Reposted by Abibliophobia Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this. 303156773333
Reposted by Abibliophobia Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 05/12/2024"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." – Maya Angelou 12511
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 4/20 1260
Reposted by Abibliophobia David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (50) Montag #RayBradbury2024 Fahrenheit 451 0123
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 3/20 081
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Life got busy yesterday so I’m aiming for two today. Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 2/20 090
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I’ve decided to play! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 1/20 190
Reposted by Abibliophobia Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now. 572112436
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 03/03/2024“I’m not the kind of person who is able to do things, have I told you this already? I lie down and let life leave its footprints on me.” #SundaySentence from Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume 120
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 01/03/2024My #FebruaryReads Another pretty good month! - The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng - Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward - The Good Lord Bird, James McBride - Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese - Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson - The Secret Hours, Mick Herron (1/2) 💙📚 2100
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 04/02/2024“Ms. Beckett was drinking coffee from a reusable cup, or, as such items had once been known, a cup.” #SundaySentence from The Secret Hours by Mick Herron 020
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 01/02/2024My #JanuaryReads - The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler - Death is Hard Work, Khaled Khalifa - The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman - Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny - The Cold Millions, Jess Walter - Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue - The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish (1/2) 💙📚 180
Reposted by Abibliophobia Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 31/01/2024Trying to get back into blogging, so of course I needed to share my favourite books of 2023. 💙📚 www.knowledgelost.org/literature/b... 051
Reposted by Abibliophobia Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/01/2024Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point. Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history. 212326929
Reposted by Abibliophobia Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 22/01/2024Barbara Comyns knew how to dispatch a minor character. 913232
Reposted by Abibliophobia Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 21/01/2024"An apple is nothing but a seed's escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides - in the bellies of animals, or by taking to the wind - all to get as far away from their parents as they possibly can." #SundaySentence by Michael Christie tinyurl.com/yk7pk6kktinyurl.comGreenwood by Michael Christie review – an arresting eco-parableEcological catastophe has led to the destruction of trees … a bleak vision of the future with Steinbeckian cadences 262
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 21/01/2024“Death is a solitary experience, of course, but nevertheless it lays heavy obligations on the living.” #SundaySentence from Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa 020
Reposted by Abibliophobia Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 19/01/2024In the world’s largest cypress forest, Surf Durrani captures atmospheric autumnal colors. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/surf... 0122
Reposted by Abibliophobia David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 14/01/2024This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognise it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries. #SundaySentence Robertson Davies / Fifth Business The Deptford Trilogy 3245
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 14/01/2024“He was on Sprague Avenue, in the fancier part of downtown, where a better class of steam escaped people’s mouths.” #SundaySentence from The Cold Millions by Jess Walter 040
Reposted by Abibliophobia Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Friends! Here's how to remove ai from your google searches using the example; fantasy horse Fantasy horse, before:2023 Brings up everything posted ONLY before the year 2023 Fantasy horse, -ai -prompt -stock -openai Gets rid of MOST generative images and includes current/recent images 341660880
Reposted by Abibliophobia David Hebblethwaite @davidheb.bsky.social · 28/12/2023I've picked out six of my favourite books that I read this year – by coincidence, three from the International Booker Prize, and three from the 1930s... www.davidsbookworld.com/2023/12/28/a...davidsbookworld.comA selection of 2023 favouritesI don’t know why it happened, but there were times this year when I just fell out of the habit of reading. This is not what I want, and my aim for 2024 is to find my way back in – with this s… 2105
Reposted by Abibliophobia Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Please do vote if you're in the US. Literally every school board/director up for us had a book burning type running, some more subtle than others. I know it's boring off year stuff but holy shit those types can do damage en masse. 7278161
Reposted by Abibliophobia David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · 22/10/2023Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. www.patreon.com/posts/91410900 251657749
Reposted by Abibliophobia Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2023I’m on a slow and steady mission to read one book from every country in the world. I’ll drop each book into this thread as I read them. #ReadTheWorld 97112
Reposted by Abibliophobia Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 09/10/2023The occupation is an intolerable crime, and resistance to it is a fundamental right, and murdering civilians is wrong, and collective punishment of an entrapped population is immoral. We live in a world of ands, not ors. 151977549
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 08/10/2023“Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw - what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people’s maps on you.” #SundaySentence from Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 151
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 02/10/2023My September reads: - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan I thought the first three were excellent. 070
Reposted by Abibliophobia Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 07/09/2023A summer (reading) recap for 2023: more reading than last summer, more capacity to take in what I read.rohanmaitzen.comSummer (Reading) 2023It used to be a ritual for me to post a recap of my summer reading once autumn rolled around again, on the theory that people's online attention is (rightly!) spottier in the summer and there might be... 0135
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 03/09/2023“But we are always interlopers into history, dropped into a story that has been going on far before we are born…” #SundaySentence from Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera 041
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 02/09/2023My August reads: - Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera - Circe, Madeline Miller - An Elderly Lady series, Helene Tursten - Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro - Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata - Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin (1/2) 140
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 23/08/2023Good morning Bluesky! Hope everyone is staying cool today. 000
Reposted by Abibliophobia Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/08/2023It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n) 48281892663
Reposted by Abibliophobia Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 17/08/20231/5 🧵 Fresh nature/science feeds thread in alphabetical order! Aquariums/Zoos: tinyurl.com/BskyZoos Arachnids: tinyurl.com/BskyArachnids Astronomy: tinyurl.com/AstroBsky Birds: tinyurl.com/BirdsBsky Fishes: tinyurl.com/BskyFishes Flowers: tinyurl.com/BskyFlowers Fungi: tinyurl.com/BskyFungi 68961
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 06/08/2023@literaturedawn.bsky.social Hiya! Can I be added to the books feed? 110
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 05/08/2023Excited to see this crane-fly orchid blooming! It’s a native orchid that volunteered in my yard this year. 000
Abibliophobia @abibliophobia.bsky.social · 03/08/2023Hi Bluesky! I wandered over here for book recommendations as well as nature/birding/native plants news and pictures. I spend most of my free time reading or somewhere outside enjoying the fresh air. I occasionally post pictures. Nice to “meet” all of you! 030
