Reading update for Mon 1/26 ✅ Ella Minnow Pea, 4⭐️ ✅ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 4.5⭐️ ✅ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 4⭐️ ✅ To Ride a Rising Storm, 4⭐️ ⏭️ The Scammer 🎧 ⏭️ The Bluest Eye (reread) ⏭️ Kin or Ours, depending on library holds! ⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/19 ✅ Jade City (reread), 4.5⭐️ ✅ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ✅ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🎧, 4⭐️ ▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 31% ▶️ To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (reread), 33% ▶️ A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing 🎧, 3% ⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/12 ✅ Natural Beauty 🎧, 4⭐️ ✅ Enshittification 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ▶️ Jade City (reread), 10% ▶️ Ella Minnow Pea, 12% ▶️ The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 🎧, 6% ⏸️ The Bee Sting, 25% (due back at the library; will return to it later) 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 1/5 ✅ Exhalation, 5⭐️ ✅ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 3⭐️ ✅ The Everlasting, 5⭐️ ▶️ Natural Beauty 🎧, 71% ▶️ The Bee Sting, 3% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/29 ✅ I, Medusa 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ✅ Disorientation, 4⭐️ ✅ Solidarity with Children, 4⭐️ ✅ A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 🎧, 37% ▶️ Exhalation, 66% ▶️ The Everlasting, 12% 1 book away from my reading goal! 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/22 ✅ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 4⭐️ ✅ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 4.5⭐️ ✅ The Salt Grows Heavy 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ Solidarity With Children, 42% ▶️ I, Medusa 🎧, 81% ▶️ Disorientation, 55% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

This is WILD. Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out! We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.

Reading update for Mon 12/15 ✅ Cry, Voidbringer, 3.5⭐️ ✅ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ Sisters in the Wind 🎧, 73% ▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 50% ▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 12/8 ✅ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ▶️ Cry, Voidbringer, 66% ▶️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🎧, 31% ▶️ I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, 10% ▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Still breastfeeding a bit at almost 14mo but today I packed away all the electric pump supplies 😭🙌🏼 finallyyyyy

Just had my first "job interview" with an AI bot. It was exactly as soul-sucking as you might imagine.

Reading update for Mon 12/1 ✅ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ✅ Bad Cree, 5⭐️ ✅ even this page is white: poems, no rating ✅ Life on Mars: poems, NR ✅ Growing Papaya Trees, 3.5⭐️ ✅ Gliff, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ The Possession of Alba Diaz 🎧, 35% ▶️ Solidarity With Children, 7% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/24 ✅ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4⭐️ ✅ Manifest Destiny: Poems, no rating ✅ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, no rating (but loved it) ▶️ Gliff, 40% ▶️ Bad Cree, 54% ▶️ Audre and Bash Are Just Friends 🎧, 61% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

I passed my dissertation defense 🎉 (woo!) Now I'm sinking hours into inane formatting workarounds because Microsoft Word was designed to destroy our sanity 🍅🍅🍅 (boooo)

Reading update for Mon 11/17 ✅ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50% ▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 61% ▶️ The Moon That Turns You Back 🎧, 10% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/10 ✅ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 4⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 50% ▶️ The Isle in the Silver Sea 🎧, 53% ▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 24% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 11/3 ✅ Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, 3⭐️ ✅ Julie Chan Is Dead 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ✅ Dominion, 4⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 36% ▶️ The Sea of Tranquility 🎧, 50% ▶️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, 4% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 10/27 ✅ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ✅ The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietician’s Guide… 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 28% ▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 24% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I just killed a lantern fly INSIDE my apartment. They’ve gone too far. This is out of hand

Reading update for Mon 10/20 ✅ The Volcano Daughters 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ✅ Orange Wine, 2.5⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 23% ▶️ Her Majesty's Royal Coven, 5% ▶️ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 🎧, 86% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 10/13 ✅ Solito 🎧, 4⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 7% ▶️ Orange Wine, 85% ▶️ The Volcano Daughters 🎧, 62% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

It’s October, Halloween month, and the perfect time for me to yell about one of my favourite authors, @azaleacrowley.bsky.social! A connoisseur of cozy horror romance. Start with Odd Blood, one of my all time comfort books, about an autistic Filipino-American woman and a himbo vampire. 📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🌎

Reading update for Mon 10/6 No books finished…in the thick of dissertation writing 😩 ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 7% ▶️ Solito 🎧, 74% ▶️ Orange Wine, 45% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

I’ve written 10k words of my dissertation this week and I’m still falling further and further behind 🫩 and my 11mo is going through a giant sleep regression. There isn’t enough coffee on earth !!

Reading update for Mon 9/29 ✅ Katabasis, 4⭐️ ✅ What Moves the Dead, 3.5⭐️ ✅ The Bewitching 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 7% ▶️ Solito 🎧, 6% ▶️ Orange Wine, 1% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Silvia Moreno Garcia naming an extremely minor character “Stephen Graham Jones” in The Bewitching is so cute 🥹 #booksky

Reading update for Mon 9/15 ✅ Hunchback 🎧, 4⭐️ ✅ The Honeys 🎧, 4⭐️ ▶️ Katabasis, 49% ▶️ What Moves the Dead, 40% ▶️ The Bewitching 🎧, 16% ▶️ Manifest Destiny: Poems, 5% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 9/15 ✅ The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ▶️ Katabasis, 33% ▶️ What Moves the Dead, 28% ▶️ Hunchback 🎧, 17% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for 8/26-9/8! ✅ If We Were Villains, 4⭐️ ✅ Can’t Get Enough 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ✅ The Dream Hotel 🎧, 4⭐️ ❌ Ghost Town, DNF 10% ❌ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, DNF 15% ▶️ Katabasis, 18% ▶️ The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 🎧, 25% ▶️ What Moves the Dead, 10% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

I think most people agree checked luggage fees are ridiculous but I have a special disdain for them now that I’m traveling with an infant. Even good ol Southwest Airlines has fallen

Reading update for Mon 8/25 ✅ Of Monsters and Mainframes 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ✅ Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal 🎧, 4.5⭐️ ⏸️ 108: An eco-thriller, 30% ❌ These Burning Stars, DNF @ 33% ▶️ If We Were Villains, 29% ▶️ Can’t Get Enough 🎧, 1% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 8/18 ✅ Razorblade Tears 🎧, 4⭐️ ⏸️ 108: An eco-thriller, 30% ▶️ These Burning Stars, 31% (might dnf later today) ▶️ Of Monsters and Mainframes 🎧, 50% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

I have no reading niche whatsoever but in the last year or so my only TikTok videos that have gotten traction are related to nonfiction books. Is the algo telling me to just be a nonfiction booktoker? lol

How do hotels/conference centers still not have lactation rooms in 2025? It’s unacceptable that I had to pump in the hotel accountant’s office yesterday and in the fitness center bathroom today.

Reading update for Mon 8/11 (I guess this is all I use Bluesky for now lol) ✅ Wild Dark Shore 🎧, 5⭐️ ✅ Love Spells Trouble 🎧, 2.5⭐️ ▶️ 108: An eco-thriller, 30% ▶️ These Burning Stars, 28% ▶️ Razorblade Tears 🎧, 34% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 8/4 ✅ The Guncle 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ⏸️ 108: An eco-thriller, 28% ▶️ These Burning Stars, 13% ▶️ Wild Dark Shore 🎧, 60% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 7/28 ✅ Someone You Can Build a Nest In 🎧, 4⭐️ ✅ Martyr!, 4.5⭐️ ▶️ 108: An eco-thriller, 28% ▶️ The Guncle 🎧, 57% ▶️ These Burning Stars, 13% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 7/21 ✅ The House of Eve 🎧, 4⭐️ ▶️ 108: An eco-thriller, 28% ▶️ Martyr!, 45% (just hardly reading with my eyes at all this month smh) ▶️ Someone You Can Build a Nest In 🎧, 63% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 7/14 ✅ How to Tell When We Will Die 🎧, 3.5⭐️ ▶️ 108: An eco-thriller, 28% ▶️ Martyr!, 30% (so good but I just haven’t read much with my eyes rhis week) ▶️ The House of Eve 🎧, 31% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

Reading update for Mon 7/7 (a day late but I didn’t really read yesterday - Beyoncé concert lol) ✅ The Last Gifts of the Universe 🎧, 3⭐️ ⏸️ He Who Drowned the World, soft dnf @ 24% ▶️ 108: An eco-thriller, 28% ▶️ How to Tell When We Will Die 🎧, 36% ▶️ Martyr!, 12% 📚💙 #booksky #diversebooksky

As an adult, I hate fireworks. You mean to tell me y’all caused a racket all night, aggravating animals and people with trauma histories, just to throw so much pollution into the air that I am stuck inside with my baby all day today? All for the *4th of July*??

Time and time again, many Dems have shown they’re unwilling to upset norms of “law and order” governance. I’m worried that they won’t undo this horrific transfer of funding to ICE when they have the ability to do so.

4th of July book recs: - How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith - As Long As Grass Grows, Dina Gilio-Whitaker - A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis - An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz - They Were Her Property, Stephanie Jones-Rogers #booksky

Queer book rec for Pride day 30: The Prophets. A stunning historical litfic about the forbidden love between two men enslaved on a southern plantation. Very sad but worth the read! #booksky

Queer book rec for Pride day 29: Open Throat. A novella told from the POV of a lonely, queer, anti-capitalist mountain lion roaming the Hollywood Hills. Yes, you read that right. #booksky

Queer book rec for Pride day 28: the Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School. A funny but heartfelt story about a Mexican teen figuring out how to be herself at her very white Catholic school. #booksky

Queer book rec for Pride day 27: Monstrilio. A quirky and moving story about grief with several queer POV characters - a good entry point to horror for litfic readers. #booksky

Queer book rec for Pride day 26: Odd Blood. This cozy horror series features an autistic demisexual protagonist, a himbo vampire, and great banter. #booksky