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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/09/2026

”Unhinged” by Vera Valentine for this weekend’s Book Club After Dark. I was going to say “that…sure was a book that I read!“ but at like 60 pages I’m not sure it even totally qualifies as that. Give me the good Dr. Tingle any day over this.

Book cover: a white door with the address number 69 on it. Get it?? It’s the sex number you guys!’

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/09/2026

“Whalefall” by Daniel Kraus. My nominee for book club, wildly fun to read and made for a lively discussion (where I enjoyed having some zoological expertise)

Book cover: a scuba diver surrounded by spooky pale green light is about to get eaten by a sperm whale whose jaw is agape as it rises toward him

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/09/2026

“Zee Nu” by Eva Meijer. Picked this up at the library after hearing the recommendation on @mealofthorns.bsky.social - it’s the first novel I’ve successfully finished in Dutch (that wasn’t abridged into easier language) and I’m so glad I did

Book cover: dark blue with the imprints of pale sea plants

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/09/2026

“The Talosite”, by Rebecca Campbell. An exquisitely upsetting WWI novella. Fungal construct monstrosities that would make Victor Frankenstein lose his lunch.

Book cover: a sepia toned drawing of a human construct whose interior is filled with machinery

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 22/09/2026

I can only think of this if I see the word “Gronk”:

Book cover of football romance “A Gronking to Remember”, about Rob Gronkowski and presumably without his permission

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 16/09/2026

Persistent little fuckers! I may be in my forties but this is one source of fiber I do NOT need.

A fourth email from “Kendra” at “Fibre book club” spamming about the potential for curating my book, probably out of the goodness of Kendra’s burnt out computer chip of a heart and not for any illicit scammmy financial gain on their part

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 14/09/2026

will Butt Music Guy still appear in this version and if so what tune is he toting?

It’s the butt music guy from Jeroen Bosch’s “Garden of earthly delights”. He has music on his butt!

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 11/09/2026

time to get back on the vitamin D supplements lads

Gray cloudy skies over a lake. The sun is behind there somewhere doing its best but its best is simply not good enough.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/09/2026

"The Safekeep" by Yael van der Wouden. I don't know what I was expecting but this was exactly what I wanted. Writing like a razor blade.

Book cover: two realistic green pears, one with a drop of water or dew dripping down the side, on a white tablecloth. The pears and probably the dew are a metaphor for sex.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/09/2026

"The Adventure Zone: Story and Song", by Griffin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch. LUP my beloved my precious!!

Book cover: four cartoony/comics-y figures, at top left Lucretia, a Black woman with white hair; at bottom left Merle, a medium-skinned fantasy dwarf with white bun and beard, center is Magnus, a white human man with red hair and beard, and center left is Taako, a blue-skinned elf with long blonde hair. Lucretia looks distressed, while the other three have "bring it on" grins.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/09/2026

"A Trade of Blood", by Robert Jackson Bennett

Book cover: mostly maroon red/purple background with white patterned edges, at each corner stands a silhouetted figure: top right a woman in a dress, top left a man in a wide hat, bottom left a drover with a long stick, bottom right a woman in a wheelchair. In the middle of the cover is a white line drawing of a human head with mushrooms growing from the bottom, and yellow-brown fungal filaments also appear to be growing over the sides of the book.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/09/2026

"A Guardian and a Thief", by Megha Majumdar. Liked the moral ambiguity and the grim reality that climate change is coming for us all eventually regardless of relative privilege; but often felt like I was reading the book equivalent of second-screen viewing.

Book cover: a sprig of leaves with a few white flowers and flower buds; superimposed over the sprig is an orange circle through which a frowning human eye is seen

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 28/08/2026

🎶 what a plant knows what a plant needs whatever fixes N₂ might be beans 🎶

Book cover of “What a Plant Wants” by Daniel Chamovitz, featuring five little sprouts rising up from the bottom

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 25/08/2026

This book charmed my socks off from start to finish. LOOK AT THEIR LIL FACES.

A short plump green haired lady with grown out brown roots embracing a taller thinner white lady from behind

An olive skinned guy with a lantern jaw pulling a big pouty face

Three characters in various stages of Scream reacting to a big splash

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 25/08/2026

“Daggerbound” by T. Kingfisher. Can’t remember the last time I read a whole novel on release day but this was a perfect treat to sneak in around the edges of my fractured, four-bike-trip 1st day of kids’ new schools. Cute, fun, and look at how far Edmund has come. (also Large Francis I love youuu)

Book cover: a mirrored image, its got two crossed daggers with a bird flying behind each hilt, leaves and red flowers, and a tower with lots of windows. Cover copy says “Love is a dagger to the heart.”

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/08/2026

No one knows how to relax quite like Tilly (because anyone else’s neck would break if they tried this position)

A medium sized orange and white dog lying across a pile of pillows and sort of sprawled up against the arm of the couch. If she didn’t look so cozy you could be forgiven for thinking her neck was broken based on the angle she’s snoozing at

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/08/2026

"Creation Lake", by Rachel Kushner. An intriguingly "unlikeable" narrator, well-written, I liked the contrasts between the unseen eco-philosopher's treatises and the narrator's inner life, but the dénouement came off SO silly to me that it spoiled some of my enjoyment here, alas.

Book cover: a photograph of a woman's eye in dichromatic turquoise and pink, over which is superimposed a cave painting of a person holding what look like two spears. "Two-time National Book Award Finalist" below the author's name.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 24/08/2026

"Sublimation", by Isabel J. Kim. Really enjoyed this one, the dynamics of the two (four?) leads and also the pauses to hang out with thoughts on in-universe versions of myth/history.

Book cover: two identical black-and-white women, the exact reflection of each other, walk away from each other to each side of a black-to-red-to-orange rainbow. From each of them, more identical copies fade into the black stripe at the center. A blurb from John Scalzi says "One of the best debuts of the year."

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 21/08/2026

Reposting to avoid an ankle kick (I'm delicate):

A quote post screencap. Original post by psudonym.bsky.social says, "If you HAVE to make a cozy vibes story, you're obligated to sucker punch your audience with the concept of loss at least once Totoro or Bluey style". The quote by me says "STARSTRUCK by Aimee Ogden"

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 21/08/2026

I would argue that writing is fun AND hard (fun *because* it's hard, maybe?) Editing, on the other hand, is tedious and hard.

Four quadrant chart mapping fun vs. tedious and easy vs. hard. Fun and easy: eating cheese, napping. Fun and hard: writing, weightlifting, crosswords. Tedious and easy: flossing, doing dishes, treadmill. Tedious and hard: yard work, editing.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 19/08/2026

"Worst Man", by Ted Brandt and Ro Stein. Took, appropriately, about the same time to read as a '90s rom-com takes to watch (but much more fun than most of the ones I remember watching with my sister) - playful, funny without being cruel, big emotions, a little horny, a lot of fun.

Book cover: a cute skinny redheaded white guy sprawled in the lap of a cute and Very Lorge brown-skinned guy. They are wearing suits and sitting in the ruins of a tiered wedding cake. Also each guy's eye color matches the other guy's tie, which I cannot fail to be charmed by.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 19/08/2026

"Strangers", by Belle Burden. Book club book; I think it would've been a lot easier to read if the focus had been on the genuinely upsetting emotional fallout of this divorce and its leadup, and not what seems like, from everything I've looked up about the situation, fabricated financial precarity.

Book cover: Two stylized bird outlines, one blue and one black, slightly overlapping as they flight past each other in opposite directions.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 19/08/2026

"The Feywild Job", by C.L. Polk, a fun buddy read with my almost-13-yo romance fiend.

Book cover: two trees reaching across a gap with a single intertwined branch, upon which a half-elf person and a human man sit. The human man is playing the fiddle with his back turned to the half-elf, who is looking back over their shoulder at him.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 19/08/2026

"The Road", by Cormac McCarthy.

Book cover: Just a plain black cover with the author's name in gray letters at top left, and the title in red letters at bottom right

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 19/08/2026

"The Dead Withheld" by L.D. Lewis, a bite-sized delight with a kick.

Book cover: one Black woman stands in front of a cris-crossing string conspiracy board, looking back over her shoulder with a forbidding expression. Smaller figures of two more Black women in front of her: one a grinning succubus babe in a red dress, the other in an elegant off-shoulder satin gown. There's also a skeleton in sunglasses giving skeletal finger-guns and three creepy small wooden homunculi in glass domes.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 18/08/2026

Brought home “Worst Man” by @brandtandstein.com and the twins immediately started to squabble about which of THEM got to read it first. Sorry, kiddos, but I already claimed the first dance.

Book cover: a cute skinny redheaded guy sprawled in the lap of a cute and Very Lorge guy. They are wearing suits and sitting in the ruins of a tiered wedding cake.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 12/08/2026

Sir, this is a Wendy’s* *my bathroom where I am trying to pee

A small adorable toad on my bathroom floor

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 12/08/2026

eclipse!! We lucked into a spare pair of eclipse glasses too, but you can see the pattern of coverage in the lens flare here too

Several people silhouetted against the reflection of the sun on a small lake and the actual sun in the sky as well

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 11/08/2026

“The Wolf and His King”, by Finn Longman. Very much not my cup of tea, unfortunately (and I’d like to have a word with the marketing genius who described it as “for fans of Madeline Miller”)

Book cover: a medieval-looking sky with stylized sun and stars above a crown lying slightly askew in red grass; emerging from the spikes of the crown is a metallic wolf of the same color metal

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"Wolf Hall", by Hilary Mantel (favorite read of the year so far? could be!! despite taking me several pages to get a grip on the usage of "he")

Book cover: drawn to look like painted wooden boards, mostly a pale brown background with the upper half of a Tudor red-and-white rose at the bottom

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale", by C.M. Waggoner

Book cover: a forest-green background with simple little colorful artwork of flowers, a red witch's hat, a cauldron, a little cottage, a stork, shears, mice perched on mushrooms, an owl, and frogs

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"The Ministry of Time", by Kaliane Bradley

Book cover: a black background with white/gray stars and the title in doubled-up three dimensional letters in multiple colors

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"The Wax Child", by Olga Ravn (Danish historical fiction lesbian witches told from the POV of an unspeaking, unmoving witchcraft wax doll? extremely yes thankyouuuu)

Book cover: A solid black background with a simply made wooden cradle, from which a cloud of smoke billows up

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age", by Annalee Newitz

book cover: four colored stripes showing artists' renderings of the four cities of the book in monochrome colors: blue, orange, green, pink, with white stripes in between for the book's subtitle and author name

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"If Beale Street Could Talk", by James Baldwin

book cover: the author's name/title occupy a black stripe running diagonally at about the bottom 1/3 of the book, below that is a blue cloudy sky and above it is a black and white photograph of a child jumping off a large wooden block in front of a run-down looking two-story brick apartment building.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

"A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks", by David Gibbins

book cover: A scuba diver shining a light and descending toward a shipwrecked boat whose prow is just visible at the bottom

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 10/08/2026

christ, where did I leave off? "The Poet Empress", by Shen Tao

Book cover: the tiny figure of a woman in green stands on a ribbon of calligraphied paper swirling back and forth across the top of the page, framed by large red flowers to either side. A palace occupies the bottom half and is engulfed in flames at the bottom.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 30/07/2026

what’s in the apothecary’s Female Pills #1? wrong answers only

A glass apothecary jar filled with round white pellets, labeled Female Pills

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 26/07/2026

Met an amazing hug-shaped friend yesterday. He was like if a barrel had legs and a nervous affect.

I’m sitting next to a large fluffy Aussie shepherd with nervous energy

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 22/07/2026

One of my book club friends just finished reading it this week and I think she has encapsulated the vibe I was going for pretty completely:

Two WhatsApp messages: the first says “How did you decide on a radish for a character?” With a laughing emoji. Immediately afterward: “My little heart broke” next to the sobbing emoji.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 17/07/2026

Also had lunch in the fortress town of Hellevoetsluis with a lovely view across the water (all this was yesterday but I was preserving precious phone battery)

Looking from the east quay of the city over the harbor inlet toward the west quay, there is an old wooden boat and an old windmill on the far side

A view out over the Haringvliet, inlet from the North Sea, with the point of the west quay sticking out into the water from the right and four posts of an old dock or something sticking out of the water. You can just barely see the trees and modern windmills on the shore on the far side of the Haringvliet.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 17/07/2026

I have no kids for a week and that means I get to take LONG solo public transport trips to go see A Big Boat. (I know it’s a ship don’t @ me)

Aimee in the foreground of a selfie with a red ship with a large light tower amidships, the Noord Hinder/Lightship 12

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 15/07/2026

you reading over my shoulder? 🤔

Screencap of text: All of which now led the French students to press Goodsir with their morbid fascination. They riddled him with inquiries about the circumstances of his survival: did he feel the hand of Providence in the accident that had spared him his Arctic service? What role, if any, did he suppose the expedition’s deficit of a single assistant surgeon might have played in its failure? Though he understood spoken French tolerably well, his speaking skills lagged, and he spoke with the kind of accent one developed when learning a language entirely from books. His terse, noncommittal responses did not dampen the students’ enthusiasm, and one young man burst forth: “Do you think it can be true what the esquimaux say, monsieur? That they were eating one another at the end?”

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 12/07/2026

tfw when you brought a sword to a gunfight (and also the sword is broken)

Bronze sculpture of two knights on horseback. One guy with a broken hilt in one hand is falling backward off his mount because the other guy has both a functional sword and a fucking pistol.

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