crystalsmusings
She/Her-Intersectional Feminist & Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊
🇨🇦 Reader, reviewer, & book hoarder—8/50
I also write & make quilts & other sewn goods. Newbie knitter. 🧶
M.A. in English Literature - Medievalist & Educator in a former life - Independent Scholar
- Reposted by crystalsmusingsSo this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens
- So excited to immerse myself into Moniquill Blackgoose’s 2nd instalment in the Nampeshiweisit series! 🥳 Book 1 was in my top 10 reads of 2024. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚💙 🪐📚 #Dragons #BookSky
- Second audiobook dnf of the year & this one is for an author who I usually enjoy reading. Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame. I may give it another go sometime in the future, but perhaps I’ll try the print version. 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- Started listening to the audiobook of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I’ve read it before, but listening to it in 2026 there is an unsettling eerie/uncanny recognition. #ParableOfTheSower 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- Reposted by crystalsmusingsToday we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.
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- Interesting that Algoma Steel in Ontario got $500 million dollars in loans from federal & provincial governments in September 2025 & are now laying off 1,000 people as of March 2026. It was mean to “protect Canadian steel jobs” — so, where is all that money going? 🤔
- Another day, another (lack of) caffeine headache brought on by waiting to drink coffee until later in the morning and limiting myself to 1 cup. I have had a cup of herbal tea and a mug of hot water with a lemon slice. But my brain stubbornly wants its caffeine dose. 😢🤕
- First DNF of the year. 👎📖 I don’t often dnf, but sometimes you just know right away. 📚🦋
- Planted some herb seeds indoors to start my 2026 growing season: sage, rosemary, oregano, thyme, spearmint, 3 varieties of basil, and catnip. 🌱🪴 🤞they grow — they’re from old seeds, not from my recent order. #GardenDreaming #2026SeedStarting #WinterFatigue
- I’ve jumped on this trend of drinking hot water instead of cold water — I love it. I used to do it all the time when I was intermittent fasting. But I do find I’m drinking less coffee (which is 💯 fine) but the reduced caffeine is leaving me feeling a bit draggy this week. I’m sure I’ll adjust.
- I started brewing a fresh cinnamon & ginger tea, with cardamom pods & whole cloves a few months ago & now I can’t live w/out it. Spicy and warming! I brew a big pot every week, strain it into a half gallon mason jar with a pour handle & we just reheat it throughout the week when we want a cup. ☕️😋
- When my son left for uni 3.5 years ago he hid a yodelling pickle in my desk as a joke. It was several months before I noticed it. 😂 Today, I hid it in his packed bags as he is leaving from winter break to head back to uni for the new term. 🤞he doesn’t notice it before he gets home & unpacks.
- This is the yodelling pickle in question.
- Back to work tomorrow. Fun fun fun. 🫠
- 🎄is away for another year. It’s fun to put up, but I always breathe a huge sigh of relief after putting away the Xmas clutter.
- Submitted my seed order 🌱👩🌾🪴 I realized also that I have herb seeds left from last years order — I think I might start those under some grow lights in the kitchen. 🌿
- Sage, rosemary, thyme, basil, spearmint, and oregano.
- I’m about 33% of the way through reading my 2nd book of the day. 1st book was just some light-hearted fare. 2nd book is ‘Truth Telling’ by Michelle Good — this is my selection for prompt 2 of @thestorygraph.com Genre Challenge for 2026 — A Non-fiction Book About Indigenous History. 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- Welcome 2026.
- Shingles vaccine dose 1 acquired. ☑️ 🤞I don’t get a sore arm like with the flu & covid shots. 💉👩⚕️
- Arm is slightly sore. Slight fever & chills. Mainly it’s the fatigue that is getting me today. Have had 2 naps so far.
- Has anyone else woken up to >100 new followers? Have I been added to a starter pack or something? 🧐 Anyways, welcome. 👋 I mainly post about books, reading, and cats these days. I sew quilts and am learning to knit. Sometimes I complain about the weather—I am Canadian after all. 🤷♀️
- I was dubious about how much I’d enjoy Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, but I think it might actually be a 5⭐️ read for me. I’m just 20 mins out from finishing the audiobook and am sad it’s almost done. 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- Shhh! 🤫 my giant Maine Coon grandbaby is having a snooze. #Catsky 😸🦋
- I’ll be closing out 2025 by reading: - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - The Bad Seeds by C. J. Skuse - Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid 🦋📚
- Guess I’d better start selecting my books for the 10 fresh categories of @thestorygraph.com 2026 Genre challenge. What’s everyone planning to read?
- I’m planning to read the new biography about Octavia Butler — Positive Obsession (2025) for prompt #6.
- I’m thinking that ‘Mornings Without Mii’ might be my translated (modern) classic for prompt #4.
- Finished! ✅ I completed @thestorygraph.com Genre Challenge for 2025 by reading at least 1 book in 10 different categories. 📚🦋
- Why must skincare companies mess with a good thing when they’ve got a kickass product? Avene changed the formulation of their Hydrance moisturizer — imo the new fragrance is unpleasant & the cream is greasy & doesn’t moisturize. 😣 I do like the new glass container though.
- I haven’t done much quilting in 2025 because of my damned frozen shoulder making it hard to use a rotary cutter, but I think I’m gonna start to work on this one in 2026. Perhaps I should start small for learning foundation paper piecing quilting, but I’m gonna jump right in. Wish me luck.
- Skullcandy headphone users — question for you: Is there a way to turn off the voice greeting when powering up and powering down the headphones? It is unnecessary, loud, & kind of grating. Otherwise I love my headphones—they’re comfy & the sound quality is great. #Skullcandy #AudiobookReaders 🎧🦋
- I made it to 150 books read for 2025! I have 3 on the go, so may get another couple books in before the end of the year. 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- I love watching the Downy Woodpecker scattering the Chickadees, Wrens, & Purple Finches when he arrives at the suet feeder at my front window. Morning tea time & bird watching. 🫖 ☕️
- My son got me a set of custom-made stitch markers for knitting from AliceRCrafts — so pretty! 🧶🦋
- Loving my Xmas headphones. The sound is 👩🍳💋 SkullCandy Aviator 900 ANC — Perfect for audiobooks 🎧📚
- Is it weird that I can listen to an audiobook (fiction) while reading a different book (nonfiction) in print? 🤓🧐🎧📖 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- I got my William Dam 2026 seed catalogue 🌱 yesterday & I swear I squealed in anticipation of going through it—It’s like when we were kids in the 80s & the Sears’ holiday catalogue came in the mail.
- 4 books left to meet my 2025 📚goal, so I’m treating myself by starting an audiobook that’s 24 hours long. 😀 The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. 📚🦋 🎧🦋
- I just ate a couple cloves of the fermented honey garlic 🧄🍯 I made recently, and now I fear I’ll be breathing fire for the next couple of days. 🐉🔥
- These were very spicy garlic cloves. Whew. 🥵
