Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸
@barbnatividad.bsky.social
I’m always write! | Buckeye 🌰 | MFA - Poetry | Currently revising my Fil-Am contemporary fiction novel. | Mini book reviews. | Find me at: https://barbnatividad.substack.com where I write about mental health, writing, reading. | @barbflashes.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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November 2025 Reads
My November favorite is Buckeye by Patrick Ryan.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
4⭐️ SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter. 2025. Contemporary. Rhys has been living off the grid for 7 years after leaving his old life as a failed father and husband. Now his adult daughter is missing and he goes on an adventure to find her. This was funny. 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
4⭐️ SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter. 2025. Contemporary. Rhys has been living off the grid for 7 years after leaving his old life as a failed father and husband. Now his adult daughter is missing and he goes on an adventure to find her. This was funny. 💙📚
I can finally open my advent calendar.
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I can finally open my advent calendar.
November 2025 Reads and Ratings
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December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
November 2025 Reads and Ratings
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My #MondayReads is The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud 💙📚
It's Monday again and today I'm still reading "Menace of the Monster" edited by Mike Ashley
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My #MondayReads is The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud 💙📚
3⭐️ MURDER BY THE BOOK by Amie Schaumberg. 2025. Mystery. A college student’s body is found and positioned like Ophelia from HAMLET. An English professor accidentally sees the crime scene photos and believes she can solve the murder. The twist/ending seemed unearned. Just okay. 💙📚
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
3⭐️ MURDER BY THE BOOK by Amie Schaumberg. 2025. Mystery. A college student’s body is found and positioned like Ophelia from HAMLET. An English professor accidentally sees the crime scene photos and believes she can solve the murder. The twist/ending seemed unearned. Just okay. 💙📚
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Word of the day: zigzag
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Word of the day: zigzag
I’m thankful for my Bluesky peeps!
a cartoon turkey holding a pie and a pumpkin with the words happy thanksgiving behind it
ALT: a cartoon turkey holding a pie and a pumpkin with the words happy thanksgiving behind it
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November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m thankful for my Bluesky peeps!
Omg, I knew this man 30 years ago.
Joseph Haggerty, a 59-year-old Chicago resident, allegedly threatened state Sen. Andrew Chesney, a Republican from Freeport. Haggerty faces two felony charges of threatening a public official, police said.
Chicago man charged with threatening GOP state senator
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Omg, I knew this man 30 years ago.
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
4⭐️ BUTCHER by Joyce Carol Oates. 2024. Literary horror/historical fiction. The fictional 19th-century autobiography of a physician who chronicles his mutilation of female asylum patients under the guise of surgery in order to cure “madness.” Based on true events. Very good but disturbing. 💙📚
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
4⭐️ BUTCHER by Joyce Carol Oates. 2024. Literary horror/historical fiction. The fictional 19th-century autobiography of a physician who chronicles his mutilation of female asylum patients under the guise of surgery in order to cure “madness.” Based on true events. Very good but disturbing. 💙📚
5⭐️ WE LOVE YOU BUNNY (Bunny #2) by Mona Awad. Literary horror. The events before and after those of BUNNY. Kidnappings! Murders! Revenge! Definitely read BUNNY first, which is actually more weird. Absolutely brilliant! Takes place in a graduate writing program. For fans of dark academia. 💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
5⭐️ WE LOVE YOU BUNNY (Bunny #2) by Mona Awad. Literary horror. The events before and after those of BUNNY. Kidnappings! Murders! Revenge! Definitely read BUNNY first, which is actually more weird. Absolutely brilliant! Takes place in a graduate writing program. For fans of dark academia. 💙📚
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Current #FridayReads is BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan 💙📚
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Current #FridayReads is BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan 💙📚
Name a non-English film.
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Name a non-English film.
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
5⭐️ THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. 2025. Contemporary. An epistolary novel in which 73yo Sybil keeps correspondence with family, friends, and even strangers through letters or email over a span of 9 years. Poignant. 💙📚
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
5⭐️ THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. 2025. Contemporary. An epistolary novel in which 73yo Sybil keeps correspondence with family, friends, and even strangers through letters or email over a span of 9 years. Poignant. 💙📚
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: Bipolar and the Time Change
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Bipolar Disorder and the Time Change
I haven’t been doing well since the time change.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: Bipolar and the Time Change
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#comedytragedy #substack
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4⭐️ SHOW DON’T TELL by Curtis Sittenfeld. 2025. Short stories. What I love about this collection is that most of the protagonists are, like me, in their 50s. The stories touch upon friendships, relationships, dating, marriage, and divorce in midlife. 💙📚
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
4⭐️ SHOW DON’T TELL by Curtis Sittenfeld. 2025. Short stories. What I love about this collection is that most of the protagonists are, like me, in their 50s. The stories touch upon friendships, relationships, dating, marriage, and divorce in midlife. 💙📚
I made a fall wreath, then locked myself out putting it up. 😅
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I made a fall wreath, then locked myself out putting it up. 😅
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM