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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING NEWS: BOOKCON IS RETURNING APRIL 2026!! April 18-19, 2026. Javits Center. Be there or be square! 📚 books mentioned: - How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder - The Isle in the Silver Sea - The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery - Cursed Daughters #Booksky #BookCon #BookCommunity

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Elatsoe with the Celestial book club starts today!! Join us for a fun, forum-based discussion (in a pretty cool group). We read speculative backlisted books. celestial.binderybooks.com

Into the Drowning Deep and Metal From Heaven

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

and the BIGGEST shoutout to Savannah at Saga Press (lots of you already know and adore her) who had a hand in his clever trickery!! Kyle proposed in her adorably cozy office, and I left with so many books that we needed to use multiple bags to cart them out of there. 2/4

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

i’m officially engaged to my best friend!!! 🥹💍🥳 we’re going to share ALL the details of Kyle’s proposal-ing in a video very soon, but just know that he crafted the most special moment he possibly could have. 1/4 #Booksky

This is how you lose the time war with a ring inside

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

achillean sci fi & fantasy books that you simply MUST check out!! do it, okay?? 📚 books mentioned: - When Among Crows by Veronica Roth - Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho - A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow #Booksky #queerbooks

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

two book events that are gonna ROCK your SOCKS off!! 📍Booknet Fest May 23-24, 2025 Drury Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida 📍Imaginarium Book Festival June 6-7 2025 University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC #bookevents #booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

read, support, and uplift books by marginalized authors today & every day. 📚 books mentioned: - Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley - The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass - Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson (sorry the mic revolted today lol) #Booksky #readbannedbooks

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

if you could force more specific kinds of fantasy books to appear in the world … what would you want to read about?  (please be as specific as you want. i dig it) #fantasybooks #magicalbooks #horrorbooks #bookishopinions #booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

my book club just started Dragonfruit AND announced our summer reading lineup (the votes were soooo close)! we chat casually in Discord forums (so you can share spoilers once you finish each segment). love to have you with us! it’s free to join the community: celestial.binderybooks.com #Booksky

Book covers: Elatsoe, Into the Drowning Deep, Metal From Heaven

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

huge news … Kyle did it!! the reading road to rings has been completed!! (now give him all the praise and amazing book recs so he doesn’t stop reading!) (and stay tuned for future news 👀) 📚 books mentioned: - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova #Booksky #readingroadtorings

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

magical & mystical sapphic books hit every time! 📚 books mentioned: - The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King - Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia - But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo thank you to William Morrow, Get Underlined, and Tordotcom for the gifted copies! #Booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

book recs that give me black mirror vibes!! 📚 books mentioned: - Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase - The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo - Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo thank you to Atria and Tor for the gifted copies! #Booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

like why do i have two nickels!!!

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

this was a deeply emotional read that i want to place in everyone’s hands right now. 📚 books mentioned: - Detained: A Boy’s Story of Survival and Resilience by D. Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales thank you to Atria/Primero Sueño Press for gifting me this copy. #booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🌲 i’m always delighted to see a really big tree, what can i say?? but seriously, this was a touching story involving love, loss, and nature. thank you so much to Redwood & Relay Influence for inviting me! 🎭 show mentioned: Redwood #redwoodmusical #booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

the joy that screaming about this series gives me is unmatched tbh N.K. Jemisin deserves all the praise, always #Booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

⬇️ what do you love about your library? please join me in the fight to save our libraries. here are four things you can do RIGHT NOW! EveryLibrary works to support and defend public and school libraries, and they put together a simple website that helps you take immediate action. 1/2 #Booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

i forgot how much i adored the dedication of Raybearer. (this month’s book club pick!! come read with us!! 💕 📖 ☀️) #Booksky

For the kid scanning fairy tales for a hero with a face like theirs.

And for the girls whose stories we compressed into pities and wonders, triumphs and cautions, without asking, even once, for their names.

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

the Celestial April book club (Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko) has officially begin! ALSO, our next weekend readathon starts on Fri! you join for as much as you can and read as much as you can. it’s fun and casual and text-based. #booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

✨🩸community event!! 🩸✨ you’re all officially invited to celebrate Women in Horror month with me, Aubrei, and Naomi @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social #Booksky

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

announcing the Celestial spring book club picks! the voting is always so tight (but that’s just because the choices are SO good. fire nominations every single time). i’d love to have you join our book club & reading community. and our February book (starting today) is Mexican Gothic!! #Booksky

Spring book club announcement graphic.
We read otherwordly, backlisted books by marginalized authors.
March: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
April: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
May: Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

Celestial book club reading now! Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

still processing this bookstagram post (the longer you stare at it, the worse it gets) (anyway pls support Jewish bookish content creators lol) 🫠 #booksky

aesthetic bookstagram flat lay with a copy of Mein Kampf with flowers, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, and Holocaust Remembrance Day

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

anyway. here are some trans book recs that i shared during last year’s readathon. fuck him, obviously, but what he said is also just … factually incorrect. #booksky #transbooks #queerbooks #queerbookrecs #transbookrecs

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

hi! feeling very unbalanced this morning. so can i take this moment to show off my pets (best pets in the world)? Persephone (Percy) the bunny and Artemis (Artie) the cat. they’re more roommates than friends, but they do nap next to each other and bop noses in the morning.

Photo of a gray lop-eared bunny on a white towel

Gray bunny and gray cat sleeping facing each other

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

i had the most magical & inspiring time at the 75th National Book Awards! the speeches were deeply moving, the DJ crushed it, and i got to meet so many book friends. as Barbara Kingsolver said, we’re at our best when we’re disruptors. #NBAwards #nationalbookawards #nationalbookfoundation

Steph in a long pink dress leaning against bookshelves

A group of smiling bookstagrammers in formal wear

Steph in a formal dress on the National Book Awards stage

A smiling group of bookstagrammers in formal wear

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

winter book club picks in case you missed the video announcement!! ✨ would love to have you read with us :)

Spinning Silver, The Deep Sky, Mexican Gothic

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

final book of my readathon (incredible so far), candle burning, library card socks, purring cat on my lap, and a fireplace ambiance. this weekend has been gentle.

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

my Discord is doing a readathon this weekend (read as many books as you can in community!). the second book i started - The Book Censor’s Library - hits you right in the face from the opening epigraph. content about censorship & book bannings always feels relevant, but I was READY for this.

At all times, we must stay on the surface of language.
The surface!
Beware of wading into meaning. Do you know what happens to people who sink into meaning?
An eternal mania strangles them and they're left unfit to live.
You are a guardian of surfaces. The future of
humanity depends on you.
THE FIRST CENSOR

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