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Micheline
@thespicelessreader.bsky.social
Ace ♠️ | Millennial 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
Got to indirectly quote Ada Palmer today re: the Alberta Separatists garbage
The issue is that this fringe minority is so loud and the idea of it so ridiculous that its getting all of the attention.
February 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Perhaps the Stars (Graphic Audio, Parts 1-3) by @adapalmer.bsky.social
🏛️🎥
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This entire series is perfection, and this, the finale, the shining jewel.
Its going to take all of my free will to dive right back in, be it audio, GA, or print.
💙📚💬 💙📚🪐

#bookreview #audiobooks #fullcast
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Almost lost my reading streak on @thestorygraph.com this weekend. Thankfully my daughter likes to read books while potty training, so I was able to sneak in a couple read throughs of her current favorite picture books.
💙📚
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Mass Mothering: A Novel by Sarah Bruni
🕊️🎧
⭐⭐⭐.75
Stark and beautiful, heartbreaking and infuriating.
I don't recommend the audio, found it made for a very confusing initial read.
💙📚💬
#bookreview #arcreader #audiobooks
app.thestorygraph.co...
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 AM
January Reading Wrap-up
A solid reading month with a heavy focus on clearing out some of those lingering ARCs.
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#readingwrapup #januarywrapup #storygraphstats #storygraph #reader #yegreader #comics #audiobooks #arcreader
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Everything Else
28% 🛋️📖Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
12% 💸🎧The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
26% 🛋️📱The Secret People, John Wyndham
02% 🏛️🎥Perhaps the Stars 3/3, Ada Palmer
💙📚💬
#books #audiobooks
February 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
ARC Edition
5% 🕊️🎧The Forest on the Edge of Time, Jasmin Kirkbride
15% 🕊️📱The Unravelling of Ou, Hollay Ghadery
💙📚💬
#books #audiobooks #arcreader
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
🕊️💥
⭐⭐⭐⭐.25
Timely & poignant. Doesn't shy away from the rippling impact that book bans have on both society and individual students.
app.thestorygraph.co...
💙📚💬
#booksky #arcreader #graphicnovel #bookreview
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Blankets, Craig Thompson
🛋️💥
⭐⭐⭐
Check your trigger warnings for this one.
Gorgeously rendered, deeply reflective, but viscerally upsetting as someone with childhood trauma.
That last part is on me.
💙📚💬
#booksky #graphicnovel #bookreview
February 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I was out sick Friday and Saturday, but come Monday be prepared for two ARC reviews and one TBR mini review.

#booksky
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Celebrated Family Literacy Day yesterday at the Canadian Native Friendship Centre here in #yeg.
Tammy Rae Lamouche read from her upcoming picture book and gifted us with her Cree singalong colouring book. She even treated us to sing along of one of the songs.
💙📚 💙📚💬
#books #localauthor #indigenous
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Anyone else use word puzzles to keep their hands busy while listening to audiobooks? I can't manage a crossword, but a simple fill-in or wordsearch is the perfect level of complex that still lets me concentrate on the story.
💙📚🎧💙📚💬
#booksky #audiobooks #analog
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
🏛️🎧 | Reread
OG rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25
Updated rating: ⭐⭐⭐.25
Still a solid read, but it read more YA than I remembered. Also the FMC's rage, tho founded, was written in a way that overwhelmed the story and world.
💙📚💬💙📚🪐
#booksky #audiobook #bookreview #reread
January 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Everything Else
28% 🛋️📖Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
05% 💸🎧The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
22% 🛋️📱The Secret People, John Wyndham
52% 🏛️🎥Perhaps the Stars 2/3, Ada Palmer
42% 🛋️💥Blankets, Craig Thompson
💙📚💬
#booksky #audiobooks
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Rereads
82% 🏛️🎧Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
17% 💸🎧Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree
💙📚💬
#books #booksky #audiobooks #reread
January 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
ARC Edition
22% 🕊️🎧Mass Mothering: A Novel, Sarah Bruni
77% 🕊️💥Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel, AJ Dungo, Jarrett Dapier
15% 🕊️📱The Unravelling of Ou, Hollay Ghadery
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#books #booksky #audiobooks #arcreader
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Shout out to my girl Jaime for this amazing custom eReader cover. I adored the previous cover she had made me but when I upgraded my Kobo this year I was gutted when it didn't fit. When she posted fabric and new I had to order a replacement.
www.gingerandsage.ca...
💙📚
#ereader
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva
🕊️🎧
⭐⭐⭐.5
Adorable odd couple cozy fantasy romance.
No spice, which was perfect for me.
app.thestorygraph.co...
💙📚💬💙📚🪐
#bookreview #arcreader #audiobooks
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
🕊️📱/🎧
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Absolutely masterful use of tension, and easily one of the best books I've read in years. Personally recommend going in as blind as possible.
app.thestorygraph.co...
💙📚💬💙📚🪐
#bookreview #arcreader #audiobooks
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Reading Update
The Book of Guilt by @catherinechidgey.bsky.social
📚🎧 73% of the way in, and the anxiety I feel every time I dip in is killing me. I promise this is a good thing!
Chidgey's writing of tension is masterful, and I feel constantly on edge waiting to see what is coming.
💙📚💬
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
Everything Else
15% 🛋️📖Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
05% 💸🎧The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
19% 🛋️📱The Secret People, John Wyndham
47% 🏛️🎥Perhaps the Stars 2/3, Ada Palmer
42% 🛋️💥Blankets, Craig Thompson
#books #booksky #audiobooks
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 PM
#nowreading / #nowlistening
ARC Edition
23% 🕊️🎧 How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days, Jessie Sylva
59% 🕊️📱The Book of Guilt, Catherine Chidgey
46% 🕊️💥Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel, AJ Dungo, Jarrett Dapier
07% 🕊️📱The Unravelling of Ou, Hollay Ghadery
#books #booksky #audiobooks #arcreader
January 19, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Remember when I was questioning how people could have so many books on the go?
Here I am eating my words. 😅
Going to have to post my reading update in two parts because I don't know how to stop.
#booksky #arcreader #tbr #currentlylistening #currentlyreading
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January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The Art of Self-Compassion by Joy Prouty
🕊️🎧

Is it a bad book? No.
Does the description (or publisher) give any idea of what to expect? Also no.
Photography as a radical act of self love.
Which is fine, but not what I signed up for.
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💙📚💬
#bookreview #arcreader #audiobooks #booksky
Review by thespicelessreader - The Art of Self-Compassion: How to Offer Yourself Gentle Acceptance and Reclaim Your Worth
Is it a bad book? No. Does the book description give you an idea of what to expect? Also no. ...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Star Trek: Lore War
🕊️💥
⭐⭐⭐.75
Nods overt and subtle lend themselves well to appeasing readers, both new to the franchise and veterans of its shenanigans.
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9903...
💙📚💬💙📚🪐
#bookreview #arcreader #comics #booksky #arcreview #netgalley #startrek
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM