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Kristin L. Gray
@kristinlgray.bsky.social
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Author, reader, sunshine seeker
BAHA user 🤟
Former RN 🩺
Fan of unsolved mysteries, science, space
Studying copyediting and planes ✈️

MURDER AT PENGUIN RANCH (‘26) 🇦🇶
Rep: Caryn Wiseman ABLA
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African penguins being adorable at Boulder Beach, SA. 🐧
African penguins at Boulder Beach, South Africa, with cool blue water in background.
October 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Thank you, Topeka schools and KS state library, for such a fabulous time at the Kansas Book Festival. 🌻
Author pictured with author Lesa Cline-Ranaome holding a copy of her Newbery Honor award-winning book ONE BIG OPEN SKY Author laughing while presenting in a school library to a group of school children seated on the floor.
September 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Happy to finally pick up THE SPIDER LADY picture book on the remarkable Nan Songer by Penny Parker Klostermann and Anne Lambelet | Calkins Creek | Astra BFYR @annelambelet.bsky.social
Picture book titled The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and her Arachnid WWII Army Illustration of Nan holding a glass terrarium with a black spider. The background has wooden shelves filled with more terrariums and plants.
August 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Congratulations to @caseylyall.bsky.social @nicigregory.bsky.social on a lovely, spooky, sweet new #picturebook! VAMPIRE JAM SANDWICH 🍓
Vampire Jam Sandwich picture book by Case Lyall and Nico Gregory with an illustrated jam sandwich - with fangs - sitting on a plate with strawberries Illustration of a girl with jars of red jam outside a spooky house
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thank you Fayetteville Public Library @pearlsbooks.bsky.social for the pleasure of hearing @amortowles.bsky.social discuss craft tonight. What an incredible event and reminder of the importance of #libraries in our communities. 📚☕️ #booksky
Three women waiting in line holding books by Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, Table for Two KUAF radio interviews author Amor Towles on stage in front of a blue screen. Towles relayed a story of a local poet visiting his first grade class.
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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My friend Tina Cho has written a children’s book with art by Jess Snow featuring these incredible women. #kidlit
THE OCEAN CALLS children’s book written by Tina Cho with art featuring two Korean women divers by illustrator Jess Snow
May 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.” —Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way 🌸
Cherry blossom
March 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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150! Yes. Love the green.
Cessna 150 dash
March 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Day one of ground school. 🛩️@sportys.bsky.social #avgeek
Author poses with a green-and-white Cessna 150 in hangar.
March 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” —Maya Angelou
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Oh my gosh, The Secret of Nimh and The Last Unicorn. Hard same. 💙
Still from The Last Unicorn. Bathed in moonlight and surrounded by dense forest, a unicorn looks back at night sky.
February 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“Figs from Thistles: First Fig”

By Edna St. Vincent Millay, born #OTD, 1892.

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!

Chicago #Poetry Magazine, 1918
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Thrilled to see THE AMELIA SIX and friends in The Week Junior’s 50 Books for 50 States #readacrossamerica campaign. 🎉❤️✈️ #booksky #edusky
February 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I’ve been reading more #poetry these days to stay intact. Viewing more art. Walking my dog an extra loop, when weather and time permit. There is still much beauty to be found, all around us.
Keep going.

Here’s a lovely poem on choices: “Tree” by Jane Hirshfield.🌲
“Tree” By Jane Hirshfield It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books— Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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My Superb Owl picture. The fun case cover for the Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner I KNOW HOW TO DRAW AN OWL by Hilary Horder Hippely + Matt James (Neal Porter Books, 2024). #kidlit #illustration
Giant owl face illustration with large yellow eyes fills the exterior case cover of a picture book.
February 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey
Rainbow coffee mug and oatmeal cookie on a pine table with book titled Orbital by Samantha Harvey. In the background, the deck and trees are covered in snow.
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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THE HIKE by Alison Farrell @chroniclebooks.bsky.social
Book cover for THE HIKE by Alison Farrell where young explorers demonstrate the best principles of time spent in the woods.
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir, Chapter 9

#booksky #currentlyreading
PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir book cover of astronaut, tie untethered, floating in space
January 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Above the noise. #planespotting #blueskies #aviation
An icy White River cuts through hills midwinter as seen from a plane over Arkansas Blue skies and a bridge over water seen from a Cessna Two planes sitting in early morning sun beneath a blanket of clouds
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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La Ménagère is a bit pricey but wholly lovely bookshop/bistro/cafe. Also, the Galileo museum has his middle finger on display. 👀
Croissant, coffee, yogurt and berries outside a cafe and bookshop in Florence, IT.
January 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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📖 ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey #currentlyreading #booksky
ORBITAL paperback by Samantha Harvey on a yellow knit blanket next to a shaggy dog
January 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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My beloved childhood copy.
Printed 1972.
Rest easy, Mr. Feiffer. 🖍️

@randomhousekids.bsky.social #kidlit #booksky #julesfeiffer
Beloved paperback of The Phantom Tollbooth on a wooden bench
January 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Wonderful collection, Mychal. If I may add the Courage of the Little Hummingbird by Henderson and Morales (Abrams, 2023)
January 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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An excellent point and read.
Cover to book titled The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
December 28, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Finished audio of Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) by Joseph Nguyen while baking holiday sweets. A gentle, possibly transformative listen.The questions he posits for facing decisions and/or rumination will stay with me. authorsequity.substack.com/p/dont-belie...
Cover of audio book: Don’t Believe Everything You Think, read by the author Joseph Nguyen
December 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM