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World LiteraTour Bookshop

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 8d

Just letting everyone know that Bookshop .org is offering free shipping today & tomorrow on all orders! It's a "stick it to Prime Day" kind of thing & helps out your local bookstore while still giving the comfort of shopping online.

Here's my affiliate shop: bookshop.org/shop/worldli...
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Reading the world's greatest stories. https://worldliteratour.com/

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The Giller Prize Shortlist - My Thoughts

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 8d

New Blog Post: The Giller Prize 2025 Shortlist - My Thoughts

The Giller Prize announced its 2025 shortlist today! Here are my thoughts on each of the contenders. (Spoiler alert: I have some reading to do before November 17.)

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In which I talk about the Giller Prize and each of the books and authors selected for the Giller Prize 2025 shortlist.

Goodreads Spine Tinglers Challenge

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 10d

New Blog Post: Goodreads' Spine Tinglers Challenge

In which I spend way too much time and energy contemplating what to read for Goodreads' new Spine Tinglers challenge. 🤣

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In which I talk about Goodreads' new Spine Tinglers challenge, figure out which ones I'd like to read, and plan a TBR.

September Reading Wrap-Up 2025

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 10d

estivate: verb (zoology) to spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.

How to use estivate in a sentence:

I'm going to estivate until Mother Nature finally figures out IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FALL!!!!

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 11d

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES newsflash! Open Road's reissue of @sgj.bsky.social's ultra-rare flash fiction collection, STATES OF GRACE, gets an expanded edition on 12/9/25, with 20 stories not in the original, 10 of them published here for the first time! SGJ's flash fiction is the bourbon of storytelling 🥃

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 11d

New Blog Post: September Reading Wrap-Up

I read 14 books in September, and I gave 8 of them 5 stars! Horror, thriller, sci-fi, historical fiction, literary fiction, memoir... come see what I was reading over the past month.

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In which I talk about the 14 books I read in September and rank them all from least favourite to favourite.

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 13d

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Booksky Prompts @bookskyprompts.bsky.social · 13d

What's a book you were hesitant to read but ended up loving?

Quote post with your response!

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6:40 to Montreal by Eva Jurczyk: REVIEW

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 15d

#BookReview: 6:40 to Montreal by Eva Jurczyk

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Not your mom's murder-on-a-train mystery, this is a page-turner of a psychological thriller with a pinch of weird-girl-fiction for flavour.

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Not your mom's murder-on-a-train mystery, this is a page-turner of a psychological thriller with a pinch of weird-girl-fiction for flavour.

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 16d

Anne of Green Gables

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Booksky Prompts @bookskyprompts.bsky.social · 16d

What book does the enemies to lovers trope best?

Quote post with your response!

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Victober 2025 TBR and Plans

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 16d

New Blog Post: Victober 2025 TBR!!!

The most wonderful time of the readerly year is upon us, and I've gone a little too crazy with my TBR. But who needs a life anyway, am I right?

worldliteratour.com/09-28-25-vic...

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In which I explain what Victober is and how I will be participating, and then reveal my Victober 2025 TBR.

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 18d

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3 white bookcases full of books and wonderfulness

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 19d

Canada Post is on strike again, so reminder:

divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 19d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 19d

No, your list is the best!

Iceland: The Night Guest (Diplomatica's 'Great Reads')

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 19d

New Blog Post: Iceland: The Night Guest (Diplomatica’s ‘Great Reads’)

In which I ponder why the Icelandic embassy chose a dark, eerie, literary horror novella to represent Iceland's culture and literature. (Not that I'm complaining. I loved it!)

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The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir is the Embassy of Iceland's pick for a book that best represents their culture and literature.

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 20d

I'M SO EXCITED, BUNNY!! 😁🐰📚🥰

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The cover of Mona Awad's new novel We Love You, Bunny, featuring a rabbit mask made out of flowers

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 21d

Incidentally, this is the first time I've read anything (Audition and Flashlight) from the Booker Prize long or shortlist before they were announced, and I read both on recommendations from Bookfinity. Not sponsored, just really really love that bookish resource!

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations, Katie Kitamura, on Audition making the Booker Prize shortlist!

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · Apr 22

#BookReview: Audition by Katie Kitamura

Weirdly enjoyable and thought-provoking. It isn’t for everyone, but if you like a mind-bending, introspective, plot-free character study, be sure to check this one out.

More here on my blog: worldliteratour.com/review-audit...

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Flashlight by Susan Choi: REVIEW

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations, Susan Choi, on Flashlight making the Booker Prize shortlist!

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · Jul 5

#BookReview: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Beautifully written, informative, engaging, and full of complex (if insufferable) characters. A definite awards contender.

More on my blog: worldliteratour.com/review-flash...

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Flashlight is beautifully written, informative, engaging, and full of complex (if insufferable) characters. A definite awards contender.

Isola by Allegra Goodman: REVIEW

Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 22d

#BookReview: Isola by Allegra Goodman

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Brilliant novelization of the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, a 16th-century French noblewoman who spent years marooned on an island.

Here on my blog: worldliteratour.com/review-isola...

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Brilliant novelization of the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, a 16th-century French noblewoman who spent years marooned on an island.

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Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social · 23d

The speed at which I high-tailed it to Amazon... 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ @sgj.bsky.social

Horror DNA @horrordna.bsky.social · 23d

#Kindle deal! Dang! @sgj.bsky.social's AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF is currently FREE! #ad #booksky #freeebook #ebookdeal

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Cover for Stephen Graham Jones' AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF. It features one of those old-timey lightbulb in the middle of the page, glowing yellow...oh hell, looking closer, this lightbulb doubles as a skull. Sleep tight!