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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1,007 days after I shelved it to the TBR, DEAD BEAT is finally in my hands. I may have already mentally rated it 5/5, lol. I'm still in full-body withdrawal from the Yale weirdness and the occult academia. Love the illustrated spreads and embossed cover. No spoilers...I'm begging! #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

David Foster Wallace wrote an essay on Wittgenstein's Mistress. My verdict: the book is worth it, if you don't need a plot. Repetitive, at times exhausting, slowly devastating, and weirdly funny: "While I was peeing, I thought about Lawrence of Arabia." #bookthreads #litfic

Book cover for Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson — white cover with red spine and red-and-black geometric collage, propped on a white decorative mantel against a pale green paneled wall.

Open book page from Wittgenstein's Mistress showing a blue-highlighted line: "While I was peeing, I thought about Lawrence of Arabia."

Book page from Wittgenstein's Mistress with a blue highlighter underlining the line: "If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one."

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is My Struggle: Book 1 brilliant, or just exhausting? Both. Continuing to Book 2. Cautiously. #bookthreads #litfic #mystruggle

A paperback copy of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle resting on an overflowing, slightly cracked laundry basket piled with towels and clothes, suggesting a humorous literal take on the book's title as a domestic chore "struggle."

Pantry shelf holding a stack of Maruchan chicken ramen packets beside a paperback titled "My Struggle," with soda cans and other food staples visible below.

Book "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard placed among scattered dumbbells and hand weights on a wooden floor, creating a visual pun linking the book’s title to physical workout struggle.

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Kafka by way of Ogawa." That's Carmen Maria Machado on Amparo Dávila. A few stories into Behind the Gate, I see the Kafka. Less creepy than billed so far, but so well written I don't mind. My first read for Hispanic Heritage Month. ARC via NetGalley and New Directions. #booksky

Hispanic Heritage Month begins today — promotional graphic highlighting the book Behind the Gate by Amparo Dávila with a purple cover showing pink pillar-like figures and a black bird, plus small credits for translators, publisher, and an October 2026 date.

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s here! It’s 2031 and the USA as we know it has collapsed 😱 say no more, I’m hooked! 🎧 📕 #booksky

Audiobook of Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel

$BOOK DESCRIPTION From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn't be there. Something is very wrong... Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality - and may hold the key to a very different world. Freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world: Exit Party is the electrifying new novel from Emily St. John Mandel.$

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reading: Starbuck. Drinking: Starbucks. A third of the way through Moby-Dick. Every bit as good as I hoped, and quirkier than I expected. I survived "Cetology," the whale-catalog chapter. ☕️🐋

A white Starbucks travel cup with lid beside a paperback copy of Herman Melville’s Moby‑Dick on a bedside table, suggesting a coffee-and-reading break.

Cozy reading corner with a paperback copy of Moby-Dick resting on a brown couch arm, a white side shelf topped by a Starbucks takeaway cup, and cubby shelves filled with assorted novels.

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I took a break from reading for a while. I did not take a break from buying books. This is the evidence. Eleven books. Zero of them read. The dog is unimpressed. #booksky

Stacked paperback books on an ottoman in the foreground, a small white fluffy dog standing on the hardwood floor nearby, and a blurred open-plan living room and kitchen in the background.

Twelve paperbacks arranged in a loose grid on a pale patterned rug, displaying colorful covers—center top a neon-green William Gibson "Neuromancer," with other visible titles including "The Antidote," "Fools Crow," and "Crossing to Safety."

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Six books I asked publishers for today. Four are translations, spread Oct 2026– Apr 2027 so they don't all come due at once. The two I want most: Second Lives and A Cow Gives Birth at Night. Fingers crossed on the Murakami. 🤞 Which would you read first? #booksky #NetGalley #ARC #literaryfiction

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ice is a cult classic but I spent most of the book wondering: who are these people, and why should I care? By the end, I understood the dream logic, the obsession, the symbolism. I just found the actual reading experience… kind of average. 2.75/5 ⭐️ feels about right. What am I missing? #litfic

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

2nd ARC of 2026 complete 📖 The Last of Earth is an introspective novel that explores grief, guilt, and ghosts through a dual narrative, following a man and a woman navigating loss from very different social and cultural positions. My full review is up on goodreads/fable/storygraph #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Re-reading To the Lighthouse in honor of Virginia Woolf's birthday today, Jan. 25. This book changed how I think about time, memory, and the weight of ordinary moments. Woolf stretches a single afternoon into an entire emotional world. 5/5 stars. A lifetime re-read for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Did Tobias Wolff invent light academia? 📚✨ Probably not, but Old School comes awfully close. It's a sharp coming-of-age story about ambition, class, and the cost of wanting greatness too badly. 4/5 ⭐️ Have you read Old School? #booksky #litfic

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

DNF ≠ bad book. Usually it means wrong reader, wrong moment. These 9 books didn't click for me. Taste is personal, and life’s too short to force yourself thru a book you’re not connecting with! What’s 1 book you DNF’d & don’t regret, and 1 you loved that seems to bounce off others? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 12: National Hot Tea Day + Haruki Murakami’s birthday Novelist as a Vocation felt like the right follow-up after finishing Stephen King’s On Writing. Two very different approaches to craft. Both worth lingering over. Preferably with hot tea. ☕ #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Achievement unlocked: 1st 5-star read of '26! Crux is a gritty, adrenaline-fueled literary novel that uses rock climbing not just as a backdrop, but as a way of exploring friendship, survival, fear, and the hope of wanting more from life. Have you read Crux yet, or is it on your TBR? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

🌒 House Made of Dawn is often credited with launching the Native American literary Renaissance. Momaday’s prose is spare, lyrical, and often beautiful. But the fragmented narrative and symbolic distance kept me from fully connecting. I admired it more than I loved it. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📚✨ I finally checked out the brand new Mesa Gateway Public Library — opened Dec. 6, 2025. Wild fact: this is Mesa Public Library’s first new branch in 30 years! Libraries will always be one of my favorite public spaces, and I’ll always root for them getting the spotlight they deserve. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📚 26 for ’26 Over the past year, a lot of good books got pushed lower on my TBR as other reads took priority. So, I did a full shelf inventory and picked 26 books from the backlog that I’m committing to read this year, ~2–3 each month if I want this entire stack finished by Dec. 31st. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

✨ More ways to make 2026 your best reading year ✨ Reading isn’t about doing it “right.” It’s not a competition, and it definitely doesn’t need to be optimized. It can be slow, opinionated, messy, and still incredibly meaningful. Which ones are you already doing? Which do you want to try? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Stranger in the Woods is about solitude, but it’s also about meaning, restlessness, and learning to live with what feels unfinished. It quietly reshaped how I think about being alone with my own thoughts. These are the lines from the book that stayed with me. #solitude #booksky #bookquotes

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

One of the first books I wanted to pick up in the new year, and one I’m not rushing. 📖 On the Calculation of Volume is a literary septology that's an experience in presence. It asks you to slow down, inhabit time differently, and notice the extraordinary in the ordinary. #Booksky #litfic

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Kicking off the year with an ambitious reading list! 📚✨ Crux is my Book of the Month pick and Dungeon Crawler Carl is a total wild card pick 🤪 Thoughts on these picks? Drop them in the comments👇 #booksky #tbr #litfic

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Lighting a candle for JD Salinger’s birthday today 🕯️ The Catcher in the Rye is divisive, still discussed, and still finding new readers after 74 years— what’s your relationship with the book? #booksky #onthisday #authorbday #authorbirthday #jdsalinger #catcherintherye

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

How was your reading year? 🗓️ Here’s my proof that I spent 2025 exactly how I wanted: buried in books! 📚 This is my 2025 reading wrap-up from Fable—stats, favorite reads, and a look back at the stories that stuck with me the most. I’m already thinking ahead… 👉 What should I read in 2026? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

✨ Ready to make 2026 your best reading year yet? ✨ I’ve been thinking a lot about my own reading lately and how I can make it more meaningful. Here are 12 simple ways to make your reading life more fun, sustainable, and meaningful in the new year. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Just finished The Dharma Bums 🫖 5/5⭐️ and the perfect way to end the year. 🌄✨ Kerouac asks the big questions about freedom, friendship, and living fully. Mountains climbed, stillness practiced, every moment hums with wonder. I finished lighter, more present, and freer. #booksky #litfic #kerouac

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Audiobook update 📚🎧 Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz (on Libby). Ambitious and thoughtful, but ultimately not for me (★★½). Now listening to The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (on Cloud Library). Fingers crossed that it's more my speed 🤞 #audiobook #audiobooks #booksky #LitFic #libby

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Pulled together 24 new releases coming out Jan–April 2026 that I’m genuinely excited for—some obvious names, some quieter picks. If you’re already looking ahead to next year’s reading, what 2026 release are you most anticipating? #booksky #litfic #literaryfiction #2026

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Holiday book haul, part two 📚✨ Books to sit with through the long winter stretch. #booksky #literaryfiction #litfic #tbr #tbrpile #bookstack

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I spotted this Vonnegut collection for a steal and couldn’t pass it up! Which of his works do you love, and which ones didn’t click for you? And how do you feel about collected editions-- do you prefer one volume with multiple works, or individual books on your shelf? #booksky #litfic #vonnegut

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 23…I tried to be strong. I tried to wait. The books won. 🎄 📚 #booksky #thriftbooks #bookhaul #christmas #happyholidays #bookmas

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This felt necessary. 🎅 📚 Literary fiction, but festive! Happy Holidays! #Booksky #LiteraryFiction #litfic #christmas #happyholidays

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A story where time, memory, and ritual fold together. 🪶 I picked up Ceremony this month, continuing where I left off in November for Native American Heritage Month. And wow, am I glad I did. What reads are you trying to squeeze in before the start of the new year? 📚 #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A year of books 📚🗓️ (post 3/3) (Sept-Dec) These defined my 2025 and followed me long after I closed the cover. The Friend — grief & companionship On the Calculation of Volume book I — quiet devastation Small Boat — political, brutal, necessary Play It As It Lays — emptiness distilled #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A year of books 📚🗓️ (post 2/3) (May-Aug) These defined my 2025 & followed me long after I closed the cover. 11/22/63 — the temptation of rewriting time Monstrilio — love taken past metaphor If on a winter’s night a traveller — literary play The Passion — myth, desire, & reinvention #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A year of books 📚🗓️ (post 1/3) The first 3rd (Jan-Apr). These defined my 2025 and followed me long after I closed the cover. Bel Canto — intimacy under pressure Rebecca — obsession & atmosphere Gliff — language pushed until it fractures My Friends — memory, exile, & political grief #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When your 'real' work is on the left 🖥️… but your heart (and browser) is on the right 📚✨. Currently daydreaming about Ann Patchett's Whistler instead of spreadsheets 😇 Anyone else sneakily browse for books at their day job? (🤫 don’t tell my boss!) #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Peak Saturday: pages turning, dog snoring, world on pause. 🐶📖 Hope the weekend gives you time to be lazy, cozy, and lost in a book. ☁️✨ #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

18 novels about art & artists 🎨 Classics, deep cuts, obsession, creativity, chaos. What’s your favorite book about art? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Me: I want a chill read. Also me: picks up Lightbreakers and immediately starts questioning consciousness, identity, and the fabric of reality. Anyway… how’s everyone else’s Thursday going? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sunday morning bookhaul at Goodwill 🌞 📚 I’m most excited to read Madwoman…and to see if King of Ashes lives up to the hype! #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Reading my 1st Joan Didion on her birthday 🎂✨ When I realized today was Joan’s birthday, it felt like the perfect excuse to finally pick up Play It As It Lays—a book that’s been staring at me from my shelf for months. Which authors are still waiting for their moment on your TBR? #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Bite-sized literary fiction to help you crush your reading goals 📚✨ 9 underrated novels under 250 pgs. that you can devour in one sitting. Haunting, funny, strange, and unforgettable—perfect for when you want a full literary experience without committing to a huge tome. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Happy December! ❄️📚 Do you & your partner (or best reading buddy) have similar taste in books? My wife & I honestly couldn’t be further apart! She’s deep in her thriller era, while I’m over here happily reading my “low-stakes, someone just makes soup and has feelings” fiction 😆. #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Did November treat your TBR well? 📚 I read almost everything I planned to, except The Dispossessed. I would’ve finished it if I hadn’t taken a 5 day reading vacation at Disneyland 😆 What was your favorite read of November, & which book are you most excited to dive into in December? 🎄✨ #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain November 30 marks the birthday of Mark Twain, whose stories, humor, and insight continue to inspire readers and writers alike. ✍️📚 #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Are you doing "Non-fiction November"? I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but these blew me away: 🐦 Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott 🏃 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Murakami 📖 Knife – Salman Rushdie ✉️ Letters to a Young Poet – Rilke 🏚️ Ghost Town Living – Brent Underwood #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy 86th Birthday to Margaret Atwood! 🎉 One of literature’s most powerful voices, she’s inspired generations with stories that challenge, warn, and captivate. 📚 photo via thegentlewoman.co.uk #booksky

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Colin 📚🦔☕️ @literarycolin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Mid-month reading progress check for Native American Heritage Month 📚 Just finished The Devil Is a Southpaw, and it was challenging, impressive, and unbelievably rewarding — a fascinating portrait of obsession. #booksky #nativeamerican #nativeamericanheritagemonth

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