I'm BOOKED UP on proofs at the mo & have this on preorder, but I'm spreading the word in case anyone else wants in. This sounds like a fantastic read!

Library holds on new releases are so fun, like lil preorders I don't have to pay for

These stories dip into the lives of ordinary Nigerians and examine the mundane madnesses they try to keep at bay. An eloquent and polished debut collection thrumming with life. It was full of tiny humane moments that haunted me days after finishing! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Full review: tinyurl.com/4jmjer43 💙📚

I wish I knew who had done this, re the bunnies in the Southern Reach series, but it's brilliant.

I apologise to everyone who follows this account for investment advice and who lost money due to my recent post “invest all your money in hamburgers”. It turns out I was just hungry

there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off

Huge day to be a weird girl

What a unique, compelling gem! Bear Season asks which matters most — the stories we live, those we tell, or the ones we dream up for ourselves — and probes the boundaries around each until they fold in on themselves. ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Full review: tinyurl.com/4xfe7eey @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social 📚💙

Haha fuck yeah

Can AI just go the way of NFTs already

Do I email the student who has checked out every single Otessa Moshfegh book we have to see if they're okay????

Current read // current view 📚💙

Still recall a "futures" convention saying their payment to me for doing an event would be a half-hour lunch with Musk. I laughed so hard I was crying. When they asked what was so funny, I hung up.

Every tech guy wants to introduce something game-changing like the smart phone and all they got is "office meetings with a pair of giant goggles strapped to your head" or "chatbot that can't spell strawberry" and they're going to destroy society if we don't pretend these are necessary to our lives

My love language is coming up with the right word or synonym when someone is struggling to find it

💙📚 New to my shelves Here's a peek at some new things I've added to (read: jammed onto) my shelves recently — a mixture of Christmas gifts and purchases with gifted book tokens! Anything here from your tbr? What should I be prioritising?

I love checking my Blackwell's wishlist because very occasionally they have something for a wacky price and I must pounce

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

I will NEVER be impressed by your money, car, looks, social status or job title. I'm impressed by the way you treat other people and myself.

All this criticism of 'overconsumption' in the book community, at a time when I think owning your own media and not leasing access to it from a corporation is about to become very important, has me sideyeing

Here are some nice mushrooms

Plural of horse should be heese, change my mind

When & why did we decide to move away from the term 'self-published' and towards using 'indie author'? Because, unless I'm mistaken, that's what indie authors are doing: self-publishing. Is that seen as a negative term now? Or are the two groups seperated in a way I don't understand?

Not to be flippant about The Horrors but in the UK Trump means fart, and I can't stop computing it as that every time I read that stupid orange windbag's name

The winter light filtering through these dried wildflowers is so beautiful to me ✨

Sorry but there's absolutely no bloody need for there to be thirty-fucking-one days of January now is there

This mug is how I, a non-tiktok user, look following the current drama

A wildly imaginative story of family trauma, sibling bonds, & identity. For all that some parts were disjointed, never once did I doubt that these siblings loved and infuriated each other, or that their bonds had been forged in something darker than blood. Full review: tinyurl.com/4z8npvhz ⭐⭐⭐

The difference between 'blurb' and 'synopsis' may be subtle, but I'm begging the book community to at least try to respect it

made cabbage with sausage over rice for dinner tonight. cabbage remains such a world-beater. accounting in equal parts for flavor, versatility, and value, it's easily a top-tier vegetable, and although it may not necessarily be the best vegetable it should absolutely be in the conversation

I never read Gaiman's books at a young age so I'm not feeling grief for beloved stories that are now tainted. Just the more general grief that another man who said, and seemed to do, all the right things to show up for women and marginalised folks has yet again used it as a smokescreen to do harm.

The fact that this manuscript has survived for over a thousand years and also was previously owned by Henry VIII short-circuits my brain every time I see it. Just look at that gorgeous velvet binding!

A quote on the cover calls this 'discreetly sublime' and it truly is: tiny and yet towering, almost too beautiful to really take in, containing feelings and histories too huge for its unassuming physical dimensions. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Full review: tinyurl.com/29twrkya 📚💙

The real lesson of Zuckerberg and Musk is that some people are just born with loser stink on them that no amount of wealth or power will ever scrub off

📚Review📚 #Greenteeth by @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social was a heartwarming, folklore-infused fantasy debut. Bursting with magic & cosy, found family vibes that I absolutely loved! 😍❤️ 5 ⭐️ Full Review➡️: shorturl.at/BYqwx #AdPRProduct #BookSky #BookReview

I often think about whatever poor unsuspecting person picked up my copy of Brainwyrms from the Bodleian Library book swap lol. Sorry, random stranger.

Confined to my room because if I leave I’ll spend $300 on books #booksky #fantasybooks

A frosty morning in Oxford 🌨️🌞

I love this slice of spire and garden 🌤️

Slowly being eviscerated by this today. What a burnished little gem of a novel. 📚💙

Sprawling fantasy series are great, but there's something to be said for a self-contained quest story where the stakes are high, but not world-ending. Nettle and Bone was the perfect gentle, engaging read to start the year off with! Full review: tinyurl.com/k4uh3fbz 📚💙

The little scattering of snow on the medieval walls is so precious to me ❄️

Sometimes creatures walk across the library skylight and I just think that's neat

The drama happening with Fable really vindicates my Storygraph evangelising lmao

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

The people forcing AI features no one asked for into every aspect of technology should be mulched, composted, and used for gardening

Putting my money where my mouth is and investing in @thestorygraph.com plus plan, seeing as I aggressively recommend the app to everyone I know 🫶🏻

My top ten books of 2024 ✨🏹🫧🩷

Decidedly lukewarm take but: posting negative reviews is fine, actually. If it's evidenced and not a personal attack on the author, it's not mean to share a non-glowing opinion. We're allowed to have opinions on the art we consume.

A sharply observed literary coming of age that grapples with how we make meaning in a difficult world & how those things fall short. There was a distance and loneliness to this where I wanted a beating heart, but the accomplished prose was a joy to read. ⭐⭐⭐💫 Full review: tinyurl.com/bdzbxm82