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crystalsmusings.bsky.social
@crystalsmusings.bsky.social
She/Her-Intersectional Feminist & Ally 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊
🇨🇦 Reader, reviewer, & book hoarder—145/150
I also write & make quilts & other sewn goods. Newbie knitter. 🧶
M.A. in English Literature - Medievalist & Educator in a former life - Independent Scholar
Pinned
Read a book. Annoy a fascist. ✊
#ReadBannedBooks #BookSky 📚💙
I’m 10 📚 away from my 150 books read goal of 2025–I think I’m actually going to make it. 🙃🫠

I’m aiming much lower next year—2026 goal = 50 📚📉

In 2026 I want to focus on all the 500+page books I skipped the last 4 mths to hit my 2025 goal. Plus a reread of a favourite couple series.

📚🦋🎧🦋
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
🎗️🕯️
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
🕯️🎗️
#NeverForget
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BookSky peeps—is there a graphic novel feed? If so, what are the emojis to post to that feed?
🦋📚
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I put a 📍 on rereading some favourites. I’ve been meaning to open Ducks by Kate Beaton for awhile now—finally started it last night & I’m hooked.
#DucksKateBeaton 📚🦋
#GraphicNovels
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I’m 19 books away from hitting my 2025 reading goal. Starting “Mother-Daughter Murder Night” on Audiobook. Also considering some rereads of favourites to finish off the year — do those count?
💙📚⚡️📚🎧📚
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Today’s read is Omar El Akkad’s ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.’
#BookSky📚🦋 #AudiobookSky
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Enjoying Oyinkan Braithwaite’s ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ on audiobook for my work commute this week.
#Booksky 📚🦋 #AudiobookSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Just finished watching the 4th episode of the 4-part miniseries—The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal—on Prime. My husband and I are sobbing. 😭
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ready to hear VP Kamala Harris talk about her book in Toronto, Ontario.

#Toronto #KamalaHarris #107Days
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
These types of evenings are some of my favourites after a busy day of yard work & other tasks.
Asha is so completely relaxed on my lap, that she’s let her back leg dangle. She’s in a deep sleep.
I’m reading an interesting anthology of Canadian poetry.
#SpeechDriesHereOnTheTongue
BookSky📚🦋
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Why is it so hard to find an athletic jacket/hoodie that covers your rear end?
It’s cold here in SW Ontario — I want my butt covered from the chill when I’m walking on my treadmill in the garage at 5:30am. 🥶
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
35 books to go to meet my 2025 reading goal of 150 books.

I think I might set a lower goal next year as I find these last couple of months that I’ve been skipping the 500+ page books that are on my TBR.

#BookSky📚🦋
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Holding my most recent publication in my hands — it finally arrived today!
I contributed a book chapter to this fantastic scholarly edited collection.
#Published #Scholar #AcademicResearch #Writer #BookSky📚🦋
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Went to a book bedazzling event last night at the Book Loft in St. Jacobs. Lots of fun! 🥰📕💎
#BookSky 📚🦋
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Seasonal flu shot & Covid vaccine for 2025/2026 acquired. ✅
October 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Jane Goodall inspired my daughter to study evolutionary anthropology at uni—& it all started with this book I gifted her over a decade ago.

She texted me tonight absolutely gutted that her idol had passed.

RIP Dr. Goodall. You made a difference. 💔

#DrJaneGoodall #InspirationalWomen
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Is this not the cutest ruler? 🐈‍⬛😻📏

I got this for my 2026 Hobonichi Hon.

#Hobonichi #PlannerStuff #CatSky
September 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I would 💯 watch this 🎦

“Elderly Austrian nuns break out of nursing home and back into their former convent, defying diocese.”

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Elderly Austrian nuns break out of nursing home and back into their former convent, defying diocese
Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Just finished Grady Hendrix’s, audiobook of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. Surprisingly enjoyable—even though it’s over 16 hrs & I winced through many graphic descriptions of body horror. 😖

📚: Horrorstör; My Best Friend’s Exorcism; & The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires.

#BookSky💙📚
September 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hey book friends—Have you been to the new Indie bookstore in St. Jacob’s, Ontario? It’s called, The Book Loft, & they’ve curated a nice selection of books. I don’t believe they’re on BlueSky, but they are on TikTok.
I went for the first time today, but it certainly won’t be my last!
#BookSky 💙📚
September 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Okay, I was drawn in and purchased my first Hobonichi Techo planner. I got the Hon. it’s got everything the Cousin has, but comes in hardcover. I also bought the 5-year journal. Thought it would be fun to try.
Got to get back to my planner game in 2026—I let it slide for the last couple of years.
September 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires.

When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
media.tenor.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#Caturday #CatSky 🐈
My sweet Asha.
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I’m taking the plunge and making the switch from a Passion Planner to a Wonderland222 All-In-One Planner for 2026.
What are some of your favourite planner spread ideas for W222?
#Planner2026
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Guess who’s got tickets to see Kamala Harris in Toronto in November? 🎉🎉🎉 🙌🏼🙋‍♀️
August 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM