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Writer, cat lover, human. She/her. Firm believer in the strong female character (in fiction, too!). Author of many books, most recently "slow-burn thriller" THE BUTTERFLY TRAP. More at http://www.CleaSimon.com

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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 👍 13945 🔁 2515 💬 107 📌 135
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Music Feature: "Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out" - How Music Meets the Moment - The Arts Fuse The eighth iteration of “Which Side?” was a wild success, mixing musical genres from reggae to old-school Boston punk and punctuated by two moving (and brief) speakers.

Music Feature: Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out; How Music Meets the Moment artsfuse.org/324708/music...

22.02.2026 22:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: Clea Simon's "The Butterfly Trap" - Double Trouble - The Arts Fuse The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value is what drives the action.

Book Review: Clea Simon’s “The Butterfly Trap” — Double Trouble artsfuse.org/308216/book-...

11.02.2026 22:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: Clea Simon's "The Butterfly Trap" -- Double Trouble - The Arts Fuse The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value is what drives the action.

NBCC member @cleasimon.bsky.social’s "The Butterfly Trap" was reviewed by @matthansonaf.bsky.social at The Arts Fuse, who found it “engaging,” noting, "Simon’s keen eye for the way in which her characters willfully deceive themselves is on point.”

08.04.2025 16:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: "The Hadacol Boogie" -James Lee Burke’s Bayou Ballad of Blood and Redemption - The Arts Fuse The point of a novel like this: Life is messy, but glorious. Kind of like "The Hadacol Boogie".

Book Review: “The Hadacol Boogie” –James Lee Burke’s Bayou Ballad of Blood and Redemption artsfuse.org/324006/book-... #booksky @erinfaye.bsky.social

10.02.2026 16:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

27.01.2026 16:45 👍 17314 🔁 6912 💬 504 📌 329

Kristi Noem must resign.

And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.

27.01.2026 19:42 👍 19399 🔁 3999 💬 869 📌 187
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Book Review: Olga Tokarczuk's "House of Day, House of Night" - A Demanding But Rewarding Reverie - The Arts Fuse House of Day, House of Night "is not an easy read, but for those with the stamina, it is a rewarding one, inviting us to savor its reclusive, succulent insides."

Book Review: Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” — A Demanding But Rewarding Reverie artsfuse.org/323458/book-... #booksky

27.01.2026 22:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Review: The Cat's Eye Charm - Purrs of Wisdom with Ingrid King The Cat's Eye Charm is the most recent installment in Clea Simon's Witch Cats of Cambridge series.

For those who need a break: my new #cat #cozy is "Irresistible." ingridking.com/2026/01/22/r... @booksky.club #booksky #selfcare

25.01.2026 00:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

A U.S. citizen, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was murdered today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

25.01.2026 00:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: Cancelling Equality - Julia Ioffe’s Personal and Political History of Russian Women - The Arts Fuse This heartbreaking book documents the history of contemporary Russia through its women, a perspective that highlights the dramatic and devastating slide from an idealistic egalitarian state into a rep...

Wow, this was a wild and heartbreaking ride! Book Review: Cancelling Equality — Julia Ioffe’s Personal and Political History of Russian Women #Booksky @theartsfuse.bsky.social artsfuse.org/319899/book-...

13.11.2025 16:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Visit Amazon's A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Page and shop for all A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery

Now also available in paperback! (You can also pre-order #Witch #Cat #5, THE CAT'S EYE CHARM, out next month.) #booksky #cozies #mysteries amzn.to/47zb66R

04.11.2025 17:25 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

04.11.2025 12:12 👍 8040 🔁 1309 💬 166 📌 159
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A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Visit Amazon's A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Page and shop for all A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery

What do you think of these covers? (My #Witch #Cats of Cambridge #cozy #mystery series, now reissued – and a pre-order link for the upcoming THE CAT'S EYE CHARM amzn.to/4ntD4a8. @shawnrsimmons.bsky.social @BookSky

30.10.2025 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Visit Amazon's A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Page and shop for all A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery

A new #Witch #Cat? Why, yes! Pre-order THE CAT'S EYE CHARM now or catch up on the first four #cozy #mysteries now - on sale for #Halloween. #BookSky

30.10.2025 16:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Visit Amazon's A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Page and shop for all A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of A Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery

Just in time for #Halloween, Level Best #Books has re-issued my #Witch #Cats of Cambridge cozy mystery series -- and all four books are on sale! (New book coming in December.) www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY6ZCTK... #Booksky @shawnrsimmons.bsky.social

29.10.2025 17:22 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"The Eustace Diamonds" - Anthony Trollope

14.10.2025 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: “Lion Hearts” - Dan Jones Brings His Essex Dogs Saga to a Stirring Close - The Arts Fuse Novelist Dan Jones excels in re-imagining the life of common people in wartime, in particular a small group of English fighters embroiled in the so-called Hundred Years War (1337–1453) between England...

HISTORICAL FICTION ALERT! Book Review: “Lion Hearts” — Dan Jones Brings His Essex Dogs Saga to a Stirring Close artsfuse.org/318406/book-... #BookSky

14.10.2025 15:12 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: "Book of I" - A Gem of a Novel - The Arts Fuse This novel is as fresh and charming as any contemporary work this critic has read in ages.

Book Review: “Book of I” — A Gem of a Novel artsfuse.org/315812/book-... #BookSky

07.09.2025 19:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Butterfly Trap Amazon.com: The Butterfly Trap eBook : Simon, Clea: Kindle Store

And... yes, we all hate the big corps, but for us mid-list (i.e., not bestselling) authors, they're a lifeline. And the big A has my THE BUTTERFLY TRAP on sale right now. (I checked and Bookshop doesn't, sigh.) #Booksky www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Tr...

10.07.2025 17:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hold Me Down by Clea Simon Gal, a talented musician, has returned to Boston to play a memorial for her late friend. But when she sees a particular face in the crowd, she freezes on stage. The next day, she learns that the man s...

Did I mention how g-d proud I am that E.Jean Carroll blurbed my HOLD ME DOWN?

"A flat-out, stoked-up, red-alert blistering justice-gets-done story that you can't put down." — E. Jean Carroll, author of NOT MY TYPE

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social
cleasimon.com/books/hold-m...

10.07.2025 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: "Not My Type" -- Surviving Trump - The Arts Fuse This is a measured book, harrowing at times but also thoroughly enjoyable. It's a fun read about a rape trial.

Oh wait - you should see the cover! Love love LOVE this brave and broiling memoir! Go @ejeancarroll.bsky.social !

artsfuse.org/312914/book-...

10.07.2025 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Not My Type" - The Arts Fuse

Have I mentioned here how much I totally adored E.Jean Carroll's "Not My Type"? I laughed out loud several times - and cheered throughout. #BookSky artsfuse.org/312914/book-... @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

10.07.2025 17:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: "The Slip" -- An Epic Exploration of the Elasticity of Identity - The Arts Fuse "The Slip" raises issues of race and entitlement, as well as the malleability of identity, all in one big, sloppy, and occasionally gorgeous package.

Lucas Schaefer's debut novel "The Slip" is wildly ambitious and in many ways truly impressive but ... ah... I have reservations. #Booksky artsfuse.org/313643/book-...

10.07.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, this is nice! 75% OFF To Conjure a Killer #cozymystery url:https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/775753/to-conjure-a-killer?refId=198319

11.06.2025 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've signed on! Will you?

18.04.2025 20:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE BUTTERFLY TRAP Now in the Harvard Bookstore @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Select Seventy! #booksky

07.04.2025 20:37 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Book Review: Clea Simon's "The Butterfly Trap" -- Double Trouble - The Arts Fuse The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value is what drives the action.

@matthansonaf.bsky.social on Clea Simon's engaging novel "The Butterfly Trap": The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value drives the narrative action.

artsfuse.org/308216/book-...

02.04.2025 11:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cory Booker’s Senate Floor Speech Slamming Trump Hits 15 Hours and Counting (Gift Article) The New Jersey senator criticized the president’s plans for Social Security, education, immigration and health care, saying the “nation is in crisis.” He began speaking Monday night and was still goin...

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov !!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

01.04.2025 17:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AS AN ATTORNEY, SUSAN CRAWFORD HAS A PROVEN STANDING UP FOR WISCONSINITES' HEALTHCARE. CALL 608-266- 4231 TO TELL SUSAN CRAWFORD YOU SUPPORT HER WORK TO FIGHT FOR WISCONSINITES.

Hey Wisconsin!

While Brad Schimel tried to overturn the #AffordableCareAct, Susan Crawford has spent her career fighting to protect healthcare for everyday Wisconsinites.

Make your plan to vote for Judge Crawford by April 1st to protect your care.

#CrawfordForCourt #StopShadySchimel #BadBrad

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