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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My July reads. My favorite was definitely John of John by Douglas Stuart. So so good! Monstrilio was certainly the strangest, but a fun read and so creative. #booksky 💙📚

Six book covers:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 3⭐️
- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova 4⭐️
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 4⭐️
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 5⭐️
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 5⭐️
- John of John by Douglas Stuart 5⭐️

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and hated it. This is a “classic” that should be relegated to the literary dustbin of history. It’s dangerously dismissive of the entire medical field of psychiatry, and its casual misogyny and racism made me throw up a little in my mouth. 🤮 #booksky 💙📚

Cover of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I just want to spend my remaining years learning ancient Greek and translating lost manuscripts. Is that too much to ask? 😫 #Booksky 💙📚

Cover of the novel ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ by Anthony Doerr

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Okay #booksky, I read some books in April. One five star book. One four star book. The rest were um… less. I have some thoughts, but which do you think were top? 💙 📚

Six book covers…
107 Days by Kamala Harris
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam’s
Tomorrow x3 by Gabrielle Zevin
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

My March reads. So good. Especially the three on the bottom row. Something old, Something new, Something bleak as hell, Something five stars too. #booksky 💙📚

Covers of the books:
- Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Dark Half by Stephen King
- All In Her Head by Elizabeth Comen MD
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigkey
- Brother by Ania Ahlborn

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My current read. I am really digging ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ by our own local Colorado author Nina McConigley. It’s tragic and clever and darkly funny. And it gives voice to a protagonist unlike any I’ve encountered before. What a delight to read. #booksky 💙📚

Cover of ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ by Nina McConigley

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The books I read in February. Expanded my range a bit this month to complete some Goodreads challenges. #booksky 💙📚

Hamnet bu Maggie O’Farrell
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The more depressing the world gets, the more I lose myself in books. These were my January reads. #booksky 💙📚

‘Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ‘80s’ by Gary Gulman
‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ by John Green
‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong
‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King
‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare
‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi’ by Wright Thompson

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The books I read in December. These were all winners, but Demon Cooperhead was my favorite. Amazing!And while reading Dickens’ David Copperfield first isn’t necessary, it was an absolute joy to see how Barbara Kingsolver wove so many Dickensian details into her story. #booksky 💙📚

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - 5 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker - 5 stars
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis - 5 stars
Go As a River by Shelley Read - 4 stars
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 5 stars
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - 5 stars

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So I forced myself to read David Copperfield prior to starting Demon Copperhead. It was a struggle. I was not a fan. But now I’m 40% through Demon and so glad I did. I have so many thoughts! Mind blown! 🤯 Did anyone else have this experience? #booksky 💙📚

Two paperback books sitting side by side. ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens sitting next to ‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Wow, this one was a gut punch. So well-written, so powerful, and with so much to say. I finished it yesterday and I’m still thinking about it. #booksky

Cover of ‘Chain Gang All-Stars’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The books I read in November. Three stars for David Copperfield (which I only read to prepare for Demon Copperhead). The rest were all 4 or 5 stars. I have so many thoughts! #booksky 💙📚

- Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 5⭐️
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. 5⭐️
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 4⭐️
- The Serviceberry by Robin-Wall Kimmerer. 5⭐️
- Clear by Carys Davies 4⭐️
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 3⭐️

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

If you need me anytime between now and January, this is where I’ll be. #booksky

Picture of a well-worn sitting chair next to a small table with a lamp and several stacked books. A bookcase to the left, a partly visible lit Christmas tree to the right, a window in the back framed with white Christmas lights.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I really did not care for this book. The premise of ‘The Magicians’ by Lev Grossman intrigued me. But turning Narnia/Hogwarts/Oz into a profanity-riddled, drunken, sex-crazed Bacchanalia felt cruelly blasphemous to the stories that shaped my youth. No thank you to the sequels. #booksky

Cover of “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Okay #booksky, I’m only a third of the way through David Copperfield, but why did I get a chill the first time I saw Uriah Heep mentioned? Why do I already know that name?!

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Hey #booksky, am I the only one who decided to read David Copperfield before reading Demon Copperhead? I mean. I’m liking it so far, but it’s really long! 😬 💙📚

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

My happy place. Fall hikes in Colorado are the best hikes. I linger back here so I can hear the birds.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My reads for September. When the Cranes Fly South was definitely my favorite. One of the few books in recent memory that actually made me tear up. #booksky 💙📚

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson 3⭐️
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén 5⭐️
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 4⭐️
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 4⭐️
A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson 3⭐️

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So I’m only 53% done with Bill Bryson’s “A Walk In The Woods.” Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it. What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Necessary voices in these troubling times. Thank you @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for this important book. Looking forward to reading it.

Kindle cover of ‘Science Under Siege’ by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m only 50 pages in, but I’ve already decided. This book will either be 5 stars or 1 star. Based on whether the dog survives. 😬 🐶 #booksky 💙📚

Cover of ‘When the Cranes Fly South’ by Lisa Ridzén.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My reads for August. I try to keep it diverse and eclectic. All four or five stars. The Edge of Water was probably my favorite. #booksky 💙📚

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’m only a few chapters in, but The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole.bsky.social has me completely captivated. The prose and storytelling are beautiful, heartbreaking, and infuriating all at once. So glad I picked this one up. #booksky 💙📚🖋️

The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Just finished this one. Five stars. I don’t generally get emotional about books, but this one actually got me teary-eyed at the end. Thank you, Monkey Pants. 🥹 #booksky

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I want to read a debut novel from a new up and coming author. There are so many options! After browsing some online lists, these are the candidates I’ve chosen. Any thoughts? #booksky 💙📚🖋️

‘When the Cranes Fly South’ by Lisa Ridzén

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My current read. I struggled with the first few chapters, but now I can’t put it down. The author is an accomplished jazz musician, and that actually helped me connect with the prose. It’s very jazzlike in structure - syncopated and always a half-beat ahead of expectation. #booksky 💙📚🖋️

Cover of ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’ by James McBride

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My reads for July. North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️. All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️. The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️. #BookSky 💙📚

The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
North Woods by Daniel Mason

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I’m only halfway through North Woods by Daniel Mason and I already want to read it again. The intricacy of how this story (stories) is (are) woven together is so beautiful. Such seemingly minor details reappear with haunting beauty. Highly recommend! #BookSky 💙📚

Cover of the 2023 novel North Woods by Daniel Mason.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My current read. It’s been on our bookshelf for years; my wife read it a long time ago for a book club. I’m only at 10% and asked her opinion… “I liked it until the end and then I hated it.” That intrigues me more. 🤯 (She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚

Cover of the book ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Me, an introvert, every time I have to leave the house:

“At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Just finished Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ today. It was amazing and delightful and beautifully written. I want to be best friends with Ed so we can sit around in the afternoons sipping tea and talking about our dogs and nature and the meaning of life. #booksky 💙📚

Cover of the 2022 book ‘An Immense World’ by Ed Yong. The cover features a close up photo of a spider monkey looking upward inquisitively at a butterfly flying overhead.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This was a challenging read. Rivers Solomon is an incredibly talented writer. Some of their prose borders on sheer poetry. I kept highlighting multiple passages. Anyone with a history of family dysfunction will relate. 4/5 stars. #booksky

Cover of the 2024 novel Model Home by Rivers Solomon.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

First read this when I was 22. I claimed it was my Favorite Book. Rereading it now in my late 40’s and it hits so much harder. Why?… Lived experience? Broken family relationships? Fatherhood? Regrets and what if’s’? Yes. All of it. 🥹 John Steinbeck was America’s conscience. And maybe he still is. 📚💙

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Just finished chapter 1 of The Overstory by Richard Powers. I knew nothing about the American Chestnut tree and how it went functionally extinct 100 years ago and now I’m so sad. 😢 #BookSky 💙📚

Cover of the 2018 novel The Overstory by Richard Powers.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I just finished this book. It was one of the shorter books on my TBR list and I needed one more to hit my 2024 goal, but it really affected me. I can’t stop thinking about it. Anyone else? Such a lovely and articulate exploration of community, friendship, and relationship. And the birds. 😊 💙📚 🪶

Cover of the 2022 novel ‘Dinosaurs’ by Lydia Millet.

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Colorado Paul 💙📚 @birdman2170.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hey #booksky I’m curious what people thought of this book. I just finished it. As an uncle of two autistic boys, I thought it was absolutely beautiful, and also it broke my heart, all at the same time. 💙📚

Cover of the 2004 novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time’ by Mark Hardin.

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