@missbates.bsky.social
aka Kay, reader, schoolmarm, spinster, Montrealer. Reluctant cook, inept walker. Retiring, but not retired. I support the right to be cold.
Katherine Rundellβs Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne.
20.11.2025 02:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anna Keayβs The Restless Republic and Radden Keefeβs Say Nothing.
20.11.2025 02:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In Demotic Greek? Vromogeronoterocracy?
17.11.2025 04:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Beautifully gloomy!
16.11.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Moving from bottom to top, dark to light grey sky.
Montrealβs morning sky. We have a light snow coming down.
16.11.2025 14:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Given theyβre the ones who started the disaster slide, we can only hope.
16.11.2025 14:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0πIβm reading le letton & he stokes it on page 2!
14.11.2025 03:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The poΓͺle!!!
14.11.2025 02:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs so good, I ignore the evil empire that is the βzon.
14.11.2025 02:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I love it!
14.11.2025 01:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Meanwhile in Canada. We talk about fixing piers. Weβre by no means perfect, but it sure is kinda normal. And then thereβs Quebecβ¦
13.11.2025 22:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When a character buys the other character the perfect gift.
13.11.2025 02:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly. The heroes in particular are utterly ho-hum. Itβs not even low stakes romance, itβs none.
12.11.2025 22:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This ππΌ
12.11.2025 22:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes! Lumberingly sharp, seemingly thick.
12.11.2025 10:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm reading the FIRST Maigret & heβs already pudgy and middle-aged. Whatβs with babyface?!?
12.11.2025 02:18 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Meanwhile in other readingβ¦Margaret Atwoodβs BOOK OF LIVES and Rose Macaulayβs THE TOWERS OFΒ TREBIZOND
When I wake up in the wee hours (the plight of the chronic insomniac), I don't want to turn the light on and read on my e-reader; hence, why I do romance reading during sleeping hours and anyβ¦
Thank you!
11.11.2025 23:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Contemporary Romance Review: Jodi McAlisterβs AN ACADEMIC AFFAIR (Literary LoversΒ #1)
As someone who endured a soul-destroying grad school experience and its subsequent cut-throat world of snagging work in your field, one that sees more of annihilation than growth, I've read too many romances withβ¦
Yup. It me, clearing snow since 5am. But Iβm safe and warm and grateful to the those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Memory eternal. #RemembranceDay π¨π¦
11.11.2025 21:35 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Pinky-blue cloud-covered sky with a bit of pale blue peaking from the bottom left hand corner. Both left and right corners are also full of tree-topsβ snow-covered bare-of-leaves branches.
Montrealβs post-storm sky is a beauty.
11.11.2025 21:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Many many thanks!!
10.11.2025 03:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Merci!!
10.11.2025 03:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
10.11.2025 03:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π€π»
09.11.2025 19:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Only #9 here too. π€·πΌ
08.11.2025 21:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I smacked the seasonβs last fly & pulled out the snow shovel for tomorrowβs snow. Today, more leaves to rake. Three seasons in 48 hours. Welcome to Montreal.
08.11.2025 20:08 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A modest proposalβ¦
08.11.2025 01:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My rom fic class reads this one! Itβs great!
06.11.2025 22:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβll second that!!
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