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Crystal 📚🎥🎙️
@jojomagoo.bsky.social
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🎙️Cohost of Based on a Book Podcast. 💙 Single mom. 🧠Neurodivergent. 🖖 Star Trek. 🔮 Tarot enthusiast.
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I’m so glad I read this! Just the right amount of creepy and supernatural to keep me hooked through the whole story! 💙📚🩸🗡️🪐

#booksky #horror #stephenking #unnatural #suspense
If It Bleeds by Stephen King Rating 5 stars Thoughts: I'm hooked. It's official, I love Stephen King and I'll be going back for more. TW: this story starts off with a horrific school tragedy. It is written in a way that reminds me a lot of Silence of the Lambs but with a supernatural twist. The slow burning suspense juxtaposed with the mundane minutiae of the character's lives left me equally invested in the outcome of the plot and the wellbeing of the characters. I was biting my nails through the whole thing and will no go back and read the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsiders. Set The Mood: watch the news first Suggested Audience: Anyone who loved the Hannibal Lector books from Thomas Harris Raves: underdog FMC, enigmatic protagonist, Icks: although a standalone, this book references so many previous books I feel like I should have read them first. Tropes: Embarrassing parents, Beware the nice ones, hiding in plain sight
September 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. And let’s just say Trisha isn’t the only one who wandered off.

#booksky #stephenking #bookreview #hiking #baseball
THE ULTIMATE STORYTELLER STEPHEN KNG The Girl Who Tom Gordon SET THE MOOD: OFF! SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: If you grew up listening to baseball with your family THOUGHTS: As an avid hiker/ camper | really wanted to connect with this story but ! don't think I was the right audience. I can understand why some people find this suspenseful and captivating but ! was kind of bored with it. I found it difficult to identify with the main character, a nine year old girl. As she struggled her way through the forest ! struggled to empathize. Although the descriptions of her experiences are detailed and colorful, I didn't feel the stress or anxiety l imagine he was trying to convey. Maybe I've spent too much time alone in the forest to be scared by it at this point in my life. RAVES: • Accurate flora and fauna for the area ICKS: • Continued descriptions of a young girl's anatomy TROPES: Embarrassing parents; Annoying brother; Search & Rescue misdirection
September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I was so excited to suggest this trilogy for @basedonabook.bsky.social to cover when it’s finished but after watching the second and then learning there might not be a third I’m just mad.

Come on, @netflix.com, get it together!

#filmsky #moviereview #trilogy
THE OLD GUARD 2 SET THE MOOD: image of pizza and beer SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: If you liked the earlier MCU movies- give this a go. Or not. THOUGHTS: I'm warning you now that this ends with a huge cliffhanger and Netflix has not confirmed the third. The first movie told such a great story, and wrapped up well enough to leave me satisfied. The second is good- not as good as the first but its the second of a trilogy so l cut it some slack. But the end?!?!?! I'm mad now. I have not read the comics, but I'm going to have to - I need to know more. I likely would have rated this higher if I knew we were going to get the third movie (since the comics are a trilogy). Netflix and I are going to fight if they keep picking things up they don't have a solid plan to finish. RAVES: • Uma Thurman with a sword • Excellent fight scenes ICKS: • Cliffhanger • Rushed plot • New characters not well developed TROPES: Double-Cross, Off Grid, Immortality
August 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🕹️Ready Player One is definitely one of my favorites, so I had high expectations for Ready Player Two! My Xennial-Nerd heart was not disappointed. 👩‍🎤🖖

The audio, narrated by @wilwheaton.net is still my favorite way to enjoy these!

#booksky #bookreview #scifi #oasis #ernestcline 💙📚🪐🎧⏰
Ready Player Two Rating: 3.5 Thoughts: If you love Ready Player One this is a solid sequel. The same characters we love, tons of 80s references, more backstory on Halliday and Morrow, and of course a riddle to be solved. The pacing starts really slowly, but just like the first book once it starts moving you better buckle up. I wouldn't rate this as highly as I did Ready Player One, but I definitely consider it worth the read. Set The Mood: Ready Player Two - Official Spotify Soundtrack playlist by ernestcline Suggested Audience: Gen Xers and elder millennials looking for a dose of nostalgia. Raves: great twists, callbacks to the first book, thought provoking concepts Icks: awkward references to virtual sex Tropes: Lonely at the Top, Hero's fall from grace, There can be only one, Passing the torch
August 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Not exactly a picture book, but one I asked for repeatedly because of the amazing illustrations. Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, remains in my favorites collection to this day.

#kidlit #picturebook #favorite 💙📚
The cover of Saint George and the Dragon
June 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I’m not a baker and I don’t enjoy spending time in the kitchen, so I’m particularly proud that I was able to pull off my kiddo’s request for “rainbow cake” today.

#asyouwish #cake #baking #foodcoloring
April 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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🪴 Just separated these lemon trees. They were grown from seeds and in the same pot together for over a year. Tell me why I’m feeling guilty about this!
#plantmom #plants
March 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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About to record a new episode for @basedonabook.bsky.social and I can’t wait to tell @superlindz.bsky.social and @readingsalt.bsky.social what I think. I’ve been holding back too long! 💙📚🎬 #booksky
February 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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🔎 Ok #booksky! Got my #redlipstick 💋 on, ready to discuss affairs in the workplace. Definitely not going to throw up on anyone though. Which #enemiestolovers romance do you think @basedonabook.bsky.social is recording tonight? 🌶️💙📚
February 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Well, #booksky, I read 8 books last month and only two were from my original TBR 🤣😂🤣

Add me on #storygraph!
February 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m so excited! Don’t forget we’re covering #warmbodies #theprincessbride #thehatinggame and #gonegirl in February. It’s going to be so good! 💙📚 #filmsky #movies
January 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This was harder than I thought- and I helped write the questions! 💙📚 #filmsky
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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If you find yourself wondering which parts of the movie were actually in the book, rest assured @basedonabook.bsky.social is going to find out for you. 💙📚⏰📚 #filmsky #movies #iykyk #asyouwish
January 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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And somehow, here we are. 💙📚⏰📚 #target #momlife #books #itwasonsale
January 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Well that’s heartbreaking. #tiktokban #tiktok #gonedark
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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The Princess Bride - One of my favorite exchanges from the movie came straight from the book and that makes my heart happy. 🎥🎬 💙📚 #booksky #filmsky #movies #books #asyouwish
January 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Add me (jojomagoo) on @thestorygraph.com and see what I’m up to! 💙📚 #books #booksky #currentlyreading #tbr
January 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Happy birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien. He wrote grand adventures of simple folk who dared to step onto the road. 💙📚 📽️ #hobbits
January 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Science fiction teaches us the hard lessons with the best teacher. Captain Picard helps remind all of us that sometimes our best won’t be enough, and that doesn’t make us weak. #nationalscifiday #startrek
January 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Time travel is a favorite subject of mine. HG Wells says it best. 💙📚🪐 #nationalscifiday
January 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Since Mary Shelley women have fought hard to be accepted in sci-fi spaces, but that didn’t stop us. 💙📚🪐 Mother of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey, didn’t mind forcing doors open when others wanted them closed. #nationalscifiday
January 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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We cannot celebrate science fiction 🪐💙📚without the mother of the genre, Mary Shelley. Written in 1816 and published in 1818, Frankenstein is considered one of the very first sci-fi novels. Never let it be forgotten that a woman birthed this genre. #nationalscifiday #womenruletheworld #birthofagenre
January 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Science fiction looks forward, thinks forward, and usually predicts changes in society before most have considered them. Huxley thought far ahead of his time, and here we sit right where he thought we would be. 💙📚🪐 #nationalscifiday
January 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Science fiction oftentimes highlights a hope in humanity that is hard to see otherwise. 🪐📚💙 The Martian is a recent example of how inspiring science fiction can be. #nationalscifiday
January 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some of our most recent sci-fi authors say the things we all wish we could say. 💙🪐📚 Ready Player One is such an excellent read! #nationalscifiday
January 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM