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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Oof. Reading The Assassin’s Apprentice and Robin Hobb is very much not kind to Fitz 😭 #booksky #fantasybooks

CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Not me hating a book so much that I’m making a whole presentation about why it is bad. Maybe this will finally push me to start making YouTube videos #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Currently reading “A Snake Falls to Earth” by Darcie Little Badger and oh my goodness I’m absolutely in love with it! 🌈📚 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Just finished "Murder in the Dressing Room" by Holly Stars and both Cedar and me are... underwhelmed? What is it about drag queens and writing bad books 😭 #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Reading Hijabi Butch Blues by Lamya H and oh boy did I not realize how people can have similar experiences even while living vastly different lives #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I am very quickly finding out that I cannot, in fact, just wing it when it comes to my thesis 🥲 #gradschool

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Currently reading a book that is such a terribly stereotyped representation of gay men I genuinely thought it was written by a straight woman It’s written by a gay man 🥲 #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I think it’s time I accept the fact that Andrew Joseph White’s books just aren’t for me. A true shame since I’m desperate for some autistic trans rep 😭 #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Me: *strategically spaces out my Libby holds so only one to two books will be available at a time* Libby: “So here are all your holds from the past six months including several that were supposed to take a couple more weeks” Me: “Well there goes my weekend” #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Who said Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies is cozy fantasy?! This book has me way too stressed for it to be cozy fantasy 😭 #booksky #fantasybooksky 🧚📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m currently trying to read at least one book a day because I still have 71 books to go to meet my 2025 reading goal. It’s been a lot 🥲 #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Hey y’all- do me a favor and every time you see a “grad student” talk about how they use an AI program called Anara to cheat on their research papers, report them for undisclosed branded content. They made brand new accounts just to promote this horrible software #gradstudent #antiai #research

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Been on a deep dive for a potential YouTube video about the US literacy crisis and I finally found the damn article that has everyone convinced half of Americans read at or below a 6th grade level. The authors actually had to take out that statement because it misrepresented the data btw #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Weather? Warm Tea? Citron Green Book? Everett and the Wolf Plans? None What a beautiful start to the day #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I've been slacking on the book reviews lately (the last three months have been wildly busy) but I'm trying to get into the groove of things. I'm trying to figure out my branding/ content style and I have a teensy question to ask y'all... What type of book review content do you enjoy? #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just finished Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews and I’m… disappointed? I wanted to like this book, but it just didn’t hit for me. The plot seemed to take a back seat and the real focus was on the poetic prose. Gorgeous words but the story didn’t feel grounded or important #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I think I’m gonna have to cancel my Rainbow Crate sub and just order a la carte. I subscribed in March, somehow got automatically skipped for April (they didn’t charge me at least), and May (and probably June) will be late. Oh and one of the books in the March box has a printing error 🥲 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

First day of #pridemonth and already people in the book community are already getting on my nerves It’s all “support LGBTQ+ authors and Own Voice books” until mm romance books are brought up- then it’s just excuses #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It feels weird when authors start policing what reviewers and readers can and can’t put in their reviews #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Me with a megaphone in BookThreads and Booktok: “There is (almost) always nuance!” It’s a mess over there y’all. I don’t know how people post there consistently. #booksky #booktok #bookthreads

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Guys I need to make an irresponsible impulsive purchase so should I a) get that tattoo I’ve been thinking about for years b) spend $200+ at my local indie book store and not read the books for several months c) get an iPad for AAC apps and my reading apps #booksky #autism #tattoos

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just finished reading A Study in Black Brew by Marie Howalt and I’m begging someone to please tell me that there will be a sequel #booksky #scifibooksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I don’t need to know an author’s government name or where they live… I just want to make sure they’re not a bigot and/or actually a real person and not AI #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

There’s nothing I love more than a good old Sherlock Holmes retelling. The only thing better would be a gay werewolf omegaverse Sherlock Holmes retelling #booksky #reading #sherlockholmes 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

At the risk of giving you guys a general area for where I live… Fuck the person who decided to cut funding to the NOAA. People have died and will continue dying because of you. The NOAA’s alerts save lives and you gutted it

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The amount of library books I check out only to no longer be in the mood to read has to be illegal at this point #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Me reading an e-book by an indie author: “Wow this writing style feels a bit like fanfiction. I wonder if that’s how the author found their love for writing.” Chat the book itself was first published on ao3 🙃 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It’s amazing how much less work I have when I stick to solely my job description

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Yes I judge books off of their covers and let me tell you I haven’t been wrong once #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Sorry for the hiatus- I just got unceremoniously laid-off so I’ve been job hunting for the past couple of weeks Give me your one-star rage reads. The reads that made you see red so much that you had to finish it solely so you could review it. I need something to channel this anger #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Just finished Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by G.M. Gray and now I need a full T.V. Series adaptation stat But like not from Netflix because they would ruin it and this book deserves better #booksky #scifibooksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I just discovered straight omegaverse is apparently ✨a thing✨ If there ain’t mpreg why write straight omegaverse? #booksky 🌈📚 #omegaverse

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Confession: Yes I will read sapphic novels but my heart goes to achillean novels if only because that’s where I feel represented #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Books should have rating systems like movies so you know what’s age-appropriate” They do! It’s called age groups. Also parents are responsible for moderating the media their children consume. Take some responsibility in determining if the media is appropriate or not #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Indie Bookstore Day was just an excuse for me to go over my monthly book budget with no remorse 😂 Also I now own all of Sonora Reyes’ books so I call that money well spent 😌 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Happy Monday! Here’s a picture of Cedar with her new favorite special edition. She loves anything and everything with pink, purple, and sparkles. Thanks #rainbowcrate #booksky 🌈📚

Picture of black poodle curled around “The First and Last Demon” by Hiyodori

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’ve decided that literary fiction just isn’t my thing in any language #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I forgot how much I love aro-ace cozy fantasies with neurodivergent representation 🥰 Also I highly recommend the Demon King’s Gardener books by Rori Thornton if your looking for exactly that 🌈📚 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

With how everything is going right now Rainbow Crate, my local indie bookstore, and my dog are the main things keeping me going right now (I just got laid off two months earlier than anticipated and my tuition got raised by $3000 🥲🙃) #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m not really enjoying a book but it’s highly recommended so I feel bad for wanting to DNF it 🙃 #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Y’all doing research for supernatural books is wild because now I know that it is not haram for a Muslim to touch a wolf so a Muslim doctor can treat a werewolf in both human and wolf form… I think #writingcommunity

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Y’all I’m all about the reader/author boundary but Sonora Reyes just opened up a discord server for their readers and it is taking everything in me to not join 🥲 #booksky 🌈📚

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just gonna sneak this on my TBR and pretend like I don’t have 50+ books on that list already

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Don’t mind me. I’m just over here giggling and kicking my feet listening to The Dragon Queens by Kathleen de Plume on Libby #booksky 🌈📚 #audiobooks

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Friendly reminder April 26 is Independent Bookstore day! If you were planning on stuffing your Kindle, may I kindly suggest you save that money to shop at an indie bookstore instead? #booksky #indiebookstore

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Rereading some of my old writing and came across this gem: “There wasn’t much to say about the cafeteria, other than it looked like your standard cafeteria” And that my friends is why I stick to reading 😂 #writingcommunity #booksky

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CJ & Cedar (he/they) 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 @candleoversunday.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Threads feels like going to a 2000s mlm party and hearing the same thing about different items said over and over in slightly different ways

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