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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Review: My Unfamiliar by Mara Rutherford ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely delightful! This was exactly what I wanted when I picked this book up on Netgalley. There was magic, romance, and a sense of adventure without overwhelming stakes. Highly recommend. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of My Unfamiliar by Mara Rutherford. An oval painting is framed against the pink cover. In the painting, a young woman in pink sits with a young man in black. They are reading books surrounded by a garden and various animals. Outside of the painting, against a pink background, vines and animals creep along the cover.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have 17 rn. Like 6 of them publish in the next 2 weeks 🫠

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

SC Arts Commission approved funding for every arts organization except two of them this year. Those organizations? LGBTQ+ Arts. The reason? Art cannot promote "ideologies." I'm sorry... WHAT? I'm so tired of this. 🫠 Support queer artists. Especially if you live in a red state. It's tough here.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Review: Winterveil by Ava Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book suffered largely from it's pacing and dark content. I loved the concept, but the pacing kept me from really engaging with the idea. Warning for SA content. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of Ava Reid's Winterveil. A Classical style school facade emerges from red leaves.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The system has always protected men. A promising career or "potential" has been proven time and again to be more valuable than the life and safety of a woman. Rage is a constant undercurrent in my life. What will it take to finally say enough? To protect women? To place value on them over men?

A photo of @laurenapoetry's poem: If 7 Men can Rape a Woman in a Frat House for Hours & Their Only Punishment is a Fucking Essay.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Love Hypothesis Day to all who celebrate! 📚💙

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Review: Juliet + Juliet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🙂‍↕️ I love queer happy ending retellings. Super cute spin on a classic story for teens looking for something light. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of juliet and juliet. There is a yellow to pick to teal ombre with picture frames scattered around. One Juliet looks down at the other from a frame. They both have their phones out.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Review: Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia ⭐️ (DNF @ 47%) This was just not for me. The book relied heavily on tropes, simplistic characters, and predictable language choice. This would be better suited to someone looking for a quick, easy, mindless read. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia. A man and woman sit at a piano in the living room, playing together. At their feet, a beagle sleeps peacefully.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Whirlwind tour of the UK and Ireland

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry too? What the fuck? Can the universe like... let me get up first?

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I hope I can have even a sliver of the impact Dolly Parton did on children's literacy. She was truly unmatched.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly's death is devastating. As someone who loves reading and is passionate about children's literacy, I am so sad about this loss. She donated hundreds of millions of books for children across the US. She fostered learning. I'm literally in mourning. Don't call. Don't text.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2026 is over. There's no way Dolly Parton has passed and I have to live through the rest of this dumpster fire. Rest in peace to an icon. Dolly Parton was such a light in this dark world. Thank you for all the work you did for children's literacy. Truly devastating loss.

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Alt: A gif of a young Dolly Parton performing on stage and smiling.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Review: Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I'm so sad to say this book underwhelmed me. I still liked it, but felt the marketing had spoiled a bit too much for me to truly fall in love like with her other works. Don't read the quotes! Don't fall for the social media posts! Go in blind! #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of B. K. Borison's Grim Tidings. Against a purple backdrop, a man in white holds a woman wearing black. She is looking up at him with her hand on his chest. Flowers and feather swirl around them in the foreground.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Review: How My Fake Alien Boyfriend Learned to Cook and Saved the Family Business by Lacey Hawthorne ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fun, no-spice book that follows the exact plot as the title. At times, a bit melodramatic and unfocused for me. But super fun! #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of Lacey Hawthorne's How My Fake Alien Boyfriend Learned to Cook and Saved the Family Business. A woman in a red apron with her hair in pink space buns watches a green Alien with tentacles and green hair try to stir something in his bowl with an upside down whisk.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And book lover's day which feels meant to be 🙂‍↕️

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Review: Reliquary by Hannah Whitten ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Help! My dead fiancé and the ocean are trying to kill me: the novel. This was an EXCELLENT and disgusting horror novel. The body horror was masterful. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of Hannah Whitten's Reliquary. A red castle door is set into a cliff, surrounded by mist. The sky is blood red.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It speaks to me like the Green Goblin mask

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I picked up 3 more ARCs tonight 🫣

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I gotta quit checking the Read Now page on Netgalley. I'm ruining my own stats.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yikes... talk about forgetting to read the room

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fine, I'll listen to Epic again....

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey! You love original movies written and directed by real people? You love music and how it impacts people? Support my friend's independent film! He's worked so hard for this project. He just needs backers! Everything helps. www.kickstarter.com/projects/khl...

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loops&breaks

loops&breaks is a Howard University MFA thesis film, written and directed by Khalil Gamble.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Review: (Mostly) Human Resources by Grace Viall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Honestly... expected more Jackalopes. This book is perfect for fans of X Files and rom-coms, which feels like an odd combination. I promise it works. Viall does an excellent job blending Appalachian folklore and genre-bending fiction. #booksky

Cover photo of (Mostly) Human Resources by Grace Viall. In the middle of the woods, a desk with strewn maps and papers sits in the center. In the foreground, a jackalope sits with a backpack, flashlight, journal, and other items strewn around.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What's worse is some of the genres are split halfway and stored in different rooms 😂 it was worse in a smaller apartment, but it drives my husband CRAZY

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My books are a bit scattered. First by age range, then by genre (kind of), with favorites in stacks all around the shelves, then non-fiction, which is split between rooms. It's honestly a lot of chaos from someone who works in a library but oh well...

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm so tired of AI slop literally everywhere.... Ads, social media, articles, community events, etc. We did all of this pre-AI, we can do all of this without it now. It's all ugly and one-note anyway. 🫩

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's a double ear infection kinda day I guess 🫠

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think it depends. This one definitely did. There were only... 10 lines of dialogue maybe? Tops?

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Review: Moon Deer by Yoann Kavege ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An absolutely stunning graphic novel whose largely silent work is matched by beautiful art and quick pacing. This has a huge twist that caught me totally by surprise. My only wish is that the end was a bit more justice. #booksky 📚💙

Cover photo of Moon Deer by Yoann Kavege. A deer in an astronaut suit sits atop his rocket with an egg and watches the sunset.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Um... no. My wedding was 4 years ago and I had to use a professional? Idk what this back and forth is about.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I haven't used one since my wedding, but if I have need of one I'll look into reusing them.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I use it for my story time and craft PowerPoints at my job! My professional graphic design work is left to professionals lol

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's just me and my canva pro account against the world.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ever get so humiliated by other people's behavior that you cry in your cubicle after a disaster program? Yeah.... me either.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nooooo!!! My favorite is connected to a coffee shop that used to have a bakery. The bakery is gone so no more fun baked goods, but the drinks are still great.

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Checking my netgalley reviews and just realized it looks like someone either ran mine through AI or tweaked it with flowery language. My reviews aren't even that good. Why the hell would you run it through AI instead of reading the damn book? 🫩

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Tess || booksky 📚 @htessh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026