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64) Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes A very strange, but charming little book - and pretty apt for spooky season! The tone is uneven and it veers off in some wild directions but I did enjoy it.

The book cover for 'Lolly Willowes' by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It shows a black and white engraving of a rural village with a witch flying away on a broomstick in the top left corner

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

63) Ashley Herring Blake - Take A Chance, Sasha Sinclair A new AHB! I always love her sapphic romances but did think the formula was getting a little stale in the last one. But this one has a new setting, a slightly spooky vibe (very fitting for October) and a historical touch that renew the spark.

The book cover for 'Take A Chance, Sasha Sinclair' by Ashley Herring Blake. It features an illustration of a tall, soft butch woman with short blond hair, leaning over a brunette woman dressed like a sexy librarian

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

A bit later than usual (I normally make these late September) but today was millionaire's shortbread day

A small stack of pieces of millionaire's shortbread: shortbread topped with a thick layer of caramel and a thin layer of chocolate

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

62) Olivia Dade - World's okayest oracle (reluctantly) seeks demon The previous installment already made me think it's not for me, but this was 0.99 and I wanted to give it a chance. Alas, still a nope. I didn't care for the conspiracy plot nor the supernatural sex scenes, and there's not much else

The book cover for 'World's okayest oracle (reluctantly) seeks demon'. It shows an illustration of a plus size woman with a long red braid, wearing a purple sweater and jeans, holding a knife. Next to her is a lean man with little horns, wearing a white shirt rolled up to his elbows and formal pants, wielding a flame in his hand.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Okay but The Odyssey is actually rated R. You can agree or disagree with her argument, I have no particular feelings on fictional dog deaths myself, but it checks out because The Odyssey kills a dog AND is rated R.

And then there’s Anne Hathaway, whose film The End of Oak Street concerns a family, a dog, and a very hungry T rex. During promotion for the (12A) film, Hathaway tacitly managed to reassure audiences that the dog wasn’t going to become dino chow, by stating that “I feel like movies that kill dogs should automatically be rated R.”

Of course, however, this leads me to suspect that Anne Hathaway hasn’t actually watched all of her films. Her highest-grossing of the year was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which features a dog death so absolutely gratuitous that it legitimately borders on slapstick. In short, a dog gets hurled off a

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

And if you're a little further along and can do slightly more complicated sews, the Pietra Pants by Closet Core are my go to pants pattern. Super comfortable even for my sizeable belly and MASSIVE pockets. I'm never buying regular jeans again! The shorts are also included in the pattern.

Mirror selfie of a tall, fat woman wearing wide legged denim trousers with large side pockets.

Two side by side mirror selfies of a woman wearing two pairs of shorts: in a patterned green cotton and a medium blue denim.

Mirror selfie of a woman wearing wide legged trousers in navy cotton.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

61) Aukelien Weverling - Onder duizend vlaggen A well educated woman, a clever son, the many threats in the world; a volatile recipe. I struggled with this, it's well written but the narrator is deeply unsympathetic and I don't like the whole 'vague and nameless characters' trend.

The book cover for 'Onder duizend vlaggen' by Aukelien Weverling, showing a lone figure walking on a shoreline.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Our wedding day, 14 years ago, and today, celebrating our anniversary in our favourite Greek restaurant with our kids. Love you @johanvanhattum.eurosky.social ❤️

A tall man in a suit, with a deep red tie and his long hair bound in a low bun, kissing a woman in a wedding dress with a deep red waistband and a white fluffy cardigan.

A woman in a dress with an autumn lead print and an orange cardigan, being kissed on the cheek by a man with long curly hair and a green and blue printed shirt.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Zelf ook niet veel paars in de kast maar met een oude trui en wat buttons kom je ook een eind

Selfie van mij met een paarse trui en twee ronde buttons: een vuist in regenboogkleuren op een zwarte achtergrond, en een met de kleuren van de bi vlag (roze, paars en blauw)

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

We moeten snoeien maar het gaat om het idee

Een Progress Pride vlag (zonder de intersekse symbolen, sorry mensen) aan een vlaggenstok aan een huis. De vlag is deels verstrikt in de nogal opgeschoten struik eronder.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

60) Maggie O'Farrell - Land The new O'Farrell! A multi-generational, multi-continental story of family, homeland, the ties that bind us and how they get broken, with a dash of deep ancestral magic. This couldn't be more my jam if it had been cooked up in a lab specifically for me.

The book cover for 'Land' by Maggie O'Farrell

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

59) Maggie O'Farrell - The Distance Between Us An early O'Farrell. It kept me well entertained while reading it but it felt lacking in a certain spark

The book cover for 'The Distance Between Us' by Maggie O'Farrell. It features water colour paintings of two women with broad colourful brush strokes over them

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

58) Eva Meijer - Een woord voor As words start disappearing from the Dutch language, poets, linguists and politicians have to come up with their own responses. A fascinating concept, but it remained just that; it never really came to life as a story.

The book cover for 'Een woord voor' by Eva Meijer. It's the title in yellow on a grey background, and the middle word has half disappeared already.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

57) Nikki Dekker - Graafdier An interesting mix of memoir and reflective non-fiction about nature, history, soil and living together with many different life forms.

The book cover for 'Graafdier' by Nikki Dekker, showing layers of soil in various shades of orange and a meandering silvery tunnel snaking down through it

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Still sick 🤧 But at least my sock knitting is coming along nicely

A sock in a variegated yarn on circular knitting needles. It's almost finished and just missing the toe section.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

56) EM Forster - Where Angels Fear To Tread I love Forster but this isn't his best, I found it quite (tonally) confusing. I never knew where it was going, but at least it wasn't boring I guess.

Book cover for the Penguin English Library edition of 'Where Angels Fear To Tread' by EM Forster

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl though. Never not magical.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

I was at the All The Feelings tour yesterday, with Stars, Broken Social Scene and Metric. Three Canadian indie bands that have been friends and band members for like a bazillion years. I've been listening to them for 20+ years as well. Kind of insane! It was a beautiful evening.

Amy Millan in a slip dress and sparkly jacket, standing back to back with Kevin Drew during the Broken Social Scene set.

Torquil Campbell and Emily Haines duetting during the Stars set.

Amy Millan in a skirt and sparkly sweater, with Torquil Campell resting his head on her shoulder

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Ging tussen de regen door een uurtje nerden op een vikingmarkt

Een stand met replicas van houten Middeleeuwse muziekinstrumenten

Nog meer historische muziekinstrumenten, nu ook met varianten van metaal en hoorn

Een oudere vrouw in Vikingkleding werkt aan een borduurwerk. Op de tafel voor haar liggen geweven omslagdoeken

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

55) Michael Ende - Die Unendliche Geschichte Ah, a childhood favourite I hadn't revisited in about 20 years. The German slowed me down and the middle Phantasia bit is more of a slog than I remembered, but the ending is beautiful and moving as ever.

Book cover for the German novel 'Die Unendliche Geschichte' by Michael Ende.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Minder dan een cent, dat zijn wel heel goedkope bananen!

Screenshot uit een mail van Jumbo, waarin bananen voor 0,99 cent worden aangeprezen (in het onderwerp én in de tekst van de mail!)

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

54) TJ Alexander - A Gentleman's Gentleman After the reading onslaught of early August, I ended up in a bit of a slump. DNF a romance, wrestling with German. This trans Regency romance got me right back into things though. It's a delight and went down like a cool glass of water on a hot day.

The book cover for 'A Gentleman's Gentleman' by TJ Alexander, featuring the lower half of a young man's face, dressed in white and pale blue Regency garb

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

The Pietra Pants are definitely my pattern of the year so far. I finished sewing a denim pair this morning and I don't think I'm ever buying regular jeans again! #GarmentSewing 🪡🧵

Two side by side mirror selfies of me wearing wide legged, high waisted dark blue denim trousers and a patterned teal top

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Sloot de dag ook nog af met een flinke mok mulled cider 🍂

Een hand houdt een mok vast met daarin een amberkleurige vloeistof.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

In a change from my usual #DuvetDressing, I'm eyeing this IKEA table cloth to make a skirt out of 😂

The Höstagille table cloth by IKEA, which is a deep red with a print of white line drawings of flowers

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Things I have made with this one Too Good To Go haul in the past week: peach turnovers, curry, spaghetti sauce, quiche (bonus points for also using up cheese from an earlier cheese board) and pizza sauce. And I also made soup and carrot-pepper puree for the freezer.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

The Greatest Thing I've Ever Seen On Telly, in gif form, thanks to @ariadnereviews.bsky.social #CelebrityMasterchef

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

Decided to get back into Too Good To Go and immediately got an insanely massive haul from the greengrocer's. Carrots, beets, a whole cauliflower, a mountain of peppers (that oven tray is less than half of them!), tomatoes, mushrooms, grapes and peaches for less than €9 😱

Two shopping bags on a tile floor, overflowing with produce

An oven tray filled with chopped yellow and red peppers

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

A full year of daily reading! I've always been an enthusiastic reader but The Storygraph's streak function definitely pushed me to be more deliberate about reading every day

A screenshot from the app The Storygraph, showing a reading streak of 365 days

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

53) Tessa Bickers - The Night Bus A romance with a cute (though convoluted) idea, and a meh execution. It felt very slow to get to the point and the characters didn't seem to learn anything, so I don't have faith in them staying together long time.

Book cover for 'The Night Bus' by Tessa Bickers, featuring an illustration of a typical London doubledecker bus and a man and a woman getting off said bus.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Mocht gisteren een dagje Lowlands doen omdat @terzijdehorde.bsky.social er speelde en dat was vet! Mijn man zien stralen, backstage mogen hangen S10 zien spelen, lekkere dingen gegeten en de 11yo een prachtdag bezorgd. "Dit was de leukste dag van de vakantie!" ❤️

Black metalband Terzij de Horde op het podium, gezien vanaf side stage. In de voorgrond het silhouet van een tiener met gehoorbescherming op.

De ingang van het festivalterrein met grote plastic roze tulpen

Terzij de Horde vanaf side stage, met zangeres Charlotte Wessels op zang

Een pizza margherita op een kartonnen bord, op benen die in het gras liggen. Anderhalve punt is al opgegeten.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Highly recommend cooking up a Levantine feast and inviting @janjupiter.bsky.social and @fruitydyke.bsky.social to come help eat it. I literally spent all afternoon in the kitchen but it was 100% worth it! Food details in alt text, all recipes from The Levantine Vegetarian by Salma Hage.

A bowl of freekeh tabbouleh with pomegranate seeds.

The bowl of tabbouleh, a ceramic dish with baharat spiced halloumi and mushrooms, and a small bowl of lime wedges.

Pickled red onions, a green herb sauce, the lime wedges again and a bowl of carrot mint falafel

Flatbreads, a bowl of pea za'atar falafel, halloumi fries, shredded iceberg lettuce, pickled red onions again and a bowl of lime yoghurt dip.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

52) Marc Morris - The Anglo-Saxons I've long been fascinated by the earlier half of the English Middle Ages, so this was right up my alley. As clear as you can make a history where every other principal player is called Æthel-something, I just missed some info on the lives of the common folk.

The book cover for 'The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England' by Marc Morris. It shows the title in a big font, set in an illustration that looks like an elaborate fibula.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

My pet peeve when reading history books: maps that clearly just take a modern map of Europe and slap historical names on them. And thus this map of Western Europe in the 8th century also shows the distinct contours of the province Flevoland; land that wouldn't be created (literally) until the 1950s.

A photo of a black and white map in a book. It show most of the Netherlands, Belgium and bits of France and Britain. In the Netherlands, the early medieval city Dorestad is indicated, underneath the contours of the modern province Flevoland.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm hosting a little Levantine feast for friends next week (because I'm obsessed with The Levantine Vegetarian and needed an excuse to cook extravagantly from it). Prepped two flavours of falafel for it yesterday. It's going to be delicious, I can't wait!

A plate of uncooked falafel patties on strips of baking paper. The falafel has a greenish tinge because there are green peas in there.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

51) Gabriela Cabezón Cámara - We are green and trembling A very strange novel. I never felt I got a proper grip on it, and despite a length of under 200 pages it took me almost three weeks to finish it. It's very acclaimed though - I think it suffered in translation.

The book cover for 'We Are Green And Trembling' by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. It shows a green leaf with two holes in the shape of eyes, making it suggest a face.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

50) Virginia Evans - The Correspondent The life of a woman in her 70s, viewed through (some of) the ?many letters she writes and receives. Quite sweet without being saccharine. Another very popular novel and I can see why it's doing so well.

The book cover for 'The Correspondent' by Virginia Evans, featuring two painted robins on a fence.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

My hometown Utrecht has a square dedicated to nijntje (known as miffy internationally), including a statue of her, because author Dick Bruna lived in Utrecht. The name of the square is nijntje pleintje, which you can't tell in English but it rhymes in Dutch! www.discover-utrecht.com/location/mif...

A leafy square with a statue of nijntje (miffy) on a plinth. She looks, appropriately, like her 2D self.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Oooh, kinda like Bremen where statues of the Town Musicians abound!

Statue in the German town of Bremen, showing the Town Musicians of Bremen: a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster stacked on top each other.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

Genuinely, this is what my The Storygraph charts look like, only 9 days into August

A chart showing how many books and pages I've read every month of 2026. August is on par with several other months, with 5 books and around 1750 pages, despite only being 9 days into the month.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

49) Lauren Groff - Brawler I adore anything Groff writes. Her complicated, brittle women, the humanity and brutality in equal measures. This short story collection is true to its name, pulling no punches.

Book cover for the short story collection 'Brawler' by Lauren Groff. It features in illustration of a young woman with a swimming cap, face sunk into the weather up to her bottom lip.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

48) Liselot Mariën - Als de dieren A visceral, suffocating account of post natal depression, via the descent of the goddess Inanna into the underworld. Incredibly beautifully written and evocative.

The book cover for 'Als de dieren' by Liselot Mariën. It's simply the title on a bright coral red background, with one white corner with an animal's tail peeking out.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

47) Caro Claire Burke - Yesteryear Possibly the most hyped novel of the year, and it mostly lives up to it. The concept is strong - Instagram tradwife is catapulted back to the 1850s for some actual pioneering life - and Burke does her utmost to give us a reasonable explanation for it all.

The book cover for 'Yesteryear' by Caro Claire Burke, featuring a distorted and hazy photograph of an American farm.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

46) Michael Crighton - Jurassic Park This needs no introduction. The exposition is clunky, the characters pretty non-descript, the movie certainly infinitely better - and I still couldn't stop reading.

The book cover for 'Jurassic Park' by Michael Crighton, featuring that famous T-rex silhouette.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

45) Claire Keegan - Walk the Blue Fields Early short stories from Keegan. They're good - mysterious, full of suggested depth and a bone deep Irishness - but suffer in comparison to her later works like Foster and So Late in the Day, that are so much more arresting.

The book cover cover for 'Walk the Blue Fields' by Claire Keegan, featuring a painting of blue horses in a green field.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

44) Fern Riddell - Death in Ten Minutes Ostensibly, a biography of the radical suffragette Kitty Marion. But also a condensed history of the suffragette movement, its violence, and a reflection on how that has been scrubbed from popular history. Interesting but unbalanced.

The book cover for 'Death in Ten Minutes' by Fern Riddell. It features a glamorous portrait of an Edwardian woman, with a colour overlay (in shades of blue, purple, red and pink) and the words 'Kitty Marion: activist. arsonist. suffragette.' underneath.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

43) Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Happy Land This is my second Perkins-Valdez and I think it's my last. She illuminates interesting and important bits of African-American history but I don't get on with her style, I find it distant and stilted.

The book cover for 'Happy Land' by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, featuring an illustration of a young black woman with a big flower crown

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

42) Caroline Dodds Pennock - On Savage Shores The Columbian exchange viewed through the eyes of indigenous people who came to Europe. Fascinating stuff, but the combination of a very dense writing style and lots of unfamiliar names did make for slow reading for me.

The book cover for 'On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe' by Caroline Dodds Pennock. It features the book title in a big font on a background of a brightly coloured pattern that I unfortunately can't identify any further than 'Indigenous'.

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

The Empress Matilda. Subtitle: one awesome woman who should've been the first Queen of England, and the men who kept fucking shit up for her.

Me sitting in a chair, wearing a blue top and green botanic-print skirt, gesturing at a TV screen that shows the first slide of my powerpoint presentation on the Empress Matilda

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