Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.
Happy IWD.
08.03.2026 08:50 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.
Happy IWD.
08.03.2026 08:50 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A collage of book covers: The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie; Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; Helm by Sarah Hall; The Wedding People by Alison Espach; Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer; Nexus by Yuval Noah Harare; Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt; How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney; The Alice Network by Kate Quinn; The Divided Mind by Edward Bullmore.
February reads 📚💙
04.03.2026 16:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I often describe self-care as making time in your life for things that nourish you. Sometimes we need to spend time discovering what those things are.
01.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover for The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr. Turquoise background with a jigsaw puzzle piece missing in the middle, a picture of a house underneath.
Endearing characters, puzzles, mystery, a cat and happy endings. What’s not to love?
Thank you @atinyglow.bsky.social for the recommendation!
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Two pieces of good news to wake up to today 😊
Happy Friday everyone
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
🧵 Mental Health Nurses’ Day 2026.
Mental health nursing is often described in emotive language: compassion, resilience, care.
Those things matter.
But what often gets missed is the sophistication of the work.
#MentalHealthNursesDay
#NurseSky #TherapistSky
Collage of book covers: Untangled by Lisa Damour; The Bureau by Eoin McNamee; The Twelve by Stuart Neville; Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell; Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy; The Sirens by Emilia Hart; On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle; Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Tehanu by Ursula K Le Guin; The Iliad by Homer.
January reads 📚💙
Favourite was Tehanu 💚
Fantastic!
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Grey cat cozily curled up asleep.
Weekend vibes #caturday
31.01.2026 08:41 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Funniest thing on my feed today! 😂
24.01.2026 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh interesting, that’s been on my list for a while. Can it be read standalone? It’s the third book in a series I believe?
13.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now I want to know what you are reading!
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A grey cat with pale green eyes staring intently.
Birdwatching!
Happy #Caturday
What a dude!
04.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gorgeous! 😻
04.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a great book. Feels like a lot of it is so obvious it shouldn’t need to be said, but sadly it does. Definitely made me reflect on my practice. Have you read it?
02.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2025 Reading Wrap-Up graphic from The StoryGraph app, 132 books, 47,121 pages. Unsurprisingly, as usual my top author was Agatha Christie!
2025 reading summary 📚💙
So many great books, hard to pick favourites…!
I use both. The rating system on StoryGraph is better and I had planned to fully transfer. However I have a lot more friends on Goodreads and the social aspect keeps me there!
01.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A collage of book covers: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day by Milly Johnson; Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer; On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle; The Inugami Case by Seishi Yokomizo; Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming; A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch; The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits; The Eights by Joanna Miller; A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie.
Some fantastic reads to end the year!📚💙
01.01.2026 12:49 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I loved Trust!
01.01.2026 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Merry Christmas lovely Blue Sky community. 🎄🌟 Thank you for a refreshing year of non-toxic social media!
25.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chalkboard by Bert’s Books saying ‘Reminder: your TBR is not a to-do list. It’s a menu. Pick whatever feeds your soul.’
Love this from @bertsbooks.bsky.social
21.12.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A couple of my favs from this year were Ordinary Saints and Brotherless Night. Sooo good!
21.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Great selection! Have read and loved most of these so we must have similar tastes, will add the others to my TBR list 💚
20.12.2025 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A large Christmas tree decorated with baubles and lots of small candles.
A room inside a stately home with 3indoor Christmas trees decorated in gold and white, reflected onto a mirrored floor.
An enormous wire teapot, lit up by red light with purple trees in the background.
A massive stately home lit up by multicoloured lights projected onto its front facade.
A trip to the light show at Waddesdon means that Christmas season has begun! #nationaltrust
07.12.2025 20:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works
04.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 91 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 2I may have done the same….! 🫣
03.12.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agree! Was a slow burner to start but turned out to be epic
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A collage of book covers: The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor; Imperial Island by Charlotte Lydia Riley; The Obesity Code by Jason Fung; Small Island by Andrea Levy; Vagabond by Tim Curry; Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan; The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman; The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard.
November reads 💙📚
02.12.2025 20:18 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Has something happened that I am seeing lots of Twitter screenshots on Bluesky lately?
You're not supposed to use the bucket to pour water *into* the lifeboat.