Miss Bates 🇨🇦📚✍️

Bright blue clear sky with bare tree tops on the image’s left and right sides.

Montreal’s morning sky.

Me too!!

One of my favourite novels. Deserves ALL the readers and study.

What??!! For shame.

I second this.

Ew.

I loved her books!!!

“Undetectable.” “Readers will not care.” I have no words. But I do know @superwendy.bsky.social vintage or trusted authors (countable on one hand) are the only ones to appear on my humble not-AI-generated reviews.

It is both about time & structured by the protagonist’s journey back in time.

Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps.

Why oh why did we send our Olympic athletes to Italy, with its magnificent fashion sense, looking like red-clad bonhommes wearing fezzes?!? 🫣😱

Ditto.

Yup.

Cory Doctorow’s enshittification: romance too.

Bleak. Sad.

🫶🏼🤗

😂 I think next month’s TBR Challenge theme: vintage should be adjective to every theme!!

Wendy’s right & the comments are gold. Romance is flattened & boring. It’s the end of the world as we knew it and I don’t feel great. But I’m going to keep blogging, though my blog is culled by AI daily, because we cranky few have to hold on.

I am late to the news. Their 100 best lists were gold to a new romance reader. And as for HH, I’m sad about losing categories period. I’m old & I like what I like. And no one is writing it anymore.

A romance, new-to-me Meltzer's Eight Heartbreaks of Hannukah, as well as some recent and not-so-recent reading.

Another one goes down. And I’m still mourning Superromance.

I did the same. I don’t like it, but I shall sullenly live with it. That’s what I told CS: not everyone is about images and video and it would be easy and helpful to restore it for long form writers. *crickets*

Awful, I hate it. Makes me not want to blog. 🙁

Thank you’

Thank you!

And the snow has arrived!

We know who you are. You don’t speak for anglo, or allo-s.

Ask any Canadian.

I look forward to retirement for this very reason.

He’s more of a Goon fan… 😉