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Tess || booksky 📚

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💖she/her💖 📚Avid Reader ✍️Writer 📘Librarian Check my feed for recs, reviews, and a glimpse into my writing journey! ✨️Fantasy|💀Horror|❤️Romance

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Jan 21

#booksky 📚💙 Starter Pack up now! Check it out if you're looking for some new bookish accounts to follow! go.bsky.app/2gco1Q4

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Sep 18

Haven't had it in almost a year. Thank goodness

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Jul 11

Us:
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp

Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is going to be a devastating blow to the sciences and the crisis we're already seeing in research, education, and advancement.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 2

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 1

“There’s a level of terror I haven’t seen before.” A psychiatrist who provides care to undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles talks about the psychological harm caused by recent ICE raids and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear

Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.

www.newyorker.com

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Jul 3

Okay... leaving everything i know behind is rapidly becoming the most appealing option... I'm in total disbelief at the way things are falling apart.

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey pals! I disappeared for a moment. The state of the world is terrifying. But I've created a writing discord! We'll be doing bi-weekly meetings for critique on Fridays, if you're interested! Please feel free to join us! #writersky #booksky 💙📚

discord.gg/HSDc2Xzc

Join the Roundtable Writers Discord Server!

Check out the Roundtable Writers community on Discord - hang out with 12 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Jun 27

I cannot stand the fact that creatives are also blurring the lines of AI and making it "permissible" in our spaces. MIT is literally coming out with studies about the harm AI does to our brains. Maybe try a book for research perhaps? A single article? Anything but AI, generative or assistive?

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · May 7

I've been doing a lot of deconstructing and reconstructing over the last year/year and a half. It's been so eye-opening reading these books and studied that feel so "taboo" simply for offering diverse perspectives on harm, history, and the Bible.

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · May 7

Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This made me sick to my stomach. Du Mez does an amazing job tracing the threads of the evangelical to alt right pipeline through history, presenting how we got where we are in the US. #booksky 💙📚

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · May 1

#booksky 💙📚 Another decent month where I somehow read 16 books!

Storygraph May reading Roundup for @hallht98

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 30

Review: The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
Written by a former Moonie and Cult Expert, Hassan puts Trump's first presidency under the lens of cults and manipulation tactics. Excellent analysis. #booksky 📚💙

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 28

Review: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Rating: 4⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
I love T. Kingfisher's fairy-tale style of storytelling. This was dark and rich in lore. Chef's kiss! #booksky 📚💙

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ahhhhh! I'm in a bit of a slump right now :/ but Nettle And Bone will come soon!

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 25

It's most useful to me as a tool for keeping up with book releases and authors I love.

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 25

I don't love being connected to Meta, but IG as a platform is fine!

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'm still on IG (I know, I know), but nothing makes me angrier than seeing all of the stupid target ads/influencers and people gushing in the comments and breaking boycotts. New pet peeve unlocked.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 24

I'll be at M. Judson in Greenville, SC!

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am sick of this timeline. Get me off this bus pals.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 21

#writersky, is there any interest in a discord group/writing support club for critiques and review? I've been part of several, and would love to create something to fill a niche if needed. #booksky 📚💙

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 18

Yeah I'll be taking a bit of a break.

Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 18

Review: First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 📘
This was soooo perfect. I want to inject whatever this story is made of directly into my bloodstream. Tooth-achingly sweet and full of heart. #booksky 📚💙

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · Apr 18

Review: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Rating: 5⭐️
Reading Method: 🎧
This book did not let up. Poignant and terrifying, Butler built a world that feels far too close on the horizon. Loved this. #booksky 📚💙

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · Apr 17

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