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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning! But not good morning to the chirping frog who kept me up all night: “Twerk Tchurk!” Off to London soon so a classic I’ve never read: The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Chesterton. But also rereaading Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social because it’s just that beautiful.

Cover for Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Coz. A forbidding cliff stands behind a small white house in the hills and a black sea. A man standing on the beach watching the waves while a race flies in the swirling sky above him.

The first edition cover of GK Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I, for one, am ready to join the Papal brigrades in the fight against the machines.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late to the party this time. I’m reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith. I’m about ½ way through. I can’t wait to see how it ends. (a joke. I’ve read it many, many, and still more many times.)

A striking woodcut style of Sir Gawain on his horse.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you haven’t found this excellence #StarTrek friends, I highly recommend it! 🖖❤️

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello! I’m in Austin and am desperately waiting for the end of summer. Yesterday was 97F/36C. Definitely not autumn. Distracting myself with the 60th Anniversary Special Star Trek comic anthology. So far a delightful read. 🖖

Cover for the comic anthology to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. On a fiery orange background are faces of many of our favorite Trek characters

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is still glory in the world. But also, I mean, check out that huge recorder. Why don't American elementary schools let the kids learn the huge ass recorder?

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Bach: “Little” Fugue in G Minor for Low Recorder Quartet, BWV 578

YouTube video by James Howard Young

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Moien! I'm about halfway through Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighborhood by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social. Imagine the drawer in your house where all the "maybe I'll need this later" stuff sits around. There's a hammer, but also flower salts, that little gizmo...

Cover for Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighborhood by Tom Cox. In a woodcut style, a hand holds up a hagstone for the light to shine through. Surrounding the hand and stone are odds and ends: a bee, a helicopter, a sun, a telephone, etc.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Clearly, we have strayed from the fundamental questions of life.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Once again I have failed to be a part of something truly great.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mid-90's I had a technical writing job and had to make a grant proposal write up for a technology growing potatoes to turn into organic fuel. The potatoes were going to be called Sunspuds. Yes, this was in Idaho.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Howdy. I’m actually reading absolutely nothing beyond the internet stream. I got my flu, covid, and SRV vaccines on Friday and I’m just wiped out. But I will say it’s absolutely worth it. According to the pharmacist, this season’s flu is a bad one. Stay healthy all you readers. Here’s some calm.

A soothing picture from Cape Cod National Seashore. A little grey cape house sits peacefully next to saltwater inlet and a foreground of bright green seagrass.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have a journal made by them. It's a great one.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now I wish I could get my “patron” money back.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If anyone else is like me and is obsessed with T’Pring‘s earrings, well: Mickel Good Gallery. #StarTrek

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Shop Michael Good Jewelry — Michael Good Gallery

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Denver visiting my granddaughter, but we’ve caught one of the *many* back-to-school colds so we‘re doing a lot of reading. She’s nearly inhaled Dragon Masters: Waking the Rainbow Dragon by Tracy West and I’ve nearly inhaled Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com. We’re both going to have find new books!

Cover: Dragon Masters Waking the Rainbow Dragon by Tracy West. Two kids sit on the back of a long, sinuous, rainbow-scaled dragon.

Cover: Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher. A colorful cover with birds and plants surrounding two crossed daggers and just behind them on either side an ornate college tower much like Kings College in Cambridge.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you haven’t seen these guys, well, you should. You deserve some joy.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A story of finding self & closure in the most unlikely of places, @danielkraus.com’s Whalefall demands not to be put down. You fall—hook, line & sinker, a cliché I’m sure others have used before me, unlike the many instances of sparkling prose throughout his book. For the writing alone, a delight.

Cover for Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. The figure of a scuba diver hovers just above the mouth of a sperm whale.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Flash book review! A fantasy Hero off to fulfill their Great Destiny. But! @mikebrooks668.bsky.social‘s latest take is refreshingly NEW. A pure, happy, joy to read. All the risk & standard characters but with heart. All the hope but with a belief it will actually work out to be *better*. Enjoy!

Cover for This is Where the Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks. A figure in a red cape stands in a surreal landscape of dark teal, blue, and chartreuse with streams of sickly yellow dripping from shelf to shelf.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyone doing @playoutlier.bsky.social’s playoutlier.com daily? Spoiler here, but honestly… I’m just surprised and a bit sad. My rarest find today: MENARCHEAL (Rarity 84) · worth 95 points — You're the only player who has ever found it. —

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OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity

The daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses?

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Possibly the poem I needed this morning as I’m feeling a bit unravelled and wondering if there’s someone else with the ball winder to help me out.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Morning! Currently on the Monterey Peninsula with my morning coffee & donut on a bench by the sea while watching an otter have their urchin breakfast in the waves. Fingers too cold to read, but I’ll dig in to @danielkraus.com’s Whalefall (set here in Central California) later. (Not my photo) otter!

Cover for Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. A vulnerable deep sea diver is floating above the rising bulk of a sperm whale.

State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s photo of a sea otter looking really damn cute.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You're busy living your own, hopefully enjoyable, life @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social, but I just watched the scene in Star Trek Picard s3e6 where you are pretending to admire Picard's use of "burgle". So much meaning carried in facial expression. Damn. #StarTrek

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hello Womble. I'm dealing with some back issues and the related pain medication. So some cozy reading is happening. Nearly done with Bookshops & Bonedust. Next up is Remarkably Bright Creatures by @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social, I think.

The very colorful cover sketch for Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. A grey haired woman stands looking into an aquarium tank with a large orange octopus.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just read the word *newel* in Bookshops and Bonedusk by @travisbaldree.bsky.social (who doesn’t need my voice), but that is an unknown word for me and damn I love that!

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sea of Charm by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social I *really* needed some cozy and this world is cozy af. Highly recommended. Grab a glass of iced tea or lemonade, settle in to a shady place (if you can find one), and drift away on the sea.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Finding out my year has pooper-scooper was definitely the chortle I needed today.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Snagged a new lifer this morning! Mississippi. Excellent bird to see and hear, and bonus, the squirrels are laying low. #birds

Audubon Society's excellent photo of a Mississippi Kite.

My less excellent photo of a Mississippi Kite. The sun was behind the bird, so… it’s all just a silhouette and rather blurry since it was max zoom with a potato.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In the rough waters of all the #Odyssey chatter, why not head to calmer seas? I’m still just at the beginning but Sea of Charms by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social is exactly the peace I need this week.

Novel cover. In the foreground a loverly blooming garden with a picket fence with a center path heading to a bright, bright blue sea and a silvery boat accompanied by a sea serpent.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I need to figure out how to make gifs because the Lower Decks season 2 episode 5 "still alive" gardener is my soul animal.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Quick thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social for giving me @blackwells.bsky.social. Just ordered this delight by @malcolmguite.bsky.social (illus Stephen Crotts). I believe it will briefly satisfy my never-ending longing for all things Arthurian. I asked Merlin. He's "certain" I will like the book!

Cover for Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite with illustrations by Stephen Crotts. A woodcut featuring Galahad beneath The Grail surrounded by heavenly images on the right and demonic images on the left.

My 1996 Ask Merlin push button Oracle. This little wizard in his snazzy blue be-starred hat has never steered me wrong.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Is anyone else reading the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Lost Contact comic series? I'm going to finish it, but I'm also finding it to be... short on story/plot. It just seems to be chugging along, but I'm hoping it picks up speed. Also, can that name be any more cumbersome? #StarTrek

Cover for the comic Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Lost Contact

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Finished The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social. What does it feel like to truly be all the little voices in your head? A dragon with 3 heads & the lingering trauma of having lost the 4th can help you feel the answer & the hope of healing. A humdinger of a fun ride filled with joy.

The lively cover of The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell. A woman with long windblown hair sits in the center of three dragon heads. The head on the top left is wearing a monocle and looks rather contemplative. The upper right head looks more like the classic “I might burn you to ashes in a second” dragon expression. While the bottom center head smiles with an open mouth of pleasure while the woman gives him scritches on his head.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My gods, is it Sunday already? Morning I guess. I’ll be finishing The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social. It’s a lovely romp with some truly human characters, even if some of them are maybe wishing they weren’t quite so human.

A lively cover for The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell. A woman with long windblown hair sits in the center of three dragon heads. The head on the top left is wearing a monocle and looks rather contemplative. The upper right head looks more like the classic “I might burn you to ashes in a second” dragon expression. While the bottom center head smiles with an open mouth of pleasure while the woman gives him scritches on his head.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Heading in to county fair season! The one time of the year that I miss living in rural America. The displays in my urban fair are just not the same. Here’s a couple of veggie-animals seen in New Hampshire’s Merrimack county. Their fair was in Contoocook. The 4H kids had oxen. I want to raise an ox!

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Describe yourself in three characters.

Lt. Commander Owosekun smiling with kindness.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Finished The Night Guest by @hildur.bsky.social last night—staying up way to late to do so... then got the troubling dreams I deserved. Ever read a book and you kinda know where it's going, but then the path it decides to take is, well, not the one you thought? Yeah. This book's for you.

Cover for The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir. A bright pink background with the title and author. An inviting glass of read wine is being poured until you see that the wine's texture is all wrong. Is that blood? I think it's blood.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just got my signed paperback of Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and reread the last chapter. It still tears me up in all the right ways—both meanings. So beautiful and so deeply attached to what it is to be human, alive, and vulnerable. What a wonder this book is.

Cover for Tom Cox’s Everything Will Swallow You. A small white house seems dwarfed by a looming cliffside, but actually it’s the bright spark of the scene, nestled inside draping hills heading toward a sea. On the beach an uncertain looking figure looks out to the sea.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Rock Check, people. Very important.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is what the internet was made for.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Finished Oak and Ash and Thorn by @pfiennes.bsky.social today. A beautiful exploration of trees and their forests and what we have lost and where we should move forward. Also a lovely reminder of how many poems are arboreal. I wish I felt better about our trees and our future.

A recent photograph of the early fall foliage in New Hampshire (US). The photo can never truly capture the wonder of such change and the promise of the spring to come. Always reminded of Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost:

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I hate this shit more and more each day. Each hour. Each minute. Each second.

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The more I think about this, the more I want one. It’s not like he’d be expensive.

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