Don’t mind me. Just drooling over this ARC of “Operation Bounce House” by Matt Dinniman 🧡🤤 Thank you @mattdinniman.bsky.social & @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social! 💙📚🪐

October, consider me creeped out. Most powerful books of the month: • “The Wax Child” by @olgaravn.bsky.social • “The Unworthy” by @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social • “The Lamb” by @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social Huge shoutout to @libbyapp.com — 7 of these 14 came from my library! 💙📚🩸

Life has been doing its thing, but I’ve finally created space enough to breathe. Indulging in a lazy morning with a coffee and “Overgrowth” by Mira Grant (@seananmcguire.bsky.social). I love plant aliens 💙📚🩸

Book: You Did Nothing Wrong Author: CG Drews @paperfury.bsky.social Rating: 5/5⭐️ Full Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/24b1... Monsters are real and, sometimes, even monsters are convinced of their good intentions.🩸📚💙

Book: Between Two Fires Author: @buehlmeister.bsky.social Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6cc3... Buehlman has flipped the Script(ure): God has abandoned us to fallen angels. How are a knight, a girl, and a priest to overcome the depravity of this medieval hellscape? 💙📚🩸

Is this what they mean when they say, “That girl has range”? 😂 (It isn’t.) • “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse • “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees” by Patrick Horvath 💙📚🩸

This week in the world of Wyrd Wit: 1. Partnering with an author who’s submitting her horror novella into a competition tomorrow. 2. Finishing a beta read for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel. 3. Wrapping up a buddy read of “Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social (crying) Books rule 📚💙🪐🩸

Thrilled to serve as a judge for #SFINCS3! 💙📚🩸🪐 Indie authors don’t receive the recognition they deserve. #SFINCS encourages indie spec fic authors to share their stories with a community eager to hear them. Thanks to the 100 authors who took the leap. I feel honored to read your creations.❤️

Don’t mind me. Just over here growing my Le Guin, @sgj.bsky.social, @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social, & @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social collections. 💙📚🩸🪐🏳️‍🌈

I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!

August top reads 📚💙🩸🪐 1. Just a guy with a dream who can’t catch a break. Cue that Chumbawamba track. 2. Beware of secret doors to alternate Earths, talking marmots, and being pouched. You may like the pouch though. 3. I also love my sister, cats, and intimidating those who derail my routine.

Oh, we buddy reading 📚🩸 “Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social

On average, 9/10 books I read are fiction. Call it escapism, if you must. With nonfiction, I tend to be drawn to themes of interconnection and equality, which naturally lend themselves to social justice and the natural environment. Hoping for a glimpse of hope in “The Serviceberry” 📚💙💡🌱

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.” From “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The perfect distillation of this novel at its core. 💙📚🪐

The Wheel made me do it. The Wheel knows what I crave. The Wheel is omniscient. Next ARC read = "You Did Nothing Wrong" by CG Drews 🩸📚 💙📚 @paperfury.bsky.social #ARCreader #indecisivereader #moodreader

The latest PDX heatwave was followed by overcast skies and #Summerween cravings. You can find me tucked into a corner at the book pub with “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson for company 💙📚 🩸📚

Tenderly, I am about to devour this raspberry lemon poppyseed donut 🍩 🩸📚 @lkclipstone.bsky.social

Me: #booksky

July was a month for the horrors. 🇵🇸 📚🩸 📚🪐 📚✒️ @mosababutoha.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @paperfury.bsky.social

“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️ @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙

Latest book haul is 🔥 🩸📚 | 💙📚 | 🪐📚 @sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @samjmiller.bsky.social @misterkristoff.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social

Is there really a better way to start the weekend than with coffee and a good book? 😍 @rebeccabrodkey.bsky.social

Here’s my recent #LOTR rebind feat. the One Ring, the two towers, the crown of Gondor, and a bookmark with the 9 rings for mortal men. Be warned: one does not simply transcribe into #Tengwar. Any guesses on what the back cover says? #bookbinding #booksky

This year, my friends get a custom hardcover #rebind of their favorite book for their bday. Up next: • A Death in Door County 🦕 Annelise Ryan (@anneliseryan.bsky.social) • The Ground Beneath Her Feet 🪉Salman Rushdie • Borne 🐻 Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social) #bookbinding #booksky

Website is in stealth mode, but exciting things are on the way! Current #editing projects: a high #fantasy novel, a #romantasy series, a collection of short #horror stories, an oracle deck guidebook, and a tarot deck guidebook (the latter two read more as dark poetry than traditional guidebooks.)

Book: What Hunger Author: Catherine Dang Rating: 3.75/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b248... A teen's well-deserved earlobe appetizer sparks her all-consuming hunger for revenge. #booksky #horror @simonandschuster.bsky.social

current reads are a mix of the weird and whimsical ✨: • What Hunger🩸Catherine Dang • A Peculiar Peril 🦫 Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social requesting approval for beaver/marmot substitute) • Darker Than the Starless Night 🦌 Rebecca Brodkey (@rebeccabrodkey.bsky.social) #booksky

Book: Immaculate Conception Author: Ling Ling Huang Rating: 4.5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b393... There's so much to lose when technology hamstrings the creative. #bookstory

A serious aside on the book hoarding threads of this afternoon: David Hartwell died of book hoarding. He lost his balance carrying a section of Globe Wernicke glass-doored barrister bookcase up a flight of stairs. The cumulative risk of carrying books & accessories around is large. /1

Book: Hazelthorn Author: C.G. Drews Rating: 4.5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b3484b9a-f600-4839-a3b5-fe90a89bf2bc Boys w/their games of blood and burials. A haunted horror mystery with a queer, botanical twist. I can feel the tendons stuck between my teeth 😩 @paperfury.bsky.social

Book: The Word for World is Forest Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1dd3... Like a beautiful slap in the face with the obvious just to make sure you're paying attention. @ursulakleguin.com

Book: Vampires of El Norte Author: Isabel Cañas Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7511... A romantic horror story not just about the monsters who drink blood but also those who spill it in the name of conquest. Thx for the 3-week book hangover @isabelcanas.bsky.social

Book: Fate of the Five - Veil of Vasara Author: Niamh Rose (@niamhrosewrites.bsky.social) Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f618... Niamh is GIVING in FOTF—magic, games and trials, political intrigue, plot twists and betrayals, and the most deliciously torturous slow burn.