Spend yesterday strolling alone in a big city enjoying some sunshine and shopping. Listened to a complete audiobook: Drifter by Ulrike Sterblich narrated by Max Ruhbaum. Best audio performance I've listened to in a looong time. Great fun.
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Read 2: Correpondent by Evans and Wild Dark shore by McConaghy. Moderation by Castillo is on my list. Gonna look into all the others now 🤭
Storygraph graphic of 5 bookcovers of the ones read. Honey by thompson, real americans by khong, alchemised by senlinyu, the possession of alba diaz by Canas and honeysuckle by tell.
And that was February!
2 books put me in such a reading slump... Can you guess which ones?
Looking forward to my March tbr
#booksky #readingslump
Manilla Press has snapped up Peck & Peck, the second book by Lessons in Chemistry (Transworld) author Bonnie Garmus 👇 #BookSky
Bookcover when the cranes fly south by lisa ridzen
When the cranes fly south by Lisa Ridzen
Pile of books next to a black and white cat. The books included are flowers for algernon, kawakamis das gelbe haus, olafsdottirs Eden, senlinyu Alchemised and kikis delivery service.
Trying a planned #tbr for this month 🤞 let's see. Eager to get to these books.
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Bookcovers of when the moon hatched, meet the newmans, flesh, bat eater, ode to the half broken, series of unfortunate events book 1, pick a colour, the vet's daughter
January reads, great start.
Enjoyed Meet the Newmans and Bat Eater. Dnf-ed 4 books.
#booksky #read #storygraph
The cover of a new hardback short story edition. Rich red background, darker at top and bottom, brighter in the middle. A gold outline of a sparrow-ish bird flies upwards at center left, with wings spread, trailing abstract gold curlicues from its tail feathers. Block letters at top read: Madeline MiIler Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Song of Achilles. Block letters at bottom read Mestra, A Short Story.
My new short story, MESTRA, comes out as a standalone this September! I rediscovered this myth from Ovid while working on my Persephone novel, and it absolutely electrified me. In case you want to pre-order, thank you from the bottom of this author's heart, links are here! linktr.ee/madeline.mil...
Picture of the front of the bookstore shakespeare and company with several people queuing in front of it.
Bought my first book of the year.
Visited Shakespeare & Company and found the new edition of Barbara Comyns "Vet's Daughter", it was on my wishlist forever. Trying to read it this week 🤞
#booksky #tbr
Close-up on a bookshelf, focused on the book display of the title Meet the Newmans by jennifer niven.
First page-turner of 2026:
Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Newmans. Solid 4⭐
If you like Bonnie Garmus give this a try.
#booksky
First pre-orders of 2026:
American Hagwon by @minjinlee.bsky.social
Sophie Standing There by Meg Mason
And:
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer.
#mostanticipated #tbr #booksky
September 29, 2026.
Flatlay of 3 books, silken gazelles, hope you are satisfied and the bamboo stalk
In case anyone is doing the #readaroundtheworldchallenge and needs some recs: from my last holiday I brought books from/set in Oman, UAE and Kuwait.
Especially excited to read "the bamboo stalk" this year.
#booksky #readingchallenge
8 days into the new year and already dnf-ed 2 books 💪
Also am celebrating not having bought any new books yet 🎉
What are you celebrating after the first week?
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I am starting 2026 with 234 books on my #tbr.
Hopefully I will end 2026 with 150 or less. Stay tuned ✌️
#booksky #bookstats #subabbau
#Mostanticipated
To start the new year, here some books I am most excited about:
Ode to the half broken by @zanzjan.bsky.social
Skylark by Paula Mclain
Hunger&Thirst by Claire Fuller
Greedy by @callieuntitled.bsky.social
Calamity Club by Katherine Stockett
Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer
Finally decided on my top 5 of 2025.
Close to the top 5 were My Darling Dreadful Thing, Yellow Eye, Blood over Bright Haven, Penance and My Friends.
#top5 #bestof2025 #booksky
I've read 97 books in 2025.
50 were from my #tbr .
#bookstats #tbr #storygraph #subabbau
Happy New Year!
Lets start with some stats ✌️
First; wrapup of December. I enjoyed all of these, big thanks to the publishers for several ARCs. 2026 is going to have some amazing publications. My top books of 2025 will be posted soon.
#booksky #storygraph
Last #bookhaul of 2025. All the books that moved in between Oktober and now. The left pile contains the books already read. Lots to look forward to in 2026.
With these I got a total of 89 books in 2025. Way too much for my taste, remember I planned on not surpassing 50...
#booksky #tbr #stats
Flatlay of the undead fox of deadwood forest book by aubrey hartman
#LeWo25 reading challenge update:
Ready to start the Undead Fox today.
Finished Heft by Liz Moore, dnf-ed Silken Gazelles and replaced it with Seascraper by Benjamin Wood. Finished that yesterday, its an amazing audiobook with songs and narrated by Wood himself.
#tbr #readingchallenge
#LeWo25 Update:
Silken Gazelles is a dnf after 20% , got 60% into Heft and plan on finishing it today. Started a new audiobook for today ( Seascraper ) and still need to start on Undead Fox.
#readingchallenge #tbr #booksky
Gonna be my first Isabel Cañas! Hopeful to get to it in January
Bookstack of 6 books. Possession of alba diaz, undead fox of deadwood forest, witchs guide for magical innkeeping, nocticadia, firebird and when the moon hatched.
Happy Holidays!
What a nice christmas book haul. Excited to start these next year. Well, one I'll try to read tomorrow for #LeWo25 🤞
The big quarter book haul is coming soon.
#booksky #tbr #bookhaul
Joining #LeWo25 to get to the last 3 books of this year:
Silken Gazelles by Jokha Al-Harthi (audiobooks), Heft by Liz Moore (ebook) and The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman (hardcover)
#booksky #readingplans #tbr
Decision help please:
What should I read in the last week of 2025?
☃️ On my tbr since july
🎄 New release
🎁 Netgalley future release
In the mood for every single one 😅
#booksky
Natürlich
Da kann ich helfen:
2025 is my year of robot lit. After finishing the Murderbot Series I finally started Service Model by Tchaikovsky. Open for more rec's from this genre to read in 2026.
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Now the title has changed to "The Woman, the Boy and the Whale" and the cover got removed 😨😫
Why??? Everything was perfect?!
