Colorado Paul 💙📚🪶
@birdman2170.bsky.social
Father, husband, physician. I like books, birds, dogs, science, and some people.
The books I read in November. Three stars for David Copperfield (which I only read to prepare for Demon Copperhead). The rest were all 4 or 5 stars. I have so many thoughts! #booksky 💙📚
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The books I read in November. Three stars for David Copperfield (which I only read to prepare for Demon Copperhead). The rest were all 4 or 5 stars. I have so many thoughts! #booksky 💙📚
A man of many contradictions.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A man of many contradictions.
I really did not care for this book. The premise of ‘The Magicians’ by Lev Grossman intrigued me. But turning Narnia/Hogwarts/Oz into a profanity-riddled, drunken, sex-crazed Bacchanalia felt cruelly blasphemous to the stories that shaped my youth. No thank you to the sequels. #booksky
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I really did not care for this book. The premise of ‘The Magicians’ by Lev Grossman intrigued me. But turning Narnia/Hogwarts/Oz into a profanity-riddled, drunken, sex-crazed Bacchanalia felt cruelly blasphemous to the stories that shaped my youth. No thank you to the sequels. #booksky
Hey #booksky, am I the only one who decided to read David Copperfield before reading Demon Copperhead? I mean. I’m liking it so far, but it’s really long! 😬 💙📚
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Hey #booksky, am I the only one who decided to read David Copperfield before reading Demon Copperhead? I mean. I’m liking it so far, but it’s really long! 😬 💙📚
My happy place. Fall hikes in Colorado are the best hikes. I linger back here so I can hear the birds.
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My happy place. Fall hikes in Colorado are the best hikes. I linger back here so I can hear the birds.
My reads for September. When the Cranes Fly South was definitely my favorite. One of the few books in recent memory that actually made me tear up. #booksky 💙📚
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My reads for September. When the Cranes Fly South was definitely my favorite. One of the few books in recent memory that actually made me tear up. #booksky 💙📚
So I’m only 53% done with Bill Bryson’s “A Walk In The Woods.”
Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it.
What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚
Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it.
What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚
September 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
So I’m only 53% done with Bill Bryson’s “A Walk In The Woods.”
Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it.
What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚
Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it.
What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚
Necessary voices in these troubling times. Thank you @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for this important book. Looking forward to reading it.
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Necessary voices in these troubling times. Thank you @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for this important book. Looking forward to reading it.
I’m only 50 pages in, but I’ve already decided. This book will either be 5 stars or 1 star. Based on whether the dog survives. 😬 🐶 #booksky 💙📚
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I’m only 50 pages in, but I’ve already decided. This book will either be 5 stars or 1 star. Based on whether the dog survives. 😬 🐶 #booksky 💙📚
My reads for August. I try to keep it diverse and eclectic. All four or five stars. The Edge of Water was probably my favorite. #booksky 💙📚
September 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
My reads for August. I try to keep it diverse and eclectic. All four or five stars. The Edge of Water was probably my favorite. #booksky 💙📚
I’m only a few chapters in, but The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole.bsky.social has me completely captivated. The prose and storytelling are beautiful, heartbreaking, and infuriating all at once. So glad I picked this one up. #booksky 💙📚🖋️
August 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m only a few chapters in, but The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole.bsky.social has me completely captivated. The prose and storytelling are beautiful, heartbreaking, and infuriating all at once. So glad I picked this one up. #booksky 💙📚🖋️
I want to read a debut novel from a new up and coming author. There are so many options! After browsing some online lists, these are the candidates I’ve chosen. Any thoughts? #booksky 💙📚🖋️
August 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I want to read a debut novel from a new up and coming author. There are so many options! After browsing some online lists, these are the candidates I’ve chosen. Any thoughts? #booksky 💙📚🖋️
My current read. I struggled with the first few chapters, but now I can’t put it down. The author is an accomplished jazz musician, and that actually helped me connect with the prose. It’s very jazzlike in structure - syncopated and always a half-beat ahead of expectation. #booksky 💙📚🖋️
August 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
My current read. I struggled with the first few chapters, but now I can’t put it down. The author is an accomplished jazz musician, and that actually helped me connect with the prose. It’s very jazzlike in structure - syncopated and always a half-beat ahead of expectation. #booksky 💙📚🖋️
My reads for July.
North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️.
All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️.
The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️.
#BookSky 💙📚
North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️.
All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️.
The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️.
#BookSky 💙📚
August 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My reads for July.
North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️.
All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️.
The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️.
#BookSky 💙📚
North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️.
All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️.
The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️.
#BookSky 💙📚
I’m only halfway through North Woods by Daniel Mason and I already want to read it again. The intricacy of how this story (stories) is (are) woven together is so beautiful. Such seemingly minor details reappear with haunting beauty. Highly recommend! #BookSky 💙📚
July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m only halfway through North Woods by Daniel Mason and I already want to read it again. The intricacy of how this story (stories) is (are) woven together is so beautiful. Such seemingly minor details reappear with haunting beauty. Highly recommend! #BookSky 💙📚
My current read. It’s been on our bookshelf for years; my wife read it a long time ago for a book club. I’m only at 10% and asked her opinion… “I liked it until the end and then I hated it.”
That intrigues me more. 🤯
(She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚
That intrigues me more. 🤯
(She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚
July 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My current read. It’s been on our bookshelf for years; my wife read it a long time ago for a book club. I’m only at 10% and asked her opinion… “I liked it until the end and then I hated it.”
That intrigues me more. 🤯
(She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚
That intrigues me more. 🤯
(She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚
Published by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in 1982. Even the original cover description is creepily fitting for this moment. It’s a good book! 📚 💙
July 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Published by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in 1982. Even the original cover description is creepily fitting for this moment. It’s a good book! 📚 💙
Me, an introvert, every time I have to leave the house:
May 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Me, an introvert, every time I have to leave the house:
That’s a great idea. Now if there was only a digital version for the book covers in my Kindle app.
April 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s a great idea. Now if there was only a digital version for the book covers in my Kindle app.
Just finished Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ today. It was amazing and delightful and beautifully written. I want to be best friends with Ed so we can sit around in the afternoons sipping tea and talking about our dogs and nature and the meaning of life. #booksky 💙📚
April 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Just finished Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ today. It was amazing and delightful and beautifully written. I want to be best friends with Ed so we can sit around in the afternoons sipping tea and talking about our dogs and nature and the meaning of life. #booksky 💙📚
This was a challenging read. Rivers Solomon is an incredibly talented writer. Some of their prose borders on sheer poetry. I kept highlighting multiple passages. Anyone with a history of family dysfunction will relate. 4/5 stars. #booksky
February 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This was a challenging read. Rivers Solomon is an incredibly talented writer. Some of their prose borders on sheer poetry. I kept highlighting multiple passages. Anyone with a history of family dysfunction will relate. 4/5 stars. #booksky
First read this when I was 22. I claimed it was my Favorite Book. Rereading it now in my late 40’s and it hits so much harder. Why?… Lived experience? Broken family relationships? Fatherhood? Regrets and what if’s’?
Yes. All of it. 🥹
John Steinbeck was America’s conscience. And maybe he still is. 📚💙
Yes. All of it. 🥹
John Steinbeck was America’s conscience. And maybe he still is. 📚💙
February 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
First read this when I was 22. I claimed it was my Favorite Book. Rereading it now in my late 40’s and it hits so much harder. Why?… Lived experience? Broken family relationships? Fatherhood? Regrets and what if’s’?
Yes. All of it. 🥹
John Steinbeck was America’s conscience. And maybe he still is. 📚💙
Yes. All of it. 🥹
John Steinbeck was America’s conscience. And maybe he still is. 📚💙
Just finished chapter 1 of The Overstory by Richard Powers. I knew nothing about the American Chestnut tree and how it went functionally extinct 100 years ago and now I’m so sad. 😢 #BookSky 💙📚
January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just finished chapter 1 of The Overstory by Richard Powers. I knew nothing about the American Chestnut tree and how it went functionally extinct 100 years ago and now I’m so sad. 😢 #BookSky 💙📚
I just finished this book. It was one of the shorter books on my TBR list and I needed one more to hit my 2024 goal, but it really affected me. I can’t stop thinking about it. Anyone else? Such a lovely and articulate exploration of community, friendship, and relationship. And the birds. 😊
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December 29, 2024 at 5:58 AM
I just finished this book. It was one of the shorter books on my TBR list and I needed one more to hit my 2024 goal, but it really affected me. I can’t stop thinking about it. Anyone else? Such a lovely and articulate exploration of community, friendship, and relationship. And the birds. 😊
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