Jen Reads 📚💖💜💙📚

I got to pet a cute pomeranian at work today and he licked my hand, so my night is definitely made 💖

The main couple's vibes are also very CaitVi, so I think you'll enjoy it 👻

An illustrated book cover for This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne. It shows the two main characters, Nix and Kessandra, facing in different directions. Nix, a muscular caucasian woman with a her long hair in a ponytail, dressed in a black tank top and green pants, holds a sarrant (short rose-gold bladed sword with a long hilt) with her right hand while her other hand holds Kessandra's left hand. Kessandra is a dark-skinned woman with her braided hair in a neat bun; she wears military uniform with a white jacket and beret, and dark pants. In her right hand she holds an elegantly designed gun. The two are standing on the stairs of a domed gloomy hall.

First finished read of 2026!

🍀"This Gilded Abyss" by Rebecca Thorne🍀

It started a little slow but once we were on the Luminosity I was locked in and ready to go. Where's the next book, Rebeccaaaaa??? *grabby hands* Gimmeeeeee plsssssss 👀🖐🏻

#booksky #readingupdate #thisgildedabyss

Saw a Frenchie with a cute wiggly butt today, so that definitely made my day a little bit better. 💖

An illustrated book cover for Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It shows an astronaut floating in orbit above a planet half in shadows, with a tether that leads out of frame.

🥳 1. "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir 🥳

The central relationship of this book had my whole fucking heart, this is one of my most favorite books of all time, like holy shit, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, absolutely incredible. 🥹🤧💖

#booksky #top10books2025 #projecthailmary

An illustrated book cover for Sunrise on the Reaping, a Hunger Games novel by Suzanne Collins. It shows a golden flint striker on a purple background in a kind of harp-like shape with one end being a snake and the other a mockingjay with spikes in the space between them.

2. "Sunrise on the Reaping" by Suzanne Collins

Kind of tied with my number 1 spot, this book was such an emotional rollercoaster, absolutely incredible, I immediately re-read it when I finished, cried both times, hooooly shit, I loved this so much. 😭💖

#booksky #top10books2025 #sunriseonthereaping

An illustrated audiobook cover for Oathbound, the third book in the Legendborn Cycle by number 1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Deonn, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt with Andrew Eiden, Hillary Huber, Tim Paige and Adenrele Ojo. It shows a black girl in a tank top and jeans with her natural hair, part of which has turned white, fluttering in the wind as she conjures red and purple magic with her hands. Behind her, a hooded figure with blazing red eyes hovers threateningly.

3. "Oathbound" by Tracy Deonn

This book was such a blast, I loved the new characters we were introduced to, I loved how the existing character relationships evolved and I'm so nervous and excited for book 4 to come out. 😱

#booksky #top10books2025 #oathbound

An illustrated book cover for A Study in Drowning by Sunday Times bestselling author Ava Reid. It shows a mansion on a high cliff above the ocean from where countless books and pages fall toward the raging water.

4. "A Study in Drowning" by Ava Reid

Ava Reid became a new auto-buy author for me with this book. Incredible atmosphere, great character relationships, intricate world building and an engaging story, I loved this book. 💖

#booksky #top10books2025 #astudyindrowning

An illustrated book cover of It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey from Raven Books. It shows a burning red musical bureau (that looks like a piano with a lot of extra knobs and buttons for making music) which has bright yellow smoke coming from it on top of a black background. At the edges of the smoke are strange shapes, some of which look like abstract reaching hands, others like mysterious rune-type symbols and other abstract things. The caption reads, "They'd die for you. They'd kill for you."

5. "It's Not A Cult" by Joey Batey

Written like a found footage movie, this book digs its claws into you and keeps you wondering what the next big twist is going to be. You know it's coming and you likely know what it might look like, but it'll still shock you

#booksky #top10books2025 #itsnotacult

A book cover for Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. It shows five towers rising from the high sea levels in front of what looks like a setting sun, four of which have more or less crumbled, with only the fifth still intact in the center. A blurb by Tlotlo Tsamaase reads, "A surreal fusion of African politics, climate fiction, and mythology in the tongue of poetry and philosophy".

6. "Lost Ark Dreaming" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Great blend of dystopia, post-apocalyptic settings, class hierarchy observations and Nigerian mythology, I think I read this in pretty much one sitting, it was so good. 🌊

#booksky #top10books2025 #lostarkdreaming

An illustrated book cover for Thornhedge by Hugo and Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher. It shows a tower surrounded by stylish illustrations of plants and medieval imagery. The caption says "There's a princess in a tower. This isn't her story." A blurb by New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik, says, "I opened, I devoured. Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth".

7. "Thornhedge" by T. Kingfisher

The main character, Toadling, was such a charming and endearing character, I loved her a lot, as well as her relationship with Halim. A great, short book. 💖

#booksky #top10books2025 #thornhedge

An illustrated book cover for The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag. It shows a shaded parking lot in a US desert with the massive wreck of a robot. Next to it are a small, still living robot and a girl with a backpack. The two characters are approaching a car.

8. "The Electric State" by Simon Stålenhag

Also beautifully illustrated, tonally very different from the Netflix movie adaptation, just so you're aware, with a slow, quiet and very muted story that is told both by the text and the illustrations. Loved it.

#booksky #top10books2025 #theelectricstate

An illustrated graphic novel cover for Scurry by Mac Smith. It shows a timid white mouse and a determinded brown mouse in the middle of a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape, unknowingly approached by a large tabby cat from behind.

9. "Scurry" by Mac Smith

Beautifully illustrated with great characters, a lot of adventure and a thrilling story set in what seems like a post-apocalyptic US, it was a lot of fun, I had a great time with it. 🥳

#booksky #top10books2025 #scurrygraphicnovel

An illustrated audiobook cover for Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa. It shows the storefront of a Japanese bookship with lots of books, some plants and a sleeping cat on display, surrounding an illuminated door that shows the silhouettes of a man and a woman.

10. "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

Such a bookish atmosphere in this one, it reminded me a little bit of the game Tiny Bookshop. A very cozy read, I enjoyed it a lot. 💖

#booksky #top10books2025 #daysatthemorisakibookshop

Also, here are my Top 10 books of 2025 🎇

#booksky

Almost forgot I had this account, oops. 🙈 Anyway, happy new year!! So excited to finally leave 2025 behind because it really was a trash fire of a year. 🔥🎇 2026 can only get better and it fucking will!! It will!!

"This is how you do it. You don't do it the way that Donald Trump does it. You don't send in an invading army into cities to make it better. You work within the city to make it better."

Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"

This year I resolve to hate GenAI with even more vitriol than last year.

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

A simple digital sketch of some goofy looking vegetables with little faces on them. The sketch is in blue pencil, and filled with orange watercolor

veggies

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

well that’s fucking horrible

“The scheme provides unconditional, regular payments to eligible artists and creative workers, allowing them to focus on their practice without the pressure of commercial viability.”

“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”

i just think pouring money into a hole of promises that has never shown returns in any way should maybe come with consequences! not more money to throw into a new hole. but what do i know

Meme: a cool dude in sunglasses striking various poses with rainbows and text reading “I put the Bi in Bitch”

Happy Bisexual Visibility Month
🩷💜💙

a cute digital sketchbook drawing of two little white bears who are dirty and slightly teary eyed after falling. it is autumn and leaves are starting to fall

fall

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

A book cover for the audiobook of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa. It shows an illustration of the front of a Japanese bookshop, with lots of books on shelves outside, some of them with notes hanging in front of them. There are also plants and a sleeping cat. Behind the illuminated, partially see-through doors, there are the silhouettes of a man and a woman.

Oh, oops, forgot to add the cover 🙈