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Kathryn
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Personality derived almost wholly from books. I'm opposed to facism; not sure what to call that?
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I finished Ancillary Justice and it's going to be a contender for my favorite book of the year. "They'll ignore anything that doesn't get them what they want. And what they want is anything that can grab." So many prescient quotes. #AncillaryJustice #AnnLeckie #📚💙 I sobbed a few times.
Handwritten quote from Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie: "It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small. What you call no difference is life and death to them." Handwritten quote from Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie: "People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren't quite so simple."
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Second year in a row of my personal book bracket pitting Stephen Graham Jones against... Stephen Graham Jones. @sgj.bsky.social #💙📚 #📚💙
Side-by-side comparison of segments of a homemade book bracket from 2024 and 2025 showing the Stephen Graham Jones novel My Heart is a Chainsaw competing with his novel Don't Fear the Reaper in 2024 and his The Angel of Indian Lake going up against Growing Up Dead in Texas in 2025.
August 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Without downloading any new images,where are you mentally?
An illustration of a candy Valentine's Heart, part of a series that ironically put quotes from author Cormac McCarthy in place of traditional love messages. This one reads, "Everywhere the dying groan and the horses lay screaming." The illustration was in a February edition of the New Yorker.
August 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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This was my favorite this morning! Such a pretty song. But I couldn't see mine because the trees are too tall and too leafy. Nice problem to have. #birds # WestVirginia
An image from the app Merlin ID showing a sound wave recording image and providing links to sound clips of the Grey Catbird bird. It's a record of the user's encountering the bird in the wild. There are other links on the app image to claim the bird, learn more, and explore all sounds, including date, time, and location information. This recording was from this morning, June 24, 2025, in West Virginia.
June 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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This has been my favorite chart on StoryGraph the last couple of years. I love that I'm reading a lot of 'dark' books. Really matchy-matchy with the world atm. #📚💙 #21BooksSoFar
March 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Just finished The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones. Jade is the very best person to watch grow up. She's also a good reminder of our obligations to those who've fought to make this land a community for all of us. #BookSky #📚💙
A quote from Jade Daniels, a character in The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones. It reads, "maybe I'm your statue, right? I'm the part of you that's persisting, that's passing history on and down, never letting it die."
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I am reading one of each. Stephen Graham Jones physically, Stephen Fry on audio (obvs), and Kate Winkler Dawson as an ebook. Loving them all, in that order. #booksky #📚💙
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Haha, you cheat! I love it! Ask me tomorrow, and I'd have all different picks.
Collage image depicting the book We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, the album Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, and the television show The Sopranos.
January 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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It's a little rustic (my first ever book bracket) but here's my top 12 (of 122) of 2024. #BookSky #💙📚 The year of violence, it seems. So many other great books that aren't reflected here. They're ALL my favorites.
Book bracket with Chain Gang All Stars as the winner. Title is Bracket 2024. Each month has the photo of a book cover representing the user's favorite read of that month. Results narrow to the eventual winner. January is Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, February is Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, March is Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, April is The Stone Sky by NK Jemison, May is The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, June is Martyr by Kaveh Akbar, July is Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, August is Antelope Woman by Louise Erdrich, September is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, October is My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, November is The Reformarory by Tananarive Due, and December is Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones.
December 30, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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When I was barely halfway through Don't Fear the Reaper, I knew it was going to a favorite of the year. "It's Jade, actually." 💙📚 #BookSky 5 stars... no, 6 stars!
December 4, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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It's been 3 weeks, 6 days, and some hours since I finished My Heart Is a Chainsaw. I've been in agony waiting for book 2. Jade, I'm finally back! #BookSky
Photograph of the cover of the book Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones.
November 21, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Ghost of the Tsunami. A wonderfully poignant nonfiction ghost story. This broke my heart and also settled permanently in my soul. Culturally significant, beautifully written, and unlike anything else I've read in the past 3 years.
Book cover of Richard Lloyd Parry's book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Dosaster Zone.
November 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM