Personal and book review blog.
A one-woman book club.
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In a long scroll of bad ad posts on the #BookSky feed… along came one I wanted to interact with. So, a repost.
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TBR?
I feel this. 😂
Recent convo I had:
“You’re reading Irving? Do you like him?”
“He’s usually a big hit or a big miss for me. You?”
“Same, I hated Owen Meany.”
“… that’s the one I liked.”
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#BookSky #Readers
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It’s a very busy season, but I’d be #reading this slowly either way. Very short reading sessions. It challenges my focus but I wasn’t prepared for how immersed I’d feel in all the foreboding as well as the gore! 🫣 #Moby-Dick
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#BookSky #AmReading #Books #Literature #Classics #Love #Melville
My graduated senior agreed to read a book with me the #summer before college! IF they chose the #book..
“We read a chapter at a time together or individually, then discuss it.” They read this in 8th and 12th grades but picked it again. So, here we go.
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#BookSky #Literature #BookRec #Review
Feeling grounded and present about life atm. A good time to get back to #reading and I’ll start with something chewy.
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#BookSky #Classics #Literature #Fiction #Books #LitFic #Moby-Dick #AmReading #Summer #DedicatedReader #Weekend
A full, celebratory time! I’ve done some reading but not even kept up w my log book let alone posted here.
This morning, in the quiet aftermath, a book sits on my lap. I scroll pictures of the last two days. Great thing about books, they’ll wait for me.
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#BookSky #Graduation #Parenthood #Love
Penguin Random House has started adding Bluesky as an option of where readers get book recs when they send out their Reader's Lounge surveys.
We're slowly getting there 🙂↕️
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Remembering the birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers, #English crime #writer #poet and #translator - her translation of Dante’s La Comedia is one of the few in English preserving Dante’s original Italian terza rima rhyme and structure.
More: www.sayers.org.uk/biography
#writers #quotes on #language 📚💙
Recommending a book to someone you don't share reading tastes with is so interesting. "I hated every aspect of this book and it violates generally every standard I have for what makes a book good, so I think you'll love it." And then a month later they give it 4 stars on Goodreads.
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Reading this extraordinary book now. Got it from the library. If you aren’t reading U.S. history written by Black Women, you should ask yourself why you’re reading U.S. history at all. I can’t recommend this highly enough. 10/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
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Good morning! The paperback of my bff, Justin Hocking's memoir, A Field Guide to the Subterranean, drops today.
(Is this still fan art if you're painting passages from your own life as recalled by someone else?)
@justinhocking.bsky.social #BookSky #BirdSky
Life changing #booksky
The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.
