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Micheline
@thespicelessreader.bsky.social
Ace ♠️ | Mom | Genre Reader | YEG | 🍁
She/They
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Also @readingtocabbage.bsky.social‬
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/thespicelessreader
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Updated 2025/08/05

Source
🏛️ = Library
🕊️ = ARC
💸 = Purchased
🛋️ = Physical TBR
💝 = Gifted
🟢 = Spotify

Format
🎧 = Audiobook
🎥 = GraphicAudio
💥 = Comic/Graphic Novel
📖 = Physical
📱 = eBook

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#booksky #bookskychat
Oct 2025 Reading Wrap-up
Social media is hard, and ADHD only makes it harder.
This month was an excellent reading month, lots of great reads.
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#bookreview #readingwrapup #storygraph
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Awakened by Laura Elliott
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⭐⭐.5
Solid read up until the last 15% where the story completely devolved into a fever dream. Intentional by the author? Maybe. Deeply unsatisfying as a reader? 💯
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d611...
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#arcreader #review #bookreview #bookskychat
Review by thespicelessreader - Awakened
This is a tricky one for me to review as I can safely say that for the first 85% of the book I...
app.thestorygraph.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Paused Reads
10% 🕊️📱 Bad Indians Book Club, Patty Krawec
10% 🕊️🎧 Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree
44% 💸📱 All in Her Head, Elizabeth Comen
45% 🏛️🎧 Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Juno Dawson
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#arcreader #yegreader #yeg #books #booksky #audiobooks
September 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
93% 🏛️🎧 Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
22% 💸🎧 Katabasis, R.F Kuang
38% 🕊️🎧 Awakened, Laura Elliott
80% 🟢🎧 Emperor of Ruin, Django Wexler
80% 💸🎧 When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
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#arcreader #yegreader #yeg #books #booksky #audiobooks
September 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sorry for the fall off the planet folks. The last drop of summer was here and I got into an ARC slump. Plus I got approved to be a volunteer librarian for @thestorygraph.com so all of my spare bookish energy has been dedicated towards geeking out over clean data.

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#booksky #datanerd
September 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Question for the publisher peeps out there.
How does one go about encouraging a publisher to create audiobooks or e-pubs for out of print titles?
I feel like the world would adore Monica Hughes' children's sci-fi stories if only given the ability to access them.

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August 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
10% 🕊️📱 Bad Indians Book Club, Patty Krawec
10% 🕊️🎧Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree
14% 🕊️🎧Awakened, Laura Elliott
71% 🟢🎧 Emperor of Ruin, Django Wexler
77% 💸🎧When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
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#arcreader #yegreader #yeg #books #booksky #audiobooks
August 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🎾 last book you read:
💥 All Princesses Die Before Dawn
🤩 your current read(s):
🎧 Brigands & Breadknives
👏 last book added to your tbr:
📖 The Shadow of the Torturer
✨ next anticipated read:
📖 I Who Have Never Known Men

Quote with yours! #booksky #books 💖📚
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🎾 last book you read: the very secret society of irregular witches
🤩 your current read(s):
📖 bury our bones in the midnight soil
👏 last book added to your tbr:
📖 the princess knight
✨ next anticipated read:
📖 katabasis

Quote with yours! #booksky #books 💖📚
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🎾 last book you read: 40-Love by O Dade
🤩 your current read(s):
📖 Spoiler Alert by O Dade
📖 Always Only You by C Liese
👏 last book added to your tbr:
📖 The Prospects by KT Hoffman
✨ next anticipated read: The Unlikely Heir

Quote with yours! #booksky #books 💖📚
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
All Princesses Die Before Dawn by Quentin Zuttion
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A beautifully rendered snapshot of a family on the brink of change. A story of painful endings and beautiful new beginnings.
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#booksky #graphicnovel #bookreview #comics #yegreader #reader #review
August 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Question for #arcreader friends who use @netgalley.bsky.social
They have an option to include your LinkedIn, do any of y'all actually post your reviews there? Or is it only if you are reading personal development-type books?

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#bookchat #bookskychat #bookreview
August 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Finished a book I seriously did not enjoy, and despite having access to the perfect palette cleanser ARC all I want to listen to is the @graphicaudio.bsky.social adaptation of Perhaps the Stars by @adapalmer.bsky.social
But its +32 hrs long, and I have other obligations. 😭
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#arcreader #booksky
August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw

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Gore for gore's sake and at the cost of any kind of plot or character development.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a7f7...
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#booksky #bookreview #review #arcreader #audiobook
Review by thespicelessreader - The Library at Hellebore
This one was a slog for me. I did to myself on some level. I knew it was a horror book going i...
app.thestorygraph.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
90% 🕊️🎧The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw
10% 🕊️📖 Bad Indians Book Club, Patty Krawec
03% 🕊️🎧Brigands & Breadknives, @travisbaldree.bsky.social
23% 🟢🎧 Emperor of Ruin, Django Wexler
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#arcreader #yegreader #yeg #books #booksky #audiobooks
August 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
July Reading Wrap-up: A Thread
Real mixed bag this month, some amazing reads and a couple that just weren't for me.
Incorporated more digital and physical books which felt good as well.
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#readingwrapup #julywrapup #storygraphstats #storygraph #reader #yegreader #comics #audiobooks #arcreader
August 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
How many ongoing books are too many ongoing books?
I normally max out at about 5 if you don't count the joint read with the husband. As long as they are generally different genres and different mediums I feel like I can keep the story lines separate.
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#bookskychat #bookchat
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Gospel of Inclusion by Brandan J. Robertson
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An excellent breakdown on why the modern church needs to reexamine its stance on accepting and affirming LGB believers.
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Full review: bit.ly/4o9FuMR
#bookreview #booksky #pride #audiobook #review #affirming
July 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Question for the #bookskychat peeps.
How are you tagging your reviews? I've been having a hard time with the general feed lately, but can't afford to pay for an ad-free feed. Reviews and discussions are my favourite part of #booksky. How do I get more?
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#bookreview #reviews #arcreader #books
July 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
⭐⭐.75
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The more I think on this one the lower my rating goes, which is unfortunate since there are so many elements in this story that are beautifully rendered.
shorturl.at/shj12
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#booktalk #audiobooks #reader #yegreader
Review by thespicelessreader - The Teller of Small Fortunes
The more I think on this one the lower my rating goes, which is unfortunate since there are so...
shorturl.at
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
20% 🕊️🎧The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw
77% 💸🎧 When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
08% 🕊️📖 Bad Indians Book Club, Patty Krawec
19% 🏛️🎧The Gospel of Inclusion, Brandan J. Robertson
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#arcreader #yegreader #yeg #books #booksky #audiobooks
July 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans
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Text dominated with an illustration style I personally found uncanny and weirdly grotesque. Footnotes were the best part. 😓
shorturl.at/V9RtD
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#booksky #review #arcreader #comics #graphicnovel
July 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Listening to The Library at Hellebore, and while gorier than I normally go with I am enjoying it.
My only issue is the time jumps, maybe because I am listening rather than physically reading it I am having a hard time clocking when they start and stop.
Is it easier in a physical format?
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July 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Micheline
My toxic trait is I believe it's my moral imperative to buy a book at every indie bookstore I visit.
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dwelling: A Novel by Emily Hunt Kivel
⭐⭐⭐⭐.25
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This was a weird one, and I say that with so much love.
I can appreciate that the at times surreal and erratic story structure might not be for everyone but it was 100% for me.
shorturl.at/jh9UQ
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#booksky #arcreader @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It has come to my attention that a bunch of you beautiful #booksky besties don't know about @thestorygraph.com and its killing me.
Please! I Beg Of You! Check it out!!

Great alternative to GoodReads, AND has so many incredible features like trigger warnings, content flags, expanded stats....
July 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Micheline
Guys, I'm struggling here.
Do I make a GoodReads account to rate/support other indie authors' work on there... Or do I not because they're run by Amazon (evil given monetary form)?
I can't decide.
#Booksky #Readersky #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
July 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM