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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

February Reads #BookSky #AmReading Standout books: *The Conjuring of America *A Djinn Waits One Hundred Years *The Dream Hotel Sumiko Saulson's Melancholia continues my poetry reading goal for the year. I'll miss Minky Woodcock (The Girl Called Ctlhulu) Reread: The Reformatory

1. The Dream Hotel by Laila L
2. Bitter Root vol. 3
3. Bitter Root vol. 4
4. Night Blooming by Chelsea Quinn Yabro 5. 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson
6. Omens by Kelley Armstrong
7. Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders.
8. The Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart
9. A Djinn Waits 100 Years.
10. Melancolia by Sumiko Saulson
11. The Reformatory Tannarive Due.
12. The Girl Called Cthulhu
13. The Desert Peach

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

January Reads #BookSky #AmReading Standout reads: We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad All Fours by Miranda July Catching Big Fish by David Lynch Is My Chainsaw a Heart: 13 Centos by Elizabeth McClellan (one of my goals is to read my poetry this year and this collection was amazing)

1. We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad. 2. Planetfall by Emma Newman 3. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
4. All Fours by Miranda July
5. Cages by Dave Mckean
6. Eat the Ones You Love
7. Wild Faith by Talia Lavin
8. Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten by Lisa Ungar
9. Bitter Root vol. 2
10. Is My Chainsaw a Heart: 13 Centos by Elizabeth McClellan. 11. A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall
12. The Unveiling by Quan Barry. 13. Morbidly Curious by Coltan Scrivner

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My 2025 reading wrap up according to StoryGraph I read a total of 158 books. I re-read a few from my past. Most re-reads were for a book club. But I did revisit a half-remembered book from my teen years. #BookSky #AmReading

Year wrap up info graphic from Story Graph. 1st book read One perfect couple, last: everyone is lying to you, longest: Les Miserable, Shortest: Hunchback

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My final reads for 2025 #BookSky #AmReading Standout reads: Katabasis Annie Bot Murderland Deviant vol 1&2

1. Make Me Famous by Maud Ventura 2. Katabasis by RF Kuang
3. Deviant vol 1. 4. Deviant vol 2. 5. Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris 6. Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda 7. The Red Knot by Monique Asher 8. Why Are People Into That by Tina Horn 9. People of the Wolf by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
10. Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 11. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer 12: What Waits in the Woods by Teri Parlato
13: Murderland 14. Clermont 15. Everyone Is Lying to You

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

November Books - Top Reads: Scream w/ Me by Eleanor Johnson Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction & the Alt-Right by Jordan S Carroll I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (I do feel like I missed something reading this in translation) #BookSky

1. Model Home by Rivers Solomon 2. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewelle 3. Scream with Me by Eleanor Johnson 4. Exposure by Ramona Emerson. 5. I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones 6. Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman 7. The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King 8. The Vampire of Vourla edited by Edited by Álvaro García Marín 9. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead 10. Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
11. The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass 12. Bitter Root vol. 1 Family Business 13. A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger 14. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S Carroll

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

September Books I read some awesome books this month. All the nonfiction I picked up was outstanding For fiction the standout books were: Old Soul by Susan Baker The Haunting of Room 905 by Erika T Wurth The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica #BookSky #AmReading

A book cover collage. 1. Old Soul by Susan Barker
2. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
3. Vantage Point by Sara Slinger.
4. Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read
5. The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
6. LIsten to Your Sister by Neena Viel
7. Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt
8. The Witch in the Well by Camilla Bruce
9. Platonic by Marisa G Franco
10. Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly
11. The House of Quiet by Kerstin White
12. Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen
13. The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A friend invited me to speak at a horror event at her library. I wasn't expecting so many people (I must have had 50 people - standing room only!!) I had a blast talking about monsters with an audience who loves them as much as I do. 1/3 🧵

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Yarbro has long been one of my favorites. The depth of her historical research was astounding. I don't know how could balance her research and writing time (and her St. Germain books are massive). She created some of my favorite vampires. locusmag.com/2025/09/chel...

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1942-2025)

Author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, 82, died August 31, 2025. She was a prolific author who wrote more than 80 books, most in the horror, SF, and mystery genres, and was best known for her sprawling Saint…

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

August Reads #AmReading #BookSky This month was a mix of books I'm trying to clear from my hold list at the library & others are for book clubs. Standouts: *Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa *Never Whistle at Night *The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo *Grommets (entirely for the nostalgia)

A collage of book covers.
1. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo 2. Never Whistle After Dark (anthology) 3. The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes 4. Dark Restraint by Katee Robert 5. Snakes by Sadie Jones 6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 7. The Future by Naomi Alderman 8. The Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagnor 9. Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa 10. Smile for the Camera 11. Grommets 12. Mask of Deer Woman by Laura Dove

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

July's books (top reads) Stephen Graham Jones delivered (as usual)! Katee Robert always a delight. Stray Dogs (book club) was unexpectedly charming The White Guy Dies First: great collection The Girl Who Electrified Tesla was another fun installment in the collection #BookSky #AmReading

Collage of book covers. 1. Blood Over Bright Haven M L Wang (book club)
2. The White Guy Dies First
3. Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Electrified Tesla
Cynthia von Buhler
4. The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
5. Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
6. Algorithms of Oppression
7. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
8. Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
9. This Wretched Valley
10. Stray Dogs
11. Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
12. Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
13. Stone Heart by Katee Robert

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I read a mix of things in June, most of them for bookclubs. I've gotten off track for my goals: read what I own (which doesn't include buying new books, finishing series, & 1 nonfiction a month) standout reads: Interior Chinatown Hangsaman Berlin #AmReading #BookSky

Collage of book covers for my June reads. Titles: Autonomous, Foul Days, The Chrysalids, The Man in the High Castle, The Locked Ward, American Rapture, Wuthering Heights, Social Creature, On a Quiet Street, Berlin, Interior Chinatown, Hangsaman

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

May books Hammajang Luck and Bury Your Gays: delightfully fun. Don't Sleep with the Dead was as beautiful as I expected. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 1 was visually fantastic. And the story is great. The Order of the Solar Temple is a fascinating essays on a cult #BookSky #AmReading

A collage of book covers. Titles L-R. Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle. First Lie Wins. Traveling to Mars. Bright I Burn. The Venetian Secret. My Favorite Thing is Monsters 1. The Good of the Woods. Hammajang Luck. The Favor, Nicci French. Dead Dead Girls. In a Dark Dark Wood. The Solar Temple. The Astrology House. The Vampires of El Norte. Don't Sleep with the Dead. True Believers. Invisible Library. The Centre.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Saw "Sinners" tonight with one of my favorite people. The movie was even more than I'd hoped for. Plus we got to dissect the movie afterwards.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My partner is out, so it's horror movie night 🔪🩸. I opted for The Invitation (the vampire one). I have thoughts... They aren't positive 🤣 🦇

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I had a dream about Merlin last night. I'm certain it was partly from learning about the new manuscript that was discovered, and partly my anxiety brain acting up. Regardless, I've been thinking about it all day

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

March Reads Butch Hijab Blues is amazing Flapper Queens is a bit of comic and women's history I didn't know enough about. Creation Lake... I'm still thinking about it, so I think I liked it The Villa had so much going for it, but it missed it's mark & the ending didn't land for me. #BookSky

Book covers for: Beowulf:a new translation, drowning house, les miserables, invader, the villa, butch hijab blues, the island, zero days, flapper queens, creation lake, one of us knows, laziness does not exist

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What I read in February #BookSky Some hits, some were ok... And yikes Son of Rosemary was bad.

A collage of book covers. Remote Control by Nnedi Okafor. Boys Weekend. Other Minds. Other Terrors. Son of Rosemary. Of One Blood. Sistah Samurai. When She Woke. Academy for Liars.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just got lost in literary rabbit hole that won't end up in my class, did very little to help me prep the class (that starts in a week), but damn did it bring me joy.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Continuing Black History month. The poet and activist Audre Lorde. When I first read her in college both her sexuality and politics were removed from her bio and her poems her currated to avoid both. It was only by reading her on my own that learned who she was youtu.be/-CPAlSVaiL8?...

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Audre Lorde - There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions

YouTube video by AfroMarxist

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Still doing Black History. Butler's work is having a mainstream moment now, but she was a major voice in SF long before. "All that you Change Changes you The only lasting truth is Change God is Change” — Octavia E. Butler #blackhistory www.octaviabutler.com

Author Octavia Butler standing before a row of her books

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Horrifying. The straight up bigotry and threat to trans and gender nonconforming kids (and let's be honest faculty and staff). Plus our continued failure as a nation to teach history or critical thinking. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Queequag and Ishmael are my favorite ship in Moby Dick "Plus, with that mopey twink of his as a spousal hire, he’s kind of a two-fer"

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Spouse asked me if we needed a small espresso machine. I said no, but if you want it, get it. As I am now enjoying my decaf pistachio milk cappuccino, I'm not too proud to admit, I was 100% wrong. We do need an espresso machine so he can continue to make me delightful coffees.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Currently reading: "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley 🎧 "After the Ball" by Leira Ah (poetry) "Of One Blood" Pauline Hopkins 📖

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The spouse is out and my cheap Shudder subscription ends soon, so I'm watching Les Chambres Rouges (red rooms). Any minute one of the cats will do something in the other room to make me jump 🤣

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Today I finished reading "An Assassin in Utopia" by Susan Wels. I can't help but think of my late friend Howard (who 1st told me about the Oneida Community). He'd have wanted more political history, while I wanted more Oneida in the book. But we'd still have talked about it for hours. I miss him.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/01/2025

It’s very interesting watching people try to explain how bad it is for the Chinese government to have your information without referencing other places that have your information and the bad things those places are doing without being stopped or even gently chided.

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Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @siouxrowan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm quitting my other social media. This is soon to be the only place to find me.

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