Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸
@barbnatividad.bsky.social
I’m always write! | Buckeye 🌰 | MFA - Poetry | Currently revising my Fil-Am contemporary fiction novel. | Mini book reviews. | Find me at: https://barbnatividad.substack.com where I write about mental health, writing, reading. | @barbflashes.bsky.social
I’m thankful for my Bluesky peeps!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m thankful for my Bluesky peeps!
Omg, I knew this man 30 years ago.
Joseph Haggerty, a 59-year-old Chicago resident, allegedly threatened state Sen. Andrew Chesney, a Republican from Freeport. Haggerty faces two felony charges of threatening a public official, police said.
Chicago man charged with threatening GOP state senator
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Omg, I knew this man 30 years ago.
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
4⭐️ BUTCHER by Joyce Carol Oates. 2024. Literary horror/historical fiction. The fictional 19th-century autobiography of a physician who chronicles his mutilation of female asylum patients under the guise of surgery in order to cure “madness.” Based on true events. Very good but disturbing. 💙📚
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
4⭐️ BUTCHER by Joyce Carol Oates. 2024. Literary horror/historical fiction. The fictional 19th-century autobiography of a physician who chronicles his mutilation of female asylum patients under the guise of surgery in order to cure “madness.” Based on true events. Very good but disturbing. 💙📚
5⭐️ WE LOVE YOU BUNNY (Bunny #2) by Mona Awad. Literary horror. The events before and after those of BUNNY. Kidnappings! Murders! Revenge! Definitely read BUNNY first, which is actually more weird. Absolutely brilliant! Takes place in a graduate writing program. For fans of dark academia. 💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
5⭐️ WE LOVE YOU BUNNY (Bunny #2) by Mona Awad. Literary horror. The events before and after those of BUNNY. Kidnappings! Murders! Revenge! Definitely read BUNNY first, which is actually more weird. Absolutely brilliant! Takes place in a graduate writing program. For fans of dark academia. 💙📚
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Current #FridayReads is BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan 💙📚
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Current #FridayReads is BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan 💙📚
Name a non-English film.
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Name a non-English film.
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
Hard Boiled
Hong Kong (Chinese)
5⭐️ THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. 2025. Contemporary. An epistolary novel in which 73yo Sybil keeps correspondence with family, friends, and even strangers through letters or email over a span of 9 years. Poignant. 💙📚
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
5⭐️ THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. 2025. Contemporary. An epistolary novel in which 73yo Sybil keeps correspondence with family, friends, and even strangers through letters or email over a span of 9 years. Poignant. 💙📚
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: Bipolar and the Time Change
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Bipolar Disorder and the Time Change
I haven’t been doing well since the time change.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: Bipolar and the Time Change
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4⭐️ SHOW DON’T TELL by Curtis Sittenfeld. 2025. Short stories. What I love about this collection is that most of the protagonists are, like me, in their 50s. The stories touch upon friendships, relationships, dating, marriage, and divorce in midlife. 💙📚
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
4⭐️ SHOW DON’T TELL by Curtis Sittenfeld. 2025. Short stories. What I love about this collection is that most of the protagonists are, like me, in their 50s. The stories touch upon friendships, relationships, dating, marriage, and divorce in midlife. 💙📚
I made a fall wreath, then locked myself out putting it up. 😅
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I made a fall wreath, then locked myself out putting it up. 😅
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
4⭐️ NOT QUITE DEAD YET by Holly Jackson. 2025. Mystery. Jet is attacked with a hammer and an aneurysm forms in her brain, one that’ll burst in a week. She uses that time to solve her own murder and uncovers family secrets. Will she find the perpetrator in time? She was annoying at first. 💙📚
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
4⭐️ NOT QUITE DEAD YET by Holly Jackson. 2025. Mystery. Jet is attacked with a hammer and an aneurysm forms in her brain, one that’ll burst in a week. She uses that time to solve her own murder and uncovers family secrets. Will she find the perpetrator in time? She was annoying at first. 💙📚
My current #FridayReads is WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY by Mona Awad. 💙📚
This week’s #FridayReads is Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 💙📚
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My current #FridayReads is WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY by Mona Awad. 💙📚
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
4⭐️ SHE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING by Shari Lapena. 2025. Thriller. A wife and mother disappears from her luxury condo. Will the detectives find her in time? Un-putdownable and kept me guessing to the end! 💙📚
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
4⭐️ SHE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING by Shari Lapena. 2025. Thriller. A wife and mother disappears from her luxury condo. Will the detectives find her in time? Un-putdownable and kept me guessing to the end! 💙📚
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: The Philippines Needs Your Help
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The Philippines Needs Your Help
The Philippines, the country of my birth, is experiencing destruction because of typhoons and earthquakes.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New post on Comedy, Tragedy: The Philippines Needs Your Help
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3⭐️ THE VERIFIERS by Jane Pek. 2022. Mystery. An amateur sleuth investigates the death of a dating app client. During the unraveling, things got messy and I had a hard time following along because of all the talk about algorithms. Just okay. 💙📚
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
3⭐️ THE VERIFIERS by Jane Pek. 2022. Mystery. An amateur sleuth investigates the death of a dating app client. During the unraveling, things got messy and I had a hard time following along because of all the talk about algorithms. Just okay. 💙📚
I’m reading Show and Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld 💙📚 #MondayReads
It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’m reading Show and Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld 💙📚 #MondayReads
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
3⭐️ KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: THE OSAGE MURDER AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI by David Grann. 2017. History/true crime. An account of Osage tribe members murdered in the 1920s and the subsequent investigation by the then-nascent FBI. Started slow, picked up, ended abruptly. But want to see the movie. 💙📚
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
3⭐️ KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: THE OSAGE MURDER AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI by David Grann. 2017. History/true crime. An account of Osage tribe members murdered in the 1920s and the subsequent investigation by the then-nascent FBI. Started slow, picked up, ended abruptly. But want to see the movie. 💙📚