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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛

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Unapologetically Queer. Neurodivergent (ADHD) & Perimenopausal (⚠️). Diverse Reader. Bibliophile. 2025 📚 = 77/72 (original goal = 48 😂) https://linktr.ee/auntieyorgareads?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · Sep 1

📚 August 2025 Reads 📚

Work was super busy this month, so I didn’t get through as many books as usual, but what I did read was fantabulous!

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🍂 The Good House by Tananarive Due 🍂

🎥 Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin 🎥

Both very creepy, strange, and horrific 🥀

Sooo good!

Pictured is a graphic of my August 2025 reads courtesy of #TheStoryGraph

9 books
3,102 pages
4.19 avg rating

I read:
100% fiction
Average book length = 326 pages
Average time to finish = 6 days
44% audiobooks and 56% print books
Top 3 Genres were horror, LGBTQIA+, fantasy

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 2d

We can win.
The last 10 months have been horrifying. But we didn't give up. We didn't cower.
Tomorrow there is still so much work to do but we got this.
Tonight celebrate our wins big and small.
Hold onto the hope you're feeling right now & roll up your sleeves!

WE FUCKING GOT THIS

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

FUCKING VOTE

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Cydney | Author Services, ARC Reader @cydney.bsky.social · 8d

If you ever need a second pair of eyes on that substack email, or a beta reader who will give honest, thorough, and kind feedback, or a sensitivity reader who knows all books can benefit from sensitivity reads, I hope you’ll consider booking with me ♥️ forms.gle/2HWY6s2YhNYb...

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 14d

Did someone say candles? AND it’s a Black woman owned company?? Not to mention the added bonus of getting an ARC of Left Unread Books next publication?? Count me in!

#booksky #giveaway

Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday’s winner is announced here, as well as details for today’s giveaway! Go enter!

Bindery Books | 7 Days of Giveaways: DAY TWO

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 14d

I feel your pain and am right there with you

Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 15d

That reminds me that I still need to pre-order the audiobook! Once I do that, I’ll have it in EVERY format (plus an extra physical copy to do a giveaway soon) #booksky

Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 15d

Day one of our 7 days of giveaways in celebration of Cry, Voidbringer’s launch!! Go enter to win today’s prize! And make sure you pre-order your copy today!

Bindery Books | 7 Days of Giveaways: DAY ONE!!!

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15d

Phew managed to make it another day without getting a nazi tattoo. It’s hard out here. Just nazi tattoos roaming the streets attaching themselves to people. Stay woke

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 15d

You are not alone at all! 😊

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 16d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 27d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 16d

We are SEVEN DAYS from our first book launch and here is where my heads at! Go check out my latest blog!

Bindery Books | Why These Seven Days Matter

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 17d

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

#booksky #Blackbooksky

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 16d

Today only, The Nightmare Box and Other Stories paperback is $9.99 through our store! I'll also include a free Solidarity Forever zine, edited by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and me. Perfect Halloween read if you like your horror dark, magical, and angry!
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The Nightmare Box and Other Stories paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black P...

www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 16d

Let's celebrate new books today! @joe-hill.bsky.social @olivieblake.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @saratantlinger.bsky.social @momoshaty.bsky.social @badhandbooks.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social list in the alt text

King Sorrow
Black Carnival
The Midnight Knock
Girl Dinner
Psychopomp & Circumstance
Futility
Cathedral of the Drowned
The Sister’s Curse
Clairviolence
Cyanide Constellations *that @devforst cover! 👀💕
Witches of Honeysuckle House
A Play About a Curse
The Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall
Father Gaftano’s Puppet Catechism
Children of Chicago
The Shoemaker’s Magician

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TJ Alexander @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 19d

Hey I love trans people

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · 19d

My heart is swelling at the show of community today! I can hear the chanting, yelling, horns honking from my new balcony and see soooo many people marching down the street just a couple of blocks away. I’m moving today, otherwise I’d be there joining in!

#NoKings #Colorado

emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 19d

THOUSANDS of protestors at the Fort Collins Colorado #NoKings rally

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 19d

I didn’t grow up reading books and live a life as an avid reader just to not do anything today at 49 years old. I'll be in my State's capitol with fellow Americans and then to a library event celebrating HORROR! 📚✊🚫👑

Five Little Indians
1984
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
The Joy Luck Club
fahrenheit 451
Native Son
Ring Shout
A Clockwork Orange
Beloved
Brave New World
There, There
The Jungle
Lord of the Rings
The Hnadmaid's Tale
The Fervor
Kindred
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Queen of the Cicadas
The Diary of Anne Frank

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Ronnica Fatt @ronnicareads.bsky.social · 22d

578/600 💙📚🪐📚
📖: Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5
Thoughts: Excellent take on confronting oppressive systems. Still processing through it.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 24d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 29d

It's cool and sexy to read books and hate fascism.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Oct 3

Gee, I wonder why people went from calling me a queer horror author to a cosmic horror author.

The fun part is how few were on purpose (Worm trilogy + Game in Yellow) vs how much is cosmic by accident because I'm a weirdo (the rest of it 😅)

Nonetheless, make horror gay AF 🌈 including cosmic horror

Includes or is cosmic horror: The Worm and His Kings, Even the Worm Will Turn, Song of the Tyrant Worm, Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Cruel Angels Past Sundown, A Light Most Hateful, A Game in Yellow, All the Hearts You Eat, No Gods for Drowning

No cosmic:

Cranberry Cove, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow

I don't think it's cosmic but many disagree and refuse to explain, is it the p***y tentacles, the rebuilding of a mind from the inside, what is ittt

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Oct 4

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

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Laura (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐈‍⬛ @auntieyorgareads.bsky.social · Oct 4

What did you think of The Eyes Are the Best Part? I read it in September as well!

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Oct 3

Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror, 2025 Edition, Part I

The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel We Are Always Tender With Our Dead by Eric LaRocca Moonflow by Bitter Karella You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen Bonus: These are all…

Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror, 2025 Edition, Part I

The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel We Are Always Tender With Our Dead by Eric LaRocca Moonflow by Bitter Karella You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen Bonus: These are all novels, but for short stories, check out Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper

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