Brigette
@itsbrigettewalters.bsky.social
Introvert. Reader of books. Birder with a bird phobia but somehow it works. Pug mom. Sometimes freelance editor. Running on optimism. Here to learn. I live in the woods of western North Carolina.
Favorite multi-genre book I've read this year so far: The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. I've enjoyed everything I've read of his. #BookSky 💙📚
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Favorite multi-genre book I've read this year so far: The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. I've enjoyed everything I've read of his. #BookSky 💙📚
Check out this hawk's wing / scaly hedgehog. A new-to-me mushroom, and there are two of them! Double happiness. 🍄🍄 #FungiFriends
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Check out this hawk's wing / scaly hedgehog. A new-to-me mushroom, and there are two of them! Double happiness. 🍄🍄 #FungiFriends
Highly recommend for fans of "book-within-a-book" novels. My favorite one this year. Two complete and engaging stories. #BookSky 💙📚
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Time Magazine “Must-Read Book of the 2025”, 🥰.
I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).
Full list here: time.com/collections/...
I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).
Full list here: time.com/collections/...
'Death of the Author' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Highly recommend for fans of "book-within-a-book" novels. My favorite one this year. Two complete and engaging stories. #BookSky 💙📚
We adopted this red beauty as a tiny volunteer sapling growing in gravel at a relative's house in Cincinnati. We named it after her and sent a photo every year for several years so she could watch it grow with us. Nelva has since passed away, but Nelva's Tree lives on to make us smile. 🍁
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We adopted this red beauty as a tiny volunteer sapling growing in gravel at a relative's house in Cincinnati. We named it after her and sent a photo every year for several years so she could watch it grow with us. Nelva has since passed away, but Nelva's Tree lives on to make us smile. 🍁
Friends in Wilmington, NC, were not told their polling place changed! Directions to new place were to go behind a building then through a parking lot behind construction zone and dumpsters (on fire, figuratively). 🙃 Then check-in computers were not working. 🙃🙃 They finally got to vote. 🥳🥳🥳
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Friends in Wilmington, NC, were not told their polling place changed! Directions to new place were to go behind a building then through a parking lot behind construction zone and dumpsters (on fire, figuratively). 🙃 Then check-in computers were not working. 🙃🙃 They finally got to vote. 🥳🥳🥳
My annual October reads to get me in a "spooky season" mood:
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
#booksky 💙📚
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
#booksky 💙📚
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My annual October reads to get me in a "spooky season" mood:
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
#booksky 💙📚
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
#booksky 💙📚
My forsythia blooms profusely like it should in the springtime, but also blooms every fall season for some reason, which looks fabulous with the fall colors.
October 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My forsythia blooms profusely like it should in the springtime, but also blooms every fall season for some reason, which looks fabulous with the fall colors.
A thoughtful and well-written article about my town of Old Fort, NC, and the year since Helene.
The mountain “gateway” town of Old Fort, North Carolina, was well on its way to achieving a major goal: to become a hot spot for mountain biking and all things outdoors. Then nature, as one business owner put it, hit “the reset button.”
Helene interrupted this town’s outdoor tourism makeover. How businesses are doing a year later
The mountain “gateway” town of Old Fort, North Carolina, was well on its way to achieving a major goal: to become a hot spot for mountain biking and all things outdoors.
bit.ly
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A thoughtful and well-written article about my town of Old Fort, NC, and the year since Helene.
Time for the US Open! Chibi the pug is ready to watch some good matches. 🎾 #USOpen #tennis #MyPugLovesTennis
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Time for the US Open! Chibi the pug is ready to watch some good matches. 🎾 #USOpen #tennis #MyPugLovesTennis
I love this concept, but as an eternal optimist, I always think it's going to get better if I just forge on a little further. Usually it doesn't. But I can't stop hoping. 😭
Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
August 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I love this concept, but as an eternal optimist, I always think it's going to get better if I just forge on a little further. Usually it doesn't. But I can't stop hoping. 😭
Cardinal Flower is starting to bloom! Here's the first one I photographed this year. It's loud but in a good way, like a quiet firecracker. A visual *BAM* in the woods. #PisgahNationalForest
August 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Cardinal Flower is starting to bloom! Here's the first one I photographed this year. It's loud but in a good way, like a quiet firecracker. A visual *BAM* in the woods. #PisgahNationalForest
Chibi as you may recall is a big tennis fan. He's enjoying the Cincinnati Open. 🎾 #MyPugLovesTennis #CincinnatiOpen #dogsofbluesky
August 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Chibi as you may recall is a big tennis fan. He's enjoying the Cincinnati Open. 🎾 #MyPugLovesTennis #CincinnatiOpen #dogsofbluesky
There was an earthquake today about 20 miles south of my house as the crow flies, magnitude 2.7. First one I've ever felt, although we've had others in the 18 years of living in western North Carolina (I slept through them). This has been a wild year. #earthquake #WNC
2.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Polk County Thursday morning
A minor earthquake rumbled through Polk County this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
wlos.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
There was an earthquake today about 20 miles south of my house as the crow flies, magnitude 2.7. First one I've ever felt, although we've had others in the 18 years of living in western North Carolina (I slept through them). This has been a wild year. #earthquake #WNC
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gentle hint: please add alt text to your images
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
gentle hint: please add alt text to your images
Moss and friends, from my walk yesterday, before more rain rolled in. #WalkInTheWoods #moss
August 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Moss and friends, from my walk yesterday, before more rain rolled in. #WalkInTheWoods #moss
I love meteor showers (the Eta Aquarids peak on my birthday most years, so meteor showers and me go way back). It has not been favorable for many years now to see the peak Perseids, but I have to remind myself that the Geminids in December are consistently fabulous. 🌠
August 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I love meteor showers (the Eta Aquarids peak on my birthday most years, so meteor showers and me go way back). It has not been favorable for many years now to see the peak Perseids, but I have to remind myself that the Geminids in December are consistently fabulous. 🌠
OK I may have audibly shrieked with joy at seeing orange spotted jewelweed and yellow jewelweed growing together on a local trail. Usually it is one or the other around these parts. Maybe Helene moved them together? #PisgahNationalForest #Jewelweed
August 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
OK I may have audibly shrieked with joy at seeing orange spotted jewelweed and yellow jewelweed growing together on a local trail. Usually it is one or the other around these parts. Maybe Helene moved them together? #PisgahNationalForest #Jewelweed
A good reminder for us book nerds! I'll add, request new books that you already own (or pre-ordered in this case) if your library doesn't have them so others can access them. (Also, the Notify Me tag on Libby tells your library there's interest if the book has a digital or audio version.) #BookSky
As a library kid, I want to remind people that one of the best things you can do for young authors like me is request our books at your local library. Nothing would bring me more joy.
Forgive me but I have to order from my Library.
August 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A good reminder for us book nerds! I'll add, request new books that you already own (or pre-ordered in this case) if your library doesn't have them so others can access them. (Also, the Notify Me tag on Libby tells your library there's interest if the book has a digital or audio version.) #BookSky
My elderberry bushes are finally making berries, wheeee! I just picked my first ever bunch (half for me, and half left on the bush for my forest friends). Now what do I do? I'm thinking #elderberry tea? I think I can do that.
August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My elderberry bushes are finally making berries, wheeee! I just picked my first ever bunch (half for me, and half left on the bush for my forest friends). Now what do I do? I'm thinking #elderberry tea? I think I can do that.
Happy mossy Monday. These tree roots in my yard are to me like the tree is sitting with wide crossed legs, or arms, to protect the moss. #moss
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy mossy Monday. These tree roots in my yard are to me like the tree is sitting with wide crossed legs, or arms, to protect the moss. #moss
This a great weekly post by @bigbeardedbookseller.com for getting book recs. I just started book 114 of the year, Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts, who follows maritime archeologists and scuba divers as they document the wrecks of ships that were part of the Middle Passage. #BookSky 📚💙
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This a great weekly post by @bigbeardedbookseller.com for getting book recs. I just started book 114 of the year, Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts, who follows maritime archeologists and scuba divers as they document the wrecks of ships that were part of the Middle Passage. #BookSky 📚💙
Reposted by Brigette
Early Riser, might you be?
Want a spectacle for free?
Before sunrise you will see
Two bright stars — planets they be.
The brightest one is Venus.
Outshining Jupiter’s light.
Catch both before they’re consumed
By all of morning twilight.
Want a spectacle for free?
Before sunrise you will see
Two bright stars — planets they be.
The brightest one is Venus.
Outshining Jupiter’s light.
Catch both before they’re consumed
By all of morning twilight.
August 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Early Riser, might you be?
Want a spectacle for free?
Before sunrise you will see
Two bright stars — planets they be.
The brightest one is Venus.
Outshining Jupiter’s light.
Catch both before they’re consumed
By all of morning twilight.
Want a spectacle for free?
Before sunrise you will see
Two bright stars — planets they be.
The brightest one is Venus.
Outshining Jupiter’s light.
Catch both before they’re consumed
By all of morning twilight.
Currently manifesting one or more books I have on hold to become available on @libbyapp.com. My hold limit is 4 and I have 3 more books I want to get in line to borrow. 😭 #FastReaderProblems #BookSky
August 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Currently manifesting one or more books I have on hold to become available on @libbyapp.com. My hold limit is 4 and I have 3 more books I want to get in line to borrow. 😭 #FastReaderProblems #BookSky
Last month my book club explored Underland by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. Loved learning about what's happening under our feet, such as the Wood Wide Web. This book had vibrancy and was 5 stars for me by page 37... even if it made me a teensy bit claustrophobic. No spelunking for me! #BookSky 📚💙
August 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Last month my book club explored Underland by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. Loved learning about what's happening under our feet, such as the Wood Wide Web. This book had vibrancy and was 5 stars for me by page 37... even if it made me a teensy bit claustrophobic. No spelunking for me! #BookSky 📚💙
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Mythos by Stephen Fry (audio)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Mythos by Stephen Fry (audio)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Mythos by Stephen Fry (audio)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Mythos by Stephen Fry (audio)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston