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“I am cold/ like last night’s fire,/ and the sitting is hard/ in the age-old pew.”

Mocha & I are spending this wintry morning reading @burgi.bsky.social’s excellent poetry collection, BEHIND NORMALCY.🐶🩵📚
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Feeling a little blue this January? I know the feeling. Here are a few ideas to put a little spring in your step! Happy Friday! ❄️ #whatif #substack #winter #winterdoldrums #read #subscribe #booksky🩵📚
Winter Doldrums
Some thoughts on beating "The January Blues"
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
🩵📚 2026 Reading Thread 📚🩵

Let’s do this! Be prepared for a very random mix of books! Romance, nonfiction, middle grade, literary fiction, I read it all!

I can’t wait to discuss books with you! #booksky

Full reviews on my IG! www.instagram.com/dani.is.book...
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 AM
My advice?
Sit down with a cuppa and read this.
I include books in the counter culture #booksky🩵📚
If you read just one thing today then please consider reading more than one thing, honestly it’s good for you, but still if you are going to read just one thing today then I’d suggest @johnhiggs.bsky.social new piece on subcultures, disappearing countercultures & escaping from the algorithmic yoke
New Moon Letter 1
On Counterculture
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
😍 REVIEW 🎉

THE DALTON FAMILY BUNDLE BKS 1-3 by #MarniMann 4🌟

A great intro to Marni's work. 🌶💥🎂🩵

Indiv bks w narrators added 👇

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

🌶📚💙📚🎧 #books #romancelandia #bookreview #bookrecs #goodread ##steamyreads #dramedy #angstyread #agegaprom #workplaceromance
January 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM
MC'S WEAPON

In The First Sin, Cerobi favors an intricately carved axe. The carvings are ancient runes and the axe was created by the Whole specifically for her.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
#CurrentlyReading 📚
#NowReading

Guilt and Ginataan
by Mia P. Manansala

#booksky 🩵 📖
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
こんばんは🌆
今日は珍しくインドアな一日
アニメ一気見してました🎵

後ほど1月後半のスケジュールも上げるのでチェックしてくださいね〜☑️

昨日はありがとうございました🩷
九州男児さんはやっぱり九州男児さんでした🤭優しさが漢らしい〜💪🏻あの件も引き続き勉強してみますね📚やる気スイッチ押してくれてありがとう♪ 心が温かくなるお話が聞けてほっこり🐶私まで幸せな気持ちになりました😌姿勢改善のお話も興味深かったのでまた情報交換させてください🫶🏻 みなさまにまたお会いできるのを楽しみにしてますね🩵

次回▶︎1/15(木)12時-19時です🙋🏻‍♀️💕
January 13, 2026 at 8:54 AM
🩵📚 Book 120 of 2025- Anne of Avenue A

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 💫

💐Modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion set in New York

Love these retellings. Love Anne and Freddie. Love the growth of both these characters! So good #Booksky
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
A cozy start to the day.

I am happy that I only have one appointment this week, acupuncture later today!

This freshly brewed pour-over to be sipped while reading my book will warm my bones for my run later on. Hehe.

This book is so good!

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#BookSky
January 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
There's still time to grab the Best of 2025 bundle! You get 27 awesome indie books for only $15, including Scars of the Raven! Go get it right now before it ends:

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#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
📚💛📚💚📚🩵📚💜📚🩷
Have started writing again after an 18 month break ~ the fall, the cancer diagnosis, the treatment.

Can’t PROMISE I will finish it, but atm Book 12 in the Victorian Detectives series, ‘Chapter & Hearse’ is a WIP

Check out the other 11: Author.to/Victoriancrime

#books #histfic
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🩵📚 Book 118 of 2025- A Heart for Christmas

⭐️.5/5 💫

⛷️An Advent calendar YA romance set in the French Alps about a girl with a heart transplant and her best friend’s brother who is helping her live again

The plot was fine, but the writing was horrific. It reads like a 13 yo wrote it #Booksky
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 AM
MC'S POSITION IN SOCIETY

In The First Sin, Tårik comes from an upper midblood family, which means he has enjoyed a fair amount of wealth and privilege. This is all lost to him once he's exiled, however.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
SOCIAL CLASSES

Årdrakin society is a stratified one, with clear distinctions between those with great wealth and influence and those with little or none. More info can be found on the wiki:

akairondragon.ca/books/akroda...

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
INSPIRATION

The Akrodaxis has been with me so long, it's difficult to pinpoint something specific as inspiration. I know I took influences from many sources, particularly Disney's Gargoyles, Star Wars, Xena, Star Trek, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, and more.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Yay, Maura!!📚🎉🩵
Exciting publishing news for 2026!

Short-story collection (as Maura Yzmore) and two spicy STEM romance novellas (as Fiona Embers) are all expected to come out in the first half of 2026! 🥳

Looking for books that are already out? books2read.com/fionaembers

#writesky #booksky 📚💙📚🌶📚
#romancelandia
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
A USEFUL ELEMENT

In The First Sin, the MCs briefly return to society and are able to access healthcare to heal their wounds. Healthcare is freely available to all imperials.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Your favorite, fluffy-haired librarian's January reading list! 📚🩵 yes, I've already finished one of them 😂 can you guess which one?

((If you're in my Discord server, NO CHEATING🤣))
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
A PROBLEMATIC ELEMENT

In The First Sin, the MCs run afoul of their society's occasional tendency to exile people for committing egregious crimes. Problem is, in their case the only crime is that they survived while other (more "important") people didn't.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Anyone else still getting confused and thinking you're in 2025? Why not check out the best of 2025 bundle? You get 27 awesome indie books across a wide range of genres, all published this- uh I mean last year!

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#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 AM
🩵📚 Book 113 of 2025- The Gingerbread Bakery

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 💫

🧑‍🍳This takes us back to Dream Harbor this time for the enemies to lovers story of Annie and Mac that has been teased since book 1

I won’t be ashamed for liking this stupid series! It is fun and easy reads! #Booksky
January 5, 2026 at 2:14 AM
SOMETHING TERRIFYING

I've spoken about them before... The karnikurs on Berwen have to be the most terrifying thing I've created in the Akrodaxis so far. They eat their own kind, and they eat people whole. They are basically a maw of teeth and a stomach with six legs.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
SOMETHING GRAND/MAJESTIC

I think that the Akrodaxis itself is pretty majestic. A whole galaxy of different species! They don't always get along, but they always have grand adventures and I'm looking forward to exploring them all.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 📚🩵 🪐📚
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
My first read of 2026 will be 👇

#booksky
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Show me your reads 😊
January 2, 2026 at 11:05 PM