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kaitrates.bsky.social
@kaitrates.bsky.social
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📚Here to talk books, books, books!
💟I like my books spicy, my characters messy, and my endings happy.
🧚🏻Often chaotic, always disabled. 😷
📍LoHud, NY
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This message is this message is this Pogo approved.
A small brown down is curled up on a pillow.
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Just a girl, sitting in front of her book piles, begging one of these books to catch her interest. *aigh*
Photo of five teetering stacks of books on a wood floor
April 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Me, finishing the prologue:
A photo of Kait crying with a tissue on the pillow in front of her. She is distraught.
April 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Needed this today. Happy Opening Day!
Photo of a Yankee Stadium’s baseball field from behind the third base line Kait smiles with the yankee stadium field in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Grateful grateful grateful. 🥰🙏🏻
A white hand holds up an ARC copy of Rachel Gillig’s The Knight and the Moth. A screen in the background reads “Barnes and Noble Nook Festival.” The cover feature the title in off white and the author name in light pink. In the background there’s a white woman lying down with long blond hair, part of which is covering her eyes. Half of her outfit is armor and the other half is a diaphanous blue dress.
March 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
kaitrates.bsky.social
Both obsessed with my new hair and grieving that i felt forced into cutting it because showering has been unsustainable since covid. May this allow me to not use all my spoons to wash my hair.

And, honestly, it’s perfect for spring.

#ChronicIllness
Kait looks off to the side with a smirk on her face. She’s a white woman with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair. She’s wearing a dark green tank and dark green square glasses.
March 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I still can’t quite believe it (despite living it) but with the help of a LOT of meds, friends, and self advocacy, I made it to @tracydeonn.bsky.social’s Oathbound event tonight in NYC. 😭

First time seeing friends since 2/8 and leaving the house since 2/13.

Already crashing but my heart is full. 🫶🏻
Candid shot of Kait—a white woman with light brown hair wearing an olive green skirt, beige sweater, and N95–talking to Tracy Deonn, a Blqvk woman wearing a black top, gold necklace stack, and glasses. The three books in the legendborn cycle sit in a stack in the table between them.
March 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
kaitrates.bsky.social
Accessibility Q for #booksky: what do you include in the alt text for a storygraph wrap up graphic?

I've gotten decent at doing alt text but this one has so much info on it and it overwhelms me to type it out. Pls keep in mind I also deal with with limited mobility and pain in my hands. Help?
@kaitrates January 2025 Reading Wrap Up from The Storygraph
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Just a girl stressing about a book while covered in electrodes and a gauze cap and so much tape and glue. 😭

#Booksky #ChronicIllness
Kait, a white woman with brown hair and green glasses, looks down at her book. She’s got her mouth over her hand in a face of stress. She’s also got a gauze cap covering her head and a stack of wires on her shoulder for an EEG.
January 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
kaitrates.bsky.social
Consider this my petition for Pogo to be the official #booksky mascot.

I’d you disagree then i guess you’ll just have to drop a photo of your entry in this thread. 🤭
The cutest small brown dog stands in front of a bookshelf. His ears are up and big and he’s got a goody look in his face.
January 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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So glad I had book club tonight to nourish my soul after this day. 🥹

I’ve been trying to incorporate mutual aid into our group. This month, I collected donations for an upcoming mutual aid event.

We can’t do everything, but we can all do something. 🫶🏻
A group of 10 femme presenting individuals—and a cardboard cutout of Hugh Jackman—smile behind masks. One holds a paperback copy of Abby Jimenez’s The Friend Zone. Overhead photo of five bags and a box full of donations for a mutual aid group.
January 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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A journey through attempting to read The Friend Zone.

Photo 1 is on page 3. Photo 2 is on page 7…at which point I DNFed 😂

Life is too short for bad books!

#Booksky
Kait—a white woman with wavy brown hair and dark green glasses—scowls while looking down towards a book. Kait—a white woman with wavy brown hair and dark green glasses—grimaces while looking to the side.
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Romantasy Bookclub today and found this on the discount shelf. It is not at all damaged but it is mine now. 😍

#Booksky
Hand holding a copy of Naomi Novik’s buried deep. Text in the bottom says “found this on the damaged shelf for 50% off 🥳”
January 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Where are my fellow “use random items as a bookmark” friends?

Currently reading: A Marvellous Light
Current bookmark: the tab from a box of cereal 😂

#booksky
A blue cardboard tab rests on the open pages of A Marvellous Light, Ch 18.
January 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Hi hello please enjoy these photos of me becoming one with the floor because a migraine hit right before yesterday's book event and I popped my hardest hitting rescue meds and proceeded to hear colors and see sounds for the entire night.
Kait, a white woman with light brown hair, smizes from the floor of a bookstore holding two books from the Psy-Changling series. She's wearing brick colored pants, a gray sweater, a white mask, and green glasses. Behind her is a rollator piled high with jackets. Kait, a white woman with light brown hair, laughs on the floor of a bookstore with two books in her hand and a walker behind her.
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Post your favorite Pokémon, wrong answers only
A small brown dog lies in his side with his mouth open
January 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Set the Record Straight by HBY
Cover or Set The Record Straight: A holiday novella by Hannah Bonam-Young.
January 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
kaitrates.bsky.social
introduce yourself with
one book 📕
one film 🎬
one album 💿
one show 📺
January 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
kaitrates.bsky.social
Um hi hello! 👋🏻 I’m much better at yapping to a camera than with my fingers but here we go.

I’m Kait (she/her). I’m in my mid-30s and life in the lower Hudson Valley region of NY. I’m a dog mom, a queer and disabled human, cozy gamer, and a romance and fantasy reader!

And here’s the dog tax:
Pogo, a small brown dog, sleeps in a sunbeam in front of a white door.
January 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
kaitrates.bsky.social
He wouldn’t stay still but the blurriness makes it funnier IMO
January 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM