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Cathie Grimm
@catgrimm.bsky.social
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German teaching prof 👩‍🏫 who likes cats, corgis, reading, and stationery. I have a little youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · Apr 1
“Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be ‘governed’ by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.”
The opening words of the first "White Rose" leaflet.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1h
I’ll never forget the scene where to Parisians all frantically dip rags into the spilled wine and feed it to their offspring!
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1h
I highly recommend listening to it as an audiobook, but having a copy of the book to look up passages that you want to linger on. Dickens is great on audio. My favorite narrator is Simon Vance.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1h
The World is too much with us!
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1h
#CharlesDickens #booksky #Victorianliterature #books
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1h
#19 of my 2025 books: I was surprised by how much I liked it. I know it is considered a lesser Dickens and the plot suffered a bit from us all knowing how it would go, but it was still a riveting historical novel. I’ll never forget the aggressive knitting!
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 17h
#booksky #JanPhilippReemtsma
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 18h
#18 of books read in 2025: A riveting AND thoughtful firsthand account by tobacco heir and Arno Schmidt benefactor & scholar Jan Reemtsma of being kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 28
Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

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Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts
Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 20h
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23h
The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 23h
#HyggeMarxism sounds fantastic!! :-)
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 23h
#17 of 2025: I really liked it, even if it could be cast as Catholic propaganda. Cather was a good writer. #WillaCather #booksky #litsky
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
Oh that’s hilarious!! 😆
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
#16 of my 2025 books: surprisingly good American novel from 1920s about a woman who does not have a domestic bone in her body who is able to become the careerist when her husband falls from a roof and has to stay at home. He is the perfect parent: infinitely patient. #booksky #persephonebooks
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
#15: I love Stifter’s strange meditative prose where mundane is centered as much as the shocking so much. This one was no exception.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
#14 of books read/listened to was a solid mid-brow 4 star read: #booksky #litsky
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
New #haflinger slippers acquired! 😻😻😻
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
I almost got this after I read Radetskymarsch. I have a feeling the Wittstock is going to send me on a book buying spree. Also want to watch Zuckmayer’s The Devil’s General.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
Sometimes being too much is an appropriate response to the horror that we are surrounded by.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
I thought Radetskymarsch was great but Roth was a bit well just too much. And he was, but you kind of understand it more when reading about him here.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d
New read: I already love this book so so much: I need to fill in big important gaps in my reading experience.g. all Quiet on the Western Front. Also it’s making me like Joseph Roth more.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 2d
My mum wrote sci fi and fantasy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_...
Cherry Wilder - Wikipedia
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 2d
I don’t think I got the full impact of it, because i haven’t read much Leguin. (Except the Earthsea books when I was a kid). My mother knew her and chaperoned her on her first Australia trip back in the 70s.
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 2d
#13 of my 2025 books: very good. Could probably read again. #Ursulakleguin #booksky #sciencefiction
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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 2d
#12 of 2025 is my favorite stand alone Trollope so far. Five stars for: #AnthonyTrollope #victorianliterature #booksky #litsky
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