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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

While it wasn’t the right recommendation this time, I love that Camp Damascus by @chucktingle.bsky.social is one of my options in Tiny Bookshop!

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Then awhile later a customer says they loved Pedagogy of the Oppressed? Is this game in my brain?

Screenshot of Tiny Bookshop computer game.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Just started playing the game Tiny Bookshop, because who doesn’t want to escape into a fantasy world where I can sell used books out of little wagon by the ocean? I was tickled pink when Wolf in White Van popped up on my shelf to recommend! @themountaingoats.bsky.social

Screenshot of Tiny Bookshop computer game with a book description for Wolf in White Van

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Mordy was not happy with me when I needed to do some work and had to change the video from his kitty TV. The nerve!

Black cat sitting in a chair in front of a TV watching a chipmunk skitter across the screen.

Black cat sitting in a chair in front of a TV with an educational cartoon on screen, staring back at the camera, glaring.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

February Reads: Per Dr’s orders I lightened it up a bit this month to mixed reviews. Why is it so hard to find a well written cozy, queer fantasy novel, preferably with witchy vibes? Do I ask too much? Sigh. 🪐📚🩸📚💙📚

February reading wrap-up graphs: Highest rated Sisters of the Lost Nation; America, Let Me In; The River Has Roots. Eleven books read, 1,147 pages, 50.73 hours, av. rating 3.78, av. book length 285 pages, av. time to finish 9 days.

February reading wrap-up graphs: 73% fiction, 27% non-fiction. Genre ranking: fantasy, horror, thriller, romance, self help.

February reading wrap-up: book cover collage with ratings.

February reading wrap-up graphs: reading calendar

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

January Reads: life has been life-ing, so I am behind. Had to go back and reread Sisters of the Lost Nation after finishing Indian Burial Ground for book club (sadly only my SO and I finished it). I really enjoyed them being in the same world, different timelines. So many little nuggets! 🩸📚🖋️📚💙📚

January’s wrap-up chart. Highest rated books: Indian Burial Ground, The Silent Companions, Chemistry. Nine books, 1,475 pages, 57.58 hours, av. rating 3.81

January’s reading wrap-up charts: 100% fiction; rankings: horror, literary, LGBTQIA+, thriller, romance.

January’s reading wrap-up: cover collage with ratings.

January’s reading wrap-up: reading calendar

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Watching Waiting for Guffman and crying. What a gem.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Mordecai always looks so full of ennui. Me too Momo. Me too.

Black cat loafing on a bed, staring off in existential dread.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Today was a nightmare. At least Henry is having a good dream. Crank up your volume to hear his adorable whistling snore.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Henry is getting a jumpstart on his 2026 reading goals. Mordecai couldn’t care less. 🐈‍⬛💙📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 Reading Wrap Up: 💙📚🩸📚🖋️📚 Original reading goal was 24. DNF’d 35 books. Completed 7 reading challenges. Started an Oh, the Horror! Book club. Read some great books, and some truly terrible ones. My favs for the year: The Lamb; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

December Reads: 💙📚🖋️📚🩸📚 Had several challenges to finish up, so literary took the lead this month. I think this is the first time horror has been as low as third place! I think listening to Tim Curry read A Christmas Carol might just be a new Christmas Eve tradition.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'm trying really hard to find a valid reason why the Barbie on the bottom left is more expensive than the one on top...WTF Target?

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

November Reads: 🩸📚🖋️📚💙📚 Back to normal with horror and literary on top. Read some good ones, and some not so good ones thanks to the SG Reads the World Challenge. Managed to only DNF three this month, with the intention of picking one back up as digital vs. audio.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Shots fired. Not cool IHOP. Not cool. You have forever tainted the great S of my youth.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is plastered on all of our state government pages. They had to add the quotation by the governor because the original statement without it violated state law. Nebraska Nice. When are you coming back to visit us?

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

October Reads: Romance took the lead this month as I try to finish my BIPOC Jane Austen Challenge. Read “13 Black Cats…” for the first meeting of my new book club at my local indie bookshop Oh, the Horror! I have to say I wasn’t impressed. Storygraph recommendations let me down on this one. 💙📚🩸📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

September Reads: Pretty horror heavy this month. Not nearly as many DNF’s. Actually read some physical copies for once. 💙📚🩸📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

August Reads: Didn’t get much read this month (thanks depression), started quite a few for reading challenges and just couldn’t get into them. Highlights for the month: Beasts of Carnaval ⏳📚🪐📚 I Who Have Never Known Men 🖋️📚🪐📚 Mister Magic (reread)🩸📚 Misses for the month: The Bewitching 🩸📚⏳📚 💙📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Love my little black cuddle bugs.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

July Reads: Rough start to the month, but ended strong. Four DNF’s in a row, I guess that’ll happen when you’re trying to fulfill challenge categories and decide to pick audiobooks for the narrator more than the author/story, but damnit I love Rebecca Lowman. Lit fic beat horror this month! 💙📚🖋️📚 🩸📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

June Reads: Happy Pride! 💙💜💚💛🧡❤️ I focused on queer authors/themes this month (I was already in the middle of Tomorrow,and…, but it had elements). Some great reads & some great disappointments. Two DNF’s & one paused, I think I need memoirs to be audio cause they are not my bag. 🌈📚💙📚🩸📚🖋️📚

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I love Storygraph so much. This might be my favorite personalized book preview to date. They do AI right.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Didn’t have starting a war on my 2025 bingo card, but probably should have. Since my bingo card seems to be full guess I’ll treat myself to a rad shirt and go out in style. www.raygunsite.com/products/abo... Abolish ICE Heavyweight T-Shirt – RAYGUN

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

So much has been going on I’m behind in my monthly book posting. My May hits and misses…managed to get several prompts checked off on my StoryGraph / Book Riot / Jane Austen book challenges.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It was hot in Omaha today, so a lot of people were in the shade and hard to see, this wasn’t everyone, but a decent turnout around 12:30 today.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some of my favorite signs from the Omaha #NoKings protest.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It was a hot one in Omaha today, so a lot of us hid in the shade. #NoKings

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The horror section (my personal favorite) of my local independent bookstore just went from an end-cap to its own little section! Woot woot! Movin’ on up, at The Bookworm!

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

April reads: Not sure why Storygraph isn’t accurately tracking my audiobooks, but oh well. Managed to make it through the month without any DNF’s, mainly due to rage finishing a couple. And I had to pause one from a reading challenge list and come back to it later. It is too slow and boring.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Goddamn kangaroo court. Fuck every last one of these vile subhumans.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Decent turnout in Omaha, NE. Though you can’t really tell from the pictures. #handsoff

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

March stats. I ♥️ #Storygraph Got hooked on the kids Sinister Summer series. After this month I needed something light & fun requiring minimal brain power. Ended up getting them for my nibbling! DNF’d Parable of the Talents when the presidential candidate was going to “make America great again”

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Yahoo almost got me this morning before I’d had any caffeine. I was utterly baffled. When I got to the part where it quoted Buffett as driving his cybertruck around his Nebraska neighborhood I was like wait, what day is it? The article was deleted off the site minutes after I clicked on it.

Screenshot of a Yahoo News headline “Warren Buffet Acquires Elon Musk’s Tesla for $1 Trillion in Cash under a picture of a Nazi, I mean Musk.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The wall of cats is finally starting to come together.

Interior wall of a home covered in artwork and photographs of cats. In front of it one of the black cats featured on the wall sits on a blue couch looking at the camera, lounging on a throw pillow.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Day 1: A film set in a location you would like to go to. Seems fitting for this challenge, and Scotland is at the top of my list of places to visit (and maybe never leave)… Trainspotting directed by Danny Boyle #30DayFilmChallenge #FilmSky #Movies 📽

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). #booksky 📚💙 Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #bookchallenge #TheWriteWomen The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Story-time Sunday with Henry and Mordecai!

Two black cats, one long-haired and one short-haired, sit on their humans lap in bed, appearing to read along with them on their kindle.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Book #17 (audiobook): Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White This book is for “middle grades”, but I really enjoy White and life is far too heavy right now, plus it’s reminiscent of Goosebumps, so how could I say no? It was silly, simple, and spooky fun. It made me feel like a kid again.

Cover for Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Book#16 (audiobook): Mansfield Park by Jane Austen My least favorite Austen novel. l’m just not a fan of Fanny Price. They can’t all be winners. It’s the anniversary of her 250th birthday, so I joined a Storygraph Challenge to reread her novels & a modern retelling by a BIPOC author. ✔️ 2 of 12

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Book #15 (audiobook): The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White It appears I am really into Gothic Horror novels, particularly ones spinning off of Frankenstein. I am also quite the fan of Kiersten White.

Cover for The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Book #14: Wolfsong by TJ Klune I thought I would like this book. I wanted to like this book. I really liked (almost) all of his other books I’ve read. I did not like this book. The story just wasn’t as engaging for me. And I was NOT prepared for the 10 pages of graphic hard core porn.

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

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Gingerkid @gingerkid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Cover for The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

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