Andrea Monagle
@andreamontoro.bsky.social
I read books for work, and I read books for fun. Sometimes I do other stuff in between.
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Andrea Monagle
@andreamontoro.bsky.social
· Jan 13
What the hell, 2025 movie watches thread. First up: BABYGIRL (2024).
Incredible sights from the New Jersey turnpike: a woman driving a car with a lit cigarette in one hand, her phone in the other, and her back window taped over with a garbage bag.
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Incredible sights from the New Jersey turnpike: a woman driving a car with a lit cigarette in one hand, her phone in the other, and her back window taped over with a garbage bag.
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Every year, one of @andreamontoro.bsky.social's favorite things to do is staff the Penguin Hotline, where PRH employees field recommendation requests for the holidays. If you're looking for gift ideas from people who sleep, eat, and breathe books, submit a request! It's free!
Penguin Hotline - Penguin Books
www.penguin.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Every year, one of @andreamontoro.bsky.social's favorite things to do is staff the Penguin Hotline, where PRH employees field recommendation requests for the holidays. If you're looking for gift ideas from people who sleep, eat, and breathe books, submit a request! It's free!
@monagle.bsky.social and I just celebrated our fourteen-year anniversary. My second-longest relationship:
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@monagle.bsky.social and I just celebrated our fourteen-year anniversary. My second-longest relationship:
Yapping till the end. I could have written 12K words for New York myself.
Five episodes into BLACK RABBIT and the brothers are an eavesdropper’s dream, having sonically clear, full-context screaming matches on public streets. I’d follow them everywhere.
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Yapping till the end. I could have written 12K words for New York myself.
Five episodes into BLACK RABBIT and the brothers are an eavesdropper’s dream, having sonically clear, full-context screaming matches on public streets. I’d follow them everywhere.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Five episodes into BLACK RABBIT and the brothers are an eavesdropper’s dream, having sonically clear, full-context screaming matches on public streets. I’d follow them everywhere.
Went to the Christmas tree lighting down on our Main Street, which was inexplicably prefaced by a full-throated crowd rendition of “Fly, Eagles, Fly” and then, when it happened a few minutes later than the planned 7:00 pm, derisively heckled.
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Went to the Christmas tree lighting down on our Main Street, which was inexplicably prefaced by a full-throated crowd rendition of “Fly, Eagles, Fly” and then, when it happened a few minutes later than the planned 7:00 pm, derisively heckled.
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Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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November 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?
I have one more freelance job to complete by Thursday and then I’m taking the rest of the year off, and instead of tackling that I wandered downstairs to interrupt Matt watching this to update him on the latest with that former couple with too many z’s.
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD (2025): Jaume Collet-Serra’s kinetic visuals help elevate a thin narrative — until the film surprises as a tender exploration of something heavy. It’s not entirely successful, but Danielle Deadwyler is a fucking powerhouse, so who cares.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I have one more freelance job to complete by Thursday and then I’m taking the rest of the year off, and instead of tackling that I wandered downstairs to interrupt Matt watching this to update him on the latest with that former couple with too many z’s.
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Aiming for Joan Didion but landing on Eva Braun.
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Aiming for Joan Didion but landing on Eva Braun.
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I read the Nuzzi excerpt in Vanity Fair, and there is something maddening about her choice to refer to RFK Jr. not by name but with mock coyness as "the Politician." It suggests that the chance to actualize some Carrie Bradshaw-meets-Big fantasy fueled all of this. Anyway, I don't need to know more.
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I read the Nuzzi excerpt in Vanity Fair, and there is something maddening about her choice to refer to RFK Jr. not by name but with mock coyness as "the Politician." It suggests that the chance to actualize some Carrie Bradshaw-meets-Big fantasy fueled all of this. Anyway, I don't need to know more.
Once again, with the AMERICAN CANTO (lol) excerpt publication:
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Once again, with the AMERICAN CANTO (lol) excerpt publication:
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
Passenger hostage.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Passenger hostage.
Sometimes I think I’m not so queasy that I can’t watch THE PITT, but then I start ST. DENIS MEDICAL and a surgeon gets bit by a rattlesnake and needs antivenin in the third episode and I about pass out when they show her (comedically) bruised and bloated ankle for two seconds, so.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Sometimes I think I’m not so queasy that I can’t watch THE PITT, but then I start ST. DENIS MEDICAL and a surgeon gets bit by a rattlesnake and needs antivenin in the third episode and I about pass out when they show her (comedically) bruised and bloated ankle for two seconds, so.
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MAGA wants to end competitive elections because they know people hate what they’re doing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
MAGA wants to end competitive elections because they know people hate what they’re doing.
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Tonight seems to be a strong rebuke of the Republican Party’s “make shit as bad as possible as quickly as possible” strategy
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Tonight seems to be a strong rebuke of the Republican Party’s “make shit as bad as possible as quickly as possible” strategy
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
I don't often eagerly anticipate the release of new music, but where is the del Toro FRANKENSTEIN score? Where is it. I want it.
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I don't often eagerly anticipate the release of new music, but where is the del Toro FRANKENSTEIN score? Where is it. I want it.
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Finally, finally hung @mrtylercrook.bsky.social’s original artwork from “Gray Green Memories” in the second issue of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS. I’d never bought original comic art before this, but from the first panel, I knew I needed to have it. It’s a devastating little story lovingly rendered.
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Finally, finally hung @mrtylercrook.bsky.social’s original artwork from “Gray Green Memories” in the second issue of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS. I’d never bought original comic art before this, but from the first panel, I knew I needed to have it. It’s a devastating little story lovingly rendered.
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Hemingway’s editor asking when he’s gonna be done with those, whaddya call it,
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hemingway’s editor asking when he’s gonna be done with those, whaddya call it,
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025): Look, all else being equal, it’s kind of insane to give the epigraph for a Mary Shelley adaptation to Lord Byron. Right? Right??!
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
FRANKENSTEIN (2025): Look, all else being equal, it’s kind of insane to give the epigraph for a Mary Shelley adaptation to Lord Byron. Right? Right??!