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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Completely packed for our big trip. 2. This is my first trip in decades w/o deadlines. 3. Embracing the "let them" philosophy. 4. Tried & failed to catch a fly w/honey; vinegar worked. #notametaphor #yetalsoametaphor 5. Taskmaster episodes.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#5Things: 1. A daughter's 1st wedding anniversary. 2. Big trip next week for our own wedding anniversary. 3. Nearly finished w/Booker shortlist (helps that I'd read 4). 4. Getting all the annual exams/tests WHILE WE STILL CAN. Please schedule yours! 5. Fat Bear Week brackets.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#5Things: 1. An engagement party. (Bonus: Cocktails w/Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose gin.) 2. A great dinner w/our daughter's inlaws. 3. The Katmai bears. 4. Finishing up plans for a long-awaited trip. 5. Figuring out the best way to support a family member.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Compiling my Best of 2026 books list. Anyone have a fave or three?

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Making healthcare appointments. 2. Being able to make healthcare appointments. 3. A bald eagle swooping past our windows, three times. 4. A long walk. 5. Limoncello spritzes ease the seasonal transition. ;)

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Actually making a handwritten list. #ADHD #challenge 2. Checking things off that list. #ADHD #biggerchallenge 3. Even the scary things. #ADHD 4. Going out on a boat ride this afternoon. Hoping for dolphins. 5. Adding something to list I forgot. #ADHD #keepingitreal

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Finding a workaround. 2. Remembering a musical form that soothes me. 3. Sending out love to someone who might need it. 4. Appreciating talent. 5. Setting limits.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Shopping my closet: A brand-new sweater, tags attached, $109 new -- that I thrifted for $20. 2. Meeting w/a longtime fave person via Zoom this a.m. 3. Meeting w/a new fave person IRL this p.m. 4. The gift of Mary Oliver. 5. Holding space for everyone remembering #9/11 today.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Telling my inner child about the truly loving friends I have now. 2. Telling everyone -- still -- about THE DISAPPEARERS by Marlon James. 3. DiFara frozen pizzas. Thank me later. 4. Starting something new, small, quiet. 5. Because I don't give her enough credit: My dog.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Olga Khazan's piece against meditation in @theatlantic.com. A lot to. . . meditate on. ::Runs away:: 2. Joined the Y to keep swimming after pool closes. 3. Slow Interior Design, who's with me? 4. A day without ANY appointments/meetings. 5. A dream that needs to become a short story.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#5Things: 1. Swimming, for an hour, outside, all alone. 2. Remembering to fill out that settlement claim form. IYKYK. 3. THE DISAPPEARERS by Marlon James. Just go buy or borrow a copy. It really IS all that. 4. An afghan crocheted for me by a girlfriend. 5. Taking part in something meaningful.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

From the Neilson Farmhouse in Saratoga Battlefield National Park, you can see the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains, the Berkshires, and the Catskills. I should have taken a panoramic shot but, well, I was too busy taking it all in. We visited earlier this week on my natal day. #birthdaybenison

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#5Things: 1. Working out a tricky turn in something. 2. Watching Dolly Parton videos, appreciating the range of her gifts/the enormity of her lovingkindness. 3. Housecleaning as a workout. 4. Filling a bag of books to share with longtime friends this weekend. 5. A belly laugh for the day.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the AI Files, I just ran a 3,000-word document that I wrote 100% from scratch through a detector. . . and Humalingo tells me it's got an AI score of 94%. ::headdesk::

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fiction has undergone a huge demographic transformation over the last 50 years. Men lost ground, which women gained. But the way some have written about it, you’d think men are, as a NYT headline suggested, disappearing. Hardly! Women have just caught up. sinykin.substack.com/p/where-have...

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Where Have All the Literary Men Gone?

Not too far....

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#5Things: 1. An early ocean swim, before the jellyfish ride in on the waves. 2. Reading a galley I love/seeing that a colleague loves it too. 3. Attempting to reconnect w/old friend. A positive, even if it doesn't work out. 4. Ignoring Duolingo alerts as necessary, for my sanity. 5. Golden hour.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Every year or two I remember that I think everyone should pick up Ariel S. Winter's BARREN COVE. It's one of the most affecting novels about our robot overlords I've ever read.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#5Things: 1. New eyeglasses. 2. A long chat with a longtime friend. 3. Lovely comments on a social-media post. 4. One week until a trip to the Adirondacks. 5. Considering returning to writing letters.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#5Things: 1. Returning to morning pages after a long hiatus. 2. Contemplating judgment v. discernment. 3. Comfort reading: e-galley of MURDER AT THE GRAND ALPINE HOTEL by Sophie Hannah. 4. Providing a laugh to someone who needed one. 5. Clearing out photos; what a beautiful year I've had so far.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#5Things: 1. Supporting friends by taking a writing class together. 2. A dream about writing a fun bookish post brought up good feelings. 3. Jacques Pépin's Ice-Cream French Toast. 4. More swimming = more strength. 5. Planning a getaway in Saratoga Springs.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#5Things: 1. Regrouping. 2. Writing down a dream before it runs away. 3. Local sandwich tomatoes. 4. Making some librarians happy with book donations. 5. Considering growing a pair. Of wings.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#5Things: 1. A bestie visiting this week. 2. Found a dress I love, and then found it in a second color, on sale. 3. Our (manmade) pond's bald eagle has returned. 4. FINALLY bought airplane tix for a big trip in October. 5. A long catch-up call w/one daughter yesterday, a delight.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#5Things: 1. Swimming laps. 2. Body doubling via videoconference. 3. The fastest closet declutter ever. Change is possible. 4. Turning annoyance at something into gratitude for same thing. 5. Pictures of a new baby nephew.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#5Things: 1. The Morgan Library Tarot exhibit, with a friend I've known since age 10. I might need to go back, this week! 2. Breakfast at Sant Ambroeus. 3. The Classical Theater of Harlem's Othello last night. 4. All the NYC dogs, little, big, young, old. 5. In my element. #grateful

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#5Things: 1. Coffee in my favorite mug. #thelittlethings 2. Lunch w/a bestie today. #thebigthings 3. My local library uses the #fridayreads hashtag. #IYKYK 4. Yesterday I had to brake for two river otters. 5. Seeing a field of blooming sunflowers. (WHY didn't I stop to take a photo?)

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#5Things: 1. Finding a cool indie coffee shop. 2. Annual mammo today, hope yours is done or scheduled! 3. Spouse reminds me that I love NEVER LET ME GO b/c it was mentioned in his latest audiobook (THE CORRESPONDENT, natch). 4. Closing doors, opening windows. . . 5. More NYC fun skedded.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#5Things: 1. Virtual coffee today w/a book publicist. #BookPR people, the best. 2. Self-observation: Rarely easy, always worthwhile. 3. Planning NYC adventures. First up: Wandering The Met when closed, w/curator friend. 4. When the thrift-shop dress is half price. 5. Stuffed peppers for dinner.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 20/07/2026

What is this book doing? What is this book doing to me? Two all-important questions to keep in mind while reading if you, too, would like to read like a Booker Prize judge.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

#5Things: 1. Swimming in the ocean w/women I've known since my teens. 2. Laughing hard w/same women. 3. Today is my mother's 90th. She's a bit slower, but still going to chair yoga etc. (And, I hope, eating cake!) 4. I saw The Odyssey. I'm grateful for Samantha Morton. 5. Being present & mindful.

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bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Finally starting my slow exit from a longtime moniker. Hi, everyone! Please follow me over here. In a few months I'll be closing my @thebookmaven.bsky.social account. (I'll also be shutting it down on Twitter. . . someone else can have it FWIW)

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