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The Stick: Tea and Books
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An analyst who reads books of all kinds, plays D&D, loves puns, and enjoys a good cup of tea. 🫖🍵☕️ 📚💙 🧙‍♂️ 🎧📚 🪐📚 🌶📚 🩸📚 🐈

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Day 6 is Summer Goblin Market, a Roobios based tisane with cinamon and orange notes. I'm recovering from a second shingles shot today and I need to read a mass market paperback for my OUABC reading challenge and I found this @delilahsdawson.bsky.social romance Wicked As They Come. #booksky #teasky
A book, a green packet of tea, and a purple mug with a dragonfly on it on a white blanket.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Day 5 is Hatters tea. Cinnamon forward black tea with cranberries and Anise. I could smell the strawberries when I opened the package but otherwise it smells like Christmas. Cream balanced it out to a tasty cup. The Strength of the Few continues being my soundtrack. #booksky #teasky ☕️🫖🍵 💙📚 🎧📚 🪐📚
A mug of tea, a clay pot, a green package of tea, a mobile device play8ng an audiobook and a small notebook pinned open with a pen lie on a table.
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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It left me in a place #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #fivenightsatfreddys2 #fnaf #fnaf2
A ★★★ review of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025)
It wasn't great. The dialogue was probably better in the game.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I haven't laughed that hard reading a blog in a long time.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Day three is finally a blend, its herbal, citrus and flowers with lemongrass that completely takes over. 212° for 7 min. I covered it while steeping to protect the chamomile steam. Its decent, better with honey. Still listening to The Strength of the Few. #booksky #teasky ☕️🫖🍵 💙📚 🎧💙 🪐📚
A small notebook, a pen, a cup with peaches on it, a green packet of tea and a mobile device playing an audiobook on a table. The cup is covered by a black umbrella.
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨
a house in the snow with lit up letters spelling out LEON in the front yard
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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As you can see I listen to audiobooks a lot more than music, but this year I switched from Amazon music to Spotify (the lesser of two evils) so I have one of these wrapped things. #spotifywrapped 🎼🎶 #musicsky
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Way too much reality tv for my taste, but this century has been lousy with it. #tvSky 📺
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Check out your 2025 Bluesky Harvest from @anisota.net! anisota.net/harvest/
A graphic of most used emojis on Bluesky. Red and blue hearts, books, teapots, and tea cups are prominent. A grouping of most used words on Bluesky. Booksky, Today's, listening, teasky and book are the most prominent.
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Today's blend is Winter Knight, all flowers and black tea, sweetened with local honey, it smells as good as it tastes. Day 3 is a book to rate and review teas. I'm listening to The Strength of the Few. It's a long book, three separate stories interwoven, still only counts as 1. 💙📚 #teasky 🎧📚 🪐📚 🫖🍵☕️
A mobile device playing an audiobook, a mug of tea, a brown package marked "Teacember Day 3", and a pocket size book on a table.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Someone has finally noticed my haircut. :-)
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Today's blend is peppermint, cocoa nibs, black tea, and cinnamon. Its missing vanilla. Day 2 was a tea bag and as Day 1 was a letter, I feel a bit underwhelmed. I'm listening to The Strength of the Few by James Islington, also underwhelming, but I did LOVE book 1. #booksky #teasky 🫖🍵☕️ 💙📚 🎧📚 🪐📚
Four black cannisters of tea ingredients,a giant mug with a trex attempting to add a star to the top of a Christmas tree, a small vanilla envelope marked as "Day Two", a small teabag, and a mobile device playing the audiobook The Strength of the Few by James Islington on a table.
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I really enjoyed Eternity. #Letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky 🎥📽🎞🎬
Eternity (2025)
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It has arrived! Teacember begins. #teasky ☕️🍵🫖
A box filled with envelopes, "Teacember day 1" is written on the top one. An opened letter is opened on top of the box.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I didn't think it would get here in time. #teasky #teaadvent #teacember
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December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Today's blend is the last of The Gentleman Pirate by Tea & Absinthe. It is chocolate orange goodness. I'm finally listening to Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. This one has been on my TBR for years. #booksky #teasky ☕️🍵🫖 🎧📚 💙📚 🪐📚
A mobile device playing an audiobook and a mug of tea on a table. In the background a skeleton dressed as a pirate and treasure are bluried.
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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November reading wrap up. #storygraph #readingwrapup #novemberwrapup #booksky #romancelandia 🎧📚 💙📚 #wrapup

I am nearing the end of my romance reads - so I suspect that this will shift next month back toward mostly fantasy.

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A storygraph wrap up graphic for November 2025. 22 books read 324 pages 235.28 hours avg rating 4.35 highest rated books were Looking for Group 5.0 The Winners 5.0 Great Big Beautiful Life 5.0 pie charts sow mostly audio and fiction. Top categories are Romance, followed by Contemporary and Fantasy.
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Today's blend is white tea, rose petals, and marigold calendula. I'm still listening to Warrior Princess Assassin, its shaping into a why choose and I'm appreciating the relationship building. #booksky #teasky ☕️🍵🫖 🎧📚 🌶📚 🪐📚 #romancelandia
A mug with a dinosaur on it and a mobile device playing an audiobook on a kitchen counter.
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Faramir and I are figuring out leash training. I just have to convince him to stop trying to climb trees. #caturday #Faramirthecat #catsofbluesky #cats
An orange and white cat wearing a harness and a leash walks over fallen leaves on the ground.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Today's tea is Potion or Poison by Cliché Teas. Its green tea and lemon and delicious with honey. I'm listening to Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer and I'm just now getting that these are three separate characters. Could be a love triangle, could be a why choose. #booksky #teasky 🎧📚 🌶📚
A mug of tea, a tea package, and a mobile device playing an audiobook on a couch.
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Today's tea is Candy Cane Forest by Chapters Tea. I'm still reading The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. I was able to reach the first gift before Thanksgiving took over the whole day. I'm enjoying it so far, but there is a lot of exposition, even for an epistolary. #onceuponBookclub #booksky #teasky
A book and a wonderwoman mug on a desk.
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Today's blend is honey bush, assam, cocoa nibs, and vanilla. I have added vanilla creamer made with almond milk. My partner got me one of those books kits where when you get gifts as you read. Last year I read it on Thanksgiving, so I'm making it tradition. #booksky #teasky ☕️🍵🫖 💙📚
The book The Life Impossible by Matt Haig and a pair of reading glasses rest on a yellow blanket. Next to it is a black mug filled with creamy tea. The word "Bitchin" is written on the cup in red lettering, the style is meant to remind the reader of the TV show Stranger Things.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Came around the corner to investigate what Faramir was upset about it. I was startled when I saw the visitor out the window. #Georgia #wildlife #buck

I was not expecting antlers.
A picture of a small Buck out of a Window.
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Today's tea is Czar Nikolas II. I bought it at a local store that sells foreign foods for a Shadow and Bones watch party. I forgot I had it, but its still delicious. I am listening to Story of My Life by Lucy Score. The bald eagle is trouble. ☕️🍵🫖 💙📚 🎧📚 #booksky #teasky 🌶📚
A mobile device playing an audiobook, a cat tea pet, a bag of tea, cup of tea, and an electric hot water kettle sit on a kitchen counter.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I'm listening to Story of My Life by Lucy Score and Sebastian York's voice for the FMC kinda sounds like Ray Porter. 🎧📚 💙📚
a woman is singing a song that says cause my mind plays tricks on me
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November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM