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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

To introduce myself here: I'm a fiction writer specializing in literary fantasy. I published my first novel, Sasha the Witch, this year. It's about friendship, loneliness, drinking, control, and fraught familial relationships. I also love cats, crafting, flowers, style, television and movies.

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I just couldn’t read anything but a Maisie Dobbs audio last week. And now I’m faced with hard Libby choices. Have you read Artificial Wisdom, and do you recommend focusing on it in the next few days—as we are inaugurating an orange man and LA has been burning? Or moving towoard whimsy? #BookSky #💙📚

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 31/12/2024

share this post with your friends who want to join the #booksky community! 💙📚

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Welcome new followers, as well as long-time followers. I've got 4+ years of tools, tips, techniques, and actual action steps related to pushing back against book bans and being proactive in your support of the democratic institutions of public libraries and public schools. It's updated regularly.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Chicago honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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✨Sierra✨ (she/her) @whatupsisi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If you’re coming from TikTok, I created a Black BookTok starter pack. I created it awhile ago and needs to be updated but it’s still thorough go.bsky.app/A6micpn

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Looking for queer, BIPOC and/or disabled BookTok? 👇 Let me know if you want to be added! #booksky #booktok #bipocbooksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky #disabledbooksky go.bsky.app/Ax5LErr

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Jason @gadling.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Choose 20 graphic novels/comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic or graphic novel per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20/20 #Comics #GraphicNovels #ComicsSky #BookSky #BookChallenge

Cover for The Magic Fish written and drawn by Trung Le Nguyen

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Lady Resist @lrmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Extroverts aren’t happy with just each other. They need to find introverts to suck energy out of.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/01/2025

Managed to create a new account on desktop. I am unable to get logged off on the phone app or uninstall and reinstall. It's throwing up errors. US based accounts are still visible to those with accounts outside of the US. This is one of the most restrictive bans I've ever seen on social media.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/01/2025

The practical implementation of this ban by tiktok is completely over the top. It's overcompliance to an extreme degree while praising Trump. It's clear that this is political at this point. This isn't simply an IP ban, it's an account level ban tied to accounts with registered US phone numbers.

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Zelda Epperson ✨Fantasy Writer✨ @zeldaepperson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It should have been like survivor. We should have been able to vote an app off the island instead of it just being TikTok.

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If this wasn’t the most ominous way to learn it was gone—a German TikToker warning Americans about 1933, fascism, and media while seeing this TikTok splash—seemed too on the nose. #TikTok #BookTok #Ban #LightsOut #BookSky

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

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El Tuttle 💙📚 @eltuttle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#goodreads #goodreadsyearinbooks #booksky these truly are all 5 star reads. so much character and commentary.

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El Tuttle 💙📚 @eltuttle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

if this is your vibe, be my friend 👉🏻👈🏻 #booksky #books

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 07/01/2025

Welcome to the Mystery & Thriller books feed! ⚡️📚💙 1️⃣ save/pin/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more nerds 3️⃣ use ⚡️📚 or 📚⚡️ to post to feed 4️⃣ you can add a 💙 to post to the main BookSky feed too 5️⃣ more #booksky feeds on my profile FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 10/01/2025

Welcome to the Literary Fiction feed! 🖋️📚💙 1️⃣ save/pin/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more nerds 3️⃣ use 🖋️📚 or 📚🖋️ to post to feed 4️⃣ you can add a 💙 to post to the main BookSky feed too 5️⃣ more #booksky feeds on my profile FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 31/12/2024

Welcome to the Historical Fiction feed! ⏳📚💙 1️⃣ save/pin/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more nerds 3️⃣ use ⏳📚 or 📚⏳ to post to feed 4️⃣ you can add a 💙 to post to the main BookSky feed too 5️⃣ more #booksky feeds on my profile FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

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A.S. Miyasaki @asmiyasaki.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Just reposting the Booktok Lifeboat. Figured it’d been a few weeks. Click the link to the starter pack, then in the upper right select “follow all” if you don’t want to follow one at a time. Boat 1 is almost full, but I’ll keep making starter packs as long as I need to🩶 go.bsky.app/2CoCoBq

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Legendarium GT @legendariumgt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

💧New Episode🌕 The latest bonus episode is a spoiler free discussion on Water Moon by Samantha Yotto Yambao, which releases in the US on January 14, 2025. Listen in to learn more about the book and see if we can convince you to read it. Listen here bit.ly/4gK4lm4 or on your podcatcher. 🪐📚💙

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Coverage by @HoustonChron of the 400+ books Katy ISD students are currently being denied check out access to based on the “gender fluidity” they *may* “promote.” (AKA 👏🏻censorship👏🏻) www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood...

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Katy ISD students denied access to 400 LGBTQ titles during review process

Katy ISD librarians have been instructed to steer students away from more than 400 books with LGBTQ+ themes, records show.

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“And the other thing that saved me? Do you know what it was?” …“It was books. I read and read. Went to the library as much as I could. And to bookstores. Lost myself in books. Did you know that books can heal you? They helped restore me.” —The Lion Women of Tehran, Marian Kamali #BookSky #Books

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 08/01/2025

This is the time of year where a good cold snap can freeze the #Chicago river. It takes a sustained blast of sub-freezing air to form photogenic amount of ice, but despite the discomfort it's a spectacular scene to see in person.

A night view of The Chicago River. The water in the foreground is mostly frozen and icy lights reflect off of it. An L train strikes by over the Wells Street bridge in the center of the frame.

A bridge hovers over the top of the frame while ice floes jam the Chicago River in the foreground

Large pieces of ice for an almost graphic, abstract, monochrome background while a single Seagull soars through the frame

A wide view of the Chicago River from Salesforce Tower. The Chicago River is littered with thousands of piece of ice from being frozen, then broken by various vessels and current. Two L trains pass over the Lake Street bridge in the middle of the frame.

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Have you read The Lion Women of Tehran? I’m about a quarter in, and it’s so good! #books #BookSky #historicalfiction

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?” —Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager #BookSky #Books 💙📚

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 days #Booksky #Books 💙📚

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution: Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 days #Booksky #Books 💙📚

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“Up close, he can see that here and there books have been removed, leaving gaps in the rows like missing teeth.” — Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng #BookSky #BookQuotes #Books

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 days 📚💙 #Books #BookSky #Booklover

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

“We entered a period in which every moment was weighted with both the absolute necessity of hope and a terrible and almost unbearable anticipation of the worst.” — “Ordinary Grace,” by William Kent Krueger 💙 #Booksky #Books #Booklover

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Kate McReader @katemcreader.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 days 📚💙 #Books #BookSky #Booklover

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