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devildauta.bsky.social
The Reading Ruru/Kerry
@devildauta.bsky.social
Avid Book reader in Aotearoa. Judge for Fantasy Faction in #SPFBO & Space Girls in #SPSFC. Socialist to the core. Peer/ally to sex workers, addicts and rainbow community. Volunteer at GMA. Getting too old to give fuck, goodbye politeness.
Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO 10 Champions League: The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.comfantasy-faction.com/2025/the-los...

#SPFBO #self-published #epicfantasy #booksky #pukapuka📚🇳🇿
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Yesterday I learnt that the father of Yvonne De Carlo (known for her role as Lily Munster) was born in #Aotearoa/NZ. William Middleton went abroad as young man, was a travelling salesman, met & married Maria De Carlo.
(anecdotal evidence suggests he may have been part Māori)
#AoNZhistory #🖤munsters
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This past week, i discovered the author Andrea K Höst @autumnwriter.bsky.social (yay for Kobo plus for finding & suggesting authors whom I've never heard of 🥰). The 2 books I've read so far impressed me with the strong female MCs & eclectic WB. Will b reading more #selfpublished #booksky
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Have owned the Penguin copy of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD for quite a number of years, and yesterday scored its twin in this book/pencil case. Totally stoked, only a few dozen more to find 😂
#penguinbooks #JackKerouac #bookrelated
September 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Seen in #newtown in #whanganui-o-tara, a diorama, with Death sitting on a red sofa, behind him a wreath with RIP Ozzy. Love the small details, a welcome mat, bat on wreath, the carafe of alcohol, a guitar between couch & a small glasstop table with lines of "cocaine".
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
NGL, at this current time & with MPs causing social division & wanting to sell Aotearoa NZ to the highest bidders, I can get behind this meme. #nzpol #internationalpol #ritualsacrife
August 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Ready to go and brave #whanganui-o-tara weather to celebrate the beginning of the New Year here in #Aotearoa
Hari Matariki all
June 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Tripped over a manhole cover 2 weeks ago 🤦🙄 - I must say the body produces some awe inducing colours
pic 1 = 2 weeks after. pic 2 = 1 week after. Pic 3 = 4 days after falling.
I especially love the purple and yellows and surprised I don't have WCC imprinted in skin
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
found myself a Dangermouse and Penfold t-shirt - very well worn but SCORE!! 👕🐁
April 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
❤️🐈🐱 Cat lovers!! Here's your chance to own a backpack/school bag covered with cute cats & flowers and help our 🏳️‍⚧️ community. Bag can be found at #AuntyDana's op-shop in Newtown, Whanganui-a-Tara. #GMA #re-use,recycle #cats
April 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
February 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I rarely touch alcohol these days (liver says 'bon voyage' 🤣) but how does one resist a locally brewed ale that has all my favourite things on the cans? #skulls #skeletons #psychobilly #rockabilly #studs&leather #FTW #Aotearoabrews #whanganui-o-tara
Very nice brew, would love to know the artist.
January 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
3 great shirts came into #AuntyDana op shop this morning. Support #GMA (Gender Minorities Aotearoa) by recycling, upcycling and donating
January 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Couldn't resist these donations that came into the shop today. They are me to the proverbial T... 😉
January 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The late bloomers of the balcony garden. Thought 1 was going to flower at all but it's such a gorgeous velvety purple
November 23, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Repost with one of your favorite books you’ve read this year!
November 21, 2024 at 8:34 PM
September 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Read The West Passage by Jared Pechačk today - has to one of the strangest but weirdly good book I've read in some time.
#fantasy #bizarre #pukapuka📚
August 24, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Need a break after a solid year of reading approx 150 #selfpublished Fantasy & Sci-fi in the brilliant #SPFBO9 & #SPSFC3 contests so I'm diving into a fave author of supernatural thrillers. John Connolly has my ultimate favourite M/M killer couple in fiction
#pukapuka
May 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Rarely meet my international Internet friends - 2 of the #SPSFC3 judges, fellow teammates in #spacegirls got to meet in Wellington, New Zealand. One from Mexico, one a native of Aotearoa.
May 15, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Working in an Op shop, we get the best books. 🐈🐱
I COULD PEE ON THIS and other poems by cats📚🇳🇿
November 12, 2023 at 10:32 PM
35% read - God of Small Affairs by @OlgaWerby for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls
I'm hoping this will be a mix of SFF & I'm saying Y to moving it forward to phase 2 as the plot and prose is very strong. Whether or not it goes forward will be announced by our team leader.
November 9, 2023 at 10:33 PM
30% read of To Climates Unknown number by Arturo Serrano for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls Though an intriguing plot this read like an Alternate History rather than anything SFF. Sadly I won't be moving it forward in the comp but will be reading it at a future date. 📚🚀
October 30, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Just over 40% read of THE CEPH:REBORN by Matthew Poehler @PoehlerMatthew for #teamspacegirls This is definitely getting a YES from me for the next phase of #SPSFC3 The POV from the Celephods sold me immediately 🐙🦑 as did the optimistic humans & first contact.
#selfpublishedsci-fi 📚🚀
October 25, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Reading GENEFIRE by James Flanagan for #SPSFC3 & #teamspacegirls Got to 50% as was totally engrossed. The 2 POVs, past & present work seamlessly together and the idea of sending warnings thru DNA is brilliant. Am definitely giving this a Y to move onto the next phase
October 25, 2023 at 2:59 AM