My 2025 reading wrap up according to StoryGraph I read a total of 158 books. I re-read a few from my past. Most re-reads were for a book club. But I did revisit a half-remembered book from my teen years. #BookSky #AmReading

My final reads for 2025 #BookSky #AmReading Standout reads: Katabasis Annie Bot Murderland Deviant vol 1&2

November Books - Top Reads: Scream w/ Me by Eleanor Johnson Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction & the Alt-Right by Jordan S Carroll I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (I do feel like I missed something reading this in translation) #BookSky

September Books I read some awesome books this month. All the nonfiction I picked up was outstanding For fiction the standout books were: Old Soul by Susan Baker The Haunting of Room 905 by Erika T Wurth The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica #BookSky #AmReading

A friend invited me to speak at a horror event at her library. I wasn't expecting so many people (I must have had 50 people - standing room only!!) I had a blast talking about monsters with an audience who loves them as much as I do. 1/3 🧵

Yarbro has long been one of my favorites. The depth of her historical research was astounding. I don't know how could balance her research and writing time (and her St. Germain books are massive). She created some of my favorite vampires. locusmag.com/2025/09/chel...

August Reads #AmReading #BookSky This month was a mix of books I'm trying to clear from my hold list at the library & others are for book clubs. Standouts: *Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa *Never Whistle at Night *The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo *Grommets (entirely for the nostalgia)

July's books (top reads) Stephen Graham Jones delivered (as usual)! Katee Robert always a delight. Stray Dogs (book club) was unexpectedly charming The White Guy Dies First: great collection The Girl Who Electrified Tesla was another fun installment in the collection #BookSky #AmReading

I read a mix of things in June, most of them for bookclubs. I've gotten off track for my goals: read what I own (which doesn't include buying new books, finishing series, & 1 nonfiction a month) standout reads: Interior Chinatown Hangsaman Berlin #AmReading #BookSky

May books Hammajang Luck and Bury Your Gays: delightfully fun. Don't Sleep with the Dead was as beautiful as I expected. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 1 was visually fantastic. And the story is great. The Order of the Solar Temple is a fascinating essays on a cult #BookSky #AmReading

Saw "Sinners" tonight with one of my favorite people. The movie was even more than I'd hoped for. Plus we got to dissect the movie afterwards.

My partner is out, so it's horror movie night 🔪🩸. I opted for The Invitation (the vampire one). I have thoughts... They aren't positive 🤣 🦇

April Reads #BookSky #amreading #amwriting

I had a dream about Merlin last night. I'm certain it was partly from learning about the new manuscript that was discovered, and partly my anxiety brain acting up. Regardless, I've been thinking about it all day

March Reads Butch Hijab Blues is amazing Flapper Queens is a bit of comic and women's history I didn't know enough about. Creation Lake... I'm still thinking about it, so I think I liked it The Villa had so much going for it, but it missed it's mark & the ending didn't land for me. #BookSky

What I read in February #BookSky Some hits, some were ok... And yikes Son of Rosemary was bad.

Just got lost in literary rabbit hole that won't end up in my class, did very little to help me prep the class (that starts in a week), but damn did it bring me joy.

James Baldwin. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth youtu.be/qluqpvjqsiI?...

Zora Neale Hurston, like Hopkins, became a forgotten writer until she was rediscovered. Plus she was an early anthropologist. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.zoranealehurston.com

While Pauline Hopkins is better known for her romances, her novel "Of One Blood" is a glorious early science fiction adventure novel, full of mesmerism and spiritualism (sciences of the times) #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors www.paulinehopkinssociety.org/biography/

Continuing Black History month. The poet and activist Audre Lorde. When I first read her in college both her sexuality and politics were removed from her bio and her poems her currated to avoid both. It was only by reading her on my own that learned who she was youtu.be/-CPAlSVaiL8?...

Still doing Black History. Butler's work is having a mainstream moment now, but she was a major voice in SF long before. "All that you Change Changes you The only lasting truth is Change God is Change” — Octavia E. Butler #blackhistory www.octaviabutler.com

Good morning Ppl! Happy start to #BlackHistoryMonth ! Here’s a fun article to get it started for all us science nerds out there. www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/black-h...

My January Reading. (List in comments) #BooksofBlueSky #amreading

Horrifying. The straight up bigotry and threat to trans and gender nonconforming kids (and let's be honest faculty and staff). Plus our continued failure as a nation to teach history or critical thinking. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Queequag and Ishmael are my favorite ship in Moby Dick "Plus, with that mopey twink of his as a spousal hire, he’s kind of a two-fer"

Spouse asked me if we needed a small espresso machine. I said no, but if you want it, get it. As I am now enjoying my decaf pistachio milk cappuccino, I'm not too proud to admit, I was 100% wrong. We do need an espresso machine so he can continue to make me delightful coffees.

Currently reading: "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley 🎧 "After the Ball" by Leira Ah (poetry) "Of One Blood" Pauline Hopkins 📖

Seeing @yourewrongabout.bsky.social with @ifihadwings.bsky.social

The spouse is out and my cheap Shudder subscription ends soon, so I'm watching Les Chambres Rouges (red rooms). Any minute one of the cats will do something in the other room to make me jump 🤣

Today I finished reading "An Assassin in Utopia" by Susan Wels. I can't help but think of my late friend Howard (who 1st told me about the Oneida Community). He'd have wanted more political history, while I wanted more Oneida in the book. But we'd still have talked about it for hours. I miss him.

It’s very interesting watching people try to explain how bad it is for the Chinese government to have your information without referencing other places that have your information and the bad things those places are doing without being stopped or even gently chided.

I'm quitting my other social media. This is soon to be the only place to find me.