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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Small chronic pain things that feel like big hits:

1. It hurts to hold hands with people because of terrible joints.
2. It's hard to get comfy snuggling cause my back is so fussy.
3. Stroking my dog for any length of time really injures my wrists.

Fuck pain.

#chronicpain #disabledbluesky

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 3d

SO looking forward to this discussion next Saturday at the Radical Book Fair

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Finally got a chance to read Gender Queer and had an amazing time. Beautiful artwork, wonderfully nuanced discussion and ace rep I didn't know about going in.

I wish it was in more UK libraries!

#diversebooks #queerbooksky #queerbooks

The cover of Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Korabe

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 3d

I LOVED a Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, one of my favourite books of the year.

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 6d

If you want a poly, queer, spicy romantasy that puts a new twist on heaven and hell, I think you will love this.

As an exvangelical, it was delightful in all the best ways.

Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi. Gifted an e-arc in exchange for review.

#diversebooksky #booksky #romantasy

The cover of Son of the Morning: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Walking my dog this early this morning and saw a local shopkeeper opening the awning at an indie with someone else wrapping their arms around their waist.

They looked so cosy and happy and people are sometimes beautiful 🥹

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Oct 1

TBR challenge update
Books left to read: 18
Days left in 2025: 91
Confidence I will finish: 5/10

Starting this today, have heard so many good things.

#diversebooksky #booksky

A copy of In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado lies on a duvet with sea plants all over.

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 18

Just got an email to let me know that I have early access to read and review Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi.

This is my most anticipated book release for the rest of 2025 and feel so lucky!

#diversebooks #booksky

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 13

There is something uniquely sobering about reading a collection of writing by young Gazan authors and hoping at the end of each story that their update will tell you that they survived to the book being published.

Yousef Maher Dawas didn't.

This is from We Are Not Numbers, a book I recommend.

A photo of a page from a book. It reads:

2023 (January - October)

snapped back at me. 'Who will pay for the twenty years we have lost?'
An awkward silence fell between us. 'Who are we without a past or history?' I asked myself.

Yousef, who was studying to be a psychoanalyst, was the first WANN writer to be killed in the genocide by Israel, on 14 October 2023. He was killed by an Israeli missile strike on his family's home in the northern town of Beit Lahia

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Actual death is when you don't stand up for what is right"

From a degree in surviving assaults by Basman Derawi in We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth

#booksky #diversebooks

The cover of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth, edited by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Has anyone read Patsy? Starting it today with a blank slate of opinions and looking forward to it.

TBR challenge update
Books on TBR: 25
Days left in 2025: 117
Confidence I will finish it: 8/10

#diversebooks #booksky

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Found this little croissant on my bed.

A golden retriever is curled up asleep on a mustard and white duvet.

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trying to read my entire physical TBR by the end of 2025
Books remaining: 26
Days remaining: 119
Confidence I will do it: 6/10

This might be the most fun book I've read this year. I love dark comedy and I love Pride & Prejudice.

A copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith sits on a wooden sideboard. The cover shows a painting of an elegant child with regency era clothes on sitting in a chair. Her eyes are red and there is red liquid dripping from her mouth and hands.

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wee username update and name reveal for anyone who I communicate with regularly!

I want to work towards writing about disability one day and this is the first baby step.

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

I made a little bookmark holder to sit on my TBR shelf. It is very wobbly but I am rather fond of it.

#booksky

A slightly clumsily sculpted low clay pot painted in a plaster colour with sunflowers up the sides is sat on a wooden bookcase. It is filled with bookmarks, the ones visible at the front is a landscape art work, a red bookmark which reads "books gift magic: and a postcard of a Knight in armour with a huge progress pride flag behind them.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · Aug 27

Another update to the map - Four months later and protests are still happening 🏳️‍⚧️

(Green markers for completed demos, red for upcoming)

www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

141 protests and events and counting!

Keep following and supporting @whatthetrans.com for updates

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you!!

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trying to read my entire physical TBR by the end of 2025
Current total: 27
Days left in year: 126
Confidence I will finish: 7/10

I have re-picked up this book to round out women in translation month - an intersectional book which packs a lot into a short number of pages.

#booksky #diversebooksky

A photo of A Feminist History of Violence by Françoise Vergès

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

I have a letter in this book. Pre-order your copy of this book because of the letters written by everyone else.

AK Press @akpress.org · Aug 26

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social comes out November 4th! 🌲🌕🌲

Preorder from us or @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, and you'll get a special bonus letter from Kelly alongside your copy of the book ✉️ www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

“The only book you’ll hold that will hold you, free you, permit you to fail, rest, retreat, grieve, live, laugh, fight, and heal—to be human. This book must never go out of print.” —Robin D.G. Kelley,
author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“In this time of monsters burying us in grief and despair, this extraordinary collection is a steady hand with advice, analysis and affirmation.” —Harsha Walia,
author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

“This book is an antidote to the pleasures of doom—it offers the deeper, more sustaining pleasure of solidarity, in beautiful specificity, from committed organizers in a variety of movements.” —Sarah Jaffe,
author of From The Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

The first 150 pages were slow paced, with learning Chinese history fascinating enough to keep me going.

I cried for at least 85 of the last 150 pages, the gentle building was clearly meant to destroy me later.

#booksky #diversebooksky

The cover of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Feeling super impulsive and noticing it is in a cycle.

Of course it's ADHD, apparently traits can get much stronger depending on hormone levels.

Do I even have a personality, or is it just a jigsaw puzzle of my disabilities? 🤣

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

If anyone else has read this, please let me know! I've not been this lost since I studied philosophy in uni 😭

I fear I am the problem, time travel notoriously confuses me.

(I am reading an e-arc to review)

#booksky

The cover of The Moon Glow Bookshop by Dongwom Seo, translated by Shanna Tan

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm trying to read my whole physical TBR by the end of 2025.
Current total: 28
Days left in year: 130
Confidence that I will complete it: 6/10
Just starting Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (please lemme know your thoughts, I've heard nothing about it)

The cover for Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

I topped up the oil in my car today! There was about 8 steps leading up to it and my ADHD made it really interesting to get the motivation for all of them, but now I feel like a strong independent woman.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Update: 16 of 24 authors and 2 judges have now withdrawn.

First Book:
Curtis Garner
Jason Okundaye
Sacha Coward
Sanah Ahsan
Amy Twigg
Mae Diansangu
Eleanor Medhurst
Hanako Footman
Ciara Maguire
June Thomas

Main:
Olumide Popoola
Robert Hamberger
Dean Atta
Andrew McMillan
Rhian Elizabeth
Jane Traies

The first book Longlist for the Polari prize with books by Curtis Garner
Jason Okundaye
Sacha Coward
Sanah Ahsan
Amy Twigg
Mae Diansangu
Eleanor Medhurst
Hanako Footman
Ciara Maguire
June Thomas
Crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari prize Longlist with books by Olumide Popoola
Robert Hamberger
Dean Atta
Andrew McMillan
Rhian Elizabeth
Jane Traies
Crossed out to show they've withdrawn, and books by Karen McLeod and Avi ben-zeev circled to show they've made statements confirming they'll stay on.

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