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Cathie Grimm

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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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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 40m

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 · 41m

#HyggeMarxism sounds fantastic!! :-)

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 43m

#17 of 2025: I really liked it, even if it could be cast as Catholic propaganda. Cather was a good writer. #WillaCather #booksky #litsky

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that’s hilarious!! 😆

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 13h

#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

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 18h

#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 · 18h

#14 of books read/listened to was a solid mid-brow 4 star read: #booksky #litsky

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 18h

New #haflinger slippers acquired! 😻😻😻

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 22h

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.

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes being too much is an appropriate response to the horror that we are surrounded by.

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 · 1d

My mum wrote sci fi and fantasy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_...

Cherry Wilder - Wikipedia

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

#13 of my 2025 books: very good. Could probably read again. #Ursulakleguin #booksky #sciencefiction

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

#12 of 2025 is my favorite stand alone Trollope so far. Five stars for: #AnthonyTrollope #victorianliterature #booksky #litsky

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Beats the rigamorole of getting your own lobotomy!! 😹.

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Paint Nite! youtu.be/O_rQpDhVfoQ?...

Paint Nite

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Also the skit about the paint and sip phenomenon!

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Who can forget “Gigi the Christmas Snake”????🐍

Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 1d

OMG how did I forget about Chris Fleming? Chris Fleming saved my sanity when the covid nightmare started. I have to try the Chris Fleming sanity solution again and see if it works.

Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 1d

Every day it’s a new thing

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Mark yourself safe on Facebook even though you’re no where near the emergency. 😉

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

#11 of books I’ve read in 2025: A surprisingly good very British mystery that a kind viewer of my YouTube channel sent to me! It was really good! I listened to it and read along. #booksky #litsky

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of Andersen’s Little Mermaid: every step felt like walking on knives. Thanks sea witch….

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Red and Black (which I read about 1000 years ago), was more about a brooding pro Napoleon fellow: it was more about one person’s viewpoint. The Charterhouse was more of an adventure novel and most of it took place in Italy. The characters didn’t move me as much.

Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

#10 of books read in 2025: not quite 5 stars but still an interesting introduction to the colonial history of Australia. #booksky #ThomasKeneally