BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshir...en.wikipedia.orgRedshirts (novel) - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by BookKnifeEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Glorious initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 83; Bible (Epistles, Acts, Apoc), Volume 6 of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel; c.850-860; St. Gall; p.15 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...) 0244
Reposted by BookKnifePostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Conference very interesting, lots of tractors. 916214
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 22/10/2025“She lived in the moment, surrendered to whatever the day presented, and remained her true, original self. Her success was spiritual, perhaps the hardest of all to achieve. And because of that, she was the happiest and lived the longest of them all.” Isabel Wilkerson, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, 2010 001
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Diary entry for January 2, 1936: "I also had a long letter from Henry, but as it was written in Latin, German, French, Swedish, Finnish and the English of James Joyce I could not well understand it." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 070
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The house is shabby & lacking in many essential bits such as door keys. ... But there is a fair amount of wine in the cellar & heaps of books I forget having bought." Evelyn Waugh, letter to Nancy Mitford, Sept 25, 1945; in THE LETTERS OF NANCY MITFORD AND EVELYN WAUGH, ed. Charlotte Mosley, 1996. 000
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Diary entry for September 19, 1943: "It adds to the pleasure of life to notice things." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 060
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bulgaria: "Most of the [Nos Kaliakra] area can be worked from the road to the headland, but take care not to arouse too many suspicions amongst the military personnel in the area, although most are friendly enough." Nigel Wheatley, WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, 2000. #booksky #birds 030
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 06/04/2026"Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves." [Anthony Trollope, MISS MACKENZIE, 1865.] #booksky #trump #maga 001
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A sighting today to add to my life list: wild turkeys, five or six of them in a little patch of grass in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis. #birds 010
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Letter to Henry Harvey, May 26, 1944: "Since then I have had one other 'entanglement' with a Petty Officer at Westcliff-on-Sea ... but I finished that off and am now more or less heart free." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky #novelinasentence 040
Reposted by BookKnifeold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 30/09/2026masonic temple, 6th street, seneca, kansas, 1988 2877
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Spending a rainy afternoon sitting in a hotel lobby in Minneapolis, looking out the window and trying to decide what mood I’m in. 001
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eastern screech-owl: "Despite its name, this owl rarely screeches." J. Alderfer & P. Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 051
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Diary entry for Mar. 29, 1943: "Yes, you will be alive, it will not be the same, nothing will be quite as good, there will be no intense joy but small compensations ... and as the years go on and they are no longer painful, memories." #booksky 130
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Armenia: "'Officially' [the fishponds] are only accessible with prior permission but a bottle of vodka may be as good as a permit if presented politely to the gatekeepers..." Nigel Wheatley, WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, 2000. #booksky #birds 121
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Diary entry for December 6, 1935: "He is a charming young man (about nineteen I think) and very good looking. He is however interested in Hot and Swing music to such an extent that he can talk of nothing else." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 030
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Diary entry for November 27, 1935: "Refused yet another invite to Mrs Moon's dance. Nowadays one cannot undertake such engagements lightly." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky #novelinasentence 000
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Common loon: "Distinctive loud, resonant yodeling call on breeding grounds." Robert H. Armstrong, GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF ALASKA, 1995. #booksky #birds 010
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Letter from her friend "Jay": "I went to a ball at the Austrian Legation last night. Everyone wore peasant dress or pre-war Austrian uniforms. Occasionally swarthy Hungarians smashed their glasses against the wall." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mourning dove: "The parents feed the young (squab) a regurgitated liquid called crop-milk during their first few days of life. Platform nest is so flimsy it often falls apart in a storm." Stan Tekiela, BIRDS OF THE CAROLINAS, 2020. 1/3 #booksky #birds 110
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Diary entry for April 3, 1940: "People who are not sentimental, who never keep relics, brood on anniversaries, kiss photographs goodnight and good morning, must miss a great deal." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 010
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A foggy morning, making me recall an unhappy love affair years ago in England. Muted chink of cup against saucer in the courtyard of Founder’s. “I’m sorry but …” 000
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hedge accentor: "Of dingy colour, quiet, unobtrusive, yet ever busy, the Hedge Accentor ... resembles in his character those among us who are content, even in the bustle of our great cities, to go quietly on their way, doing good wherever they find opportunity ..." #booksky #birds 110
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 27/08/2025“The measure of a man’s estimated of your strength … is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.” Howard Thurman, explaining Jim Crow to his children in the 1930s; quoted by @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social in THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, 2010. 001
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Black vulture: "Essentially silent; nesting birds utter hisses and grunts." J. Alderfer & P. Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 051
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"I have always observed that when people are interrupted in the performance of some egregious stupidity their feelings are hurt." Anthony Trollope, AYALA'S ANGEL, 1881. #booksky 001
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 06/07/2026"The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not." George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946. #booksky #writing #AI 001
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Common type: "He never had much to say but he wasn't a good listener either." Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh, 1986. #booksky #writingprompts #characters 001
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 23/12/2025"His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola." Dorothy L. Sayers, WHOSE BODY?, 1923. (This is the first description of Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's famous detective.) #booksky #murdermysteries 041
Reposted by BookKnifeBookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 13/01/2026"They talk and talk, but there is not one of them who knows how to do anything." THE PRIME MINISTER, 1876. #congressionalrepublicans #trumpadministration 13/13 001
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lapwing: "Gregarious, often in huge straggling flocks in winter." Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, and P. A. D. Hollom, A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 1993. #booksky #birds 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Of all our British birds, none perhaps has gained so complete a hold upon our imaginations, and the more sympathetic sides of our nature, than our red-breasted friend." #booksky #birds 150
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"They are not quite so gregarious as [other partridge species], and old males, except during the breeding season, frequently lead a solitary existence." J. Lewis Bonhote, BIRDS OF BRITAIN, 1907. Perhaps the photo contradicts this description! #booksky #birds 040
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Time has slowly persuaded me that when people grab onto something that’s none of their business and use it to start an argument, even to the point of estrangement, then they were probably looking for an out. Maybe without even being fully aware they were." www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2026/...washingtonpost.comCarolyn Hax chat: After a car crash, in-laws asked family if I’d been drinking.Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life. 000
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"They frequently interact with people in backyards, campgrounds, picnic areas, and anywhere else they can expect (or demand) a handout." Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 021
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Cohesive family groups include immature and adult helpers that act as sentinels or scouts, help feed nestlings, and can communicate among themselves with a large vocabulary of sounds." Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 030
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Pairs are monogamous, and families often stay together through the winter. The following spring, one of the young birds may help the mated pair raise the next generation." Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 010
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Letter to Henry Harvey, December 17, 1942: "We just do not know what is going to happen to us - but at present we are happy and that is a lot these days." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Hatty is indeed eccentric but far from insane." Evelyn Waugh, letter to Nancy Mitford, August 6, 1947; in THE LETTERS OF NANCY MITFORD AND EVELYN WAUGH, ed. Charlotte Mosley, 1996. #booksky 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Known colloquially as the 'eight-hooter' for its most common call: *who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-YOU-ALL?*. Highly vocal ... maniacal laughter exchanged between courting birds." Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess, BACKYARD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 2011. #booksky #birds 000
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"[S]hould an orphaned bird appear, catbirds will readily adopt it, so strong are their caretaking instincts." James Cassidy et al., BOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 1990. #booksky #birds 041
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Fiercely territorial, it regularly attacks crows and grackles, and even takes on cats during breeding season." James Cassidy et al., BOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 1990. #booksky #birds 030
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Diary entry for October 14, 1943: "I am a wretched melancholy creature when I would like to be noble and strong and very intelligent." Barbara Pym, A VERY PRIVATE EYE, ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Walton, 1984. #booksky 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tawny owl: "Its hoot is a loud 'hoo-hoo,' and is repeated with great frequency. This species is never met with in migration, but is one of the most resident of birds, rarely wandering far from its birthplace." J. Lewis Bonhote, BIRDS OF BRITAIN, 1907. #booksky #birds 031
Reposted by BookKnifewomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cindy Blackman, US musician, widely respected drummer for Lenny Kravitz and Santana #WomensArt 173305440
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"[A]ny young lady can write a book who has a sufficiency of pens and paper. It can be done anywhere; in any clothes--which is a great thing; at any hours ..." Anthony Trollope, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1883. #booksky #writing 020
BookKnife @bookknife.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"There is a trick to seeing yellowthroats (and many other birds as well). Soft squeaking noises made by kissing the back of the thumb will usually draw the bird into view." J. Cassidy et al., BOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 1990. I'm curious to hear if anyone has tried this method! #booksky #birds 120
