Reading Check-In: September 6, 2025 Well, summer vacation is over and schools have started again. This means that the libraries' busy season is over, too. I'll be working on catching up on my reading from now through the end of the year. As for other things happening in my life, let's just say…

Reading Check-In: August 2, 2025 First, I'm going to start off by saying that recently I had to say a final goodbye to a couple of individuals I knew. Second, yes, the heat wave reached my region; and no, the air conditioning was NOT working at my job! Granted, I grew up and continue to live…

This week's blog post is My Midpoint of 2025! Checkout some of what I've read in 2025 so far, and my Reading Check-In for July! #books #bookblogger #blogpost #booksky mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/07/05/t...

The Midpoint of 2025: Favorite Speculative Fiction Books So Far & Other Reads It's a miracle that we made it halfway through 2025! For now, that's all I'm going to say! Books I've Finished Reading in 2025 (Released in 2025) Books I've Managed to Finish Reading (from Recent Years) I'm Currently…

This week’s blog post is my latest “Library Reads.” Are you a member of any Book Club? If so, then what are you reading? #bookthreads #library mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/06/21/l...

Library Reads #8 Here is an update on the Book Club Discussions I've been leading during the first half of 2025 for my job as a librarian. YA Book Club So, during the first half of 2025, my department has noticed a shift in interest for the YA Book Club. Few teens have the time to participate in…

Reading Check-In: June 7, 2025 This month is off to a GREAT start (*sarcasm*). This month started off with a failed upgrade on my home's Internet and Cable. My family were without the Internet for a week! As a librarian, I had access to the Internet, but it was a minor convenience while at home.…

This week's blog post is my Reading Check-In for May 2025! What have you been reading recently? #books #bookblogger #booksky mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/05/03/r...

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A thousand congratulations to Sourcebooks’ THREE Edgar Award Winners 🎉🎉🎉

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.

@torbooks.bsky.social just informed me The First Binding is part of a special editorial's best books sale they're doing where it's 2.99 on sale on all ebook retailers. Can I get some reshares/signal boosts? bookshop.org/p/books/the-... books2read.com/links/ubl/e/... Bookshop dot org--

Worst editorial note I've ever received: "Don't use words I don't know." I kid you not.

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This week's blog post is about the upcoming trilogy conclusions by @misterkristoff.bsky.social and @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social! #booksky #books #bookblogger #fantasybooks mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/04/19/t...

The Year of Two Authors with Two Endings of their Respective Trilogies, Again Didn't we do this already in 2024 with two other similar fantasy trilogy conclusions (that I still need to finish reading)?! It's always an experience to wait for a highly anticipated medium to be released. The last…

Trump's executive orders targeting law firms are unconstitutional and threaten judicial independence. Firms should sue to stop them, Adam Unikowsky argues.

if these Democrats represent you please light up their phones. this is absolutely unacceptable.

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ADVOCATE, Book 3 of THE WARDEN is out in 2 weeks! Preorders are love. bookshop.org/p/books/advo...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

Today is #RighToReadDay which makes it a great day to start supporting libraries and defend the right to access books. How You might ask? @uabookbans.bsky.social has a whole bunch of actions available uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

THIS IS GOING TO BE EPIC!!! #murderbot

Let's GO @marthawells.com world domination!

I know it's late, but here's my blog post for the week, my Reading Check-In for April 2025.

I know it's late, but here's my latest blog post. My Reading Check-In for April 2025! #bookblogger #blogpost #ReadingCheckIn #books mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/04/05/r...

Reading Check-In: April 5, 2025 It seems that I won't be getting past a month in 2025 without something happening to me. Not that I want to be sick, but...it was more straightforward than dealing with what I'm dealing with right now. Let's just say that I wasn't ready for this expense, but I was…

The big ten try bravery. The Ivy League cowers over its big pile of cash… Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

Censorship and kowtowing to power, an administration that calls journalists “the enemy” is a funny way of “honoring the work of the association’s” journalists.

It’s Election Day in Louisiana: Voters are deciding a measure that would allow lawmakers to move more children into the adult criminal system. A GOP lawmaker who supports the measure said, “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” boltsmag.org/louisia...

@sgj.bsky.social This being the 2nd novel of yours I've read, I went blindly (so glad I did). This novel was so impactful it made me weep for a nation I never knew and one I wish to know. A tepid understanding of history is now real to me. Thank you for this beautiful experience #buffalohunterhunter

In a victory for the freedom to read, Federal Judge has once again temporarily blocked enforcement of Iowa's statewide book banning bill. bookriot.com/iowas-book-b...

Boston-area folks: there have been a ton of raids lately, largely due to the whole "being hell to Boston" threat and Michelle Wu defending our city. Take 5 min today to print 5 copies of these flyers and post in your area. All of us, including citizens, need to know our rights. 👇

SLEEP LIKE DEATH is up for Best YA Novel in this year’s LOCUS Awards! The best thing about the Locus Awards is that they are voted on by readers! Yes, you can vote! Just go to the link and follow the steps to cast your vote! ☺️☺️☺️ Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

#libraries need your help!!!

I get people can't read everything but I wish they would read more widely before they claim that Sanderson is "taking up a standard that has lain mostly unwielded on the landscape of the genre for some time" (writing invented/real religion/s as a crucial part of worldbuilding in sff worlds).

Library Reads #7 It's been some time since my last post about the Book Club Discussions I've been leading at work. YA Book Club For October, I continued my tradition of selecting spooky/horror stories. Last year, I chose Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers, an American Indigenous author, which…

I really enjoyed reading Sargassa by Sophie Burnham. Its a unique twist on the "Rome never falls" timelines...but I am struggling right now on how to talk about the underlying alternate history. The story at its heart is a mystery, but that mystery ties directly in the "true" point of divergence. 1/

NEW BOOK DEAL! My debut novella barely released at @tonyanuci.bsky.social that we're already announcing the next one 😄 SNOW WHITE meets BLUEBEARD in this horror fantasy retelling about found family, sorority, and how a reserved but curious young woman overcomes adversity.

Art is a powerful truth-teller. #NoOtherLand lays bare the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.

I'm entering this competition and you can too! wn.nr/SmnfJX3

Enter a giveaway for an advance review copy of THE BEWITCHING, out this July 2025. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved. Open worldwide. ⁠ gleam.io/Dk4kA/the-be...

Briena Staunton Visiting Writer Fellowship, University of Cambridge for a writer of international standing with an exceptional publication record to take up a one month-long residency resident at Pembroke College. £10K stipend. Details in link. Please share :) www.nawe.co.uk/DB/jobs-and-...

I know it's a day late, but here's my Reading Check-In for March 1, 2025. I managed to get out of my reading slump thanks to a few amazing books! #bookblogger #romantasy #books2025 #sffbooks #sffbooks #blogpost mistyaquavenatus.com/2025/03/02/r...