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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 7h

Animal!

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 13h

#20TBRbookchallenge
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Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

14/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

A red felt table with blood splatter, a pair of dice, and a letter opener (it doesn’t look like a knife to me; also, why would a gaming table be in the library?). Book cover for MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE by Martin Edwards.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 13h

Two characters you like?

Butt Head in the left, Beavis on the right, sitting on a sofa.

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 13h

Flow

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Name a Film with a Deer, Rabbit, or Raccoon.

me in a pink top long brown hair purple lipstick doing a peace sign

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 1d

New post on Comedy, Tragedy: September 2025 Reads
#comedytragedy #substack

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September 2025 Reads

I was unable to read as many books as I usually do this past September.

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

An excerpt from my novel:

A red background with the text in white. Text reads:

Jessica gripped the edge of her blanket.

The doctor said, “We concluded you’re a danger to yourself and in denial of your situation. To keep you safe, I’m admitting you to the behavioral unit.”

“No!” Jessica flung aside her blanket. “Where are my clothes?” What could be safer than home?

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 1d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

13/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

A patchwork hand pointing the index finger straight up. Book cover for TRUE BIZ by Sara Nović.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that’s aggravating. If I remember correctly, I hadn’t worked in three years before I applied.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

4⭐️ BITTER SWEET by Hattie Williams. 2025. Literary. A young publicity assistant at a London publisher meets the much older and famous author whose work she’d loved since her youth. An affair ensues, and she believes he loves her, but does he? 💙📚

A painting of the back of a woman’s head, her dark hair in a bun, her neck bare. Book cover for BITTER SWEET by Hattie Williams.

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age by Renée Rosen 💙📚 #MondayReads #AmReading #TBR

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 2d

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

12/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

An arm in a red sleeve holding up a mirror in which the reflection is of a tiger in shadow. Book cover for MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

Have you considered applying? Although disability checks are impossible to live on. And because my husband makes a certain amount, I still have to pay taxes on my disability income!

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age by Renée Rosen

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

This looks so dumb.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d

Have a great week, Tania!

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 3d

It’s very good!

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 3d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

11/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The silhouette of a man standing on the tip of a black triangle with intertwined snake-type creatures in red. Book cover for CHAOS RISING (Thrawn Ascendancy #1) by Timothy Zahn.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 3d

Sinners but it was from last summer so you may have already seen it.

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 3d

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

name: Barb
current read: What the Lady Wants
last show: Lincoln Lawyer
last film: The Roses
fav book this year: The Devil All the Time
fave watch this year: Highest2Lowest

+something spooky:

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

#20TBRbookchallenge
💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

10/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

A pier on a lake. Book cover for CULPABILITY by Bruce Holsinger.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

4⭐️ THE CHAOS AGENT (Gray Man #13) by Mark Greaney. Thriller/speculative. Artificial intelligence scientists and engineers are being targeted because of their knowledge. Who are s after them? Court Gentry, the Gray Man, fights for the answer. The AI used is spooky. 💙📚

A drone flying over a city viewed through a blue filter. Title and author’s name are in orange. Book cover for THE CHAOS AGENT (Gray Man #13) by Mark Greaney.

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

It really was at a sad strip mall lol

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 4d

I worked at Blockbuster in 1990!

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