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This brilliant book goes back to the library today. How did this not get shortlisted?! Come on, women's prize! Get it together! #nesting #recentlyread #booksky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist: • Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins • All Fours by Miranda July • Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin • Liars by Sarah Manguso • River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-shortlist

Today's #baseballmom haul 13U Travel season starts this weekend Not pictured: two new pairs of cleats, plus the 2 jerseys +hat that arrived ahead of 17U summer season

March Reading Wrap-up #thestorygraph

Fantastic! Loved the sarcastic humor throughout this story of a PhD with a savior complex and mommy issues working with the UN to deradicalize ISIS brides in Iraq. 4.5⭐️ the pacing at one point felt a little off, but not horribly #recentlyread #booksky #fiction

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” -John Waters. #booksky #books #johnwaters

Read & Returned 📚✅️ Catcher- a buddy read to see if the book we hated in high school would be better as an adult. Both yes and no somehow. 2.75/5 Crooked Seeds- off a prize longlist. I liked it much better than I expected to. Still... liked not loved. Awful MC! (but well written) 3.5/5 #booksky

Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.

At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.

Homeschool Mom edition of #FridayReads: 🥶 One with my 9th grader #CatsCradle ✊️One with my 8th grader #Sanctuary 🏴‍☠️ One with my preK niece #DoryFantasmagory #TinyTough 🪐And one for me #Orbital #booksky

I read Liars by Sarah Manguso off the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist. About a woman's transition from artist to wife to mother and her maintaining those identities while in a toxic relationship. Couldn't put it down! Reads as a mostly linear collection of moments- very propulsive! #booksky

If you want something wholesome and endearing to do today, keep the Tesla stock on your screen.

Well... That's 3 in a row from this guy that have been flops. I think I need to stop pushing it. HORRORSTOR was my 1st and fave of his, and nothing else has come close. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls could have done so much, but I think he lost his hold of the plot #recentlyread #booksky 📚💙

Boycott 3/7-3/14 The best way to boycott is to fully delete the app. These companies make the most money off your data. They make it when they send you notifications or you click on a suggested item. Not buying helps but if you want to hit them where it really hurts, delete the apps.

No matter the writer's skill, this makes the 2021 prize committee's defence of transwomen feel shallow and performative, while now in 2025, the prize seems to be capitulating to conservative ideology... or they just don't care, actually.

I posted, the deleted and ran back to ig bc I know I've made that a safe place and I'm still new to #booksky... but here goes: I am beyond disappointed in the #womensprize for longlisting adiche.

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?

Soooo.... this just stays here unfinished forever now? Couldn't play Saturday, and didn't get out til 2p on Sunday. Also, didn't want to spend $$$$ to keep buying passes (did spend some tho). So now that event is over there's no way to get fusion energy? Am I missing something? #unova #pokemongo

February #ReadingWrapup @thestorygraph.com #booksky 💙📚

I love a good evolution glitch #pokemongo

How come no one told me how good this is?! Just kidding, I think the whole world loved this, and I'm late to the party. Bookclub discussion is tomorrow, can't wait!! #booksky 📚💙 #LessonsInChemistry

Family portraits lately #pokeMOM #PokemonGo #pogo

Loved this #RecentRead about a man whose husband is so opposite of him politically he decides to run for Congress as a republican. There are two other characters we follow- a very complicated 2nd chance ❤️ Explores what who we love says about us. 5⭐️ #HowToSleepAtNight #booksky 💙📚

My #PokemonGo started as: my fam is doing it, I have FOMO, so I'll follow their lead. They aren't interested in Vivillon, and didn't tell me how addicting it is to fill in badges, but now I'm hooked! help me out! I send Polar 🎁 or I will, (I've depleted my gifts at the moment) #vivillon #pogo 🦋🌍📍

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

Hey BookSky, Remember that professional football player who was pictured reading a book on the sideline and when asked about it he said, “I like to read.” He won the Super Bowl tonight. READING BOOKS WINS! 📚💙

Holy shit. Note this. Rarely do you see so explicit that DEI=Black people. We all know it’s code for the N-word, but they usually disguise it a bit

BLACK PEOPLE WON TONIGHT. NO, I WILL NOT BE EXPLAINING.

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

This is the first American flag I’ve seen in a while that didn’t make me queasy. 🇺🇸

This was the dumbest commercial of the Super Bowl. If Snoop Dog wanted to stand up to hate, he shouldn’t have sold out and performed at Trump’s inauguration.

Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.

Needed this so much right now. I just called out the fact that Kendrick Lamar carried that red, white, and blue theme through. He owned it! My fam knew what that meant. THEY don’t want us here, but they do not own the flag. “Not Like Us”

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy" KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #superbowl

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

Kendrick ended him lol