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The number of pro-AI people on here who also happen to be blocked by me already because they're transphobes is... I wish I could say it's surprising.

Book Blogger Hop: Do You Read Many Books At Once? Joining in a new Friday blogging prompt, and oof, this one exposes me! Yes, MANY books at once... breathesbooks.com/2026/07/17/book-… #booksky 💙📚

Review - Strange Animals, by Jarod K. Anderson: this started off feeling kinda horror-ish, and then I got totally grabbed once the main character eases into thinking about it all as a subject of study. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/07/16/revie… #booksky 💙📚

Review - Love and Desire in the Promised Land, by Salomé Parent-Rachdi & Deloupy: a fascinating project looking into the opinions of Israelis and Palestinians about love and sex. Very... humanising. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/07/15/revie… #booksky 💙📚

WWW Wednesday: The usual update, featuring lots of books on my plate and some musing about the Welsh-English bilingual poetry collection I plan to read next. breathesbooks.com/2026/07/15/www-w… #booksky 💙📚

Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors To Try. This week's theme is about books by new-to-you authors you want to try, so I rifled through books I recently added to my list... breathesbooks.com/2026/07/14/top-t… #booksky 💙📚

For fuck's sake, I was only a little late to bed, and now I am punished. Migraine prodrome: the sequel.

I am super mad that almost my entire day was stolen by migraine and migraine postdrome, and now I feel pretty okay it's bedtime, and if I refuse to go to bed and choose to stay up late, I will have another migraine.

I would be incredibly good at it. Large portions of our jobs are the same, except I'm her boss and do extra. I started in her job. I'm not sure the thought experiment is working out as intended. 🤣

Fantasy with Friends: Brandon Sanderson. This week's prompt is very specific! I am not a huge fan of Sanderon's work though I've read some, but I did have some thoughts on the prompt. breathesbooks.com/2026/07/13/fanta… #booksky 💙📚

Over the weekend I sent @thestorygraph.com search feedback about a bilingual Welsh-English book (completely in both languages, even on the cover) called Afonydd, which was not showing up until 26 results deep on search, below results that matched only three letters of the string.

20 Books of Summer: Progress Update #1! I specified 20 books and so far I've finished 9 of them, so great progress. Includes a bonus bunny pic! breathesbooks.com/2026/07/12/20-bo… #20BOS26 #booksky 💙📚

Review - The Dead Beat, by Marilyn Johnson: about the pleasures of reading obituaries, which I was quite prepared to enjoy. It didn't go in the direction I hoped, focusing more on obituarists than obituaries. Rating: 2/5 ("it was okay"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/07/12/revie… #booksky 💙📚

It's too hot so I'm thinking about this again and contemplating whether I should write something nice and #huaqing-heavy (I owe a spite fic from the last time I saw someone complaining about Huaqing) to actually properly execute my vision in a way I am much more likely to succeed at...

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post: The usual weekly roundup of new-to-me books, the reviews and discussions I've been posting this week, and a ramble about my current reads and musing about a post that rather irked me... breathesbooks.com/2026/07/11/stack… #booksky 💙📚

Review - Sweet Poison, by Mary Fitt: I'm starting to see trends I dislike in Fitt's books, but I'm still enjoying them so far - atmospheric, fun mysteries. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/07/11/revie… #booksky 💙📚

Oof, save me from people being snobby about reading. I'm gonna go look for the trashiest damn thing on my shelf and metaphorically lock eyes with this asshat while I enjoy every minute of it.

My head just met my desk HARD at someone saying Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is like someone took the story of Dungeon Crawler Carl and -- No. ORV came first, in Korean. You only think the influence runs the other way because you are being stupid about works in translation.

Let's Talk Bookish: Discussion Posts. Yep, we're getting a bit meta up in here: this prompt is more about how people approach discussion linkups and such when blogging, rather than being about books directly! breathesbooks.com/2026/07/10/lets-…

I see that other people talking about women in sports make excellent bait to draw in people for me to simply block... sadly.