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hollykins.bsky.social
@hollykins.bsky.social
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I work in Infection Prevention and I read, rather a lot, rather widely-all genres. Let me recommend you a book… 2025 reading theme: 💧 Water. Recommend me a book!
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I #justfinished Artifact Space and I am #obsessed if you are a #Startrek fan this might be for you also. Perfect blend of treachery, #drama, heartfelt relations and space-time conundrums. #reading 💙📚 #Sff 📚🪐
A dark skinned woman in a blue space suit standing aside a space ship
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Not feeling particularly well today, my #caturday pal is ensuring I rest. #catsofbluesky
One green eye of a gray and white cat.
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I will say that I seriously strongly considered a job in very NW PA this year. Woke up to 35 F today and realized that I’m really no longer built that way. Nor is my doggo. #weather #southerntransplant #dogs #basenji
Small red/white dog curled under a blanket. The sheets are blue the blanket is blue and white
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I’m getting towards the end of Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham and I’m loving that I’m cheering for the #villain from book 1 in book 2! #drama #booksky #bloodtide #newbooks #SFF
Red book cover with gold lettering. Image of a Roman soldier in red.
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Oh holy heck! This book comes out in January from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social I’m only a chapter or so in and I am Hooked!!!!! Put this on your #TBR #newbook #currentlyreading #booksky #spaceopera.
Book cover for Artifact space. A brown skinned woman in a blue space suit with gold accents. She is climbing from a silver ship that looks a bit like an airplane
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Thanks to Graphic Audio LLC for the listener copy of The Southern Book Clubs guide to slaying Vampires. The Graphic audio is immersive and so real! #spooky #vampires #booksky #audiobooks #graphicaudio
Graphic audio cover for the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires. Black background with peaches that are bleeding from bite marks. White text.
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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World Health Org has #influenza guidance for us. #IDsky #infectionprevention
Ever for a webinar in flu vaccination it has a QR code for registration. Lists the speakers and has a cute illustration of people using umbrellas against flu droplets.
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Part of the Scared Sexy series -Kimberly Lemming’s story is a funny romance for #spookyseason There’s #monsters & homage to romance stars from past & present (Beverly Jenkins? Yup. Fabio-also there!) Thanks to NetGalley/Brilliance for the ALC! #booksky #diversebooks #romancelandia
Pink cover for Kimberly Lemmings short story My Boyfrirnds are all monsters. There are green tentacles in the center forming a heart.
September 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Oh Wow! I’m almost 30% into Marie Lu’s Red City. And it’s amazing. Gritty, fantastical and compelling! Pop this on to your #endlessTBR #fiction #fantasy 📚🪐 #booksky
Audiobook cover for Marie Lu’s red city - red background with a sort of winged horse-ish creature. White lettering.
September 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This horror story/murder mystery set in a retirement center is much spookier than I expected! It’s become my gym book since I can’t read it at home at night. #booksky 📚🩸#newbooks January Lavoie’s narration - excellent! @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
Cover of the autumn springs retirement home massacre audiobook it’s a picture in shades of orange and brown. There’s is a person in orange and a stylistic big knife framing the persons head. It’s hard to describe but a very cool cover.
September 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A week with Publisher Mail is over the top thrilling for me. 📚🪐 Sargassa has new outerwear! It’s possible this book about the #RomanEmpire might become your Roman Empire! This edition matches book 2 Bloodtide which comes out 10/25. #SFF #bookmail #booksky #reading
A highly staged photo to show off the new luxe cover of Sargassa, the funky Daw Mailer and my morning coffee milk. The book has a blue and gold theme with a solitary figure in a toga type outfit standing in the middle of a seven point sun shape. The mailer is black and has a stylized DAW containing images of several of their 2025 releases. The coffee is in a blue mug with a coffee bean on a star on it.
August 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Supporting my #Water theme, I’ve got an Advanced Copy of The Sea Captain’s Wife. I’m just getting going on it. I love it when #nonfiction reads like fiction! #ocean #sailing #history #booksky
The cover of The Sea Caltain’s Wife by Tilar Mazzeo. At the bottom is a large ship with 3 masts, at the top is sextant, superimposed on the sextant is a photo of a woman.
August 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Big congrats to Robert Jackson Bennett! 2025 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel! I loved The Tainted Cup! It was my pick for winner but not my predicted winner! #Scifi #fantasy #Hugoaward #bestnovel #mystery #booksky
August 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Happy new book Tuesday release day to Tim Chawaga’s Salvagia. I’m 50% through and I can explain how marvelous this one is! #newbooktuesday #newrelease #booksky #Scifi
Book cover of Salvagia by Tim Chawaga shows a pink diver and a gray diver diving a murky gray green wreck
August 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Just started this book- coming out in August & I’m
Immediately smitten! Thanks to NetGalley and Flatiron books for the #ALC #animals #futuristic #audiobook @flatironbooks.bsky.social #netgalley #newbooks #Alcatraz flpic.com/meetinginfo....
Cover of book The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley against an egg yolk yellow background a jaguar holds a Caucasian arm in its mouth. Yellow lettering
July 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I #justfinished the #audiobook for Hear my Heart by Tay Mo’Nae and it was a very engaging read that I read straight thru in 1 day on a road trip! I thought it would be a #meetcute w/ #disability rep. Did not realize it would be that with some #spicy spice. 📚💙 #romancelandia
Cover for Hear my heart by Tay Mo’Nae shows a black man & woman staring intensely at each other with a golden retriever dog sitting by the woman. The background is an autumnal golden brown .
July 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I’m 60% in to the #audiobook 📚💙of The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen and this might be my top romance 💘 read of the year! The banter, yearning & autoducks are perfection & the narration is so so excellent. Put this in your TBR!
The audiobook cover of The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen. Peach background, with blue print of dragons and plants at the center is a pink heart with a tall woman on the left and a short king on the right.
June 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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It’s a #peaceful #Saturdaymorning & I’m diving into #Esperance by Adam Oyebanji. 📚💙Thanks to @dawbooks.bsky.social for the gift copy. I’m fascinated by the premise of this thriller/police procedural novel. 📚🩸 #booksky #blackbooksky #thriller #mystery #fiction #newbook #reader
A blue and white cup of coffee on a table next to A hardback copy of Esperance. The cover is a vivid multi-toned red with a large black mosquito with a glowing eye. Along the left side is a sea of stars and a very tiny sailing boat.
June 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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So I’m reading some #PremeeMohamed & I thought her first novella 📚🪐 was good but the second in the series? AMAZING! 📚💙 And there’s a third!!!! #reading #clifi #dystopian #canada
Image of audio book We speak through the mountain tee’d up at 37% read. Purple text - 2 songbirds with some vibes and flowers against a cream/white background
June 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Happy #Tuesday that feels like a #Monday! What’s your #currentread
I’ve started Into The Great Wide Ocean! It’s for my #Water 2025 theme and so far… I have learned many things about swim bladders. #ocean #curiousity #nonfiction 📚💙 #booksky 📚⏰
Cover for the audiobook of into the great wide ocean blue with light blue sea creatures illustrated peach text.
May 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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70% through The Incandescent by Emily Tesh & I’m hooked. Love this magical academia fantasy told from the perspective of a teacher! #booksky I love how different this is from her last novel. 📚⏰For those who were disappointed in a different magical academia author- this is a book for us! 📚🪐 #books
Book cover for The Incandescent. Black background with a detailed, stylized Phoenix in gold line work on the title.
May 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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What books are you starting the week with? I’ve got an Advanced Listener copy of Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent. Stunning. For people who’ve missed the Wizarding school stories and long for a grown up perspective (with a marvellous inclusive author). This is the one. 📚🩸 #booksky 📚⏰
Book cover for The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. A black cover with a golden stencil of a phoenix type bird.
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Purchased what I thought was a “reading copy” of The Forever Machine 📚🪐 in my #quest to read all the #hugoaward winners. This very special piece of ephemera arrived. I think I still need a reading copy. #SFF #booksky
Photo of a 1958 copy of the Forever machine. It has a typical 1950’s sci fi cover with a man barely covered in white underwear and a curvy woman with the cost 35 cents noted. Also shown was the flyer from where it came.
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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What book has surprised you this week? #booksky for me it was If an Egyptian cannot speak English. I started off not enjoying it but by then end, I wanted to talk to everyone about it! 📚🖋️
Audio book cover of If an Egyptian cannot speak English by Noor Naga. It shows a man with no shirt dramatically looking to his right with dark curly hair.
April 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#currentread is Gogmagog which is delightfully weird, messy and maybe a little fun! The river is definitely a main character in itself. What’s your current read?
The cover of the book Gogmagog. It features a teal colored wharf/dock and ramshackle buildings and in the distance is a gold colored city.
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM