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Weirdly my post didn't seem to make it to the #booksky 💙📚 feed so quoteposting to see if that changes things... because it's totally important that everyone sees what I thought about a book I just read! Now I feel like I'm reliving the book obsessing over external validation...

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This character study in anxiety, paranoia and delusion is like watching a spider in a sink fighting to get out as the plug is pulled and the water circles the drain. As someone who's a bundle of anxieies on a good day, and whose worst horror is their own mind, it all felt a bit too real at times. 💙📚

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"I wonder if this is going to end well" I think, as the characters in the book I'm reading turn up to their new job in the township of Eldritch... 💙📚

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Recently saw an imagined interaction with a librarian - "Could I get that book I loved as a child?" "Which version?" "What do you mean?" "The version you remember from childhood or the version with all the issues?" - Just read Harriet the Spy again nearly 40 years later, and boy oh boy issues :) 💙📚

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Today's hot take: Storygraph is good for performative readers who want graphics to post to social media to show how readery they are. Goodreads is good for people who just want to know information about the books they're read or might want to read. Today's not hot take: Amazon/Bezos still sucks 💙📚🇳🇿

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My son has a pretty uncommon name, so whenever I see a reference to it I get a bit Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme about the whole thing. Currently in the middle of a book with a character that I can't stand, who shares my boy's name... not exactly sure how to feel about it :-/ 💙📚🇳🇿

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The stuff-o-sphere musn't like the recent coverage of their boy's actions... I expect we'll soon be getting a front page article on how beautiful the flower arrangements will be at his upcoming wedding. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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I suspect off-street parking in Philadelphia might be filling up at a pretty quick rate right now, as it looks like it's not going to be long before any accessible cars end up upside down and on fire...

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Pretty good start to the reading year, especially Hilary Mantel's books after passing them over for years as a genre I don't normally read... Still 79 books left from the NYT 100 best books of the 21st century list, I may be some time ;) 💙📚

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This article, on the goings on in the USA written in the tone it would be if it were happening in another country, would be on the front page of every newspaper if the world was still sane - www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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What a gutshot watching the Oscar nominated short 'A Lien' in the days following the inauguration... just learned what it's like to be filled with absolute dread and unbridled rage at the same time. Kia kaha from New Zealand to anyone dealing with ICE/the new administration vimeo.com/997805490

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Decided to mix things up a bit this year and start reading through the 80 NYT 100 best books of the 21st century I hadn't already read... 5.5 books into the year, only one of which I would have chosen myself, and all bangers. Who knew a strategy other than "more of the same" would work ;) #booksky

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In positive #Oscars nomination news, pretty happy to see three projects from my work getting well deserved nominations out of the five vfx slots... let's go Team Ape/Alien!

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I guess that's my day planned, listening to Nine Inch Nails and contemplating awful #Oscars snubs... One of the score noms I haven't seen, but the other four shouldn't have got the nod ahead of #Challengers

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Decided to set a goal of reading all of the NYT's 100 best books of the 21st century... Figured I would have read a bunch of them already, but it seems the NYT and my tastes don't fully align - 85 books to go, this might be a 2-3 year project rather than a fun challenge for next year ;) #BookSky

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Just finished reading Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind." Interesting read, but now I'm left with the problem of trying to explain to people that I'm interested in the medicinal use of psychedelics without it just sounding like "hey, you know what I like? drugs!" #booksky

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 20:

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Here at Time Magazine, We’ve Decided This Is Another One of Those Years We Pick a Person Who Fucking Sucks www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 19:

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Talking about reducing poverty while listing foci of "supporting parents into paid work" and "breaking the cycles of benefit dependency" gives a very "the beatings will continue until morale improves" vibe... #nzpol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 18:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 17:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 16:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 15:

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Incredible police work here

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"Restoring employers’ ability to make pay deductions for partial strikes could help incentivise both parties to return to the bargaining table" - maybe I'm just not all the smart, but I fail to see how this incentivises employers to bargain #nzpol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 14:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 13:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 12:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 11:

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #pukapuka Day 10:

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All I want for christmas is to be able to read a political news article and by the end not be so consumed with rage that I need to go have a lie down to recover...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 9:

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