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@sungjuahn.bsky.social

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#PattiSmith #RobertMapplethorpe #Friends #NYC #Art #Music #Love

113/200 💡📚

Book cover of "Just Kids" by Patti Smith.

January 23, 2026 at 7:08 AM

Pink Crimson

@pinkcrimson75.bsky.social

Además de ganar el #PremioNadal, "Entre visillos" (1957) consagró definitivamente a #CarmenMartínGaite como una de las narradoras más relevantes de su generación. La vida de un grupo de muchachas en el ambiente mojigato de una ciudad provinciana le sirvió para captar la esencia de toda una época. 📚💡

January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM

Tufty McTavish

@tuftymctavish.com

📆 Most objectives for today have been completed, or at least in-progress:

✅ Strawberry Cheesecake 🍓
⏯️ Bread dough has been prepared and currently proving 🍞
✅ Greenhouse shelves are finally fully re-installed 🔩
⬛️ Two books to read 📖

📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

Two paperback books stood upright side-by-side on a table, each with a yellow bookmark poking out of the top. Both are nearly finished.

“Artifact Space” by Miles Cameron.
“A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zack Weinersmith.

January 24, 2026 at 11:51 AM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

47/400 💙📚💡📚
🎧📖: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: Powerful exploration of mental health and growing up underprivileged

#booksky

January 23, 2026 at 1:28 AM

James

@derpjames.bsky.social

An important reminder that Amazon is a really bad place to browse for books 😬
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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 2d

So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.

Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.

Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...

...I stumbled onto this book.

Front cover of 'Bethlem Hospital: A History of Care and Control' by Evelyn Cross. The image shows a Victorian (?) institution viewed through open gates. Two statues stand on the gate posts

January 22, 2026 at 9:40 PM

QuiteBrief

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January 19, 2026 at 9:36 PM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

45/400 💙📚💡📚
🎧📖: Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: highlights an important topic

#booksky

January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

43/400 💙📚💡📚
📖: Tenderheaded by Michaela angela Davis
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: Interesting memoir

January 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주

@sungjuahn.bsky.social

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#MalcolmX #AlexHaley #AmericanNightmare #BlackSky #Empowerment

111/200 💡📚

Book cover of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley.

January 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM

EFIS_Immunology

@efis-immunology.bsky.social

🌟14th EFIS-EJI TATRA Immunology Conference
💡Proudly supported by #EFIS and @eurjimmunol.bsky.social
🤝organized by the 🇦🇹,🇨🇿+🇸🇰 Immunological Societies
📚unites Europe’s rising #immunology stars since 1994
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Be part of this community shaping the future of immunology & spread the word!

January 21, 2026 at 8:38 AM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

52/400 💙📚💡📚
🎧📖: One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: Important history

#booksky

January 23, 2026 at 10:32 PM

Wiznee 📚💙

@wiznee.bsky.social

Need to get out of this reading slump 🥲

Any new(ish) release recs?

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January 20, 2026 at 11:47 PM

Nic, the Bookseller

@nic-v.bsky.social

Really interesting and insightful reportage on the trial in Australia of Erin Patterson, who poisoned her relatives.

These three accomplished writers interrogate our attitudes to women who kill and the “True Crime” genre, with mature and compassionate reflections.

Enlightening.

#books
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The Mushroom Tapes:
Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial
By Helen Garner and Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein

January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

34/400 💙📚💡📚
🎧📖: How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: Despite the high bar in the title, her story really shows how all of us are capable of standing up for what is right

#booksky

January 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM

Dave C

@duckpondsreview.bsky.social

2026 #8
An excellent work of medieval history recounting the rise and fall of the first truly French royal family, the Capetians. From their rise in the 10th century to their eventual demise in the 14th, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells their story eloquently. Blurb is in the alt text.
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House of Lilies, The Dynasty That Made Medieval France, by Justine Firnhaber-Baker.

One of the great epics of Europe's history, the story of the rise and rise of the Capetian dynasty dominates the Middle Ages. Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and from the Rh ne to the Pyrenees. They founded practices and institutions that endured until the Revolution, transformed Paris from a muddy backwater to a splendid metropole, and popularized the fleur-de-lys, the lily, as the emblem of France. Time and again, their opponents woefully misjudged who they were up against, as through guile, ruthlessness, luck and marriage the Capetians disposed of them all. This is their story, the story of the most powerful kingdom in Christendom. It is a tale of religious upheaval, heroism, adulterous affairs, holy wars, pogroms and persecution. From Hugh Capet to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Capetians were men and women of vision and ambition, who considered themselves chosen by God to fulfil a great destiny. If they were mistaken in their assumptions and merciless in their methods, in one respect they were right. They did not simply rule France- they created it. House of Lilies is a highly enjoyable, state-of-the-art account of this extraordinary sequence of events, set against one of the great eras in the history of western Europe, a time of remarkable cultural efflorescence. Justine Firnhaber-Baker brilliantly conveys not only the sheer glamour of the French court, but also the intellectual achievements, the battles and the centrality of religion, as well as the series of catastrophes that led to the dynasty's ultimate demise.

January 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM

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January 19, 2026 at 10:24 AM

Sheena 📚🎧✨

@sheenahigh.xyz

My workspace for several hours today! Cutting out vinyl lettering while re-listening to one of my favourite memoirs and enjoying my nth tea.

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🎧 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

#booksky 💙📚 #audiobooks 🎧💓
#currentread 📖 #nonfiction 📚💡 #cricut ✂️

January 19, 2026 at 4:52 PM

HandyBeeW

@handybee.bsky.social

Write your autobiography in five words...

Nature 🌳 🐦 🌅🌄
Nurturing 💕 🧑🏼‍🎓 🤝
Making 🧶 🍰
Exploring 📚 🖋️💡 🥾 ☯️
Enjoying ☕ 💑 🌍 😊

#JoinIn

🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 8d

Cats, Coffee, Wine and Wandering
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January 17, 2026 at 12:58 PM

Tufty McTavish

@tuftymctavish.com

📆 End of the week reading update sees me maintain a slow but steady pace - none of the same surge as last weekend say!

Having a great time with my two books though - from toxic moon dust in ACoM to emergency manual docking procedures in AS 🤗

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

An image captioned “January TBR” featuring a few paperback books arranged in a row on a table. The books are ordered alphabetically by author surname. Some have additional speech balloon-shaped labels on them to give additional context.

“Artifact Space” by Miles Cameron.
“The Mask of Mirrors” by M.A. Carrick (labelled “Readalong”).
“The Dervish House” by Ian McDonald (joined in on the “Readalong” label).
“A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zack Weinersmith.

Books are marked with a giant bomb (to indicate ongoing, active, progress) or a bow (to indicate completion). Some also have a yellow bookmark poking out of the top to indicate they have been started, but may currently be paused while I focus on something else.

Current Reads (3)

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should...
Zach Weinersmith, Kelly...
52%

Judge Dredd Megazine 470: Alien Terror
38%

Artifact Space
Miles Cameron
43%

A graph of my pages read in the last 28 days, which has steadied out throughout January so far, with a high watermark last weekend.

January 18, 2026 at 10:52 PM

鯨庭

@kujiraba.bsky.social

仲西森奈『ホームページ』ご恵贈いただきました！
裏面のコメントを書かせていただきました👾初売りは1/18京都文フリ（今日だ！！！）だそうです📚本屋lighthouseオンラインも💡

日記、短歌、小説、詩、いろんなかたちで綴られる言葉には、共感できるところもあればできないところもあり、それは当たり前。そういう「当たり前」に怯えずにいられれば、きっとわたしたちは重なりあえるよ

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January 18, 2026 at 1:35 AM

Bloomsbury Academic

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

From ancient innovations to AI, “Collaborators through Time” explores how humans have shaped the world together.

Available now: https://bit.ly/48UcaCS

💡📚 #BookSky @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social

January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Ronnica Fatt

@ronnicareads.bsky.social

30/400 💙📚💡📚
🎧📖: Math in Drag by Kyne Santos
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Thoughts: A fun look at math

#booksky

January 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM

柏崎剛

@tkashiwazaki.bsky.social

読みやすさと検索の両取りをねらうなら見出しの設計が鍵だよ✨ hタグは文の序列を伝える旗印🧭 H1はページの主役を一度だけ🎯 H2で大きな章分け、H3で細かい話を整理🧹 キーワードは自然に入れて無理盛りはしないのが吉🌿 こうするとクローラーの抽出がスムーズになってSEOで評価されやすいのだ🔎🚀 文字装飾に頼らず構造で勝つのがかわちい正攻法だよ🎉📚💡

January 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM

Clap 🇦🇹 🇪🇺 📎

@clap1.bsky.social

Guten Morgen, ihr Lieben! ☕❄️

Heute, am 15. Jänner, feiern wir den Wikipedia-Tag – einen der kuriosen Aktionstage, der uns daran erinnert, wie mächtig gemeinsames Wissen sein kann. 📚💡

Wikipedia zeigt auch, was Zusammenarbeit bewirken kann 🤝🌍
#kurioseAktionstage