Marn Simmons 🇨🇦 📚🌻
@marnpoo.bsky.social
Besotted with gardening, firmly on team feline, rabid reader, older than dirt, and remarkably cranky.
When I saw these two my first thought was, "Was it something he said?"
October 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
When I saw these two my first thought was, "Was it something he said?"
My morning walk. I've lived in this valley 48 years and these fall mornings still take my breath away.
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My morning walk. I've lived in this valley 48 years and these fall mornings still take my breath away.
Now that I'm in the middle of a major storm that's blowing off all the petals, thought I'd preserve a memory of the magnolia.
May 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Now that I'm in the middle of a major storm that's blowing off all the petals, thought I'd preserve a memory of the magnolia.
"I drink local Donald"
New billboard in Montréal from Boréal beer made in Québec.
New billboard in Montréal from Boréal beer made in Québec.
February 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"I drink local Donald"
New billboard in Montréal from Boréal beer made in Québec.
New billboard in Montréal from Boréal beer made in Québec.
An elderly man reflects on his 17th summer, spent with his beloved grandparents outside a remote, poor Irish village. Wry, evocative, tender, This Is Happiness by Niall Williams is a yarn spun of a faith questioned, love, loss, guilt and redemption. Recommended. 4.5 🖋️📚💙
January 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
An elderly man reflects on his 17th summer, spent with his beloved grandparents outside a remote, poor Irish village. Wry, evocative, tender, This Is Happiness by Niall Williams is a yarn spun of a faith questioned, love, loss, guilt and redemption. Recommended. 4.5 🖋️📚💙
There's a lot to recommend in The Siege of Burning Grass. It's a beautifully written and timely examination of war. The story is compelling, characters interesting and the world created is original. The very last pages as this good read rushed to its ending were a bit of a letdown for me. 3.75 ⭐🪐📚💙
January 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There's a lot to recommend in The Siege of Burning Grass. It's a beautifully written and timely examination of war. The story is compelling, characters interesting and the world created is original. The very last pages as this good read rushed to its ending were a bit of a letdown for me. 3.75 ⭐🪐📚💙
Dawn this morning from the upstairs window. For a few moments the rising sun turns the snow orange.
January 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Dawn this morning from the upstairs window. For a few moments the rising sun turns the snow orange.
Tom Lake is the only novel I’ve read so far that catches how the covid lock down changed how we looked at time, how it had us all taking stock of our lives. It’s a beautifully written meditation on love and the little corners of ourselves we hide, even from those we love and trust most. ⭐⭐⭐⭐📚💙
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Tom Lake is the only novel I’ve read so far that catches how the covid lock down changed how we looked at time, how it had us all taking stock of our lives. It’s a beautifully written meditation on love and the little corners of ourselves we hide, even from those we love and trust most. ⭐⭐⭐⭐📚💙
If you like Louise Penny books, then you might also like Ann Lambert’s series with Marie Russell and Detective Roméo Leduc which is also set in Quebec. Leduc is a more flawed person than Gamache, which makes him more interesting to me. Three books in series so far. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⚡️📚💙
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you like Louise Penny books, then you might also like Ann Lambert’s series with Marie Russell and Detective Roméo Leduc which is also set in Quebec. Leduc is a more flawed person than Gamache, which makes him more interesting to me. Three books in series so far. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⚡️📚💙
Octavia Butler’s Kindred jolted me out of what I thought I understood about slavery by using time travel to toss a modern black woman back into slavery. First book of 2025 read and now almost a month later and many other books read, it’s still the one that resonates the most. Remarkable. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚🪐📚
January 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Octavia Butler’s Kindred jolted me out of what I thought I understood about slavery by using time travel to toss a modern black woman back into slavery. First book of 2025 read and now almost a month later and many other books read, it’s still the one that resonates the most. Remarkable. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚🪐📚
Claire Keegan’s tiny perfect novellas always make me cry. Foster is no exception, told through the eyes of a young girl taken to her aunt and uncle’s farm for a summer. She responds to love and attention like a wilted plant responds to water. Five kleenexes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
January 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Claire Keegan’s tiny perfect novellas always make me cry. Foster is no exception, told through the eyes of a young girl taken to her aunt and uncle’s farm for a summer. She responds to love and attention like a wilted plant responds to water. Five kleenexes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
How do you find hope when a mysterious chronic illness leaves you bedridden? I got a glimpse of that through this quiet memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. As a gardener, I’ve always hated snails. Now I have a more nuanced view of them, too. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
January 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
How do you find hope when a mysterious chronic illness leaves you bedridden? I got a glimpse of that through this quiet memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. As a gardener, I’ve always hated snails. Now I have a more nuanced view of them, too. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
I love Leonard Cohen’s music and wanted to know more about him so I had high hopes for Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold. It got great reviews but I didn’t enjoy it. Too intellectual for me. ⭐💙📚
January 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I love Leonard Cohen’s music and wanted to know more about him so I had high hopes for Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold. It got great reviews but I didn’t enjoy it. Too intellectual for me. ⭐💙📚
Think climate change novel with Da Vinci Code vibes and you have Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock. The audio book version is excellent, a great escapist experience with enough history and science to inform as well an entertain. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚🎧📚
January 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Think climate change novel with Da Vinci Code vibes and you have Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock. The audio book version is excellent, a great escapist experience with enough history and science to inform as well an entertain. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚🎧📚
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a non-fiction book about life in a Mumbai slum, was a bleak read. Corruption pollutes everything, crushes people’s lives. I wonder what the future holds for an America governed by such an openly corrupt man. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
January 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a non-fiction book about life in a Mumbai slum, was a bleak read. Corruption pollutes everything, crushes people’s lives. I wonder what the future holds for an America governed by such an openly corrupt man. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚
Two of the best agents from very different societies travel up and down time, tweaking history for control of earth. Of course they’re women. Of course their paths cross. They leave letters for each other, at first taunting. Grudging respect turns to something else. Can this end well? ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌈🪐📚💙
January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Two of the best agents from very different societies travel up and down time, tweaking history for control of earth. Of course they’re women. Of course their paths cross. They leave letters for each other, at first taunting. Grudging respect turns to something else. Can this end well? ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌈🪐📚💙
Finished the third novella in the fabulous Murderbot Diaries series. The adventures of this grumpy, sarcastic ever more human robot continue to delight. Can hardly wait until my Libby queue spits out installment four, Exit Strategy. Thank you, Martha Wells. 4.5 stars. 🪐📚💙
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Finished the third novella in the fabulous Murderbot Diaries series. The adventures of this grumpy, sarcastic ever more human robot continue to delight. Can hardly wait until my Libby queue spits out installment four, Exit Strategy. Thank you, Martha Wells. 4.5 stars. 🪐📚💙
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan. 💙📚
January 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan. 💙📚
I stayed up stupidly late reading because I HAD to see how this book ended.
I am too old to be doing this. Zero regrets that I did. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky #books #ShubnumKhan
I am too old to be doing this. Zero regrets that I did. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky #books #ShubnumKhan
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I stayed up stupidly late reading because I HAD to see how this book ended.
I am too old to be doing this. Zero regrets that I did. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky #books #ShubnumKhan
I am too old to be doing this. Zero regrets that I did. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky #books #ShubnumKhan
Come for the writing, stay for the science. Can't recommend enough. #Greenland #Iceshelves #Climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #Geology
January 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Come for the writing, stay for the science. Can't recommend enough. #Greenland #Iceshelves #Climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #Geology
I've lived in the woods 47 years. How can a book make me suddenly nervous about trees? And deer? #Booksky #Fantasy #PremeeMohamed
January 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I've lived in the woods 47 years. How can a book make me suddenly nervous about trees? And deer? #Booksky #Fantasy #PremeeMohamed
December 23, 2024 at 1:25 PM
There comes a moment when you have to acknowledge that perfection has been achieved.
This week the spouse achieved peak Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. He won't take a tree from our woods that might flourish and always culls a windfall or damaged tree.
Respect where respect is due. #Christmas
This week the spouse achieved peak Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. He won't take a tree from our woods that might flourish and always culls a windfall or damaged tree.
Respect where respect is due. #Christmas
December 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
There comes a moment when you have to acknowledge that perfection has been achieved.
This week the spouse achieved peak Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. He won't take a tree from our woods that might flourish and always culls a windfall or damaged tree.
Respect where respect is due. #Christmas
This week the spouse achieved peak Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. He won't take a tree from our woods that might flourish and always culls a windfall or damaged tree.
Respect where respect is due. #Christmas