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Victor's Bookshelf 📚
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Alex Victor, 28, he/they
Reader, data analyst, bookseller, sometimes writer.
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I keep thinking about this recently ngl
The meme format with Lisa Simpson standing in front of an audience with a projector screen behind her back. The screen reads: "Social media stories are a massive scam created to manufacture FOMO and keep us glued to whatever platform is using them because truth is if we all posted permanent content there would be no urgency to check our feeds and we could just log in and catch up whenever."
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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And here they are! I can't wait to dive into it. I flipped through it and kept going OH I LOVE THAT ONE every few pages! Again, fantastic job.
A red box with silver foil in geometric pattern over a wooden surface The opened red box with more geometrical patterns over a wooden surface The opened red box with the cover of the book showing through the paper cut out The book next to its red sleeve, which is die cut and embossed
June 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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@jacobgeller.com's How A Game Lives Deluxe Edition showed up on our doorstep today completely by surprise and it already has a full blown photoshoot planned. This is a wonderful piece of art, not only because of the writing, but because of its design, materials, colours – everything. Wonderful.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Was reading about the #4chan hack on Reuters and brb gonna be laughing at this for the next 3-5 business days
Screenshot of a Reuters article about the 4chan hacking with the last two sentences highlighted. Text: The publication TechCrunch cited an unnamed 4chan moderator as saying they had no reason to dispute the authenticity of the screenshots, and the site was only intermittently available on Tuesday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the details of the incident, nor who might be behind the alleged hack. Messages sent to 4chan's press email went unreturned. One of the two dozen or so alleged moderators purportedly exposed in the hack wrote back using their 4chan email address to say that the site had released a "video statement." The user then pointed Reuters to an unrelated, explicit four-minute video montage. A request for further information was followed by a link to a different video with similar content.
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Foundryside by RJ Bennett 👍

For those who like: fantasy, hard magic systems, sapphic rep, dark themes, heists

I might not continue the series itself for now but this was lots of fun and definitely recommended!

Full review linked below #BookSky 💙📚 #BookReview #Foundryside #RobertJacksonBennett
UK paperback copy of Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet held in front of a bookshelf full of books. The cover shows a robed figure emerging from the fog in a steampunk-like environment.
February 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I HAVE FINISHED MY RE-READ. MY THIRD EYE IS OPEN. I UNDERSTAND NOW. #BookSky 💙📚 #JeffVanderMeer #SouthernReach
A screenshot of a Storygraph challenge marking the four books of the Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer as Complete
February 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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February is the month I finally purge my #TBR and I've never done this before and I'm scared but IT'S TIME. This number hasn't budged in months, maybe a year - there's no way I still wanna read all of these 🤡 #BookSky 📚💙
A Notion screenshot showing a donut chart visualising a to read list breakdown by year the book was acquired. 80 total books, 4 from 2022, 54 from 2023, 20 from 2024, and 2 from 2025.
February 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Salt Slow by Julia Armfield 👍

For those who like: femgore, short stories, sapphic rep, paranatural horror

Not sure short stories as a whole are my thing anymore, but this was a good time nonetheless.

Full review linked below #BookSky 💙📚 #BoomReview #JuliaArmfield #SaltSlow
A hand holding a copy of Salt Slow by Julia Armfield. The cover is an abstract gradient of colour with a white jagged border.
January 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Me after reaching the end of Acceptance by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social during my Southern Reach re-read #BookSky 📚💙
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January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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That's a wrap on 2024! 🎇

Last year I read 60 books (~18.5k pages), less than 2023's 86 books (~25.5k pages), but still very good! Both years had an average score of 3.7⭐, so still a solid score!

My 2025 challenge will be to do more re-reads, and I'm already loving it!
#BookSky 📚💙
A white man with brown hair wearing a t-shirt and jeans sitting next to a stack of 60 books, in front of a bookshelf.
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Hello hello, testing 123? Alex Victor here, bookworm and bookseller, bookstagrammer since 2022, and concerned about the current and future state of Meta products. So here I am now, just in case. How's the bookish community over here? 📚💕
January 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM