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Castor Starr 🌈 📚

@castorstarr.bsky.social

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Booktok/Tumblr migrant & queer book nerd who loves making lists and giving recs. Give me more unlikeable girls! #SupportYourLocalLibrary They/Them bio.link/castorstarr

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 20

The Booktok moots told me to join so! Booksky intro I guess 🤷

I'm Castor, I'm into
✨queer books
✨specifically ace rep
✨weird horror
✨magical realism
✨KNIGHTS
✨VILLAINS (that aren't just abusers 😭)
✨slow burn yearning

and I have no idea how to use this platform yet 😂
#booksky #booktok #queerbooks

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 21d

I just saw a TikTok where a woman was listening to Edelweiss and said she finally understood how Captain Von Trapp felt. And honestly, same. Excuse me while I go sob into my pillow for an hour.

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · 20d

Got reminded that this acct exists right as I'm spiralling about the future of booktok so hiiiii
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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · May 24

Rewarded myself on finally reviewing another handful of arcs by downloading & requesting even more arcs (that's how it works, right?)
🌈📚 #booksky

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Mar 29

I finished btw ✨

A photo of the book "Monstersona" which is orange, with 2 teenage girls and a dog in the forefront, and a large kaiju-like black monster behind them. The title is bedazzled in lime green, and the Kaiju is entirely bedazzled in black, excluding on large yellow-ish gem for the eye.

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Mar 25

Me, 24 hours ago: book bedazzling is a cute idea but it's a little silly, right? I probably wouldn't be into it haha
Me, 5 minutes into bedazzling a kaiju: T H I S I S M E N O W

#monstersona #booksky 📚🌈

A photo of the cover of the book "Monstersona", the bottom partially covered with an unused sheet of black rhinestones, the uncovered part shows a large kaiju-like monster behind a redheaded teen girl. The eye of the kaiju has a yellow-green rhinestone on it, and the top of its head is covered in black rhinestones.

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Mar 2

The sheer euphoria I got from having accidentally 3d printed the perfect bookmark for my current read- it's gonna get me through the week
💙📚 #adeathindoorcounty

A 3D printed bookmark showing the Loch Ness Monster's neck and head sticking out, over top the book A Death in Door County, which shows a very similar image of the Loch Ness Monster.

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Marie Sotiriou @mariesotiriou.bsky.social · Feb 9

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots is well written, steeped in social commentary, fast paced, queer, imaginative, and fun. It’s also very angry and fiercely feminist.

You root for the found family of super villains.

I thought Hench was very good!
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Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · Feb 9

I come bearing a tiny bit of good news: HENCH is the featured deal on @ebookdaily for only $1.99 ebookdaily.com/bargain-kind...

It's also available of kindle for $1.99! www.amazon.com/Hench-Novel-...

relevant fun fact: I named the institution of superheroism The Draft after the evils of the NFL.

Hench: A Novel

Hench: A Novel - Kindle edition by Walschots, Natalie Zina. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Hench: A Novel.

www.amazon.com

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 8

still thinking about that (very good) short story collection I read that was mostly surreal-ish horror except from TWO STORIES that were entirely just about having being turned on by a goth woman and realizing you want to gay kiss your friend while high
#booksky 🌈📚

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 4

Desperately desperately hoping The Rose Bargain gets the Bridgerton treatment & a fully fleshed out sapphic regency romance side story pleeeeease 😭
#therosebargain #booksky #diversebooksky 🌈📚

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ooh I LOVE that! I wish we could do something like that, I wanna discuss books while holding my pom 😭

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

That's so exciting! And I definitely love a good book challenge 🥰 We're doing seasonal ones right now, and I'm loving getting to cross stuff out on my Winter sheet

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

To answer my own question - my favorite things I've done at my library are probably DIY Sprayed Edges, teaching a yarn spinning class, making moss walls, and our huuuuge Pride & Disability Pride displays in June & July 🥳
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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

It's Library Lover's Month!! Take a moment to think about (or better tell me!) your favorite thing your library's done 🥰
#librarysky #booksky #supportyourlocallibrary 💙📚 🌈📚

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

We love good promotion to the community!

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Feb 2

It's Library Lover's Month!! Take a moment to think about (or better tell me!) your favorite thing your library's done 🥰
#librarysky #booksky #supportyourlocallibrary 💙📚 🌈📚

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 29

I'm 100% not willing to jinx it, but.... I think this year may break my 3 year slump of like close to zero star reads.... 🙏🤞
#booksky 🌈📚

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Randy Greer @justrandygreer.bsky.social · Jan 27

I just saw the 2025 US banned books list. I just want to say, go read books. Talk about them. Share them. And please write them.

While many of these books will still be published, they do become less accessible when removed from libraries

Be a book punk. Read them all

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 26

Bookish checkpoint: 📚 💙

Last:
✨ Liar's Kingdom - Christine Callela

Current:
✨ Not Quite a Ghost - Anne Ursu

Next:
✨ The Rose Bargain - Sasha Peyton Smith

Last Book Added to TBR:
✨ The Incandescent - Emily Tesh

#booksky #diversebooksky 🌈📚

steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · Jan 26

Bookish checkpoint: 📚 💙

Last:
✨ Lucha of the Night Forest - Tehlor Kay Mejia

Current:
✨ The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

Next:
Probably either …
✨ Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor
✨ The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

Last Book Added to TBR:
✨ Vanishing World - Sayaka Murata

#Booksky

Divergent Bookworm 🌈✨ @divergentbookworm.bsky.social · Jan 26

Bookish checkpoint: 📚💙

Last:
✨ Vicious Bonds -Shanora Williams

Current:
✨When the Reckoning Comes - LaTanya McQueen

Next:
✨A Torch Against the Night - Sabaa Tahir

Last Book Added to TBR:
✨A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 26

Look up what books are being challenged in your state/area, especially newer titles that may not have as much support for them yet

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 25

I hope you like it!

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 25

Getting live texts about someone going through it is so much more satisfying than people sitting around after the fact imho

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 25

My version of a book club is forcing my sister to read things I know we can be insane together about
#longliveevil #booksky #villainmc 📚💙 🌈📚

Messenger chat:
Sister - If Key gets hurt (emotionally) I'm ripping this book up
Me - YOU STARTED IT?

Messenger chat:
Me - hooray (heart smiley)
Sister - Also waiting for stupid Marius to kiss The Cobra

Messenger chat:
Sister- Ahhhhh. When Key was like it's so nice to belong to someone again I was ready to burn the world down for him
Me - I know right!! She genuinely did such a good job writing that man like what a freak I love him so much
Sister - For real! He was so sweet and naive while also being insane. I was like okay Raw I know you have trust issues but don't fumble this (sobbing face)

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Ultra Deluxe @ultradeluxe.bsky.social · Jan 24

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 25

I wish I could just Google "books so good they make you spontaneously start creating a playlist" imho I need that energy rn
🌈📚 #booksky #diversebooks #queerbooksky #booktok 💙📚

Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · Jan 24

thank you 🥺😭

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Alyssa @lyssabyss.bsky.social · Jan 24

(2/2) Several OR cities are dealing with this due to property tax compression from taxes passed in the 90s, but no other city of Salem’s size in OR has even THOUGHT about shuttering their libraries. City Manager and Council seem all for funding the cops though!!

More at savesalemlibrary.carrd.co

Save Salem Public Library (OR)

Act now to help Salem, Oregon residents protect their public library from further defunding and loss of staff.

savesalemlibrary.carrd.co

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