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JayStarNaz
@jaystarnaz.bsky.social
Nerd who loves to read and craft. She/her. CR: Paladin's Grace (T. Kingfisher); Bringing Home the Rain (Bob McGough); Witch King (Martha Wells)
Spotted at Dragon Con! #SaveWOT
August 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I love how absurd this convention is. Warms my nerd heart.
August 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Jinu shrine already has a start as of Wednesday night/Thursday morning at Dragon Con. Spotted by my husband in, I think, the Marriott. Or maybe the habitrail tubes connecting Marriott & Hyatt.
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Today's small joy: caterpillars chowing down on milkweed in my garden. 🤞 Fingers crossed that they survive!
August 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Little buddy is living his best cat life. Maybe in my next life cycle I can be this spoiled and relaxed.
July 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I really love river oats. Sea oats. Whatever you call them. The seeds are so lovely and the drooping angle is so graceful.
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Cat snoozing on my lap and excellent novel in hand. I've had worse Friday nights.
June 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I got started adding June reading to my cross stitch book tracker, and then realized that I'd never shared my May progress. Books read are in comments.
June 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Post your first cell phone. This Ericsson or a very similar model.
June 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Had a friend stop by the milkweed this afternoon. 😍
May 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I really love the orange of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).
May 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
SUCH a great addition to my week. Totally worth losing a bit of sleep to "just one more chapter" my way though Daughter of Tides. www.kitrocha.com/book/daughte...
May 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Rain today changed the plans I had, so today is dishes, laundry, & reading.

I'm glad that a trip to the used bookstore last year ended up with me buying War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. I picked it up 100% because I like the cover art and it was a great choice.
May 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Caught up on stitching April's reading. Books represented are in the comments.
May 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Caught up on my cross stitch book tracking project! March books added: Exit Strategy - Martha Wells; A Blade So Black - L.L. McKinney; Lost & Found - Jane Glatt; Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Best side effect of my slow re-read of The Shadow Rising is that I'm near the end of the book just in time for the s3 closer.

Just read this page. I knew in e1? (e2?) that the exchange sounded character correct but hadn't realized how much came straight from TSR. #WotShowSpoilers
#WotBookSpoilers
April 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Probably my favorite WoT S3E7 post from Tumblr today. I snort laughed so hard. #WotShowSpoilers #TheWheelOfTime
April 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'm someone who has multiple books going at once. This weekend's reading: The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan (in what might be my slowest reread ever), A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney, and The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I finished stitching my February books read in my cross stitch book tracker. These are: A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers; A Prayer for the Crown Shy - Becky Chambers; The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes - Cat Sebastian; Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells. Each color marks the book's genre.
March 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The more I listen the more horrified I am at how much influence these various societies have had on politics. Good grief.

When i eventually re-read Focault's Pendulum I'm going to scoff a lot less than I did on my first read.
February 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Caught up on my book tracker for Jan. This represents 5 books, mostly audio books. A History of Native America - Ned Blackhawk; Artificial Condition - Martha Wells; A Grave Robbery - Deanna Raybourn; The Queer Principles of Kit Webb - Cat Sebastian; How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Honeycomb has been such a delightful read. This is already overdue at the library. I think I'll have to buy my own copy so I can sit with it, savor it, and take my time.
January 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Helping." Today was supposed to be professional development time, but...
January 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Storygraph @thestorygraph.com year-end summary for me. It was an excellent year of reading! Thank goodness for my local public library system - a solid chonk of this year's reading was borrowed, either physically or digitally. Elsewise my budget would've collapsed.
December 31, 2024 at 4:59 PM
An Arrow to the Moon was truly excellent listening this weekend as I worked on crafts and gifts that aren't quite done yet. The narrators for this story were *chef's kiss*.
December 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM