Plop passed over the rainbow bridge. 😢🐾 #cats #catsofbluesky

Just released: Cozy mystery: The Sleuth Club. Mr. Szilard, Substitute Teacher #3. Agatha Christie meets Monty Python. In a privileged Los Angeles suburb, a substitute teacher solves the mystery of missing students and murder on campus. LGBTQ safe space. #booksky www.amazon.com/shop/influen...

Research has shown dyslexia comes with advantages, such as visualizing 3D spaces and objects, recognizing novel connections, creating stories, and predicting the future. If you are dyslexic or care about someone who is dyslexic, read this book now. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

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Where is Daniel Ellsberg?

Paws looking cute #cats #blueskycats

Four pensioners (ex-spy Elizabeth, trade union organizer Ron, psychiatrist Ibrahim, retired nurse Joyce) search for £350 million in bitcoins co-owned by Nick Silver and Holly Lewis. Nick disappears. Holly is blown up by a car bomb. Cozy mystery. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass puts its message in the title. Once the story begins, Laura's life is death and disappointment. Powerfully, she survives with brief moments of gratitude and self-care. A subtle reminder to rest and be thankful. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/11/rest...

KINDLE UNLIMITED BOX SET: Climate change, genetic change, or global disease: each Pandemic Mystery explores an international crisis. Multi-threaded. Science-based novels. Diverse people who work together, showing humanity at its best as they solve an international threat. #booksky amzn.to/47UlZl4

“I still care deeply about the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my business; they belong to the future.” Oliver Sacks, approaching his 80th birthday, in his book, Gratitude, 2015. #booksky

In 1956, women had ambitions and desires. Men who didn’t respect them died. Who knew? And all in a small town. Peyton Place. The book was banned, but the ideas exploded into the women’s liberation movement. Not the book you were told it was. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/10/peyt...

In celebration of #BatWeek #bats #ilovebats #batweek2025 The world is on the verge of a pandemic. Using tribal and scientific medicine, can a small group of amateur scientists solve the unsolvable? Amazon link: amzn.to/47iiCCU

My favorite of all time #JeffersonAirplane #1960s #music #rock #psycodelic

I recall when Cracker Jacks switched from plastic prizes to paper ones. I never bought another box. 😢

Fall foliage at Mont Tremblant, Quebec

Trois-Rivières. The Ursuline Nuns settled here in 1697. Also to cathedral.

Montmorency Falls

When Mr. Webber dies in Kellner’s Books, he leaves The Book of Doors to Cassie. “Any door is every door.” Cassie can teleport anywhere in space and time. She has many adventures with this and other magic books. A clever and confusing book. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Harold receives a letter from Queenie, whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years. She is in hospice. He believes she won’t die for as long as it takes him to walk to her. The walk is also his penance for his life’s sins. It goes viral. A novel of redemption. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Today is 9/16/25 or 16/9/25. The only Pythagorean triple date. 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 #math #maths

The dark side of California history. The Filipino immigrant experience. From the Spanish-American War to farm laborers to World War II allies to anti-Asian sentiments in the 21st century, the US relationship with the Philippines has been difficult. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

Four generations of fathers and sons. Francisco, Emil, Chris, Enzo. Fathers want their sons to benefit from their experience. Sons want to set off in their own direction. Each generation lives in a different society. How can they span this gap? #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

I’m going to need a bigger suitcase

Lily Bloom hated that her mother stayed with her abusive father. At 23, she married neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. His sister Allysa was Lily’s best friend. Sadly, Ryle had a temper. Lily found herself in the same situation as her mother. Stay or go? #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/it-e...

Took me 50 years to figure this out.

When Maya was 17, she watched her boyfriend murder her girlfriend. She didn’t know how he did it, and no one believed her. 7 years later, she saw him murder another girl on social media. She returned to her hometown to solve the mystery. Horror. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Mika Moon was raised by Primrose, the Very Secret Society of Witches’ matriarch. The rule was that witches must live alone. Mika was in trouble when she agreed to teach 3 young witches living together at Nowhere House. A cozy romance. Five stars. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

Antonia struggles to find herself after her husband dies. She stages an intervention for her eldest sister. She aids undocumented Mario in rescuing his fiancée from the coyotes. She asks, Who is the most important? A meditation on life after death. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/afte...

Most popular fruits Tomatoes - 182 Million Metric Tons. Bananas - 115.74 Million Metric Tons. Watermelons - 103.97 Million Metric Tons. Apples - 86.14 Million Metric Tons. Oranges - 75.54 Million Metric Tons. Mangoes - over 40 Million Metric Tons.

Two lost people: Tova Sullivan, 70, lost her only child, Erik, when he was 18. Cameron Cassmore, 30, was raised by his aunt and is searching for his father. Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, saves them. 6/5 stars. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/rema...

i really need all these people who think any anguish in a ts song is about a man to ask themselves if they are ever sad, angry, tormented, haunted, depressed in their own lives by things other than a romantic relationship.

A complicated romantasy about a human princess, Homily, and a shapeshifting mass of gray flesh, Shesheshen [Mandarin for Thank God]. 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Homily’s mother, the Baroness, wants to kill Shesheshen for cursing her family. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

I’m @author_d_r_oestreicher on storygraph 📚📚📚 #booksky

A #psychopath is a cult leader while a #sociopath is a cult member. #psychology

PJ wants to marry his high school sweetheart, whom he hasn’t seen in 45 years. Luna wants to find her real father, a soap opera star. Pancakes, the orange cat, who can read and sense impending death, is along for the ride. Don’t miss this one. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

I have 208 muted words and tags. #moderation #bluesky It would be nice if I could alphabetize them.

What do you know? Banana companies are evil. Bananas are popular. Learn more… They are hard to grow and harder to breed. They are sterile. Bananas are a staple food in Africa. The yellow ones in the store are Cavendish. All clones. Learn more. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/bana...

One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, not Poirot, not Marple, just a unique plot. Ten people were trapped on Soldier Island and murdered according to a nursery rhyme, with no murderer in sight. Classic. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/and-...

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Isadora Morales attends school for the super-rich. Her mom is a teacher, and her sister is wheelchair-bound. Seven friends attend a 1920s graduation party. She sneaks into Blaine’s room with a knife. In the morning, he is found stabbed to death. ***** #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/sudd...

If I could repeat Wouldn’t change even one thing But I’d worry less #haiku

So many hand bones Intricately connected You are a wonder #haiku

"One of the best books I have ever read! Almost the whole of English history, told through the eyes of generations and generations of the same family." Review mybook.to/tboh #HistoricalFiction #Booksky 💙📚 #mustread #KindleUnlimited #BooksWorthReading

Book 22 of '25. Siblings held together by desperate need for paternal approval, ripped apart by tragedy as each attempts to cope in ways that emphasise their differences. Joyce dares you to jump to obvious conclusions and throws them back in your face. #BookSky

Olivia + Hannah = Ohana – Family. How much will Olivia do to escape the orphanage and rescue her family’s home from ghouls, curses, and Death? Mute Olivia, with only her mother’s journal, struggles to unravel her past and find her future. Fantasy. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/gall...

As a 27-year-old widow, Mrs. Lily Adler had more agency than most Victorian women. When her father’s friend, Sir Charles Wyatt, was murdered, she joined the investigation over male objections: her father, the Bow Street Runner in charge, and others. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/sile...

Eli Landon discovered his wife dead. Divorce proceedings. Husband. 11 months later, he was still Detective Wolfe’s prime suspect. Break-ins at Bluff House raised the question of Esmeralda’s Dowry, a priceless pirate treasure. Old money & new crimes. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/07/whis...

Ismay’s vacation was interrupted by an Atlantic storm and a power outage while visiting her fiancé’s family’s grand beach house. Searching for matches, she discovered a duffle bag of various women’s panties. Were these rape trophies? Whose? #booksky : 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/06/tour...

I have 120 muted words 🤣😂

Dr. Sheppard received a call summoning him to Fernly Park, where Roger Ackroyd had been murdered. Flora Ackroyd hires Hercule Poirot. Dr. Sheppard and Poirot investigate the murder together. Money, blackmail, family secrets. One of Christie’s best. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...