Just finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and hated it. This is a “classic” that should be relegated to the literary dustbin of history. It’s dangerously dismissive of the entire medical field of psychiatry, and its casual misogyny and racism made me throw up a little in my mouth. 🤮 #booksky 💙📚

I just want to spend my remaining years learning ancient Greek and translating lost manuscripts. Is that too much to ask? 😫 #Booksky 💙📚

Okay #booksky, I read some books in April. One five star book. One four star book. The rest were um… less. I have some thoughts, but which do you think were top? 💙 📚

My March reads. So good. Especially the three on the bottom row. Something old, Something new, Something bleak as hell, Something five stars too. #booksky 💙📚

My current read. I am really digging ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ by our own local Colorado author Nina McConigley. It’s tragic and clever and darkly funny. And it gives voice to a protagonist unlike any I’ve encountered before. What a delight to read. #booksky 💙📚

The books I read in February. Expanded my range a bit this month to complete some Goodreads challenges. #booksky 💙📚

The more depressing the world gets, the more I lose myself in books. These were my January reads. #booksky 💙📚

The books I read in December. These were all winners, but Demon Cooperhead was my favorite. Amazing!And while reading Dickens’ David Copperfield first isn’t necessary, it was an absolute joy to see how Barbara Kingsolver wove so many Dickensian details into her story. #booksky 💙📚

So I forced myself to read David Copperfield prior to starting Demon Copperhead. It was a struggle. I was not a fan. But now I’m 40% through Demon and so glad I did. I have so many thoughts! Mind blown! 🤯 Did anyone else have this experience? #booksky 💙📚

Wow, this one was a gut punch. So well-written, so powerful, and with so much to say. I finished it yesterday and I’m still thinking about it. #booksky

The books I read in November. Three stars for David Copperfield (which I only read to prepare for Demon Copperhead). The rest were all 4 or 5 stars. I have so many thoughts! #booksky 💙📚

If you need me anytime between now and January, this is where I’ll be. #booksky

A man of many contradictions.

I really did not care for this book. The premise of ‘The Magicians’ by Lev Grossman intrigued me. But turning Narnia/Hogwarts/Oz into a profanity-riddled, drunken, sex-crazed Bacchanalia felt cruelly blasphemous to the stories that shaped my youth. No thank you to the sequels. #booksky

Hey #booksky, am I the only one who decided to read David Copperfield before reading Demon Copperhead? I mean. I’m liking it so far, but it’s really long! 😬 💙📚

My happy place. Fall hikes in Colorado are the best hikes. I linger back here so I can hear the birds.

My reads for September. When the Cranes Fly South was definitely my favorite. One of the few books in recent memory that actually made me tear up. #booksky 💙📚

So I’m only 53% done with Bill Bryson’s “A Walk In The Woods.” Had no idea there was a movie starring Robert Redford, until he recently passed and my wife mentioned it. What are people’s thoughts on this movie? I have some of my own (good and bad) but am curious what others think. 💙📚

Necessary voices in these troubling times. Thank you @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for this important book. Looking forward to reading it.

I’m only 50 pages in, but I’ve already decided. This book will either be 5 stars or 1 star. Based on whether the dog survives. 😬 🐶 #booksky 💙📚

My reads for August. I try to keep it diverse and eclectic. All four or five stars. The Edge of Water was probably my favorite. #booksky 💙📚

I’m only a few chapters in, but The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole.bsky.social has me completely captivated. The prose and storytelling are beautiful, heartbreaking, and infuriating all at once. So glad I picked this one up. #booksky 💙📚🖋️

I want to read a debut novel from a new up and coming author. There are so many options! After browsing some online lists, these are the candidates I’ve chosen. Any thoughts? #booksky 💙📚🖋️

My current read. I struggled with the first few chapters, but now I can’t put it down. The author is an accomplished jazz musician, and that actually helped me connect with the prose. It’s very jazzlike in structure - syncopated and always a half-beat ahead of expectation. #booksky 💙📚🖋️

My reads for July. North Woods, Small Things Like These, and One Day… were all 5⭐️. All the Light We Cannot See 4⭐️. The Riley Sager novel 3⭐️. #BookSky 💙📚

I’m only halfway through North Woods by Daniel Mason and I already want to read it again. The intricacy of how this story (stories) is (are) woven together is so beautiful. Such seemingly minor details reappear with haunting beauty. Highly recommend! #BookSky 💙📚

My current read. It’s been on our bookshelf for years; my wife read it a long time ago for a book club. I’m only at 10% and asked her opinion… “I liked it until the end and then I hated it.” That intrigues me more. 🤯 (She says she won’t watch the Netflix show with me when I’m done.) #Booksky 💙📚

Published by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in 1982. Even the original cover description is creepily fitting for this moment. It’s a good book! 📚 💙

Me, an introvert, every time I have to leave the house:

That’s a great idea. Now if there was only a digital version for the book covers in my Kindle app.