To introduce myself here: I'm a fiction writer specializing in literary fantasy. I published my first novel, Sasha the Witch, this year. It's about friendship, loneliness, drinking, control, and fraught familial relationships. I also love cats, crafting, flowers, style, television and movies.
That’s how I read! Keeps a nice bit of chaos in my life. 😂
So I am two chapters into Assistant to the Villain, and it’s whimsical. But I don’t think I need to spend time reading it right now.
Not yet. I really should.
I think it’s a time to be kind to ourselves and to pay attention when something inside says no.
Maybe not too heavy right now, right? So not The Reformatory (but wow, it’s good). Have you read God of the Woods or All the Colors of the Dark?
I just couldn’t read anything but a Maisie Dobbs audio last week. And now I’m faced with hard Libby choices. Have you read Artificial Wisdom, and do you recommend focusing on it in the next few days—as we are inaugurating an orange man and LA has been burning? Or moving towoard whimsy? #BookSky #💙📚
What are your genres?
It’s baaaaaaaack. 🧟 And I know you’ll be right.
share this post with your friends who want to join the #booksky community! 💙📚
@mcribisback.io you totally need to see @britandherbooks.bsky.social original post on BookTok. I mean, I screen recorded it for personal joy in bleak times, but it’s not mine to share here. When Cheeto Puff restores BookTok, you MUST go see that video.
Time to open a book!
Here was mine—a German warning Americans about the rise of fascism. See 1933 below the TT splash.
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I need to do more on RedBook before it gets banned.
Oh, I followed several libraries giving book recs. I loved that. I’m hoping BookTok increased the number of folks using their libraries. I tried to post a lot about how I rely on my library for 95% of my reading.
Also, I do NOT eat McRibs or any part of a dinosaur. 🩻🦖
If you’re coming from TikTok, I created a Black BookTok starter pack. I created it awhile ago and needs to be updated but it’s still thorough
go.bsky.app/A6micpn
Looking for queer, BIPOC and/or disabled BookTok? 👇
Let me know if you want to be added!
#booksky #booktok #bipocbooksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky #disabledbooksky
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Thank you! I was looking for this. Trung signed a copy for me. They’re so nice. (Egads—the autocorrect was awful. I corrected it by deleting and replying again)
We sold some books there a few years back. What a place!
Cover for The Magic Fish written and drawn by Trung Le Nguyen
Choose 20 graphic novels/comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic or graphic novel per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20/20
#Comics
#GraphicNovels
#ComicsSky
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#BookChallenge
Extroverts aren’t happy with just each other. They need to find introverts to suck energy out of.
Sorry—should have before. It’s a location-based SM app where users post anonymously. It was popular in the mid 2010s, which is probably why I know about it and you might not. I had a high school kid then. Schools hated this app—for good reason. It brought out the worst in users.
Managed to create a new account on desktop. I am unable to get logged off on the phone app or uninstall and reinstall. It's throwing up errors. US based accounts are still visible to those with accounts outside of the US.
This is one of the most restrictive bans I've ever seen on social media.
The practical implementation of this ban by tiktok is completely over the top. It's overcompliance to an extreme degree while praising Trump. It's clear that this is political at this point. This isn't simply an IP ban, it's an account level ban tied to accounts with registered US phone numbers.
I never read the captions on TikTok posts (and I’m an elder Xer). This is like coming home to Twitter, which I forsook when it got musky. But I joined Twitter in 2008–so pretty early adapter—but couldn’t adapt to IG, it’s captions, or it’s emphasis on pretty.
Oh, this frontline GenXer knows what YikYak is.
It should have been like survivor. We should have been able to vote an app off the island instead of it just being TikTok.