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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is something that fills my mind, it’s incomprehensible that they think we will just succumb to their wills. It has never worked and it will never work. Humans are innately good. Not evil. We learn the latter. Artist: unknown

Black and pink artwork of a black woman stomping on you, the viewer. Her knee high lace up boots have stickers on the bottom “eat 💩 (shit)” and “black panther party (with black panther)” text to the left of her says “YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY BUT YOU CAN’T KILL REVOLUTION”

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Current reads: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley-Robinson It’s kinda scary reading your future. One thing that really has hit the nail on the head is how narcissists are so fucked in their heads that if they believe they’re going to “die” then they will kill everyone around them. Hmmm 🧐

Audio book cover with white text “The ministry for the future a novel Kim Stanley Robinson New York Times bestselling author ” overlayed of a silo like tunnel pointing up to a blue cloudy sky with an airship flying by. At the end of the tunnel is a figure standing in shadow.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

April reading wrap-up (a little late whoops): I actually had a good month. ‘Pemi Aguda’s Ghostroots blew me away with every story. Shoko’s Smile was another close contender. My main goal this year is to add more non-fiction this year. Expand my critical thinking. #booksky #readingispolitical

Background a dreamy looking photo of pink cosmos. Heading has a smiley face with closed eyes and hand written font saying April reads - all in white. Bottom of post in plain white text @txjes

Below is 3x3 grid of book covers with type of book on left side and star ratings beneath. Text is white that looks hand written.

1. The country will bring us no peace by Matthieu Simard (Paper; 3.25 stars)
2. Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda (Paper; 5.00 stars)
3. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (Libby; 3.50 stars)
4. Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung (Kindle; 4.50 stars)
5. On the calculation of volume III by Solvej Balle (Paper; 4.00 stars)
6. The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Audio; 4.00 stars)
7. The mother tongue: English and how it got to be that way by Bill Bryson (Kindle; 3.25 stars)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is not new news. We’ve known for 50+ years how to do this… the fossil fuel industry have spent billions of $$ to create dissent and mistrust in renewables for a reason. Cos it is far more economical and ecological to invest in green energies. But they don’t care about that #subwaytakes

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Glorious day to sit outside get my vitamin D fill and exercise my critical brain #booksky #readingispolitical

Tan hand holding a white AirPod, background of a green park with scattered trees (and a small tortoiseshell cat sitting in the shade of one) and a very blue sky. Yellow with red writing book cover superimposed over left bottom of image: The dawn of everything, a new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Top left has black writing:

Photo: Mūn Photography
Model: Wuwu Dapiran
Makeup: Txjes

Style: Jess D.
Location: My abode
Backstage: Jessica Dapiran

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely loved this collection. Choi Eunyoung’s gentle sadness writing style seeps into your pores and you feel everything each of the protagonists feel. This truly surprised me as I didn’t think I would like it. #booksky #readtofreeyoursoul

Tan hand holding black kindle with cover for Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung; background of legs in grey tracksuit pains and bright orange trainers, shadows of pink cosmos flowers litter the concrete.pink cosmos flowers right side of image

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Beautiful day to sit in the sun and read ☀️🤓📖 #booksky #readingispolitical #readtobefree

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s that time of month again…….. reading wrap up!!! I have to say, I surprised myself this month. It felt like a slog. But I had quite a few bangers in there! #booksky #readingispolitical

Grid of books on a neutral background: Title in bold black letters March Reads with pink hand giving a peace sign overlayed.
Top says in black text 123 Readabook St, Any Where (left) handle for @txjes (right)
Under title in black text Read A Book (left) For Culture (right)

Below a grid of 3x3 book covers with type on left border and star rating below:
1. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Libby; 3.5 star)
2. Red Sword by Bora Chung (Physical; 4.25 star)
3. Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield (physical; 3 star)
4. Time Riders - The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow (kindle; 2.5 star)
5. Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis (audio; 5 star)
6. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Libby; 3 star)
7. the Great Derangement by Amitov Ghosh (kindle; 4 star)
8. Rapport - friendship, solidarity, communion, empathy by Martha Wells (Libby; 2.75 star)
9. strange Pictures by Uketsu (Libby; 4 star)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just finished: I can’t say I loved this book, I didn’t hate it, it’s beautifully written about the complexities of relationships and how we evolve and change, often adjacent, well, askew to our partners… I suppose I was hoping for a bit more weird. Overall, it’s a lovely book. #booksky #books

Tan hand holding book over sink with water streaming and splashing in the background against stainless steel sink.
Book is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The cover is of a woman behind streaks of water blurring her face and bare shoulders. Title at bottom of book and author at the top in bold white lettering.
It has a red-orange boarder around the image

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Current read - Red Sword by Bora Chung: since this book is based on war where innocent people have to fight in defense of empire and they are merely just collateral damage when they are gruesomely killed, it feels right that I should be reading this in these times.

Tan hand holding book (Red Sword by Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur), cover has a red sword coming through white clouds, camera flash has made the tip of the sword look like it’s on fire, burning red.
Image is foggy and against a white blurred background.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Neoliberalism is dead. Fascism is fighting to survive. Informed citizens are on the rise! So who will you choose to stand with? I know where I will be; on the right side of history #nowar #informedcitizen #revolution

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I’m not sure why I’m bothering posting this. I struggled to read this month. The state of the world keeps me in a perpetual state of anxiety. I guess Klein talks about the shadow world. And Green points out that disease mitigation, or lack of, is wholly due to the global north allowing it to exist.

Monthly book wrap up on a dark khaki shimmery background. Vertical title centre page in orange “26 02” behind it is a graphic of a dot and lines cascading around like a sun. Border is white with arrows pointing right, downwards (left), upwards (right) words break up the border L - “ Feb reads” R - “16 out of 60”
Book covers in a grid 3x2 with type (left) and star rating (bottom) in white writing:
1. The Promised Neverland Vol. 3 by Kaiu Shirai (Libby 3 star)
2. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (physical 4 star)
3. Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein (Libby audio 4 star)
4. Light from uncommon stars by Ryle Aoki (Libby 2 star)
5. One Piece vol. 47 by Eiichiro Oda (Libby 3 star)
6. Everything is tuberculosis by John Green (Libby audio 3.5 star)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I didn’t become an informed citizen overnight. It’s taken a lot of reading, for awhile it had to be fiction as my feed was giving me all the non-fiction I could handle. But the fiction always had the ethics, the politics that I needed to keep pushing myself to stay informed vt.tiktok.com/ZSmybgEYA/

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Next post because BlueSky only allows 4 pictures… we can fight back. Because at the end of the day humans are inherently good. We learn to be evil.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

THEY what us to to fight each other. Don’t! Stop! Look! Listen! We are all struggling! THEY created this hellscape and THEY should be held accountable for the insurmountable damage they have caused. I will fight for those who don’t look/think/pray like me. I hope they also will fight for me!

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This never gets old and will never get old… it takes 3% of the population to make change. Protesting works!

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Open your eyes! See the truth! Don’t let their lies be louder than reality! We know right from wrong, they know that. That’s why they try to confuse us.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It’s just one of those days…

Tan woman with tortoiseshell cat on copper coloured couch, and beige blanket. Cat is on her back, woman has arm linked under then over cats white tummy, woman is holding white Xbox controller. She’s wearing blue plaid shirt, beige tank top, and grey track pants

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That time of month again… last year I lacked woefully in non-fiction - though at the time I didn’t feel the need to be that level of educated - All of it to create new neurological pathways that for decades have slowly eroded away to the neoliberalism capitalism propaganda.

Grid of 4 x 3 book covers set to background of white fluffy clouds. At top in big bold text the title “January Reads”
Each book cover is surrounded by thin line red frame.. to the right of cover labels stating whether it is a physical or digital (I.e. libby or kindle), underneath each cover is a star rating. Star written in text form.
Very bottom of page has a jagged edges word bubble with quote “Take care of yourself. Embrace your emotions. Remember to read. Read healthy. Be present and mindful.Handle yourself with care.” Below in red writing “10 / 60” indicating how many books read this year.

Books as follows:
1. Penguin book of Korean short stories by various (physical book 3.5 star)
2. One Piece Vol. 53 by Eiichiro Oda (Libby 3.5 star)
3. Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Vol. 3 by Inio Asano (Libby 2.5 star)
4. Her body and other parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Libby 2.5 star)
5. The promised neverland vol. 1 by Kaiu Shirai (Libby 3.0 star)
6. The message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Libby-audio 4.0 star)
7. All systems red by Martha Wells (Libby 3.25 star)
8. Invisible doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson (Libby-audio 5.0 star)
9. The promised neverland vol. 2 by Kaiu Shirai (Libby 3.5 star)
10. Moral ambition: stop wasting your talent and start making a difference by Rutger Bergman (Libby-audio 4.0 star)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I stand with Iranians who are fighting for their oppressive government to start listening to their peoples. Do not mistake this for a support of regime change. Not even close. It’s full support for the people to take back their power! Inspiration for us all.

Homer and Marge Simpson (cartoon TV show), dressed in all black burglary clothes, with caption below “Fight the power”

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I’ve decided 2026 is the start of my Villain Era. I don’t care if I lose people along the way who don’t agree for peace and just e for all. Over the last decade I’ve already lost so many, so what’s a few more. I refuse to be on the wrong side of history… if one is down, we are all down!

Photo of me, brown woman, with gold heart shape bamboo earrings and red lipstick on, pouting my lips while giving a backwards peace sign with my fingers. The lighting is minimally lit on my face, I am mostly in the dark. In the background white neon skull light shines

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Well I smashed my reading goal this year. Seems to be the only thing I over achieved for the year 😹 Can’t predict the future and I don’t have New Year’s resolutions; it’s just another year with many another days in it. I guess, it’s happy new year then 🥳

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

For all those who can’t do a light Google search on what a Semite is, I’ve done it for you… please don’t believe all this propaganda that is only there to divide us from loving our cousins & neighbours. They don’t want to protect us. Only to control us. Ignorance is not bliss. Knowledge is power!

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I’m sure I say this every month, but books really keep me going. Every day new atrocities arise and old ones get bolder. It’s hard to stay present and informed. Thank the stars for public libraries; I’d be so lost without them 💚 💛 💙 🩷

Reading wrap-up grid. White background with 4 worm like colored elongated oval shapes with smiley faces. Top left is pink (no smiley - grid covering majority of it) top right - yellow (basic smiley- two eyes and mouth), bottom left green with surprised smiley with blushed cheeks, bottom left blue with cheeky smiley.

Title in purple “November”; below in black “reads”; little antlers above ‘November’ and two cartoon eyes looking up with lashes under ‘reads’

3x3 grid below with books listed with covers and ratings that is a hand drawn daisy:
1: Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata - 2 daisies (Libby)
2: Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías - 2.5 daisies (Libby)
3: A short stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck - 3.5 daisies (Libby)
4: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen - 3.5 daisies (Libby)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I had many spooky books on my TBR but grief got me good this month. So I opted for library books [mostly] and fairly short weird reads [mostly]. Only one book actually met those two criteria, A Dog’s Heart. You can always rely on Mikhail Bulgakov for the chaotically weird and wonderful. 🐶 😈 🍺 🤬🫠

Halloween post with orange background. Spider webs frame the top and bottom of post. Title is in Purple and white spooky lettering “October reads”. Next to the title is Jack Skellington’s (The Nightmare Before Christmas) face in black.
A 3x3 grid below with rectangle frames of 4 books, each rated by jack-o-lantern pumpkin with a black cat peering out the top:
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (2.5 🎃🐈‍⬛ - Libby)
A Dog’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov (3.0 🎃🐈‍⬛ - physical)
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (2.5 🎃🐈‍⬛ - Libby)
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (2.5 🎃🐈‍⬛ - Libby)

Bottom of post there is a cartoon white sheet ghost with spooky letters say “Boo!” next to it

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's been quite a month. I turned 40 >.< And I lost the love of my life T.T Looks like it will be a lost to the records. Reading has been a slog anyways & now with Papi’s passing, it feels more like a luxury. I no longer know what to do. The last 10 years was all about him… who am I without him?

2x3 Grid of books read.
Title in Blue and yellow: September Reads 56/50
Books:- The three-body problem by Liu Cixin 3.5 ⭐️ (Libby), The driver’s seat by Muriel Spark 3 ⭐️ (physical), Water moon by Samantha Soto Yambao 2 ⭐️ (Libby), On the calculation of volume II by Solvej Balle 4 ⭐️ (physical), The Fire next time by James Baldwin 5 ⭐️ (Libby).
This is set on a pink background with a cartoon portrait of myself, Jessica. I am standing with my leg out turned and a bend in my knee. I am giving a peace sign with my left hand, my right hand is holding my phone. My hair flipped to the left side. I am wearing a sheer white dress with a black slip. Sheer dress has colorful objects printed on (such as poodle, lobster, palm trees, shuttle cock, lipstick, old school flip phone, pearls, rose, make-up compact, smiley face, the letter G etc)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Grief never truly goes away. It just gets quieter over time. It’s breaking me how quickly I am forgetting you. Though I will never stop missing you, my love. You are the greatest love I have ever known. I will find you again and again and again. Good night, for now, my gentle giant

Me, a tan, brunette woman, asleep on a yellow pillow with a Maine Coon mix cat, Papi, wrapped in my arms in a spooning position. Papi has his eyes closed. His head leaning against his mama’s face. His paw is drooped over his mama’s arm. He has big white paws and tabby fur with mixes of brown, white, grey and ginger. His nose is pink. He has big pointy ears.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Considering that I spent most of this month sick, I’m very impressed I managed to finish 5 books. Honestly, it was a pretty solid month for good books. Victorian Psycho definitely wins the stars this month though! Holy moly. Wow. Just wow 🫠

Background picture of an 80s yellow canary TV with white noise background on screen with text overlay “AUG READS”. It is set on a yellow table with a yellow background.
There are 5 book covers set in a grid (3x2) with star rating below each cover and what type of book i.e. physical read, Libby (digital library), or kindle read.

Books from left to right:
1. You dreamed of empires by Álvaro Enrigue; 3.5 stars; physical
2. Butter by Asako Yuzuki; 2.25 stars; Libby
3. Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; 5 stars; Kindle
4. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro; 3.25 stars; Libby
5. Strange beasts of China by Yan Ge; 3.75 stars; physical

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Post sinus infection flare up (no break for the disabled) back in bed with heat packs and elec blanket on. Thank goodness for books keeping me sane. Two chapters in and it’s not disappointing.

Book - Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge. Black cover of night sky with full moon and some small cloud cover with the stars in the background and city scape in the distant background. The white tones have a purple filter giving an otherworldly feel.
Book is placed on bedding, pink top sheet (lower third of pic) with a grid duvet cover, white with pink lines (top two thirds of pic)

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Quote from You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue: “If there’s anything Spaniards and Mexicans have always agreed upon, it’s that nobody is less qualified to govern that the government itself.”

Picture of a page in book with the above quote highlighted.
It is a bright sunny day with a blue sky in background and the phone is casting a shadow on the book

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I think this sums up my reading style quite well 🤓🫠🤗

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It’s that time again, monthly wrap up! Honestly if it wasn’t for the library I really think I would’ve struggled to read this month. Most days I think “surely the world can’t get worse” and every day I am flabbergasted at how it is getting much worse. I still have hope that humanity will prevail

Picture of a reading wrap up. Background is a cosmic blend of pink, yellow and purple. Graphic ellipsis circles around the title “July Reads 46/50”. Little graphic stars are placed at the edge of the title ellipsis. Bottom right corner is a cut off ellipsis with stars.
Books listed in order: Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, Untold night and day by Bae Suah, in Ascension by Martin MacInnes, The woman in the purple skirt by Natsuko Imamura, Dark neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi, and Carnality by Lina Wolff

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s hard to stay motivated in this hellscape we call reality these days. Reading is my only escape. The only way I can soothe my fracturing soul. It’s been tough lately & all the luxuries have come to an end. I am thankful for public libraries that have kept me going. Yes! I am a goddamn socialist!

Fluro yellow title saying June Reads (Halfway).
Graphic picture with grid of 6 book covers 1. Chlorine by Jade Song, 2. Murder at the Royal by Nita Prose, 3. Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada, 4. Things we lost in the fire by Mariana Enriquez, 5. How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, 6. Immaculate conception by Ling Ling Huang. These images are set to a blue background with hand drawn graphics, top left a black round smile face, top right grid with an orange triangle character who is thinking, bottom left is curved squiggly face character with rosy cheeks, to the top of it is ham drawn daisy flowers, bottom right is a round orange shaped character with a spin cap, underneath it is triangular squiggly lines, to the left top of it is circles one inside the other, 5 in total. Around the edging of the layout is little star like flowers and a shooting star.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

May reads wrap up. On roll having completed 34/50 of my yearly goal 🤗✨ Only 2 books were meh for me. Beneath Burning Sands was too misogynistic for me. Great concept but my god it was not necessary to keep rating the hotness of the female characters, and whether they were good at their jobs 🙄

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

For me, this is a 5 star read... having to live the same day over and over with no flow of time and no end in sight. Everything so predicatable, mundane, and yet still holds so much beauty, unpredictability; forcing you to find yourself in a world that has stood still but you haven't.

A tan girl holding a book, On the calculation of volume I by Solvej Balle with a large fluffy tabby cat on her lap. In the background is an agave plant in a white terracotta pot with paint starting to chip, this is set against a concrete path.

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

My TBR list is loooong and my funds are so so loooow… however I did decide books were far more important than food this week. Now what to read??? 🤔 Eh, let’s face it, it’s gonna be an eenie meenie minie moe decision making tactic, like always Note: Bottom book is We All Rot Eventually by Mia Ballard

Large paragraph of an African Woman with bright pink lipstick underwater with bubbles floating around her face, with a deep blue background, framed in a gold baroque frame. A hand holding 4 books in front of the portrait. In order from top to bottom: Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, Never Whistle At Night by Various Indigenous Authors, On The Calculations of Volume I by Solvej Balle, We All Rot Eventually by Mia Ballard

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

On a much happier note, I finally renewed my library card and have borrowed 4 books (finished 3) through Libby… this is why modern technology is fantastic!

Image with 7 book covers on a pastel 90s girlie background with translucent hearts and butterflies, with a black checkered border.
Books listed are Peach Pit by various authors, Counterweight by Djuna, A magical girl retires by Park Seolyeon, Toward Eternity by Anton Hur, Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, Sailor Moon vol 2 by Naoko Takeuchi, The Best of Philip K. Dick

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A bit late on this, but here is my March wrap up. I can’t say I have a favourite on this list. Each one filled my satiable appetite for the weird and wonderful. What can I say, I’m eccentric 🤗

3 cartoon pictures of cats in vertical row on a white background. Bubble writing in pink and beige stating March Reads. Grid of 9 with images with pictures of 8 books: The master and margarita, bliss montage, the metamorphosis, goddess of filth, it lasts forever and then it’s over, the trunk, binti, mongrel

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Jessi @txjes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is one way to keep me accountable for my 2025 reading goal of 50 books!!! Yes, you heard me right, 50 books! I’ve tried to reach this goal a few times and failed. Maybe making little monthly wrap-ups might keep me motivated…. Only time will tell

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