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Anxiety filled mood reader who likes to pet cats and play dress up. 📚Fantasy/Horror/Romance/Morbid Non-Fiction Reading is political. Read Diversely. She/her

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Jan 19

Oh hello new followers. Some quick basics about me I guess.
I read a lot. I don’t promote problematic authors. I read diversely. Audio books are reading. Reading is political. I read many different genres. I enjoy spice. I’ll probably post sporadically and sometimes it’ll be about my pets.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 20m

I love when a book or movie throws the title into dialog at some point. But there is such a thing as overkill so I will also DNF your book when you make over a dozen references to the title within the first 100 pages. #booksky problems.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 22h

Libby what's up? It's said about two weeks for over a month now. I just want my spook season book please.
#booksky problems.

A screen grab of a Libby hold for Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 1d

I finished A Harvest of Hearts. It definitely lived up to the promised Howls Moving Castle vibes. I really enjoyed it. I liked the FMC and following her story was lovely and I thought the magic system was unique. #booksky

The cover of A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the rec!

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 2d

Um. Yes. I love this.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn't make it to a protest today but I did find a book to add to my resistance library collection. #booksky

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 4d

Love this.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 4d

I finished Rebel Witch. I enjoyed the first book in this duology but the second just didn't do it for me and I don't really have a good reason why. Maybe I just read them too far apart? There were definitely some pacing issues. I feel like they would have been better read back to back. #booksky

The cover of Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 8d

I finished Enter the Body. Overall I enjoyed this reclaiming of some of Shakespeare's most tragic tales for the ladies who suffer for the story but I do think a greater knowledge of the bard's work would have helped me out. #booksky

The cover of Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 9d

I finished The Bewitching. I loved this creepy atmospheric story of history and magic. The setting was lush and I'm a big sucker for stories told in an epistolary style and I really enjoyed its use here. The twists were good too. #booksky

The cover of The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 10d

I finished the graphic novel Mamo. I really enjoy this story of magic and family history. The art is gorgeous and I liked the queer rep. Very cute. #booksky

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 12d

I finished The Lies of the Ajungo. I really enjoyed this short but powerful fantasy novella. I liked the cadence of the writing and messages about propaganda. Curious to read more of the series. #booksky

The cover of The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah that section was rough.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 13d

I finished The Icepick Surgeon. This book was fascinating and horrifying. I both hated and loved every weird brutal thing I learned. Medical history is wild. #booksky

The cover of The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 13d

I finished The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Come for the cheese puns. Stay for the fashion. This was a super cute queer graphic novel about friendship, finding yourself and cheese. #booksky

The cover of The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 14d

I finished the graphic novel adaptation of The Lottery. Damn this story is brutal. I loved the art style. It was very tonalist and really added to the bleakness of the story. A fantastic adaptation. #booksky

The cover of the graphic novel adaptation of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 17d

I finished Read Dangerously. I enjoyed these letters between a daughter and her father as they talked about life and the importance of media. #booksky

The cover of Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 29d

Hey #booksky, what are some of your favorite anthologies or short story collections?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 19

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 19

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Sep 19

I finished a Treachery of Swans. As a former ballet dancer it was fun to read a Swan Lake retelling. I really enjoyed the magic system and there were lots of twists and turns. I didn't fully believe the romance but the two FMCs had good banter and were fun to read about. #booksky

The Illumicrate cover of A Treachery of Swans by AB Poranek.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Sep 18

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Sep 18

I finished Phenomenal Woman. I'm really not a poetry girlie but I still loved this. The poems are so lyrical and approachable while still being very powerful. I definitely need to explore more of Angelou's work. #booksky

The cover of Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Sep 18

Chicago only has 5.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Sep 18

Wow. My library doesn't even allow that many holds.

GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · Sep 17

Libby needs to update their final holds notice from "available soon" to "will now be available at the most inconvenient time". #booksky problems.

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