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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 16h

We're running a sale on the website. Get 50% off the used books with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. Pictured is Stan Lee, our sweet shop cat who died last year.
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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 6h

💙📚💡📚🎧 Light pollution is something I think about from time to time. This provides a more in depth view of concepts that I haven't previously considered. It also makes me want to see what I can do to help limit it's effects.
#booksky #TheDarknessManifesto

The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life
by Johan Eklöf

A full moon in the sky and shadowy trees. Darker teal blue as the primary color of the sky backdrop. Text in white and yellow for the sub title.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 6h

last book (completed): The Unmaking of June Farrow

current read(s): Maus, and The City of Stardust

Newest TBR add: Map Addict, Confident Women, Endangered Eating, The Book of Doors, The Reading List. (Libro.fm sales)

Eagerly waiting: 3rd book of Sandsea Trilogy - unannounced title

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 6h

Doing pretty good chilling at home today mostly. 🐈‍⬛️ Right now I've got a happy cat on my lap.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 1d

I hope your procedure goes smoothly!

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 2d

💙📚 Well, that was a DNF. Sometimes a book doesn't jibe. It's rare for me to do a complete DNF. I might pause on something & try again later. This is a hard nope.
#booksky #DNF #TriedThatBook

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 2d

Healthy eating. I can spend all the time exercising that I want. If I'm not watching how much I eat, exercise becomes pointless for weight control.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 2d

May his memory be a blessing. It certainly sounds like it is. 🌈🐾

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 2d

I read a good bit. Usually 10-15 books a month with either physical books or audio. Most are 300-500 pages. About a 20 nonfiction/80 fiction split.
Dark Matter sounds interesting. 🤔

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 2d

I did not write this. I'm sure it can be bought on the Zon. I bought it off of Bindery the publishier.

binderybooks.com/books/infern...

Bindery Books

binderybooks.com

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Marc McCaskey @mccaskeym.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t do this lightly and it’s already taken 3 hours to type this much. With my surgery a week ago. I messed up. Long story short I need help & I have no one to help. So here goes nothing. My cats are my life. I have no idea how I’m going to feed them in about 2 weeks. I’m struggling staying out

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 3d

Kudos to that object/cover design.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 3d

🤔 saving this post. I like the cover that is featured here. And it sounds interesting.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 3d

💙📚🪐 I liked the morally grey MC. Some interesting side characters. It was slow until about 2/3 of the way through picking up to medium.
Overall it lacks depth that I can't place my finger on.
Maybe the 2nd book would make this story more complete.
#booksky

Inferno's Heir
by Tuffan Wang

Stylized man and woman that reminds me a bit playing cards. The woman faces upward, the title at a slight angle though the middle, while the man is upside down. The woman has her hand up with flames in it. The man is holding a bird in a cage that is on fire with smoke rising.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 3d

Yippie!! There's no place like home! To your continued progress! 🎉

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 4d

I love Legendborn! I'm waiting for the 3rd book to be released in paperback. (Can't stand a mismatch set.)

One of my most recent TBR adds I've already completed. Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin.

I'm debating between The Unmapping or Bestiary for my next read.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 4d

That looks interesting. TBR +1

Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 4d

Carmilla by J Sheridian Le Fanu, if don't already have it. Published in 1872 originally.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 4d

Or 'random' sound tracks. I don't get the whole 'jet 2 holiday' thing. I have started actively blocking ny account I am not already following if I hear it on a video.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 4d

May her memory be a blessing to and yours.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 4d

This is Calvin at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social. He doesn't eat hay but he has lots of other animals friends who do and he'd love for you to chip in to help feed them for the winter! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

Photo of an adorable shorthaired white and ginger tabby looking sweetly at the camera.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 5d

📚💙🎧📚🪐 Picks up where the last book left off. I enjoyed seeing the MC make her bad decisions that might not lead to the best places. The romance was cute. Characters coming into their own was nice.
The ending wasn't a solid landing. It was still satisfying. Happy to have given this a read.
#booksky

Thief of Night
by Holly Black

Text in gold-ish coloring
The cover appears to be a cream colored paper torn diagonally and burnt. The tear reveals a black sky of stars and a lunar eclipse.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 5d

I want my tax dollars to save lives in the ER. I do NOT want my tax dollars to destroy lives. It’s pretty simple, really.

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 5d

Yippie!! 🎊🎉🎆

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