Nate Deprey
@depreydeprey.bsky.social
Librarian, former and future(?) troublemaker. I live in Wisco but sling books in sorta rural Minnesota. Also, the X-Men are important.
Had a fine time reading The Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell this weekend. Bet it would make a delightful Pride month read.
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Had a fine time reading The Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell this weekend. Bet it would make a delightful Pride month read.
@thepressbox.bsky.social Good show today but Brian is overlooking one big thing about streaming espn vs cable. Stand alone streaming means you are just paying for the thing you want rather than subsidizing the next Fox News settlement or any other QVCesque cable news channel. Take my $30.00 now!
May 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
@thepressbox.bsky.social Good show today but Brian is overlooking one big thing about streaming espn vs cable. Stand alone streaming means you are just paying for the thing you want rather than subsidizing the next Fox News settlement or any other QVCesque cable news channel. Take my $30.00 now!
The last thing I remember was running into a bald guy in the pharmacy parking lot who wanted a Diet Coke.
April 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The last thing I remember was running into a bald guy in the pharmacy parking lot who wanted a Diet Coke.
Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social is a majestically good book! Also, you know an author presentation is great when you tell your hair stylist about it two weeks later.
April 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social is a majestically good book! Also, you know an author presentation is great when you tell your hair stylist about it two weeks later.
There's nothing more 2025 than ordering a copy of It Can't Happen Here from Amazon.
March 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There's nothing more 2025 than ordering a copy of It Can't Happen Here from Amazon.
Finished my reading bingo card black out! Highlights were Bleeding Edge with the most abrasive narrator I've ever encountered adding to Pynchon's mythology. I also really loved James by Everett, Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran and This Violent Heart @heatherlevy.bsky.social and Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran!
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Finished my reading bingo card black out! Highlights were Bleeding Edge with the most abrasive narrator I've ever encountered adding to Pynchon's mythology. I also really loved James by Everett, Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran and This Violent Heart @heatherlevy.bsky.social and Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran!
Just finished This Violent Heart by @heatherlevy.bsky.social and really liked it. What I love about all three of Levy's books so far is how they thread the needle between being at times sexually explicit while still feeling grounded in a real place and exceedingly well written.
February 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just finished This Violent Heart by @heatherlevy.bsky.social and really liked it. What I love about all three of Levy's books so far is how they thread the needle between being at times sexually explicit while still feeling grounded in a real place and exceedingly well written.
Going for a blackout on my libraries Adult Winter Reading Bingo Card. Trying to pick the right punny title is living rent free in my head right now.
January 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Going for a blackout on my libraries Adult Winter Reading Bingo Card. Trying to pick the right punny title is living rent free in my head right now.
Fell down a rabbit hole & watched 2022's Mindcage last night. Dumb story & Martin Lawrence is just not a dramatic actor but you could ABSOLUTELY tell a classically trained artist directed that movie!
January 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fell down a rabbit hole & watched 2022's Mindcage last night. Dumb story & Martin Lawrence is just not a dramatic actor but you could ABSOLUTELY tell a classically trained artist directed that movie!
1. Night Shift by @stephenking.bsky.social The Night GOAT. A short story collection written at the peak of King’s powers and about half of these stories were turned into a movie at some point. Still kind of a lazy title but this was also the earliest Night Shift I found/read and really holds up.
January 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
1. Night Shift by @stephenking.bsky.social The Night GOAT. A short story collection written at the peak of King’s powers and about half of these stories were turned into a movie at some point. Still kind of a lazy title but this was also the earliest Night Shift I found/read and really holds up.
2. Nightshift by Kaire Ladner. Everyone works the night shift in this literary near thriller about female friendship and unrequited crushes. Had the lowest Goodreads score of any of the 10 Night Shifts but I thought it was dope!
January 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
2. Nightshift by Kaire Ladner. Everyone works the night shift in this literary near thriller about female friendship and unrequited crushes. Had the lowest Goodreads score of any of the 10 Night Shifts but I thought it was dope!
3. Night Shift by Charlaine Harris. It’s good but never great with the exception of the best written talking, maybe psychic I read this 2 years ago, cat I have encountered in literature. Points docked for this book taking place almost exclusively during the day.
January 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
3. Night Shift by Charlaine Harris. It’s good but never great with the exception of the best written talking, maybe psychic I read this 2 years ago, cat I have encountered in literature. Points docked for this book taking place almost exclusively during the day.
4. Night Shift by Annie Crown. Want someone to lose their virginity, even if it’s just a concept, over the course of at least 3 chapters? This emerging adult title is your book! Also, the main character does, in fact work the night shift but calls in sick after, uh, emerging.
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
4. Night Shift by Annie Crown. Want someone to lose their virginity, even if it’s just a concept, over the course of at least 3 chapters? This emerging adult title is your book! Also, the main character does, in fact work the night shift but calls in sick after, uh, emerging.
5. Night Shift by Robin Cook. Cook was in his early 80s when he wrote this and tended towards a dry, clinical narrative even in classics like Coma. A pandemic setting with all the masking and vaccine chatter that goes along with it and you have a book that feels more like a snapshot than a thriller.
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
5. Night Shift by Robin Cook. Cook was in his early 80s when he wrote this and tended towards a dry, clinical narrative even in classics like Coma. A pandemic setting with all the masking and vaccine chatter that goes along with it and you have a book that feels more like a snapshot than a thriller.
6. The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. The Night Shift you could buy at the airport is a boiler plate thriller where no one REALLY works the night shift but the plot revolves around a mass murder at a Blockbuster Video on millennium eve right around closing time so that's something.
January 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
6. The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. The Night Shift you could buy at the airport is a boiler plate thriller where no one REALLY works the night shift but the plot revolves around a mass murder at a Blockbuster Video on millennium eve right around closing time so that's something.
7. The Night Shift Natalka Burian. A+ concept. The idea of a magical realism book set in the New York bar scene where different buildings all over Manhattan have secret portals to other spots should have been the hipster fantasy novel I always wanted but it never got close to that promise. Bummer!
January 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
7. The Night Shift Natalka Burian. A+ concept. The idea of a magical realism book set in the New York bar scene where different buildings all over Manhattan have secret portals to other spots should have been the hipster fantasy novel I always wanted but it never got close to that promise. Bummer!
8. Night Shift by Annelise Ryan. A well-meaning but boring cozy thriller about a nurse who does ride alongs with her therapy dog. If that’s your kink great but as the only Wisco to write a Night Shift I was honestly hoping for more.
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
8. Night Shift by Annelise Ryan. A well-meaning but boring cozy thriller about a nurse who does ride alongs with her therapy dog. If that’s your kink great but as the only Wisco to write a Night Shift I was honestly hoping for more.
9. Night Shift by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Milla Vane, and Lisa Shearin. A collection of four urban fantasy novellas. I sort of hated all of them to varying degrees and none of the novellas is called Night Shift. What the hell!?
January 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
9. Night Shift by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Milla Vane, and Lisa Shearin. A collection of four urban fantasy novellas. I sort of hated all of them to varying degrees and none of the novellas is called Night Shift. What the hell!?
10. Night Shift by Nora Roberts. I didn’t date a lot in the early 90s but those awkward, honestly gassy, interactions have no resemblance to this VERY pre#metoo this romantic thriller. Positive: Main character, Cilla O’Roarke, is a late night dj so at least works the night shift.
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
10. Night Shift by Nora Roberts. I didn’t date a lot in the early 90s but those awkward, honestly gassy, interactions have no resemblance to this VERY pre#metoo this romantic thriller. Positive: Main character, Cilla O’Roarke, is a late night dj so at least works the night shift.
Read Night Shift by Annie Crown over the weekend and I thought it was time to update the Night Shift rankings. So many books out there with such a say nothing title. 4 of them were published in 2022 alone!
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Read Night Shift by Annie Crown over the weekend and I thought it was time to update the Night Shift rankings. So many books out there with such a say nothing title. 4 of them were published in 2022 alone!
Saw Nightbitch and Babygirl over the weekend. They made a perfect double feature. After Bodies, Bodies, Bodies and Babygirl I'd see/read/watch/consume anything that sprung from Halina Reijn's mind as if she were mighty Zeus!
January 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Saw Nightbitch and Babygirl over the weekend. They made a perfect double feature. After Bodies, Bodies, Bodies and Babygirl I'd see/read/watch/consume anything that sprung from Halina Reijn's mind as if she were mighty Zeus!
Working my way through Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak and Red Sonja: Consumed by @gailsimone.bsky.social
2 VERY different crime novels but both pretty great!
2 VERY different crime novels but both pretty great!
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Working my way through Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak and Red Sonja: Consumed by @gailsimone.bsky.social
2 VERY different crime novels but both pretty great!
2 VERY different crime novels but both pretty great!
The most stupid, unbridled joy I had reading a 2024 title is a tie between two big greenies:
Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus by Doug Moench
and @rainbowrowell.bsky.social 's run on She-Hulk
Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus by Doug Moench
and @rainbowrowell.bsky.social 's run on She-Hulk
January 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The most stupid, unbridled joy I had reading a 2024 title is a tie between two big greenies:
Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus by Doug Moench
and @rainbowrowell.bsky.social 's run on She-Hulk
Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus by Doug Moench
and @rainbowrowell.bsky.social 's run on She-Hulk
God of the Woods by @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social was the best 2024 book I read
Other crazy good stuff:
Hurt For Me by @heatherlevy.bsky.social
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Cue The Sun by @emilynussbaum.bsky.social
All Fours by Miranda July
Other crazy good stuff:
Hurt For Me by @heatherlevy.bsky.social
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Cue The Sun by @emilynussbaum.bsky.social
All Fours by Miranda July
January 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
God of the Woods by @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social was the best 2024 book I read
Other crazy good stuff:
Hurt For Me by @heatherlevy.bsky.social
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Cue The Sun by @emilynussbaum.bsky.social
All Fours by Miranda July
Other crazy good stuff:
Hurt For Me by @heatherlevy.bsky.social
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Cue The Sun by @emilynussbaum.bsky.social
All Fours by Miranda July