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Kristin Mai

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Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Bookworm • Daydreamer 🎨 Website & Links: https://kristinmai.carrd.co 🌹 Illustrated Phantom of the Opera Book: https://kristinmai-poto.carrd.co/ 🐇 Next Project: Alice in Wonderland 🚫No AI or NFTs

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 13d

I started illustrating The Phantom of the Opera during COVID lockdown in 2020. It’s been a long project, but I’m happy to finally share it. 🖤

🌹 kristinmai-poto.carrd.co

#ThePhantomOfTheOpera #art #illustration

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 12h

Vegetaristi on tosi ihana.

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 15h

I still need to read that one 👀

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed, the fonts are so good! Bring them back 😭

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 17h

Bring back book covers of women in flowy dresses running from graveyards and haunted castles.

A collage of pulp gothic romance book covers. Most have the stereotypical woman in a white gown running from a creepy castle or graveyard.

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👻 A Very Slice Scare-en 🔪 @notasminima.bsky.social · 19h

#TheTenantOfWildfellHall - #AnneBronte - is an *objectively better* novel than Jane Eyre (Charlotte) and Wuthering Heights (Emily)...

...and the only reason it doesn’t get the love it deserves today is in large part because Charlotte meddled horrendously with Anne's legacy #UnhingedOpinion

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 23h

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#BookSky #BookishQOTD

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 23h

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. So quietly unsettling.

#BookSky #BookishQOTD

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Like, it felt so weird to still have Murakami and Stephen King books on my TBR from when I was a teenager. Not really authors I'd read now 😅

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted a bunch of books from my digital TBR. It was interesting to see how my reading taste has changed. Like, I mostly deleted thriller/mystery books, since I don't read those anymore. Also got rid of authors I know don't vibe with.

#BookSky

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 2d

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚

✧ last book: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

✧ current read(s): The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson & Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

✧ newest adds to the tbr: Lumenlaulaja by Emmi Itäranta

✧ eagerly waiting for: Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t worry, they left with a very nice edition of Alice. But that was a close one 😅

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

This reminds me of when I worked at a bookstore and a customer asked which book they should get for their 8 year-old daughter: Alice in Wonderland or Lolita.

#BookSky

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 3d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, DC: Are you poor and/or furloughed but looking for good times? This Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm we’ll have free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

Aw, thank you 🥺💜 Same, most of my irl friends aren’t on here, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many cool people I’ve been able to meet here who share similar niche interests ☺️

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d

Should have known. They normally are 😂

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d

I’m so sorry 💔

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve never seen this cover before. I like it a lot more than the other one.

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Maria Kuutti @mariakuutti.bsky.social · 4d

Pohjalaisen kirjallisuuspalkinnon voittaja on Merja Mäki romaanillaan Itki toisenkin.

Mäki on todennut, että sodasta kirjoittaminen on hänen rauhantyötään. 📚

"Hän on noussut suurten suomalaisten kertojien joukkoon" – Merja Mäki saa Pohjalaisen kirjallisuuspalkinnon

Toinen kerta toden sanoi.

ilkkapohjalainen.fi

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d

Looks really neat!

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 5d

Here to stay….just like those NFT monkey jpgs, right? 🙄

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Olli Lönnberg @tiaranon.bsky.social · 5d

Aina välillä tulee niitä hetkiä, kun kirjasta on niin paljon sanottavaa, ettei todellakaan pysty sanomaan yhtään mitään. Sitten välillä tulee niitä hetkiä, kun kirjasta ei todellakaan pysty sanomaan mitään, mutta on pakko sanoa, koska se on niin hyvä. Aion nyt sanoa. Karhu mun kanssani.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 5d

🙌💜

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t read anything by László Krasznahorkai, but his name keeps coming up as a recommendation ever since I read The Transylvania Trilogy. I needed some more Hungarian literature on my tbr.

💙📚 #Literaturesky

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 5d

*nods* Sounds about right.