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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⚡⏳🔍 Books I finished reading in September. All were enjoyable and will appeal to different readers. The books that personally resonated with me the most were _Hollywood, Ending_, _What Happens at Nightfall_, and _Monsters of Ohio_. ⏭️

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF The expanded space at Out West Books for my favorite genres. The one sign hasn’t been changed yet but SFF books are my reading home and my health suffers when I don’t have enough so … not bad.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💙📚🐉🌶️ I'm looking forward to seeing the expanded #SFF shelving at Out West Books tomorrow. Yesterday, reviews I wrote of a couple paranormal romances were in The Colorado Sun. coloradosun.com/2026/09/20/o...

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Out West Books suggests titles to set the mood for spooky season

The Grand Junction bookstore recommends a tale of deceptive witches, a ghostly romance and a spooky Indigenous murder mystery.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

💙📚 What I love is a good story well told. I just finished looking at a list of several dozen forthcoming releases looking for what I want to read. The word "literary" to me signals boring. The books I love are fall into science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, romance, etc. Genre fic.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🩸 #SFF shelf at Out West Books. Today's new releases. In a rare turn of events, I haven't read any of these books yet. Some good news for those who shop here, the new owners are expanding the SFF space so more room for more books and consolidating horror.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Out West Books has new owners and now the #SFF books are mixed in with all the other new releases now on Tuesday release day at the front of the store. We still display them on the new SFF shelf, too but sometimes a week later. I love looking at new books!

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

💙📚🪐 #SFF Read Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi today. Pub date 11/3/26 so preorder at your favorite Indie bookstore. Was in a reading slump. Gave up on 5-7 books after reading 50 pages. Picked up Monsters of Ohio and didn't move again until I turned the last page. Scalzi at his best and most fun.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Streaming American Princess on Kanopy from the library and in episode 7 I heard at least two John Green titles mentioned. I wonder if I missed any. I may have to rewatch. So here is an old photo with John Green.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It truly is time to take steps to slow and hopefully stop the wholesale destruction of the planet that is being caused by failing to halt the destructive effects of dirty energy. www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⚡ Books I finished in August. Not all are out yet but if you like cozy romantasy read the first 3 Durst books in anticipation of the January release date for _The Magical Cheese Emporium_. I've loved each one in this great series better than the last. _Massif_ is out next Tuesday.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Was on vacation so didn't get the last couple weeks of new #SFF at Out West Books. I'm reading Salt King now and the new owner of the store was thrilled to see I Have No Mouth... published as a stand alone after decades of only being available in collections and anthologies.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Yesterday's new #SFF releases at Out West Books.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Out West's new #SFF shelves when I got there yesterday. Didn't get a photo last week because inventory count was in process. Some publishers have gone to a taller format so books that aren't hot off the press end up in the section since they are too tall for the regular shelves.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⚡🔍 Books I finished reading in July. Building 903 by Lois Lowry #SFF seems very timely. I may be getting burned out on romance or possibly, the direction it is taking focusing more on the physical than the emotional is just not my cup of tea.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 New #SFF shelf at Out West Books. Sold one before I finished getting them all up there and then 2 more before the end of my shift. Glad we had more copies.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The last couple weeks have been way too busy. We made a quick road trip, had 3 different sets of house guests, volunteered at movie fundraiser for fire dept. and got to have a conversation with Perrin Pring author of Cash and Gravity at a full capacity author event at Out West Books. #SFF 💙📚🪐

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Never got around to posting last weeks new releases on the Out West Books #SFF new books shelf. There were only a couple.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

💙📚🪐 #SFF I'm currently rereading Cash and Gravity. Perrin Pring is going to be at Out West Books in Grand Junction tomorrow and I get to talk with her about her fabulous debut novel. Trying to not go full on fan girl but totally excited.

Multiple images through a shopfront window of a flier, featuring a picture of the cover of the book Cash and Gravity, promoting a book store appearance by the author Perrin Pring,

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 New #SFF books shelf at Out West Books. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep and Moss'd in Space came out last week but there was room. Moss'd in Space is one of the books I can't stop suggesting to folks because it is in the running for my favorite SF book of the year.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF I was out sick last week so didn't get to see last week's #SFF new releases at Out West Books until today.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

💙📚 Books read in June. Pretty interesting that stories involving families lost in house fires bookended the month. I did read a YA and a picture book to keep in touch with younger readers. I stretched to get all the way through a memoir dealing with reproduction in salmon and the queer community.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF New releases on the Science Fiction & Fantasy shelves at Out West Books. Loved Moss'd in Space, Valet, and Obstetrix. Haven't read the other new ones, yet.😊

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

💙📚 #SFF Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer is an unputdownable scary near future thriller. It came out earlier this month and like the best dystopian fiction it feels all to real and possible. It didn't strike me as SF at all because the cult that kidnaps Dr. Liz is quite possibly already out there.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF I love new book Tuesdays. Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne comes out today. It is my current SF fave; great characters, new worlds, and wonderful escapism. I'll be at Out West Books today handselling it.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF Yesterday's new SFF bookshelf at Out West Books. Not so many new releases this week but happy Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher is now out in paperback. I liked The Traveler by Joseph Eckert. Great "what if" about being cast forward in time further and further each time. Compelling.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⏳⚡ I love LibraryReads. It's a great list that comes out on the 15th of the month with the top 10 books coming out in the following month selected by public librarians. It is also a good place to find new authors and wonderful books that haven't been widely advertised. libraryreads.org

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LibraryReads - Top 10 Books Nominated by Library Staff

LibraryReads is a list of the top ten books published this month that library staff across the country have voted on as their favorites.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF It has been a very busy week and I didn't get the Out West Books new science fiction and fantasy shelf posted on Tuesday as it should have been. The only one I've read is The Traveler and it is well worth the read. It's great on "what if."

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#SFF 💙📚 Jane Yolen, whose books and stories introduced fantasy and science fiction to so many is now gone. Over many decades her tales enriched lives with magic and wonder. She will be so missed. Sympathy and love to her family and loved ones.

Book jacket for Briar Rose by Jane Yolen in the Fairy Tale Series with barbed wire and a rose depicted.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Finally at long last I got my royalties from Bloomsbury.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#SFF ? 💙📚🪐 Trying to figure out how Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer (Tordotcom) is SF. I loved the book with its terrific suspense, survival, feminist, & thriller aspects. It is written by a Hugo winning author and published by a house known for SF. Would like to know what you think. Science fiction?

Book cover depicting injection syringe against pink back ground.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Books I loved are featured in the Colorado Sun this morning. #SFF 💙📚🪐🐉. coloradosun.com/2026/06/07/o...

Book cover of Cash and Gravity by Perrin Pring

Book cover of Moss's in Space by Rebecca Thorne

Book jacket of The Rive Muse by Laura Resau

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⏳⚡ #SFF Books I finished reading in May. Lots of great titles. Only one that I did not love but wanted to find out what happened and know some readers who will love it. Science fiction seems to be having a renaissance which thrills me. Also seeing great SF authors writing non-SF books.

18 books jackets of recent and forthcoming books including Obstetrix, The River Muse, Medicine Wheels, Palaces of the Crow, The Traveler, The Book Witch, Sea of Charms, and other.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 New #SFF at Out West Books today. I totally loved Cash and Gravity by Perrin Pring. Cash and Gravity is a near future SF, kick-ass road trip through the West with a big brawny woman marine, a male Ace (elite soldiers known for their advantages of being small, talented, smart, and beautiful) ⬇️

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF Today's new releases on my favorite shelf at Out West Books. Just finished reading Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler. Amazing! Made me think of a couple of my favorite corvid books including deLint's Crow Girls and Science Comics: Crows.

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Stevie P @intruder1500stevie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

💙📚🪐 #SFF Generally, not a fan of books written by writers who have MFAs but VALET was listed as science fiction so I gave it a try and loved it. Cy, the main character, reminded me of C-3PO & the delightful Automatic Noodle characters. Look for it in your favorite library or indie book store June 2.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF New books shelf at Out West Books today. I ended up talking books for 4 1/2 hours today and ran out of Sarah Beth Durst books, sold out of Murder by Memory again.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

💙📚🪐 #SFF Scott Treder's life is upended when he suddenly finds himself in the next day. Each disappearance is twice as long as the previous one, but he only has one day until it happens again. This hit all the "what if" and inexplicable events that make science fiction a favorite genre. 6/9/26 pub

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

💙📚🐉🔍The Book Witch is a celebration of the love of books, of reading and getting lost in a world full of what readers love. Memories of books read brought back feelings and created a yearning to reread some of them. A great story with wonderful twists. A joy to read. #fantasy #romance #mystery

Book jacket featuring books, a woman with an umbrella, and a cat being swept around by the wind.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Big new release day today at Out West Books. Lot's of great fantasy and the newest Murderbot. Had a blast talking to several #SFF readers who came in. Keep selling out on all copies of Infinity Gate, Murder by Memory, & All Systems Red.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 Today's #SFF new shelf at Out West Books.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Enjoying contemplating the bedroom ceiling on a lazy Saturday morning.

Random blue and white background. Looking somewhat like a blue sky.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am getting behinder and behinder every day. Weren't many new #SFF releases at Out West books on Tuesday. I did read Paradox published by Forge not Tor and it is more thriller but the second in the series with the first def SF. Want to read Thistlemarsh and Honor & Heresy. 🔍💙📚🪐🐉

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The world is full of weirdness. After sighting a group of jackrabbits, got home and logged in to look up collective noun for them and a post from @bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social , actually a share about looking something up popped up. Hares are solitary critters and seeing a bunch of them was rare.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

💙📚🪐🐉 This weeks new #SFF at Out West Books. Loved Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe. It's in my #1 spot for best fantasy of the year!

Face out science fiction and fantasy books.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

💙📚 Thrilled this is hitting bookstores in paperback tomorrow. It is quirky, humorous, heartfelt, and immensely satisfying. Bizarrely fascinating. You just can't beat a father daughter roadtrip with recently acquired orphans across the country and a cat that may be a harbinger of death.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#SFF Tuesday’s new releases in Out West Books Science Fiction and Fantasy shelves.

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Diana Tixier Herald @didididit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

💙🪐📚🐉 #SFF New book shelves at Out West Books. Down to 1 copy of Wolf Worm, sold the rest. Enjoyed The Faraway Inn and The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale. Anticipating reading A Widow's Charm and This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. Sold out of Murder by Memory 2 folks wanting to read B4 Nobody's Baby

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