I am making the most of my insomnia by p laying Stardew Valley and drinking Nutella hot chocolate.

You know, 2025 is the first year I remember preordering books. It feels so luxurious. I can’t explain it but I feels like something rich people get to do.

I read this. Then the author’s note. Now I want to know: what’s a cozy, anyway? All the stakes in this book are emotional, about friendship and purpose. Sure, swords too, and some battle. And it’s not predictable. But to me it’s still cozy rather than high fantasy. #booksky

You know what they say about Monday mornings: overcaffeinate and underprepare and everything will be fine.

My son just announced we’re looking through the Pokémon dictionary to determine “who has done leg day.” 😂

Other appeal factors include: j’accuse scene, amateur detective, fast pacing, wry tone, closed circle puzzle mystery #booksky 3/2

By academic writing, I mean that the whole thing is awash with references to classic literature and old mystery authors. It feels like the author NEEDS to show off how well versed they are in the OGs. #booksky 2/2

Finishing up this mystery novel and here’s who I think would love it: people who love Christie, puzzle mysteries, and academic writing. That last takes some explaining. #booksky 1/2

Picked this series up after listening to All About Agatha (a chronological examination of Christie’s books). Book one: what if a ghostwriter helped Hillary Clinton solve a murder? Book two: what if ghostwriter is now trapped on a cruise ship where murders happen? #booksky #librarylife

My hold came in at the library, and when I stopped by I had to browse the bookshop. (My library puts weeded books and donations out for sale) I snagged this one for $2! Dimaline is on my list of “I want to read everything you’ve ever written” authors #librarylife #booksky

On loan from a friend. Perhaps the perfect palate cleanser from Dungeon Crawler Carl? I know nothing except the author also wrote Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries #booksky

Born to sleep in and eat bagels in bed. Forced to take the kids to early dental appointments.

I remain flabbergasted that this series isn’t taking the romantasy world by storm. Or the cozy fantasy world. Appeal factors include: yearning; light-hearted prose; protagonists who are midlife; mundane jobs in fantastical worlds; a berserker paladin who knits socks for his bros; cleric = lawyer

I finished DCC 8 and… WTF Matt Dinniman (complimentary)! #booksky

Low stakes hot take: I just don’t want to read outside my four preferred genres. My attention span is maxed out in the rest of my life and I just want to read what I want for funsies. Read harder challenges? I could never 😂 #booksky

Reading DCC #8 and the Garden of Deliverance is taking me out (complimentary) 😭 #booksky

I just realized that a tender can tender tender tenders and it’s grammatically correct

This iteration of the dungeon (DCC 8) is making me SO ANXIOUS (clinically anxious all the time tbh). I’m worried I won’t be able to finish it. Someone who’s already finished it tell me if it’s worth it. 🙈 #booksky

And now back to our regularly scheduled dungeon. (Am reading Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 and they’re all chonkers). #booksky

Appeal factors include hot-shot pilots, mysteriously powerful unnamed people pulling strings, and alien relics. #booksky 2/2

About 25% through and so far I would pitch this book to you as, “first contact with alien artifacts told through interviews.” The format makes it kind of slow-paced though the plot line is a thriller. I think the doorway is plotline, maaaaybe setting as a secondary. #booksky

D&D has released an official statblock for Jimothy

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

Loot drop after defeating me: - three sets of earbuds - an old-fashioned checkbook - a TBR with 719 great suggestions on it

L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Loot drop after defeating me: - eyeglasses useful only if you have astigmatism otherwise they poison you - 100 fountain pens + 1 ink too pale to read but it swatched pretty - chapstick - lighter - companion crab - cobalt blue ipod nano that only plays Nina Simone's See-Line Woman; triggers montage

It turns out I am really glad I went back to ch 1 to recenter my plot and tone. I actually really love ch 1-3! I like them! I wrote an OK thing! #booksky

Being intentional and reflective about my work is sometimes so annoying 😂

This IS the reason I can’t join a book club though. I got an English degree and still read a lot, but assign me a group reading task?? 🔪

Sara Century@saracentury.bsky.social · 3w ago

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

Questions to get unstuck: not “what is most logical from what I’ve written before,” but “what hat would be the most funny/huge/wild thing to happen next?”

Is the drug lexapro? Please sign me up. 😂

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Irish libraries need to move with the times instead of always lagging behind current trends.

After a truly stressful day, at least I can say I’m not in the dungeon. Yet.