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Ashley Martin
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Writer. Bookworm. Occasional artist. Fueled by tea, pastries, and rage. She/her 📚🐱🫖🌈♏️
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March reads. 💙📚 And no, you cannot make me pick a favorite. 🧶
A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Water Moon by Samantha Soto Yambao, Entangled Life by Merlin Sandrake, Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho, Woodworm by Layla Martinez, Gathered Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, We Do Not Part by Han Kang. A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman, Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos, They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Final reads/squares of January. (One pro of it being such a never-ending month is I managed to read 9 books). Little Weirds felt like a very timely read in many ways (and I loved Slate’s style of writing). Two of my favorite quotes in a thread below... 💙📚 🧶
The book Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar sits on a tile floor surrounded by a hammer, a folded white tarp, a flashlight, and a granny square made of blue, pink and yellow yarn. The book’s cover has an illustrated silhouette of a man and a woman in a yellow canoe floating on dark blue water, with a light blue background and raindrops and clouds in bright blue and pink. The audio book of Little Weirds by Jenny Slate is shown on an iPad sitting on a gold wire shelf. To the right of the iPad is a houseplant with broad green leaves in a white pot that’s shaped like a face wearing glasses. In the left is a yellow glass candle jar shaped like a beehive and a crocheted granny square in white, pink, blue, green, brown, gray, and yellow yarn. The cover of the audiobook features a wreath of green leaves dotted with random objects, such as a hot dog, a brontosaurus, flowers, a seashell, a bra, a beer can, and a hamburger.
January 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Two words: women’s soccer. (MLS is fine too, but the ladies are better. 😉) We face The Horrors AND share in the collective joy at the same time. 📷: @rosecityriveters.org
January 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I really cannot adequately express the amount of joy this book blanket project is bringing me right now. Not only do I look forward to reading the books, but I’m so excited to make my little squares afterward. It’s like treats on treats. 💙📚 🧶
January 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Seems like a good day to reshare this image that I made back in 2020. Don’t forget to to make joy and rest part of your resistance. But if all you feel right now is grief, that’s okay. #art
On a red background, over an illustration of an orange tree with white blossoms and oranges in its branches, Scrabble tiles spell out the words “Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.”
January 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Me! But mine is granny squares - one for each book I read this year, in the colors of the book’s cover. Here are some of January’s. I love how many different ways you could do this kind of project!
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This book was a fever dream (see: the blurbs on the cover using phrases like “bonkers novel” and “absolutely mental”) that I read in two days. It’s honestly not the type of novel I always enjoy, but my experience highlights the importance of books and their potential impact. A 🧵… (1/5) 💙📚 #books
A book lies on a dark blue tiled floor. It is surrounded by a white towel, several white and beige bottles of skin care products, and a crocheted granny square with a black center surrounded by white, beige and yellow. The book is titled “The Coin” by Yasmin Zaher. The cover is yellow with a light-skinned woman in a long, beige, designer trench coat and snakeskin heels. The woman is standing in profile, kicking her right leg high in the air and raising her right arm in a way that completely blocks the viewer from seeing any part of her face.
January 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Mossy PNW winter walks are the best.
A clump of moss in the shape of a bird clinging to a thin tree branch. Moss and tiny succulents cling to a rock wall.
January 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Book 2 (and granny square 2 🧶) of the year: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk. Finished this one a couple days ago and I’m still thinking about it. This story was so unexpected - beautifully layered, thematically pointed, and quietly spooky (with one hell of an author’s note). 💙📚 #books #crochet
A photo of a book, sitting in a small birch-colored wooden tray. The cover of the book is beige with a bright orange portrait of a woman’s head and torso. She wears a Victorian style dress and a large flowered hat. Superimposed over her face is a greenish-gold colored skull. The title is The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. Also on the tray is a tall, corked, green glass bottle lying on its side, a small tumbler made of smoky grey glass, and a crocheted granny square that is orange in the center, surrounded by mossy green, then beige. The tray of items sits on the ground surrounded by lush green moss, clover, ferns, and scattered bright red leaves..
January 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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First book of 2025 (Wool by Hugh Howey, amazing, 5 stars 💙📚) and first square of my year-long craft project! For each book I read this year, I’m crocheting a granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. By the end of the year, I should have enough for a cozy book blanket. 🧶
A photograph. The book “Wool” by Hugh Howey (the cover is red with an orange staircase spiraling around black letters which spell “Wool” down the center) sits on top of a folded blue jumpsuit. The book is surrounded by three balls of yarn (red, orange, and black), and a crocheted granny square in the same colors lies next to the book.
January 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM