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Eddy Reads (she/her)
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The question on everyone's mind: what's Eddy reading? #BookSky
Just another bookseller keen to chit chat about all of the #books I'm spending time with. Love #poetry #fiction #fantasy #memoir and more.
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October #Reading wrap up! Delved into some genres I don't usually check out: #PersonalEssays, #YoungAdult, and #EarlyReaders in addition to my more classic literary and speculative #fiction.
A cream coloured graphic with the header "October 2025 Reading Wrap Up". Next to the cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: “A wishful rumour. That’s all it ever was.” This is a breathtaking ethical exploration and an equally touching story about the quality and essentiality of relationships. Ishiguro has such a touch with his prose. The world is engaging, lived-in. Halisham and its students felt real to me. The behind the scenes politics felt real to me. But above all else, Kathy, Tommy, and especially Ruth felt real to me. The behaviours displayed, especially as children, captured something I’d almost forgotten. A masterpiece. Suggested media pairing: Pantheon. Next to the cover of Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa: This was a great character study. I enjoyed spending time in the shop and in the mind of Ning, the nine-fingered nail salon owner and former boxer. The characters were fleshed out and compelling. It’s a rich text, there so many lenses one could use to think about it and discuss it. I, who am not a high-vibes, low-plot kind of reader, did want more to happen in this well-drawn, intriguing space. A cream-coloured background that reads "October 2025 Reading Wrap Up". Next to the cover of Sloppy by Rax King: This collection of personal essays was a strange one for me because this author and I apparently have a lot in common down to the analogies we use and observations we make. Bit bizarre as an experience, and perhaps biases me as a reader for the more and less favourable (relatability is like that, right?). I loved her prose. The similes especially felt crips, fresh, and spot on. Sloppy is a good, funny collection of essays about grief, addiction, ADHD and mental illness, bad spending habits and temporary jobs, the fuck uppery we inherit and perpetuate, and being an all-around outsider weirdo. Next to the cover of Bunns Rabbit by Alan Barillaro: When I saw this book in the store, I was struck by the visuals. The illustrations in this book were so gorgeous, so alluring and inviting that I knew I’d have to revisit them again and again. Having read it, I will indeed be going back to page through Bunns Rabbit. All throughout, the art consistently moved me.
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Today's #reading is Vita Nostra, a speculative, dark academia book by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko translated from the Russian byJulia Meitov Hersey.

Today's drinking is a rose latte.

#booksky💙📚
A bohemian, reclaimed light wood table holds a ceramic mug full of a rose latte with two rosebuds centred in the swirls. Next to it is a hardback book entitled "Vita Nostra" .The background of this book is black, the title in gold surrounded by sparkles. The main image is a young white woman wearing black, face turned away, who looks like she's being torn into mist.
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I bought a book yesterday based solely on how moved I was by the illustrations. It's so beautiful, I can't wait to start reading it.
On a pink and white blanket is the book "Bunns Rabbit" by Alan Barillaro. The cover is a sweet, short-eared bunny on her hind legs looking upward inquisitively, standing on a plain of grass. Along the left side, a flock of butterflies flap upward from the bottom towards the top. In the top left, the ghostly face of a fox observes. Our short-eared rabbit protagonist is peeking out from a frightening looking thorn bush towards a yellow butterfly. Everything is textured and dark.
October 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Do you ever read a book and think, "oh shit, this narrator/author/character and I have a weirdly identical vernacular? I've made that same observation?" It's bizarre!
October 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Daily bunny no.3099 is waiting for a turn
Two bunnies are having a sleepover, and are playing videogames on their tv late at night. They have sleeping bags. A cat watches the game intently, and a small bunny (their little sister) is flopped over the television, distracting the two gamer bunnies
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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September was so busy that I barely got any reading done. Still, the offerings from my #TBRPile were consistently strong. Read a collection of #poetry, a book of #philosophy, and two #novels.

I hope your September was full of great reading, #booksky💙📚
A cream coloured graphic with the header "September 2025 Reading Wrap Up". First is the cover of slags. Slags has an orange cover, title "slags" in a rounded, 70s-esque serif font with a photo of a white girl in a barette and orange shirt smoking a cigarette centred in the image I ranked it four stars and wrote the following paragraph: Sisters Sarah and Juliette road trip across Scotland in a camper van for Juliette’s 40th birthday. Scenes of their trip are interspersed with flash backs to Sarah’s teenage memories where she, a trouble maker at an all girls’ school is obsessed with her teacher and helping her friend stalk a boy band. Slags is marketed a funny, messy, romp, but there is so much here. The prose is sharp, but natural; the images striking. Slags is about family, about womanhood, girlhood, and mostly sisterhood. This book deftly demonstrates how sisters are formed indelibly in relation to each other. What struck me most was the illustration of how women are pushed (both internally and externally) towards a few marketable types of sexualization and the struggle for an impossible, perfect sexual agency and sexual standing under the male gaze. The second book cover is "The Anthropologists". The cover is bordered in varied greens. The centre image shows this: At the edge of a table situated outside with a white picket fence behind, is an arm in a black and white striped sweater extending a hand with one finger dipped into a light yellow liquid in a 6 oz glass. I gave it four stars and wrote "Lovely, almost meditative little book. These chapters read like vignettes. A couple are living in a city neither is from. They feel like outsiders, but also like the city is their own. This book moves through their quotidian lives at a time of transition where they are staring down the rest of their adult lives. Do they stay, settle into a new place? When is a city one’s own? How does one form bonds, both to people and to places? What goes into building a home?" A cream coloured background with the heading "September 2025 Reading Wrap Up". The first book is procession by katherena vermette. The cover features gorgeous beadwork. Dark purples, marigold yellows, robin's egg blue, and pink feature heavily. Both the title and the author name are in lowercase, white, sans-serif font. I ranked it four stars and wrote of it "katherena vermette’s new book of poetry is an invitation. As the title suggests, this collection is concerned with who came before us and who will come after, the continuous link of family, what we inherit, and what we transmit forward. The portraits of individuals in the speaker’s family really stand out." Finally, the fourth book is "Should We Go Extinct" by Todd May. The cover is against the background of space. The title "Should we go extinct? A philosophical dilemma for our unbearable times" Is in all caps, sprawling and spaced out. Between the spaced-out words "we and go" is a small, distant view of earth. I didn't know how to rank it, so I didn't. I wrote this: "It seems every month, I end up reading a book I have no idea how to rate. I would have enjoyed the content of this book as a conversation. One of the limitations of philosophy texts with any kind of persuasive bent is that sometimes your objections or skepticisms aren’t addressed. A few times, Todd May introduced an argument and followed it with, “some of you may be saying X, Y, or Z,” and I found myself thinking “oh, no, I was actually thinking A, B, and C” and then the text continues while I’m holding my question. This isn’t a flaw, a text can be only so interactive. I don’t know if I find my position on if humans should go extinct altered, although I’m sure Professor May and I share many of the same concerns. Glad I read it."
October 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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You know how some #book covers just grab you? I've been obsessed with this one since it first landed at the store where I work. Glad I finally got around to reading it. If you have a fave book cover, please share it. I absolutely judge books by their covers 💙📚
Eddy holding a copy of The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas. The cover is bordered in varied greens. The centre image shows this: At the edge of a table situated outside with a white picket fence behind, is an arm in a black and white striped sweater extending a hand with one finger dipped into a light yellow liquid in a 6 oz glass.
October 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Hey #BookSky, I was in the middle of taking photos of some of my favourite #poetry collections when something excellent happened.
A 4x4 spread of poetry collections on a coffee table. From Left to Right: First row: Why I was Late by Charlie Petch, NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy Ray Belcourt, feeld by Jos Charles, Undoing Hours by Selina Boan. Second row: Bluets by Maggie Nelson, My Art Is Killing Me by Amber Dawn, Wayside Sang by Cecily Nicholson, The Problem with Solitaire by Lucia Misch. Third row: None of This Belongs to Me by Ellie Sawatzky, i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos, Excerpts from a Burned Letter by Joelle Barron, Any Psalm You Want by Khary Jackson. Bottom row: The gospel of breaking by Jillian Christmas, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje, my yt mama by Mercedes Eng, and Short Talks by Anne Carson. A very handsome black cat has climbed up onto the 4x4 spread of books and has seated himself right in the middle, looking up at the camera.
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Omg?! 🤩
September 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I have decision freeze trying to pick the next book from my TBR pile. :/
September 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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After a month of very little reading, I was finally able to get back to my book which immediately blessed me with the line "It was as though they'd become a tribute act to themselves. And not a good one. This was not the Australian Pink Floyd. This was ... Amy Housewine." God I love #books. 💙📚
Eddy is holding up a copy of Slags (orange cover, title "slags" in a rounded, 70s-esque serif font with a photo of a girl in a barette and orange shirt smoking a cigarette centred in the image) in front of a lake. The sky behind is blue with puffy white clouds dotting the periwinkle and reflected in the water.
September 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Last Read: 🎧 Should We Go Extinct by Todd May, 📚Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Current Read: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
Next Read: Procession by Katherena Vermette
Current Favourite Song: Seether by Veruca Salt
jenbunnee.bsky.social Jengle Bells 🔔❄️✨ @jenbunnee.bsky.social · Sep 12
last read: 🎧 I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, 📚 The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
current read: The Liar’s Knot by M.A. Carrick
next read: Labyrinth’s Heart by M.A. Carrick (probably, I might need a fantasy break)
current favourite song: Whim by Hayley Williams
wickedhavewon.bsky.social 𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓷 𝓞𝓷 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓯 🎄 @wickedhavewon.bsky.social · Sep 12
last read: Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
current read: Bride by Ali Hazelwood 🎧 and In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy
next read: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
current favourite song: Midnight Sun by Zara Larsson
September 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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1/4

August #reading wrap up! I finished seven #books this month:

Yellowface (Excellent)
Mood Machine (Learned a lot)
I Hope This Finds You Well (Enjoyed it)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Better late than never)
Solitaria (Great craft)
Sagittarius (?!) and
Problematic Summer Romance (💙)
A graphic titled "August 2025 Reading Wrap Up". Two books and little write ups are on the graphic. The cover of Yellowface (yellow cover, eyes looking to the side). Next to it, five stars and the following review: R.F. Kuang is brilliant. The layers upon layers one can excavate here are staggering. After literary phenom Athena Liu dies, literati wannabe Juniper Song (really June Hayword) steals Liu’s manuscript and publishes it under a new, ethnically ambiguous name. This is a glorious character study that is at times upsettingly humane. Yellowface is also an incisive critique of the publishing industry, the crab bucket creative fields can become under capitalism, white supremacy, and the demands white audiences make on the creative output of BIPOC authors. Commentary this sharp and a book I can’t put down? Huge. On the bottom, the cover of Mood Machine (a black cover with ten rounded square icons remniscint of spotify graphics. Four stars. With the review: An informative and insightful examination of Spotify’s exploitative, extractive business practices and the impact this has had both on artists and, more broadly, the way people listen to music. There are many ideas in this text I’ll be thinking about for a long time, chiefly the flattening of philosophies into aesthetics, the datafication of fandom, the shift to a culture of passive listening, and the role that the decontextualization of music plays in efforts to undervalue it.
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Okay #Booksky, please give me your best #BookRecs from your #SealeyChallenge reads. 💙📚
September 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Uff #booksky Yellowface by R.F. Kuang was ✨outstanding✨. Kuang's craft is unmatched. 💙📚 Sharp critique, rich character study, and somehow also just so, so readable.
A photo of Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (yellow cover, eyes looking to the side, title in white impact font over the author name in black typewriter font) atop a mahogany coloured record player in front of a monstera plant and the album cover of the movie version of Wicked.
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Girl, same. 💙📚
A screenshot from duolingo wherein the sentence to translate from Spanish into English is "Necesito comprar libros." (I need to buy books).
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Mistakenly thought the apocalypse would evoke a bit more general urgency from people other than why am I being inconvenienced.
August 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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All the cool cats are leaning into #WiT month 💙📚 #WomenInTranslationMonth #Booksky
A handsome black cat on a blue sofa gazes affectionately towards a copy of Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal (translated by Jessica Moore).
August 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Quote with your fave four reads of the year so far! #booksky📚💙 #LoveToRead #Fiction #Poetry #Nonfiction #UseAltText💕 #AmReading
Cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna. A bright pink background with a faintly discernible portrait of a woman shoulders up in red, also backgrounded. Circles in different shades of brown are foregrounded, two cover her eyes. The title and author name are at the bottom in brown sans serif font. The cover of The Wager by David Grann. The authors name is at the top. The title is at the bottom. The font is white, serif, and looks slightly nibbled on. The text is atop an oil painting of a wild, white-capped sea bashing against a tilting ship, looking like its about to be lost to the waves. The cover of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Most of the cover is a dark blue night sky with golden small stars. The bottom bit has a sea indicated by gold swirls that almost look like they're made of delicate wire, like a bracelet might be. Foregrounded on this is a gold and stone statue of a centaur on his hind legs playing a lyre atop a Corinthian pillar. The cover of Cactus Gardens by Evelyn Lau. An 60s idyllic film patina tints the cover, which shows a hint of sand at the bottom, then a burst of bushes, and then four yellowed-looking palm trees reaching up in the horizontal center of the page. The text, "Cactus Gardens" is in yellow script, reminiscent of a "Wish You Were Here" postcard.
August 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Always thinking about Ilya Kaminsky's #poem "We Lived Happily During the War."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...
Screenshot of poem linked, "We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky from the book Deaf Republic
August 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Poetry Preview with titles from @caitlinpress.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Poetry Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Poetry to look forward to in the second half of 2025
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August 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The last of the party girls and her (seemingly) more put-together sister take a road trip in an 80s winnebago. Early day in Slags, the new #novel by Emma Jane Unsworth still, but so far, so funny. 📚

#amreading #booksky
A copy of the book Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth (orange cover, white font for the title written across the top, a photo of a girl in orange smoking a cigarette in the middle, author name across the bottom) sits diagonally on a navy couch next to a steaming cup of coffee in a pink mug with a variety of cartoon dogs.
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I started listening to #audiobooks while recovering from my first concussion. They have revolutionized the way I read. I'm so grateful for the Libby app and for services like @libro.fm that give me access to great audiobook catalogues through my local library and fave indie bookstores.
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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people are hell-bent on believing that Nobody Reads Anymore just as they're absolutely wedded to Crime Keeps Going Up and I can't understand it. but anyway! Reading!
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 17
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...
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August 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Women in Translation Month!! 🎉
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Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate #WITmonth, we’re having a sale to help you stock up on must-read translated titles. Save 25% off all titles in our Literature in Translation Series written and/or translated by women until August 31, 2025.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM