@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialI love books that refuse to leave quietly.
The ones that change how you think about people, relationships, society, or yourself—and somehow keep the conversation going after the last page.
What’s one book that changed your perspective?
@angelgravely.blacksky.appThis month I finished Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer. Share your thoughts on this books and check out mine on my blog! #BookSky #BookSkyChat
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialBookish personality test:
Enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?
Slow burn or instant chemistry?
Found family or morally grey characters?
No neutral answers. 📚
Tell me your picks and the one trope you will never stop reading.
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialA completely legitimate book rating system:
⭐ = mildly enjoyed it
⭐⭐⭐ = would recommend
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ = involuntary dancing
Readers know exactly what I mean. 😂📚
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialGive me a sprawling family saga over a quick read any day.
Multiple generations. Old secrets. Complicated marriages. History changing around the characters. One family making the same mistakes in increasingly creative ways.
What’s your essential #BookSky family saga? #bookskychat
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialOkay, book people. Time for a trope fight. 😂📚
Slow burn vs. enemies-to-lovers.
Found family vs. chosen one.
Friends-to-lovers vs. fake dating.
Which side are you choosing—and what book made you love that trope?
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialReader challenge: name one book you absolutely loved recently. 📚
Then let’s see what the #booksky community recommends as your next read. Give us the title, genre, or even just the feeling you want your next book to have. #bookskychat #bookrecommendations #readers
@jerrysmith6559.bsky.socialI just discovered Goodreads has three of my books attributed to some other Jerry Smith. Either that or I'm married and living in Texas and am somehow unaware of both of those things. I've heard Goodreads is a shitshow. I believe it now. #bookskychat #writingcommunity #authors
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialSome books leave you with a five-star rating. Others leave you sitting in silence, staring at the wall and thinking about the story three days later.
What book did that to you? 📚💙 #booksky #bookskychat #readingsky #bookdiscussion
@jerrysmith6559.bsky.socialI took a break to do some paying work and I have to say I needed the time away from my #WIP. It used to sit on my shoulder like a buzzard but now it's just a low hum in the background. How some writers churn out a book, maybe two, every year is beyond me. #amwriting #writingcommunity #bookskychat
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialBook people, give me your underrated dystopian reads.
The strange one. The overlooked one. The novel that deserved a much bigger audience.
I’m building a dystopian TBR and need your best discoveries. 📚
#booksky #bookskychat #DystopianFiction #DystopianBooks #BookTalk #SpeculativeFiction
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialMy favourite kind of book is the one that makes me stop reading and immediately open another tab to investigate something.
History, philosophy, psychology, literature, culture—give me the intellectual rabbit hole.
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialSome books help you pass college. Some help you understand what comes after it.
What book belongs on every graduate’s reading list? I want the recommendations you’d actually defend. #booksky #bookskychat #bookrecommendations
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialBookTok has given us enough recommendations. Now we need to know your instincts. 📚
This or That: pick one, defend your answer, and prepare for someone to disagree passionately.
What’s your hardest bookish choice?
#booksky #bookskychat #booksbluesky #readingbluesky #booktalk
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialGive me a book where someone is desperately trying to keep their life together and the entire plot responds with: absolutely not.
Those are the stories I can’t stop reading.
What’s your favorite novel about a life completely unraveling? 💙📚
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialFive books for your 2026 TBR.
But book people rarely agree on a top five, so let’s make this interesting: what’s the one book you’d add?
Bonus points for the underrated pick nobody else is talking about.
@bookmarkandburn.bsky.socialThe best short classics feel like literary espresso: tiny, intense, and somehow still keeping you awake hours later.
What’s the one classic you’d recommend to someone who says they “don’t have time” for classics?
@jerrysmith6559.bsky.social"At least you're here," I said emolliently.
No. Just no. I'm putting up with a lot of this sort of crap in the book I'm reading but this one's over the line. Way over. #writingcommunity #bookskychat #amreading #FFSstopdoingthisrightnow
@gabriellake1.bsky.socialAnyone else find it exhausting to read while you're doing revisions/edits? You're already reading so much of your own stuff and it's really hard not to critique everything you're trying to read for fun.
@jerrysmith6559.bsky.social"When someone asks how many books you read this year..." I have literally never been asked that by anyone. Why would I keep track? Who cares, anyway? Am I missing an essential element of the Bsky #writingcommunity experience by not counting?
Ask me how many I wrote. I can answer that. #bookskychat