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Check out my interview with Heather Weidner‘s This or That Thursday blog!

https://www.heatherweidner.com/blog/2025/5/1/thisorthatthursday-with-kay-sparlin...

#thisorthatthursday #thisorthat #spy #coldwar #books #espionage #thriller #women #thrillerbook #female #bookreviews #interview #breaktheglassceiling #missionthaw #cia #international #opera #operasinger #singer #berlinwall #austria #kgb #femaleauthors #girlpower

Mission Thaw

Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling

Come check out my interview with Lisa Haselton!

https://lisahaselton.com/2025/04/28/interview-with-thriller-author-kay-sparling/

#spy #coldwar #books #espionage #thriller #women #thrillerbook #female #bookreviews #interview #breaktheglassceiling #missionthaw #cia #international #opera #operasinger #singer #berlinwall #austria #kgb #femaleauthors #girlpower #womenruntheworld #spynovel #novel #patriot #american #spies #americanhero

Mission Thaw

Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling

Check out my interview with Peni Jo Renner on “Musings of an Author”

https://authorpenijorenner.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/meet-author-kay-sparling/

#spy #coldwar #books #espionage #thriller #women #thrillerbook #female #bookreviews #interview #breaktheglassceiling #missionthaw #cia #international #opera #operasinger #singer #berlinwall #austria #kgb #femaleauthors #girlpower #womenruntheworld #spynovel #novel #patriot #american #spies

Mission Thaw

Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling

Come check out my latest interview with Lisa Haselton!

https://lisahaselton.com/2025/04/28/interview-with-thriller-author-kay-sparling/

#spy #coldwar #books #espionage #thriller #women #thrillerbook #female #bookreviews #interview #breaktheglassceiling #missionthaw #cia #international #opera #operasinger #singer #berlinwall #austria #kgb #femaleauthors #girlpower #womenruntheworld #spynovel #novel #patriot #american #spies #americanhero

jen_the_scribe

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing | Adam Moss

This one has been on my shelf for a while after someone posted about it on Substack. Excited to finally get to it ☺️

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monalyisha

A Life in Words: Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt | Paul Auster, I. B. Siegumfeldt

#BibliologistBio

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE GENRES?
Literary fiction, speculative fiction, nature writing, memoirs, essays, & romance.

WHAT ARE A FEW OF YOUR DESERT-ISLAND READS?
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, and Devotions by Mary Oliver.

WHAT'S YOUR GO-TO READING SNACK?
Coffee and frosted animal crackers or beer and wasabi peas.

Cont‘d 👇🏻

monalyisha WEIRDEST OR MOST INTERESTING PLACE YOU'VE READ A BOOK?
At an amateur pro-wrestling match, while my partner‘s band played intro music and sound effects for the wrestlers. 4w

monalyisha WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT READING?
I work as a Children‘s Librarian; moonlight as a wedding officiant, creating custom rituals and ceremonies; and go for nature walks with my dog. Sometimes, I tap dance. 4w

Prairiegirl_reading Oh wow!! Just curious, what inspired you to become a wedding officiant? 4w

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Donna1980 Beer and wasabi peas! Top tier choices 😊 4w

monalyisha @Prairiegirl_reading Looking for an officiant for my own wedding! We hired a woman who was a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant. She created rituals for us using coffee, wood rounds cut from different types of trees on her property, & all sorts of other fun details. I thought, “I could do that!” I have degrees in English Lit & Religious Studies, which seemed like a pretty tailor-made background. My husband is a wedding photographer, so it made sense! (edited) 4w

Prairiegirl_reading @monalyisha that‘s awesome! 4w

monalyisha @Prairiegirl_reading Thanks! I LOVE writing the ceremonies. Readers are naturally inclined to tell stories and imbue mundane objects with meaning and symbolism; it‘s fun and it comes easily. Standing before hundreds of their closest friends & family and delivering the finished product is a different thing altogether — and something I still find very nerve-wracking. In an ideal world, I‘d hand that part off to someone else. 😅 4w

BkClubCare ❤️ your desert island reads! 4w

Gissy Great photo😍 🌊 💙💙💙 4w

dabbe #lovelovelove!!! 💙🩵💙 4w

quietlycuriouskate Gorgeous photo! 4w

Suet624 I love all of this. 4w

BooksandCoffee4Me @monalyisha 😮😁👍 4w

LeahBergen Beautiful pic! 4w

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monalyisha

A Life in Words: Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt | Paul Auster, I. B. Siegumfeldt

I reactivated MyTBR account & have been daydreaming about being a bibliologist ever since. What would your profile look like if you worked for them? I‘ll share mine in a separate post!

QUESTIONS:

•What are your favorite genres?
•What are a few of your desert island reads?
•What‘s your go-to reading snack?
•Weirdest or most interesting place you‘ve read a book?
•What do you do when you‘re not reading?

#BibliologistBio

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Dilara

Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak | Jean Hatzfeld

Starting early w/ Englebert des Collines (tagged is a different book by same author) for #FoodandLit #Rwanda b/c it's a library book & I don't like to keep them longer than necessary. Englebert, a Tutsi genocide survivor roaming the streets of Nyamata looking for drinks & conversation, told his story to Hatzfeld, a French journalist/novelist whose parents were Holocaust survivors.
@Catsandbooks @Texreader
Pic of daffs for something less depressing

Dilara I typically avoid stories written by Europeans on Global South countries, but this reads like a faithful transcript of Englebert's oral accounts, all in the 1st person, with a very distinctive voice. It feels respectful of both Englebert and Rwandans. 2mo

Texreader April will be a depressing month for sure. Love how you used the daffodils as a pick me up. They‘re beautiful! Glad you found such a respectful book about the tragedy 2mo

Catsandbooks ❤️🇷🇼 2mo

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