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This is the book in case anyone is wondering
The cover for The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz. The cover features two white dolls in dresses and aprons (Gretel and Red Riding Hood) on a stair case in front of a lit-up, four room doll house. There is a large white car to the right of the stairs.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I’ve been listening to this book and generally, I agree with the premise. However:

“We respect Musk’s success in other areas, including electric cars and reusable rockets. Landing rockets undamaged is a hard engineering challenge that Musk & his team regularly succeed at.”

1/2
The cover for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares. The cover is black with white and grey text and has a red light that looks like a laser.
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Two more recent or upcoming Black books for scary season 🎃 #booksky #blackbooksky
The cover for The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson. The cover is pink and shows an aerial view of a roof with five black and grey drawings of teens attached to a hand by puppet strings. One of the strings has been cut and that drawing is laying sideways. The text is black. The cover for Make Me a Monster by Kalynn Bayron the text is pink. The cover features a light skinned Black girl surrounded by black and dark purple roses. She is holding one in her hand.
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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They proposed a limited run silver dollar 💀
An infographic shows CK along with a silver dollar in front of the Capitol building. The text reads “Breaking: Republicans introduce bill to put Charlie Kirk on U.S. currency alongside the founding fathers. The bill directs the U.S. Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins with Kirk’s likeness.”
September 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Haven’t recommended a book in a while and I don’t usually go for Romance, but if you haven’t read A Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen, HIGHLY recommend! It was so cute and made me really hungry 😂

#Booksky #BookRec #QueerBooks #DiverseStories
Cover of a Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen. The cover is pink and features a white food stand between two young Asian women. The one on the left is Vietnamese-American and wears a red ao dai. She has braided hair and white pants with black shoes. The one on the right is Vietnamese and wears a white ao dai with a floral pattern, red pants, and pink boots. The food stand says “Banh Mi 98” on the side and top.
September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Err yes, they did. Documentation exists. Google is free 🤦🏽‍♀️
Headline from Ezra Klein’s NYT Opinion story which reads “Charlie Kirk was Practicing Politics the Right Way” Screenshot from Dean Withers livestream showing him crying. There are visible tears on his face.
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Reskeet the spectacles, nerds
A biracial woman, wearing a red hoodie and showing off her glasses A biracial woman smiling and waving at the camera in a blue dress with stars
April 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Happy pub day to Everything is Tuberculosis!

-Read by author
-Great info, but prepare to be infuriated at our healthcare system
-Short audiobook
-well researched

3.75 ⭐️

#BookSky #BookReview #EverythingIsTuberculosis #JohnGreen #PubDayReview
The cover for Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green on a background made to look like multicolored molecules. The book cover is yellow and features a microscope looking illustration in green and orange. The text is black.
March 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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So trying to finish this today, but as interesting as it is: I think one of the best things is that some people might learn what USAID does because a famous author bothered to document it. I’m glad this is being released soon and is short enough people might read it!
The cover for Everything Is Tuberculosis: the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green. The main color is yellow and features a microscopic circle in orange.
March 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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February Wrap Up

It was a good month overall :)

Loved:
-XOXY
-Hammajang Luck
-A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
-Go Luck Yourself
-Big Jim & the White Boy
-Navigating With You
-Yuri is My Job
My February 2025 wrap up graphic with ratings. From top left: Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 3 (4.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, Vol. 1 (4.75), Girlmode (4.0), XOXY: A memoir (4.75), Anthony & the Gargoyle (3.5), Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, Vol. 1 (3.0), Gender Queer (2.0), A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities (5.0), Navigating With You (4.75), Unhappy Camper (4.5), Hammajang Luck (5.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, Vol. 2 (4.0), One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (3.75), Big Jim & the White Boy (5.0), Go Luck Yourself (5.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 3 (3.5), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 4 (3.0), I’m in Love and it’s the End of the World, vol. 5 (4.0), Yuri is my Job!, Vol. 13 (4.75)
March 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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When you tell people to quote or reply and then turn off replies and quotes 🥴

If they didn’t take away the Patriots win after they lightly punished them for legit cheating and under inflating the balls, they’re not gonna take away wins for a team based on a play that was legal and became illegal 🙄
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I just need to share my current reads cause they are VERY much different vibes and honestly, being a mood reader is weird sometimes. What is this mood? 😆
The cover for Sara Raasch’s Go Luck Yourself. The top left corner is a snow scene featuring a white man in a blue shirt, jeans and a green and red scarf. He has his hair in a bun and is carrying a red duffel bag. The bottom right corner has a white man in a paint-stained raglan shirt with green sleeves and black jeans. He has orange hair and headphones around his neck. He’s carrying a palette and painting a picture in a spring scene on rolling hills. The text is green. The cover for Big Jim & the White Boy by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson. The cover features a late-20s-ish Black man in an orange button down with blue pants with one shoulder strap standing on a raft. Behind him is a teenaged white boy in a white button up and similar pants. The raft has a tent and a clothesline on it. The water they’re on is green.
February 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(20/20)
The cover for the anniversary edition of Chobits. The cover features the main character, Chi, a female-presenting robot in a white dress sitting in a railing in the wind. The background is a blue sky. Chi has white hair that is very long.
February 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Have a cowboy cat
Figgy, a grey striped tabby, wearing a pink gingham bandana with fringe
February 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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You put in your bio FIRST that you’re a writer for the Atlantic. Let’s take a look:
Five articles from 11/24 until now. And oh…look at that. 3/5 are about wokeness! And one is blaming Leftists for correctly saying a lot of Trump’s base are sexist and racist (aka what they think is woke) 🙃
February 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(19/20)
The cover for Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The main background color is yellow and has black and red text. There are black mountains and blue waves and red spikes layered over the yellow with a white sun in the back.
February 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(18/20)
The cover for Lovely War by Julie Berry. It features a white female-presenting person from the nose down in a pink coat holding the Eiffel Tower with three planes flying around it. The background is a sepia print of soldiers.
February 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(17/20)
The cover of The Giver by Lois Lowry. It features a picture of an old man’s face with a beard in black and white and a ripped lower left corner showing sepia colored trees. This one has the Newbery medal on it.
February 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled book content for Cowboy Figgy looking dapper 😍🥰

#CatSky #ShowMeYourKitties
Figgy, a grey striped tabby, sitting in a pink gingham bandana with white fringe. The tag has a cat head and says Neko on it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(16/20)
The cover for Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman. The font is white. The background is a wave and features a blue outline of a bird on the top and a white outline of a bird on a hibiscus flower at the bottom.
February 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(15/20)
The Tea Dragon Society by K O’Neill. The cover has the medal for winning an Eisner award. The cover features a Black female-presenting character in a striped shirt and jeans with small horns and a white female-presenting character with pink hair, dragon horns, a pink tail and furred feet in a blouse and blue skirt. They’re sitting in a field on a red picnic blanket with a small yellow tea dragon, who is yellow with chamomile growing out of its head and a tea pot.
February 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge
(14/20)
The cover for the Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. Translated into English by Philip Gabriel. The background is a sky blue and the cover features a large white cat surrounded by branches of a Japanese maple tree with a little white van driving on one of the branches.
February 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Yuna, Figgy & George all say hello 🩷
Yuna, a white and tabby cat laying on my lap Figgy, a grey tabby cat laying on a white blanket George, a yellow cockapoo, laying in a blue blanket on a car seat
February 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM