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Kim Novak - The Reading Rx
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CF Clinical Pharmacist & PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy RPD 🦋
Voracious reader 💙📚
Posts on books, lungs, bugs, drugs, & health policy
WVU alum
Just trying to be a good human
Columbus, OH
#PharmSky #MedSky #PedSky #BookSky
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Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert is a #YA #RomCom with positive representation. I think it would have been better in text than on #audiobook.
#BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert. A cartoon young Black couple with backpacks on and trees in the background.
December 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The Big One by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker is both informative and terrifying. It’s not a matter of if but when. Read this book! #Health #Politics #NonFiction #BookSky 💙📚 #MedSky
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Book cover of The Big One by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker. Hazy view of a larger crowd of people walking on the street.
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This makes me so sad. Books have such opportunity to change lives for the good.
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nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d
In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb is a wonderful and heartwarming WWI #HistoricalFiction book with a sprinkle of Christmas flavor. The full cast #audiobook really brought the characters to life. #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb. Back view of a woman in a red coat standing in front of the Eiffel Tower as it snows. Book title imprinted in a packet of old letters.
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez is a #Romance with a lot of heart and love for family. #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez. A man sits in an office chair writing a letter. A woman sits on the letter T in the title writing a letter. A Bernese mountain dog sits in the letter R in Yours watching a paper airplane sail past.
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Bravo to MMWR for this middle-finger salute to RFK Jr #IDSky
Screenshot of MMWR graphic stating that "COVID-19 vaccines protect children from severe illness." Link to article: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7440a1.htm
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Vulnerable children are dying as the result of inexcusable, immoral policy choices by the most powerful. “One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone… Estimates suggest 2025 will be the first year this century that child deaths have gone up instead of down.”
For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up.
www.npr.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Let’s stop romanticizing the past and start supporting women in whatever they choose
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Time of the Child by Niall Williams is a meandering brook of an Irish Christmas story. #LiteraryFiction #ChristmasBooks #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Time of the Child by Niall Williams. Picture of a young teen boy in a plaid coat looking out from the back of a crowd.
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout continues her much beloved slice of life storytelling. Just lovely. #literaryfiction #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. Two warblers in a living pose on a tree branch.
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green is a perfect mix of science and human interest story. #NonFiction #Medicine #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. Orange Petri dish on a yellow background.
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Fire RFK Jr. NOW!
RFK Jr. was never fit to be Department of Health and Human Services secretary—and his failed leadership since his confirmation has put lives in danger. Sign the petition!
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December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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So many great dark and emotional reads for a dark and emotional month. I’m ready to dive into some feel good Christmas reads in December. Who’s with me on that?
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Pictorial of the 22 books I read and reviewed in November 2025. Refer to individual posts throughout the month.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory is a mildly farcical look at a fictional family with ESP talents. #Fantasy #LiteraryFiction #Audiobook #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory. Poolside pic of a 1960s family (mom, dad, 3 kids, and a dog) all wearing bathing suits and black sunglasses. Pic is shown in an old school red CRT TV with dials and an antenna.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes is an interesting take on young motherhood and finding oneself. #LiteraryFiction #NetGalley #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes. A woman not wearing pants holds her toddler up to the sky which obscures her from the shoulders up.
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith was on my TBR for like 20 years and finally made its way to the top due to a reading challenge. Surprisingly delightful with a lovely FMC. #Mystery #Fiction #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. A Black woman sits outside her detective shop on the veranda overlooking an African landscape.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street by Ben Farthing is just plain weird but oddly endearing at the same time. #Horror #Comedy #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street by Ben Farthing. A winter snowscape with a house entwined in large vines of Christmas lights kudzu style.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The first holiday after losing my mom last month is especially hard. I am thankful for all the memories of us cooking and baking together over the years. 💔
To my mom in Heaven… It is so hard every day without you. I miss our times we shared together. I miss your hugs and loving words. Even though you are in Heaven, we are never far apart. You are always in my heart. I love you Mom.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Ordinary Soil by Alex Woodard defies genre. It’s both scientific and spiritual in it’s contemplation of the food meant to nourish ourselves. #Fiction #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Ordinary Soil by Alex Woodard. Cross section of a dried up wheat field with chemical plants in a hazy distance.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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On November 24, 1859 a book was published that changed how we think of the world.

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Yes, I appreciate you took the time to say something nice to me 😊❤️
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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From the Belly by Emmett Nahil is a claustrophobic tale set aboard a whaling ship. This isn’t quite the Moby Dick you were expecting. #Horror #BookSky 💙📚 #SSBA2025
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Book cover of From the Belly by Emmett Nahil. Picture of a young man with barnacles on his skin and his face scribbled out above his nose.
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Slewfoot by Brom. Some of the most imaginative and captivating literary illustrations out there. It definitely had a witchy New England vibe. #Horror #Folklore #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Slewfoot by BROM. A red headed woman with cloven hooves sits aperch a broom hovering in front of a full moon.
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Sickening by John Abramson is an interesting medical expose but needs to be read with critical thinking and appreciation of nuance. #NonFiction #MedSky #Audiobook #BookSky 💙📚

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Book cover of Sickening by John Abramson, MD, MSc. A wad of $100 bills rolled up in a prescription vial.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM