DeAnn Willsey @deanndylema - Bluesky Profile

Sometimes I bake when I’m stressed. Today I made this caramelized banana cheesecake strudel and it helped to elevate my mood!

15.04.2025 00:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do people read FOUR BOOKS by an author they seem to hate and then bash them constantly on the internet?! Just stop reading them, IT’S NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU! Not every piece of art is for everyone. I give an author two chances and move on if I’m not vibing. There are a lot of books on my TBR!

17.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Foggy Sunday coffee and bookshop date with my ❤️

16.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

04.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 27920 🔁 15812 💬 1279 📌 3687

I don’t read a lot of classics but Patricia Highsmith is an exception. She had a talent for getting inside a twisted mind. Everything I’ve read about her suggested she was an unpleasant person to be around, but she somehow gets me to root for this villain, Mr Tom Ripley.

05.02.2025 01:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Started my book for Belgium 🇧🇪 for the Global Reading Challenge. It’s a spy novel that takes place during the 1958 World Expo in Brussels. Not a typical read for me but I’m learning a lot already!
📖 Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe

28.01.2025 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

Multiple colleagues of mine have had their public health research funding frozen. Pulling back biomedical research and dismantling systems that allow our country to collaborate with great minds (both within the US and across the world) is going to hurt population health in the long run.

25.01.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, it’s so beautifully written. It’s my first book by this author, but definitely not my last.

23.01.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m reading this book right now and I love it so much! Perfect wintry read, enchanting and I love learning about the mythology of the fox in Chinese culture! 🦊

23.01.2025 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh let me know what you think! I read it just a couple of days, it was addicting but I had some issues with it overall

22.01.2025 21:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My two doggos keeping each other warm! The blankets are fresh out of the dryer. ❤️🥰

21.01.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am curious how many cats you have. I just finished Starter Villain and loved the two ginger cats, probably because I have 2 of my own 🧡🧡

20.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dear #Goodreads, please let me delete all of Neil Gaiman’s books from my lists. I am heartbroken and my heart breaks over & over again whenever I go to the site. Enough with the error messages about “unusual activity” on his books. It’s NOT unusual! I loved his books once, but I want them gone now!!

20.01.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was more embarrassing than anything. I was walking my dogs with my husband and suddenly I was on the ground! A little sore but otherwise okay. Thanks for your concern 😊

20.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I took my time with this one and it shattered my heart but I loved every minute of it. Meticulously researched and beautifully woven. One of my favorites.

20.01.2025 03:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Started 2 buddy reads, snuggled with my pets, fell on some black ice, baked some pistachio dark chocolate chip cookies. Not a bad Sunday!

19.01.2025 23:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I read pretty diversely but noticed most of the BIPOC authors I read are either Black or Asian. I’d love to read more Latinx or Hispanic authors. Please send book recommendations if you have them #books #latinxauthors

19.01.2025 13:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0