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Christine, wholly foolish

@christinabelle.bsky.social
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writes. plays. creativity + spirituality = passion. wanderer. wonderer. episcopalian. www.ripplesinthefont.com

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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Friday Night Fiction for my birthday weekend—A TRADE OF BLOOD, by Robert Jackson Bennett. It’s the 3rd in his brilliant Ana & Din mystery fantasy series. Been looking forward to this one for a while. I want to stretch it out and savor it, but I’ll binge it, then have to wait for the next.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Friday Night Fiction. Or should I say Fright Night Fiction? I’ve been meaning to read Paul Tremblay for a while. Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep is my entry point; hoping he riffs more on Philip K. Dick than just the title.
Photo of Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, novel by Paul Tremblay
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@sgj.bsky.social, just finished Killer on the Road (read The Babysitter Lives a month ago). Thank you, thank you for all your wonderful work. You write the best acknowledgements—told my former theology professor this on Substack. King is a great writer, but you are my go-to horror writer these days.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Now that I am holding it, I see that this book is even cooler than I anticipated, @sgj.bsky.social.
Photo of Killer on the Road cover of Stephen Graham Jones’s latest novel, which a Saga Double publication—two books in one.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Finally got to check out Wearing the Lion from my local library, @wiswell.bsky.social. LOVE the first line—great hook.
Photo of Wearing the Lion, a fantasy novel by John Wiswell.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Friday Night Fiction: Imagining Argentina, Lawrence Thornton, 1987. I subscribe to Used Books Monthly— it’s like a blind date with one or more books by mail. Imagining Argentina came this week. I’ve never heard of the author or this novel, but apparently it won awards. www.usedbooksmonthly.com
Front cover of Imagining Argentina by Lawrence ThorntonPhoto of the back cover of Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Instead of Friday Night Fiction for the solstice, it’s Friday Night Classic Movie—Hitchcock’s Vertigo, for the first time. Then maybe Harvey. I do love Jimmy Stewart.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“Reading should feel a little subversive… because it is! To sit around and read a novel in the year 2025 is an act of resistance.” —Austin Kleon, “On Reading Novels”(austinkleon.com/category/reading/) I’m not hardy enough for a street protest, but I will support my local library & read today.
Photograph of 4 library books, side-by-side: Anima Rising, by Christopher Moore; Water, Water, poems by Billy Collins; Absolution, by Jeff VanderMeer; and When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
From red.penrebel on Threads. “Writer” Lauren Cate Leake is a plagiarist. Probably used AI, as usual. If not, even worse. Anyway: 1. Not Amazon’s fault, you thief 2. Fuck JKR and Lauren 3. Don’t use “indies” as a shield 4. Yes, Lauren, please “give up” and let real writers work
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Friday Night Fiction: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett. I’m finally getting around to reading his first series—his other two are among my favorites. Excellent worldbuilding, engaging characters and intriguing story are hallmarks of his work.
Photo of the novel City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
At least ten armed officers blocked a lone young woman from trying to get home. The best idea to defuse the situation the ten could think up was to yell at her for a few seconds and then shoot her with rubber bullets.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Odin’s Day treasures from the Austin Public Library. 5 borrowed and Pachinko was on the Recycled Reads for sale shelf. I’m excited about all of them, but will probably begin with The River Has Roots. Although Sister, Sinner, about Aimee Semple McPherson has the lure of the unknown.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I’ve finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, @sgj.bsky.social. Thought I would binge it as soon as I opened it, but my heart needed time for the words to go where they needed to, to absorb the sorrow. I’m still sniffling a little. Always love the afterwords. Thank you for this book.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I’m eagerly awaiting Is a River Alive, by Robert Macfarlane. Field Notes has this set of little memo books. They feel so good in the hand. The list of practical applications on the back inside cover makes me smile. I’ll have fun figuring out how to play with them. @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 06/05/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.
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'What Are They Doing Illegal?' Officer Says Before Arresting Pro-Palestine Students
Audio reveals an officer admitting University of Texas students weren’t breaking the law before they were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Friday night fiction! It’s finally time to read @sgj.bsky.social Graham Jones’s latest novel, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Wanted to be able to devote my whole being to this highly-anticipated work. He is one of my favorite writers, horror and otherwise. Almost halfway through.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Good Friday Night Fiction
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Post a movie from the year you turned 18.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I picked The Buffalo Hunter Hunter up last Thursday. I find myself nursing the anticipation. Once I crack the spine, I’ll binge the book, which will be a good, deep water experience, but then I’ll have to return to the surface. @sgj.bsky.social
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tonight might be rough, so take this hungry tiny turtle.
A normal strawberry is BRUTALLY ATTACKED by the tiniest turtle you've ever seen. The turtle opens its mouth as wide as possible to try to bite the strawberry, and you have to ask yourself, can it succeed? Can a mouth so small bite into a berry so large and formidable? The answer lies between your heart and God's mercy.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Friday night fiction—The Full Moon Coffee Shop (ebook).
Ebook cover of The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki; translated from the Japaneseby Jesse Kirkwood
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Friday night fiction—finally got to check Martyr! out from the library!
A photo of the cover of the novel, Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yes yes yes. It's not that I'm not outraged all the time but I simply cannot live at peak outrage every day. I'm trying so hard to keep my attention on what I can control. Do the best work I can. Care for everyone I personally can. Take and make and share joy and delight and pleasure when I can.
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Commit the sin of empathy.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here’s the review I wrote of The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. mbird.com/literature/a...
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A Book Is a Seed - Mockingbird
Reciprocity and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Atlas could never.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Friday night fiction—time to begin Murakami’s THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
If only we had a robust system of local businesses and free public institutions, where readers could browse and speak with professionals, perhaps called "booksellers" and "librarians"! If only publishers supported them with the same fervor they have for... individual artists doing their own promo?
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Post a short story that you love. “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by @rsagarcia.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...
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Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 - Uncanny Magazine
So, hear nah. This is how it happen. Was years after Malcolm pass through and wash away a lot ah we little islands coasts, and mash up so much ah Florida and Texas and them places, and people say they...
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’m very disheartened by the Gaiman story. I have a copy of his “A Writer’s Prayer” that I framed after he not only signed it but also edited it. It was a golden moment because he lit up and took that moment while signing 1000 copies of his books. I don’t know whether I can still treasure it.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In a north Austin neighborhood, @gabino.bsky.social. Finally stopped to get a photo. It looks even better at night. The hands around the trees are hilarious.
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Friday Night Fiction, fresh from the library. It still has that new trade paperback feel. @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Christine, wholly foolish @christinabelle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Friday night fiction! Nghi Vo is one of my favorite fantasy authors, especially her novellas.
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