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Kathleen Towers, haunted with gratitude
@towerskt.bsky.social
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Inveterate bookworm & inquisitive engineer—always scribbling on something!

Interests: horror fiction & film, detective fiction, romance novels, IndyCar, F1, NCAA Football, Florida Gators, Cincinnati Bearcats, state of Ohio (sigh), origami, hiking

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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Received this for my 16th birthday and my friend Niki was all, “Kathleen, I love you, but when I asked the cute guy at the record store where to find this, he was all, ‘Oh, that’s *bluegrass*.’ “
Nickel Creek’s album This Side
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Enjoyed the last not-terrible weather by spending an enjoyable afternoon at the zoo with my sister & my niece. My niece currently loves saying, ‘Six, seven,’ in Russian & will determinedly climb on any statue-type thing.
My niece, a small girl child in a white dress with gold confetti stars, black leggings, a red coat, a black hat, and purple gloves, climbing on some large concrete feet.
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Breakfast for dinner is go. There will be omelettes, hash browns, toast, & sliced tomatoes. The omelettes will not occur until @spherewolf.bsky.social arrives, but I can offer a can check?
A can of Columbus Brewing Co.’s Juicy Bodhi Double India Pale Ale
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Working plot for how I’ll spend today includes a lot of coffee and Alma Katsu’s new novel.
Cup of coffee in turtle mug & hardcover copy of Alma Katsu’s novel Fiend with a large, dark house followed by a cloud sitting on a coffee table.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The godless white death has arrived.
A street with maybe an inch of snow on the lawns—streets remain clear.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Too late, Co-Star, far too late. I’ll keep compartmentalizing that nonsense away where possible, though?
Co-Star’s Your Day At A Glance saying ‘Don’t let your intellect make you bitter.’
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Ready to enjoy tonight’s episode of #TheLastDriveIn!
Kathleen’s tiny TV tuned to Shudder Live currently displaying the dimly lit Last Drive-in set with Joe Bob’s chair & TV in front of a Drive-In Never Dies sign with a trailer & iguana tank to the right.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Post you from a different era.

Apart from the summer of 2003, this is the only time I lived in Gainesville.
Small toddler with dark hair sitting on a kitchen floor.
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Happy Thursday, friends. Books I’ve been escaping into this week include a short found fiction horror anthology, yet another ECR Lorac murder mystery, and a historical cold weather diving horror.
Cover for Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror that looks like a video cassette with a torn box labeled #2. Full title on the side label of the VHS. Cover for ECR Lorac’s The Theft of the Iron Dogs, showing a Lancashire landscape with mountains descending into a river valley. Cover for Anbara Salam’s The Salvage with a white skull with eight orange octopus tentacles threaded about it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This would not be possible on a work day.
Co-Star Horoscope daily summary: “Howl. That fake smile is cracking. Find somewhere private and let the anger out—yell at your pillow, punch the air, cry ugly tears. Your body is tired of pretending everything’s fine when it’s not.”
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Have found a wilderness train murder book that has possibility—hopefully my library hold comes through in the next couple weeks:
Cover for Eva Jurczyk’s novel 6:40 to Montreal with title in black capitals on a ticket stub above a train speeding through a snowy mountainscape.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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May have purchased this tee a few months back:
T-shirt design in white against blue—says Ohio River/Coastal Elites & includes a map of Indiana, Kentucky, & Ohio.
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Currently reading: the *last* Rebus novel, Quan Barry’s new novel set in Antarctica, & the Edmund Fitzgerald book.
Cover for Ian Rankin’s novel Midnight and Blue, illustrated with a rainy street at night time lit by lights (possibly a jail entrance?) within the outline of a man facing away. Author’s name in white capitals at top & book’s title in smaller blue capitals at bottom. Cover art fot Quan Barry’s novel The Unveiling with what I suspect is a flipped iceberg, the bigger bottom half at the top against a red yo black gradient with its smaller top part above water against a blue sky at bottom. Title centered in white capitals & author’s name at bottom in same. Cover for John U Bacon’s book, The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, showing a red and white cargo ship in a stormy night on the lake. Title in copper capitals against dark cloudy sky, subtitle below in smaller white print, and author’s name in white capitals at bottom.
October 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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(keeping the signed copy)
Signed copy of title page for You Are The Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper.
October 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Knew I was acquiring two copies of @maureenjohnsonbooks.com & @jaycooper.bsky.social’s new book, but somehow ended up with three?/!

Have solved my problem by gifting the copies to friends. We’re all reading it this month, and on Nov 1, we will meet to solve it together.
Cover of You Are The Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder, A Solve-It-Yourself Mystery by Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper. Features a clawed red hand in the center with gold foil blood dripping skulls and London streetscape to either side.
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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(admits to still thinking Serpent Mound is cooler)
Picture of Serpent Mound earthworks with a tail curling to the left, weaving back & forth to the mouth, open around an oval. Woods surround the earthworks.
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Holly Anderson’s post of a screenshot of the Penn St-UCLA (7-10), Texas-Florida (0-7), and Vandy-Bama (7-0) scores with the comment ‘Everything according to plan’.
October 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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“An immaculate first quarter,” as the Bearcats radio broadcaster put it. #ISUvsUC
Screenshot of ESPN gamecast for Iowa State vs Cincy game—0-17 score at the top & current drive football field graphic showing Bearcats touchdown with pictures of receiver Royer & QB Sorsby at the bottom.
October 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#ScareADay Day 4 is John Galt’s “The Living Dead”. Enjoyed reading about being buried alive & having one’s supposed corpse stolen by grave robbers(!) before a long day of college football.
“…motion had departed.—I heard the sound of weeping at my pillow—and the voice of the nurse say,”He is dead.”—I cannot describe what I felt at these words.—I exerted my utmost power of volition to stir myself, but I could not move even an eyelid. After a short pause my friend drew near; and sobbing, convulsed with grief, drew his hand over my face, and closed my eyes. The world was then darkened, but I could still hear, and feel and suffer.”
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Reading a rather grim but still utterly gripping mystery set in Glasgow at the moment—the first of Denise Mina’s Garnethill series.
Cover for Denise Mina’s novel, Garnethill. Front cover has a plain chair sitting in the light streaming through the window of a wooden-floored room.
October 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Wore my October-lanyard to work today!
Selfie of a woman with brown hair and glasses (and short arms!) wearing a lanyard with Nightmare Before Christmas pins on it.
October 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Thrilled I got to enjoy @sarahgailey.bsky.social’s reading at @thebookloft.bsky.social tonight! Excited to dive into reading my first lichen horror with their newest release, the novella Spread Me!
A picture of the author taken from behind their shoulder because I snuck in at the last minute and this was where a generous bookstore employee gave me a seat! Cover for Gailey’s novella Spread Me featuring a dome-like structure with tangled roots coming out of it, amongst which the title in yellow capitals are tangled.
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Anywho, happy Friday. Also, I highly recommend Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle. Have really enjoyed them as before-bed reading this week.
Cover for Nghi Vo’s novella The Empress of Salt and Fortune illustrated with a rabbit sitting before a wooly mammoth with a hoopoe bird and some clawed creature in the corners. Cover for Nghi Vo’s novella When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain illustrated with three stalking tigers. Cover for Nghi Vo’s novella Into the Riverlands with a blue wild boar standing in a river at center and a green monkey & hoopoe to either side.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Per Mom & Mary, these might be 803’s cubs:
Two brown bear cubs near Brooks Falls, Katmai Natl Park Two brown bear cubs near Brooks Falls, Katmai Natl Park
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Curled up under a blanket with this darkly humorous book last night—would recommend (note: other books will probably work for this purpose).
Cover for Elspeth Barker’s novel O Caledonia, illustrated with a jackdaw’s (related to but not a crow or raven) profile over a girl’a face so one of her eyes is covered by the bird’s head.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM