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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 6d

It's one of the several other issues I have besides the whole thing's sheer existence

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 6d

The SUBTITLE of this book is "an unputdownable and heart-warming second chance romance set in Ireland"

Like are we in the 1800s?? I'm gonna hit the character limit!

You need that much SEO help? The synopsis doesn't cut it so you have to put the elevator pitch IN the title?

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Oct 5

Reporting live from the Top 50 charts of multiple countries — for inexplicable reasons, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is currently charting in Europe in 2025

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Oct 1

Good month of reading, an update on my BOTY bracket, and [rumored] PWHL schedule drop today? Happy October! 🍂👻

A calendar for September 2025 with every day except the 13th and 22nd filled with a book cover, indicating I read that day. Most notable on the calendar are Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

A hand drawn and color coded bracket for Book of the Year 2025. On the left page, each month is listed and below January-September the title of my favorite book read that month is listed. The months are color coded in groups of three, corresponding with quarters of the year. On the right page, Q1 vs Q2 resulted in Blood Over Bright Haven moving to the final, and the pick for Q3 is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Sep 30

What do you MEAN it's supposed to be 78 degrees today? Can't we just have autumn??

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

Blessed with the lightning bolt of a thought that were I ever to own a house, I'm under no obligation to have a guest bedroom. Imagine locking yourself out of a whole room for the 1 night in 700 that someone else might occupy it.

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Sep 9

And you wanna know the real tragedy of it all? This is perfect Dunkaccino weather 😞

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Sep 7

Used a sewing machine for the first time in approximately 18 years today. I'm absurdly excited about it for how slow and slightly wonky I was going 🥳

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hell of a month!

Image shows a calendar for August 2025 with most days filled with a book cover showing the days I read that book. Most prominent covers are Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab and Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski

An infographic of my reading for August 2025 showing I read 5 books, 1,397 pages, and gave an average rating of 3.2 stars. My highest rated books were Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab and Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski, both with four and a half stars.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 30

Transcended to the next plane in Olneyville (had New York System for dinner for the first time in.....7 years? and the celery salt triggered something within me)

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 30

Staying at my best friend's house to dog sit, aka cosplaying owning a home well out of my tax bracket 🤩

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 29

5 spiders in less than 24 hours is too many

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 29

Man, I miss Duolingo. AI ruins everything

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 25

What'd you do today at work? Because I spent, I dunno a half hour? painstakingly changing 'ark-uh-puh-lago' to the correct pronunciation of archipelago using only the audio I had available to cobble something passable together 😵‍💫

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 19

Feeling increasingly feral the more yellow leaves I start to see on the long, heavily-treed road by my house. It's like waking up from hibernation. 🍂

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 15

Shabbat shalom, folks. I'm having Chinese food and watching Merlin and just came in from this gorgeous sky, and that's what I'm choosing to focus on for the next 45 minutes at least.

Blue sky peeks out between fluffy grey clouds touched on the edges by the golden light of late evening

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm clinging to the fact that apple cider season starts in a month. Happy August 🫠

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 19

So within moments of turning on Banana Ball for the first time, purely on a whim, the stadium is playing Cobra Starship. So I'm in, I found a new sport to watch

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 18

Do authors look at maps at all when they write about real-world transit, or do they just make shit up and think no one will notice?

In Boston: "The train I took from the airport gradually filled with students... [They] got off at the MIT stop."

Girl, the blue line does not stop at MIT

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 12

Well, news: it isn't COVID according to a wildly expired home test. Zero information gained!

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 11

I can't tell if I'm coming down with whatever my partner has or if it's some combination of 4.5 hours of uncomfortable sleep, a panic attack, and this book utterly melting my brain.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 7

Inhumane detainment to all fascists

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 7

If he's going to be a fascist, the least we can do is make him uncomfortable at every given opportunity.

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 7

What journalist wants to be brave enough to say "sir, you sound like a fucking idiot. Is being this dumb a tactic, or your genuine take on the matter?"

Who gives a fuck about his non-answers and deranged ramblings given actual questions.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another month, another book wrap-up