have read. This author retold Captain Thurídur's story and shares how incredible women's stories get left out or tarnished
#booksky #photography #reviews 💙📚🎧💡
Review of audio book "Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain" by Margaret Willson 5 stars
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett- 5/5 ⭐

I really loved the humor, queerness, neurodiversity rep, and dyslexia rep! The narrator, Andrew Fallaize, was also wonderful with tone and storytelling.

#booksky #photography #reviews #TheTaintedCup #RobertJasonBennet 💙📚🎧⚡🪐🌈
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett audiobook on a phone that is against a window with autumn trees outside. 5 stars around the phone
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Finally here with my #storygraph #octoberwrapup
Amazing month tbh
#booksky 💙📚🌈🖋️🩸🪐🎧
Sword of Destiny (Witcher) 4.5, Teach the Torches to Burn 5, Most Ardently 1, The Multitude of Dreams 4.5, Fool's Errand, 5, Wuthering Heights 3, Woman, Captain, Rebel 5, Tainted Cup 5 8 books, 1865 pages, 45.03 hours, 4.16 avg rating avg length book; 408, avg time to finish; 13 days 88% fiction, 13% non fiction 50% audio, 38% digital, 13% print
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I am OF COURSE the wonderful and talented Moira Rose in the INTERNATIONAL success The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening

#halloween #halloweencostume #schittscreek #moirarose #thecrowshaveeyesiii
woman with dark hair and clothes in a white coat that has black feathers on it. her makeup is dark eyes and nose to look like a low budget crow. Reference is Moira Rose as a crow from Schitts Creek woman with dark hair and clothes in a white coat that has black feathers on it. her makeup is dark eyes and nose to look like a low budget crow. Reference is Moira Rose as a crow from Schitts Creek woman with dark hair and clothes in a white coat that has black feathers on it. her makeup is dark eyes and nose to look like a low budget crow. Reference is Moira Rose as a crow from Schitts Creek
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A catchup on finished books and photos I have lacked to post
all 4.5-5 ⭐

#booksky #photography #reviews 💙📚🎧🪐🖊️
book on a table in the sun with a heart shaped chair back behind it and a stone wall. Drink says matcha oat, vanilla and lavender. a sword book mark with a orange ball on the end Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb on ereader next to a black mug Sword of Destiny, the Witcher A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford in the weeds
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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And here is the spoopy one!
Spooky forest template
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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#Stroygraph #wrapup time! 💙📚

It was a weird rating month for me. But I had books I enjoy and books I really did not, and that is ok!
#booksky #thebookanalysts @thebookanalysts.bsky.social 🌈🪐🩸🎧
9 books, 1,086 pages, 75.42 hours, 3.89 avg rating Highest rated reads; Manners and Mutiny (5), Hunger Games (5), Lucky Day (5) Avg book length; 384 pages, Avg time to finish; 5 days 100% fiction, 67% audio, 33% digital Books and rating in order: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle (4.75-5?), Husband Material by Alexis Hall (low 3), God of the Woods by Liz Moore (low 3, BOTM), Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (5, BOTM), Manners & Mutiny by Gale Carriger (5), The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee (4), A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert (mid to high 3), How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks (2), Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (4.5)
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hi #knitsky ! I am back with another finished project
The Provence top by Ekaterina Vorobeva is a beautiful (and complicated to read) pattern. I am so happy I made it but I do not think my hands want to make this again 🤭💜

🧶 #knittingfeed #knitting #ShowMeYourKnits #resist
Me looking out the window all cool to show off my lavender purple knit shirt Me looking all cool showing off my lavender purple knit shirt with plants behind me
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Quick book review! I have been quiet but reading and wanted to highlight #GailCarriger
I love this #FinishingSchool series as well as the (more adult) #ParasolProtectorate
#booksky #steampunk 📚💙🪐🎧
Manners and Mutiny (Finishing School #4) by Gail Carriger audiobook next to a latte and bagel
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Not terrible. weird month of reads. idk why i went on a #kjcharles run, but i needed it #booksky #storygraph #wrapup
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7 Books, 428 pages, 56.45 hours, avg rating of 3.71 highest rated: Everyone in this room will someday be dead (5), Reservoir Bitches (4), Subtle Blood (3.75) 100% fiction, 14% Print, 86% Audio Sword heart, Everyone in this room will someday be dead, all three will darling adventures AND a nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel by KJ.
September 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin: 5 ⭐

This month's BOTM was relateable characters and wow did I. The anxiety spirals got me, but I love the way this book ended. Made me think and feel a lot

📚💙🌈🖋️🎧 #booksky #bookreview #thebookanalysts #EmilyAustin #relatablecharacters
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin audiobook on mobile
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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My #booksky #wrapup for July with #storygraph and @thebookanalysts.bsky.social 📚💙

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The Resurrectionist 5/5, Nona the Ninth 5/5, Knight and the Moth 4/5, Grave Yard Shift 4/5, Ocean's Echo 3/5, Salt Slow 4/5, Chain-Gang All-Stars 5/5, Academy for Liars 4/5, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting 4/5, Night Shift 3/5 10 books, 1946 pages, 36.75 hours, 4.1 avg rating Highest rated (5 stars): The Resurrectionist, Nona the Ninth, Chain-Gang All-Stars 100% fiction, mostly LGBTQIA+ and Horror, wide mix of formats (immersive reads mostly)
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Salt Slow by Julia Armfield: 4 ⭐
An interesting collection of short stories surrounding relationships but in very different ways. I really think it touched on the female experience well with weird story examples. Salt Slow was my fav
📚💙🎧 #booksky #bookreview #juliaarmfield #saltslow #thebookanalysts
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield on ereader with earphones near boxes
July 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I am about to be INSUFFERABLE!
First made shirt done and I will only shut up about it for now 😂

🧶 #knit #knitsky
woman sitting with knit shirt on woman sitting with knit shirt on woman with knit shirt on woman sitting with knit shirt on
July 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Grave Yard Shift by M. L. Rio- 4/5 ⭐

I have a sweet spot for Rio's writing and her self-insert here. I would have preferred the plot across a Whole novel and a little more worked out, but the prose are good. 4 on the high end but still really good

📚💙🎧🩸⚡ #booksky #bookreview #MLRio #darkacademia
Completed audiobook for Grave Yard Shift by M. L. Rio on a phone in front of a plant
July 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We love sexy longing and double consent permission! Bartholomew is life, we love him 👏 Audio + ebook were solid too

To be fair, I am not a huge romantasy girlie so I gave it a 4 on having low expectations and respectful MMC.
#theknightandthemoth #rachelgillig #bookreview #booksky #romantasy 💙📚
ereader showing The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig while surrounded by pea plants. 4/5 stars
July 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Not bad for a #readathon weekend w chronic pain.
I loved Nona, it was a wild puzzle. Knight+Moth is not bad. Chain-Gang is my love I'm working though, it just hits the feels!
Also shout out to my fav #narrator Moria Quirk for Nona and other works 💖
#booksky 📚💙🪐🌈🎧 @thebookanalysts.bsky.social
The Book Analysts July readathon weekend Nona the Ninth: 50-100%, 5 star Chain-gang All-Stars: 5% Knight and The Moth: 0-50%
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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God I love #thelockedtomb so much.
I think I am glad God didn't use cows
#booksky #nonatheninth #thebantertho 💙📚🪐🌈
"Stop being so fucking dramatic-" "Staahp being so fucking dramahhhtic," Crown mimicked, in a high-pitched voice. "this isn't the time, you dumb, hilarious bitch!"
July 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap, 5 ⭐

Review: My gay boys just wanted to snatch some bodies for science while having true love 😭

📚💙🌈🎧 #booksky #bookreview #queer #darkacademia
The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap audiobook 100% complete on a phone surrounded by plants
July 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Sorry used my discord buddy read writeup for the screen shot lol
#buryyourgays #chucktingle #booksky #bookquotes
Why I love Chuck Tingle reason 1254: Bury Your Gays "Horror stories aren't just the thing we want to see, they're the things we need to see. Night of the Living Dead isn't really about zombies, it's about racism. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is littered with pro-vegetarian subtext, and They Live is more about rampant consumerism more than aliens.' 'But ghosts aren't real!' 'Zombies, Leatherface, and space invaders aren't real either. But racism, factory farming, and unchecked corporate greed are."
July 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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This June was rough. I did get 65% of Hobb's Ship of Destiny too

I am so happy for my man Chuck to finally get the award he deserves for BYG! I am a Buckaroo babe (srry I don't like ladybuck 💖)

Still not sad the plant fker book ✌️

#booksky #wrapup #storygraph #thebookanalysts #chucktingle 📚🎧🌈⚡🪐
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 4/5, Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander 4/5, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle 5/5, Eat the Ones You Love 35% DNF, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures 3/5, Cemetery Boys 1/5, Nona the Ninth current read/50% Storygraph June: 6 books, 1,224 pages, 37.15 hours, av rating 3.42 (lot of immersive reads) Highest rated: Bury your Gays (5), Chef's Kiss (4), Spear Cuts Through Water (4) Avg book length: 351, Time to read: 10 Days 1 non fic, 5 fic
July 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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I am really struggling this month but (I am sorry I am not sorry) I could NOT read a plant fucker book for BOTM @thebookanalysts.bsky.social . I dropped that so hard 😭

💙📚🌈 #booksky #readingchallenge #diversereading #queer #soundsgayimin #thebookanalysts #bookreviews
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 4/5, Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander 4/5, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle 5/5, Eat the Ones You Love 35% DNF, Cemetery Boys current read
June 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Finally an update! I have a slow month going but I really like what I have been reading

💙📚🌈 #booksky #readingchallenge #diversereading #queer #soundsgayimin #thebookanalysts
reading Bury Your Gays under a tree on my deck The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 4/5, Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander 4/5, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle 5/5
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I have been bad at showing off @thebookanalysts.bsky.social May #asianreadathon graphic haha but you still have 15 days if you want to join! This weekend is our general #readathon 💖(all book count)

For Asian read questions, check out @withcindy.bsky.social or her Storygraph
#booksky 📚💙
Image for readathon weekend. 3 rectangles for book covers in front of clouds and a mountain with flowers around it Challenge yourself to read as many books by Asian & Pacific Islander authors as you can in one month
May 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM