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Kaleigh ✨
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Starting strong in 2026 with this beautiful edition of Among the Burning Flowers by @samanthashannon.bsky.social !

The way I have clutched my pearls with the court intrigue. Am I also hallucinating the Queen Elizabeth reference with a certain spoiler I won’t mention??
January 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Reposted by Kaleigh ✨
Being unloved
by you
hollowed me.
I drift through days
without weight
or want,
a wraith stitched
from silence
and memory.
Your name echoes
in rooms you
never entered.
I was flesh once,
warm and breakable,
now I haunt myself
in your absence.

#vss365 #poetry #wraith
May 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Time for another current reads update:

The Empire of Gold (I never want it to end 🥹) by Chakraborty
Mad Ship by Hobb
Faebound by El-Arifi
Sunrise on the Reaping by Collins
Yellowface by Kuang
Heretics of Dune by Herbert
Gardens of the Moon (on pause until my physical copy comes in!)

💙📚 #booksky
April 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Picked up Want by Gillian Anderson—I didn’t realize how many of you are just out there, thinking the same things I’m thinking ❤️; what an amazing collection. The temptation is there to take them face value, but the feeling of wanting to be loved, seen and adored is universal in the essays

#booksky💙📚
March 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Finished up Station Eleven last night and what a read it was. A wonderful blend of the bleak and hopeful, I wish I’d discovered it during the Pandemic.

Now on to Kingdom of Copper, even if I’m still reeling from a certain character death from book 1 😭

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#fantasy
#books
#booksky
February 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The excitement is very real right now 🎉

💙📚 #booksky #fantasy #malazan
February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
February’s Books:
- The Kingdom of Copper
- Onyx Storm
- The City and it’s Uncertain Walls
- Gardens of the Moon
- Station Eleven (feel like I slept on this a bit by not reading it during the Pandemic 😅)

Gunna have to branch out to some non-fantasy soon so if you’ve got any rec’s let me know! 💙📚
February 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ongoing January reads:
Ship of Magic - Hobb
The Great Hunt - Jordan
A Certain Hunger - Summers
Heretics of Dune - Herbert
The City of Brass - Chakraborty

I usually read a couple books at a time but the chokehold City of Brass has on me is 🔥
January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fantasy ✅
Djinn ✅
18th Century Cairo as a setting? ✅

Starting the first book of the Daevabad Trilogy today and can’t wait for some fantasy not set in European medieval vibes

#booksky 💙📚
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Surprisingly my kids have let me spend most of the holiday break binge reading.

Moving on to Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang 🔮 today and somehow I managed to read half of it in one sitting 🙃

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December 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Been binging fantasy pretty hard lately, so I’m doing an 180 pivot and cozying up to this dark romance by one of my favourite dark romance writers today 🧜‍♀️ ❤️

Hexed by Emily McIntire
December 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Next read is a re-telling if the Fall of the House of Usher. Picked it up last night and am over halfway through 🫣🙃
December 26, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Picking up this one today! I’m a sucker for a cool cover

#booksky 💙📚🪐📚
December 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Out today, A Court of Wings and Ruin Part 1 on Babblin about Books!

If the map at the front of the book ever had you #triggered, you’re not alone!

#books #booktalk #booktok #SJM #ACOTAR #ACOWAR

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ACOWAR: Princess of Carrion
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December 5, 2024 at 7:20 PM
If you were obsessed with Mulan like I was as a child, I can’t recommend The Night Ends with Fire by K.X.Song enough. I’m halfway through and can’t put it down

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December 4, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙 📚
#BookSky

20/20

The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
December 2, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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19/20

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
December 2, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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18/20

A Darker Shade of Magic— V.E. Scwabb
December 1, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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17/20

Atonement - Ian McEwan
November 29, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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16/20

The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
November 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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15/20

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
November 27, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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14/20

At Last There is Nothing Left to Say - Matthew Good
November 26, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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13/20

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
November 25, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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12/20

Women Talking - Miriam Toews
November 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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11/20

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
November 23, 2024 at 3:37 PM