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storyteller.bsky.social
ashley ✨📖
@storyteller.bsky.social
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toddler mom. books, politics, horror movies, and plenty of things in between. she/her.

🗓️ ‘24 goal: 18/75
@readbyashley on threads and insta.
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I’m currently reading an audiobook—Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown.
January 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My toddler is enamored with nutcrackers this year, except she calls then "little witches." Therefore, they will alway be known as little witches in our household.
December 5, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Has anyone else noticed that the Pages that post viral quotes on Facebook have a copy/paste list buried in them about T*sla? You have to click 'see more' to get to it. Friends/family share these constantly and they're from hundreds of different Pages. It's weird, right? It seems weird.
December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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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.

Day 7/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
Photo of the book All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker being held up to the camera, held out by a Caucasian person, wearing a black sweatshirt in a modern living room with a blurred wood entertainment stand, green velvet chair, and cream rug in the background. The book cover features a late fall or winter scene in the woods at sunset, looking up at bare trees and a blue sky that gradually fades to red. There is a red river streak winding down the center of the cover with the name of the book and author in white text.
December 3, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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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.

Day 6/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
A copy of Stephen King’s “The Stand” complete and uncut edition lays atop a white comforter and black knit blanket, next to a rust velvet pillow. Stephen King’s name appears at the top of the cover in white text over a black background. A red band wraps around the book below his name stating “For the first time complete and uncut.” And below that in large gold letters the title “The Stand” appears. Below the text an illustration of a person in white clothing holding a sword is fighting a person dressed in all black holding a sickle, representing the battle of good and evil.
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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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.

Day 5/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
Book of the Month editions of two books are laying on a fuzzy white blanket with one book overlaying the other. The book on the bottom is titled ‘A Fire Endless’ by Rebecca Ross and features a black cover with red drawn flames. The top book is titled ‘A River Enchanted’ by Rebecca Ross and the back cover features hand drawn blue wavy lines meant to represent waves with a gold harp floating in them. These books are a duology.
November 24, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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It’s her only book I’ve ever read and I am not motivated to read others. A friend just reminded me of my review a couple of days ago… 😂
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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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.

Day 4/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
The cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. There is a black background with white shutters of two teens smoking a cigarette in the left, center. The smoke floats up and creates the illusion of water, with a ship floating, then swirls down the right side into the white outline of a small city skyline in the lower right corner. There is a gold sticker in the center that readers ‘Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.’
November 23, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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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.

Day 3/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
A copy of the book ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria Machado lays on a grey knit blanket.
November 22, 2024 at 3:34 AM
storyteller.bsky.social
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.

Day 2/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
A copy of the book The Cider House Rules by John Irving behind held up by someone wearing a beige sweatshirt. The dusk jacket is a yellowed beige with the book title and author in brown lettering. It also features a red apple hanging from a branch.
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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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.

Day 1/20
#BookSky 💙📚👀 #books #bookchallenge #booksta
A copy of Margaret Atwood's book 'The Handmaid's Tale' lays on a wooden floor. The cover features a handmaid, dressed in red with a white bonnet, walking near a brick wall.
November 20, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Age yourself with your first computer.

I got this as a Christmas gift and was obsessed. It was packed with word/spelling games.
Image of Vtech Talking Whiz Kid Genius children’s game computer
November 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Idk which exact moments led to anyone else hating Space Karen, but for me, it was reading this article in 2010: www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...
Screenshot of an article: "I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce” from mareiclaire.com Sub headline: In the middle of her headline-grabbing divorce settlement from Elon Musk, Justine Musk reveals the truth about her marriage to the multimillionaire cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX.
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.

There are plenty, but I'll go with this one.
Photo of The Newsroom cast sitting on anchor chairs, desk chairs, and desks in a modern newsroom setting
November 16, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Spending the day trying to get art/photos rehung in our living and dining area before we have friends over tomorrow. And I still have tons of gifts to wrap. And cookies to bake. While simultaneously entertaining and caring for my 10 month old.
December 23, 2023 at 8:36 PM
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Days 7, 8, and 9! #31DaysOfHorror
October 10, 2023 at 2:50 AM
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Missed Day 5, but wrapped up Day 6 earlier! I honestly should have just watched The Furies (2019) again. 🙃 #31DaysOfHorror
October 7, 2023 at 3:05 AM
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Skipped Day 3, but back for Day 4! Managed to finish this one after dinner, instead of scrambling at midnight. #31DaysOfHorror
October 5, 2023 at 4:51 AM
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I’m going to to try keeping these in one thread to see if it’s more or less annoying this year. Day 2 of #31DaysOfHorror. 🔪
October 3, 2023 at 5:59 AM
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Got my first #31DaysOfHorror pick started just before midnight. 😅 #NowPlaying: M3GAN. #horror
M3GAN movie poster featuring an android doll with blonde hair, creepy blue eyes, and serious expression. She’s sitting on a sofa, near a window looking ominous. Text on the poster reads: She’s more than a toy. She’s family. MEGAN.
October 2, 2023 at 4:12 AM
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Happy (the duck) was in the middle of the pig enclosure and I was not about to get in there, but all the piggies are huge and adorable!
Pig pen at a hobby farm packed with kunekune piglets and their mamas lying in the dirt at the entrance to their enclosure.
August 20, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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August 18, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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Nm. She just intentionally woke up the baby bc she wants her lovey. She is not appreciated atm.
Norah, a black cat with green eyes, sits on a bed looking at her human mom who has just told her to stop trying to wake up the baby who is not pictured. She woke up the baby moments later. The baby kicked her gently and she ran away.
August 17, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Norah has arrived for Black Cat Appreciation Day. 🐈‍⬛ @darthbluesky.bsky.social
Norah, a black cat with green eyes, curled up in bed next to her human mom on a white comforter. Norah, a black cat with green eyes, sits on a black and white run in a sun streak, looking off camera. Norah, a black cat with green eyes, is sitting on a railing wearing a neon pink harness. Behind her, the ground is completely covered in snow. The tree line behind her house is covered in snow and ice. She is gazing off camera, annoyed to be outdoors. Norah, a black cat with green eyes, stretches out on a stitched grey rug accented with white peonies, pale blue blooms, and green stems from Rifle Paper Co.
August 17, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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Is that unusual? Because this is my sassy green-eyed void.
Norah, a black cat with green eyes, snuggling her human mom’s pregnant belly.
August 17, 2023 at 1:54 PM