Finally had a chance to log my books. 🥳

No. 144: Wish me luck, as DH wants us to complete every Hercule Poirot book in order for 2026. 😅 I liked this one, and not just because the idea of seven little Poirots in one cottage made me giggle. TW for some xenophobic/racist language. #booksky #mystery 📚

I guess this is an unpopular opinion given what trad pub is putting out, but I would always rather read a book written in close 3rd person than a book with 3 or 4 shifting first-person perspectives. It is simply too much. #booksky #romancelandia

One of our local romance bookshops posted its bestsellers of 2025 and I was pleased to see this title on the list for historical romance. A strong debut! #booksky #ATL #queer 📚🏳️‍🌈

Make a Bond film casual Diamonds are Whatever

It is finished. Book 142 of the year and book 100/100 in my library challenge. 🥳 The prompt for this was to read my favorite book. I don't have a single favorite, but I'd already slotted some others into other prompts. 😄 #booksky #classics

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

No. 141 (and the third book DH and I have finished together this year! 🎉): A festive little murder featuring a dysfunctional family. Maybe you can relate? 😅 #booksky #mystery 📚 1/2

💯 - What's galling to me is not just the disrespect to the genre, it's the disrespect to anyone who speaks a language other than English. We know many LLMs were trained primarily on English-language materials. As slippery as they are for us, they are worse in other languages 1/x #writingcommunity

140. It was a pleasure to lose myself in this book today. Coded Justice is third in a series, but can be read as a standalone. An engaging, cerebral mystery that merges law, ethics, AI, and medicine. #booksky #mystery 📚

The number of writers who will (rightly) rail against AI narrators, but low-key turn to AI for translation is a mood.

In other news-- I am doing the thing! Cracked 150+ titles on #StoryGraph for 2025 and I'm two parts of Anna Karenina away from my library challenge. #booksky 📚

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. After the year I had, I might be okay with this.

My latest surprise was finding out that two of my characters who were supposed to be meeting for the first time actually have a history. 😅 #writesky #writingcommunity #smutcember

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

I really hope the French translators get together and agree that the going rate for fixing AI translation is 1.5x the cost to do the translation in the first place.

My #coffee crush has gone above and beyond. Well done, Oakview. #ATL #decaturga

The dumbest goddamn timeline, I swear.

Over a year hold time to get Heated Rivalry at the library. 😅 #romancelandia

No one drinks like Gaston Clickbait links like Gaston Features in a spinoff that will stink like Gaston... 🎶

Came back from the writer's group holiday party with more books and more cookies than I arrived with. 😅 A real rager. #WritingCommunity #writesky

Heated Rivalry did not have me fully hooked until episode 3, but I would die for Kip and Scott Hunter.

If the "why choose?" trope had existed in Tolstoy's time, Anna Karenina would just be a cozy book about mowing fields. #booksky 📚

Recalling the writer's conference I attended this year, where HQN had people lobbying hard for submissions. Heard an earful behind the scenes from other writers who'd worked with them.

137. Too few women diplomats have written their memoirs. In this book, Vicki Huddleston gives a real, if at times frustrating, perspective on what it means to be in #diplomacy --i.e., upholding policies you may personally oppose. #booksky 📚

There's something about grumpy/sunshine that appeals to me (probably because that's my own relationship dynamic 😂), but I also love writing competence porn. #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts

When you have not one useful contribution to make to society, all that's left is to punch down, I guess.

This is shaping up to be a solid day. Successfully made a new cookie recipe, got approved for an ARC I'm dying to read, and an item I want online just went on sale. 🍪📚

136. Glad I snagged this ARC! Alban moves us into a new social circle with this book. A little slow to start, but ultimately sweet, moving, and affirming. Definitely pick it up if you've enjoyed the vibe of her other books. #booksky #queer #romance 📚❤️🏳️‍🌈

Cried twice today listening to Anna Karenina. I'm, like, a third of the way through. 😅 #booksky 📚

Yes, but also we don't need your approval. 😄 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

Went to a physical this morning. Walked out with a written report card of all As and a coupon to get an MRI just for funsies. Just kidding, because none of that happens in real life.

Consent (and age of consent) is a boundary, but beyond that-- yes, give me spice!

November stats-- 11 books down and three away from completing my 2025 reading challenge! 🎉 #StoryGraph #booksky

Hello. I am excited. #forthcoming #booksky #romancelandia #queer 📚❤🌈

Supporting small biz today by buying dog cookies 😅 #smallbusinesssaturday

Imagine if we could have one fucking weekend--a holiday weekend, even--without POTUS sparking a constitutional crisis via social media posts.

A Gentleman's Gentleman is one of the NYT's Top 100 Notable Books of 2025

And, I'm just saying, I would rather pay $1.99/mo for this than buy into Google's drive storage scam. 🙄

I just want to point out that there is a lane for someone to start a small media company whose express mission statement is "nothing we put on the internet was made by AI" & every time a category gets overrun like this, they branch out

Anyone else's #google drive mysteriously hit the size limit after turning these AI features off? Just curious. 🙄

Day 1 of the #ATL Indie Bookstore crawl and I already have two stamps, lots of stickers, and a new book ❤️ 📚 #booksky

Gmail now shuts off spelling and grammar checks unless you agree to let them train their AI off your personal correspondence. Extortion at its finest. 🙄

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

Number 130 for the year and book 91/100 for my library reading challenge! 🎉 I finished this one faster than you can say "flux capacitor." #booksky 📚

128. Evelina, by Frances Burney. I'm glad I sought this out after reading Rebecca Romney's great Jane Austen's Bookshelf. The influence on Austen (even Dickens) is clear 1/x #booksky

Books 125 and 127-- Acquisitions from Eagle Eye Bookstore in #ATL. Love is a War Song was an uplifiting #romance with a lot of positivity around Muscogee culture 1/2 #booksky

Portrait of a Scotsman was book 51 of the year and it's fully worth the bargain price! (Feels so long ago 😄)