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Anna M
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Libraries, LibraryReads, cats, RPGs, sff, romance * she/her * Abolish ICE, trans rights are human rights
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surlyspice.bsky.social
AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social releases 1/20/26 from @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #DarkAcademia #ForbiddenMagic #déjàvu #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 12/1!
book cover for an arcane inheritance by kamilah cole with white lettering over a black background with a stylized line drawing of a gothic tower in blue and red
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
THE POET EMPRESS by shen tao @dragons.bsky.social releases 1/20/26 from bramble @torbooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social #debut #fantasy #epic #love #death #poem #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 12/1!
book cover for the poet empress by shen tao with peach lettering over a lush red and black illustration of an asian style palace bordered in flames with a masked figure towering over it, plus a ribbon of chinese characters winding across it with a tiny woman in a green robe standing on the ribbon
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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kadoore.com
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
kadoore.com K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · May 29
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
GRACELESS HEART by isabel ibañez is available 1/13/26 from saturday books @macmillanlib.bsky.social #romantasy #historical #florence #magic #immortality #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 12/1!
book cover for graceless heart by isabel ibañez with a lush iconlike image of a young woman in formal medieval dress before a gilded city enclosed in a gilded red and green frame
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I've been thinking about the incredible work that @siembranc.bsky.social has been doing over the past few years ago and how so much of that work helped lay the groundwork for the community resistance that's taken place over the past few days across NC. I made a donation: www.siembranc.org
Siembra NC | Home
Join Siembra in the fight against ICE, abusive employers and landlords, discrimination and criminalization of the Latinx community in North Carolina.
www.siembranc.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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esqueer.net
This administration isn't beating those nazi allegations.
A screenshot of a "Washington Post Exclusive" news article in dark mode. The headline reads, "U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols." The subtitle below states, "The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items 'potentially divisive.'" The timestamp indicates the article was published "Today at 1:22 p.m. ET."
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
A worthwhile read
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I can't for the life of me remember the names of any of the Murderbot books
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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rubyopalmindy.bsky.social
THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power.

Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Flatlay yellow background (it's my coffee table) with white circular trivet and a copy of the book in the center. Book is dark blue with a darker blue hand with gold sparks flying from it. Title in gold.
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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oliviawaite.com
After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian is out today so nobody has any excuse for reading anything else.

This romance is like six coping mechanisms in a trench coat and not all of them are healthy, but everyone’s trying their best. I am desperate to hear other people react to it.
After Hours at Dooryard Books
The manager of secondhand bookstore takes in a mysterious drifter. And then his best friend and her newborn move in. Everyone spends a lot of time thinking about Walt Whitman and badly processing t…
catsebastian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
@surlyspice.bsky.social you'll be glad to know that our favorite is on here
sleepykittypaw.bsky.social Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 10d
And if you're one of the twos of folks who then wondered, Well, what would your Top 25 all-time Hallmark holiday movies be? Well, here you go

A little off the cuff, so subject to some shifting, but feel like this pretty accurately reflects the ones that stuck with me

letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
Fucked up seeing someone else live the life you deserve
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I can tell how I'm doing by how many times I fail to log in to things that I use all the time. It's not looking good today.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Next on the LibraryReads December 2025 Top 10 list is EVERY DAY I READ: 53 WAYS TO GET CLOSER TO BOOKS by Hwang Bo-reum. Our annotator recommends keeping your TBR list handy while reading! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Next on our December 2025 Top 10 is AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by Kamilah Cole! Our annotator deems this one a "dark academia delight"! @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
ALL OF US MURDERERS by @kjcharleswriter.bsky.social is available now from @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #gothic #historical #dartmoor #queer #family #inheritance #fortune #terror #BookSky
book cover for all of us murderers by kj charles with yellow and white mid century style lettering over an illustration of a shadowy manor house with glowing windows and two suit wearing figures exiting into the foreground
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
david.noll.org David Noll @david.noll.org · 11d
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!
Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
Speaking of reality show romances, @quicunquevult.bsky.social's *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* (releasing 12/9), is a delightful conclusion to the trilogy set in the world of Bake Expectations, a cozy cooking competition with a foul-mouthed producer who finally gets her happy ending! #romance #books
The cover of *Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot* by Alexis Hall, featuring an illustration of two white women standing back to back on top of a table with giant cupcakes around and behind them. The one on the left is wearing a red polka-dotted dress and writing in a notebook, while the one on the right is dressed in a suit jacket and holding a pile of binders. Two union jack flags are poking out of the top left and top right cupcakes.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
helgagrace.bsky.social
4 f/f romances feat. dating show contestants who fall in love:
Can I Steal You for a Second? - @jodimca.bsky.social
Here For the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen & @lydiaetc.bsky.social
Never Ever Getting Back Together - @sgonzalesauthor.bsky.social
Hot Summer - Elle Everhart #books #queer #readadv
The cover of the book "Can I Steal You for a Second?" by Jodi McAlister. The background is a bright pink with a suggested outline of a spotlight at the top and a camera on the left. A brown-skinned woman stands at the top left and a white-skinned woman stands at the bottom right. The cover of the book "Here for the Wrong Reasons" by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang. The background is a bright pink and the illustration features two white women holding hands with a white man visible between them in the distance, with his back turned. There are shadowed suggestions of lights and cameras in the spaces around the characters. The cover of "Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Sophie Gonzales. The art is an illustration of a grand staircase and balconies in blue and pink, with the back of a white man holding a rose at the bottom of the staircase, and two white women above him on either side of the staircase at the first landing. The cover of the book "Hot Summer" by Elle Everhart. This illustrated cover features a pair of white women floating on a large inflatable cushion in a pool dotted with rose petals. A brown-skinned couple are chatting in the background in the pool. The title is presented as if it were pink neon against a cut-out heart that shows a summery sky and open water. A person holding a boom mic comes in from the top left.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Not too early to think about what to read and vote for by December 1st! Thanks for the reminder and leading by example, @booklistsusan.bsky.social !
booklistsusan.bsky.social Susan Maguire @booklistsusan.bsky.social · 14d
I can't believe I'm thinking about it this early BUT here are some suggestsions for the January 2026 @libraryreads.bsky.social LibraryReads list! Votes are due Dec. 1!
Book cover for SUCH A PERFECT FAMILY by Nalini Singh; a large suburban house engulfed in red and orange flames with white letters across the center Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9816461 Book cover for THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by Samahtan Sotto Yambao; a figure in a yellow jacket hangs gleefully off a train headed toward the reader against a pastel blue and pink and white clouded background. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815757 Book cover for GRACELESS HEART by Isabel Ibañez; ornate red and gold and blue frame containing a woman with long brown hair and a blue and red and white dress, holidng a small glowing gem against a sepia-toned backdrop of Florence. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815198 Book cover for THE LAST LETTERS OF SALLY AND WALTER by Cammie McGovern; two small blue figures hold hands against a blue and orange and green Scrabble-checked background. Booklist Review: http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Last-Letters-of-Sally-and-Walter-McGovern-Cammie/pid=9816652
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
helgagrace.bsky.social
I have a day off tomorrow before seven consecutive days of work, so naturally I have *checks calendar* five appointments.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM