msandromeda
@sarahkeliher.bsky.social
Bookseller and bogwitch. Bi/queer gen x nerd currently obsessed with cdramas. Chronically gimpy, socially awkward, hoping to land my dream job as a Victorian Lawn Hermit
I have stacks of things too beat up to list but too cool to pitch. Maybe someone is looking for a copy of this for super, super cheap? It’s hard to find. But very messed up.
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have stacks of things too beat up to list but too cool to pitch. Maybe someone is looking for a copy of this for super, super cheap? It’s hard to find. But very messed up.
If I think I’m going to really love a book it can be hard to even start it. I’ve carted this copy around for years. This year, for many reasons, felt like it was time. It did not disappoint. This book was incredible.
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If I think I’m going to really love a book it can be hard to even start it. I’ve carted this copy around for years. This year, for many reasons, felt like it was time. It did not disappoint. This book was incredible.
Thinking about pushing some nice soothingly boring books. Isn’t the world just a little too frenzied? Maybe you need a nice black and white photo book of Manhole Covers. Sedate. Soporific. No lurid jarring colors or too much motion. No terrible unpredictable surprises. Just still grey quiet.
September 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thinking about pushing some nice soothingly boring books. Isn’t the world just a little too frenzied? Maybe you need a nice black and white photo book of Manhole Covers. Sedate. Soporific. No lurid jarring colors or too much motion. No terrible unpredictable surprises. Just still grey quiet.
Doing some real satisfying cataloging this week
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Doing some real satisfying cataloging this week
Sounds like this dish a friend recently brought over to share. She says it’s a southern delicacy
July 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sounds like this dish a friend recently brought over to share. She says it’s a southern delicacy
I don’t know where this even came from. I’ve found plenty of bad old cookbooks but this is truly an unending parade of horrors. Nothing I’ve flipped to seems edible. So much cottage cheese. So many prunes. So much gelatin. Why, churchwomen? Why.
July 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I don’t know where this even came from. I’ve found plenty of bad old cookbooks but this is truly an unending parade of horrors. Nothing I’ve flipped to seems edible. So much cottage cheese. So many prunes. So much gelatin. Why, churchwomen? Why.
Cryptic yet thoughtful care packages from booksellers: that giant online villain with its hilariously inept algorithm could never hope to match this service. Support your local indies
July 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Cryptic yet thoughtful care packages from booksellers: that giant online villain with its hilariously inept algorithm could never hope to match this service. Support your local indies
Doing some very topical reading while I’m resting. Very slow reading with a very muddy brain. Amazing how relevant this feels: denial, willful ignorance, fudged statistics, blind superstition- all too recognizable today.
July 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Doing some very topical reading while I’m resting. Very slow reading with a very muddy brain. Amazing how relevant this feels: denial, willful ignorance, fudged statistics, blind superstition- all too recognizable today.
When I was young it was hard to track down queer lit for women that spoke to me- Brown’s Terrible Girls being one. What a treasure then to find this philosophical and strangely consoling little book now. We find the stories we need to survive. Shoutout to @vertvoltapress.bsky.social & the rad cover
June 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When I was young it was hard to track down queer lit for women that spoke to me- Brown’s Terrible Girls being one. What a treasure then to find this philosophical and strangely consoling little book now. We find the stories we need to survive. Shoutout to @vertvoltapress.bsky.social & the rad cover
Finished salve - a little hard (I swear eyeballing the beeswax works better for me than weighing it) but perfectly usable. Deeply green from the fresh dried comfrey leaf.
June 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Finished salve - a little hard (I swear eyeballing the beeswax works better for me than weighing it) but perfectly usable. Deeply green from the fresh dried comfrey leaf.
Weed craft part three: tea
June 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Weed craft part three: tea
Pulp lesbian fiction had to follow a clear formula where the girl ended up reformed or chastised by the end. Not for “Artemis Smith”, who gave us a lesbian romance with a happy ending here. Available to order new in an unexpurgated edition (this isn’t that) - a fun, defiant read, well worth knowing
June 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Pulp lesbian fiction had to follow a clear formula where the girl ended up reformed or chastised by the end. Not for “Artemis Smith”, who gave us a lesbian romance with a happy ending here. Available to order new in an unexpurgated edition (this isn’t that) - a fun, defiant read, well worth knowing
Weed craft part two: salve begins
June 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Weed craft part two: salve begins
Caught mid chew in the lettuce; showed no remorse and was not at all impressed by my attempts to shoo him elsewhere
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Caught mid chew in the lettuce; showed no remorse and was not at all impressed by my attempts to shoo him elsewhere
I really fell off with the queer reading recs. Today’s is this utterly charming romance, which perfectly captures what it felt like to be young and trying to find your way in Seattle in the 90s. I feel like it gave me something back I wasn’t even aware I’d lost.
June 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I really fell off with the queer reading recs. Today’s is this utterly charming romance, which perfectly captures what it felt like to be young and trying to find your way in Seattle in the 90s. I feel like it gave me something back I wasn’t even aware I’d lost.
Harvested some volunteer herbs (aka weeds) from the neighborhood garden
June 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Harvested some volunteer herbs (aka weeds) from the neighborhood garden
Pride reading part something: I love the soapy gothic cover on this weirdly underrated classic, about a middle aged spinster who, tired of the worlds demands, runs off to the countryside to sell her soul to the devil. Feels subversive all these decades later, gorgeous, charming, wildly free
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pride reading part something: I love the soapy gothic cover on this weirdly underrated classic, about a middle aged spinster who, tired of the worlds demands, runs off to the countryside to sell her soul to the devil. Feels subversive all these decades later, gorgeous, charming, wildly free
Pride month recommendation 2: Rakesfall - and his earlier book, Saint of Bright Doors. Just astonishingly good - harrowing, wildly imaginative, full of fury and joy and seemingly endless wonders.
June 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Pride month recommendation 2: Rakesfall - and his earlier book, Saint of Bright Doors. Just astonishingly good - harrowing, wildly imaginative, full of fury and joy and seemingly endless wonders.
My upstairs neighbor dug up the parking strip and planted a bunch of flowers. No one seems to have minded & it’s an ever changing oasis for bees, a wild little spot of meadow in the city
May 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My upstairs neighbor dug up the parking strip and planted a bunch of flowers. No one seems to have minded & it’s an ever changing oasis for bees, a wild little spot of meadow in the city
How about some apple blossoms and one weird too close photo of a redbud
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How about some apple blossoms and one weird too close photo of a redbud
Half the personal collection of any bookseller consists of books too appealing to toss yet too trashed to sell. Also this little guy is really speaking to my heart right now
April 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Half the personal collection of any bookseller consists of books too appealing to toss yet too trashed to sell. Also this little guy is really speaking to my heart right now
Tomatoes, basil, red peppers, zaatar oregano, and a couple of melons. Beans starting this weekend. My grow light situation needs improvement but I’ve muddled through many springs with leggy little starts. Thinking about hope and resilience today.
April 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Tomatoes, basil, red peppers, zaatar oregano, and a couple of melons. Beans starting this weekend. My grow light situation needs improvement but I’ve muddled through many springs with leggy little starts. Thinking about hope and resilience today.
Afternoon walk with @ajaxbell.bsky.social to see the cherry blossoms bloom. I wish I took better photos; this doesn’t begin to capture the magic.
March 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Afternoon walk with @ajaxbell.bsky.social to see the cherry blossoms bloom. I wish I took better photos; this doesn’t begin to capture the magic.
I’m in: I present to you my train wreck era (photo credit I believe to @vertvoltapress.bsky.social)
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m in: I present to you my train wreck era (photo credit I believe to @vertvoltapress.bsky.social)
I got to go to the Burke Museum members night and took exactly ONE photo, this display outlining which materials are archival. In case you had any questions about what flavor of nerd I am
March 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I got to go to the Burke Museum members night and took exactly ONE photo, this display outlining which materials are archival. In case you had any questions about what flavor of nerd I am