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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

October vibes. Crisp leaves. Festivities kick off. Spooky season. 🍁🍂🎃👻 Some book recommendations? • Soul Searching by Lyla Sage • If It Makes You Happy by Julie Oliver • Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood • Bride/Mate by Ali Hazelwood • The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Loved the emotional ride in this one. ☝️ Literary fiction with suspense ✌️Suspense about the ending 3️⃣ Told from 3 perspectives 🍀Gentle commentary on parenting, grief, dysfunction and love

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

“I read that book you recommended last week”

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

No, YOU might be having a great weekend. I, on the other hand, am feeling seen (read: called out) by this book 📖: Drawn Together by Juliana Smith

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I am saving my Bride and Mate reading for Halloween, but scrolling through everyone’s 10/10 reviews on Mate is giving me SO MUCH FOMO!!! I have already read Hot for Slayer and First by Ali Hazelwood so I know I am in for a treat, too!

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My first ever BEST OF THE NET anthology nomination was announced today for my poem Waiting Period published in Ghudsavar Literary Magazine 🥹 When I started submitting poems exactly a year ago, this felt so far from my reach but I am so giddy www.ghudsavar.com/best-of-the-...

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Best of the Net nominations | Ghudsavar Literary Magazine

Best of the Net nominations and winners for English poetry published in Ghudsavar Literary Magazine

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Book Haul from Delhi Book Fair. Love a thrifting adventure.

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Never read an Ali Hazelwood book I didn’t like #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Announcement time: I’m starting a newsletter about books and reading! I am calling it Kritikal Reading (a pun on my name) 📚📖 The first edition goes out tomorrow, you can subscribe here: kritikalreading.com See you in your inbox! 📥 #booksky

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Kritikal Reading

A newsletter about books, reading, and everything in between. Brought to you by Kritika Narula.

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

March was such a good reading month • Anxious People • Great Big Beautiful Life • Deep End • Deep Cuts • Hunchback • We could all be rats • Green Dot • Three Days in June • Liars • Gliff • Careless People • My Dark Vanessa • Everyone in this room will someday be 💀

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Currently reading Gliff by Ali Smith. Is she a secret Swiftie? #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You know there’s a Ted Lasso rewatch ongoing when you come back to this poem @tedlasso.bsky.social

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sometimes you should just read the books everyone is going crazy over because they’re swooning for a reason. Read Deep End by Ali Hazelwood and I understand why the girlies are obsessed with Lukas Blomqvist. This ⬇️ has been ringing in my ears and flashing in my brain all day long. 🫠 #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you like books about female friendships, I have a recommendation for you: So Thrilled For You by Holly Bourne. Dives right into the deep-end messiness of women's friendships. Reviewed for Compulsive Reader @hodderbooks.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social compulsivereader.com/2025/03/09/a...

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A review of So Thrilled For You by Holly Bourne – Compulsive Reader

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I got the e-ARC (Advance Review Copy) for Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life and this is SUCH a big deal to me as someone who has read all her books 😭😭😭 Thank you @netgalley.bsky.social and @penguinukbooks.bsky.social

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Running Point on Netflix is such a delightful watch for a TV buff like me, purely for the casting. So many familiar faces from television and movies of the 2000s and 2010s. And such tight writing. Mindy Kaling knows how to keep you hooked. 😍 #RunningPoint @netflix.com

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Christies1968 @christies1968.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today's vehicle for caffeine delivery.....

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“How can you talk about books at a time like this?” “Because if I don’t talk about books, I’m gonna talk about murder and I’d rather rather go on book tour than go to prison. Also, fascists hate books, especially those written by people like me. So books, motherfucker. ALL THE BOOKS.”

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Filter Coffee Tiramisu, that’s it, that’s the post.

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Who else is already getting started on their @thebookerprizes.bsky.social International Longlist reading? Procured these goods from Kunzum Bookstore today. Let’s go. #booksky

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Tyranny is spreading its long shadow, again, over Kashmir. Interesting how the West does not make a sound of disapproval - yet another case of turning a blind eye on repression when practised by its allies www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...

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Photos: Bookstore raids in Kashmir by police prompt widespread criticism

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir raided bookstores and seized 668 books linked to major Islamic organisation.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Write with us! 24 micro writing tasks (one each day), 3 webinars, an interview with Michelle Ross and the editors of 100 Word Story, 3 competitions judged by eds from The Cincinnati Review, the Citron Review and 100 Word Story. The March Micro Marathon 25! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...

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The March Micro Marathon 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

BOOK HERE We are doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writi...

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Jamie @gnuman1979.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So helpful.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Forever thinking of this poem from Andrea Gibson

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Fav Irish author, but my first owned copy 🥰 any Claire Keegan fans here? (Had been borrowing all her books from the library so far, so delighted to hold a copy eeeee🕺) #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Look at my book haul from the New Delhi World Book Fair Do you like what you see? #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I am STILL waiting for an acceptance and ngl feeling very disillusioned (tally is at 10+ rejections for 2025 so far) 🥺

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2025 really is the year of book girlies. A new Arundhati Roy book. A new Annie Zaidi book. A new Kiran Desai book. A new Emily Henry Book. A new Abby Jimenez book. A new Dan Brown book. A new Taylor Jenkins Reid book. A new Emily Austin book. A new Han Kang book. #booksky

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's that time once again, shoppers! We're OPEN for your miCRo submissions. Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

1960s color aerial view of people lined up to check out at a colorful grocery store, with aisles full of food. Graphic reads: "We're open for miCRo submissions."

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Chat just had the best falafel of my life

Holding a falafel flattened into a coin shape, bought from Nutriobox

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Forever thinking of this poem from Andrea Gibson

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Dan Brown fans, where are you? Anyone care to join me in my hyperventilation? Omg omg omg #booksky

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My family named me Kritika and EACH ONE OF THEM suddenly has rhotacism when pronouncing my name.

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Still waiting for my first acceptance of the year. Will the Gods of litmags bless me this January, or will be have to wait until February? We wait and watch 👀 #writing

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junglejim4322 @cuntcore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It’s a wonderful day to visit your local used bookstore and buy some banned books 🥰

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Putting together a -very- small stack of books that have been banned (in the U.S.) for a customer

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I have been writing book reviews since I was 17. Over the past few years I have reviewed books for some amazing places & this year I want to do more. I have my hands on a few galleys/advanced copies Do you know any places I can place book reviews? (🎤does this work? #booksky do your thing!)

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the past 48 hours, thousands of TikTok users have been posting and sharing videos ostensibly about "cute winter boots." But the phrase is not about footwear. It's algospeak code being used to discuss fighting back against Trump and his draconian immigration policies.

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TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained

As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government

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Kritika Narula @kritikanarula.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got the most insane ADVANCED READER COPIES run with me right now (each one a banger, amazing debuts and old fav authors, the vibes are immaculate - Can't wait to review them!)

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