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Baylee (she/her)
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twenty-something midwestern educator with a million hobbies and too many chronic illnesses
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June!!📚
June wrap-up on Storygraph! 100% fiction. 6 books. 2,281 pages. Average rating of 4.54. Highest rated reads (all 5⭐️): Catching Fire, Hunger Games, and The Four Winds. 50% audio, 50% physical.
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Otsego, Minnesota (Wright County- very red!) showing up today for #NoKings!!!! 💙🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚫👑
June 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Have been rebuilding myself and admittedly haven’t touched this app. Here’s my latest wrap-ups since I apparently haven’t posted one since January 💀
May wrap up. 3 books. ACOTAR, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. April wrap up. 5 books total. Photo shows Loud by Drew Aufualo, In Gad We Trust, and Mika in Real Life. March wrap up. 4 books total. Photo shows How to Be An Antiracist, Really Good Actually, and Single on Purpose. February wrap up. 6 books total. Books in photo are The Body is Not an Apology, A Love Song For Ricki Wilde, and The Girl with the Louding Voice.
June 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Officially saying goodbye to my bookstagram. SO hard but ultimately the right decision for me in the end. I’ll miss it a lot, don’t get me wrong! Excited for a new chapter tho 😌 (still reading & posting everywhere else dw)

RIP baylee.reads. Five years that I will forever cherish 💖
Screenshot of grid from 2020. My first year on booksta. Some posts are a giveaway, The Book Thief Review, & a selfie with a stack of books on my shoulder. Screenshot of grid from 2022. Posts include my bookish tattoo, Becoming review, and my best friend at HPB. Screenshot of grid from 2023. Posts include me on the beach reading Happy Place, a LFL in Minneapolis, and a purple stack in a field of lupine wildflowers. Screenshot of grid from 2025. Posts include a library haul, the where my lore started trend with my baby photo, and my five year anniversary post.
March 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Happy Monday!!! Get out and support your local library this week!📚
0.5 selfie of me! I’m wearing a brown hoodie, salmon sweats, and white crocs. I have a closed-mouth smile. I wear octagon shaped glasses. I have short brown hair (a bob, I guess?) with bangs. I’m holding 3 books and I’m standing in front of the fiction section at the library!
March 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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See a tattoo, post a tattoo

My favorite. Belted kingfisher, artist is Leah Earl (Foxglove Studio) in St. Paul, MN 😙🤌🏼
Black and white photo of my Belted Kingfisher tattoo which is on my left forearm.
February 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Crazy week; haven’t really touched bluesky!

CR update: Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll

Really enjoying this one so far 🫶🏼
Screenshot of Libby. Audiobook: Surviving the White Gaze- A Memoir; by Rebecca Carroll. I’m starting chapter 5, about 11% through. Listening at 1.75x speed.
February 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Current read:

The Body is Not an Apolgy by Sonya Renee Taylor

I’ve been practicing body neutrality for a few years, so I’m excited for this one! It’s been on my TBR for a while!
Screenshot of Libby audiobook; currently 4% through The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
February 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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4 shows you could watch endlessly on repeat 📺 #tvsky
Hawaii Five-O (2010) Friends Bridgerton Jane the Virgin
February 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Tia Williams is officially an auto-buy author for me. This was phenomenal. No notes, absolutely beautiful. Romance, history, mystery… Easily 5⭐️
Cover of A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
February 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Apple officially caved too. This is the stupidest shit ever.
Screenshot of Apple maps’ “gULf oF aMerIcA”
February 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Broke but wanna get out of the house? Your library is free :)
Hardcover library copy of “A Love Song For Ricki Wilde” by Tia Williams on my lap, opened to chapter 9. My AirPods case is sitting on top, showing I’m listening on audio as well. My bookmark is a sticker from the library that says “Proud Library Supporter”
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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a coco wyo comfy book and ohuhu markers HATE to see me coming
Coloring page from the Coco Wyo “Cozy Spaces” book. This is the bookstore built into a book with a puppy sweeping. I’ve used bold, fun colors with a lot of shadowing and highlighting. Coloring page from the Coco Wyo “Cozy Friends” book. This is of a poodle, bear, and bunny watching a movie with popcorn. I’ve used bold, fun colors with a lot of shadowing and highlighting. Coloring page from the Coco Wyo “Cozy Friends” book. This is a ladybug and duckling going for a walk in the fall, featuring pumpkins, carrots, and apples. I’ve used bold, fun colors with a lot of shadowing and highlighting. Coloring page from the Coco Wyo “Cozy Friends” book. This is a poodle wearing a witch hat stirring a cauldron, and a duckling is sprinkling magic into it. Very witchy vibes. I’ve used bold, fun colors with a lot of shadowing and highlighting.
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Small wins: a few weeks ago, I requested a couple of audiobook titles to my smaller library branch. They purchased my requests and were available immediately for me to download 🎧📚❤️

Seven Days in June is one of my all time favorites. I’m so excited to finally have my hands on her newest!
Screenshot of Libby app. Audiobook is “A Love Song For Ricki Wilde” by Tia Williams
February 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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My current Libby/Hoopla borrows 😇 My fiction CR is The Girl With the Louding Voice (70%), then starting The School For Good Mothers when that’s done. Starting Disability Visibility tomorrow as well for some nonfiction!
Immersive read: The Girl With the Louding Voice Immersive Read: The School for Good Mothers Immersive Read: Disability Visibility Audiobook: The Sex You Want Audiobook: No Bad Parts
February 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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If you see this post, do it✨

Pronouns: she/her
Height: 5’6”
Shoe: 9
Zodiac: Libra ☀️ | Pisces 🌕 | Gemini ⬆️
Smoke: 🍃🙂‍↕️; 🚬🙂‍↔️
Tattoos: 6
Piercings: 11
Fav Drink: Dr. Pepper
Selfie of me! I have short brunette hair (right below the ear) with bangs. I’m wearing glasses that are octagon shaped. I have a nose ring and many ear piercings. I’m wearing a floral jumpsuit. I’m sitting in the passenger seat of the car.
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Today’s library hold pick-up

She’s in her healing era I guess
Front cover of “Single on Purpose: Find Yourself First” by John Kim. I’m holding it in front of the outside of my library. There’s snow on the ground. Back cover of “Single on Purpose: Find Yourself First” by John Kim. I’m holding it in front of the outside of my library. There’s snow on the ground.
February 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Very proud of my January wrap-up, given I read just 5 books in all of 2024. Also, shoutout to @thestorygraph.com — I love this new wrap-up design!
My Storygraph January wrap up statistics. Total books: 8 Pages: 2,506 A. Rating: 3.97 Highest rated books: Birding with Benefits, They Want to Kill Americans, Finlay Donovan is killing it Average book length: 298 pages Average time to finish: 4 days 75% fiction; 25% nonfiction 50% print; 50% audio
February 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 15
They Want To Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance
February 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Proud of January’s reads. 8 total. 3 from my shelves. 1 DNF. Dwindled my shelves to 176 unread, started with 180 💪🏼
Template from @haylee.reads on Instagram. “Physical TBR clear out”. January reads: 3 Read. 0 added. 1 unhauled. New total=176
February 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 14
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Drawing of a fawn with the quote “I’m tired and my brain is soup”
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Pick this one up if you haven’t yet! Malcolm Nance basically warned us in 2022 that everything happening, would happen. Very saddening and heartbreaking to listen to this right now, but knowledge is power!
Screenshot of “They Want to Kill Americans” on audio on the Libby app.
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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25 in 2025 ✨

I discovered immersive reading this year and I’m obsessed 🥰 It’s encouraging me tackle my shelves and read books that I’ve owned for 3+ years!

I plan on reading a lot this year— freshly single, new to audiobooks, fascism, etc etc.

Goals: no romance (for awhile anyway) and DIVERSE!
Stack from Top to Bottom: Red At The Bone Transcendent Kingdom Disability Visibility The School For Good Mothers Pachinko All The Light We Cannot See The Guncle A Man Called Ove Queenie Finlay Donovan is Killing It Cemetery Boys The Hate U Give The Safekeep The Mothers The New Wilderness The Throwback List The Thursday Murder Club Firekeeper’s Daughter The House of Impossible Beauties The Underground Railroad The Ballerinas Detransition, Baby The Cartographers The Girl With The Louding Voice Libertie
January 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Princess Charlie 🥰
Charlie, short for Charlotte, a dark grey/black Maine coon/tabby mix, licking her nose
January 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM