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Cheryl Walsh
@cherylwalsh.bsky.social
Originally from Michigan, now writing from Iowa. Author of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT (American Buffalo Books, 2023). I write fiction about people who are into #harpsichords, #weather, #opera, #archaeology, and #ghosts.
www.cherylwalsh.net
A favorite line from Barbara Kingsolver's novel *The Poisonwood Bible*: "Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."

#favoritelinefridays #barbarakingsolver #thepoisonwoodbible #womenwriters #postcolonialliterature
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" by Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay #siegfriedsassoon #worldwaripoetry #wwipoetry
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
New blog post--review of a new book out this week: Lorissa Rinehart's biography of Jeannette Rankin. Someone I've always been curious about, and the book is a pleasure to read--there's lots about Progressivism, woman suffrage, and 20th-century American politics.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A favorite line from @jenniferfawcett.bsky.social's brand new book, *Keep This for Me*: "When did all their tiny movements get so layered with meaning? It was exhausting."

#favoritelinefridays #keepthisforme #thrillerbooks @atriabooks.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New blog post up today, a review of @jenniferfawcett.bsky.social's new thriller, #KeepThisForMe --out this week. As a child of the Great Lakes, I was totally into the Lake Ontario beach town setting.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
#bookreviews #thrillerbooks @atriabooks.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New specs!

#newglasses
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Favorite lines from T. S. Eliot's poem "East Coker": "Do not let me hear / Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, / Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, / Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God."

#tseliot #eastcoker #favoritelinefridays #poetry
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In celebration of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT's second birthday, here is one of my own lines for #favoritelinefridays.

#unequaltemperament #debutnovel #WomensFiction #americanbuffalobooks #harpsichord #meteorology #booksky #writingcommunity
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy birthday to UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT, launched into the world two years ago today! To celebrate, I'm giving away a few copies--DM if you're interested.
#unequaltemperament #bookbirthday #debutnovel #harpsichord #meteorology #WomensFiction @buffalo-books.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A favorite line from Jim Harrison's wonderful novel *Returning to Earth*: "I awoke delighted with life on earth despite its desperately compromised nature."

#jimharrison #favoritelinefridays
August 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today I made guacamole with garlic chive blossoms and it was fantastic!

#backyardherbs #guacamole
August 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A favorite line from Linda Pastan's poem "Cosmology": "Someone has spilled the moon / all over the trees."
#favoritelinefridays #LindaPastan #poetry @wwnorton.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Dragon tongue! I don't grow green beans because I can't see them to harvest. So I grow purple or speckled beans instead. Dragon tongue is a very tasty variety. Stringless, bush habit.

#gardenbounty
August 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I just learned that an old and dear friend of Bru's, the best man/emcee at our wedding, Neil Hornick, passed away last spring. Such regret that we have been so out of touch that I didn't know until now. We cherish his memory. Long live the Phantom Captain!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
August 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This line from Anne Enright's novel *The Wren, the Wren* made me laugh out loud: "I never tell my mother anything. I am not that stupid."
#favoritelinefridays #anneenright #thewrenthewren
July 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
First new blogpost in a while: Welcome to the Darkroom.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
#filmphotography #darkroom #cognitivedecline #grief
Photo of John Pochee and Bernie McGann © Bruce Hart. All rights reserved.
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A favorite line (of many) from Charlotte Wood's novel *Stone Yard Devotional*: "The subtlety of the lilting chant belies the blunt instrument of the words themselves."
#favoritelinefridays #charlottewood #stoneyarddevotional #booksky @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another five-star review. #StoneYardDevotional is an intriguing exploration of grief, spirituality, and forgiveness during a time of isolation and covid lockdowns in Australia. What does is take to be a good person in times of environmental and personal crisis?
#charlottewood #yournextread #booksky
July 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A favorite line from C. D. Wright's prose poem, "Song of the Gourd": "I confess the abject urge to weed your beds while the bittersweet overwhelmed my day lilies."
#favoritelinefridays #cdwright #gardenpoetry
July 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Annette Gordon-Reed, from her book *On Juneteenth*: "As painful as it may be, recognizing--though not dwelling on--tragedy and the role it plays in our individual lives, and in the life of a state or nation, is, I think, a sign of maturity."
#favoritelinefridays #annettegordonreed #juneteenth
June 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New 5-star reviews, meaning, I loved these books! Linda Pastan's *Insomnia* (poems) and Myla Goldberg's *Feast Your Eyes* (novel).
bookshop.org/lists/cheryl...
#LindaPastan #insomniapoems #mylagoldberg #FeastYourEyes @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A favorite line from Jim Crace's novel *The Gift of Stones*: "We do love lies. The truth is dull and half-asleep. But lies are nimble, spirited, alive."

#favoritelinefridays #jimcrace #thegiftofstones
May 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A favorite line from Walt Whitman's poem "This Compost": "Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, / It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions."
#favoritelinefridays #waltwhitman #gardenpoetry
May 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's time to plant tomatoes! "For the tomato is an orb of holy light," as Ann Fisher-Wirth has written in her poem "Haecceitas." And congratulations to her on being named poet laureate of Mississippi!
#favoritelinefridays #annfisherwirth #haecceitas #gardenpoetry
May 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A favorite line from Liana Sakelliou's poem "The scene needs nymphs": "I hang in green chaos / like a downy insect."
#favoritelinefridays #lianasakelliou #alikibarnstone #portraitbeforedark #stjulianpress @alikib.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM