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Hayley is currently reading: 🎧Rubicon 📖 Death of the Author
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Writer, reader, toddler parent, Pacific Northwest city-dweller, given to saying “WOW!” a lot & meaning it
The most consequential game of solo jenga I’ll ever play (Nachos by Cliff’s PDX, favorite old 📖 friend is On Such A Full Sea)
April 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Hexologists ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I so enjoyed this husband and wife detective duo investigating badly behaved steampunk magic that I made all kinds of excuses to sneak away with the audiobook. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Hexologists
Check out The Hexologists - <b>The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve ...
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April 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿
March 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sentient plants to jolt me out of my reading slump ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 for Usurpation - great conclusion to a favorite series: bookshop.org/p/books/usur...
Usurpation
Check out Usurpation - <p><b>After her rollicking standalone <i>Dual Memory</i>, </b><b>Sue Burke </b><b>returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in <i>Usurpation,</i> which combines the th...
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March 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
(It’s me! I’m the we!)
Hello, world! We’re Bottleneck, a new literary magazine of sci-fi and speculative fiction. We’re thrilled to share we are officially taking submissions for our first issue: www.bottleneck-sf.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines — Bottleneck
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March 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
E-waste recycling day comes but once every 20 years 😱 absolutely battling my deeply Millenial impulse to k e e p a l l e l e c t r o n i c s including a troubling amount of original packaging I kept just in case (???) I think I’ve got a first gen Kindle and an Apple laptop from 2005 in here.
March 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Alien Clay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scientists exiled to a research labor camp ✔️ creepy gross Scavengers Reign body horror planet ✔️ Very satisfying ✔️ Need this cover on my bookshelf

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Alien Clay
Check out Alien Clay - <b>"A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity." - Esquire, Best of the Year. <p/> From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic th...
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March 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Starting a literary mag is the “I got bangs” of writer mental health
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Executed what I thought was a very ambitious plan to change outfits mid-morning so I could throw my favorite weekend pants in the wash; realized upon completing the laundry that the pants never made it to the washer. More coffee needed, apparently.
February 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My Possessive Boyfriend ™️ says, “no writing, only petting Cid.”
February 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just discovered the Final Architecture series & took the opportunity to abandon all my friends / family / responsibilities while I finished reading it in as few sittings as possible - amidst power outage on my last 10% phone battery 👌 bookshop.org/p/books/shar...
Shards of Earth
Check out Shards of Earth - <p><b>The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i> brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today’s free toddler Halloween costume idea for couples: “I want to be a BAG!!!”
Me: “Okay then! What should I be?”
Toddler: “You can be the poop!”
Me: 🧐
February 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Colored Television! It might be perfect 👌 I loved: a novel about a novelist, about writing, about what art is and isn’t, about LA, about trying to write diverse Hollywood content.

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Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
A Novel
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February 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Annie Bot ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I never tire of a self-aware AI robot tale, and this story and voice are so original. A sex robot who goes to couples counseling! Brilliant. bookshop.org/p/books/anni...
Annie Bot: A Novel
A Novel
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January 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Today’s free Halloween costume idea, courtesy of my toddler: “Tiger Baby Gollum”
January 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
(Here it goes…!) My first Bluesky book post! Just finished the book I yearned for at Halloween - ghosts and hauntings of all kinds! Ghostie ghosts, friendly ghosts, angry ghosts, ghosts of guilt and regret…! A Sunny Place for Shady People ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories a book by Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by "Buenos Aires's sorceress of horror" (Samanta Schweblin, The New...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM