You’d never know that I’ve been in my biggest reading slump of the last decade for 6 months now. Definitely found some amazing new faves this year, including @wiswell.bsky.social and @cayemarsh.bsky.social so 2025 wasn’t a complete wash!

The kakapo is both one of my favorite birds and favorite conservation stories. They are the orange cats of the bird world: so beautiful, so ridiculous, so dumb

I hope there is a hell, and the techbros who unleased this GenAI crap on all of us are stuck behind a counter where they have to deal with customer requests for books that don't exist for the rest of eternity. With a mediocre guitarist nearby, playing a loop of six Christmas carols.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 3rd 2025 (Tricky), in 05:41 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Hey all, we have six more days to raise the funds we need. Just a few more donors could help us get over that line. Any support you could offer would be massively appreciated.

Midnight!🔥 #worldofwarcraft

Does your giftee like cats? There's 15% off Kat's Nip and Fluffy Balls til the end of the month! Home-grown, hand-made. katsnip.nz #nzpets

I’m so angry about this. It’s just stupid for so many reasons! Can’t wait to vote these CoC politicians out of power. In the meantime, my blood pressure is gonna continue to be high.

As Wicked season is upon us again, this is your reminder to read the book before you buy it for your 9 year old.

Fun little logic puzzle!

Ata mārie and happy Halloween to all who celebrate! In recognition of the year's spookiest day I will be sharing some of the most "cursed" images from our digital repository, #CanterburyStories. #CursedImages (Mute this thread if you are of a sensitive disposition! 😱) ^MT

Birthday book haul! My spouse organised with a bunch of my fam & friends to get me books and it made for the loveliest surprise to go collect them from our local indie bookstore today 😭🩷 and then we visit some Little Free Libraries & I picked up a few 2nd hand books there (and dropped off 20). 🇳🇿 📚

My first Jo Walton read, which instantly made her one of my forever faves. So clever & beautifully written. #pukapuka

We sometimes read of young people with life threatening health conditions whose parents manage to get treatment for them. The cost is so much tho! 😮 Amelia was treated 😊 www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/... Forest's family is still fundraising. Please give if you can 🙏 givealittle.co.nz/cause/forest...

Pain/depression has been too intense to let me focus/read so instead I’ve been rewatching Criminal Minds (my comfort watch). Currently playing s05e16 “Mosley Lane”, which is one of the absolute best & most heartbreaking episodes. Unforgettable.

If Mario can dress as a frog and fight tyrants then so can you.

RIP Nigel Latta, a Kiwi legend, and my third cousin once removed through the Rutherford line. #kikorangi #familyhistory #genealogy

4 children have visited my house in the last 2 days; I sent 3 of them home with a book. Not a bad ratio! Shoulda been a librarian

I won a giveaway hosted by my fave bookstore in Auckland, Time Out, so went in today to pick up my prize: a copy of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang! Love any excuse to go to Mt Eden, but a free book is the best one yet. Beautiful cherry blossoms lining side streets & good coffee were an added bonus. 💙📚🇳🇿

It’s things like this that persuade me the human race still has a future.

World Central Kitchen got fired on in Gaza by Israel, had members killed, and went back anyway because people shouldn't have to starve to death. This is an amazing humble bundle.

Hey booksih types, there's an Indie Writer's festival happening at Te Manawa in Auckland in a month, and it would be lovely to see some of you there. 🇳🇿📚

If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.

We definitely need more SF novellas, and I highly recommend this duology! 🪐📚

🎟 TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟 Win a double pass to Ladi6: Auckland Women’s Centre 50th Birthday Fundraiser! Entries on INSTAGRAM only - head over to the post to learn how to enter: www.instagram.com/p/DMO2Hw_gFnm/ The competition closes 5pm, Wed 23 July 2025

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

Tammy pierce may your pillows always be cold and your food microwaved at the right time

25 years ago today, I started dating my best friend. 13 years ago, we got married. Love waking up beside you every morning, @kazaral.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top! Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

A beautiful piece from Claire. I loved Under the Mountain and the Halfmen of O books as a kid, and The Fat Man was a book I studied in 3rd form English. RIP Maurice Gee; you helped shape me into the spec fic fan I am today! #pukapuka #booksky

"All families generally have the same secrets" - great insights from Assoc Prof Ashley Barnwell - Is it just a matter of time before family secrets are revealed thanks to discoveries from #familyhistoryresearch & #dnatesting ? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Excellent piece by Emily Writes on Substack about the appalling lack of decency Stuff has shown in upholding journalism in by its opinion pieces, contributing to the misinformation about the genocide we are seeing in Gaza. #freepalestine #nzpol #toitūtetiriti open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️‍🌈, friends! It is queer books all day every day over here, but why not start Pride Month off with a 🌈 rainbow 🌈 of recs to help build those June TBRs. {Check out the comments for the full rainbow!} What books are YOU looking forward to reading this month? #booksky

My grandfather, Ronald Allen, was one of the last lighthouse keepers in Aotearoa New Zealand before automation. With his wife Val & two youngest sons, he lived in some of the wildest parts of NZ, making sure both passing ships and local native wildlife were safe. #familyhistory #lighthouse

hi its me, i work at every major tech company, my job is to change where the buttons are every six months for no reason, i dont even get paid i do it for the love of the game

Screaming, crying, throwing up because after years of teaching myself how to analyse #DNA matches and build family trees, I finally have names for both the baby daddy and baby mama that I’ve been searching for (not mine, but an extended family member who has spent 60+ yrs without info). #genealogy 🎊

I just want a break from this never-ending headache! It’s now 6 days old. I can only read in 10 minute bursts and then need an hour to recover, and at this rate I’m not even going to hit my ‘bare minimum’ reading goal for the year. #headache #migraine #intracranialhypertension #chronicillness

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Great review by Liz Bourke. I’m so excited for this book! I love Kate Elliott’s work. 😍

NEW: Nature's Cathedral tee and I'm actually so stoked, I have a new partnership with an NZ-owned apparel co-op, with fitted/femme tees, sizes thru 5XL! Also, $3 from each of these tees will go to Forest & Bird to support conservation. <3 Pre order here: pepperraccoon.com/products/nat...

no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI

IYMI cos I know LOTS of you are queer readers and writers. Last week, I launched Prideopoly 2025 - my reading challenge for Pride Month! Here is the board and my launch video! 💙📚🌈 As always, even if this isn't your thing, a share would go a long way to find my community 🥰 youtu.be/xuyCMesUyQk?...

Remember during Covid when all those “unskilled” jobs were actually the ones deemed essential. While many with “important” jobs sat around baking bread. Many of those essential roles are the ones being impacted by pay equity shafting. Praised then, scoffed at now. Shame on this Government.

this is incredible but the iron fencing in the background is one of the most diabolical bits of composition i've ever seen. trojan horse type maneuver

Happy pub day to Dreamslinger!! My Korean magic school book where the Asleep is a real place, and where you can grow a dreampanion from a seed. I can’t WAIT to share this with you all 🐅🐉🐦‍🔥🐢 How beautiful are both the US and the UK/Aus/NZ covers. Do you have a fav??