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Abnomrality
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Writing and revising | Trying to help build better online communities | Getting paid money to play in the dirt | Biology too apparently | Also autism and stuff

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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

5/15

#15booksin2025challenge
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#WIPSnips "full" from Mandelbrot Mike's Foolproof Guide to Winning Her Back

A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her exes to defeat her first love, a murderous arcade cabinet with mind control powers.

#writingcommunity #WriteSky #amrevising #MandelbrotMike
A screenshot of text that says: "I'm going to play some music to help you calm down, okay?" Goddamn it, he'd gotten good at this. Her body sat down on the seat across from him, hands clasped perfectly in her lap, head angled so she had a full view of his screen. The music was already changing tone. A tingling ball of warmth formed at the bottom of her ribcage and expanded toward her heart, her groin, her throat. Tears of relief rolled down her cheeks, and a part of her wondered why she'd been so upset. Her throat hurt--then it didn't. Or she didn't care.
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

4/15

#15booksin2025challenge
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

3/15

#15booksin2025challenge
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book "The Heroes" by Joe Abercrombie. It has the tagline: "Three men. One Battle. No Heroes."
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#WIPSnips "design" - from Mandelbrot Mike's Foolproof Guide to Winning Her Back

When you run into your murderous arcade cabinet ex and he's got major upgrades and you're still just a self-conscious dork.

#writingcommunity #writesky #amrevising #MandelbrotMike
A screenshot of a novel draft that says: Then a whirl of fractal patterns danced across Mike's screen, now in astonishingly high resolution compared to the CRT display she remembered. He settled on a too-cute animated face with sparkling rainbow fractal irises and a sad pout. "Don't do that," she said. "You're not 'cute.'" The screen flickered and morphed into a pixel art face with more edges and fewer sparkles--still way too appealing, but an improvement. "Better?" "I mean, it's clearly designed to manipulate, but--" Her breath caught. "You *spoke.*" Mike's new voice was vaguely masculine with a strong synthetic edge. "Well, you know, I've been working on myself." It fit him perfectly. She could already feel her high school memories rewriting themselves to include his speaking voice. "New paint?" she asked, stupidly self-conscious. She was fifteen years older and heavier than the Kelly he'd known, and she had no way to tell whether he'd done the up-and-down appraisal of an old lover noticing *changes.*
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

2/15

#15booksin2025challenge
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#WIPSnips "fourth"
A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her shitty exes to defeat her high school sweetheart, a murderous arcade cabinet.

In this flashback, he teaches her a lesson in front of her classmates.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MandelbrotMike
A screenshot that says: The game started again. This time it worked--sort of. She made it to the fourth level before MIKE swarmed her with enemies and knocked her into a trap. But the four vaguely letter-shaped fractal mazes had gotten the message across. S, L, U, T. She flushed and glanced at the other players, but they hadn't noticed. Why would it call her that? She frowned at the screen. If anyone would know she didn't care about those dumb boys, it should be MIKE-- "Sweet, you got it working again!"
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

1/15

#15booksin2025challenge
#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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#WIPSnips "empty"
A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her shitty exes to defeat her high school sweetheart (a murderous arcade cabinet) in a life-or-death road trip.

Today, he's emptied her house. Romantically.
#WritingCommunity #amrevising #MandelbrotMIke
White text on a black background that says: The house was empty. Like, *empty* empty. No furniture, no unfolded laundry--empty. Kelly blinked, processing. There was the rectangular indentation in her carpet where the bookshelf had been, and there were the square divots from the legs of her futon. Someone had cleaned the wine stains on her carpet--no, they'd *tried.* There was still a slight discoloration on the floor. She glanced around her living room, peeked into the kitchen. There was nothing. Strangely, her head felt clearer.
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

20/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. A red skull with two candles on top of it over a reddish black background
October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge

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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

19/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The book is designed to look like a VHS box from the 80s.
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

18/20

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#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. A thin black dragon with a long tongue curls around an amulet with an image of a ship in the middle, over a red background.
October 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge

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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

17/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers by Jackson Ford. Black text on a yellow background, surrounded by random everyday objects.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

16/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#20TBRbookchallenge

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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

15/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis, book 3 in the Noumena series. The cover shows an inkblot-style butterfly on a green background with white bars splitting the background and sometimes the butterfly.
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

14/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book "Normal Women" by Ainslie Hogarth. A cloud covers the eyes of a smiling white woman over a blue background. shaved white legs in 1950s-looking yellow heels and a skirt dangle from the right, and a little baby's face is visible in the bottom left corner. The title is in yellow text at the top and the author's name is in black text; each letter is unique and creatively drawn.
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

13/20

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#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Gold patterns on a blue background shadowed by the silhouette of a woman that makes the patterns blue and the background black.
October 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

12/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel "Todos los Hombres del Rey" by Laura Gallego. Gold and roses frame the title over a red background, with a uniformed man in the bottom left corner and some dark thorns in the bottom right
October 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

11/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The background image is a satellite breaking apart in space, with large red planet in the upper right corner.
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

10/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book "God Created the Integers: The mathematical breakthroughs that changed history" by Stephen Hawking
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

9/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes. Yellow and white text on a pink background with an image in the center of a boy pushing his hand toward the reader.
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

8/20

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#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the book "Maldita Roma: La Conquista del Poder de Julio Cesar" by Santiago Posteguillo. A bronze cover with white letters and a statue of Cesar's profile in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

7/20

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#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel "The Book of Love" by Kelly Link. The cover is red, with black and gold text, and a row of yellow moons in different phases between each line of text.
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

6/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky
The cover of the novel "The Afterlife of Mal Caldera" by Nadi Reed Perez. Images of skeletal people surround the silhouette of a gravestone with the title on it. At the bottom is the tagline "It's never too late to start living..."
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Forgot to post this! 6-inch strawberry lemon cake with strawberry cream cheese icing, strawberry crumble, and strawberry lemon curd!

#cake #baking
A pink strawberry lemon cake on a wooden table. The cake has pink speckled cream cheese icing with white swirls on top, each of which has a strawberry on it. The bottom of the cake is rimmed with strawberry crumbles like on those strawberry ice cream popsicles. A pink strawberry lemon cake on a white countertop. The cake has pink speckled cream cheese icing with white swirls on top, each of which has a strawberry on it. The bottom of the cake is rimmed with strawberry crumbles like on those strawberry ice cream popsicles. The cake has been cut open to reveal lemon layers with strawberry curd between them.
October 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM