Happy #TransDayofVisibility, Bluesky! We built a person-sized stack of recommended titles by trans and non-binary authors for your perusal ♥️🏳️‍⚧️

these are *my* hunger games. the exquisite pleasure of going to the library and discovering there was another book in the series, and then another. lounging in the back garden, reading them straight through. the best.

so, so happy i got to pass on frank's lovely gift to judith. CROW TWINS ♥️

we took some biscuits as we left the signing room and i brought up the uk's age-old debate on snacks and "judith butler confirms jaffa cakes are non-binary" is going to be my go-to anecdote for the rest of my life

i enjoy my job a lot but when i get to sit with judith butler for an hour as they sign books for the evening's event? i freakin' love my job. spectacular human ♥️

anyway i finally made it to the @deadinkbooks.bsky.social bookshop to meet Jeanne Thornton, author of one of my favourite books this year! Preorder, buy, devour A/S/L, I implore you.

my default social media has really become the bookshop social media because i find constantly switching accounts very.. tiring

sometimes he wants to warm my feet and sometimes he wants to be so close that his whiskers are in my mouth

lowkey having an anxiety attack at having people in my tiny home this morning. i was relatively fine on wednesday, i think when it's two against one (me) something instinctive in me starts to panic. is that stupid?

singing taylor swift songs to myself as i dashed around church, rounded the corner into a bunch of mums and grizzling babies here for the play group just as i was muttering ".. was a precocious child". nooooo.

i told the lady taking payment for my new kitchen units that my flat looked like chaos and she said "but are your jellycats protected?" 🥹

if you ever wonder whether first impressions are important, an old uni acquaintance reminded me that the first time we met i'd just won a box of sex toys

alan unimpressed with removal of oven

the upcoming mira grant novel is so much fun - plant-based alien invaders, one of which is the main character who has lived on earth for 30 years and put down roots (no pun intended), classic mira grant emotional punches.. loved it!!

we're never turning this electric blanket off

sometimes i look at the world and for a moment am completely convinced that other people are pretending not to be bothered by the things i am bothered by for the purpose of some sort of weird practical joke.

red hates snow: a retrospective

water but make it METAL

happy new year from this year's Most Relaxed Cat

not the worst advert for night nurse i've seen

just described welcome to the black parade to my boyfriend as "my generation's bohemian rhapsody" and am i wrong though?

my favourite books of the year! (well, most of them. argh! why is picking your favourites so difficult!)

Sky Daddy is brilliant. I'm not really a laugh-out-loud reader but I definitely did with this. Plus I managed to get through the weekend at my partner's house without having to explain the plot of the book to his mother 🙈

november reads! (and dragon age 4, which took up a lot of my mind this month!)

so you're telling me i can just *go* to a laura jane grace gig? and try not to cry when she plays my favourite songs? and meet her afterwards? 🥹♥️

read this in one go; the raw urgency of the writing, the tiny moments of heartbreak, the unforgiving grind of minimum wage jobs. so, so good!

i tried to get some of my thoughts down on how i feel about #DragonAge The Veilguard: whatredwrote.blogspot.com/2024/11/im-n...

the most important book you'll read next year.

"the afflicted don't need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had" omar el akkad. am two chapters in. the importance of this book cannot be overstated. out in feb '25 from @canongate.co.uk and in an ideal world taught in every school across the western world.

the irony of reading a book called Blob and not getting out of bed until 4pm has been duly noted. difficult to put this down though! #booksky

i finished Negative Space on the tram yesterday evening. NOT the place to read such a complete mindfuck of a novel: i felt disconnected from reality for quite a while afterwards. disaffected teens caught up in sex, drugs and dark magic - absolutely brilliant.

i've always been a social media person. i nearly dropped out of sixth form because i was bullied hard for having an online journal. twitter has been an absolute lifeline for me over the last 15 years. but is anyone else EXHAUSTED at the thought of rebuilding a platform?

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