Alexandra likes books
@aocwrites.bsky.social
I try to be attentive to my own writing, but mostly I'm attentive to other ppl's. Indie book editor, language nerd, outdoors enthusiast, novice potter.
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Hello, world! 👋🏼 New here, having fled the wreckage of another site. Interests include, in no particular order:
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
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Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
But it's the future!
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
But it's the future!
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Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
— ★°•| November 7 |•°★ —
Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
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Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
[Tags: #booksky 💙📚 #BookishQOTD 📖🦋]
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
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After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
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My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
“If a comedic work is successful, you probably can’t see the effort. If it’s very successful, it will seem almost off-the-cuff, like it was created that moment. This is why a lot of ponderous books end up over-praised." - @somers.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
countercraft.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
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The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
It seems my editorial brain is not improved by lunch. Instead of #amediting, my body is requesting a nap.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It seems my editorial brain is not improved by lunch. Instead of #amediting, my body is requesting a nap.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.
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Crunchy bats forever! 😂😂
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Crunchy bats forever! 😂😂
I'm late to the discourse on this book, but Madeline Miller's Circe has been slow going for me. I was about to put it down when finally something started happening. And now, it seems like I'm heading into a scene of sexual assault. It's too much for me atm. #booksky #amreading
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm late to the discourse on this book, but Madeline Miller's Circe has been slow going for me. I was about to put it down when finally something started happening. And now, it seems like I'm heading into a scene of sexual assault. It's too much for me atm. #booksky #amreading
Timeline cleanse!
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Timeline cleanse!
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I basically feel like if you watch War Games and Heathers, you’ve hit most of the Eighties.
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I basically feel like if you watch War Games and Heathers, you’ve hit most of the Eighties.
Rolling into the weekend with gratitude & thanks for everyone who cancelled a meeting this week 😂
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Rolling into the weekend with gratitude & thanks for everyone who cancelled a meeting this week 😂
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My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com
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Timeline cleanse!
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Timeline cleanse!
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️
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I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?
It's alive! It's ALIIIIIIVE!! 🧟♀️
At least for now. Getting ready to migrate hosts. Which, based on this week's experience, will be just peachy, I'm sure.
At least for now. Getting ready to migrate hosts. Which, based on this week's experience, will be just peachy, I'm sure.
I am in DNS propagation hell. Website and email down since Saturday and no end in sight.
October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It's alive! It's ALIIIIIIVE!! 🧟♀️
At least for now. Getting ready to migrate hosts. Which, based on this week's experience, will be just peachy, I'm sure.
At least for now. Getting ready to migrate hosts. Which, based on this week's experience, will be just peachy, I'm sure.
Wrangling a book’s back cover copy always feels kinda bleargh until it all comes together. #amediting
October 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wrangling a book’s back cover copy always feels kinda bleargh until it all comes together. #amediting
I am in DNS propagation hell. Website and email down since Saturday and no end in sight.
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I am in DNS propagation hell. Website and email down since Saturday and no end in sight.
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That’s not how consent works.
October 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
That’s not how consent works.