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BREAKING NEWS: BOOKCON IS RETURNING APRIL 2026!!

April 18-19, 2026. Javits Center. Be there or be square!

📚 books mentioned:
- How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
- The Isle in the Silver Sea
- The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery
- Cursed Daughters

#Booksky #BookCon #BookCommunity
June 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Elatsoe with the Celestial book club starts today!! Join us for a fun, forum-based discussion (in a pretty cool group). We read speculative backlisted books.

celestial.binderybooks.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
and the BIGGEST shoutout to Savannah at Saga Press (lots of you already know and adore her) who had a hand in his clever trickery!!

Kyle proposed in her adorably cozy office, and I left with so many books that we needed to use multiple bags to cart them out of there.

2/4
May 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
i’m officially engaged to my best friend!!! 🥹💍🥳

we’re going to share ALL the details of Kyle’s proposal-ing in a video very soon, but just know that he crafted the most special moment he possibly could have.

1/4 #Booksky
May 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
achillean sci fi & fantasy books that you simply MUST check out!! do it, okay??

📚 books mentioned:
- When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
- Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho
- A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

#Booksky #queerbooks
May 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
two book events that are gonna ROCK your SOCKS off!!

📍Booknet Fest
May 23-24, 2025
Drury Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida

📍Imaginarium Book Festival
June 6-7 2025
University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC

#bookevents #booksky
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
read, support, and uplift books by marginalized authors today & every day.

📚 books mentioned:
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
- Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

(sorry the mic revolted today lol)

#Booksky #readbannedbooks
May 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
if you could force more specific kinds of fantasy books to appear in the world … what would you want to read about?

(please be as specific as you want. i dig it)

#fantasybooks #magicalbooks #horrorbooks #bookishopinions #booksky
May 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
my book club just started Dragonfruit AND announced our summer reading lineup (the votes were soooo close)!

we chat casually in Discord forums (so you can share spoilers once you finish each segment).

love to have you with us! it’s free to join the community: celestial.binderybooks.com
#Booksky
May 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
huge news … Kyle did it!! the reading road to rings has been completed!!

(now give him all the praise and amazing book recs so he doesn’t stop reading!)

(and stay tuned for future news 👀)

📚 books mentioned:
- The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

#Booksky #readingroadtorings
May 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
magical & mystical sapphic books hit every time!

📚 books mentioned:
- The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
- Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

thank you to William Morrow, Get Underlined, and Tordotcom for the gifted copies! #Booksky
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
am i alone in this??? #Booksky
April 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
book recs that give me black mirror vibes!!

📚 books mentioned:
- Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
- The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
- Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

thank you to Atria and Tor for the gifted copies!

#Booksky
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
like why do i have two nickels!!!
April 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this was a deeply emotional read that i want to place in everyone’s hands right now.

📚 books mentioned:
- Detained: A Boy’s Story of Survival and Resilience by D. Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales

thank you to Atria/Primero Sueño Press for gifting me this copy.

#booksky
April 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🌲 i’m always delighted to see a really big tree, what can i say?? but seriously, this was a touching story involving love, loss, and nature.

thank you so much to Redwood & Relay Influence for inviting me!

🎭 show mentioned: Redwood

#redwoodmusical #booksky
April 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
the joy that screaming about this series gives me is unmatched tbh

N.K. Jemisin deserves all the praise, always

#Booksky
April 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
⬇️ what do you love about your library?

please join me in the fight to save our libraries. here are four things you can do RIGHT NOW!

EveryLibrary works to support and defend public and school libraries, and they put together a simple website that helps you take immediate action.

1/2 #Booksky
April 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i forgot how much i adored the dedication of Raybearer.

(this month’s book club pick!! come read with us!! 💕 📖 ☀️) #Booksky
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
the Celestial April book club (Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko) has officially begin!

ALSO, our next weekend readathon starts on Fri! you join for as much as you can and read as much as you can. it’s fun and casual and text-based.

#booksky
April 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
✨🩸community event!! 🩸✨

you’re all officially invited to celebrate Women in Horror month with me, Aubrei, and Naomi @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social

#Booksky
March 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
announcing the Celestial spring book club picks! the voting is always so tight (but that’s just because the choices are SO good. fire nominations every single time). i’d love to have you join our book club & reading community.

and our February book (starting today) is Mexican Gothic!!

#Booksky
February 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
still processing this bookstagram post

(the longer you stare at it, the worse it gets)

(anyway pls support Jewish bookish content creators lol)

🫠

#booksky
January 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
anyway. here are some trans book recs that i shared during last year’s readathon.

fuck him, obviously, but what he said is also just … factually incorrect.

#booksky #transbooks #queerbooks #queerbookrecs #transbookrecs
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM