Hangry Menace
@hangrymenace.bsky.social
Bookseller and teacher. Resides in the Cacophony of Woke, raised in the city of cakes and waltzes 🇦🇹 Join a union today ✊ support your local indie bookstore 📚 and pet all the kitties 🐱 Random French content as I move to Dali’s centre of the universe.
This is one of my favourite books of all time. I fell in love with NYC, with Harriet herself, and with the knowledge that there were other people out there who struggled to fit in. A beautiful book. #BookSky
"Harriet the Spy" is beloved as a story about a girl with agency, talent & gender nonconformity. It is underappreciated as an urban story.
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Harriet the spy : Fitzhugh, Louise : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
298 pages : 20 cm
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December 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is one of my favourite books of all time. I fell in love with NYC, with Harriet herself, and with the knowledge that there were other people out there who struggled to fit in. A beautiful book. #BookSky
Available to buy from @bookhaus.bsky.social because the art buyer is a terminally online nerd (it’s me, I am that nerd)
My friend Peter and I did a pod on how to buy a gift. Unlike other gift guides, this is not just a list of products, but suggestions on how to approach gifting (although, this clip is basically about a book we love). 🧵
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December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Available to buy from @bookhaus.bsky.social because the art buyer is a terminally online nerd (it’s me, I am that nerd)
When you see this, post your Christmas season energy level.
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
When you see this, post your Christmas season energy level.
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born (strictly accurate edition)
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born (strictly accurate edition)
Housework is self care, I chant while cleaning, trying to motivate myself.
Clearing admin is self care, I mutter, while filing all the papers.
Budgeting is self care etc etc
I’m hoping the therapist is right and some day I will truly believe.
Clearing admin is self care, I mutter, while filing all the papers.
Budgeting is self care etc etc
I’m hoping the therapist is right and some day I will truly believe.
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Housework is self care, I chant while cleaning, trying to motivate myself.
Clearing admin is self care, I mutter, while filing all the papers.
Budgeting is self care etc etc
I’m hoping the therapist is right and some day I will truly believe.
Clearing admin is self care, I mutter, while filing all the papers.
Budgeting is self care etc etc
I’m hoping the therapist is right and some day I will truly believe.
FEWER!!!
Moving on to some Hangry lore: back in my powerlifting days, I could and did eat more than most men. That was still nothing compared to how much I needed to eat while breastfeeding a newborn and a toddler (yes I was one of those women). Also, fuck this misogynistic shite.
Moving on to some Hangry lore: back in my powerlifting days, I could and did eat more than most men. That was still nothing compared to how much I needed to eat while breastfeeding a newborn and a toddler (yes I was one of those women). Also, fuck this misogynistic shite.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
FEWER!!!
Moving on to some Hangry lore: back in my powerlifting days, I could and did eat more than most men. That was still nothing compared to how much I needed to eat while breastfeeding a newborn and a toddler (yes I was one of those women). Also, fuck this misogynistic shite.
Moving on to some Hangry lore: back in my powerlifting days, I could and did eat more than most men. That was still nothing compared to how much I needed to eat while breastfeeding a newborn and a toddler (yes I was one of those women). Also, fuck this misogynistic shite.
One of my divorce money treats is a new more powerful hand held vacuum cleaner. I got the Shark because it’s called a Shark. And it is incredible. Two fluffy cats, one old woman going bald, a hairy teenager - it laughs in the face of such trivial enemies.
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One of my divorce money treats is a new more powerful hand held vacuum cleaner. I got the Shark because it’s called a Shark. And it is incredible. Two fluffy cats, one old woman going bald, a hairy teenager - it laughs in the face of such trivial enemies.
Mario and the Magician is sublime!
Thomas Mann’s books fall out of copyright (UK/EU) next month, which means - new editions and translations!
Here are two from Pushkin Press: Death in Venice, and three stories (Tonio Kröger, Disorder and Early Sorrow, and Mario and the Magician). All translated by Lesley Chamberlain.
Here are two from Pushkin Press: Death in Venice, and three stories (Tonio Kröger, Disorder and Early Sorrow, and Mario and the Magician). All translated by Lesley Chamberlain.
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Mario and the Magician is sublime!
One of those tiring yet rewarding days as a bookseller - lots of customers asking for recommendations, lots of moving things around and watching them fly off the shelves, lots of lovely conversations. Everyone should have a job they love as much as I love mine 📚 ❤️ #BooksellersOfBluesky
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One of those tiring yet rewarding days as a bookseller - lots of customers asking for recommendations, lots of moving things around and watching them fly off the shelves, lots of lovely conversations. Everyone should have a job they love as much as I love mine 📚 ❤️ #BooksellersOfBluesky
Raccoons. Multiple raccoons. A raccoon army.
If you could own one outrageous, unreasonable, absolutely not feasible to own type animal
What would you get
It can be kinda basic (maybe an armadillo or a very unique breed of tarantula or an expensive high maintenance dog) or out there (lions tigers bears oh my)
I would get
...all of them
What would you get
It can be kinda basic (maybe an armadillo or a very unique breed of tarantula or an expensive high maintenance dog) or out there (lions tigers bears oh my)
I would get
...all of them
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Raccoons. Multiple raccoons. A raccoon army.
I would do this, but my track record with returning library books shows I’m not good at relinquishment. Also, fostered two mama cats and four kittens and ended up keeping 3/6 cats.
Sometimes when someone loses a well loved dog they say "I just can't do this again" I get it.
I would just like to throw a thought out.
Fostering. Think about it. You could save a dogs life. Help it be ready for it's forever home. Have the joy of seeing that dog and it's humans find each other.
I would just like to throw a thought out.
Fostering. Think about it. You could save a dogs life. Help it be ready for it's forever home. Have the joy of seeing that dog and it's humans find each other.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I would do this, but my track record with returning library books shows I’m not good at relinquishment. Also, fostered two mama cats and four kittens and ended up keeping 3/6 cats.
Nothing has motivated me to go and get the meds to deal with my ADHD more than Wes Streeting. Loathsome plastic faced twerp.
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Nothing has motivated me to go and get the meds to deal with my ADHD more than Wes Streeting. Loathsome plastic faced twerp.
I kept Spotify just to see my unwrapped. My top artist? Bach. Still punk AF
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I kept Spotify just to see my unwrapped. My top artist? Bach. Still punk AF
A bit of Hangry lore: in the mid 80s, I was blessed by living in Manhattan. I fell in love with this building, and figured out I could walk home from school past it every day - so I did just that. Gave me a thrill that was very wholesome for a 12/13 yo.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A bit of Hangry lore: in the mid 80s, I was blessed by living in Manhattan. I fell in love with this building, and figured out I could walk home from school past it every day - so I did just that. Gave me a thrill that was very wholesome for a 12/13 yo.
I really want a dog. But I don’t think I can go through the death of another dog. Still not over losing my beloved cloudboi four years on. I do miss that special relationship though, which is odd as I’m very much a cat person.
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I really want a dog. But I don’t think I can go through the death of another dog. Still not over losing my beloved cloudboi four years on. I do miss that special relationship though, which is odd as I’m very much a cat person.
I’ve achieved so much domestically today, including cooking a cottage pie. I obviously need to go on a ‘splat on the sun lounger’ holiday more often.
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’ve achieved so much domestically today, including cooking a cottage pie. I obviously need to go on a ‘splat on the sun lounger’ holiday more often.
Had an amazing dream where I time travelled and set up a publishing house just so I could be the one to publish To Kill a Mockingbird.
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Had an amazing dream where I time travelled and set up a publishing house just so I could be the one to publish To Kill a Mockingbird.
“Still punk AF," I whisper as I put my many medications into my weekly pill sorter.
"Still punk AF," I whisper as I sort batteries, lightbulbs, blister packs, cables & ink cartridges to take to the council recycling bins.
“Still punk AF,” I whisper as I microwave leftover pot roast
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Still punk AF," I whisper as I put my many medications into my weekly pill sorter.
I had a week of very limited processed food, mainly soft drinks. Within 24 hours of returning to eating sugary crap, I unsurprisingly feel like crap myself.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I had a week of very limited processed food, mainly soft drinks. Within 24 hours of returning to eating sugary crap, I unsurprisingly feel like crap myself.
I’m heading back to my kitties, and cannot wait to squeeze them. And then be sulked at for 48 solid hours.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’m heading back to my kitties, and cannot wait to squeeze them. And then be sulked at for 48 solid hours.
I’m absolutely crying with big tears about these bastards on Highland Cops taking Derek the Pine marten away from the guy who rescued him as a baby and reared him. Assholes! Poor guy gets knicked and has his heart broken. Derek taken away from the only father he knows. ACAB indeed. Wankers.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m absolutely crying with big tears about these bastards on Highland Cops taking Derek the Pine marten away from the guy who rescued him as a baby and reared him. Assholes! Poor guy gets knicked and has his heart broken. Derek taken away from the only father he knows. ACAB indeed. Wankers.
Tainted Love was the first music I ever bought. I still adore it. My kids know all the words, and I love that they will always think of me when they hear it.
On this day in 1981, #SoftCell released their debut studio album, "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret".
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tainted Love was the first music I ever bought. I still adore it. My kids know all the words, and I love that they will always think of me when they hear it.
I’ve spent hours today (whilst on holiday, baking in the sun) checking out how insects see flowers and cursing myself for not bringing any paints with me.
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’ve spent hours today (whilst on holiday, baking in the sun) checking out how insects see flowers and cursing myself for not bringing any paints with me.
Really bizarre meeting people in the wild who are completely unaware of history. How could you know nothing about Europeans screwing up Egypt for centuries? Even bloody Asterix has a book about it!!
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Really bizarre meeting people in the wild who are completely unaware of history. How could you know nothing about Europeans screwing up Egypt for centuries? Even bloody Asterix has a book about it!!