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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#tldr explains a lot of the mess we're in. Maybe try #ttttrau instead (took the time to read and understand)? Or #rmsttau (read multiple sources to try and understand). Not pithy, but that's the point.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I most recently read Tom Lake which I liked and am now going to go back and reread other of her novels.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Carmen for sure 💔and Gen, of course. They were fundamentally good people caught up in events not of their making even if Carmen was technically on the rebel side, I don’t blame her. I also really hoped things would work out differently for General Benjamin. I liked him.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At one point I was surprised to realize a month or more had passed. I think it would have dragged after the first rush of adrenaline for both sides. But other than the main characters i got no sense of what it was like.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It built tension because you knew how it was going to end (mostly) and it made you hope it was a misdirect as I really got to like some of the characters for whom you know it's going to end badly. I quite like that style.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I started writing this about blackberries and it morphed into a piece about the Morrell Nature Sanctuary on #vancouverisland

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I read books that reference music I usually listen to the music (eg the red violin 😢) and I tried when rereading Bel Canto but try as I might I really don’t like opera 😅 but the novel was a tragic opera.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m a big Patchett fan. Her writing always pulls me in - elegant but not overly ornate. Bel Canto was definitely a tragic opera except the diva didn’t die.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Carmen and Gen because they ended up in the situation with little and no one else. And I really liked them both.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The relationships. The plot served to build each character so that I had empathy for all of them to some degree and understood why they fell in love except the ending. I had trouble understanding Roxanne and Mr Hosokawa marrying unless it was to stay close with those they’d lost.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just a few more sleeps! 😃

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In an Alexander McCall Smith book it is written “the rule in the Saville Club in London, on the members’ breakfast table, is a sign saying ‘conversation not preferred.’” I am considering adopting this when we have guests. I like having them for the rest of the day but mornings are tough! #introverts

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ok. Last, last one in an effort to possibly come up with a banned books website by a Canadian author you haven‘t yet read - The Wars by Timothy Findley

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I felt I needed to come up with at least one Canadian author lol

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last one. I’d be remiss if I didn’t suggest at least one Canadian author so: The Handmaiden’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Or in a lighter note - apparently Anne Rice novels have also had their fare share of banning. I devoured [;-)] those in high school and somehow managed to remain straight (deliberately being facetious!). In fact I didn‘t remember and LGBTQ+ content but according to banned books website that’s why.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I Know Why the Caged Bird Songs by Maya Angelou is apparently a favourite of the banners. I’d be happy to read and discuss

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just checked out your website (is that a landing page? lol I’m old). It looks great - I quickly got a sense of you and your books. I don‘t read romance or erotica reader but if I did I’d be intrigued. Ps I hope that last bit isn’t discouraging - I mostly read cosy mysteries. 🙂

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I echo those who see it as Dana always being partly in the past.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It could have been written this year or in 1978. It's a timeless message about time travel to show how very horrible humans can be to each other.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kevin was back for 5 years while Dana was in the present. So, not much "time" if you're in the present, but they still experienced long stretches of ... time. I'm getting dizzy lol

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As any couple who has experienced major trauma, they have their individual and shared experiences, which are very hard to understand even if you’ve gone through it together. One always hopes the ability to acknowledge what we can’t understand while still able to show empathy and love.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i think first person was the best way to tell this story. It put the reader right into the horror Dana (and Kevin) experienced Third person would have been too removed and then we‘d have wanted all of Kevin’s story too, but it was Dana’s experience we responded to

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

no Idea. it makes no sense

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What a kind post! We need more of this in the world. I write for fun but it is definitely difficult fun at times and I appreciate hearing when someone enjoyed something I wrote. I will check out your work! Ps sites.google.com/view/tanyabe...

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The Dr. Alice Clarke (PhD), mysteries

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the hardest part of the novel for me to understand is why Dana seemed so drawn to him. As an adult he was selfish and didn’t try at all to do better. Any promise he showed as a child evaporated

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I read that she didn’t consider this novel as science fiction because there is no science in it. Time travel was simply a mechanism for Dana to be catapulted back to slavery times with no explanation of how that works. The same article said she called Kindred a grim fantasy

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I had no idea anyone would consider it performative. Reading is reading no matter the platform in which words are presented.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And the Korean fried chicken eating opportunities! every time I watch a Korean show I want some.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It feels good to laugh at the absurd, which is why it's such a wonderful book. Much more therapeutic than being angry.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oh wait I answered this before my first coffee and hadn’t properly read the assignment. The question is how many vogons does it take to change a lightbulb with the answer of course being 42. The follow up is 1 to do the work and 41 to do the requisite paperwork.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Be nice. which, ironically, is the message of the religious figure many book banners claim to follow, but fail miserably to do. ‘Be nice’ is not nearly as funny an answer as ‘42’ yet is somehow just as confusing for a lot of people.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Despite its literal and figurative extremes, I can picture myself at the restaurant at the end of the universe ordering drinks from the maitre'd. Adams was able to critically discuss absurdities by letting his prodigious sense of humour run to create his worlds.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Always stop and smell the roses or watch the #slugs #photography #nature

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As @morrigan6.bsky.social pointed out - it is iconic because it is so relatable, hilarious, and has left fans with instantly recognizable jokes about towels and the number 42. I mean, really, why else would so many people immediately start giggling when a fellow fan asks if they have their towel?

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s the most nonsensical thing and therein lies its brilliance.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Adams took the mundane from middle class 1980s English life and catapulted it into the universe of his imagination making fun of all the ridiculous things humans have a tendency to think are important. Even if you’re not English the vogons 😅 are instantly recognizable.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Who is this God person anyway?” might have elicited a few calls for a ban not to mention the babel fish (love the sly Biblical reference) ’proving’ God doesn’t exist. In sum, I’m guessing the gleeful agnostic/atheist bent throughout upset people who like to ban books.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Published on kobo - just reflecting on where I’ve struggled in the past.

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"True humility is rare. It requires meekness, to have a lowly opinion of oneself, and the ability to recognize one's own failings. Taken together, these characteristics make humility almost nonexistent in academe." Summer reading for therapy? #Humour #academicChatter www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

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Read "A Lesson in Humility" by Tanya Berry available from Rakuten Kobo. A superstar university researcher is found dead. The anxious and overly punctual professor Alice Clarke and her new coll...

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Poser #pigeon or maybe a poster pigeon? #pigeons deserve admiration too! #photography #nature

Grey and black pigeon on a rock next to a rocky beach

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I know, I know, largest market etc... but still, why feed the machine? There are other publishing options for those #antiamazon . For example #kobo (you don't need a kobo ereader - the app is free) or #books2read or #smashwords or... other suggestions? #booksky #alternatives #indieauthors

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TBerry @tanyaberry.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was the end of the night and thoughts for the day. It seemed a natural place to end to me.

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