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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Jan 2

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · 12d

"When you have had every freedom pared from you, you learn to hoard the manner and time and method of your death: it becomes the only thing that is really yours."

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Sep 14

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:

• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Sep 15

"I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left."

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Tana 👻 @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Me patiently impatiently waiting for autumn 🍂

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Aug 14

"I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones."

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Tana 👻 @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · Jul 30

being in your 20s is like "if i can just get through this week i'll be ok" but it's every freaking week

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Jul 20

"People are often frightened by the night, but it is in daylight where the real monsters hide. They wear smiles, and they are loved—or else, believed. Those are the most dangerous."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Jul 15

"When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Jun 11

"I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Jun 3

"My mother may be too weak to protect herself, and my sister too young. But I'm neither of those things."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 27

"It was the power of compulsive creation. The power of gods. Such a shame, she thought, that the only way he could access it was through pain and anguish."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 13

"Her heart turned itself inside out, read aloud the writing in red on her arteries and valves, told her pointedly that love was never wholly the grand battles and explosive deeds."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 12

"Regret would always clothe her in a heavy shroud, change the way she moved and the way she met the world. But so too did love. And it was warmer, thicker."

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 9

"Broken things called to broken things, tried to slot their shards together in the hopes that they would fit."

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 6

"This house eats and is eaten...

A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic."

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Book cover for She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran, featuring Jade, the main character, crying as flowers grow out of her mouth.

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 3

"I am where dead children go."
—The Girl from the Well, Rin Chupeco

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Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · May 3

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May 3rd: Share a first line. The first line of a whole book, a chapter, or even the first page you open a book to!

Image: light green rectangle with a dark green border. There are two purple butterflies in the lower left and two orange ones in the upper right. The title is green and curly and the body text is white.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · May 2

Giving away an ARC of The Bewitching. Open worldwide. Enter below. Out this July.

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this multigenerational horror saga called “suspenseful and terrifying” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
gleam.io/VspDb/the-be...

Cover of book showing a creepy hand and bird.

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 1

I'm planning on finishing the rest of the Secret Shanghai series (Foul Lady Fortune duology and Last Violent Call) and then I may delve back into horror... idk

Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · May 1

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May 1st: what are some books you hope to read this month?

Image: a light green rectangle with a dark green border and heading text. The question is in white, and there are four butterflies: two orange ones in the top right and two purple ones in the bottom left.

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · May 1

"Cut down deep and grab what beats beneath, and it is love that will survive after everything else has perished."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Apr 26

"Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora's box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn't have such ghastly claws of its own?"

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Tana 👻 @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · Apr 23

miracle garden

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Apr 17

Massive cliffhanger. I would rather wait years for the next book(s) than have a rushed an unsatisfying ending.

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Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · Apr 17

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This or that: read an incomplete series with a massive cliff hanger (presumably the series won't be completed) OR read a completed series with a rushed ending

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prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Apr 12

"There are thousands of monsters in the world—not just the ones in folktales, but the ones in real life who push girls in front of trains—and yet, there are still people who think Cora Zeng is the most fearsome of all."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Why look at a defenseless girl when the obvious monster bared its teeth? She'd forgotten that terrifying creatures were often wronged girls."

prof. nova ♡ *･ﾟ✧ @novareads.bsky.social · Apr 7

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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