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@norabelle.bsky.social
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Books. Animals. TV. Feminism. Theater. Podcasts. Crafting. Car-hating.
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I was sick for the first few weeks of November so I never got around to posting my October reads! Here's both October and November:
💙📚
12 book covers: The Book Eaters by Sunya Dean The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting and Diane de Groat Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna Witchcraft: An Illustrated History by Lindsay Squire and Lisa Salsi Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove 11 book covers: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire The Sensational She-Hulk #4 by Rainbow Rowell and Ig Guara Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly An Immense World by Ed Yong A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian The Sensational She-Hulk #3 by Rainbow Rowell and Andres Genolet More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Just cat things 🐈
An orange cat resting on a gray comforter. His eyes are cracked open just a little and his long, pale tail is curled up over his head in a circle with one of his eyes in the center A glamour shot of an orange cat with a gray collar and bell, sitting on a cat tree in the sunshine, looking slightly left of camera with one paw up in the "please" gesture An orange cat curled up inside an abandoned cardboard box on the floor, surrounded by brown packing paper An orange cat on a purple bedspread, stretching his head up to sniff the outstretched fingers of the person taking the photo (me)
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🎭 🎭 🎭
My hand holding the program for Fremont Ave, playing at Arena Stage October 8 - November 23. Behind it is the stage, set with a living room with moody blue lighting
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Woke up sick, masked up and voted at 6:30, back in bed by 6:35
A sticker with an American flag that says "I voted in Arlington" on it, laying on a duvet
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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It's spoopy season 🎃🧟‍♂️🦇🕸️
A Fairfax Connector bus with a Halloween wrap featuring two mummies gathered around a cauldron with jack-o'-lanterns The other side of the bus wrap, featuring a jack-o'-lantern with an eye patch, one with a witch hat, and various skulls
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It's theater season, baby! 🎭
A theater program for Damn Yankees at Arena Stage September 9 - November 9. Behind it is the stage with outlines of baseball players
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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August reads! 💙📚
Book covers: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Human Rites by Juno Dawson A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite A Little Queer Natural History by Josh L. Davis The Sensational She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell and Andres Genolet Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo For Never & Always by Helena Greer
September 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Overcast, but not too bad
#roofreading
(Plus bonus sunset from earlier this week)
My legs on a deck chair on the roof of an apartment building. The sky is very gray and cloudy An orange sunset from an apartment building roof. In the distance are the US Capitol, Jefferson Memorial, and Washington Monument
August 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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July reads 💙📚
(assuming I don't read a whole book before midnight 😅)
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Good Inside by Becky Kennedy Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Cosmoknights Vol 2 by Hannah Templer Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #5 by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
July 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Nice night for my favorite hobby, #roofreading
My legs on a deck chair on the roof of a tall building. In my lap is a book. The sky is clear, though getting dark
July 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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A few brief hours of distraction
A theater program for A Wrinkle in Time: a New Musical, showing at Arena Stage June 12 - July 20. Behind it is the stage, hidden behind a tall shimmery purple curtain
July 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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June reads 💙📚
9 book covers: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #4 by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake Orbital by Samantha Harvey Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
July 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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May reads 📚💙
12 book covers: The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman The Thing Lou Couldn''t Do by Ashley Spires Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro, translated by Eve Hill-Agnus Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story by Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman Queen B by Juno Dawson Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Paul Bunyan by Stephen Kellogg Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #3 by Tim Seely and Jodi Nishijima The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
June 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Second-to-last show of the season
My hand holding a program for We Are Gathered, a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, at Arena Stage May 16 - June 15. Behind the program is a bare stage lit in blue with small streetlights around it
May 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The Onion would never use AI for book recommendations
A paper newspaper that says "The Onion's Bestseller List" and then lists some real books with funny fake descriptions and some clearly fake books like "Zen and the Art of Nuclear Weapons Maintenance" and "I Need Money" by Malcolm Gladwell
May 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A navel orange
An orange cat curled up in a ball on a blanket. He has a sticker stuck to his back, the kind you usually find on produce at the grocery store, that says "Sunkist Navel USA"
May 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Good reading month 📚💙
9 book covers The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik Clear by Carys Davies A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #2 by Tim Seely and Jodi Nishijima Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams The Ministry of TIme by Kaliane Bradley The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik Nora's Stars by Satomi Ichikawa
May 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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This amaryllis hasn't bloomed in a few years but a month ago I cut off a bunch of dead leaves and she said thank you 🥹
A huge amaryllis bloom, the reddest red you've ever seen, on an apartment windowsill. Behind it is a smaller blossom, not quite fully open yet.
April 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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March reads 📚💙
Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Let's Make Rabbits by Leo Lionni Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Vash Taylor Walking with Gorillas by Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #1 by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima Every Night Is Pizza Night by J. Kenji López-Alt and Gianna Ruggiero Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I had a good, cherry-blossom-y day. Very sunburnt. 🌸
A cherry tree with both pink and white blossoms A close-up of a tuft of cherry blossoms with ruffled petals A thick field of tiny white cherry blossoms A small, delicate cherry blossom tree in bloom
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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King of the castle*

*Pile of pillows and library books
An orange cat loafing on a pile of pillows on a couch, with a tall pile of library books next to him
March 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Paolo Montalban is in this one! 🎭
My hand holding the program for The Age of Innocence, at Arena Stage February 28 - March 30. Behind the program is the stage, black and shiny with several crystal chandeliers
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Look at himmmmm
A cute orange cat curled up in a ball sleeping on a pile of pillows and duvets while sun streams in the window
March 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I forgot to post my completed #2025MMM bracket, but I swear I finished filling it out on Friday! (As you can tell, it has been in my pocket since then)
#TeamNarwhal
A filled-out but very crumpled bracket for March Mammal Madness 2025. The final 4 are Thorold's Deer, Puma, Narwhal, and Alligator Gar. The 2 finalists are Puma and Narwhal, and the champion is Narwhal
March 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I really hope this isn't a typo #2025MMM
a screenshot of a March Mammal Madness combatant info slide about Sunda colugo which states "Have a membrane of skin and fun that allows..."
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM