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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

YA, which is why at least one parent went out like they were in a Disney movie haha

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Maybe it's the "why not both" meme haha

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The cover blending with the pages edges is the best I've ever seen. That's awesome!

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Not pictured: Hunter S. Thompson haha

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Great title and it feels very timely right now!

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This video is mesmerizing. I suppose the person with the lighter is real life "fireman" as Bradbury envisaged the term!

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A heat sensitive edition of the iconic Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, which depicts a future in which all books are burned. (Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns…). (By French publisher, Super Terrain). #BookSky #ReadingPledge

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I just read this myself and I strongly recommend it. Even better than The Martian and the ending is superb!

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The IT cover is almost on par with the Jurassic Park logo. In a world where the term "iconic" gets abused, this is one instance where iconic is absolutely warranted.

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I enjoyed this book but the last death toward the end went just a little too far for my taste. Great tension and very well written, though!

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's a great elevator pitch and title!

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Same, although I don't know if anyone can capture the political complexity of ASOIAF. Even George doesn't seem to be able to recapture that magic.

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Even damaged that cover looks great! The burned out P is clever and immediately gives off a mysterious vibe.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Novelist, poet & essayist Mary Shelley died #OTD in 1851. Daughter of famed philosopher & feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley is best known for her 1818 Gothic novel 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯: 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴. poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-w... #literature #litsky #booksky

A dramatic, artistic composite portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), the English novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). The image overlays a classic 19th-century oil painting-style depiction of Shelley—shown in a three-quarter view with pale skin, dark curly hair parted in the center and falling softly around her face, large expressive brown eyes gazing directly and thoughtfully at the viewer, and wearing a low-cut black off-the-shoulder gown typical of Regency-era fashion—onto a dark, textured background filled with layers of translucent, handwritten manuscript text in faded ink. The overlaid script appears to be excerpts from Frankenstein (or closely related drafts), featuring Mary Shelley’s own elegant, flowing cursive handwriting with crossed-out words, revisions, and phrases such as “the wretched phantom,” “catastrophe,” “limbs,” “rain,” “window,” “features,” “great God,” “skin scarcely covered,” “work of muscles and arteries,” and other evocative fragments describing the Creature’s creation and appearance. The text swirls and overlaps around her face and shoulders like ghostly memories or the very pages of her groundbreaking novel coming to life, creating a haunting, literary effect that symbolizes how her personal experiences, intellectual circle (including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron), and the famous 1816 ghost-story contest at Villa Diodati inspired one of literature’s most enduring and influential works on creation, responsibility, isolation, and the ethics of science.

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Books are like therapists made of paper 😃

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

George is a genius but I feel like the first three books were a firmly plotted trilogy and the next two just don't have that structure to their story.

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I just want to say that's a great title for the book. Feels like I spend 99% of my life on side quests🤪

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Daniel Shields @danielshieldswrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Same here, as Ferris Bueller would say, "Life comes at you pretty fast." Oh wait that dates me to way back in the 1900s 😂

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