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Two Snow Whites poisoned by very different apples 🍎 and Witchy Manchester academy I would have given up my laptop to go to 🐈‍⬛️. Could have listened to these three talk Romantasy all night.
With Emma Hinds, Amber Hamilton and Mia Kuzinar.
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Literal chills tonight. 🕯️✨
A spine-tingly evening in @porticolibrary.bsky.social feat @essiefox.bsky.social and @kateagriffin.bsky.social — featuring full-on fangirling over Victorian Gothic (❤️ Jane Eyre ❤️) and a first edition Byron. 📚💀

#BookCommunity #Manchester #GothicLiterature #ReadersLife
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Spooky reading season begins. 📚🎃
Can’t wait to dive back into this one — easily the best 50p I’ve ever spent. 👻

Well, I gave them a bit more than 50p, but got to love pro-reading pricing.

#SpookyReads #BookCommunity #AmReading #AutumnVibes
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Cornish charity shop book haul today. ☀️📚

Nothing beats the thrill of a good find by the sea. 🌊

#BookHaul #BookCommunity #Cornwall #AmReading

And the tbr gets a little fatter...
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#caturday 🐈‍⬛️
October 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Give me a libary, any shape, any size and Im happy... 📚
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
There are books and there's game changers. Bright Haven just absorbed me, it feels so real, so perfectly imperfect, I could read this all again, just looking for the clues. 🔥 🔭🥼✨️

Anyone else read it? 📚

#amreading #bloodoverbrighthaven #mlwang #blusskybookclub
September 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just got the best gift 🎁

Always loved myths and legends, no two stories can ever be told the same way.

It's all about voice and perspective.

📚 ✨️

#mythology #legends #charityshopfinds #booksky
September 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Magical evening ✨️

@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social and @waterstones.bsky.social hosted the perfect Q&A with @rgrosvenorauthor.bsky.social and @jendelaneyauthor.bsky.social. Had me in stitches.

Phase of the evening; 'praise whore' 👌

If you need me, I'll be London bound, nose deep in Witch Bourne...
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well done Zoe 🎊 Tell It To The Bees has been picked for the Good Housekeeping Readers’ Pick! 🐝✨

Over coffee and books, Zoe has always been such a cheerleader. Her advice kept me and my story going.

So happy for you, Zoe — so deserved! 💛

#BookCommunity #RomanceWriters #AmReading #ReadersPick
September 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Five books that made me. 📚✨

The stories that shaped how I write, dream, and build worlds… 👇

What are yours?
Never too old...

#BookBluesky #FantasyReaders #AmReading #BookCommunity
September 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Last week, someone asked me for my top 5 anime GOATs… 🐐🎌

Hardest question of my life... because I had no idea what a GOAT was. 😅

But after a week of intense soul-searching, I finally have my list.
👇

Paprika
Food Wars 🫣
Yu Gi Oh
Kill La Kill
Mononoke

Tell me yours 🙌 sharing is caring
September 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Chappell Roan just conquered the Reading stage like a villan in an '80s fantasy epic. Iconic doesn't even begin to describe what she did here tonight.

#ChappellRoan #PinkPonyClub #Reading25 #festivals #Icon
August 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
She craves the waves 🌊

Surfing on Polzeath will always be my favourite. Maybe because I dont have to crawl out. 😬
August 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can't argue with that... Especially a second hand bookshop. Thats the smell dreams are made of.
July 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
From the North West to London, featuring a classic view from the train...

#northwest #Macclesfield #liverpool #Manchester #London #londonbound #righis #train #pendelino
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
July 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They called it a #hotteok. I call it little dumpling god.

This one is veg and noodles packed and fried in a doughy delicious case. Oh and paint fruit mulled soy over the top.

#Namdeamun market may be touristy in places but it's darn delicious in others.

#seoul #southkorea #food #cantstopeatting
May 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Round the clock ramen 🍜 in Seoul, based entirely off an honour system 💰

I wish we could have this at home.
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Another one makes my 5 🌟 list. I know it's not for everyone and I can't think who I'd even recommend it to but it's taken a special place in (the halls of) my heart.

#Piranesi #blueskybookclub #books #reading #bookclub #justfinished
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
To the independent book stores of the world... Thank you! You making reading an adventure, discovering the undiscovered and stocking the unhyped! Happy #independentbookstoreday 📚
April 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wrapped up The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik. Now onto this famous little number. Keep switching up the genre and I might keep this book a week thing up. 🤞

#blueskybookclub
April 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Editing the ending by the River Kwai today. The water’s calm, the air’s heavy, and the stories are flowing. Not a bad little spot to get lost in these words.

#writingcommunity #writersofbluesky #amediting #thaistyle #makeitspicy #writelikenobodyswatching
April 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If the kingdom of Hyrule has taught me anything... there's a chest behind this door. #zelda #gamers #cambodia
March 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
New drop, new set up. My desk for this morning.
#cantho #vietnam #writing #workinprogress
March 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM