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Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

A mixture of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi. The rage, grief, and fight will stick with you.

#BookSky
Book cover of "Flowers for the Sea" by Zin E. Rocklyn. A silhouetted woman and tentacles are engulfed in an eerie blue and green glow, conveying mystery.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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mollyandthecat.bsky.social
Good morning my dears!

It’s been raining heavily for about 5 hours and should keep raining for another 23 hours!

I love our finished puzzle. The shimmery pieces sparkle in the candlelight.

My ginger molasses cookie and coffee are so yummy together.

Circe is picking up. It’s great!

#BookSky
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#BookWrapup25
Day 21: A series you started and plan to continue

I'm waiting to get my hands on a copy of book 2 of the Crimson Moth series. The hold list at the library is killing me. Also eagerly anticipating the release of All Hail Chaos and Captive Traitor King in 2026. #BookSky 💙📚
Book cover - Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli Book Cover - All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan
December 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It's an unpleasant feeling, having this anger at someone who is dying. -- This week's #SundaySentence is from Lily King's gorgeous Heart the Lover. #Booksky
The cover is a deep orange color and features two flowers in the position and shape of eyes in a face, with tears dripping down. There's a note that King also wrote Writers & Lovers.
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
pudseyrecommends.bsky.social
Love that Karen & Carlos are the winners 🥳💫
ianmoody.bsky.social Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 7d
Strictly Come Dancing: the final. It all ends tonight as Amber Davies, Karen Carney and George Clarke go head-to-head in the grand series finale. Karen waltzed away with the glitterball trophy.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Strictly Come Dancing: the final – live
It all ends tonight as Amber Davies, Karen Carney and George Clarke go head-to-head in the grand series finale. But who will waltz away with the glitterball trophy?
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
pudseyrecommends.bsky.social
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life is a sharp, bittersweet queer love story set in 1970s Paris. Erica and Laure burn bright, choose differently, and live with the echo of an “almost” life. Tender and unforgettable. 💙

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Heart wrenching, incisive, I couldn’t put it down.

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I'm not a fan of "best of" booklists at this time of year, but I loved this, writers sharing the books they love to give friends & family as gifts. Is a River Alive? & The Man Who Planted Trees are two of my faves. #booksky #reading
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This novel deserves all the hype. It’s quirky, absurd, darkly funny, and at the same time horrifically provocative and razor-sharp in its satire. Why can humans be such monsters?!

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
📚🌎 #diversebooks
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The Shark House blends Hawaiian culture, science, mystery and emotional depth. Experiencing this beautiful and absorbing sea adventure with Minnow was a joy 🤩

🎧The audiobook narration by Jennifer Robideau is excellent.

out January 13, 2026

💙📚 #booksky
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December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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✨ The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

🎨🖤This one surprised me in the best way. Cursed paintings, hidden grief, and a whole lot of globetrotting darkness and queer rep!

Full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
December 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I love the Afrofuturist textures that reminded me of Black Panther. Ashing-Giwa here moves in a slower, deeper current, asking what endures when power reshapes everything.

Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7662...

💙📚 #booksky
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Especially painful after the loss of constitutional abortion rights in the U.S. 💔 The real horror isn’t the witches, it’s what’s happening in real life

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Full review:
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3508...

💙📚 #booksky
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December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I’ve been waiting for this beauty for a while!!

It’s finally arrived! #bookmail

The Life Of Violet by Virginia Woolf

💙📚 #booksky
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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October through books : what a wonderful chaotic month!! Quite moody too 😂 Recognised any of these?

💙📚 #booksky
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🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends
📚🌎 #diversebooks
#latinbooksky
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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wanderolah.bsky.social
🍁November Reading Update🍄‍🟫

🎧▶️Hazelthorn
🎧⏭️The Everlasting
📳▶️By Silk Tones
📖▶️Rag and Bone

💙📚 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧
#booksky #readersky #queerbooksky #diversebooksky #currentread
Hazelthorn The Everlasting
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.

The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.

That’s a win for basic law.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Oct 30
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Human, animal by Seth Insua
#currentlyreading #audiobook
Hybrid reading

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Completely floored
Blood Over Bright Haven M L Wang

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚
The cover of "Gender Queer: Annotated Edition" by Maia Kobabe. A digital drawing shows Maia (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair) seating in profile on a hillside covered in California native wildflowers overlooking the Sonoma County coastline. Golden hills covered in oak trees recede into the distance around a grey pebble beach and a richly blue ocean under a blue sky
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It's been a sapphic vampires kind of month. 💙📚🩸📚🌈📚🤎
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab. Dark blue roses on a black background. Lucy Undying by Kiersten White. A pale woman in a puffy crimson dress twists to face the viewer. Blood is smeared on her neck, and in the waves of her loose blonde hair, you can make out the impression of snarling wolves. A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger. A pale woman averts her gaze from the viewer. She wears a black dress and lots of heavy jewellery. Her red hair is piled into a bouffant updo, contrasting the green foliage in the background. A drop of blood spills over her lip. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn. A portrait of a woman holding a hen, cut off above her nose. A tabled piled with rich foods and fruits surrounds her.
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Truly loving these Chuck Wendig novels:

The Wanderers: an apocalyptic epic that’s as timely as it is terrifying.

The Book of Accidents: chilling, twisty haunted house tale with a beating heart

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Finished reading Palaver by Brian Washington and feeling nostalgic

I loved it. It’s a subtle, powerful, complex, feel-good novel about healing past wounds and the joys of new found family.

💙📚 #booksky
🌈📚 #queerbookworm
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Have y’all read “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler? I’m (finally) reading it right now for the first time, and I HIGHLY recommend it - especially for this time, right now 👀🔥

(Published in 1993 but set NOW 😳)

(It’s now available as a graphic novel, too) #scifi #classicnovel #BookSky #reading
White book cover with stylized image of a Black woman in a flame-colored long sleeve dress and head wrap: "Brilliant, endlessly rich... pairs well with 1984 or The Handmoid's Tale." -JOHN GREEN, New York Times Parable of the Sower With a new foreword from award-winning author N. K. JEMISIN NEW YORK TIMES OCTAVIA E BUTLER Graphic novel cover in reds and oranges with drawing of a Black girl with dreadlocks and flames: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S PARABLE OF THE SOWER From the award-winning, #I New York Times bestselling team of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Catalina by Karla C Villavicencio deserves more hype!

An undocumented student discovers her grandfather ignored immigration letters, putting their futures at risk.

A bold campus debut: ambition, belonging & the immigrant experience.

💙📚 #booksky
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📚🌎 #diversebooks
#latinbooksky
October 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM