Kristin J. Boldon
@kjboldon.bsky.social
Twin Cities reader, writer, bookseller, bicyclist. Bird nerd. Cinephile. Dorothy L. Sayers superfan. Gluten free. Neurodivergent. Applying to grad school, again.
Good morning! I spent most of the past couple days devouring this book, In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Two friends enthusiastically recommended it so I moved it to the top of my TBR. I want to stop strangers on the street and tell them about it: English schoolboys in love and WWI. Like Song of Achilles.
December 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Good morning! I spent most of the past couple days devouring this book, In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Two friends enthusiastically recommended it so I moved it to the top of my TBR. I want to stop strangers on the street and tell them about it: English schoolboys in love and WWI. Like Song of Achilles.
Serious ice encroachment during a time of serious ICE encroachment in Minneapolis.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Serious ice encroachment during a time of serious ICE encroachment in Minneapolis.
Seen on a morning cholesterol walk. Black banana in the snow.
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Seen on a morning cholesterol walk. Black banana in the snow.
Seen on tonight's cholesterol walk. It looks like Santa's cheering that the reindeer is trampling the penguin?!
December 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Seen on tonight's cholesterol walk. It looks like Santa's cheering that the reindeer is trampling the penguin?!
It's been slow at the feeder cam, but this morning when I went out to refill the seed, I found a female cardinal waiting, then this chickadee hopping around chirping at me, and later a junco. This was the only one the camera caught, and strangely couldn't ID it though even I can. #Birds
December 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It's been slow at the feeder cam, but this morning when I went out to refill the seed, I found a female cardinal waiting, then this chickadee hopping around chirping at me, and later a junco. This was the only one the camera caught, and strangely couldn't ID it though even I can. #Birds
It's almost the end of #LetterboxdFriday and here are my #LastFourWatched Pride and Prejudice 1941, The Sure Thing, Tokyo Godfathers, and The Quick and the Dead
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It's almost the end of #LetterboxdFriday and here are my #LastFourWatched Pride and Prejudice 1941, The Sure Thing, Tokyo Godfathers, and The Quick and the Dead
Baby Blahaj with my #FridayReads Memories by Teffi with #NYRBwomen25 and In Memoriam by Alice Winn, which a friend recommended, and is reminding me strongly and happily/sadly of Pat Barker's Regeneration, with my old book group of sainted memory.
December 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Baby Blahaj with my #FridayReads Memories by Teffi with #NYRBwomen25 and In Memoriam by Alice Winn, which a friend recommended, and is reminding me strongly and happily/sadly of Pat Barker's Regeneration, with my old book group of sainted memory.
Chapter 3, with the increasingly unhinged Gooskin, and the cape-like beaver coat, the three shots that everyone ignores, the hand with the ruby ring--it all reads like horror. #NYRBwomen25
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Chapter 3, with the increasingly unhinged Gooskin, and the cape-like beaver coat, the three shots that everyone ignores, the hand with the ruby ring--it all reads like horror. #NYRBwomen25
New book group starting January 18 at Noon Palace, with Ursula K. Le Gun's Left Hand of Darkness! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/42421...
Visionary Fiction Book Club | Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
www.moonpalacebooks.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New book group starting January 18 at Noon Palace, with Ursula K. Le Gun's Left Hand of Darkness! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/42421...
Reposted by Kristin J. Boldon
IMMA FUFUFA
Does that mean you will soon transform into a beautiful buttershark?
(I looked for "shark caterpillar" images and discovered that not only is there a shark caterpillar fidget toy, but also: one of the Chinese shell company resellers is called Fufufa. FUFUFA! I will be saying this all day. Fufufa.)
(I looked for "shark caterpillar" images and discovered that not only is there a shark caterpillar fidget toy, but also: one of the Chinese shell company resellers is called Fufufa. FUFUFA! I will be saying this all day. Fufufa.)
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
IMMA FUFUFA
Seen on this morning's cholesterol walk, muddy heart in dirty snow
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Seen on this morning's cholesterol walk, muddy heart in dirty snow
Reposted by Kristin J. Boldon
I've spent the last three weeks wrestling with Wake Up Dead Man. Here are some of my thoughts—I have many more.
I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope.
reactormag.com/entirely-too...
I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope.
reactormag.com/entirely-too...
Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man - Reactor
Digging in to the nuances of religion, faith, and grace tucked inside the latest Benoit Blanc mystery
reactormag.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've spent the last three weeks wrestling with Wake Up Dead Man. Here are some of my thoughts—I have many more.
I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope.
reactormag.com/entirely-too...
I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope.
reactormag.com/entirely-too...
What Rob Reiner movie did you watch tonight? I picked The Sure Thing, a Christmas movie, and watched it with my late teens and twenty something who are the age I was when I first started watching and loving this movie. Cusack and Zuniga are just so good.
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
What Rob Reiner movie did you watch tonight? I picked The Sure Thing, a Christmas movie, and watched it with my late teens and twenty something who are the age I was when I first started watching and loving this movie. Cusack and Zuniga are just so good.
Final thought on Mitford's The Sun King: I leave this book without a good sense of who Louis XIV was, other than a serial womanizer who respected/feared religion and medicine, and loved building Versailles. The women around him were portrayed w more detail, I thought. #NYRBwomen25
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Final thought on Mitford's The Sun King: I leave this book without a good sense of who Louis XIV was, other than a serial womanizer who respected/feared religion and medicine, and loved building Versailles. The women around him were portrayed w more detail, I thought. #NYRBwomen25
Even though I feel like I wasnt in the right headspace for this book, I did enjoy reading it. I wished for some family trees and a character list, and would recommend making one from the start. Loved the wild things Mitford wrote, like "Mlle de Choin, fatter and squashier than ever" #NYRBwomen25
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Even though I feel like I wasnt in the right headspace for this book, I did enjoy reading it. I wished for some family trees and a character list, and would recommend making one from the start. Loved the wild things Mitford wrote, like "Mlle de Choin, fatter and squashier than ever" #NYRBwomen25
Stayed up late to finish Mitford's The Sun King but realized today I didn't remember details so re-read ch 20. This was a bad match of book and time of year for me. No way was I patient and attentive enough to follow the serpentine machinations of all these people with multiple names #NYRBWomen25
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Stayed up late to finish Mitford's The Sun King but realized today I didn't remember details so re-read ch 20. This was a bad match of book and time of year for me. No way was I patient and attentive enough to follow the serpentine machinations of all these people with multiple names #NYRBWomen25
This is me. And it's funny 'cause it's true.
Me, as soon as someone tries to explain the most basic boardgame rules
homer simpson with a monkey in his head
Alt: homer simpson with a monkey in his head
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is me. And it's funny 'cause it's true.
Amen
Your friendly reminder to be patient, polite, and wear a mask while doing your Christmas shopping this weekend, retail workers are not elves we are humans whose lower backs hurt
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Amen
I've lost track of all these people, and they're always poisoning or sleeping with one another, and not one of them seems happy. So much drama. #NYRBwomen25
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I've lost track of all these people, and they're always poisoning or sleeping with one another, and not one of them seems happy. So much drama. #NYRBwomen25
Guess who has a new book group, Visionary Fiction, starting next month? Come join me for the launch with a classic by one of our literary godmothers: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. moonpalacebooks.com/events/42421...
Visionary Fiction Book Club | Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
moonpalacebooks.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Guess who has a new book group, Visionary Fiction, starting next month? Come join me for the launch with a classic by one of our literary godmothers: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. moonpalacebooks.com/events/42421...
Hey it's #LetterboxdFriday and my #LastFourWatched had some great stuff, but I think I need to add some movies by and with and about and for women and NB folk. This was a very dude-centric week, and all movies failed the low bar of the Bechdel test.
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey it's #LetterboxdFriday and my #LastFourWatched had some great stuff, but I think I need to add some movies by and with and about and for women and NB folk. This was a very dude-centric week, and all movies failed the low bar of the Bechdel test.
The weather is a$$ biting cold, and I'm reading a LOT. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara. Witch Hat Atelier v 12, The Sun King by Nancy Mitford with #NYRBwomen25, and on deck, Pride & Prejudice for these events: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38695... #FridayReads What're you reading?
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The weather is a$$ biting cold, and I'm reading a LOT. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara. Witch Hat Atelier v 12, The Sun King by Nancy Mitford with #NYRBwomen25, and on deck, Pride & Prejudice for these events: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38695... #FridayReads What're you reading?
