Mel
@melisreading.bsky.social
Avid reader 📚🤓 || Mostly obsessed with ASOIAF & Dune || Fear cuts deeper than swords || Justice for Alia Atreides || Music enjoyer || she/her 🏳️🌈
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Mel
@melisreading.bsky.social
· Nov 19
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.
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My top 10 books of 2025 in no particular order (rereads not included):
Beloved
Wuthering Heights
Fool’s Errand
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Pachinko
The Navigator’s Children
Pet Sematary
Lies of Locke Lamora
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Death of the Author
HM: 11/22/63, Blood Over Bright Haven
#booksky
Beloved
Wuthering Heights
Fool’s Errand
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Pachinko
The Navigator’s Children
Pet Sematary
Lies of Locke Lamora
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Death of the Author
HM: 11/22/63, Blood Over Bright Haven
#booksky
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 AM
My top 10 books of 2025 in no particular order (rereads not included):
Beloved
Wuthering Heights
Fool’s Errand
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Pachinko
The Navigator’s Children
Pet Sematary
Lies of Locke Lamora
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Death of the Author
HM: 11/22/63, Blood Over Bright Haven
#booksky
Beloved
Wuthering Heights
Fool’s Errand
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Pachinko
The Navigator’s Children
Pet Sematary
Lies of Locke Lamora
Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Death of the Author
HM: 11/22/63, Blood Over Bright Haven
#booksky
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Left Hand of Darkness reread complete ✅
“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”
I love Ursula K Le Guin and I love this book
#booksky
“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”
I love Ursula K Le Guin and I love this book
#booksky
CR: Anna Karenina & The Left Hand of Darkness (reread)
#booksky
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November 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Left Hand of Darkness reread complete ✅
“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”
I love Ursula K Le Guin and I love this book
#booksky
“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”
I love Ursula K Le Guin and I love this book
#booksky
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There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
GRRM should be allowed to shoot 5 people a day
I'm glad I went to WorldCon today because someone just got up to the mic and told George R.R. Martin to his face that he's going to die soon and started to ask whether Brandon Sanderson would finish his books and everyone started to boo.
August 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
GRRM should be allowed to shoot 5 people a day
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The Handmaid’s Tale is one of those books I’ve wanted to read for years but for some reason kept putting off. Excited to finally get to it
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March 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Handmaid’s Tale is one of those books I’ve wanted to read for years but for some reason kept putting off. Excited to finally get to it
#booksky
#booksky
Currently crashing out over this on the other site but omg my family is reunited ❤️
Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins have joined the cast of the final season of ‘THE BOYS’ with Jensen Ackles set to return as Soldier Boy.
February 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Currently crashing out over this on the other site but omg my family is reunited ❤️
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A bunch of people have sent me this. I just want everybody to know this is NOT my fault. (This time.)
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe.
www.independent.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A bunch of people have sent me this. I just want everybody to know this is NOT my fault. (This time.)
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Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually