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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜
@saraiether.bsky.social
Gamer (board games & RPGs), Cat Lover, Ace, Reader of Books!
Supporter of art, Indies (bookshops & authors), small businesses, human rights
They/Them
💙📚🪐💙🎧 It's refreshing to read middle grade books as an adult sometimes. Adventure, a bit of danger. You can usually count on these books to turn out alright in the end. Not picture perfect, still good. This is book 2 and concludes the storyline well.
#booksky
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
💙📚🪐 Book 2 of the trilogy! Not as good as the first. I still loved it. The story continues for our 5 MCs, as a few at least try to stop the end of the world as they know it. The end felt as if it could have been wrapped up, then twisted to keep going.
#booksky
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Happy #Caturday! #Lunari playing in a big box after the TP was put a way.

#catpics #catsofbluesky #TortieCat #CatInABox
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
💙📚🎧 I enjoyed growing the relationship between Aleshia & Mukesh. It's interesting to me how different people can read the same book and have a different take away.
Many of the books on the list are familiar titles, though. I may try to read a few of them. Rebecca, sounds most interesting.
#booksky
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
💙📚💡📚🎧 Solid book on maps. It covers several topics, history, political, gender divides, technology, etc. The audio book included a preferace, some foot notes for things that have been updated and a new chapter from the original.

Note: Much of map detail discussed is UK related.
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
💙📚 A bit outside my normal reads. I enjoyed this one, not knowing for sure if I could trust our MC's perception of reality. I didn't forsee the ending, neither was it a surprise. A good balance.
#booksky
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
💙📚 November is typically a busy month for me with several family celebrations. It was a pretty good month for reading. Listen For The Lie, is a book slightly outside of my normal genres.
#booksky #monthlywrap-up #StoryGraph
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
💡📚🪐 There is something about stories where people can travel to new places simply by opening a door. It's a bit of a mystery of what might lie beyond a door until you open it.
#booksky #TheBookOfDoors
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
💙📚💡📚🎧 A good overview of different flavors of con women & notable figures.
More textbook research style than I had expected. Part of me was thinking this would be presented a bit like Catch Me if You Can.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
♟️🎲 Played #ForbiddenJungle last night. We almost had it. Ran out of figures to place on the board with a bad run of cards. Needed perhaps one or two more turns.
#gamenight #boardgames #hangingwithfriends #gameday
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#Pandora grabbed the top spot on the #cattree today. Usually Lunari nabs it.

#blackcats #catsofbluesky #sleepykitty #catpics
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
💙📚💡📚🎧 I like listening to this around this time of year as a reminder to be thankful of the world around me and to appriciate it's gifts. I can feel the consumerism ramping up. This helps me to reign some of that in.
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
💙📚💡📚🎧 One of my favorite reads from October. I've not given mich thought to any unique foods that exist in America. It dows make me wonder about what might be in my backyard that I am missing. I'll have to explore The Ark of Taste on my own.
#booksky
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
💙📚🪐 Revisting this one from my childhood. A world that struggles with over population & volatile climate there are those with Talent, physic abilities that can be anything, pre-cog, telepathy, kinetics, and more!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📚💙🪐A lot going on for length of this book. Shizuka's quest to deliver a 7th soul. Katrina finding herself despite a world against her. Lan also finding herself after delivering her family to safety.
Either expanding on the different threads or pairing down the storylines would have been help.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
📚💙 The last 10 days of Oct were rough personally. I didn't read as much as I had hoped. Overall it was a good month. Highly recommend reading Endangered Eating. I want to dig into the Ark of Taste and see what foods may be super local to me.
#monthlywrapup #StoryGraph
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
♟️🎲 I was more than happy to bring #CritterKitchen to a #gamenight by request. I love how the a la carte expansion changes the game up a lot. I enjoy this best at 4 or 5 players. This particular game was close on points.
#boardgames #boardgamenight #hangingwithfriends
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
♟️🎲 Played #APlaceForAllMyBooks at a friend's house last week. The game is cute & cozy. Perfect for the introverted book lover. I'd like to play again & see if I can do better. Also different player counts. Debating if this is something to pickup for my own collection.
#gamenight #boardgames
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
♟️🎲 Had the chance to play the co-op variant last night of #TerraformingMarsAres. We lost missing the the final 2 advancements of oxygen. VP total was no where near 80 for the winning condition. Overall I still think we did well.
#boardgames #boardgamenight #gamenight #hangingwithfriends
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Saw this little guy on a walk recently. Folklore has it the amount of brown/black will determine the severity of winter. I never recall the details.

#WoolyBear #naturewalk #naturephotography #folklore #walking #fall #autumn
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
💙📚🪐📚🎧 This didn't land the way The Starless Sea & The Ten Thousand Doors of January did for me. I don't know why. It's well written. Started slow, picks up speed as it keeps going. Perhaps there was a bit more terror & fear than I anticipated rather than exploring of worlds.
#booksky
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
💙📚🎧📚🪐 I saw a lot of positive buzz about this one. I'm glad to have picked it up on sale. I wasn't sure I would like it. A bit slower than I expected at first. I enjoyed guessing at what was going on and where the story led. Would recommend.
#booksky
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
💙📚🪐 I really enjoyed this! A lucky thrift find. This quote really struck me for the times in which we find ourselves today.
"But a society cannot be forced to order, Jo, against it'scollective will. We must grow. Change. As appealing as fascism is to the fearful, it isn't sustainable."
#booksky
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
♟️🎲 I love #Tsuro! It's such a simple game that can be played as causally or seriously as you'd like. 2-8 players and usually quick. It's been around for two decades!
#gamenight #gameday #boardgames #boardgame #hangingwithfriends
October 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM