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Faliiza Reads 📚🍉
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Reader and Archivist from Finland.
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🇵🇸 protest in Oulu, Finland today
A sign with the text "Stop starving Gaza" and two Palestinian flags standing against a flower pot with purple and pink flowers.
June 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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My copy of Genocide Bad by Sim Kern just arrived.
In my hand I'm holding a paperback copy of Genocide Bad by Sim Kern. On the background you can see a light rug with some green plant leaves on it and my little dog.
April 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Arrest the war criminal.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@vasemmisto.bsky.social @left.eu
A wanted poster of Benjamin Netanyahu. Wanted for crimes against humanity. Poster is part of a campaign by European union coalition The Left.
April 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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My March Haymarket Bookclub pick. #haymarketbooks #EnemyFeminisms #booksky #haymarketbookclub
A paperback copy of Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis. The cover is red and the title is grey. The book is on a wooden table.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Got my book club pick for February ✌🏼🇵🇸

#booksky #haymarketbooks #bookclub #haymarketbookclub
A paperback copy of Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd.
February 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Today's reads 🤩 Also finished The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 🫶🏼 #booksky
A screenshot of the Libby app with the audiobook Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston playing at 36% A paperback copy of Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker on a grey couch.
February 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My book order just came in the mail 🇵🇸
Paperback copy of Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom by Maya Wind.
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Audiobook of the day 🎧

Finally started my Kimberly Lemming journey ❤️

#booksky #audiobook
A screenshot of the Libby app with the audiobook That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming playing at 12%
February 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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What a wild soda 😮
February 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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What are you reading today? I finished A Love Song For Ricki Wilde on audio and now I'm reading All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson 📚💙 #booksky
A hand holding up a paperback copy of All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. On the background there's a little dog lying on a grey couch, some light curtains and a bright red footstool.
February 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Mine looks quite moody.
The StoryGraph moods graphic of my 2025 reads so far. 23 books read and the most common moods are adventurous, emotional, reflective, tense, and dark.
February 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Still suffering from the decision to reorganize my home office yesterday.. #booksky
A messy home office in the middle of reorganizing. Stacks of books everywhere, on the many bookshelves and on the floor.
February 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Another day, another audiobook #booksky
A screenshot of the Libby app with the audiobook A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams playing at 36%
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Today's audiobook choice 🫶🏼 #booksky
Screenshot of Libby app with Talia Hibbert's Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute playing.
February 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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It was a mistake starting this audiobook so late in the evening. Have to stop just when things are getting 🤌🏼🔥
The audiobook cover of Only for the Week by Natasha Bishop.
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Had a lovely 6 course dinner at the Hugo restaurant in Oulu, Finland. Every course was heavenly 🤌🏼
It's me! A selfie of a thirty something woman. I'm white with light brown hair and brown eyes. I have large metal rimmed glasses and I'm wearing a light pink and wine red dress. A photo of lobster bisque in a restaurant. Photo of beef tartare with a cheese crisp on top. Taken in a restaurant.
February 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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New day, new book #booksky
Paperback copy of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler on a blue and white fleece blanket.
February 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Gig tonight. It's been a while since I've seen Jarkko Martikainen live.
It's me! A selfie of a thirty something woman. I'm white with light brown hair and brown eyes. I have light metal rimmed glasses and yellow leaf earrings.
February 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Next puzzle endeavor 🤩

Trying to finish The Map Ship audiobook today and ran out of things to clean so a puzzle it is!

#puzzlesky #thelordoftherings #mapofmiddleearth #tolkien
A 1000 piece Lord of the Rings puzzle box. The puzzle is a map of Middle-Earth.
February 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Audiobook of the day 🎧

What’s your current read📚💙?
Cover of the audiobook version of The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb.
February 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Got a new t shirt from the gig!
Woman with glasses, brown eyes, light brownish hair and light skin dressed in a black band t shirt and a beanie.
February 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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January reading wrap-up 📚

I adore these StoryGraph graphics! I also use tags to track additional info, here are some for January:

• 5/17 male authors
• 5 books in Finnish
• 5 books on Palestine 🇵🇸

What was your favorite read in January?

#booksky #januarywrapup #readingwrapup
My January 2025 wrap-up graphic generated by The StoryGraph, part 1. I read 17 books in total; 3890 pages and 63.8 hours. My average rating was 4.21. My highest rated books were: Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang, Valta ja terrori (Finnish translation of Power and Terror) by Noam Chomsky, and The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab. Average book length was 309 pages and average time to finish was 3 days. Compared to December I read 15% less books, 28% less pages, and 143% more hours. My January 2025 wrap-up graphic generated by The StoryGraph, part 2. In January I read 53% fiction and 47% nonfiction. Most of the books had less than 300 pages and most of the audiobooks were less than 8 hours in length. I read 47% print, 29% audio and 24% digital books. My top five genres were fantasy, sci-fi, history, memoir, and politics. My January 2025 wrap-up graphic generated by The StoryGraph, part 3. This graphic has the covers of all 17 books I read. - Valta ja terrori (Finnish translation of Power and Terror) by Noam Chomsky - Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang - Muuri by Anna Kontula - Fractal Noice by Christopher Paolini - Rage and Ruin by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Kun kaupunki suljettiin by Fang Fang - Kielletty kansa by Tuomas Mustikainen - Grace and Glory by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Israelin apartheid by Syksy Räsänen - 19 Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor - Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor - All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo - The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab - Cobalt by Charlie Angus - We Uyghurs Have No Say by Ilham Tohti
February 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Got a free book with my full paperback pass from #suomalainenkirjakauppa ✌🏼 Every sixth paperback is free, great program ❤️ #booksky
Paperback copy of Black Water Sister by Zen Cho. The cover has a blue background and has wonderfully colorful plants on it. The book is laying on a wooden table.
February 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Book recs on Palestine 🇵🇸
First photo has fiction and the second nonfiction.

#palestinianauthors #palestinianbooks #booksky
12 book covers in three rows of four: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa Courting Samira by Amal Awad A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum Minor Detail by Adania Shibli The Coin by Yasmin Zaher You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Against The Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat Evil Eye by Etaf Rum Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas The Blue Between Sky And Water by Susan Abulhawa 12 book covers in three rows of four: Gaza Mom by Laila El-Haddad Shell-Shocked by Mohammed Omer Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe Going Home by Raja Shehadeh The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappe The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze and Jehad Abusalim We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe On Palestine by Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
January 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Lil dog in a hoodie pocket 🐾 #dogsky #petsky
January 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM