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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 3h

I think LOTR and the Hunger Games were all really well adapted, but I have to go with Annihilation for a single film. It’s not a faithful adaptation of the book, but I think the way it was changed made sense for the medium.

#bookishQOTD #BQOTD #booksky💙📚 #readersky

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 7h

I read What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3) by T. Kingfisher

K.J. Charles's review of What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

T Kingfisher does super comforting horror like nobody else, possibly because nobody else could. Alex Easton, gender: soldier, protagonist of Terrifying Mushroom Thing and Terrifying Ghost Thing, gets ...

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 11h

Drop some COSTUMES 🖤

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 11h

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so confused how this could work that I kind of want to read it out of some kind of morbid curiosity

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 12h

I just finished The Keeper of Magical Things, and I really liked it. Very cozy and cute. I liked it a lot better than the first one

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 15h

HONORABLE MENTION goes to Silver Blood

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 15h

Paperback and E-Books: Top 6

All of Us Murderers, Dragon Falls, Yield Under Great Persuasion, A Bone in His Teeth, How to Survive this Fairytale, Hudson River Homicides

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 15h

Inspired by @moonbooks.bsky.social , due to hitting a major milestone, I've decided to highlight some of my favorite books of the year. This was hard, because I've read A LOT of great books this year. But I think I'm satisfied with this list. 👇

Audiobooks: Top 18 (No Particular Order)
💙📚🌈🎧

Blood Over Bright Haven, The Spirit Bares its Teeth, To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Modern Divination, The Sword of Kaigen, Tusk Love, Don't Let the Forest In, Sunrise on the Reaping, Behooved

The Haunting Between Us, Every Spiral of Fate, Warrior Princess Assassin, Lucky Day, Icarus, Practical Rules for Cursed Witches, Ikarys the Damned, Summer Sons, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 17h

I’m going to see what I can come up with after dinner ^^;
I gotta figure out how to narrow it down 😆

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 17h

If you see this post a robot

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 17h

Hahaha it was so silly
Very fun

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 17h

Eeeeeee so many of my favorites on here

Now I want to make a list
But apparently I crossed the 1,000 book threshold for the year
So that’s a thing that happened 😵‍💫

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 17h

🎃October Reading Update🦇

🎧▶️The Keeper of Magical Things
🎧⏭️Red City
📳▶️Dark Stars (Derr)
📖▶️All In

💙📚 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧
#booksky #readersky #queerbooksky #diversebooksky #currentread

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 1d

🎃October Reading Update🦇

🎧▶️Mr. Collins in Love
🎧⏭️Dead & Breakfast
📳▶️Dark Stars (Derr)
📖▶️All In

💙📚 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧
#booksky #readersky #queerbooksky #diversebooksky #currentread

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 1d

“Very different opinions”
Suggests she still doesn’t understand anything

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶

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Love Bytes Reviews (Dani Elle) @lovebytesreviews.bsky.social · 1d

Recent Release Book Review: All of Us Murderers (Lackaday House #1) by K.J. Charles

Reviewed by Sadonna TITLE: All of Us Murderers SERIES: Lackaday House AUTHOR: K.J. Charles PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks LENGTH: 352 pages RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2025 BLURB: The lush Gothic drama of Crimson…

Recent Release Book Review: All of Us Murderers (Lackaday House #1) by K.J. Charles

Reviewed by Sadonna TITLE: All of Us Murderers SERIES: Lackaday House AUTHOR: K.J. Charles PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks LENGTH: 352 pages RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2025 BLURB: The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative's remote Gothic manor, he is horrified to find all the people he least wants to see in the world: his estranged brother, his sneering cousin, and his bitter ex-lover Gideon Grey.

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

Drop something DEVILISH 😈 🖤 👿

Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

*Same level of severity, not necessarily chicken soup and an ankle wrap

Either way, take care of yourself <3
You shouldn't have to tough it out, but if you choose to do so then I hope you don't suffer more because of it

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

Can you take a sick day?
It's not the *same* but when I did IOP for Panic/Anxiety, we talked a lot about how society treats emotional/mental issues as "less" than physical issues, but if you are having a panic attack (or a meltdown) - you should treat it the same as a 24-hour flu or a sprained ankle

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

🎃October Reading Update🦇

🎧▶️Devil Bones
🎧⏭️Gone Tomorrow
📳▶️In Iron Stars
📖▶️All In

💙📚 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧
#booksky #readersky #queerbooksky #diversebooksky #currentread

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Disco (he/they) 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discobooks.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a quarter into this and already a huge fan. This is my first Joe Abercrombie and I’m loving the style, the humour, the world. And it has priests, vampires, knights, scheming, action, gore and so much more!
📚💙 #booksky

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. A skull with candles and a crown as the jaw

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

I hate it so much lol

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Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Cantalope

H*rry P*tter

Dancing Queen

Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Raw Tomatoes (sorry!)

The Nun

Shake It Off

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Also beans

Detective Pikachu

A Thousand Miles (the Vanessa Carlton one)

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