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Reposted by Melissa Lenhardt

Marie Sotiriou

@mariesotiriou.bsky.social

Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt @melissawrites.bsky.social is a really great book and it’s only $1.99 today.
A well written feminist western about a found family of female outlaws. They are able to evade capture because men don’t believe that women are capable or noteworthy.
www.amazon.com/dp/B079L64NK1

Book cover of the feminist western “Heresy” by Melissa Lenhardt. The image shows 3 women on horses.

December 31, 2024 at 6:10 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

All these pearl clutchers are going to feel silly when the new guy gets into office and pardons himself.

December 4, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 28, 2024 at 3:32 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 27, 2024 at 11:43 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 26, 2024 at 11:43 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 25, 2024 at 11:42 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 24, 2024 at 11:42 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 22, 2024 at 11:39 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 21, 2024 at 11:39 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

Book cover of a woman in a white slip swimming in pale blue water.

November 20, 2024 at 11:39 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

What gif comes up when I type my name?

a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the words melissa written on the bottom

ALT: a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the words melissa written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

This is 55, baby.

November 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 19, 2024 at 11:34 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Further proof that Scotland is my place and these are my people.

Jackie Morrison @jackiemorrison.bsky.social · Nov 19

Snow is falling in London (son sent us a video!) so thought you might like a reminder that here in Scotland we name the gritting machines and there’s a site that tracks where they all are!
My favs are Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and Spready Mercury ☃️😂
#writingcommunity #scotland

Weather map of Scotland marking places of road gritters with their names displayed

November 19, 2024 at 10:05 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Frosty morning in Glasgow. #glasgow #photography #uofg

Photo of red brick kelvingrove art museum in Glasgow with hoar frost on the ground and a clear blue sky above.

November 18, 2024 at 11:05 AM

Reposted by Melissa Lenhardt

Maggie Smith

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

The Thing Is
BY ELLEN BASS

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you down like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20.
#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

When people show you who they are, believe them for the one-thousandth time.

November 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

I hate that the Chipmunks ruined Waylon and Willie's 'Momma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys' for me.

November 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM

Melissa Lenhardt

@melissawrites.bsky.social

We all know the Senate will let Trump have his recess appointments, right? I say have Biden beat him to the punch and appoint five Supreme Court justices during a recess.* If the GOP fights this in court and wins, they will destroy their argument for Trump's recess appointments.

November 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM