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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fujis are the best, though I've been having great luck with the Sugarbee variety lately.

TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And, just like that, the serpent of September slips through my fingers and slithers off into the mist... Books Read: 2 Top: Dragonborn, by Struan Murray (4/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/09/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ah, August... yet another month that can be summarized by a full-throated scream at the universe. Books Read: 4 Top: A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman, and Scythe, by Neal Shusterman (4.5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/08/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

July was not a great month, and reading inevitably suffered. Books Read: 2 Top: This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman (4.5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/07/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Halfway through a year that's just a pile of monstrosities in a hooded robe... Books Read: 5 Top: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman, and Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith (4.5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/06/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just started This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7). Previously read The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (DCC #6) and Bea Wolf (Zach Weinersmith), both highly enjoyed.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So, that was May. One less month of 2026 to endure, I suppose... Books Read: 3 Top: The Butcher's Masquerade, by Matt Dinniman (5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/05/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

April sure existed, didn't it? Yes, indeed... April... Anyone still have the receipt for the year, or are we past the return date? Books read: 4 Top: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, by Matt Dinniman (4.5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I forgot February. Shows how well the new job's going (read: not well). Plus... *waves at All The Things On Fire* ... why? Books Read (February): 3 Books Read (March): 4 Top: Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman (5/5 stars) #Books #Reading 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/03/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

January is not giving me much hope for 2026 being "my" year. Books Read: 11 Top Reads: The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate, Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/01/ #Books #Reading 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

December ends, along with a year that can rot in Calendar Hell alongside too many other years since 2016... Books Read: 5 Top Read: Appropriately, four out of the five were 4/5 star reads; not worth picking on the only oddball brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/ #Books 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

November existed, evidently. And I continue to exist, admittedly more out of habit than hope. Books read: 13 Top: The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman, Gravebooks by J. A. White (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/ #Books #Reading 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

October continued to up the ante on cruddiness across the board. With this buildup, I honestly dread 2025's upcoming finale months. But, hey, books are a thing... Books Read: 11 Top Read: The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman (5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/ #Books 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

September... was a month. Not liking what I see for the rest of the year, either. Hence, me hiding out in books. Books read: 11 Top: A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (5/5 stars) www.brightdreamer.com/bdbooks/inde... #Books #Reading 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Well, August sucked on most every conceivable level... at least I read a few decent things. Books read: 7 Top: Daindreth's Assassin, by Elisabeth Wheatley (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/ #Books 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

July, and somehow things are even worse than in June. Gotta give 2025 credit for picking a theme and leaning into it hard... Books read: 9 Top: Several 4-out-of-5-star reads, but no real standouts (see also: things are worse)... brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/ #Books 💙📚👀

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

June, halfway through a year that's all cloud and no silver lining. All the more incentive to hide out in books... Books read: 8 Top: The Dying of the Light, by Derek Landy (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/ #Books 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

May was not an improvement on April. Books read: 10 Top: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), Confessions of an Imaginary Friend (Michelle Cuevas), Last Stand of Dead Men & Armageddon Outta Here (Derek Landy) (4.5/5 stars) #Books 💙📚👀 brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/05/

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm so tired of too many things.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

April will end with me finding out how long I have before my job relocates out from under me. Can 2025 just... stop for five seconds? Books read: 11 Top: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/04/ #Books 💙📚👀

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

March wasn't much of an improvement over February. If there's a future that isn't dystopian, I'm not seein' it. Total books read: 11 Top: The Bakery Dragon, by Devin Elle Kurtz, and Kingdom of the Wicked, by Derek Landy (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/03/ #Books 💙📚👀

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Of all the unspoken assumptions we all thought held down civilization, but are finding out were just sugar plum dreams, one of the most subtly disturbing is that the rich folk in charge valued living luxuriously in a developed society over the simple pleasure of drinking the blood of the poor.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If what I'm seeing around me these days is America, I no longer feel like an American... This one hits close to home, though if I had a feasible path out I'd seriously consider taking it. (Too poor, unskilled, and old to emigrate, unfortunately.)

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For a short month, February had more than its share of awful packed in, didn't it? At least reading's still legal (for now)... Total read: 9 Top: Death Bringer, by Derek Landy, and Ghostdrift, by Suzanne Palmer (4.5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/02/ #Books 💙📚👀

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Trump administration is just the Tulsa Massacre writ large. A black man got elected/black Americans made some progress so the white folks next door have to burn the whole thing down to make it never have happened.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A day late, because the terrible month has been terrible in countless terrible ways, but here's the January book review update. Total read: 9 Top: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, by Dan Gemeinhart (5/5 stars) brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2025/01/ #Books 💙📚👀

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them. So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.

Today the DOE announced plans to dismiss 11 outstanding complaints against book bans, and to eliminate the position of Book Ban Coordinator at the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). This distortion of the intended work of the OCR--the protection of civil rights and students' freedoms in our nation's schools--is negligent, grossly un-American, and in direct conflict with freedom of speech, a bedrock right enshrined in the Constitution.

Authors Against Book Bans unequivocally stands against all such attempts at censorship and discrimination. We stand with families, students and educators across the country who exercise free speech every time they open a book, and with the 71% of Americans who are opposed to book bans. Book bans do not protect children; history teaches us that they are a terrifying step toward tyranny.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Just over a month after entering hospice, my father - retired drafter, lifelong SF fan, one-time winner of the 1960 fan Hugo as part of the Nameless Ones, all-around wonderful man - passed away peacefully at home. This is a terrible day in a terrible month in a terrible year.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Agreeing that D national leadership is failing, to a point that makes me wonder if it's more than just political myopia; the fighters and future in the party are being deliberately stifled. A new party would have to build from local levels to be a viable power. As the fist tightens, is it possible?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Expanse series, James S. A. Corey The Final Architecture series and the Children of Time series, Adrian Tchaikovsky The Divide series, J. S. Dewes The Central Corps series, Elizabeth Bonesteel The Bobiverse series, Dennis E. Taylor The Lady Astronaut series, Mary Robinette Kowal

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Once more, lines blur between satire and reality. Pretty sure he'll try this, 50/50 odds he gets away with it if he does....

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1 month ago yesterday, we signed my elderly father up for home hospice. In the past couple days, his decline has steepened. Between this and treasonous Nazis torching everything remotely good & hopeful in my country, forgive me if my response to "stay calm" and "don't worry" is a literal scream.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If your political opposition are Nazis and the bipartisanship is only one-way, then all you’re doing is collaborating with Nazis. Shouldn’t be a bragging point! You worms.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher. A different take on Sleeping Beauty. Uprooted and Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik. Retellings of a Polish fairy tale and Rumplestiltskin respectively.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new and very likely awful era. I don’t know what’s going to happen. None of us do. But also, none of us know what’s going to happen. Which is a way of saying hope. I’m going to try to enjoy something of tonight, while it lasts

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/01/2025

I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Have you tried C. L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End? It's YA, but K. Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger's Daughter (first in a trilogy) has a great sapphic romance in a very not-cozy setting.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

excellent thread from @mariancall.bsky.social ⬇️

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Adrian Tchaikovsky. Prolific writer, SF and F, multiple series and standalones . N. K. Jemisin. Broken Earth trilogy is an interesting dystopian fantasy. Finder Chronicles, Suzanne Palmer. Solid space adventure. Bobiverse series, Dennis E. Taylor. SF, some humor, retro sense of wonder.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

December looked at November's cruddiness and told the universe to hold its beer... Total books read: 8 Top read: The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, Volume 3, by Andy Diggle (4.5/5 stars) 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #Books brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The Bobiverse series, Dennis E. Taylor. The Finder Chronicles, Suzanne Palmer. The Protectorate trilogy, Megan E. O'Keefe. The Otherland quartet, Tad Williams. The Body Scout, Lincoln Michel. Kiln People, David Brin.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Remember this the next time a MAGA racist mocks the "tolerant left" for criticizing them.

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Only preferable to the patients, the doctors, and the majority of the population... like they matter compared to the almighty profit margins and the sacred shareholders.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I have the same wish!

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TBWeber @tbweber.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Well, that's the nail in the coffin of any vestigial holiday cheer for 2024. We just had to sign my elderly father up for hospice care. Wasn't bad enough you took my hope for the country's future, was it, 2024? You had to take my dad? Go so to hell, year...

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