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Brittany Vesterback
@bvesterback.bsky.social
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I long for the days when socials were just about books, dogs and d&d for me

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Finally starting The Book That Held Her Heart by @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social #amreading #currentlyreading #booksky Also, reminder that Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, so visit your indies! #CIBD2025
A copy of The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence. The cover features a raven in the foreground and staircases winding among bookshelves. A bookmark for Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on April 26, 2025 marks my place.
April 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Just picked up Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, ready to be hurt #amreading #currentlyreading #booksky
Cover of ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ by Suzanne Collins. A purple cover with a golden motif of a snake and a mockingjay facing each other over spikes. Also, part of my leg and my dog’s red blanket.
March 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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One of the starkest and most revealing quotes, for me, from Slaughterhouse Five
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
March 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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#dog for the existentially distressed
A small black dog with curly hair who isn’t sure if she likes this chair
March 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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#amreading #currentlyreading Finally reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books, and On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social #booksky
Two books on a purple background: one is ‘Earthsea: The First Four Books’ by Ursula K. Le Guin and the other is ‘On Tyranny:Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’ by Timothy Snyder
March 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Another year in the last week, another picture of my dog
A black dog with snow stuck in her fur stands on a snowy doorstep waiting to come inside. Not pictured: me trying to grab a towel to get the little snowballs off her paws before she can sneak past me.
February 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Just started but am already enjoying @annaleen.bsky.social‘s The Terraformers. Not sure yet if #amreading is much of a thing on #booksky but since I’m here I may as well share :) (re-post because I forgot alt-text)
The cover of The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. The title is written vertically over a tower that sits in front of a horizon at Dawn or dusk, beside a body of water. The author’s name and a blurb by N.K. Jemisin sits to the left. Beside the book is a bookmark from the bookseller, Black Bond Books.
January 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Sunday is for making enough spaghetti sauce to freeze into seven full meals with leftovers
From the bottom left corner to the top right corner: three spatulas, a wok on the stove with ground beef going through another reduction, a red kettle, a bowls for more spoons, and a slow cooker. Assorted unrelated kitchen detritus clutters the space behind.
January 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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It’s been a long week, here’s a picture of my dog
A small black dog with curly fur who thinks she should get people food and is mistaken
January 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Art of a brown moth among purple, pink and yellow flowers with “pissed off motherfucker” written around it.
January 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 20: Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
A black shield blazoned with a white dragon, with a nimbus of spears and swords behind it. It sits in front of an ivory fresco of a woman pointing a group people to March onward while dragon flies overhead.
November 10, 2024 at 11:46 PM
bvesterback.bsky.social
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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 19: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
A black crows wing with Leigh Bardugo and Six of Crows blazoned over it. Behind it is the impression of fog over a moon, and wispy towers creep into its feathers from the bottom of the image.
November 9, 2024 at 7:54 PM
bvesterback.bsky.social
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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 18: A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
November 9, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 17: The Witches by Stacy Schiff
November 7, 2024 at 3:15 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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 16: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
November 6, 2024 at 8:51 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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 15: Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey
November 5, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 14: Babel by RF Kuang
November 3, 2024 at 6:33 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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 13: Dracula by Bram Stoker
November 2, 2024 at 10:03 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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 12: Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey
November 1, 2024 at 5:33 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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 11: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
October 31, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 10: Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 30, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 9: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
October 29, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 8: Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist
October 28, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 7: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
October 27, 2024 at 2:32 AM
bvesterback.bsky.social
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 #BookChallenge #Books #dnd
Day 6: Exiles by Melanie Rawn
October 26, 2024 at 7:45 AM