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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜
@saraiether.bsky.social
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Gamer (board games & RPGs), Cat Lover, Ace, Reader of Books!
Supporter of art, Indies (bookshops & authors), small businesses, human rights
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💙📚💡📚🎧 One of my favorite reads from October. I've not given mich thought to any unique foods that exist in America. It dows make me wonder about what might be in my backyard that I am missing. I'll have to explore The Ark of Taste on my own.
#booksky
Endangered Eating by Sarah Lohman, author of Eight Flavors A white label on a wooden crate has a blue outline with text of the title & author's name in it. Center between are two yellow apples connected to a branch. One of the apples has a label with the text "America's Vanishing Foods"
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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💙📚🪐 Revisting this one from my childhood. A world that struggles with over population & volatile climate there are those with Talent, physic abilities that can be anything, pre-cog, telepathy, kinetics, and more!
#booksky
Pegasus in Flight by Ann McCaffrey A teenage boy dressed in baggy white shirt & pants with tan shoes is sitting partially cross legged while floating with a grey office chair to his left. The background looks to be a lot of machinery you might see for flights and an online image of a ship behind the boy.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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📚💙🪐A lot going on for length of this book. Shizuka's quest to deliver a 7th soul. Katrina finding herself despite a world against her. Lan also finding herself after delivering her family to safety.
Either expanding on the different threads or pairing down the storylines would have been help.
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki A white & orange koi fish swirls in water reflecting the dark night sky of stars.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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📚💙 The last 10 days of Oct were rough personally. I didn't read as much as I had hoped. Overall it was a good month. Highly recommend reading Endangered Eating. I want to dig into the Ark of Taste and see what foods may be super local to me.
#monthlywrapup #StoryGraph
Saraiphin's October 2025 Wrap-Up Books: 11 Pages: 3,180 Av Rating: 3.93 Highest rated: Endangered Eating 4.5 ⭐️ Far Sector 4.5 ⭐️ The Darkness Manifesto 4.25 ⭐️
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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♟️🎲 I was more than happy to bring #CritterKitchen to a #gamenight by request. I love how the a la carte expansion changes the game up a lot. I enjoy this best at 4 or 5 players. This particular game was close on points.
#boardgames #boardgamenight #hangingwithfriends
Critter Kitchen game during the final phase.
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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♟️🎲 Played #APlaceForAllMyBooks at a friend's house last week. The game is cute & cozy. Perfect for the introverted book lover. I'd like to play again & see if I can do better. Also different player counts. Debating if this is something to pickup for my own collection.
#gamenight #boardgames
The blue board for the game A Place For All My Books. This is mid to late game. A 4x4 grid of squares contains mini wooden book tokens in red, yellow, green, & blue in stacks of 0 to 4. Cards are on either side of the board.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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♟️🎲 Had the chance to play the co-op variant last night of #TerraformingMarsAres. We lost missing the the final 2 advancements of oxygen. VP total was no where near 80 for the winning condition. Overall I still think we did well.
#boardgames #boardgamenight #gamenight #hangingwithfriends
Terraforming Mars Ares mid-game
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Saw this little guy on a walk recently. Folklore has it the amount of brown/black will determine the severity of winter. I never recall the details.

#WoolyBear #naturewalk #naturephotography #folklore #walking #fall #autumn
A wooly bear caterpillar on grey asphalt. Black front & back ends with medium brown in the middle.
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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💙📚🪐📚🎧 This didn't land the way The Starless Sea & The Ten Thousand Doors of January did for me. I don't know why. It's well written. Started slow, picks up speed as it keeps going. Perhaps there was a bit more terror & fear than I anticipated rather than exploring of worlds.
#booksky
The Ciry of Stardust by Georgia Summers An old fashion key is surrounded by an ornate frame that has leaves coming out of it. The bottom corners have buildings. The top center of the frame has a building and a latern in front. The background is a dark star filled sky.
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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💙📚🎧📚🪐 I saw a lot of positive buzz about this one. I'm glad to have picked it up on sale. I wasn't sure I would like it. A bit slower than I expected at first. I enjoyed guessing at what was going on and where the story led. Would recommend.
#booksky
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young Reminds me of looking up through trees on the side of hill or cliff? into the sky that is mostly cloudy. There a rays of light coming from a central point and sparkles of what I gather to be fireflies. I hope this alt text is okay. Not entirely sure how to describe this.
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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💙📚🪐 I really enjoyed this! A lucky thrift find. This quote really struck me for the times in which we find ourselves today.
"But a society cannot be forced to order, Jo, against it'scollective will. We must grow. Change. As appealing as fascism is to the fearful, it isn't sustainable."
#booksky
Farsector by N K Jemisin art by Jamal Campbell A black woman with cat eye style shaped green lens glasses has her right fist up with a Green Latern ring.
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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♟️🎲 I love #Tsuro! It's such a simple game that can be played as causally or seriously as you'd like. 2-8 players and usually quick. It's been around for two decades!
#gamenight #gameday #boardgames #boardgame #hangingwithfriends
Mid-game play of Tsuro.
October 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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💙📚Fun, light read. Suspension of disbelief of the competency of the competitors given thier ages, the number of competitors & the amount of control the spectators of the competition.
Enjoyed Oceans 11 or Leverage? Then there's a good chance you'll like this.
#booksky #diversereads #diversebooks
Thieves Gambit by Kayvion Lewis The best can play. Only one will win. "A high-octane thriller" - Alex Aster Red cover. Title is tilting slightly up. Black text, outlined in what is meant to be a golden silver shine. A black guy runs to the left above the title. A black gal runs to the right under the title.
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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💙📚 Lunari decided that I was doing too much reading and demanded pets. I didn't think she would sit on my book. 🤦 At least she was happy.
#booksky #Caturday #readingwithcats #catsofbluesky
Lunari a tortie cat is sticking on top of an open book that is on a white pillow on a human's lap. Part of the books cover that can be seen is a bright red. A right hand is petting Lunari with a wrist watch that has a darkened screen. (smartwatch)
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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💙📚💡📚🎧 Light pollution is something I think about from time to time. This provides a more in depth view of concepts that I haven't previously considered. It also makes me want to see what I can do to help limit it's effects.
#booksky #TheDarknessManifesto
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life by Johan Eklöf A full moon in the sky and shadowy trees. Darker teal blue as the primary color of the sky backdrop. Text in white and yellow for the sub title.
October 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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💙📚🪐 I liked the morally grey MC. Some interesting side characters. It was slow until about 2/3 of the way through picking up to medium.
Overall it lacks depth that I can't place my finger on.
Maybe the 2nd book would make this story more complete.
#booksky
Inferno's Heir by Tuffan Wang Stylized man and woman that reminds me a bit playing cards. The woman faces upward, the title at a slight angle though the middle, while the man is upside down. The woman has her hand up with flames in it. The man is holding a bird in a cage that is on fire with smoke rising.
October 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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📚💙🎧📚🪐 Picks up where the last book left off. I enjoyed seeing the MC make her bad decisions that might not lead to the best places. The romance was cute. Characters coming into their own was nice.
The ending wasn't a solid landing. It was still satisfying. Happy to have given this a read.
#booksky
Thief of Night by Holly Black Text in gold-ish coloring The cover appears to be a cream colored paper torn diagonally and burnt. The tear reveals a black sky of stars and a lunar eclipse.
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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📚💙 I haven't finnished posting all my Sept reads individually. I'm starting to think it might be another week or more. Getting this up before I forget.

#booksky #monthlywrap-up #StoryGraph
Saraiphim's Sept 2025 Wrap-up Books: 13 Pages: 4,246 Av Rating: 4.19 Highest Rated: The Pharaoh's Cat 5⭐️, Entangled Life 5⭐️, Aftertaste 5⭐️ 77% Fiction 23% Nonfiction 54% Audio 46% Print
October 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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💙📚🪐 A good collection of fantasy short stories. My favorites were Paintbox & The Wild Hunt.
I picked this up secondhand. From what I can tell it appears to have been a KS. Not something widely circulating.
#ThePharaoh'sCat #booksky #shortstories
Thw Pharaoh's Cat by Lisanne Norman An Egyptian stylized cat sits with wings. Crescent moons of black and white on either side. Parchment colored background, black outlines of the image and orange text.
October 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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💙📚💡📚🎧 I'm finding part of my nonfiction niche is leaning towards plant, extending to Fungi. There are some concept overlaps with a few other books I've read. It's fascinating to realize how much Fungi are a part of our lives. 🍄
#booksky #fungi
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Black background. White text in the center surrounded by several different types of Fungi pointed 'up' at the text. A tangled branching web of roots (or rather mycelium) is faintly visible.
October 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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💙📚🪐 I loved this! It starts off almost cozy and ramps up. Magical realism with a spooky vibe. Sometimes, we think we are doing something amazing when it might be doing the opposite. Grief for the lost. A desire to relive a moment again. The ending is bittersweet.
#booksky #aftertaste
After Taste by Daria Lavelle Salt (or perhaps sugar) is facing into blue smoke. Black background. White text.
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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💙📚🎧 I really enjoyed this. Most of the MCs are beyond their teen years. It's refreshing to have that sort of maturity. There are some romance plots within they aren't the main focus. It's wonderful to see a group of women work to help & lift one another up.
#booksky
The Secret Book Society by Madlune Martin Text in white. Background in a deep blue. Yellowish gold details of flowers to the left & right of the cover.
October 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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♟️🎲 Played #Vantage with some friends last night. It's an interesting world. I would love to play it some more in the future. This is an experience type game. We had an epic victory completing the mission to fully level up & the destiny to repair our ship.
#gamenight #gameday #boardgames #boardgame
The start of the game Vantage. The lefthand of the player to the right is gesturing toward dice on a player boards. Player boards are from POV foing clockwise - blue, orange, green and a bit of the top of the red board is visible. Boards feature a character in the middle and 8 blank spaces around that will fit more cards. (blank spaces correspond with associated colors)
September 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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💙📚🪐📚🎧 I was slightly unsettled listening to some parts of this. Imagine experiencing the memories of an entire people. All the trauma of those lives. The MC Yetu is tasked with just that. It's haunting. A bit horrifying. I'll read this again.
#booksky
The Deep by Rivers Solomon A mermaid shaped individual swims under water looking up to a light above. Various sea creatures swim around them, including a large whale.
September 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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💙📚🪐 On reading the summary and then the introduction, I was excited to read this one. It fell short of my expectations. I may have set the bar too high. The most interesting stories were Director's Cut and The Library of Lost Things.
#booksky #shortstories
Stories to Sing in the Dark by Mathew Bright Introduction by Christopher Barzak A person appears to be walking on top of a treadmill branch towards another fromba different tree. Several red glowing patterns are hanging in the air.
September 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM