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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💙📚 Kind of a mixed bag this month, but… East of Eden is a masterpiece. I read it 15 years ago and love it now as much as ever. Scream With Me was also a surprising and great nonfiction read.

Grid of 9 book covers: Lady Tremaine, Scream With Me, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances, Off the Grid, Rate this Book, Go Gentle, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, Kitten, and East of Eden

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why does my cat look like we all feel 😩

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August was a big reading month 💙📚 Kicked it off with Lonesome Dove. Although I’m not generally much of a westerns person, I really loved it. Also always happy for a new Ruth Ozeki, and some other greats too…especially Wolfish, All my Dead Cats and Other Losses, and Kin

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

July reads…busy month so not so many. My favorite was probably “Land.” I didn’t always look forward to reading it, but it has really stuck with me 💙📚

Grid of four book covers: The Bright Years, A Pelican in the Wilderness, Land, Messenger Cat Cafe

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We’ve been on the Camino (Portuguese coastal route) for two days, and both the vibes and the views are immaculate

River entering the ocean under covered bridge

Boardwalk stepping down with view of ocean, greenery, and church

View overlooking rooftops in vila do conde and river

Boardwalk traversing sand dunes on either side

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

June reads 💙📚 Especially loved “A Place for Us” and “John of John.” And always happy to have new writing from Jesmyn Ward

Grid of 7 book covers: “Son of nobody,” “A place for us,” “Good people,” “The wilderness,” “On witness and despair,” “Yesteryear,” “John of John”

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Posted outside a local bar…this drives me SO nuts Why are you people getting married?!

Banner posted outside bar that reads: “Husband Day Care Center. Need time to relax? Want to go shopping? Want time to yourself? Leave your husband with us. We will look after him for you! You only have to pay for his drinks!”

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’ve seen two rattlesnakes in two days. Here’s the big guy from this morning:

Large diamondback rattlesnake in the blackberry bushes

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Pop-Tarts Carnage Liquid Death strawberry toaster pastry flavored iced tea” have got to be the most American words ever written

6-pack box of Liquid Death Pop-Tarts Carnage (strawberry toaster pastry flavored iced tea)

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy 2nd birthday to my sweet sweet baby 🎉🐈🥲 #caturday

Grey cat in yard with leash and white flower on his head

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

May reads 📚💙 I loved Hiroshima in the morning. The Correspondent is a masterpiece. Great to have a new Lindy West book. And The Sisters, The Mires, The Complex, and American Han were all solid fiction reads

Grid of 15 book covers: Hiroshima in the morning, The Amber Spyglass, Eradication, The Sisters, The Mires, The Women I Think About at Night, Empire of AI, The Complex, American Han Stone Blind, Celestial Lights, From Father’s Property to Children’s Rights, The Correspondent, Adult Braces, The Safekeep

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This sunflower bread is labor-intensive but god is it worth it

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I salvaged it! Celebrating my neighbor’s 90th birthday tonight 🥰

Double-layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Feeling personally victimized by internet videos that made me believe gnocchi by scratch was easy (Focaccia turned out great, though!)

Dinner plate with gnocchi, vegetables, and focaccia

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

April was a busy month, but squeezed in some good books nonetheless 📚💙

Grid of six book covers: House of Day, House of Night; Marketing the Wilderness; Stoner; A Most Remarkable Creature; The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

9 books in March, and I continue to get deep into nonfiction about anything and everything. Favorites were probably Motherland (A Feminist History of Modern Russia) and When it All Burns 💙📚

Grid of 9 book covers: The School for Good Mothers, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, Motherland, I love you but I’ve chosen darkness, inconspicuous consumption, When it all burns, Authority, Supersaurio, and Goddess of the River

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Reading won’t fix the world, but it can help us understand it and bring a little bit of joy. 9 books in February, enjoyed them all. Favorites were probably The Wild Dark, Buckeye, and Wuthering Heights 📚💙

Grid of 9 book covers: Best Offer Wins, The Divorce Colony, The Copywriter, Bonfire of the Murdoch, Ladder of Years, The Wild Dark, Perfect Madness, Buckeye, Wuthering Heights

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Started off 2026 with 9 books, almost all nonfiction, and I really loved most of them 📚💙

Grid of 9 book covers: Rough House, A Marriage at Sea, A Physical Education, Empire Antarctica, Destroy this House, The Abandoners, The Uncool, Intermezzo, and Bringers of Order

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I read 105 #books this year! And lots of really, really great ones. Here’s a 🧵of some of my favorites (roughly categorized)💙📚

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Just a little tbr pile to get me started in the new year 💙📚

Stack of books: Poisoning the well, The Journey of trees, the thousand autumns of Jacob de sit, girl warrior, tremor, the abandoners, and east of Eden

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A busy month of November reads 📚💙 I especially loved Misinterpretation, Martyr!, and When the Cranes Fly South (😭 alert for that last one, though). Careless People and On Muscle were great nonfiction reads

Grid of 12 book covers: Winter Garden, Careless People, The Four Winds, Secondhand, Minor Black Figures, Misinterpretation, Martyr!, When the Cranes Fly South, The Anthony Bourdain Reader, Open Throat, On Muscle, Abundance

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo

Grey tabby cat sitting and looking up with a Halloween bow tie on

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

11 years ago my friends and I reached the Gulf of Mexico, 77 days after leaving Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota in a canoe. I had barely been in a canoe before we started that trip. We met incredible people along the way, and it was at times the most free I have ever felt. #adventure #canoe

Young woman holding a cheap bottle of celebratory champagne in a canoe in the Gulf of Mexico, after paddling the entire length of the Mississippi River in a canoe

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Busy reading month in October. Mostly good, especially (and pleasantly) surprised by Lonely Crowds, I who have never known men, and Everything is Tuberculosis 📚💙

Grid of 12 book covers: Atmosphere, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, When No Thing Works, Lonely Crowds, We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat, Me but Better, Free Food for Millionaires, Beyond Elemental Loss, The Rachel Incident, I Who Have Never Known Men, I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki, and Everything is Tuberculosis

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

One of those epic desert sunsets tonight, to remind me I really do love this place

Bright orange and pink sunset with clouds

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This beautiful guy just landed in the tree branch outside my window with dinner (bad picture through the window screen)

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Someone gifted me this book a while back, and I’ve recently returned to it. The prompts—each provided with additional text by a different writer or artist—are beautiful and useful and have helped to pull me out of some big slumps💙📚

Book cover of “The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life” by Suleika Jaouad.

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The light in Dresden has been *incredible* this week

Mjsty morning with flowers and the sommerpalais, sun rising in the background

Sun rising at the of tree-lined path, looking like autumn

Sommerpalais with thick layer of low fog at sunrise

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

August reads 📚💙 The Family Fang, The Covenant of Water, The Emperor of Gladness, and The Nightingale were particularly great

Grid of 9 book covers: The Family Fang, Algospeak, The Covenant of Water, Ghosts, Colored Television, The Emperor of Gladness, The Life Impossible, The Nightingale, and bel canto.

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

International cat day?! Almost 1 year ago exactly, I went for a walk on my 35th birthday. I found this tiny, abandoned kitten with a broken tail, in 100+ degree temps. I took him home, no one claimed him, and now I couldn’t imagine my life without him

Small grey kitten on brown couch being pe

Big grey cat on white bookshelf near plant

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A perfect morning on the river. Even saw a whole family of river otters! #nature

Front of kayak facing river and canyon, mountains mirrored in the water

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

July reads! A good month of books, would recommend any and all of them 📚💙

Grid of nine book covers: The Last Whaler, Girl in Girl, Run for the Hills, Four Squares, Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird, Big Chief, Little Bosses Everywhere, You Dreamed of Empires, The Sense of an Ending

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

When my newborn niece came home and they brought her outside, a frog jumped onto her to visit. So I made her this cross-stitch. All that’s left is adding her name across the top and cleaning it up a bit 🧶

Circular cross stitch on black background. Image of two frogs roasting marshmallows over a campfire

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Summer bounty: cobbler with wild blackberries

Piece of blackberry cobbler in bowl on blue pattern tablecloth

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

June reads 💙📚 So grateful for the comfort & knowledge & community & joy books give, in good times and bad. This month, my favorite was “There are Rivers in the Sky” by Elif Shafak.

Grid of nine book covers: Punch me up to the Gods, There are Rivers in the Sky, Black Woods Blue Sky, Audition, The Coast Road, Orbital, Heart Lamp, The Haves and Have-Yachts, and The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Successful hunt for snow plants today

Two pink snow plants against background of greenery

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

May reads! 📚💙 I enjoyed the Ibis Trilogy but I was ready for the end. I really loved The Serviceberry.The Snow Child, City of Night Birds, and Homeseeking were all solid.

Grid of 9 book covers: River of Smoke, The Snow Child, City of Night Birds, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Homeseeking, Rental House, The Serviceberry, Flood of Fire, and Perfect Little World.

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Low-key Saturday, finished a little collage today 🧶

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Some good April reads. I have to say, one of the most unexpected joys of my reading life this past year has been discovering the genre of short Japanese novels about magical cats. So not something I ever thought I’d love, but truly a balm for hard times 💙📚

Grid of seven book covers: Stoneyard Devotional, Infinite Country, We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, Splinters, A Life of One’s Own, The Wind Knows My Name, and Sea of Poppies

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Flashback to two years ago at beautiful Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal 📚💙

Elaborate staircase in Livraria Lello bookstore

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A healthy dose of water and greenery

Darmera with small pink and white flowers in creek

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Adrienne Brown @adierose.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lots of bad stuff so here are some flowers

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