Everybody stay safe and warm today #iceout #antifa

Me: "Robots cooking! This will be a nice break from the Nonfiction of Capitalism and Military Murder Programs." Book: *smacks me with Immigrant Rights, Citizenship status, global warming, and California seceding from the US.* 🙃🙃🙃 #scifi #automaticnoodle #damn #robots

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Due to Chronic Wrist Pain we are reading a LOT MORE audiobooks on @libbyapp.com and @libro.fm HURRAH FOR ACCESSIBLE READING!!!!!! #disabled #chronicpain #allsysystemsred #aflowertraveledinmyblood #therushworthfamilyplot #automaticnoodle #audiobooks #lgbtqia #queer

WE 🩵 MURDERBOT and are plowing through every single story WHEEEEEE!!!!! #murderbot #scifi #booksky #artificialcondition

If your VERY EXPENSIVE special edition's art is confused for AI? I don't care how many proof of process the artist posts. The work should NEVER HAVE BEEN APPROVED. #gameofthrones #afeastforcrows #specialedition #booksky #got

This book is a MASTERCLASS in escalating "Oh. SHIT." to "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT." *wild applause* #booksky #lgbtq #thequicksilvercourt #fantasy #rooksandruin

Murderbot: Born to watch TV, forced to solve stupid murder plot against humans it MAYBE likes DON'T TELL THEM #murderbot #booksky #thrmurderbotdiaries #scifi #allsystemsred

#booksky #ew #ewno

oh look it is SCREAMING ABOUT ACE MONSTER GIRLFRIENDS o'clock #someoneyoucanbuildanestin #sapphic #lgbtq #monsterlover #ace #queer #booksky #horrorsky #bodyhorror

When the wait is FINALLY into the single digits! 😹😹😹 (We 🩷 Libby!!!) #femalehusbands #trans #lgbtq #libby #femalehusbands #booksky

May you have good things today #bookstack #fall #bookshopcat #mrcharlesbingley #lupinthethird

GO VEL GO!!!!!!!! #happythings #dogs #oregontail #velthehusky

Thank you everyone who stops and TALKS ABOUT BANNED BOOKS! We get high-fives and parents asking for recs and youth saying "Wait my FAVORITE BOOK is banned?!" and talking to their friends about it. Community is how we keep going. #readbanned #bannedbooks #banbookbans #righttoread

Writing progressively unhinged book summaries WHEEEEEEE! #booksky #lgbtqia #blindbox #mysterybook #indigenous #surprisebook

a handy dandy venn diagram, perhaps. If you will.

Join us, joiiiiin uuuuuuus 👻👻👻👻 (Next event Westerville Midnight Madness!) #stickercult #queer #stickers #bookish

How dare he be so pretty 🧡🧡🧡🧡 #bookstorecat #mrbingley #orangecat #catsofbluesky

BOOK TAKE: Dark Romance is Erotica. (And there is NO SHAME in reading it!!!!) #booksky #booktake #darkromance #erotica

Looking for Cozy & Queer? Read this! A monk and bird companion sort through effects of a dead ruler. Stories come with each item, courtesy of a former handmaid. They are small things. Games. Paper scraps. A figurine. Intimate and kind. Nonbinary, Poly, & Sapphic! #nghivo #singinghills #booksky

TRUE LOVE: Crying at a cliffhanger then hooking your friend on the books SO YOU CAN BOTH HAVE EMOTIONS 🤣🩷🤣 (Anyway y'all should read the Burning Kingdoms trilogy ~) #booksky #friendship #friendshipistrauma #bookish

Good day to read and ugly cry in the woods #hudafwantstoknow #booksky #hudafahmy #muslim #grief

BOOK TAKE: Billionaire Romances are Conservative Propaganda No you cannot change our mind #bookish #booksky #nothankyou #billionairesshouldnotexist #taxtherich

Holy cow Nghi Vo DOES NOT MISS - Short, pointed, engrossing mystery Rep: Nonbinary MAJOR CW for famine, cannibalism, and animal death ALC from @libro.fm #nghivo #amouthfulofdust #aapi #nonbinary #queerhorror #booksky #horror

Grumble grumble HERE HAVE PRODUCT PHOTOS also updated the website with a "Sticker" section so y'all can HAVE THEM! *pats self on head* #stickers #autism #Queer #trans #neurodiverse #antiterf

#bannedbooksweek #banbookbans #booksky #bookish #read

Look if we have to trick ourselves into journaling via ~*Aesthetics*~ then THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES Hello rain plz stick around Couple good reads in September and some... QUESTIONABLE #bookjournaling #readinglist #booksky #septemberbooks #journal

Sold out of "You Weren't Meant to Be Human," "Lucky Day," "Hungerstone," and "Freakslaw." Thank you Horror Queers! We love bringing books to the people! #booksky #ruralqueer #youwerentmeanttobehuman #queerhorror #trans

We ❤️ small town Prides, THANK U NEWARK!!! #ohio #ruralqueer #booksky #lgbtq #shopindie

We identify as Halloween Queer. Hallowqueer? 🌈🎃🌈🎃🌈🎃🌈🎃 #horrorbooks #happyhalloween #youwerentmeanttobehuman #trans #booksky

New sticker oooOOOooo!~ #noterfs #trans #transrights #halloween #lgbtq

Hi Cisco, We admire you not bothering to realize we are a bookstore. 🌟 Too many scammers reach too many writers--your voice deserves less. We mock & censure AI with hate + disgust to help bullshit like this die. Let's never meet! ❌ #aibullshit #scammer #booksky

Possibly our best book summary ever! 🤣 Any guesses? #blindbook #lgbtqia #booksky #blindbox #trans

Due to popular demand Lupin will now shed 200% more #catsandbooks #indiebookstore #lupin #catsky

Did you want cat hair with your order? 🤣 #catsandbooks #lupin #indiebooks #booksky #ace #asexual

Is this how you Vibes 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 #fall #finally #horrorbooks #theskull #booksky #fallvibes

❤️🩸💋 #redbooks #red #lgbtqia #booksky

Mr. Bingley waiting on callers 🧡🧡🧡 #mrbingley #shopcat #catsultant #catsky #orangecat

Update: IT WAS SO GOOD I AM SHRIEKING #thehazardsoflove #nonbinary #booksky #bookrec

Today's book: Enjoy the fashion choices of Ye Olde Timey People putting bows in VERY NORMAL places! 😂😂😂😂 #historicalcostume #fashion #fashionillustration #masculinity

All we need from the Winters nonsense is finding out everyone's a sockpuppet ala Ms. Scribe #booktok #eeeeeesh #booksky

Look if you don't think the history of postcards is FASCINATING dunno if we can be friends? 😂 #booksky #postcards #kitsch

Thanks to everyone who came to visit at Seneca Pride! We love coming to the rural events. They matter SO MUCH for community support and bringing books to the people. 🥰🌈🥰🌈🥰 Also new tablecloths oooooh ahhhhhh! #pride2025 #popup #bookstore #senecapride #rural #tiffin

#booksky No author OWES you a book. Point blank period. "But I've been waiting for _ years!" No "But what if [author] dies?" NO "But - "

All packed up for Seneca Pride - Lupin is EXHAUSTED! #cartetris #roadtrip #lupin #bookstorecat #pride2025

LFL DIARIES: Lately finding SO MANY pregnancy books in Little Free Libraries. There was one from the 1980s. Also one by an ECONOMIST saying drinking during pregnancy is fine actually. #lfl #booksky #littlefreelibrary

Our current alc from @libro.fm (Middle Grade) - 👻 GHOSTS! Maybe! ⭐ Intrepid kid investigator 🔥 Imperfect Influencer Lesbian Parents Been thinking a LOT about kids appearing (exploited) on family channels. Seeing a Middle Grade book tackle this? Let's go! #alittletoohaunted #kidlit #booksky

Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the

Just finished "The Last Soul Among Wolves" and #thelastsoulamongwolves #sapphic #booksky #readers #melissacaruso