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Sami
@happysami.bsky.social
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Opinionated nerd, cat lover, plant enthusiast, engineering/physics post-doc, sometimes artist, too chaotic for my own good. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them
Review blog: chattysami.wordpress.com
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

13/30

All Systems Red, Martha Wells
cover of All Systems Red, a person wearing a sci-fi armoured spacesuit that also covers their face. they're looking straight forwards, and the background is abstract trees and vegetation.
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

12/30

Everything is OK, Debbie Tung
photo of Everything is OK in front of a Christmas tree. the book cover shows an illustrated girl sitting down hugging her knees, with a black scribbly cloud coming from her head
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

11/30

Five on a Treasure Island, Enid Blyton
Cover of Five on a Treasure Island, showing the Famous Five (four kids and a dog) in a rowing boat heading for an island with a beached ship
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

10/30

Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
Cover of Hench, dark red with the title filling half the space. at the top is a silhouette of a woman, and her shadow shows her wearing a cape
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

9/30

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stack of three copies of We Should All Be Feminists, a slim book which has a bright orange cover with a regular design of half black half cream circles
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

8/30

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Cover of Bridge to Terabithia, dark silhouettes of two kids on opposite sides of a gully, one standing and one on a tree-swing. in the background is an outline of a castle in orange and yellow, surrounded by red and purple. the rest of the cover is blue
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

I missed a couple days but I haven't forgotten.

7/30

Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Cover of Inkheart, abstract illustrations in mostly shades of green with red, including a girl reading a book at the top, and at the bottom some smaller characters (man, unicorn, dog) on an open book
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

6/30

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Penguin paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice, a light orange background with a repeating pattern of swans and flowers in orange and grey.
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

Monstress, Vol 1, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
Cover of Monstress vol 1, an illustration of an East Asian woman with long dark hair looking over her shoulder at the viewer, her left hand is a wooden prosthetic. the background has an intricate gold art deco and steampunk design
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

4/30

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
MinaLima edition of Frankenstein, mostly blue and gold with various small illustrations: an eye, two faces with lightning between them, a lab with a futuristic-looking coffin
December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

3/30

The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher
Cover of The Princess Diarist, a close-up profile of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, showing part of her face and focussing on a side bun, which has a pen poking through it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

2/30

The Gift, Alison Croggon
Cover of The Gift, a dark pink background with a fantasy-style map, and a silver ring with leaf details
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
happysami.bsky.social
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚

1/30

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
Cover of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, shows a night sky with hundreds of stars, with a small silhouette at the bottom of a woman in a hill. A sticker says "Winner of the Hugo Award for best series".
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Important PSA - the little hats on the Innocent smoothies are the perfect size for Jellycats.
Group of vegetable soft toys, including a banana in a wooly hat, a peach, some corn with a wooly hat, a strawberry, and a carrot.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Behold, The Wet Bois!!
Glass bowl with lid shaped like a ghost, filled with white stones and moss balls and water
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I just bought myself some moss balls, and they're surprisingly endearing. I've affectionately named them The Wet Bois. Also, this is not their final home, i'll post that when it's done.
three moss balls in a plastic tub of water
September 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Adorable cutie pies!!
August 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Building the Lego happy plants set and is this not the cutest little face you've ever seen??
August 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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No blog post today cos it's not done yet; it'll be up next week and it's about the Tales from the Loop artbook. In the meantime, I'm reading its sequel, Things from the Flood.
front cover of 'Things from the Flood' by Simon Stålenhag - it's an illustration of a humanoid robot staring ahead and wrapped in a tattered cloth, standing in a pond in a wood
July 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Who wants to see the best pack opening i have ever got and probably will ever get in Pokémon TCG Pocket?
five digital Pokémon cards: shiny celebi ex, shiny pidgeot ex, full art Gladion, full art Buzzwole ex, and shiny froakie
June 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I also added an extra bit on my Dracula Daily review, talking about being in Whitby at the same time as the Demeter was heading there: chattysami.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/d...
June 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Do you live in or around Milton Keynes? Are you doing nothing on bank holiday Monday? If so, come along to the Electric Dreams event at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, celebrating the role of women engineers in bringing electricity into the home!
May 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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She's sadly no longer with us, but this is my fluffball Geri ❤️
Grey tabby cat lying on a bed, and a hand scratching under her chin.
January 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Move down south, they said. It'll be warm, they said.
January 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hello everyone, I'd like to introduce you all to my first potato harvest!
January 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM