Brigette

I love their coloring!

I had some heavier reads lately so I also sprinkled in some easy cozy mysteries to balance my brain. Please share what you think when you finish I, Medusa! It's also on my TBR for this year and I'm trying to decide audio vs print.

Just finished a 7th, some of which were started at the end of Feb, like a 20th anniversary reread of The Book Thief (still excellent). Just started The Correspondent by Virginia Evans and Bachman's The Winners. Buckeye is on my March TBR!

A bloodroot plant with several white petals and a bright yellow center blooms through the leaf-covered ground.

Spotted my first bloodroot bloom of the season! Been waiting a year for their return.

#Bloodroot #BloomScrolling #WalkInTheWoods

Bold yellow daffodils bloom in a garden

Daffodils in my garden demanding their closeup.
#BloomScrolling #AlmostSpring #Happiness

💜💜💜

A flowering crocus with bright purple petals, thin green upright leaves and a yellow center blooms through the bare, mulch covered ground.

Good morning, crocus. 💜
#BloomScrolling #SpringAlmost

A clump of stacked mushrooms shaped in half circles with varied colors of rings grows on the edge of a jagged log, which lies on a stone- and leaf-covered ground.

A colorful set of mushrooms that caught my eye on yesterday's walk. #WalkInTheWoods #PisgahNationalForest #FungiFriends

Oh I can empathize when it comes to staying away from the Discover feed. Thank you for sticking around, from a fellow sensitive soul. 💛

I have so many recs from friends on my TBR, I almost forget to get to the books *I* want to read

The covers of the 16 books I read in January 2006, compiled on The StoryGraph app: The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay, Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross, Still Life by Louise Penny, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, The Cardinal by Alison Weir, The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Last Word to the Wise by Ann Claire, Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe, A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu Lien Tan, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger, and Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

My January 2026 reads. Several recs from friends. #BookSky 💙📚

A blanket of snow covers a yard and garden set within an open forested landscape and also featuring part of a small house adjacent to the yard, as viewed from a double window.

Snow day in Pisgah National Forest, Old Fort, NC

Do you know by chance if your upcoming Terry Lecture series will be available to view online?

A map of western North Carolina counties titled First Alert Book Forecast, showing three shaded regions of 1-3 books, 4-5 books, and 6+ books, based on a snow forecast map.

I love my library for posting this, the only forecast I am following leading up to this weekend's winter weather. ❄️

Thank you!

A hand holding a book titled The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton, which features a cover illustration of a boat sitting in the water facing a hilly island with a lighthouse.

Favorite multi-genre book I've read this year so far: The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. I've enjoyed everything I've read of his. #BookSky 💙📚

Those are beautiful!! My neighborhood is on the tail end of Fall, so it will likely be next year before I see more in my backyard.

Wow, I love it! It makes a really good lock screen.

Agreed! Thanks to the person who came up with that name - makes it easy to remember with the visual.

I think so, too. Very clever and perfectly descriptive. Scaly hedgehog makes me laugh so of course I am going to remember it.

I am a novice and appreciate this information. Thank you!

Thank you - I will have to try it next time I see them. I now know where they live. 😊

Yes!

Two Hawk's wing/scale hedgehog mushrooms next to each other in the grass, with oval caps that have multiple rings of what look like dark-tipped shingles or scales.

Check out this hawk's wing / scaly hedgehog. A new-to-me mushroom, and there are two of them! Double happiness. 🍄🍄 #FungiFriends

Highly recommend for fans of "book-within-a-book" novels. My favorite one this year. Two complete and engaging stories. #BookSky 💙📚

As a fan of "book within a book" novels, Death of the Author was my favorite that I read this year. Sometimes you get what feels like only partial stories in those types of novels, but Death of the Author was two full, and intertwining, stories. I loved them both equally.

A brightly colored red maple tree standing in a yard next to a wrought iron bench with evergreen shrubs and a fall colored hillside in the background.

We adopted this red beauty as a tiny volunteer sapling growing in gravel at a relative's house in Cincinnati. We named it after her and sent a photo every year for several years so she could watch it grow with us. Nelva has since passed away, but Nelva's Tree lives on to make us smile. 🍁

Friends in Wilmington, NC, were not told their polling place changed! Directions to new place were to go behind a building then through a parking lot behind construction zone and dumpsters (on fire, figuratively). 🙃 Then check-in computers were not working. 🙃🙃 They finally got to vote. 🥳🥳🥳

Carmilla is one of my favorite books. My copy is well worn! I read it 2-3 times/year.

Six spooky books for October, showing their covers: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon; The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson; Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury; and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

My annual October reads to get me in a "spooky season" mood:

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

#booksky 💙📚