Jessica Lynn
@hawktilly.bsky.social
Chronically ill bookworm, sometime gluten-free baker, and hobbyist writer. #BookSky 💙📚 #ChronicIllness #BreadSky
National Book Award Finalist, Oprah Pick, and a beautiful, devastating, necessary read. Highly recommend A Guardian and a Thief by @meghamaj.bsky.social. One of my favorites this year. Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #AGuardianandaThief #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
Jessica's review of A Guardian and a Thief
5/5: “Perhaps it was the strange distortion of the crisis, or perhaps it was simply human nature, that the pain of others was never as acute or compelling as one’s own pain.” The first adjectives tha...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
National Book Award Finalist, Oprah Pick, and a beautiful, devastating, necessary read. Highly recommend A Guardian and a Thief by @meghamaj.bsky.social. One of my favorites this year. Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #AGuardianandaThief #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
Happy Release Day to @janicehallett.bsky.social. I love her books, and The Killer Question is my favorite so far. If you ever wondered what it's like to be the sleuth, pick it up! Find my full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
Jessica's review of The Killer Question
5/5: Do you ever wonder what it would feel like to BE the detective, sifting through information to find clues and solve a crime? Janice Hallett's epistolary mystery novels give the reader that kind o...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Happy Release Day to @janicehallett.bsky.social. I love her books, and The Killer Question is my favorite so far. If you ever wondered what it's like to be the sleuth, pick it up! Find my full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
Happy Release Day -- What We Can Know by Ian McEwan! A literary, dual timeline novel set in 2014 and climate ravaged 2119. Beautifully written, and a fascinating look at truth, history, and stories. Recommend! #whatwecanknow #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Happy Release Day -- What We Can Know by Ian McEwan! A literary, dual timeline novel set in 2014 and climate ravaged 2119. Beautifully written, and a fascinating look at truth, history, and stories. Recommend! #whatwecanknow #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
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Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
September 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
Highly recommend the new historical mystery release 'The Art of a Lie' by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Great characters, well-plotted, and clever. Plus, well-researched 18th century London! If you love Sarah Waters, I think you might enjoy this. #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Highly recommend the new historical mystery release 'The Art of a Lie' by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Great characters, well-plotted, and clever. Plus, well-researched 18th century London! If you love Sarah Waters, I think you might enjoy this. #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
Reality TV meets a near-future climate and tech capitalist dystopia in a new, Black Mirroresque novel, The Compound by Aisling Rawle. Best to jump in without much prior knowledge. I had ending issues, but 2+ weeks later, I'm still thinking about it, so would love to discuss. #TheCompound #BookSky 📚💙
June 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reality TV meets a near-future climate and tech capitalist dystopia in a new, Black Mirroresque novel, The Compound by Aisling Rawle. Best to jump in without much prior knowledge. I had ending issues, but 2+ weeks later, I'm still thinking about it, so would love to discuss. #TheCompound #BookSky 📚💙
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
'The Great Mann' by Kyra Davis Lurie releases today. It's a fresh Gatsby retelling, focused on the wealthy, Black Sugar Hill neighborhood of 1940s LA. Familiar characters, fresh tensions, and an untold history make for one great novel. Highly recommended for historical fiction fans! #BookSky 📚💙
June 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
'The Great Mann' by Kyra Davis Lurie releases today. It's a fresh Gatsby retelling, focused on the wealthy, Black Sugar Hill neighborhood of 1940s LA. Familiar characters, fresh tensions, and an untold history make for one great novel. Highly recommended for historical fiction fans! #BookSky 📚💙
I enjoyed The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick, though I wanted more complexity & depth. Rare to read a story centered on feminism in the early 1960s. Sadly still very relatable. Highly recommended for fans of Sara Ackerman. 3.5 stars. Thanks to Harper Muse and NetGalley. #BookSky
April 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I enjoyed The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick, though I wanted more complexity & depth. Rare to read a story centered on feminism in the early 1960s. Sadly still very relatable. Highly recommended for fans of Sara Ackerman. 3.5 stars. Thanks to Harper Muse and NetGalley. #BookSky
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This website has the list of 65,000 NC residents who need to be contacted to cure their ballots: thegriffinlist.com
Please spread it as far and wide as you can
Please spread it as far and wide as you can
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
...
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April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This website has the list of 65,000 NC residents who need to be contacted to cure their ballots: thegriffinlist.com
Please spread it as far and wide as you can
Please spread it as far and wide as you can
Thank you, Senator Booker. 👏👏👏
April 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thank you, Senator Booker. 👏👏👏
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
I read widely. But in Feb, I focus ONLY on Black authors. My 2025 list:
- All About Love, hooks
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Good Dirt, Wilkerson
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread)
- Memphis, Stringfellow
- South to America, Perry (in progress)
Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙
- All About Love, hooks
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Good Dirt, Wilkerson
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread)
- Memphis, Stringfellow
- South to America, Perry (in progress)
Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I read widely. But in Feb, I focus ONLY on Black authors. My 2025 list:
- All About Love, hooks
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Good Dirt, Wilkerson
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread)
- Memphis, Stringfellow
- South to America, Perry (in progress)
Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙
- All About Love, hooks
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Good Dirt, Wilkerson
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread)
- Memphis, Stringfellow
- South to America, Perry (in progress)
Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙
Speculative fiction at its best from Laila Lalami. Minority Report meets Black Mirror in the most thoughtful and terrifying way. Themes of privacy, surveillance, private prisons, and big tech + capitalism. Highly recommended! Thanks to Pantheon and NetGalley for the eARC. #TheDreamHotel #BookSky
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Speculative fiction at its best from Laila Lalami. Minority Report meets Black Mirror in the most thoughtful and terrifying way. Themes of privacy, surveillance, private prisons, and big tech + capitalism. Highly recommended! Thanks to Pantheon and NetGalley for the eARC. #TheDreamHotel #BookSky
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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.
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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
I’m in post-biologic recovery mode, so I spent the day with Charmaine Wilkerson‘s incredible new novel, ‘Good Dirt’. If I didn’t require food and a nap, I’d be done already. Highly recommend! #booksky 📚💙
February 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m in post-biologic recovery mode, so I spent the day with Charmaine Wilkerson‘s incredible new novel, ‘Good Dirt’. If I didn’t require food and a nap, I’d be done already. Highly recommend! #booksky 📚💙
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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
Every Feb, I further my own education by solely focusing on Black authors. Feels esp important rn. This year’s list:
- Books in photo
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Salvage the Bones, Ward
- all about love, hooks
- South to America, Perry
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread)
#BookSky 📚💙
- Books in photo
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Salvage the Bones, Ward
- all about love, hooks
- South to America, Perry
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread)
#BookSky 📚💙
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every Feb, I further my own education by solely focusing on Black authors. Feels esp important rn. This year’s list:
- Books in photo
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Salvage the Bones, Ward
- all about love, hooks
- South to America, Perry
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread)
#BookSky 📚💙
- Books in photo
- Parable of the Talents, Butler
- Salvage the Bones, Ward
- all about love, hooks
- South to America, Perry
- The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread)
#BookSky 📚💙
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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.
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VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article)
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!
Hello BookSky! I am disabled due to autoimmune disease, diagnosed initially 15 years ago this month. I spend my time reading anything and everything. Currently in the middle of a timely ‘Parable of the Sower’ reread for my book club — an all-time favorite. Can’t wait to chat books with you all!
January 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Hello BookSky! I am disabled due to autoimmune disease, diagnosed initially 15 years ago this month. I spend my time reading anything and everything. Currently in the middle of a timely ‘Parable of the Sower’ reread for my book club — an all-time favorite. Can’t wait to chat books with you all!
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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IMPORTANT
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
IMPORTANT
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social