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Gpwriter @gpwriter.bsky.social · May 6

This is creeping dread,
haunting fear.

It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.

History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.

#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · May 2

April was super busy IRL and I didn’t read as much as I hoped. Blood Orange as a re-read, this time in audio, was so good.

Got in some good non-fiction too!

#booksky 📚💙 #romantasy

April 2025 books
Shaedes of Power
Ravager
Blood Orange
Feminism is for Everybody
The art of Small Talk

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 27

Happening right now!!

🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢

Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...

Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

www.youtube.com

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Apr 4

So excited for this upcoming book from @authorkarinahalle.bsky.social
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!

#booksky 📚💙 #paranormalromance

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 31

Yesssss!!! So good.

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 31

A few of these are on my TBR. I need to get to them!

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 31

I don’t plan to apply that approach to my books 😆

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 31

March was a light reading month but a really good one!

What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?

#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy 📚💙

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 30

100% - my friend and I said the same!

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 29

When Women Were Dragons is a fiery reminder that sometimes the only way to take up space is to transform and burn brighter.

This is fun and relevant with just the right amount of escapism.

#booksky #feminist 📚💙

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 10

LOVE this! 😍

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 2

That is one of my FAVORITES. 😍

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 2

I’ve got a hold at the library for that one!

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Mar 2

In February I read some meaningful, important and some fun books.

Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?

Book covers and star ratings for books read by me in Feb 25

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yup.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Feb 28

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Feb 28

5⭐️ I will post a review shortly but it was fantastic!

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꧁✮..Jaide Dee 💜..✮꧂ @witchnwords.bsky.social · Feb 25

I need more people talking about that they added parts from One More Day into the epilogue

Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much

youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI

Les Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus

YouTube video by The DailyFAFO

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Feb 24

Keep going!

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Lucy 🇺🇲🇺🇦🐾♿️💙 @juice2024.bsky.social · Feb 21

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Feb 21

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Feb 21

Claiming the save act is anything other than an attack on women is gaslighting.

#saveact #womensrights

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Feb 20

I’m enjoying it so far. I’ll be sure to share when I’m done!

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Michelle 📚✨ @michelleaster.bsky.social · Feb 19

This book is off to a good start. A poignant epigraph and then chapter one starts with this gem

“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”

- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

#booksky
#currentread

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