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The Hearthside Haven @thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social · Feb 4
Grand Opening! Our website is officially launched and you can support us through Bookshop.org AND Libro.fm fir all your bookish needs. Go to our website for links to our recs, our shops, local cat rescues, and some local cafes. Go to Substack to find our newsletter!
The Grand Opening image shows a red bow on a white background. It says Our Online Bookstore is Officially Open! February 4, 2025. Thehearthsidehaven.wixsite.com An image of The Hearthside Haven's libro.fm webpage is shown highlighting twi free audiobooks if you sign up for a membership supporting us. An image of The Hearthside Haven's bookshop.org storefront with Skye's Picks-one of our recommended book lists. The landing page of The Hearthside Haven is shown. The menu bar shows the home, bookstore, cat lounge, cafe, about us, and contact us pages. Towards the bottom you can "discover our katest recommendations" above two partial images of people.
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Here's a selection of recommendations from June, our young assistant! Half of the proceeds from this list go to them directly. June likes a lot of lgbt YA lit, but you will find some of their recommendations from when they were younger & some reference books in here. #booksky
A cell phone screenshot of bookshop.org shows a list from The Hearthside Haven titled June's Picks. The books highlighted are In Deeper Waters by FT Luke's and Never Whistle at Night
February 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
This book quickly became a favorite book of mine that I recommend to anyone remotely interested in discussing how the world around us is deeply integrated with our digital selves & what this means to our collective understanding of memory, love, & life. #booksky
The cover of The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computers by Janelle Monáe is on top of a cozy backdrop. The text reads: Created as a companion to Janelle Monáe's album Dirty Computer, this book is a dystopian discussion on the world. Adding an element of queer love, this book implores us to question how the computer world around us manipulates our lives.
February 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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!

20/20 🥳

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
Chicka chicka boom boom by Bill Martin Jr and John achambault, illustrated by lord ehlert, has a paper coconut tree on the front of an orange background with a pink and orange polka dot border
February 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This Valentines Day, remind yourself that you are innately divine no matter what roles you have in your day to day life, who you are with, or what the influences around you have to say. You do not need to declare to the world that you are you, because that is a scrumptious thing to behold.
The cover of the body is not an apology by Sonia renee Taylor is set on a backdrop of a cozy bed with the title and author written above it and the words "skye's tbr pile" above that
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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!

19/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood has a brown and green cover. There are animals in the bottom brown section and mountains and plants in the upper green.
February 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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!

18/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager edited by Beatrice Sparks, Ph. D editor of Go Ask Alice has a pink picture of a teen girl in the background and a journal with a key in the foreground. The journal reads "Dear Diary, The complete bottom has fallen out of my world... I cannot bear to face it! I will not! I don't want this responsibility. I'm only fourteen..."
February 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Great news! Not only is the link in our bio fixed to take you to the new website but we now have Cindy's List! Cindy is a trained English Teacher and recommends books for teens and their teachers. She has asked that half of the proceeds from this list go to our local High School.
#BookSky
An artfully displayed stack of books is shown. Book titles include but are not limited to The Last Of The Really Great Whangdoodles, Go Ask Alice, and The Hate You Give.
February 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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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!

17/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
This copy of The Awakening by Kate Chopin shows a portrait of an Edward inn era woman leaning on a gazebo rail
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social
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!

16/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon has an orange cover with a blue dragon encircling a tall tower on its left side.
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Media of all forms are filled with images & headlines designed to break us down and sell us the latest ways they think we should change us. Sometimes, the media has infected our family & friends to the point that they have their own insecurities that cause them to make us feel bad, too.
#BookSky
The cover of Dumplin by Julie Murphy is on a cozy background. The text reads: Dumplin is a plus sized teenage girl learning to love her body despite the fatphobia around her, with a touch of teenage romance. Know a beautiful, plus sized young person in your life? Get this for them to remind them they are beautiful no matter their size.
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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!

15/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
A purple cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte has pink filigree on the bottom and a heterosexual couple under a windswept tree on the antiqued front of it.
February 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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. 2/20 #Booksky
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The picture shows a green, hardback, Art Deco style cover, with gold foil lettering. There is a frame on the cover in dark green, gold, bronze and rose gold. Inside this frame are leaves rendered in shades of green and copper. inside this frame is another frame. This frame holds a gold butterfly in each corner with its wings spread. The cover reads "Little Women" (by) Louisa May Alcott.
February 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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!

14/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
The cover of Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is on a black background and shows a red, orange and yellow woven piece of fabric at the top. At the bottom is a light skinned girl with black hair picking pink, white, and blue flowers
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today's featured book is one that has been on Skye's TBR pile for a few years: The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton. This book discusses the ins and outs of polyamorous relationships. Love is more than what meets the eye whether spicy things are happening or not.
#booksky #polyam
The Ethical Slut book cover is on top of an image of a bed. The small text at the top kf the image reads: Skye's TBR Pile.
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social
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!

13/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
A blue cover showing two girls with their heads on each others shoulder has the book title "keeping you a secret" by Julie Anne Peters. The small text beneath the title reads "Is it worth falling jn love if you have to keep a secret?"
February 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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!

12/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
Sonia Renèe Taylor, the author, lays naked on a bed of flowers with rays coming off of them. Their chest and private areas are covered with flowers and a white banner that reads "The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love".
February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Who wants to join me in @libro.fm 's audiobook reading challenge this month? Go to blog.libro.fm/love to learn more and join!
A countdown from 1 to 15 is in the middle of the image. At the top it says "for the love of audiobooks reading challenge". At the bottom is a heart wearing headphones with a FAQs section and the link saying to complete to form by February 19th at 5pm PST to qualify.
February 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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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!

11/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
The cover of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is shown.
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social
Grand Opening! Our website is officially launched and you can support us through Bookshop.org AND Libro.fm fir all your bookish needs. Go to our website for links to our recs, our shops, local cat rescues, and some local cafes. Go to Substack to find our newsletter!
The Grand Opening image shows a red bow on a white background. It says Our Online Bookstore is Officially Open! February 4, 2025. Thehearthsidehaven.wixsite.com An image of The Hearthside Haven's libro.fm webpage is shown highlighting twi free audiobooks if you sign up for a membership supporting us. An image of The Hearthside Haven's bookshop.org storefront with Skye's Picks-one of our recommended book lists. The landing page of The Hearthside Haven is shown. The menu bar shows the home, bookstore, cat lounge, cafe, about us, and contact us pages. Towards the bottom you can "discover our katest recommendations" above two partial images of people.
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social
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!

10/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is shown open on a table. With the cover facing the camera A page out of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is shown. It is Number 9: Be kind to our language. "Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Thubk up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books."
February 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
thehearthsidehaven.bsky.social
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!

9/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This cover is in reds, oranges, yellows, and greens and shows a bunch of apartment buildings reminiscent of big cities like new York along with two faces.
February 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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February’s All Types of Love theme kicks off with The Empyrean series! With dragon riders, revolution, and Ehlers-Danlos rep, it’s a fierce love story. I’m reading Onyx Storm now—hoping it avoids an abusive “fixing” dynamic. Love needs accountability. Have you read this series?
#romantasy #booksky
A book review of the three book in the empyrean series by Rebecca yarros. There is a short summary of the series and a bit of personal opinion, which includes concern over the evolving relationship dynamic but endorsement of the slow burn enemies to lovers story
February 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM