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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to have a serious discussion about my TBR 😒 #booktube #booksky youtu.be/dGeoag6OZkM

The TBR Diaries | How I'm Planning on Getting my TBR from Nearly 1000 books to 0(ish)!

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · 3d

I read 16 books in September! Check out my thoughts on each, and watch me absolutely lose the plot toward the end! #booksky #booktube youtu.be/9sW-ESgwUns

I read 16 books in September! | Horror, fantasy, crime, and more!

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · 3d

I read 16 books in September! Check out my thoughts on each, and watch me absolutely lose the plot toward the end! #booksky #booktube youtu.be/9sW-ESgwUns

I read 16 books in September! | Horror, fantasy, crime, and more!

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · 5d

After two and a half years away, I'm back on BookTube! I was dealing with a lot and decided to step away, but I've decided now is the time to hop back on and destroy all your TBRs youtu.be/7HTVgaqNjl4 #booksky #booktube

Oh hi there, Booktube | I'm back!

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RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 22d

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social

www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income

This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · 26d

It has been so long since I went wild and bought a metric butt load of books. I was grumpy the other day and slipped into old habits 😂. Anyway, these arrived the other day, along with two preorders.

More books are still to come 😁

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A stack of books being held up in front of a bookshelf. The titles are Queen of the Cicadas, When Devils Sing, Murder in the House of Omari, The Road to Jonestown, Now Comes the Most, Hot Wax, and Among the Burning Flowers

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · Sep 10

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hanging out with my youngest and reading after work 🥰
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A photo of a little tuxedo cat and a copy of the book Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Sep 5

Me with every T. Kingfisher book, to be fair. Snake-Eater is just my most recent read and FUCK it's so good.

A little drawing of a feral human consuming Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher and generally losing their mind

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Sep 4

I just want all my buddies who still play PokemonGo to know that I see you and I love you, fellow dorks.

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was left unsupervised in Blackwells yesterday. I blake everyone but myself.

A stack of books being held on front of a bookshelf: Witches, Wizards and Sorcerers; Dragons, Wyverns and Serpents; Fledgeling; How to Survive a Horror Story; and You Weren't Meant to be Human

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 24

Update: I finished Lost Souls last night and it was wonderful! Five more to go

Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm in the middle of six books (including A Natural History of Dragons via audiobook). I want to finish reading them all by the end of the month!

A spread of books featuring Isle in the Silver Sea, The Lake House, Lost Souls Meet Under the Full Moon, an anthology of Scottish folktales, and The Midnight Feast.

Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm in the middle of six books (including A Natural History of Dragons via audiobook). I want to finish reading them all by the end of the month!

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 14

I finished Play Nice by Rachel Harrison last night and FUCK IT WAS SO GOOD. I think it's my favourite thing I've read this year so far??

Influencer-haunted house horror exploring childhood trauma, sisterly relationships, and gaslighting. So GOOD!!! @titanbooks.bsky.social

Book cover for Rachel Harrison's Play Nice

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 6

Had some good news today so I bought myself a little treat 🙂

A hand holding two books up in front of a bookshelf. The books are Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimov and The Baby Sitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Aug 6

I read 13 books in the month of July, from new favourites to surprising disappointments. Check out my July reading wrap up! #booksky #bookreviews #bookblog ishouldreadthat.co.uk/2025/08/06/j...

Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm terrible about actually finishing series, but 2025 has somehow changed me. I keep picking up books in series and actually, like, reading them.

I've started and finished two series this year and am catching up on about five more.

is this...growth? Maturity? Something else?

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 30

I read through the entire Immortals quartet in June and absolutely loved it! Check out my thoughts on this beloved children's fantasy series. #bookreview #booksky #bookreview ishouldreadthat.co.uk/2025/07/30/t...

The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce

Series review In my mid-thirties, I’m making an effort to right the wrongs of my childhood reading. I devoured Tamora Pierce’s The Song of the Lioness series as a kid and absolutely loved it, but I…

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 26

I actually didn't!! Might look into that...

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 26

Saturday morning 😌

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A Kobo e-reader in its stand displaying the cover of Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 21

A vastly underrated novella for those of us who love a spooky little treat. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · Jul 21

My paranormal thriller RAGGED ALICE was shortlisted for the BSFA and British Fantasy awards, but I don't think it ever really found its intended audience.

A small Welsh town. A string of murders. And a detective who can literally see the evil in people’s souls.

www.garethlpowell.com/ragged-alice/

The cover of RAGGED ALICE shows a woman’s face with yellow police tape covering her eyes.

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 18

A swashbuckling midlife crisis adventure with all the charm and humour of the previous books: Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree #booksky #bookreview #bookblog ishouldreadthat.co.uk/2025/07/18/b...

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree

Book review1 ★★★★★ Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang ou…

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 18

A swashbuckling midlife crisis adventure with all the charm and humour of the previous books: Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree

Book review1 ★★★★★ Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend's coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her! If only things were so simple .

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · Jul 15

THE BEWITCHING is out today. A tale of supernatural suspense across time, from Mexico in 1908 to Massachusetts in the 1990s.
"In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.”—Tananarive Due
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...

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