📖 A Monsoon Rising by Thea Guanzon

So far, this series has been focused on Pride&Prejudice-level pining with a mix of plot. It’s good vs. evil but evil is manipulated, brainwashed good (but.. still genocidal. it’s complicated). I LOVED the worldbuilding & magic. That cliffhanger was ILLEGAL though.

🌈📚👀 #rombks 💙📚🌶️ #lesfic

Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that:

1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works

2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info

3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of

GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...

b&n book mail 🖤 i’m jumping into all but three of these blind. buuuuut this week, but i’ve seen some really good things about blood over bright haven so that might be my next read.

Did some more exploring here today & it looks like most people are really relaxed in their feeds. Seems like there isn’t pressure to post about a specific thing to keep your community & since there’s no algorithm, there isn’t that popularity contest feel that sometimes happens in other apps? I like.

📖 The Name Drop by Susan Lee

It’s impossible, cute, super easy to read, everyone is hot, there are kpop references, & ofc I giggled bc the fmc & mmc connected gazes from across the room??? They kissed TWICE & I screamed. (1/2)

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

No book? Big problem.

First, starter packs for romance people to follow.

This is one of two #romancelandia starter packs from @allieiswriting.bsky.social

You can pick and choose which people you want to follow or click the "Follow all" button and add them all to your feed.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Hey everyone! I am working on putting together a starter pack of people from Bookthreads to make it easier to find everyone.

If you are coming over from Bookthreads and are not on the list, or know of someone else who is not on the list yet, let me know so I can add you/them!

go.bsky.app/Q8GpnBf

I adore the little book community that I have in Threads, but in case that app becomes the next social hellscape, I wanted to carve out a little space here. :)