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Kara Thurmond
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Reader, writer, web dev
Catskill, NY 💙📚
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October was a good month for books! 📚 I loved Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me and plan to reread one of my favorites: The God of Small Things. 💖

#booksky #books #ilovetoread
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Another month where disappearing into a book was a necessary coping mechanism! Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel might have been my favorite, and not just because of the dog. 🐕 ❤️

#booksky #books #ilovetoread
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I may not be able to do much, but I did cancel my Disney+ subscription.

#JimmyKimmel #abc
Screenshot of Disney cancellation with this reason in other: I'm cancelling because ABC cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live after Kimmel made an observation the current administration didn’t like. That’s not entertainment — that’s censorship. When you silence voices over political disagreement, you show blatant disregard for the First Amendment. I won’t support a company that turns its back on one of our most fundamental constitutional rights.
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Wow, August went by in a flash! Read/listened to some great ones! Also had a couple of DNFs, which is always disappointing, especially when it's from a favorite author.

#booksky #books
Book covers for Heartwood (Illustration of face with forest background), Don't Open Your Eyes (photo of a face looking like it's breaking through the book), None of this is true (illustration of mirror images of a town), I who never have known men (illustration of ladder into a bunker), King of Ashes (Illustration of a fire), Strangers on a Train (Illustration of a styliszed train), Confident Women (Illustrations of women in disguise), The post man always rings twice (illustration of man and woman embracing).
September 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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July books! I continue my trend to listen to more books than I'm reading. I also had a few DFNs last month. Anyone else struggling to finish books?

#booksky #books
Covers for: Midnight in Soap Lake, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Crying in H Mart, The Ministry of Time, One of Our King, Fates and Furies, How to Lose Your Mother, The Long Weekend, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You.
August 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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We’ve waited an hour before at the Champlain / Lacolle crossing getting back into the States. Last Monday, it was virtually empty.
Border crossing into US virtually empty. Cloudy sky. Champlain / Lacolle
July 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Survived another month with books! I listened to way more than I read.
#booksky #books
Book covers for Vantage Point, The Wedding People, The Book of Alchemy, Revenge of the Tipping Point, You Are Not Alone, Defending Jacob, The Salt Path, The Tenant, My Nest Breath
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I had a bumper sticker made for our vacation to Quebec! Whatcha think?

#canada #quebec #americansincanada
We didn't vote for him.
June 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Catskill, NY #nokings
Sign with the Capitol on fire Sign with no crowns no thrones no kings Sign is the only monarch to follow
June 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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My May reads/listens.
#booksky #books
Covers for Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, Long Bright River by Liz Moore, The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden, Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, John Lewis by David Greenberg, Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams, Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, The House of My Mother by Shari Franks, Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
June 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My April reads/listens
#booksky #books
Book covers for Matryr, Blood Sugar, The Sequel, Memorial Days, On Tyranny, Be Ready when the Luck Happens, The Message, The Fury, The Crash, The Coworker
May 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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My March bookshelf. Nexus: by Yuval Noah Harari was by far the scariest book I've ever encountered. I'll need to listen to it again to fully comprehend. Patriot by Alexei Navalny was both inspirational and completely heartbreaking. #books #booksky
Book covers: Patroit Alexei Navalyn, Nexus Yuval Noak Harari, The boyfriend, Listen for the Lie, We used to Live Here, Cross my Heart, The magnificent lives or Marjorie post.
April 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I read/listened to some terrific books in February! #books #booksky
Images of book covers: Beautiful Ugly, The Night Guest, Help Wanted, One of Us Knows, The Unwedding, Parable of the Sower
March 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Reading the perfect book for this snowy day! ❄️🏔️

@heatherwerner.bsky.social #booksky #books
Summit’s Shadow book cover
February 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM