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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · 2d

Life has been doing its thing, but I’ve finally created space enough to breathe. Indulging in a lazy morning with a coffee and “Overgrowth” by Mira Grant (@seananmcguire.bsky.social). I love plant aliens 💙📚🩸

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · 19d

Book: You Did Nothing Wrong
Author: CG Drews @paperfury.bsky.social
Rating: 5/5⭐️
Full Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/24b1...

Monsters are real and, sometimes, even monsters are convinced of their good intentions.🩸📚💙

Review by wyrdwit - You Did Nothing Wrong

You may have been told that this is a haunted house story, but you've been deceived. This is a...

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · 29d

Book: Between Two Fires
Author: @buehlmeister.bsky.social
Rating: 5/5 ⭐️
Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6cc3...

Buehlman has flipped the Script(ure): God has abandoned us to fallen angels. How are a knight, a girl, and a priest to overcome the depravity of this medieval hellscape? 💙📚🩸

Review by wyrdwit - Between Two Fires

This is a redemption arc of epic proportions and epic failures.This is a path to salvation bat...

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 15

Is this what they mean when they say, “That girl has range”? 😂 (It isn’t.)

• “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
• “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees” by Patrick Horvath

💙📚🩸

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 9

This week in the world of Wyrd Wit:

1. Partnering with an author who’s submitting her horror novella into a competition tomorrow.

2. Finishing a beta read for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel.

3. Wrapping up a buddy read of “Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social (crying)

Books rule 📚💙🪐🩸

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thrilled to serve as a judge for #SFINCS3! 💙📚🩸🪐

Indie authors don’t receive the recognition they deserve. #SFINCS encourages indie spec fic authors to share their stories with a community eager to hear them.

Thanks to the 100 authors who took the leap. I feel honored to read your creations.❤️

Judge's badge for the 3rd Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (aka SFINCS3). The badge features a black sphinx in front of an open book on a white, circular background.

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 6

Don’t mind me. Just over here growing my Le Guin, @sgj.bsky.social, @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social, & @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social collections.

💙📚🩸🪐🏳️‍🌈

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Sep 4

I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 2

August top reads 📚💙🩸🪐

1. Just a guy with a dream who can’t catch a break. Cue that Chumbawamba track.
2. Beware of secret doors to alternate Earths, talking marmots, and being pouched. You may like the pouch though.
3. I also love my sister, cats, and intimidating those who derail my routine.

Graphic of August reading wrap-up featuring “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Peculiar Peril” by Jeff VanderMeer, and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson.

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh, we buddy reading 📚🩸

“Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 29

On average, 9/10 books I read are fiction. Call it escapism, if you must.

With nonfiction, I tend to be drawn to themes of interconnection and equality, which naturally lend themselves to social justice and the natural environment. Hoping for a glimpse of hope in “The Serviceberry” 📚💙💡🌱

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 25

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”

From “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The perfect distillation of this novel at its core. 💙📚🪐

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Wheel made me do it. The Wheel knows what I crave. The Wheel is omniscient.

Next ARC read = "You Did Nothing Wrong" by CG Drews 🩸📚 💙📚
@paperfury.bsky.social

#ARCreader #indecisivereader #moodreader

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 15

The latest PDX heatwave was followed by overcast skies and #Summerween cravings. You can find me tucked into a corner at the book pub with “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson for company 💙📚 🩸📚

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 13

Went to school camp in 6th grade at Alliance Redwoods. It had everything—middle school drama, ropes courses, s’mores, bad impromptu skits around the campfire, and the chance to show off to your classmates by licking a slug.

Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 10

Tenderly, I am about to devour this raspberry lemon poppyseed donut 🍩 🩸📚

@lkclipstone.bsky.social

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me:

#booksky

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Aug 2

July was a month for the horrors.

🇵🇸 📚🩸 📚🪐 📚✒️

@mosababutoha.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
@paperfury.bsky.social

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 31

“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 30

Latest book haul is 🔥

🩸📚 | 💙📚 | 🪐📚

@sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @samjmiller.bsky.social @misterkristoff.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 27

Snailed it! 🐌

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 26

@piercepress.com love this idea. Making boxes would likely be expensive and time consuming, but I can ask the artist where she sources hers! This is one of her decks: www.instagram.com/p/Clq9JY0pEJ...

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 26

Is there really a better way to start the weekend than with coffee and a good book? 😍 @rebeccabrodkey.bsky.social

“Darker Than the Starless Night” by Rebecca Brodkey on Kindle and a latte with heart-shaped latte art.

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Wyrd Wit @wyrdwitedits.bsky.social · Jul 22

Here’s my recent #LOTR rebind feat. the One Ring, the two towers, the crown of Gondor, and a bookmark with the 9 rings for mortal men. Be warned: one does not simply transcribe into #Tengwar.

Any guesses on what the back cover says?

#bookbinding #booksky

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