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Halliday in the Books
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New blog post published yesterday about the path I took into professional reading and what it looks like now that I've gotten here.

blog.hallidaynelson.com/professional...

#booksky #betareading #arc #proofreader
A stack of books with overlaid text reading "New Blog Post! So You Want to Get Paid in Books: About Professional Reading"
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I've been craving more dissociation this year than usual
StoryGraph screenshot showing a goal of 50 books with 89 books read so far this year
August 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Not at all what I was meant to be doing, but I made a thing. Design also available as a tshirt, sticker, hat, pin... shower curtain... anything you want really.

halliday.threadless.com

#imadeathing #bookishhumor
July 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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My car made it almost 20 years and over 216k miles before she reached the end of the road. It was quite a journey, so I took the time to gush about it.

Read the post: blog.hallidaynelson.com/end-of-the-r...

#blogpost #oldcar #goodbye #sentimental
Image of the side of a red SUV with trees and fog in the background and autumn leaves on the ground. Overlaid is the text "New Blog Post The End of the Road: Saying Goodbye to Vessel"
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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New #blog post!

I've been mulling over this one for a while. A few years back, it took me over a year to read a single book. So far in 2025, I've read 67 books (45 text, 22 audio). Here are my tips for defeating a #readingslump

blog.hallidaynelson.com/defeat-a-rea...

#booksky #readmore
A large pile of books with a skeleton decoration sitting on top of them. Overlaid is text reading "New Blog Post How to Defeat a Reading Slump"
May 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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This one
Cover of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin with a thumb covering a local library sticker in the top left corner
May 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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New blog post just published. I didn't plan to write about defending public libraries this month, but it seemed more urgent than the psychology of spring cleaning.

Anyway, here's some things you can do to help libraries:
blog.hallidaynelson.com/defending-li...

#booksky #blog #libraries
An image of the interior of a public library overlaid with the text "New Blog Post" and "Getting Loud to Defend Libraries"
April 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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So far this is proving an excellent read for a rainy day like today.
Cover of The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox held up by a hand, with a rainy pine forest in the background
April 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Such a small book...
Everyone should read it at least once.

#ontyranny #littlebook #bigideas
The cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century but Timothy Snyder
March 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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New blog post published today! blog.hallidaynelson.com/telling-my-s...

It took me far to long to learn how to listen to myself. I learned finally how to live my own story, and now I'm starting to tell it too.

#blogpost #booksky #reading #writing
Image shows a pile of books on my desk beside an open laptop with a text document open on the screen. There is a larger monitor in the background showing a spreadsheet of daily progress statistics. Overlaid on the image is text reading "New Blog Post" and "Telling My Story."
March 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Today's (mostly used) #bookhaul comes from A Great Notion. I re-bought a couple titles I haven't read since college, picked up the next in a series I'm loving, grabbed one from a local author, and even found a childhood treasure I'm excited to share with my kid.

#booksky #indiebookstore
A stack of books including Flight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Grendel by John Gardner, A Hundred Breaths by Jean M. Grant, Dreadnought by Cherie Priest, and Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques.
March 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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How was my Valentine's Day, you ask? He set me loose ina secondhand bookstore and cooked dinner while I got some reading time, so.... PERFECT.

#booksky #bookhaul #reading
A stack of books from to to bottom: Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, Last Nocturne by Marjorie Eccles, The Doll-Master by Joyce Carol Oates, and The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu A screenshot reading "Daily statistics 2/14/2025 You read 252 pages (75.93%)
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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From "Remember" by Alice Walker

#poetry
Text reading "I am the woman offering two flowers whose roots are twin Justice and Hope Let us begin."
February 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Today's #bookhaul at my local used book store 😍
February 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Callie says she would like my attention but will happily settle for some of my meatloaf.

#cats of #booksky
A long-haired calico cat standing with her front paws on the pages of an open book that is lying on the bed. The car is looking past the camera pleadingly.
January 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Had an excellent day exploring a couple used bookstores with my partner because he knows exactly how to sweep me off my feet. Adventure video coming soon!

#bookhaul #booksky

(Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide is a replacement for one I loaned out; yes I've read it! A couple times, and now I can again!)
January 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Today's haul at my local independent bookstore 🥰

Stickers and a bigger TBR pile warm my heart on a cold day like today
January 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The dedication from Looking Glass by Christina Henry
Photograph of text in a book reading "For all the girls who save themselves and all the girls still learning how" from Looking Glass by Christina Henry
January 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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New blog post just published. This month it's about my journey of getting back in the books.
blog.hallidaynelson.com/back-in-the-...

#blogpost #booksky
January 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Relatable. I'm loving this book.

Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews

#books #reading
Photograph of printed text reading "he was losing his goddamn mind." The text makes use of atypical formatting with spacing and line breaks, making it somewhat disorienting.
January 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Presenting my top 10 favorite reads of 2024!

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December 31, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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blog.hallidaynelson.com/winter-reset/

This year is coming to an end. Once the chaos of the winter holidays passes, I like to retreat for a while. It feels good for me to take this time to assess where I am, and how that relates to where I want to be. I think of it as a deep winter reset.
December 12, 2024 at 8:23 PM