There may be a winter storm warning outside, but I am currently on the couch with a good book and two of my absolute favorite doggos. ❄️🐕📖

My current read/ latest obsession: Becoming the Twin Cities : Swindled, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries by Drew M. Ross ( Minnesota Historical Society Press)

Today is a good day to make Mychal Threets proud of you. Read a book that brings you joy. Some people read by listening. Some people read by touch. Some people read with their eyeballs. All reading is reading. Remember your meds and have some water!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

"Every night when I lie down to sleep in the bed in the guest room it is the eighteenth of November and every morning, when I wake up, it is the eighteenth of November." - On The Calculation of Volume 1, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland. #currentlyreading #books

Just a reminder that we should be avoiding buying from giant corporations this holidays season. Alternatives/suggestions: -local small businesses -charities/food banks -creators at conventions, craft fairs, commissioning art etc -secondhand (thrift, vintage etc)

Started the year with a fantasy inspired & influenced by Slavic Folklore (Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova), so it only feels right to (almost) finish out the year with an urban fantasy inspired & influenced by Slavic Folklore (When Among Crows by Veronica Roth) #currentlyreading #recommendedreading

Missing my dad right now. Honoring his memory by enjoying the classic Halloween Candy Dad Tax: an Almond Joy. 😋

Not quite spooky, but definitely witchy! 🧙‍♀️💕 Currently reading Wooing the Witch Queen by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social for this month's romance book club.

No matter what your day has been like… Just remember. This tiny potato chip loves you.

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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

On a work trip during spooky season = the perfect time to read Spread Me by @sarahgailey.bsky.social ! #currentlyreading #books

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

It's Officially Spooky Season! 🏚️🕸️🌲💀 1st spooky read of the season: The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy (of the Wildwood Chronicles and the band, The Decemberists) Which book(s) are you reading this October? #currentlyreading

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

I may be going back to work tomorrow, but mentally, I am still here.

Here's some amazing news... READING RAINBOW is back and @mychal3ts.bsky.social is the new host! Congrats, Mychal! bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

We work every day to encourage more people to read, all while supporting their local, independent bookshop ❤️⁠

🔔💕✨We did it! ✨💕🔔

Why yes, I did schedule a book club meeting mere days before my wedding. 🤪 Good thing the book we will be discussing is the fun & extremely Minnesotan Rom-Com, Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer! 🥰 #currentlyreading #books

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Currently reading Strong Roots by @oliahercules.bsky.social, and this book is fascinating, heartbreaking, insightful, & poignant. As someone w/ Estonian heritage marrying someone w/ Ukrainian heritage, this book feels a bit like finally learning about our own family histories, and more. #books

Wholesome news: I grew potatoes! I successfully grew potatoes! In my own backyard! 🥰🥔

I am still very much in my tiny book era, but this book calls for an exception to be made. #Currentlyreading : Katabasis by R.F. Kuang.

If you need to be enabled for buying more books, treating yourself to that coffee, or anything in the self-care sphere, I'm here for you.

The Next Chapter by @kelloggcamille.bsky.social is absolutely delightful. I chose it for the upcoming @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social romance bookclub, because duh, & I think I did quite well with this choice, if I do say so myself. 😜 #currentlyreading #books

Be kind to yourself and take a few moments to enjoy something you love, whatever it is. ❤️

fairies are real. 🧚‍♂️🧚🧚‍♀️

I am really enjoying this Tiny Book Era that I seem to be in. (reading books with fewer than 250 pages) #currentlyreading : Say Say Say by Lila Savage

It's finally nice enough outside (the smoke/haze is starting to clear & it isn't a million degrees outside🥵); I can read my current book, Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch, under a nice & big tree.🌳 #currentlyreading #books

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Might fuck around and get into cardamom

Perks of being a bookseller: sales reps/publishers supplying you w/ amazing books in translation that'll probably destroy you emotionally, but you are 💯 here for it. #currentlyreading : The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from Estonian by Darcy Hurford. ( @worldedbooks.bsky.social )

Have you backed up your writing recently? If you have, you get this gold star: ⭐️ If you haven't, go back it up! Those words are important! You still get a gold star too, though: ⭐️

I came home to find a delightful treat from @elizabethdavis.bsky.social on my doorstep! Thank you - I am so excited to read and hype up this book! (Not pictured: my other doorstep gnome that has literally crumbled to bits.😂😭 R.I.P. O.G.Gnome.)

After sitting on my bookshelf for YEARS, I am finally reading The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. #currentlyreading #books #summerreading

50 seconds of mountain zen for you. Compliments of your Chugach National Forest in Alaska. I figure we don’t so much own it as we are responsible for it.

Started a new book this weekend: Move Like Water by Hannah Stowe 🌊🏞️ Absolutely in love with the prose - the book feels classic and timeless, even though it was only written/ published within the last few years. (by @tinhouse.bsky.social )

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

The upside of not sleeping well is getting to observe the stunning moon through my bedroom window. 🌕

This Prime Day (& every day): ➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference ➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms ➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy ➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases

'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Trying to enjoy the little things in life right now (in this world of chaos), such as a bee and its shadow on a sunflower. 🌻🐝

📖 Currently Reading : Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab 💞🧛‍♀️ #summerreading #books

our brains were not meant for what this timeline is doing to us 😭

📖 Currently Reading: The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler, translated by Katy Derbyshire ☕ (published by @europaeditions.bsky.social ) #summerreading #books

📖 Currently Reading: The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton. 🏳️‍🌈🌌

📖 Currently Reading: The Unwedding by Ally Condie