Darrell Z. Grizzle

Except maybe to get more books.

Our Favorite Home Libraries

Beautiful Home Libraries (gift article):
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t...

Can’t talk to you without talking to me
We’re guilty of the same old things
Thinking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring

A still photo of Alexis Rose on Schitt’s Creek (played by Annie Murphy) with a confused, bewildered expression on her face. The caption reads: “My reaction to pretty much everything these days.”

“The church must not simply bandage the victims under the wheel, but jam a spoke in the wheel itself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer wrote these words as the Nazi regime began reshaping Christianity to serve the state. He believed Christians must do more than care for those harmed by injustice. The church must confront and resist the systems and ideologies that create the suffering in the first place. Rev. Tim Dyer

Amazon (ebook and paperback): www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR5Y5N3S
Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/dark...
Barnes & Noble (ebook): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/darkness-a...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
Books2Read (all other e-vendors): books2read.com/DarknessatSh...

Book cover showing an ethereal young woman dressed in black, standing in front of a gothic mansion shrouded in fog.

Happy Book Birthday to DARKNESS AT SHADOWSIDE by the beguiling Amanda DeWees! Available now on Kindle with paperback coming soon.

a.co/d/0et8hgwS

“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.” ~ Natalie Goldberg

SPIDERWEBS ON MARS

I'm an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Georgia, thankfully not in Texas. Any politician who tries to tell me not to be trans-affirmative is an enemy of the counseling profession and an enemy of basic human decency.

I'm an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Georgia, thankfully not in Texas. Any politician who tries to tell me not to be trans-affirmative is an enemy of the counseling profession and an enemy of basic human decency.

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius, and we're skeptical." - Arthur C. Clarke

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
~ Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Happy Birthday, Frédéric Chopin, The Poet of the Piano, March 1, 1810

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

“He's freaking delicious. He carries a woman's bag, like a side bag, that I'm sort of obsessed with. He's like, so masculine yet carries this female bag. And he looks divine and I'm like, ‘Do I need that bag?’” Matthew Lillard on his Jacob Elordi obsession

I hope Shaggy gets the man-purse of his dreams and lives deliciously ever after.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer When you insist on seeing God in the face of the emperor, no matter how corrupt they are, and refuse to see God in the face of the immigrant being arrested after being falsely accused of being a criminal, you have yet to understand the gospel of Jesus.

The Owl Mosaic, depicting an owl wearing a toga and surrounded by dead birds with an inscription that says "the birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care". Dated to the 3rd century AD, from Thysdrus. El Jem Museum, Tunisia. INVIDIARUAPVANVRAVESNEQVENOCTVACVRAT

T.S. Eliot, poet, playwright, essayist

Looking forward to this new Hellboy story from @cgolden.bsky.social !

‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

My childhood and young adulthood were filled with paperbacks of this size. Yes, the larger trade-size paperbacks are easier for me to read in the autumn of my life, but I am going to miss the mass-market paperbacks of my youth.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

The morning calm before the readers arrive. 📚

Duke Humfrey's Library, 8.30am

I was so young and naive 10 minutes ago. Ah, youth.

This afternoon Althea the Cat looked at me like I had descended into madness, which is always a possibility, and convinced me through feline telepathy that I should abandon my search for this phantom book and give her some Savory Seafood cat treats.

The dream is always sharp and vivid, and it haunts me in my waking life for days afterward. I find myself googling possible pen names I might have used for the book.

Once in a blue moon I have this recurring dream that I wrote a book in my undergrad college years, then suppressed the memory of writing it. In the dream I discover the book, realize I wrote it, and read it, and it’s like I’m reading the book for the first time, even though I wrote it. (continued)

Working at the home office today, while Althea the Cat keeps an eye on the neighborhood.

A scene from the classic TV series Twin Peaks. Agent Dale Cooper, played by actor Kyle MacLachlan, is driving a car and speaking into a Dictaphone recorder: “Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

I recall your darkness
When it crackled like a thundercloud
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart
When I can hear it beat out loud

~ The Grateful Dead, “Shakedown Street” (1978, Hunter-Garcia)