I loved the premise, but this book made me remember why I hate contemporary Japanese literature: the minimalism. There is so little detail/description and sooooooo much talking. Instead of world building we get sequences of events that lead up to various philosophical one-liners. ⭐️⭐️½. #booksky 📚💙

Stayed in tonight to play around with makeup and closet looks ❤️

Intended to be a palette cleanser, but it was neither cozy nor spicy…just kind of bland. At only 308 pages I didn’t mind it, though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️½. #booksky

2nd throwing session before the Austin Celtic Festival on November 8: movements are poetry decent, but I definitely have a lot of corrections to make. Only up from here? #highlandgames

This book is like 1000 pages and in 3 parts and part 2 is over 500 pages which was really frustrating because part 3 is chronologically right after part 1 so I was DYING of anticipation but it was all worth it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½. #booksky 📚💙

bartender: the usual? me: you know it bartender: [takes out a wrinkle in time and begins to read to me]

When Walton finally meets the creature who laments that all he has ever wanted was love and companionship, I was like “OMG SAME WITH WALTON—ARE THEY GOING TO KISS???” They did not kiss. 0/10. ⭐️⭐️½. #booksky 📚💙

Absolutely fantastic and lived up to the hype. I don’t usually read thriller or horror, but I’d recommend this to anyone. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¾. #booksky 📚💙

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Some stories were 4+ stars, many were around 3.5. This is my first exposure to Novik and I’m definitely hungry for more—I purchased Spinning Silver and have moved her books up in my TBR. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #booksky 📚💙

Overflowing with savage wit and dramatic silliness. I did notice some areas felt a little sloggy, but they were quite short. Looking forward to the final book! Also—and I say this as someone with a master’s in humanities—I had to look up a lot of words in the dictionary lol. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½. #booksky 📚💙

It finally happened: I bought a book I already own at Half Price Books 🤣 I could blame it on keeping everything in moving boxes except I log every book I own in StoryGraph 🤦‍♀️

A cringey beginning but this book checks so many of my catnip boxes I had no choice but to be entertained. Docking a quarter star due to lack of knots 🥺 ⭐️⭐️⭐️¾. #booksky 📚💙🌶️

A moving story about death, the afterlife, and the space between. The redemption arc results in magical wish fulfillment which I’m not a fan of. I understand this is a cozy book written while the author was processing the loss of his partner so I added a ¼ star to my review. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ¾. #booksky 📚💙

The premise is wild and enjoyable, but to be clear: this is very much smut, and the cringiest moments were every time a certain orifice was referred to as “pleated”/having “pleats”, and using the term “rut into” for coitus. Still got the job done, but I skipped the bonus chapter. ⭐️⭐️⭐️½. #booksky 🌶️📚💙

Arts and crafts night 🖤 it’s been years since I’ve tried to draw or paint anything, but I love the happy accidents of painting with #watercolors (and also #totoro).

Cute, cozy, warm, and whimsical. The perfect palette cleanse after How High We Go in the Dark 🙃. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #booksky 📚💙

I put my thong on backwards this morning and it took me 13 hours to realize that’s why it was riding up so funky.

PERSONAL TRAINER: Ok it's time for your resistance band workout ME: Cool, I love Rage Against The Machine. HIM: I'm out!

I finished this collection of connected stories about death, grief, our interconnection to each other and the universe (and also secret aliens), but at what cost to my psyche? I must now cleanse my brain. ⭐️⭐️⭐️¾. #booksky 🪐📚💙

I just finished the second “chapter” of How High We Go in the Dark, and (respectfully) FUCK Sequoia Nagamatsu. I don’t think I have cried this hard since Dancer in the Dark—and that was after an extra 90 minutes of story. #booksky

So if there is anyone out there needing some quirky, one of a kind art, grab one of my paintings at www.ko-fi.com/johnniejae/s... and help your friendly neighborhood Native keep doing those silly little Native things like being a painful boil on the butt of colonialism and white supremacy.

Baby’s first day of murder school! @abgushte.bsky.social did incredibly well, which I figured she would, but I am still so stoked about this 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Another book I discovered on #booksky that was 1000% worth the hype. A unique approach on a classic British legend that converges with modern legacies and truths in an authentic way. Wild plot twists that leave me hungry to dive into the next installment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Nando also gives it 5 stars. 🪐📚💙

At 46% both the conflict and stakes are ambiguous and boring. At this point I would expect to be sucked into the mystery of Lyra’s power, but she lacks the curiosity to pursue her truth. Even the romantic focal point is underdeveloped. DNF, and I decided to bail the book club, too 😅 #booksky 🌶️📚💙

Day time: brewery birthday party Night time: the BWAHL dahlings

Next time I decide to write a kids series set in the past somebody stop me! I am eyeballs deep in Roman York and losing my legionaries from my latrones right about now. Although finding out all their sewers and hygiene practices were nullified by using communal bum sponges, was a highlight.

I discovered this book on #booksky and it is well worth the hype. It’s outside my normal wheelhouse, but I was excited every time I picked it up. Immaculate and hearty storytelling that I’ll be chewing on for a while. Side note: this book made me very hungry. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¾. 📚💙

I remember when my grandfather died, this is how I processed that day and the funeral. #DeathoftheAuthor #booksky

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

The same comfy predictable corny tropiness that made the first 2 books so enjoyable…BUT 800+ PAGES THO???? Happy that the 4th book will be the end but at what page count. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¼. #booksky 📚💙

Honestly, regardless of how many times I watch this, it never fails to give me chills. Stellan Skarsgård's delivery is flawless, and Luthen's speech remains one of the best in all of Star Wars.

✨eepy reading time✨

What does it mean when you order books for pick up from Half Price Books and none of them have stickers on them? Is there a secret holding place for books not yet ready for the floor and that’s why I can never find some of the ones that say they’re in store??? 📚💙 #bookhaul #booksky #積ん読

I forgot to post my #bookhaul from this week (pls read the alt text). As my unpurchased TBR dwindles down to books I’m less excited about I’ve started browsing for my favorite authors or interesting covers instead of hunting down a specific predetermined list. I enjoy both approaches! #積ん読 #booksky

An unexpectedly warm and hopeful story of how an immortal demon loves a city and its people, haunts its ruins in grief, then opens her heart to remaking it anew. Also she somehow fucks a library (very relatable and I wish I could do that). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¼. #booksky 📚💙

It felt like a lot of surprises and upsets that kind of undermined the truths underlying the original trilogy. Many plot choices that didn’t really make sense. I was hoping this would be a one-off but it seems like the intent is to continue. Not sure if I will stick around. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #booksky 📚💙

This book has kinky power exchange, athletics, and a ND-coded FMC so of course it was like catnip and I had to finish it immediately. I’m glad that I brought an extra book to read (and also that I bought more books to read) for this vacation. #booksky 🌶️📚💙

Small island vacation Barnes and Noble haul (I will need to fit these in my carry-on). I repurchased Burn For Me because the other edition I bought must be older and TOTALLY doesn’t match books 2 and 3 and it’ll drive me NUTS looking at it on my shelf. 👀 #bookhaul #booksky #積読

A breathtakingly magical trilogy that mixes Russian history, culture, folklore, and politics, and culminates in a battle for the soul of Russia. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ perfection and will absolutely read again and recommend to all my friends forever. #booksky 📚💙

I was looking at my old ebook buying history and apparently back in 2018 I used to regularly forego sleep to read 300-400 pages A DAY ‼️ versus tonight where I read 30 pages and then took a 2 hour nap #booksky

Had a picnic with my love @abgushte.bsky.social and thought I was taking a picture. Happy Sunday y’all!

Breaking news: old white man feels mortally threatened by hot women. #gardensinchina #booksky 📚💙

A wonderful follow up to the first book—I can’t wait to dive into the final installment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #booksky 📚💙

I take comfort in knowing that Bill Withers is still out there somewhere holding that note for "day".

What did I do for my birthday? Why, visit 3 bookstores of course! The highlight was visiting Flutter Bookstore which is completely dedicated to romance books, and I couldn’t resist these stickers 📚💙 #bookhaul #booksky #積ん読

Me and @abgushte.bsky.social taking in a round rock express game

Early Chinese believed in mystical beings, the Immortals, who resided on 3 islands in the Eastern Sea. An emperor c. 200BCE-60CE built “replicas” of the 3 islands in a garden lake in hope of luring an Immortal to land there and divulge their secret. This is now a traditional garden feature. #booksky

I practice my Duolingo on the toilet Call that doodoolingo

Also in Chinese gardens it’s super dope if a famous scholar or poet names your garden scene/feature and then writes it in calligraphy so it can be inscribed permanently and bring all the social elites to the yard. A garden is also not considered complete until all the scenes and features are named!