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They/Them. Autistic. Queer. Stories most welcome. Adventures, dragon hoards, faery rings, wizards' towers. Let's get lost in the woods together.
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Today's book: "Grave Peril" (Dresden Files, Book 3) by Jim Butcher

Got knocked flat by a migraine this week, but I'm ready for more wizard action, now with an all-new Carpenter companion for double the fun! (Each sold separately. Batteries not included.)

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading
A photo of Jim Butcher's urban fantasy Dresden Files novel "Grave Peril" in paperback, surrounded by other Dresden Files books. The cover, illustrated by Chris McGrath: little more than a silhouette in his mantled duster and broad-brimmed hat, protagonist Harry Dresden, wizard, cautiously makes his way through the shadows of a Chicago cemetery. Moonlight silvers the tall wizard's staff in his hand, as well as the fog crawling low among the graven headstones and yawning mausoleums.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Here's four goblins in a wizard robe trying to scam their way into a very secret wizard meeting ✨️

#myart #goblins
Four goblins stacked on top of each other wearing a too big wizard robe
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks at Green in confusion, as Green is covered in pink hair rollers. Green: I'm going to find out what I'd look like with curls! Blue sits down to wait as Green leaves the room. Green: It's time to take the rollers out! Blue sits with the most neutral expression possible as Green returns, as a fluffy cloud of uncontrollable curls. With miraculous self-discipline, Blue manages to keep his expression neutral, while Green frowns at him. Blue: Requesting permission to laugh hysterically. Green: Request denied.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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bluebookclub.bsky.social
It's time to vote for November's #BlueskyBookclub book!

Like any of the posts below to vote for your choice! Feel free to vote for multiple options.

Please repost, let's get as many people on board as we can!

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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bobonbooks.bsky.social
Question of the Day: What books can you think of in which snow was a significant part of the story? #booksky
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Yes! Andrew Joseph White's "Compound Fracture" is narrated by an autistic protagonist. Several sections had me on the verge of tears because this is the first book I've read with explicit (and well executed!) autistic rep, not just coding, and it felt so validating.

💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD
The cover of Andrew Joseph White's horror/thriller novel "Compound Fracture" as illustrated by Evangeline Gallagher: protagonist Miles Abernathy, in sleeveless shirt and red bandana around his neck, stands furious and defiant before an evergreen West Virginia wood, battered and bloodied, with one raised hand shadowing an injured eye; his loyal canine companion Lady is at his side, wary and watchful. The tines of eleven-point bucks, draped in shredded velvet and bloody-tipped, border the illustration along with red-tinged railroad spikes and strands of barbed wire.
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting at a little bonfire, gazing restfully into the flickering flames. Blue: Do you ever think of the ways your life could've gone differently? Green: No. Blue: Like if you could start over with everything that you know now? Green: Nope. The odds of finding you again in the right place at the right time are way too low. Blue: You'd rather have me than a new chance? Green: Having you is the best possible life.
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Robin of the Day:
Snow Mountain Robin
📷 Jonas Landolt
Grey Robin with bright scarlet/orange bib perched on a lichen covered rock, photo.
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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readintowonderland.bsky.social
Happy National Build Joy Day, lovelies! 💬📚

What genre is bringing you the most joy lately? 💙📚✨

#QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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bluebookclub.bsky.social
Today is the last day to suggest a book for the second month of #BlueskyBookclub before we start voting tomorrow!

Get your suggestions in!

📚💙 #booksky 💙📚
bluebookclub.bsky.social Bluesky Bookclub @bluebookclub.bsky.social · 3d
It's time to start book selection for the second month of #BlueskyBookclub!

Respond to this post with any books you think we should read. On Dec 3rd I'll create a thread for voting, and we can choose what we'll be reading.

#booksky 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Five books you've said more than once you "really should read one day" but still haven't:

–"Wuthering Heights" (Brontë)
–"The Count of Monte Cristo" (Dumas)
–"The Mist" (King)
–"X-Men: Age of Apocalypse" (Lobdell, Nicieza, Harras, et al.)
–"Moby-Dick" (Melville)

💙📚 #BookSky
moominreadsalot.bsky.social 📚 MoominReadsaLot 📚 @moominreadsalot.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once that you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:

War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Man in The Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

📚💙 #BookSky
kristinmaiart.bsky.social Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once that you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:

-The Three Musketeers
-The Brothers Karamazov
-The Sound and the Fury
-Cane
-The Left Hand of Darkness

#BookSky #LiteratureSky
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec.1
A male white-winged crossbill with his spruce cone on a frosty winter day.
#Birds #photography #wildlife
A male White-winged crossbill in a frosty and snowy spruce tree with a spruce cone in his beak. He has a red head and a mottled brown body with a white wing stripe. He will use his crossed bill to extract the spruce seeds from the cone.
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
I finished my first read of the month today, but it's one I have... Opinions about, and I don't want to tear down someone else's fave, so I'm just gonna sleep it off and probably pick up my next Dresden File tomorrow.

No goals. Goals and I aren't good bedfellows.

💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD
bookishquestions.bsky.social Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · 3d
— ★°•| December 1 |•°★ —

What will your first read of the month be? Share your December reading goals if you have any!!!

☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆

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December 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Happy Decembear 🐻❄️

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]
A tiny doodle of a blue bear in a sketchbook, made with paint pens & colored pencils. He’s wearing a little red snow hat and has some snowflakes behind him. Around the doodle are some other loose sketches of bears.
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
It's been a good reading month: a few books I was excited for ended up not being for me, but plenty of hits too. Some standouts I'd reread:

–Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
–Julie Leong's "The Teller of Small Fortunes"
–Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea"
–Nicola Dinan's "Bellies"

💙📚 #BookishQOTD
bookishquestions.bsky.social Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · 4d
— ★°•| November 30 |•°★ —

How did reading go this November? Were there any books you think you'll revisit in the future?

Share your wrap up if you have one!!

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December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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misaonwheels.bsky.social
What society thinks disabled people want to hear:
“You’re so brave!”
“We look past your disability!”

What disabled people actually want to hear:
“We acknowledge your disability and will happily accommodate your needs.”
“You can marry without losing your benefits.”
“We’d like to offer you the job.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
'"It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it."'

—Harry Dresden (wizard), from Jim Butcher's "Fool Moon" (Dresden Files, Book 2)

💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence
A photo of Jim Butcher's urban fantasy Dresden Files novel "Fool Moon" in paperback, surrounded by other Dresden Files books. The cover, illustrated by Chris McGrath: protagonist Harry Dresden, wizard, complete with his iconically canonical broad-brimmed hat and wizard's staff, stands on the ledge of a high building looking out across the misted city of Chicago. Wind sweeps his mantled duster out behind him like a cloak, while a great moon rises silver and full in the night sky behind him, its pale light pooling upon the enormous bloody paw prints on the concrete corner of the building at Dresden's back.
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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neonnurse.bsky.social
Do you like #trains / #railroads ? Here's a fun craft I came up with for my TrainBoy. You print the crossing guards onto cardstock or heavy photo paper, cut them out, then tape them back to back around the candy cane drop bars!
Christmas craft - a paper railroad crossing with a candy cane for a drop bar. Christmas craft - a paper railroad crossing you can print and then add a candy cane for a drop bar.
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Yes.

💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD
bookishquestions.bsky.social Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · 5d
— ★°•| November 29 |•°★ —

Do you read more books with historical, contemporary, or futuristic settings?

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Text: Saturday Image: a collaged white and blue elephant on a white grid
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Painting of a young girl wading through the water of a pond, we mostly focus on her reflection which shows her looking over her shoulder determinedly. She has an archery bow slung over her back and is holding an arrow. In the reflection we can see that cabins in a forest are a-blaze
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin: it's one of only four new-to-me books I've read this year that I have earmarked to purchase and add to my own bookcase (the other three comprise the Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore).

💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD
bookishquestions.bsky.social Bookish QOTD 📖🦋 @bookishquestions.bsky.social · 6d
— ★°•| November 28 |•°★ —

Name a book you loved by a new-to-you author.

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Text: favorites friday Image: collaged red lady bug on a white grid background
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Today's book: "Compound Fracture" by Andrew Joseph White

Chose this one for its autistic and trans rep, its Appalachian setting, and because I wanted to read something outside my usual wheelhouse. I'm about a third of the way through, and it is brutal.

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading
The cover of Andrew Joseph White's horror/thriller novel "Compound Fracture" as illustrated by Evangeline Gallagher: protagonist Miles Abernathy, in sleeveless shirt and red bandana around his neck, stands furious and defiant before an evergreen West Virginia wood, battered and bloodied, with one raised hand shadowing an injured eye; his loyal canine companion Lady is at his side, wary and watchful. The tines of eleven-point bucks, draped in shredded velvet and bloody-tipped, border the illustration along with red-tinged railroad spikes and strands of barbed wire.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
"Trolls" by Brian and Wendy Froud: not only an art book of Brian Froud paintings and Wendy Froud maquettes and props, the Frouds weave everything together with the tale of a young troll who must collect his first three stories from elder trolls in a coming-of-age ritual.

💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD
The cover of Brian and Wendy Froud's art book "Trolls", featuring one of Brian Froud's illustrations from the book: a troll crone, wizened and gnarled, glares over her beaky nose with her remaining eye. Leatherwork and beads, skulls and stone talismans adorn her stout woolen dress, and curtains of grey hair like silvered moss drape her bent frame. Perched on her uplifted, seemingly frail hand, a long-eared owl, tawny and tall, stares with golden eyes unblinking. Dank wood and fen surround the troll witch and her familiar: lichen and shadows cling wetly to graven stones and twisted trees.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
The last library stack didn't keep as long as expected, ha ha. A smaller stack this time to help get through the chaotic and stressful holiday week:

–Andrew Joseph White's "Compound Fracture"
–Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"
–Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Anguish and Anarchy"

💙📚 #BookSky
A photo of three library books stacked on a shelf; behind them marches a row of more books. The library books from top to bottom are: "Compound Fracture" by Andrew Joseph White, "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, and "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" by Tomi Adeyemi.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Today's book: "Fool Moon" (Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher

The series reread continues! I love these books. They're a howl of a good time.

💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading
A photo of Jim Butcher's urban fantasy Dresden Files novel "Fool Moon" in paperback, surrounded by other Dresden Files books. The cover, illustrated by Chris McGrath: protagonist Harry Dresden, wizard, complete with his iconically canonical broad-brimmed hat and oaken wizard's staff, stands on the ledge of a high building looking out across the misted city of Chicago. Wind sweeps his mantled duster out behind him like a cloak, while a great moon rises silver and full in the night sky behind him, its pale light pooling upon the enormous bloody paw prints on the concrete corner of the building at Dresden's back.
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM