Fresh Lens
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Fresh Lens
@lensicle.bsky.social
Self-soothing through books, TV, movies, flowers and art since 1976
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If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.
September 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Look who came with
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
🔸Last: Children of Men, PD James
🔸Current: Wild Dark Shores, Charlotte McConaghy
🔸Recent tbr: House of Doors, Tan Twan Eng
🔸Next: Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
bookish checkpoint 🕯️

🔸 last book you read: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder.
🔸 your current read: Mayer 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong.
🔸 last book added to your tbr: We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr
🔸 next read: What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma .

quote with yours! #booksky #books
August 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Currently reading. 33% through.
August 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“These are big massive bullwhips that haven’t been seen since Covid”
What’s happening in Los Angeles’s ports suggests that financial markets have yet to fully price in how much Trump’s tariff war is hurting the economy, @juliettekayyem.bsky.social writes. “The stock market goes up and down. Maritime indicators keep on sinking”:
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
bit.ly
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thought there would be more! Partly related to money conscious decision to use Libby instead of purchasing books. Many slow reads this yr too. 💙📚
November 27, 2024 at 2:53 PM
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year

1. A History of Burning by Janika Oza
2. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
3. The Wager by David Grann
4. Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
5. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year

1. Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

2. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

3. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

4. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

5. The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year

- “Home Is Not a Country” by Safia Elhillo
- “How I’ll Kill You” by Ren DeStefano
- “Of Women and Salt” by Gabriela Garcia
- “Over the Influence” by Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque
- “How to Fail at Flirting” by Denise Williams
November 8, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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#BookSky #LiteratureSky
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year

1. Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

2. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

3. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

4. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

5. The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year

- “Home Is Not a Country” by Safia Elhillo
- “How I’ll Kill You” by Ren DeStefano
- “Of Women and Salt” by Gabriela Garcia
- “Over the Influence” by Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque
- “How to Fail at Flirting” by Denise Williams
November 8, 2024 at 3:26 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.
Day 1
#BookSky #BookChallenge
November 8, 2024 at 8:16 AM