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aka Kay, reader and schoolmarm. Still reviewing on Miss Bates Reads Romance, est. 2013. I teach a romance fiction course too.

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 16h

My latest review: Herron’s debut is solid, conventional, but no Slow Horses missbatesreadsromance.com/2025/10/04/a...

Audiobook Thriller Review: Mick Herron’s DOWN CEMETERY ROAD (Oxford #1)

Given how much I enjoy and admire Herron’s Slough House series, it was interesting to see where he started with Down Cemetery Road. And where he started was in a more conventional thriller pl…

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 56m

It’s terrible. Don’t watch it. Except for the Miz Scarlet actress, who’s a hoot. I loved her so. That’s about three minutes worth watching and the rest can go to history’s rubbish heap. Vivian Leigh looks mad as a hatter & Gable is a smirking mess. To say nothing of the horrors it glorifies.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 1h

It just can’t be isolated to one day, nor do protests only make change. But the visible, relentless presence of protest is important.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 1h

This.

Peggy Blair @peggyblair.bsky.social · 2h

I think the difference between the United States and European countries that are subject to a dictatorship is that the protests like the ones we saw today in the U.S. would continue in Europe every single day until the regime was toppled.

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 1h

Has he seen Dr. Strangelove?!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 9h

As the day moves on, I go from coffee to London fog and eventually to tisane. I can use the frother for London fogs!

White cup with an image of a pastoral farm, lounging cow in the foreground, fence, field, trees, and house in the background set on granite oven top, containing frothed milk London fog beverage.

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 10h

Looking great!!!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 10h

Chased by a bear.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 10h

Go ahead and judge me, but local brie and two slices of 🍓-rhubarb 🥧 can be lunch.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 10h

Purple, with impunity.

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds wonderful, enjoy!!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 12h

And my Habsies to watch tonight!! Go Habs Go!!! Guhle’s out, but you’re a team now!!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you! Best cups, Polish ceramic. Alas, I broke one. Only had two.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 13h

I’m okay with chicken à la king and I’m a vegetarian. The other kind, go my American friends.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦🍁📚 @missbates.bsky.social · 13h

I’m glad they caught the irony. We have a king; we don’t want’im, but at least he’s nicely neutralized and rarely shows up to experience our thin, desultory greetings. www.democratsabroad.org/davehs/montr...