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Luisl
@luisl-heid.bsky.social
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comparative literature student & sff nerd
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One of the best middle grade novels I've read as an adult. Now granted, I don't read that much middle grade fiction (apparently I should change that -- this was fun), but I can just imagine a kid falling in love with reading & books as physical media ...
#sff #booksky💙📚🪐
A hardback copy of ND Stevenson's "Scarlet Morning" on top of a low windowsill shelf. The cover shows two kids in the foreground engulfed in fog. In the background looms a scarlet sun. In the middleground the silhouette of a sailing ship promises adventure. The shelf itself is filled with a wild assortement of nonfiction and fiction, reminding me once again that I need to build some new shelves. On the windowsill behind the shelf a little plastic T-Rex peeks over the line of books in front of her.
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Making time for new sff releases 📚🪐💙
Scarlet Morning looks & feels like a real labor of love (+ Stevenson's character work has always been amazing) and I'm so excited for Liu to capture my imagination again
Two hardbacks on a messy desk.
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Emily Tesh is good at books. Strong character voices, some Pratchettian humour (imps in electronics feels like a deliberate homage), & a (although unabashedly unsubtle) really well crafted thematic throughline 🪐📚
image: the bright pink cover of Emily Tesh's "The Incandescent". There is a golden summoning circle with arcane writing in the bottom right corner; a smoke and ash bird of prey looms over it.
September 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Hottest literary take of the century /s: Nabokov is really good actually.
Read "Speak Memory". It's such a genuinly lovely exploration of memory and heimweh interspersed with real moments of brilliant prose. + it's funny.
#booksky
September 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This book got me through my reading fatigue (and reading is kinda my job as a lit student. the hell am i gonna write papers on if not the stuff i'm reading). I wasn't in love with it the whole way through but Harrow does just write some damn quotable lines that kept me going.
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The cover of Alix E. Harrow's "The Ten Thousand Doors of January"
July 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Finally finished Death of the Author. Really clever interrogation of how our creations shape us.
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Image: a hardback copy of Nnedi Okorafor's "Death of the Author".
April 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Started the sequel today. I can already tell from the prelude that I'm gonna love the way she writes aliens
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A paperback copy of Arkady Martine's "A Desolation Called Peace" lying beside a half-eaten breakfast pastry.
April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Just started this. Picked it up because I liked the title. Didn't know it's part of a series (the big fat 1 on the spine should've clued me in)

I didn't expect the Aztec cyberpunk political intrigue, but I'm here for it!
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Image: a paperback copy of Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire"
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
Image: the album cover of Fiona Apple's "When the Pawn"
December 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Day 20 -- The Fifth Season.
Weird structure + great/brave narrative choices
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Image: a paperback copy of N. K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season" on a white sheet of paper.
December 9, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Day 19 -- Homage to Catalonia
December 8, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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Day 18 -- The Goblin Emperor.
A treatise on doing good.
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Image: a mass market paperback copy of Katherine Addison's "The Goblin Emperor.
December 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Day 17 -- The Lord of the Rings
Image: a box set of Lord of the Rings including The Hobbit
December 6, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Day 16 -- Giovanni's Room.
internalized homophobia, the novel
Image: the Penguin Modern Classics edition of James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room"
December 5, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Day 15
my favorite fairytale retelling:
@naominovik.bsky.social 's Spinning Silver
Image: the cover of Naomi Novik's "Spinning Silver".
December 4, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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Day 14 -- Elizabeth Bishop, Poems
A paperback copy of the complete works of Elizabeth Bishop titled "Poems". The cover shows the poet herself in a camping chair. There's a cat on her chest.
December 3, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Day 13 -- Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär (The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear)
A paperback copy of Walter Moers' "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" in the original German.
December 2, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Day 12 -- Small Gods
#BookChallenge
A paperback copy of Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods" on a white sheet of paper.
December 1, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Day 11 -- Harrow the Ninth
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
A paperback copy of Tamsyn Muir's "Harrow the Ninth" on some white paper. In the foreground of the cover is a short-haired woman with skull face paint. She has a sword strapped to her back and wears what appears to be a human ribcage over her chest. In the background are two skeletons and an ominous blue shimmer.
November 30, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Day 10 -- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
#BookChallenge
A paperback copy of Murakami's "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" on a white sheet of paper. The cover features several stylized items: a well, a telephone, some wrapped lemon drops, and the titular wind-up bird -- a colorful mechanical bird with its wide-open beak and drill-like tongue ponting up toward the other items.
November 29, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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20 books / 20 days

Day 9 -- The Lies of Locke Lamora
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
A worn copy of Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora". The cover art features a somewhat grimy, vaguely Venetian-looking alley complete with canal.
November 28, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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20 books (or series) / 20 days

Day 8 -- The Dandelion Dynasty
A more recent read but I don't think I'll forget Jia, Kuni & co. anytime soon
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#BookChallenge
4 books stacked sideways on an IKEA wall shelf attached to a white wall. The spines read, from bottom to top: "The Grace of Kings", "The Wall of Storms", "The Veiled Throne", and "Speaking Bones". On top of the stack sits a little plastic squirrel.
November 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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20 books / 20 days

Day 7 -- Das lyrische Stenogrammheft
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
A paperback copy of Kaléko's classic collection "Das lyrische Stenogrammheft" on a white sheet of paper. It has a yellow cover with a single prominent painted character who is pictured from the waist up, leaning to the right.
November 26, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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20 books / 20 days

Day 6 -- Invisible Man
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
A worn paperback copy of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" on a white sheet of paper.
November 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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20 books / 20 days

Day 5 -- Nation
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
A hardcover copy of Terry Pratchett's "Nation" on a white sheet of paper. The cover features a stylized wrecked beach and receding waves. The beach is only a slim streak of yellow in the middle of the cover between the blue of the sky and ocean. A ship is beached further inland. A girl in a golden dress looks out over the ocean. The cover art has a white and blue frame on which various objects and animals are depicted.
November 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM