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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The scenery is gorgeous, the relationships are a disaster, and everyone could probably use a long nap and a TED Talk on boundaries. Welcome to The Plunge by Lila Raicek! 📚💙🔥 Read the full #bookreview at: ashbydodd.com/the-plunge-b...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

⭐⭐⭐ Joyce Carol Oates has a talent for finding the exact moment an ordinary day starts to go very, very wrong. The Frenzy: Stories is dark, unsettling, and full of people making the kinds of choices you desperately wish you could stop... 📚💙🔥 Read my full #bookreview: ashbydodd.com/the-frenzy-s...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

⭐⭐⭐ Three sisters, one beloved beach house, and enough emotional baggage to sink the family boat. Down With the Shipmans has all the ingredients for juicy summer drama, but I kept waiting for the story to make bigger waves... 📚💙🔥 Read the full #bookreview at ashbydodd.com

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Housewife by Natalie Barelli: A perfect Beverly Hills marriage, a dead first wife, and one very suspicious housewife. I thought I knew where The Housewife was going, but this twisty domestic thriller had other plans 📚💙🔥 Read my full #bookreview: ashbydodd.com/the-housewif...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

⭐⭐⭐ A luxury influencer yacht, a billionaire boss, and a hurricane trapping everyone at sea? The Last Time We Drowned turns curated paradise into a claustrophobic nightmare with better lighting. 📚💙🔥 Read my #bookreview: ashbydodd.com/the-last-tim...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐ An orc, a coffee shop, and a second chance at peace. Legends & Lattes: The Graphic Novel is cozy fantasy at its sweetest 📚💙🔥 🗓 Available October 6th! Read my full #bookreview: ashbydodd.com/legends-latt...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Competitive chess has never felt this scandalous. Checkmate from Ben Mezrich turns ambition, ego, and one explosive cheating accusation into a nonfiction thriller that’s nearly impossible to put down.📚💙🔥 Read my full #bookreview: ashbydodd.com/checkmate-by...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto delivers a sweeping, emotionally heavy love story about identity, sacrifice, and the secrets families carry across generations. Find out why I gave the book 3.75/5 stars 📚💙🔥 Read more: ashbydodd.com/next-time-wi...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Eleanor Dash really needs to stop going on vacation, because this time her relaxing Bahamas weekend starts with a body in her hotel room. Catherine Mack’s latest is witty, chaotic, and very meta 📚💙🔥 Read my review of This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone: ashbydodd.com/this-weekend...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A husband disappears into a beam of light in the desert. Sounds like a setup for sci-fi or an unhinged Dateline ep. But it's Steven Rowley, so Take Me With You is less about aliens and more about being left after 30 years of loving someone 📚💙🔥 Read my full review: ashbydodd.com/take-me-with...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Favorites in May 2026: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Anniversary by Alex Finlay ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vagabond by Tim Curry ⭐⭐⭐ Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister ⭐⭐⭐ Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

One night in 1992. A decade of wreckage. Read my review of The Anniversary by Alex Finlay and find out why I gave the book 4.25/5 stars... ashbydodd.com/the-annivers...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm not really into physical violence, but damn, I just want to punch this dude in the face! Like, over and over again... halfway through Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell 📚💙🔥 #BookSky #BookClub #AmReading #NowReading

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Aftertaste by @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social is about a ghost kitchen - not the kind on DoorDash, but a kitchen for ghosts... or a restaurant, actually. This book is a total surprise - unique premise, unpredictable storyline -🤞hoping it sticks the landing! #BookSky #NowReading #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Took a much-needed break from reading & socials for most of August. It was time to reset, refresh, and get excited about my reading list again! ⭐Standouts: 📚 Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson 📚 An Oral History of Atlantis - Ed Park #BookSky #ReadingList #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Favorite books from July include: ⭐ The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates ⭐ A Thousand Natural Shocks - @omarhussain10.bsky.social ⭐ Babel - R.F. Kuang ⭐ Agents of Change - @christinahillsberg.bsky.social ⭐ John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community - Raymond Arsenault 💙📚🔥 #BookSky #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

⭐️ 3.25/5 - The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline: murder, mystery, a hint of the paranormal, and a Tuscan villa full of secrets. A bit overstuffed at times, but never dull! 📚💙🎧 #BookSky #BookClub #Audiobook #JustFinished

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It's all about timing. I'd enjoy the book Charlottesville by Deborah Baker more if it were 2024. It's well written and interesting, but so far, for me, it just feels depressing in the current political and social climate 📚💙 #booksky #charlottesville #nowreading #bookclub #nonfiction #imho

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Currently reading My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, translated by Frances Riddle 📚💙🔥 #BookSky #NowReading #AIArt

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Would you live in a mall? It was my childhood dream… but now that it's actually a real possibility, I'm not so sure 🛍️🤔 #dreamhome #childhooddream #mallrats #homesweethome #midjourneyart #aiart ashbydodd.com/whats-it-rea...

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I'm just gonna say it, the Graphic Audio productions of Onyx Storm make the book SO much better 📚💙🔥 #imo #booksky

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In case you needed more reasons to love Pedro 📚💙 #BookSky

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it." #BookSky #Atmosphere #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

As I begin The Memory Collectors by Dete Messerve, I can't help but wonder: if I could go back in time to one specific hour in my past, what would it be? What hour would you return to? 📚💙 #BookSky #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive—but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen... This, my friend, is how we find the best of humanity during times when the worst of humanity may seem to have the upper hand." - The Things We Cannot Say 📚💙🔥

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

May 2025 was a good month for reading! Favorites: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Friends - Fredrick Backman ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Tenant - Freida McFadden ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gandolfini - @jasondashbailey.com ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Documents - @knguyen.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Book Club for Troublesome Women - @mariebostwick.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'm only 25% in (disclaimer), but... DO NOT sleep on Kevin Nguyen! I can't put My Documents down. In so many ways, it's terrifyingly relevant 📚💙🔥👀 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #BookClub #ReadThis

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'm struggling... almost halfway through and this already feels SO much longer than it needs to be! 📚💙🔥 #HotTake #OnyxStorm

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My to-read list has just passed the 1,000+ book mark... I really need authors to stop writing for just a little while so I can catch up!!!! 📚💙

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"When a world-famous artist dies, phones ring on every continent, people talk about him on the news, people who have never met him cry. Art is so big, so unfathomable, that it teaches us to mourn for strangers." Fredrik Backman - My Friends 📚💙🔥 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #ArtSky

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Every time this guy scratches his skin, I catch myself scratching too. Can’t wait to see what state my arms are in by the time I finish... 📚💙🔥 #CurrentlyReading #BookSky #FreidaMcFadden #TheTenant

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I was tempted to add the new Mark Twain biography (out this month) to my to-read list... but then I noticed the author is Ron Chernow. Nothing against Chernow at all, but all of his books are a gazillion pages long. Someone tell me if it's worth it first! 📚💙❓ #BookSky #ComingSoon #ToRead

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sometimes I pick an audiobook just because Edoardo Ballerini is narrating - which is exactly how I ended up starting Gandolfini. But now that I’m in it… I’m actually kind of fascinated! 📚💙⭐🎧📺🎥🎬 #CurrentlyReading #JustStarted #JamesGandolfini #Sopranos #Biography #EdoardoBallerini #Audiobooks

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I might have a celebrity crush on Matt Murphy… is that weird considering I associate him with murder cases?! 😅🔪💙📚🔥 Almost done with The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death #BookSky #TrueCrime #CurrentlyReading #MattMurphy #TheBookOfMurder #AlmostDone #BookClub

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Nicole Cuffy is a fascinating writer and one of my new(ish) favorite authors!🔥 I found Dances a while back and really enjoyed it, but I just started O Sinners! and I CANNOT put it down. So different, so good! 📚💙 #NicoleCuffy #CurrentlyReading #BookClub #BookSky #Cult #JustStarted #OSinners

Book cover for O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I love that Kelly Bishop does not give a f*ck in her memoir! True idol! 🏆💙📚🎧 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading The Third Gilmore Girl #Audiobook

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I didn't expect to start my day with an ugly cry listening to Josh Gad talk about the amazing Chadwick Boseman 💔 I wish he were still here to provide comfort and joy in these crazy days (finally finishing In Gad We Trust audiobook) 📚💙🎧🎥🎬 #BookSky #FilmSky #Legend Chadwick's final text to Josh:

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Curtis Sittenfeld's short story, The Richest Babysitter in the World, about Pangea (obviously a fictional version of Amazon), is so perfect for 2025, it's like she wrote it yesterday 📚💙 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #ShowDontTell #ShortStories

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

As a kid, my favorite theme park was Epcot - the 'boring educational one' that no other kid called their favorite. Thank you, Josh Gad, I don't feel so alone anymore 😜💙📚 #EpcotForever #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #InGadWeTrust

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Josh Gad's experience on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee sounds awful! I feel belittled just listening to his retelling of it 🎧📚💙 #BookSky #TheaterSky #FilmSky #CurrentlyReading #SoGood

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I flew through Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10 when it first came out - a twisty, fast-paced read! ⚓👀 Now, with the movie on the way (with Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Hannah Waddingham!), I can’t wait to see how it plays out on screen! 📚💙 #BookSky #FilmSky

Keira Knightley and Guy Pearce - The Woman in Cabin 10

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I genuinely had no idea until this very moment, while reading this very book, that “tar and feathering” was an actual thing. I always thought it was just a quirky expression someone made up. It sounds so much worse now! 🤯💡📚💙 #SayNothing #CurrentlyReading #Ireland #History #BookSky

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

"It’s best to just... be a mammal. Eat as much fresh fruit as you can. Spend time with trees. Hug the people you love. Accept that death is as natural as the rest of life. Dogs understand that. Cats understand that. Only humans have a hard time with it." - Ushers by Joe Hill 📚💙 #BookSky #GoodAdvice

Book cover for the short story, Ushers by Joe Hill

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

You'll hear me say it again and again: I will listen to almost anything Edoardo Ballerini narrates. I just started the newest audiobook edition of William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury! 🎧 #BookSky #Audiobooks #CurrentlyReading #AVoiceLikeButter #EdoardoBallerini

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Knocked out a few books and short stories WAY back in January (is this year over yet?!). My favorites of the month include Parable of the Sower, Funny Story, Ushers, 1984 audiobook (w/ Andrew Garfield, Tom Hardy, and Cynthia Erivo!), Black AF History, and The Good Daughter 💙📚🔥 #BookSky

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Almost done!!! I can't wait to see how this all plays out... Tell Me What You Did - Carter Wilson 📚🔥🔪 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NewBooks #TellMeWhatYouDid

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just started Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Black Cake), and I can't put it down! Only 25% in, but if I keep this pace, I’ll be done before I know it! 💙📚🔥 #CurrentlyReading #GoodDirt #BookSky #NewBooks

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I find aspects of this book fascinating, but I need it to be better than it is. I'm only 25% in; hoping I feel more invested soon! Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television - Claire St. Amant 📚💙🔪🔥📺 #booksky #bookclub #currentlyreading #nonfiction #truecrime #tvsky #behindthescenes

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Ashby Dodd @ashbydodd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"When no influence is strong enough to unify people... they divide...." Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E Butler (Author), Damian Duffy (Adapter), John Jennings (Illustrator) 💙📚🔥👀 #booksky #bannedbooks #bookclub

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