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Becky Robison
@rebb003.bsky.social
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Writer, dog mom, karaoke assassin. Ask me about my dead parents: @deadparentswhatnow.com.
Body in Kentucky, brain everywhere. she/her

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Book 58 of 2025: ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by @hayleycampbell.bsky.social. There are so many more death workers than you imagine. Crime scene cleaners, bereavement midwives, mass casualty investigators, executioners. Campbell speaks with them all. It changers her, and it’ll change you, too. 📚👀
The audiobook cover of Hayley Campbell’s ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, featuring a collage of skulls and birds and plants on a black background.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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My health insurance is going to be over $100 more expensive next year thanks to republicans. From $157.37/month to $268.95/month.
Screenshot that says: Coverage Year 2025 Everyday Bronze - Medical Premium You Pay $157.37 per month Screenshot that says: Coverage Year 2026 Everyday Bronze - Medical Premium You Pay $268.95 per month
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Book 57 of 2025: DRACULA by Bram Stoker. Specifically, the Dracula Daily newsletter. Another year of reading the horror classic day by day in my inbox from May to November. Quincey Morris is still my favorite. 📚👀
The cover of the Dracula Daily collected book, featuring the title in gothic red and gray font on a black background and stylized images of Dracula in each corner.
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Book 56 of 2025: WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com. I’ll follow sworn soldier Alex Easton into as many supernatural adventures as Kingfisher is willing to provide. Hope y’all aren’t claustrophobic. Easton certainly isn’t. Not a bit. 📚👀
The cover of T. Kingfisher’s novel WHAT STALKS THE DEEP, featuring an illustration of what appears to be a black bear or a dog, but desiccated. It’s muzzle worn to bone, a branch piercing its thick neck, blood staining the wood.
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Book 55 of 2025: SUNDIAL by @catrionaward.bsky.social. Picked it up because it takes place in the Mojave and I was heading to Vegas for the weekend. Thank goodness for the brash brightness of Sin City or I may not have been able to sleep. Very heavy, very scary. 📚👀
The cover of Catriona Ward’s novel SUNDIAL, featuring an illustration of a hot pink coyote howling down toward the title on a bright yellow background.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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LOUISVILLE COME LET ME SHROUD YOU!! Seriously, this is going to be really cool. Registration is sliding scale. Sign up! Tell your friends! www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/mement...
A gray background blossoming with darker gray flowers. Blue and black text advertises an event called Memento Mori: A Death Meditation and Living Funeral Ritual. November 8 from 10am to 12pm at Louisville’s Earth & Spirit Center.
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Book 54 of 2025: THE RULE OF FOUR by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason. A friend and I were at a used bookstore, and she pulled this one off the shelf for me. It’s like The Secret History meets The DaVinci Code. It’s *very* 2004. But overall I enjoyed it.
The cover of Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason’s novel THE RULE OF FOUR, featuring the spine of an ancient book.
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Book 53 of 2025: THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION by @margaret.bsky.social. I devoured this novella in one sitting, much like a deer demon devours the hearts of predators. I am determined to devour the next two books in the series as soon as I can get my hands on them. 📚👀
The cover of Margaret Killjoy’s novella THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION, featuring an illustration of a demon deer with bright red eyes and bloody hooves reflected in ripples of turquoise water.
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Book 52 of 2025: THE RETURN by @rachelharrison.bsky.social. I love this novel because it reminds me of my close group of friends. This is exactly what would happen if one of us mysteriously disappeared for a few years and returned as something not quite human. 📚👀
The cover of Rachel Harrison’s novel THE RETURN, featuring a lone chair in a hot pink hotel hallway, a hulking human shadow on the floor below it.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Adventures on rope. Shout out to Mal for getting me out of this one 😂
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Book 51 of 2025: BLACK FLAME by @scumbelievable.bsky.social. Brutal, sexy, gross, terrifying. Despite the haunted exploitation film, the scariest creatures are, of course, the straight people. Loved it. 📚👀
The cover of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s novella BLACK FLAME, featuring an androgynous figure with slick black hair and black blood bleeding from shining eyes, reels of film spilling from their mouth and winding around their neck.
October 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Book 50 of 2025: CRAFTING FOR SINNERS by @jennykiefer.com. One queer woman vs. a craft store full of violent religious zealots. My bets were on the queer woman all along. Hope you’re not afraid of rats. 📚👀
The cover of Jenny Kiefer’s novel CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, featuring a pair of crocheted praying hands, loose threads spilling like blood and gore from the wrists.
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Book 49 of 2025: THE HOUSEGUEST & OTHER STORIES by Amparo Dávila. The marketing copy described her work as Poe-like, and that seems about right to me. A mid-20th century Mexican Poe. Very good! 📚👀
The cover of Amparo Dávila’s collection THE HOUSEGUEST, featuring a painting of a pink chair on a green background
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Here’s me doing some stuff on a trapeze.
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Book 48 of 2025: THIRST by Marina Yuszczuk. It’s a gothic vampire novel! It’s a grief horror novel! It’s a gothic vampire grief horror novel! All centered on one storied cemetery in Buenos Aires… 📚👀
The cover of Marina Yuszczuk’s novel THIRST, translated by Heather Cleary. The cover features the title and author’s name in bold pink text on a bright red background. The torso of a suggestive Greek statue lounges across the bottom of the cover, and the two wounds of a vampire bite bleed between the title and author’s name.
October 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Book 47 of 2025: NEFANDO by @monaojedaf.bsky.social. Loved her book Jawbone, so I was excited to dive into this one about a mysterious video game—which was very good and also absolutely fucked. Fair warning! If you can handle intense brutality in horror, you should read it. 📚👀
The cover of Mónica Ojeda’s novel NEFANDO, translated by Sarah Booker, featuring what appears to be an orange eye with a crocodile-scale iris and a lightning-shattered pupil beneath a series of empty boxes, clickable x’s scattered throughout.
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Book 46 of 2025: HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor. What a book! Violent, sweeping, poetic, weird, tragic. Despite its brutality, you don’t want to stop reading. 📚👀
The cover of Fernanda Melchor’s novel HURRICANE SEASON, featuring a harsh white tear across the black background, rending the title and author’s name in two.
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Book 45 of 2025: KILL YOUR DARLING by @claymcleod.bsky.social. Read this in one sitting for @horrorbookstore.bsky.social’s book club and now I am very sad! It is depressing-scary! A good one to devour quickly, though. 📚👀
The cover of Clay McLeod Chapman’s KILL YOUR DARLING, featuring a child in a blue t-shirt with duct tape wrapped all around his head, round eyes poorly sketched on top in sharpie.
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Book 44 of 2025: A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE by Mariana Enriquez. I think this is her best book yet, which is saying something considering the others were so good. A monstrous talent. 📚👀
The cover of Mariana Enriquez’s short story collection A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE, featuring a shadowy figure in a purple-red cloak, wildflowers growing in and around where the head should be. One gray hand holds a small mirror. All this appears on a bright yellow background.
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Book 43 of 2025: THE COVER GIRL by @mossyair.bsky.social. Spent half the day in bed finishing this gut-punch of a novel about a teen model in the 1970s and her relationship with a much older rockstar—and her gradual, painful realization that “relationship” is the wrong word. What a debut! 📚👀
The cover of Amy Rossi’s novel THE COVER GIRL, featuring snapshots of a young woman, some circled for keeping and others crossed out, all stop a bright blue background.
September 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Okie says hi 🐾
A black and white cattle dog with her ears perked up looks at the camera expectantly
September 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Book 42 of 2025: HARD COPY by Fien Veldman, translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans. I love office satires. I love when inanimate objects are characters. I loved this book. 📚👀
The cover of Fien Veldman’s novel HARD COPY, featuring a picture of a woman pressing her face into the glass of a copy machine, her lips and nose squished.
September 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Book 41 of 2025: THE CORNBREAD MAFIA by @jimhigdon.bsky.social. Figured I’d learn a little Kentucky history while driving from Louisville to Chicago and back. For a trip to Amsterdam, no less. Subject matter appropriate! If you love true crime where you root for the criminals, this one’s for you. 📚👀
The audiobook cover of James Higdon’s book THE CORNBREAD MAFIA, featuring a snapshot of a shirtless, elderly man with a grizzled white beard smoking a joint.
September 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Book 40 of 2025: PEOPLE WITH NO CHARISMA by @jenteposthuma.bsky.social, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Those of us writing books about dead parents gotta stick together, even if we’re writing fiction vs. nonfiction, and in Dutch vs. in English. This was great—bluntly funny, gently sad. 📚👀
The cover of the English translation of Jente Posthuma’s novel PEOPLE WITH NO CHARISMA, featuring a deer peering through an orange square on the otherwise light blue cover.
September 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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465 steps up the Domtoren today. Procuring a much needed beer before trekking back to the hotel.
A chandelier from below in a tall brick chapel with stained glass windows A bell tucked into the shadowed corner of a wooden belfry Utrecht from above
August 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM