Here are my book recommendations for the new year: Read the books you already bought. - ThreadSky

This one seems to be blowing up. So, while you’re here, check out this non-profit that collects charitable contributions and uses them to pay off medical debts. https://unduemedicaldebt.org

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werdenfels.bsky.social•127 days ago

For me as a European, "medical dept" sounds strange.
For us, medical treatment is not charity but human right.

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irunamuk.bsky.social•126 days ago

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irunamuk.bsky.social•126 days ago

Fun fact, the number one reason for bankruptcy in the US is medical debt

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werdenfels.bsky.social•126 days ago

I never knew, why they call it communism to have a mandatory health insurance.
Finally everyone, if not super rich, needs an insurance to avoid problems when getting seriously ill.

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4quad.bsky.social•126 days ago

Our returning vets could have demanded that, too. But they didn't.

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4quad.bsky.social•126 days ago

*ww2 vets

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sdrose.bsky.social•127 days ago

It’s well past obscene.

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joekatz45.bsky.social•127 days ago

❤

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deadjinxminx.bsky.social•127 days ago

WOW. Just calling my ass out and shit. YOU DON’T KNOW MEEEE!!!

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andrewlebovich.bsky.social•127 days ago

How *dare* you.

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ingjerdra.bsky.social•127 days ago

He didn't say you couldn't read (some of) the books you've bought *and* buy more books... No sane person has read all the books in their library.

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mstandaert.bsky.social•125 days ago

Thank you! Reassuring to see I am a sane person :-)

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auserthatuses.bsky.social•126 days ago

Don't expose me like this 😭

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soaamazing.bsky.social•126 days ago

Now why ever would you suggest such a thing. Oh the thought of not shopping for new books I won’t read. 🤭

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countingkyles.bsky.social•125 days ago

How dare you

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capernica.avoids.work•126 days ago

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wilhelmgere.bsky.social•126 days ago

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claudieann.bsky.social•127 days ago

You’ve been in my house messing with those piles of unread books around my bed, haven’t you?

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kestrel61.bsky.social•126 days ago

This hits home. Shop your bookshelf. And your closet. Gift wrapped no one will ever know.

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javysmama.bsky.social•127 days ago

I actually cleaned off my book shelf and put all the books I haven’t read in another area of the house, stacked for the possibility of being read. I did this because I wanted to, not because of what you said.

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lattesandloot.bsky.social•127 days ago

No. I need more options first 😂

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khaiserkf.bsky.social•123 days ago

Never! Must buy more... 🤓🤣🤣

Soon enough there will be all the time in the world...

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redskelton1923.bsky.social•127 days ago

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acthinker.bsky.social•127 days ago

This would be the best recommendation😂

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carysjones.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel called out

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beirutwedding.bsky.social•127 days ago

I am working on exactly like that.

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thomaskdahl.bsky.social•126 days ago

hahaha Looking for hidden cameras now!!! ;P

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cardinalfang.bsky.social•127 days ago

Booo

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kurtweldon.bsky.social•127 days ago

Way ahead of ya!

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trentvanegas.com•127 days ago

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dabyyy.bsky.social•127 days ago

Fine fine. But hear me out, I just need last 2 series of books…

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msamandaa.bsky.social•127 days ago

Why do I feel personally attacked??? 😂😂😂

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80hdgoblin.bsky.social•126 days ago

That's my video game recommendation. I'm not buying anything new next year just finishing my back log

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kathysadiemolly25.bsky.social•126 days ago

Yes, i know. I'm trying so hard. 🥹

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maudlinaly.bsky.social•127 days ago

Then pass them on to others!

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eyesontheright.bsky.social•127 days ago

Never

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drawsacat.bsky.social•127 days ago

Every Christmas i buy a bunch of books. Will enjoy 2025 reading them

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dpmcd.bsky.social•127 days ago

Buying books and reading (all those) books are two completely different pastimes. Everyone knows this.

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glaexur.bsky.social•127 days ago

you're just gonna attack me like that?

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zonbined.bsky.social•127 days ago

No >:(

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feynmanbro7.bsky.social•127 days ago

Bold of you to assume I buy books

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k-mcwhite.bsky.social•126 days ago

😤

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jairomelo.bsky.social•126 days ago

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anne-in-black.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ridiculous.
#Tsundoku

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c-a-mckenna.bsky.social•126 days ago

But... I might already own something you might recommend, causing it to move up my Tbr 😂

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authorkaten.bsky.social•127 days ago

Woah woah woah. No need to start talking crazy. 😂

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stefan.from.legal•127 days ago

How dare you personally attack me in this way!

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lostinafog.bsky.social•127 days ago

I feel seen…

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duckduckalpaca.bsky.social•127 days ago

That's my goal!!!

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quotesthecorvid.bsky.social•127 days ago

I prefer to have an anti-library. Why stock a personal library with books I've already read? I already learned the info that's in them. An anti library is for information that I haven't acquired yet.

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ceresgeyser.bsky.social•127 days ago

I've walked down that street. Took a car to get back.

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kathdell.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel attacked!

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damnntrev.bsky.social•127 days ago

okay but I’ve done that about twelve times over, if I leave a mailing address, would you send me something you’d like to read and I’ll do the same back for you? :)

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traveller23.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel seen.

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crtsj.bsky.social•127 days ago

I can try, but I know it will be an exercise in futility.

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freshdiva8.bsky.social•127 days ago

Sir please stop judging me 🫠

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emretsson.bsky.social•127 days ago

Shut your crazy talk

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fearlesspotato.bsky.social•127 days ago

Don't use that tone of voice with me. You're not my real daddy. I do what I want!

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jkenny.studio•126 days ago

ha! that was my approach to 2024.

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lookitspaul.bsky.social•127 days ago

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redstatecommunist.bsky.social•127 days ago

I didn't need that kind of attack this morning!

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tj-waverly.bsky.social•127 days ago

That's a tough assignment.

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adubbs.bsky.social•127 days ago

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akela135.bsky.social•127 days ago

This is the worst recommendation I've ever heard! How dare you! 🤣

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jump3dtheshark.bsky.social•127 days ago

That is actually really excellent advice!

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petsmartt.bsky.social•126 days ago

How dare you.

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margerybayne.bsky.social•127 days ago

Why would you say something so controversial, lol

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ephystuff.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel extremely seen. 😬

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dmcroy.bsky.social•127 days ago

Boo.

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brattny.bsky.social•127 days ago

first of all who tf do you think you are (I’m finally reading wicked which I bought in 2015)

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faerywolf.bsky.social•127 days ago

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saltybeaches.bsky.social•126 days ago

You’re not the boss of me and my chaotic reading habits.

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funksands.bsky.social•127 days ago

lol, as if

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formerwaiterdk.bsky.social•126 days ago

Rude

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inert.me•127 days ago

I max out the public library digital cap each month and get a credit from audible too. I also have no unread currently 😅 so yeah real suggestions allowed

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bondryanbond.com•127 days ago

It's one of my resolutions to buy no new books next year 😅 I have enough to read

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firebird308.bsky.social•127 days ago

Why are you attacking us all like this?

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riverdolphin.bsky.social•126 days ago

I'm in a book club. Tyranny of the majority.

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beta-ray-bill.bsky.social•127 days ago

NEVER! I WILL ONLY BUY MORE!

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brightguy60.bsky.social•126 days ago

I bought this in 2010 and I just can't bring myself to read it because I already know the answer.

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thewisenerd.com•126 days ago

radical

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benrackey.bsky.social•127 days ago

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boaty.bsky.social•126 days ago

Monster

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steinbergerd.bsky.social•127 days ago

If I want to be attacked, I go on Twitter sir.

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martinkroeger.bsky.social•127 days ago

*Bluey voice* How very dare you!

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edrieelen.bsky.social•127 days ago

Now that’s just rude! 😝

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smredman.bsky.social•127 days ago

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inasketch.bsky.social•127 days ago

I started one a few days ago, when I was out and knew I'd be waiting for an hour. I am enjoying the book. The shameful truth is that when I'm home with time to read, I turn to the internet. I will endeavor to do better in the new year, especially since avoiding the news will be good for my health.

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bilalzonjy.bsky.social•127 days ago

I only buy books I’m going to read, so I actually need recommendations

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alaska-ed.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ouch

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docpaperback.bsky.social•127 days ago

You think that would only take another year?????

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reasonablysober.bsky.social•127 days ago

fuck.

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jbananas.bsky.social•126 days ago

Don't be RIDICULOUS lol

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bookishsiren.bsky.social•127 days ago

No 💅🏻✨️💖

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salty-writer.bsky.social•126 days ago

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theoford.bsky.social•127 days ago

Ha! So many in the queue

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unwrittenclay.bsky.social•127 days ago

+ buy Unwritten Chains in January, to extend your collection of course!

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tribe330.bsky.social•127 days ago

That’s silly!

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pp8010.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel seen; and at the same time, the shame of your sharp, sharp blade...

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nikkiuk.bsky.social•126 days ago

😂😂👍🏼. Too right.

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nemstra.bsky.social•127 days ago

If I re-read a book I bought does that make it worth less? How will anyone work out how popular a book is if people pass books around?

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celtzo.bsky.social•126 days ago

Blasphemy!!! (lol)

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drdavette.bsky.social•126 days ago

🥳

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lonepinerb.bsky.social•126 days ago

That will take awhile.

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katesgoodreads.bsky.social•127 days ago

What the hell. That’s never the goal.
I better die with a pile of unread books beside me.

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tommybomby.bsky.social•126 days ago

Don't speak to me or my stack of unread books ever again 😭

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wilhelmgere.bsky.social•126 days ago

In Crocodile Dundee voice: "That's not a stack..."

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tommybomby.bsky.social•126 days ago

Theres more in my spare room I haven't read if that counts 😭

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wilhelmgere.bsky.social•126 days ago

That pile is like literally like what's on one of my kitchen chairs. There's no room on the table anymore 😆

One day I clean it up, I promise.

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tommybomby.bsky.social•126 days ago

/j

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badatom.org•126 days ago

Pro-tip: if you buy them all in e-book form, you don't feel guilty about how they're piling up or have a panic attack if a guest picks one up and casually asks "how did you like this one?"

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duolingodingo.bsky.social•127 days ago

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elinor-a.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel seen...

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guntzau.bsky.social•126 days ago

There's no way I'm going to finish 365 chess master lessons.

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elkenumber1.bsky.social•126 days ago

That is just cruel 😭

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tdkerst.bsky.social•127 days ago

😂😂

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wa7iut.bsky.social•127 days ago

Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/

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sunriseflight.bsky.social•127 days ago

I love the potential of unread books. It's comforting to know they are there.

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grbpkr06.bsky.social•127 days ago

That or use the library.

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david-cornelson.bsky.social•127 days ago

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authorpetelarrivee.bsky.social•127 days ago

You’re not my Dad! You can’t tell me what to do!

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polypolyoxenfree.me•126 days ago

HOW DARE YOU?!?!? My TBR is a height queen.

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almarugaauthor.bsky.social•127 days ago

I'm feeling very targeted right now. Think I'll disregard and buy myself a new book to feel better. 😆🤣

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destinywilkie.bsky.social•126 days ago

Lol. I felt the same way!!! I might just have to do the same thing. 🤣🤣🤣

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ogulyurdakul.bsky.social•127 days ago

scuse you sir

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mganga.bsky.social•127 days ago

🫠

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noktrnl.bsky.social•127 days ago

But also a couple more, right?

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karith09.bsky.social•126 days ago

That was hurtful

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nazishmunch.bsky.social•126 days ago

I feel stalked.

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lordnikonoriginal.bsky.social•126 days ago

How dare you call me out sirrah!

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miekenl.bsky.social•126 days ago

Only if they don’t bring out new books in 2025.

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octavia2020.bsky.social•127 days ago

Tsk, I'll die of old age

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jessthemessiest.bsky.social•127 days ago

Why am I being attacked in my own home

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chicagojcb.bsky.social•127 days ago

What kind of communist are you?? Christmas is coming and THE gift is books!

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riccairns.bsky.social•127 days ago

That hurt.

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happyhermitcrab.bsky.social•126 days ago

Hahhha! Why would we do that? It’s fun to keep adding to stash of books we own but haven’t read yet.

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lindsaypcohn.bsky.social•127 days ago

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sharoncarbine.bsky.social•123 days ago

LOL! I have a LOT of books I have not read.

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tamaraphalen.bsky.social•126 days ago

How did you get into my house?!

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meinmyownwords.bsky.social•126 days ago

Is this attack necessary?

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ninabeansxo.bsky.social•126 days ago

Right? I did not need to be attacked by a stranger on the internet about my book stack.

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meinmyownwords.bsky.social•126 days ago

Especially not while I’m also browsing ThriftBooks to add to my tbr stack

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ninabeansxo.bsky.social•126 days ago

Especially not then! Not when I’m planning a bookstore shopping trip tomorrow for Christmas gifts either.

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tomcoates.bsky.social•126 days ago

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cafkia.bsky.social•127 days ago

@ethicsdoc.bsky.social

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hjemmefronten16.bsky.social•127 days ago

Targeted

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warrensenders.bsky.social•127 days ago

I have a separate shelf for my TBR books. After I read them I put them in regular shelving. So when I buy new books they go in the queue; I've got my reading laid out for the next couple of months...unless...hey! that looks interesting!

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karimoo44.bsky.social•127 days ago

How very dare you!

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didntcmecumin69.bsky.social•127 days ago

Fahrenheit 451 may come true if the extreme right gets their way ? If not that then maybe like the movie Footloose.

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stephaniedalfonzo.bsky.social•127 days ago

Um - are you looking at me?

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laylahm.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ouch… dang man, left hook outta nowhere. Who stole your cookies?

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auntiem1.bsky.social•127 days ago

I feel seen.

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imasunflower.bsky.social•126 days ago

Oh

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weswie-114.bsky.social•126 days ago

I have read them all.

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jparkhill.bsky.social•127 days ago

Sir, I feel attacked.......

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democracyinexile.bsky.social•127 days ago

That's not very nice.

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cschiber.bsky.social•126 days ago

Rude.

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kim504.bsky.social•127 days ago

😁 I feel seen 📚📚

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blvdwallflower.bsky.social•127 days ago

Shhhh

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madcaprivers.bsky.social•127 days ago

No. I will buy a bunch of books on one topic. Get distracted on another topic and abandon those books. Now I gotta get more books.

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governess-of-days.bsky.social•127 days ago

That hurts.

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ghirnblanston.bsky.social•127 days ago

How. Dare. You.

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stephenengland.bsky.social•127 days ago

Straight-up savage.

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apzzazz.bsky.social•127 days ago

I know, right? I have a stack.

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sciteach79.bsky.social•127 days ago

I did not join Bluesky to be personally attacked like this sir.

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oldmanandthescene.bsky.social•127 days ago

I won’t be talked to like this!

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howdoinco.bsky.social•127 days ago

🤣Touché

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jamieklingler.bsky.social•126 days ago

Grinch

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dwayne-camacho.bsky.social•126 days ago

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jtyler5.bsky.social•126 days ago

😂

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tinamarie1959.bsky.social•127 days ago

Read books about history even though nobody is making you. Really absorb it. How it shaped the future do it now before they ban them all. American History.

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terry-scott.bsky.social•127 days ago

👍😬😂

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rfrancissmith.com•126 days ago

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nerdygi.bsky.social•127 days ago

That’s not the holiday spirit, Tim.

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terriblenachos.bsky.social•126 days ago

no ❤️

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happywanderer.bsky.social•127 days ago

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lemrin.bsky.social•127 days ago

I try but can't read them as fast as I buy them

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bammit.bsky.social•127 days ago

no u

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queenmj.bsky.social•127 days ago

I will after I add some new ones to my pile

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cemistry101.bsky.social•126 days ago

I do not approve of such hate language.

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hilangoe.bsky.social•127 days ago

I feel attacked

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zhunix.bsky.social•127 days ago

First of all, how dare you

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lokelaniroses.bsky.social•127 days ago

I feel personally attacked.

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blackholefun.bsky.social•127 days ago

Oh so just read for the rest of my life and never buy a new book.

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moodhoney.bsky.social•127 days ago

I thought it was hilarious! I always have books that I haven’t read and I read books that seem new again.

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nafev.bsky.social•127 days ago

Or...buy as much as you can because one day, may, there won't be any library anymore :)

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cockmagic.bsky.social•127 days ago

☝️This!

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celiniezucchini.bsky.social•127 days ago

That's been my New Year's resolutions every year for at least the last 5 years. This is year it will... probably still not happen.

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mtfmd.bsky.social•126 days ago

Again? Why?

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kckirsch.bsky.social•127 days ago

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wilksofficial.bsky.social•127 days ago

Ok but you ain’t have to come for me like this.😒😅

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ogkimochi.bsky.social•127 days ago

hey...lower your tone

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notafakeaddress.bsky.social•127 days ago

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mazeyeddings.bsky.social•126 days ago

What a brutal way to call me out first thing in the morning

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slitheryllama.bsky.social•127 days ago

I recommend Louie Anderson's Hey Mom

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mantheos.bsky.social•127 days ago

Now why are you calling me out like this

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persephone24.bsky.social•127 days ago

You have NO idea how you hit the nail on the head for me! I keep buying new books, but MANY unread sit ready to go on my bookshelves. Hoarding? Bibliomaniac? Or preparing for the next pandemic? Hmmmm

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thinlyveiledpanda.bsky.social•127 days ago

Books! Put them next to your bed and feel bad about not reading them every night as you mindlessly scroll on your phone

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wizcauliflower.bsky.social•127 days ago

*shakes fist while looking at my bookshelves 😂

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extooh.bsky.social•127 days ago

I hear what you're saying and I totally get it, but, no, absolutely not.

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thomasedmund.bsky.social•127 days ago

how very DARE you

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emceepeteypete.bsky.social•127 days ago

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katthenerd.bsky.social•126 days ago

An attack on my reading habits this early in the morning

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pkohler01.bsky.social•126 days ago

Instead of deciding which of the 3 stacks to start reading through next? If I buy a new book, I won't need to prioritize them haha. Next they'll tell us to read only one book at a time 😆😆😆😆😆

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