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Sami
@happysami.bsky.social
130 followers 320 following 440 posts
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
It really is!
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 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 💙📚

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
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Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!

Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...

My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Vinyl stickers in the shape of a Dropout Game Changer loop-de-loop, with the words "we've been here the whole time", in abrosexual, agender, altersex, aroace, aromantic, asexual, autigender, bigender, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, disability, gay man, genderfae, genderfaun, genderflor, gender fluid, genderflux, gender queer, intersex, lesbian, LGBTQ+, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, and trans pride colours
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM