Today is March 9 and, as a fully employed person paying for healthcare in the USA, my health insurance has paid for basically nothing. On track to meet our outrageous deductible around June-ish. What an absolutely ridiculous system.
Cover of The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
36. I've been continuing my slow re-read of The Brothers Sinister. This was one of my favorite 2025 reads, and I'm pleased to report that *the* plot twist still packs a punch the second time around. #booksky #romance #historical 📚❤️
Cover of William Rawlings, The Columbus Stocking Strangler
35. A very sad true crime story. Sometimes felt like the author almost had more info than he could handle... I would have been more interested in the human side of the story, but the last act is bogged in legal procedure. #booksky #truecrime 📚🔍
A critique partner with complimentary skills is worth their weight in gold. ❤️
#writingcommunity #amwriting
Cover of Death on the Nile
34. At this point, I expected the cringe-inducing language around race & colonialism, but the dated handling of an addiction storyline caught me off-guard.
Resolution strains credulity, story ultimately lacks the punch of Orient Express. #booksky #mystery 🔍📚
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons
Professor Tangrowth talks and everyone falls asleep. 😅 Too relatable. #pokopia
Today was a gross, long roller coaster of a day... but I got through it. Maybe this is you too, in which case congrats on crushing it.
Screenshot from storygraph: 18 books read with an average 3.98 review.
February #Storygraph reading stats. Ignore the wonky graph at the bottom. I'm rubbish at tracking specific pages/minutes per day. 😆 #booksky
Cover of Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
33. Last book of February was Cards on the Table. Ariadne Oliver provides welcome comic relief in a story with as many sleuths as suspects. #booksky #mystery 🔍📚
Cover of Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
March reading plans, anyone? We've gotten a bit behind on our Poirot, but we have 8 days to finish this one. 😅 #mystery #classic #booksky 📚🔍
Drop something METAL 🤖⚙️🖤🤘⛓️
Cover of Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen's Bookshelf
I can't object to a well-made #janeausten adaptation, but I'm still waiting for the lost women of the canon to get their turn in the spotlight.
This was one of my favorites of 2025 and is well worth your time. Women's History Month is just around the corner! 📚 #booksky #history #womenshistory
Cover of Tough Love for Indie Authors by Keri-Rae Barnum, displayed on an ereader.
32. I just finished Tough Love for Indie Authors. This book is packed with great info! I have a feeling I'll pick it up again and again. TY Keri-Rae Barnum and Sibylline Press for the ARC! #booksky #amwriting #writingcommunity 📚
Simultaneously true:
-Use of AI in query packages is unethical & generally a dumb idea
-This is happening in part b/c the query process is impersonal, not intuitive, and generally sucks.
#writingcommunity #amquerying
Cover of Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys
30. This book was surprisingly fun. A detour on our Poirot read-through, it's more espionage thriller than whodunnit. Brilliant ensemble cast of weirdos and a send-up of British tampering in foreign governments. #mystery #classic #booksky 📚🔍
Cover of Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
29. Another re-read from 2025, because DH hadn't read it. Still not my fave. Big colonial vibes + Nurse Leatheren is so catty. 😄 #booksky #mystery 📚🔍
Cover of A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander
27. This title was worth waiting for. As lovely as its cover, I was fully wrapped up in these characters. @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social has a wonderful narrative voice. Looking forward to the follow-up! #booksky #romance #queer 🏳️🌈❤️📚
Congrats to #Spain on ending a very long gold medal drought at the Winter #Olympics! 🇪🇸 🪙 Ski mountaineering is wild.
(Please imagine air quotes around "fact" above. It is not a fact 😄)
3/3 I also disagree with the fact that we have to choose b/w LGBTQ+ rights and digital + environmental rights. If we're doing utopian, let's go full utopia on some tech bros. 😅 🏳️🌈
Thought provoking read! #booksky #tech #politics 📚💡
2/x Content creation, #AI training, moderation-- it's all labor with value. We deserve stronger laws on gig work, data protection, and a 👏 right to physical media 👏
I just fear some of these solutions are too late and too utopian....
Cover of Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism
25. Technofeudalism enters the lexicon alongside cyberlibertarianism and enshittification. Each are neologisms to explain how we got to <gestures wildly at everything in sight>.
Ultimately, Varoufakis & others are right that we own nothing despite creating everything online... 1/x #booksky
Tag yourself. I'm unknown sport c.
(I also read this one on my own in hard copy format last year. Less than 6 mos since that re-read, but I like this book so I'm OK with it!)
Cover of Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
26. Once upon a time (last August), DH and I decided to do a listen-through of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. Only 6 months after the first book, this one came in from the library. 😅 #booksky #scifi #classic 📚🚀
TY to Hanover Square Press for the ARC (what an appropriate name!)
Cover of Ann Foster's Rebel of the Regency
28. President's Day, but make it about queens! 👑 I just finished Ann Foster's excellent book Rebel of the Regency, a profile of Caroline of Brunswick. Engaging, funny, sad. A reminder that #history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. #booksky 📚
