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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 8d

🌮 National Taco Day reading: Tortilla Flat
Because Of Mice and Menudo doesn’t exist. (Yet 😆)
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If you've got any other literary taco puns, please share!

#booksky #taco #tacos #nationaltacoday #tacotuesday

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Pynchon day baby!! 📚 🎉

Who’s reading Shadow Ticket today? 🙋

#booksky #litfic #pynchon

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 11d

One of my favorite books of all time!

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

I’m making it a priority because i love zombies, I liked the movie a lot, and I’ve been meaning to read the novel for like two years now!!! 🧟

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

💀 Spooky month TBR 🎃

October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚

Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂

Which one should I start with first?

#booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

Did you know about the IRL Halloween tree at Disneyland?

On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”

Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

Good to know! I snagged it because it was mentioned in The Friend by sigrid Nunez 😏 really looking forward to reading it!!

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

I really knew nothing about it, but I saw it mentioned several times as having some of the most amazing prose, so when it popped up for a cheap price I thought hey, it must be a sign!

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

I’m definitely going for Trust first! I love books with uniques structure 😏

Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13d

Awesome!! Enjoy ☺️

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 14d

“The Halloween Tree” by a Halloween tree… Happy October! 🎃

Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it?

#booksky #october #spookyseason

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 14d

September in books 📚

Favorites: The Friend, Letters to a Young Poet, Things in Nature Merely Grow, Butcher’s Crossing, Now Is Not The Time to Panic.

Lowlights/middling: Katabasis, The Goldfinch, Homesick for Another World, Life & Death & Giants.

Which Sept. read(s) hit you hardest? 👀

#booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 15d

Latest haul from ThriftBooks 📚

Which one should I read first?

#booksky #litfic #literaryfiction #literature #modernclassics #literaturesky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 20d

Current reads:

🦇 Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
🚘 Eileen
⛪️ A Month in the Country
🌲 Vineland
🐈‍⬛ Katabasis
🌱 Things in Nature Merely Grow
🔮 Buckeye

Are any of these on your TBR? If you’ve already read any of these what did you think of them?

#booksky #books #reading

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 20d

Remembering William Faulkner on his birthday (Sept 25)

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

#booksky #onthisday

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 21d

✨📚 Undiscovered Gem Alert! 📚✨

Why aren't more people talking about this book?!?

"A Splintering" is one of the most compelling novels I’ve read this year

Read my full review on Goodreads, link in bio

#booksky #litfic #literaryfiction

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 21d

Remembering F. Scott Fitzgerald on his Birthday (Sept 24)

He said:
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

#booksky #literaturesky #literature #onthisday

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 23d

✨📚 Happy Hobbit Day! 🍂🐇

Which book would you take with you to read in the Shire?

In 1978, the American Tolkien Society declared a fabulous holiday: Hobbit Day. September 22nd is Hobbit Day because it is the day of Frodo and Bilbo's mutual birthday 🎂

#booksky #lotr #tolkien

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 24d

Happy Birthday to Stephen King! 🥳

A quote from my favorite of his novels:
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 28d

End of '25 is looking STACKED!📚👀

Is it possible to finish Danielewski's 1232 PAGER by the end of the year?!

Upcoming:
The Mad Wife-9/30
Shadow Ticket-11/7
Bog Queen-10/14
Tom's Crossing-10/28
The Eleventh Hour-11/4
There Is No Antimemetics Division-11/11
Slow Gods-11/18
Snake-Eater-12/1
#booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · 28d

Wishlist Wednesday 📚✨

Howl’s Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition is out! 👀

Have you seen the movie and read the book?

I love the movie, but I've never read it, so this is going on my Christmas wishlist!

#booksky #tbr #wtr #ghibli #studioghibli

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's #WishlistWednesday !
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"This Is How You Lose The Time War" Deluxe edition releases 11/18/25 and I feel like that's going to be the perfect reason to give this one a re-read!
💙❤️
#booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · Sep 9

TBR Tuesday Upcoming Book Releases 📚✨

🧑‍🚀 Exiles---Sept 16
📖 The Wilderness---Sept 16
🌘 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny---Sept 23

Are you planning to read any of these? I'm most interested in Sonia & Sunny!

#booksky #tbr #tbrtuesday #litfic #literaryfiction

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Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · Sep 8

That’s an on the nose interpretation!

Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵 @literarycolin.bsky.social · Sep 7

“I can be by myself because I’m never lonely, I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”

-Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud A Solitude

#sundaysentence #booksky #literature

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