#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Plague magic - Going through bodies like Kleenex - That literary New Wave feel - Side effects @kameronhurley.com's Meet Me In The Future: Stories www.kameronhurley.com/writing/meet... A short story collection that explores the limits of gender, mortality and causality.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Urban Fantasy - Pop culture references - Paperwork Try @stevenbrust.bsky.social's The Good Guys bookshop.org/p/books/good... A team from a secret society tracks down a magical murderer, but when the job gets nasty, they have to ask themselves: are they the good guys?

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Corporate culture - The bad guys - Satire - Animals saying the quiet part loud. Try @scalzi.com's Starter Villain whatever.scalzi.com/2023/09/19/s... An average guy inherits his uncle's James Bond style crime syndicate and the organizational headaches that come with it.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Hard SF - First contact - Information theory - Arachnophilia - Uplift Try @aptshadow.bsky.social's Children of Time adriantchaikovsky.com/children-of-... A terraforming experiment goes awry but it may be the last, best hope for the survivors of a devastated earth.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Heists! - Adventure serials - The job never going smooth Try @zanzjan.bsky.social's Finder zanzjan.net/writing/bibl... The MC has to repossess the spaceship of a gangster who runs a collection of orbital habitats, so there’s no way it’s going to be that easy...or is it?

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🩸 Fan of: - Historical fiction - Novellas - Mythology - Going vegetarian Try: @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's Ring Shout pdjeliclark.com/ring-shout/ African American women in the 1920's hunt monsters infiltrating the Klan, so somehow there's still room for those a-holes to get worse.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - R rated sitcoms - Smartasses - Kids with powers. - Death Try: @theauthorguy.bsky.social's A Dirty Job www.chrismoore.com/books/a-dirt... In this hilarious novel, single dad & thrift store owner Charlie has to collect objects that hold souls, or Bad Things happen.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - The Arabian Nights - Working moms - Indiana Jones - This is more than I signed on for - Crime - Frenemies Try @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi www.sachakraborty.com A retired pirate has to get her band back together for one last job

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Baked goods from Hell - Managing divas - Workplace relationships Try: Sarah Khun's Heroine Complex www.heroinecomplex.com/excerpt/ A superhero’s PA goes from snubbing mean girl bloggers to fighting demons, which is still easier than dealing with her co-workers.

new blog post on the #booksky blog! 📚💙 How To Get the Most Out of Your Time on BookSky ( with tips for readers and writers!) ⤵️

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Toy Story - Plush MCs - Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends - Empathy - Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Dryers Try @bytylerhayes.bsky.social's The Imaginary Corpse tyler-hayes.com A stuffed triceratops' latest case uncovers a threat to his home reality of discarded ideas.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Urban 📚⚔️ - New Orleans - PI in over his head - Resident gods - Losing at cards Try @bryancamp.bsky.social's The City of Lost Fortunes www.bryancamp.com A man with the magical power to find things gets in to trouble and the only way out is solving a luck god's murder.

#booksky 📚💬 📚🪐📚⚔️ Anyone recall a book scene that was a figure crossing a desert, occasionally scattering some of the ashes of a defeated wizard to make it tougher for the wizard to come back? A friend mentioned this gold standard for spellcaster Double Taps so (IIRC) it might have been pre-2000?

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Grimdark! - Sauron's side of things - Necromancy - Finding your stuff Try @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social's Black Stone Heart michaelrfletcher.com/works/ A Big Bad that lost bigly comes back from the dead with a thirst for revenge - but will it be different this time?

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - 70's fantasy - Morally gray MC's - Law vs Chaos - Dark sorcery - Double edged swords (ha!) Try: Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melinbone bookshop.org/p/books/elri... A weak sorcerer emperor's light touch ruling a declining empire results in a challenge to the throne

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - YA SF - NH's black flies Try David Arnold's The Electric Kingdom davidarnoldbooks.com/the-electric... A teen forced to explore post apocalypse New England keeps encountering a mysterious figure who is supernaturally good at being in the right place at the right time.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Assholes! - Smartasses - 📽️ John Wick, Kill Bill, Nobody, High Plains Drifter Try @johnpmurphy.bsky.social's Red Noise www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/626145... A space station filled with gangs and corrupt cops discovers a nameless miner is the Wrong Person to F With.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Smartasses - Being totally screwed - Kids playing with knives - Outmatched MC's - Necromancy Try @patricksamphire.bsky.social's Shadow of a Dead God patricksamphire.com/books/shadow... A broke, minor talent mage-for-hire has to solve a murder that's ruining his life.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Sending a message - 4D warfare - Spy vs. Spy Try @maxgladstone.bsky.social & @amalelmohtar.com's This Is How You Lose the Time War bookshop.org/p/books/this... Two time travelers looking to sabotage each other develop an unusual relationship through left messages.

Hey, #booksky 📚💬 There's nothing like hype to set unrealistic expectations and diminish the enjoyment of a book or series. What books/series do you think justify the hype, and why? A few of mine below:

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - YA Fantasy Westerns - Knowing magic is a con game Try @decastell.bsky.social's Spellslinger decastell.com/book/spellsl... A weakened student wizard becomes a subject of interest for a zen-like drifter who seems to be able to always win her battles without fighting.

A question for #booksky 📚💬 What are some (spoiler free) recommendations of short stories that haunt you to this day, like a really good Twilight Zone episode? A few of mine in the thread.

#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Revenge! - Immigrants in Westerns - Supernatural Road Shows Try @tom-lin.bsky.social's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu Ming Tsu has a list of people that need killing, and he’s just getting started with the help of an old railway worker who can see the future.

#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 Fan of: - Space Opera! - Godlike technology - The long game - Galactic tours Try Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns www.alastairreynolds.com/release/hous... Two members of a near immortal family of clones meet at their 200K year reunion and realize something is hunting the family.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🤳 Fan of? - Food Network - Dinner service gone wrong - Back of house - Smartasses Try @jasonsheehan.bsky.social's Cooking Dirty bookshop.org/p/books/cook... JS goes from mopper to chef in this memoir of culinary operations, bad decisions, & wildly inappropriate workplace behavior.

#booksky Author Matt Wallace absolutely killing it with recipes inspired by other authors books. #NovelDishes. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚💥 Fan of? - Wondering who watches the watchers - Wicked smart - Magneto's world view - Conspiracies Try Marcus Sakey's Brilliance marcussakey.com/books/brilli... The MC's superpower of almost telepathy may not work that well to find a terrorist who can almost predict the future.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of? - Being in over your head - YA SFF - The high end of human Try @wattevans.bsky.social Touched by the Gods www.watt-evans.com/Touchedbythe... With the gods checked out, the MC has to figure out if they chose him to deal with an army of the dead that's coming his way,

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of? - Oil crisis analogies - Low tech wizards - Straightforward writing - 70's Fantasy Try: Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away bookshop.org/p/books/the-... When it turns out the stuff that powers magic is a finite resource, it's not good for wizards in all kinds of ways.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of? - SF _&_ F - Juggling - Succession issues - Travelogues - Dreaming Try Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle bookshop.org/p/books/lord... An amnesiac joins a troupe of jugglers and starts remembering that he has some unfinished business with the powers that be.

Suddenly wondering if someone has already done this. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prompt PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

A question for #booksky 📚💬 Has anyone seen emoji combinations for Memoir and Biography? Best I've been able to think up so far for Memoir/Autobiography was: books + selfie 📚🤳 To emphasize that it's a person producing something about themselves. I've got nothing for Biography, though.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡 Fan of? - Memoirs - Muppets! - USAID - PBS - Culture shock - 1990's Russia - TV production Try Natasha Lance Rogoff's Muppets in Moscow www.natashalancerogoff.com The author is tasked with making a Russian Sesame Street, which is complicated by the chaos of post-communisim Russia.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Fantasy westerns - Multiple Tarot themed MCs - Horrors Try R. S. Belcher's The Six-Gun Tarot www.patreon.com/collection/2... Most of the residents of an old western town, are running from or to something, and things are about to take a turn for the much, much worse.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚⚡️ Fan of? - Con games - Amateur detectives - Smartass commentary Try: Steve Hockensmith With Lisa Falco's The White Magic Five And Dime www.stevehockensmith.com/tarot-myster... The MC gets a fortune telling business & tries to solve a murder when the victim is her con woman mother.

💼Great Moments In Brevity: Be All That You Can Be Edition. "I am the army." -Assistant Surgeon William Brydon

💼Great Moments In Brevity: Forget Me Not Edition. "I never built an Amnesia-inator! I think I'd remember building something like that!" -Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas And Ferb.

📚💙 📚🪐 📚🤏 Fan of? - #shortstories - Free! - The importance of proper names - Dwelling on the threshold - Thinking: "something's not right here - but what?" Try @risawolf.bsky.social's excellent: Tigers For Sale escapepod.org/2025/07/17/e...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Urban fantasy - Having to deal - Playing poker with Tarot cards - Tinfoil hats Try Tim Powers' Last Call bookshop.org/p/books/last... A gambler from a family with magical leanings finds out he lost way more than he thought in a card game when something comes to collect.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Short stories - Puns - 70's SF - Irregular regulars - Cheers Try Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon www.spiderrobinson.com/books.html Callahan’s Bar: where anything from anywhere, or anywhen may stroll right in, or just materialize inside. You never know...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡📚🚚 Fan of? - Other people's jobs - Trucker sociology - Furniture Tetris - Chinese gravestones Try Finn Murphy's The Long Haul www.finnmurphy.net/book/the-lon... A trucker in the moving industry explains the business, recalls memorable moves and explains what it has taught him.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of? - Out of print late 70's YA humorous fantasy. - ^^Seriously? WTH, man? Try Robert Asprin's Another Fine Myth www.thriftbooks.com/w/another-fi... Apprentice mage Skeeve needs to avoid some assassins with the help of master sorcerer Aahz...who can no longer do magic.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Out of print(?) 80's light YA SF - Adventure serials - Road trips: IN SPACE! Try John DeChancie's Starrigger openlibrary.org/books/OL7526... A trucker floors it when word gets out that he has a map of the alien interstellar roadway humanity has just started exploring.

📚💙 #booksky 📚💬 Question: usefulness of staff names on store Rec cards? I use them when browsing but was surprised that not all stores do this, as noted by @bookishsff.bsky.social. Ex: So I know employee 'Susan' has excellent taste & 'Gerald' certainly does _not_. Thoughts? bsky.app/profile/book...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ 📚🌈 Fan of? - Urban Fantasy - MC outmatched, not outdone - Strong spirits Try @drslayton.bsky.social's White Trash Warlock davidrslayton.com/books/white-... A hedge wizard's fraught family relationships are tested when his estranged brother has a supernatural family problem.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Urban Fantasy - A PG-13 Pete's Dragon - Action/Comedy Try Eoin Colfer's www.eoincolfer.com/works/highfire The dragon Highfire is hiding out in a swamp (with TV & delivered liquor, natch), until a teenager brings his problems with a corrupt deputy to Highfire's doorstep.

Author Matt Wallace making the case for persistence with a post and an excellent free story about the same: 📚💙 📚🪐 bsky.app/profile/matt...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Women in media - Calling out "Fridging" - Comics - The dark side of tropes Try @catvalente.bsky.social's The Refrigerator Monologues www.catherynnemvalente.com/the-refriger... A support group for women who are the collateral damage of a superhero's Tragic Backstory.