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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 1d

I mean sure, the majority of the cast is BIPOC and two women of color rock complex central roles but we can’t reward Jared Leto, who has already been paid and is the least interesting thing about the movie.

So yeah. Tron.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 7d

Be nice to your collection development librarian and bookseller friends this week, folks. It’s going to be a bit of a shit show.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 14d

I saw a cover with a woman wearing a helmet and was like “is that?” But alas it was not, so can anyone point me to a romance novel in which a main character, preferably not male-presenting but any gender will do, wears a helmet in order to safely move around with cerebral palsy?

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 16d

I'm sorry I keep asking for help, but I literally have nowhere else to turn. I am doing my best to get back on my feet, both literally & metaphorically, but that will be exponentially harder if I lose my apartment. I desperately need $482 for rent & enough utilities to avoid shut off. Please.

Donate to Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery, organized by Billie Bloebaum

My name is Billie and on June 5 I fell and broke my fibula an… Billie Bloebaum needs your support for Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17d

Hey, this is a reminder that the Unbound for Gaza auction is live right now.

I have the complete Wedgeford Trilogy up here:

www.32auctions.com/organization...

Signed: Wedgeford Trials Trilogy – Courtney Milan

Auction item 'Signed: Wedgeford Trials Trilogy – Courtney Milan' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 17d

Read this book.

I didn’t start tabbing until pg 80, so I have to go back and find all the things that made me sit and stare at the wall. It’s his last book, very much of its time but timeless in so many unfortunate ways.

📖 Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photo of print copy of Where Do We Go From Here by Martin Luther King, Je

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 17d

Who do I need to talk to at S&S to get 107 Days in large type? I have had to decline so many purchase suggestions 😭

(Also, how do you publish a book like that with no large print option???)

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 18d

I keep seeing videos for Ragtime on IG and I gotta say there’s something incredibly meaningful about casting a dark skinned man in a role originated by someone practically passing

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks!

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 19d

Ooh that one has been on my TBR for AGES and I’m due for another Zabo. Thank you!

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 19d

I thought it might be that one! I realized I started it in a bad mental state and never finished it (pretty sure I was in chemo), I need to go back and read it from the beginning, and Shake is gonna get read either way 😉 thank you!

Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 19d

Ooh, I’ve only read one Soto book and that is criminal, I’ll have to grab that one (and hold my nose and close my eyes about the cop thing), what’s your other one??? (It will be hilarious if it’s one I’ve already read and just forgotten 🫣)

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 19d

Can someone point me towards a 1:1 romance featuring a partnered protagonist falling in love with someone new (as in ethical nonmonogamy, not cheating of any kind)? Katrina Jackson’s NEIGHBORLY is my gold standard for this, with Jude Lucens’ BEHIND THESE DOORS following close behind.

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 26d

This classroom needs just $472 to be fully funded. Anyone has ten bucks they can toss their way, so that students can have access to books--and snacks--this school year? Bonus: we also help Kelly celebrate her birthday the way she wants--doing good for others.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 26d

Down to $609 to fund classroom #4: www.donorschoose.org/project/bann...

Banned Books and Snacks, a project from Ms. Gonzalez

Help me give my students banned books and snacks to start the new school year. Every school year I start the year getting new books, new snacks, and books that haven't returned. Every year, the...

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 26d

Libby. LIBBY. I will never remember to unsuspend a hold. That’s what’s so great about deliver later. What are you doing????

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Jamie Canavés @jamiecanaves.bsky.social · 28d

💯 💯💯💯💯 and their business model isn't good for your business:

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 28d

Friends, can we please please use something besides substack? I want to support you and read your work but I’m trying to limit my use of sites that happily and unrepentingly platform nazis and white supremacists

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 13

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just submitted my first story for NYC Midnight, so fun! The short timeframe and word count makes it so you have to do a lot of tightening up in a short period of time, and then this particular one had to rhyme! I don't have any expectations, but hey, fingers crossed ;) #RhymingStoryChallenge

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Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · Sep 11

Since we are supporting work by trans folks, Finders//Keepers was collected along with the 4 other Horizon Experiment books into a trade 🖖🏾🤠

The Horizon Experiment

Check out The Horizon Experiment - <b>A comics anthology that puts a new, diverse spin on popular genres and pop culture icons.</b><BR><BR>THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the...

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Sep 11

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · Sep 11

Honestly, I think 24 hours is enough. Let’s stop talking about that man and let him fade away into obscurity. He would have been proud of how much oxygen y’all have been giving him alongside the people who actually care about his death.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Sep 9

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky

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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sometimes it takes a while to realize you don’t have to suffer through the little things. Like the toilet in my hotel room flushes so loud it hurts. It took me a full 36 hours to realize I could just…cover my ears, instead of enduring it with a wince.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · Aug 31

TFW you think you’re picking up a cute little timey wimey book and Ashley Poston destroys you (it’s fine, I’m fine).

📖 The Seven Year Slip

Photo of a print copy of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston on coral-clad legs.

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