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Jana
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🎧 AudioBOOKS are books
🤎🏳️‍🌈🧑🏽‍🦼‍➡️ I read & recommend diverse books
✍🏻 weekly book drama round up
A Rivalry of Hearts was written for me and my book tastes, specifically. I cannot wait to read book 2!

Thanks to the author & Book of Matches Media for gifting me book 2.

Want your own copy? Check out my 📸 post for a book-away!
December 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Once upon a time, I accidentally picked up my first spicy romance…
December 15, 2024 at 11:54 PM
✨ Christmas Romance Recommendation ✨

I read Lovelight Farms two years ago and I still think about it all the time. In fact, writing this makes me want to go back and reread it. Especially because I read it so early in my romance reading era that I didn’t even review it!

#booksky📚💙
December 15, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Ava and Des’s chemistry was off the charts, and I absolutely could not get enough of them.

Tropes:
💖 childhood friends to strangers to lovers
💖 “we’re just teaching each other how to date”
💖 secret identity
💖 sick / comfort
💖 meddling friends & family

#booksky🌶️📚
December 10, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Get a Life, Chloe Brown is one of my all time favorite contemporary romances.

Is there anything better than a dual-POV enemies to lovers? If you need some spice and ✨tension✨ in your life - highly recommend.

#booksky📚💙
December 10, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Dearest Gentle #Booksky📚💙 ,

If you ever wondered what nonsense was going around in other spaces, I am here to report!
December 9, 2024 at 8:52 PM
✨ Holiday Recommendation ✨

Amor Actually was my favorite holiday read last year, and I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it yet! There are nine stories in the collection, and it is a reimagining of Love Actually.

#booksky 🌶️📚
December 9, 2024 at 5:39 AM
If I read 3/4 of a book every day until the end of the year, I’ll meet my stretch goal of reading 200 books this year! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

What are you reading?

#booksky📚💙
December 8, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The cover for ELIZA AND THE DUKE by @harperstgeorge.bsky.social is here and it’s gorgeous! An American heiress must marry an aristocrat to collect her fortune, but she keeps getting distracted by a bare-knuckle boxing prizefighter. Out June 24.

Swipe to see my favorites that I’ve read so far!
December 5, 2024 at 8:36 PM
My November wrap up! I would recommend everything, and my favorites were:

💖 Business Casual
💖 The Roommate Risk
💖 Hang the Moon
💖 Under Loch & Key
💖 The Marquis Who Musn’t
💖 Bride of the Shadow King

#booksky📚💙
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Dearest Gentle #Booksky📚💙 ,

Here is this week’s book drama round up!

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December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
📚 What This Week 📚

Think of this as my weekly Last, Now, Next, but I read 5-7 books at a time because of who I am as a person.

What did you finish this past week?

#Booksky📚💙
December 1, 2024 at 8:05 PM
When the lovers still “hate” each other but have to cuddle for warmth…. #booksky📚💙
a little girl in a yellow jacket is making a funny face in a crowd
Alt: a little girl in a yellow jacket is making a funny excited face in a crowd after eating cotton candy.
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November 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Happy pub day to Tale of the Heart Queen by Nisha J Tuli!

I loved this series and think you will too if you like:
✨ romantasy
🗡️ stabby FMCs
👥 multi POV
🌍 rich world building
🤎🏳️‍🌈 diverse characters

#booksky 🪐📚💙
November 26, 2024 at 11:00 PM
I think I’ve read 150 books by audio this year, so these are definitely my people 🎧📚
I just created it! 🎧📚

If you wish to be added! Let me know! ⭐Comment⭐ with your favorite audiobook and ⭐share⭐ this starter pack!!

🚨🚨🚨Let the listening... begin!! 🚨🚨🚨 #audiobooks #audiobook #audible #bookcommunity

go.bsky.app/5zHANgh
November 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Ok #booksky , help a lady out please. Where are the bookish people? Who should I be following? What lists?

I was never on Twitter and I’m overwhelmed 😅
November 26, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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"You should get off of social media for your mental health" and do what? spend more alone time with my chronic illness?! No thanks.
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM
And I, for one, will not be reading a single one. 📚💙
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 26, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Dearest Gentle #Booksky📚💙 ,

I don’t know if this is the place for this, but I have been hosting a weekly book drama round up over on Threads, and I’m willing to bring it here but don’t want to mess with the vibe…

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November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Not to be insufferable, but the two shouldn’t be compared because Sesame Street covers early learning content (like pre k) and School House Rock covers upper elementary school content (like 5th grade)!

BUT YES, BRING BACK SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK!
Sesame street is a good show, but we need to bring back school house rock.

As an adult, School House Rock is the sole reason I remember my multiplication tables not even joking
November 25, 2024 at 7:33 AM
#booksky 📚💙 What are you up to this week?

• Last week, I finished four books (ok, 2 books and 2 novellas)
• Currently reading: 7 books
• Next up: each of these is meant to replace a current read, either by genre, goal, or format 😂
November 24, 2024 at 11:35 PM
I apologize for the person I was when someone said “reading is a skill and people just need more practice.”

Because reading is actually like 27 skills in a trenchcoat, and practice without mentorship & analysis rarely gets you anywhere.
November 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM
This is why I like Bluesky. Excellent vibes.
Hey, I see a few of you non-bot/troll folks being less than decent to others in my comment threads. Please know that I want you to practice kindness with others. If you can't do that, your comment will be hidden for all, and if you keep it up, I'll block you. Be excellent to each other, please.
November 24, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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I'm going to blow your mind: It is possible for the same person to enjoy paper books, ebooks, AND audiobooks, all for different reasons and at different times.
November 23, 2024 at 4:01 PM