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British bibliophiles brilliantly babbling 'bout books, bookshops, bookshelves!

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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Jane Goodall (1934-2025) has died at 91. 🌿 She redefined science by showing chimps use tools, feel emotions & live complex lives and spent her life fighting for nature. Her voice for the wild will never fade. #JaneGoodall #TheLolgic #WildlifeConservation #legendsneverdie #UK #USA #Tanzania
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. ~ CS Lewis
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
There's no perfume in the world quite like it. That magical blend of old paper, whispered secrets, and endless stories. If you know, you know. What's your favorite library smell memory? 👃📖 #library #booklovers #bibliophole #bookstagram #memes #memesdaily #TheLolgic
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Love a literary pun! 😆
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Hand it over! #booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sometimes, you just need to lie on the couch and read..... for a couple of years. #booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What's the difference between a cat and a comma? One has its claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As I get older... #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Books fill my days... #Booksky
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Medieval “drugstores” started in monasteries, moved to city shops, and were strictly regulated: doctors prescribed, apothecaries prepared (1231, 1353 rules). Remedies mixed plants, spices, minerals, even oddities - laying groundwork for modern pharmacy. #TheLolgic #Apothecary #USA #Europe #paris
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
💸 Love may be blind, but it still checks your bank balance first. Jane Austen figured it out centuries ago. 📖✨ #janeausten #BookTok #memes #memesdaily #PrideAndPrejudice #TheLolgic
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A library heals with stories, soothing restless thought. Its shelves prescribe wisdom that can’t be bought. Each book a remedy, gentle or bold, A hospital for the mind, where spirits unfold.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's not hoarding if it's books! #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Where do we go to make this a thing? #Booksky
I’m proposing a bookshop cafe.
Not just a bookshop where you 
can sit for coffee, but a bookshop
where you walk in and say things
like “I’d like a latte and a book with
dragons and no romance, please” 
and the barista would serve your 
coffee and pull out the perfect book
for you!
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#Booksky #Poetry #poems #reading
I opened my book
I turned to my page
and tumbled right in
was gone for an age
I lift up my head
and see to my shame
another day passed
I’ve done it again
I’ve sat for a moment
a quick read that’s all
but hours have flown by
whilst I was enthralled
I’d had plans today
done nothing at again
there’s always tomorrow
I’ll tidy up then.

Shan W (forreadingaddicts)
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
A 1,600-year-old mosaic at Huqoq, Israel, shows Jonah swallowed by three fish, plus scenes like the Tower of Babel with Greco - Roman motifs. First Jonah mosaic found in a synagogue, rewriting views of Jewish art. #Huqoq #TheLolgic #BiblicalArt #Israel #Jonah
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”~ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Me: “I’ll finish those books.” Also me: opens a new one like an unbothered king. 👑📚😂 #TheLolgic #memes #memesdaily #bookstagram #booklovers
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
#WordNerd: The word malaria comes from Italian mala aria — “bad air.” People once thought swampy air made you sick. They weren’t totally wrong… the swamps just happened to be full of mosquitoes. #Booksky #Language
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Books.. #Booksky
BOOKS:
Better weapons
against evil and
ignorance than
BOMBS
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
On libraries. #Booksky
It’s funny that we think of libraries 
as quiet demure places where we are
shushed by dusty, bun-topped 
bespectacled women.

The truth is libraries are raucous
clubhouses for free speech,
controversy and community.

Librarians have stood up for 
freedoms, sat down and read with
toddlers, and reached out to
illiterate adults.

Librarians cannot be shushed

forreadingaddicts
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
True strength is the ability to pick up a really big book, say an 800-page hardback, lift it up, carry it across the room open the cover... and read a single chapter. #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The alphabet #Booksky
Every book you have read
every story you’ve heard
is just twenty six letters
It’s true, every word.

Yes those twenty six letters
From A through to Z
Make up every word
That you’ve ever read


Shan (forreadingaddicts)
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Every time someone says “enough books,” my inner beast awakens. Because how can there ever be enough? Books are worlds, escapes, lifelines - and you don’t just stop collecting lifelines. 📚😼 #TheLolgic #Memes #MemesDaily #bookstagram #Booksky
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 22/08/2025
The Danish government has announced plans to remove its 25% tax on books in a bid to tackle Denmark’s “reading crisis” 👇
ebx.sh
Denmark scraps book tax
The Danish government has announced plans to remove its 25% tax on books in a bid to tackle Denmark’s “reading crisis”.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#WordNerd Muffinwalloper
#WordNerd

In Victorian Slang
a muffin walloper
was an unmarried woman
who enjoyed meeting
up with friends for
gossip and cake.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#WordNerd; Kummerspeck #Language #Booksky
🥓 #WordNerd

Kummerspeck (German, literally “grief bacon”)
The extra weight you put on from emotional overeating — sadness, stress, heartbreak… all measured in slices of cake and late-night snacks.

It doesn’t mean actual bacon, but it perfectly captures that feeling when comfort food becomes a coping strategy.

So next time you reach for the ice cream after a bad day, just call it Kummerspeck — it sounds way more sophisticated than “stress eating.”
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#WordNerd Tmesis #Booksky #Language
✨ #WordNerd ✨

Tmesis (pronounced T-MEE-sis)
The splitting of a word or phrase by dropping another word right in the middle — often for emphasis.

Examples:
👉 “I haven’t seen her any-blooming-where.”
👉 “Abso-f*cking-lutely, baby.”

It shows up most in informal speech, but it’s been around since Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. A fancy name for something we all do when we’re feeling extra dramatic.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
#IdiomFacts Pulling ones self up by the bootstraps #Booksky #Language
✨ #IDIOMFACTS ✨

Did you know that “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”
 originally meant doing something impossible?

The phrase began life as an adynaton — 
a type of figure of speech for an absurd or impossible task 
(like “when pigs fly”).  After all, you can’t literally lift 
yourself off the ground by tugging on your own boots!

Over time, though, the idiom flipped its meaning. 
Instead of mocking impossibility, it became a metaphor 
for achieving success through one’s own effort — 
especially in American English.

So next time you hear someone tell you to
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” and you can’t 
it’s because you’re being asked to do something impossible!


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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A penny #poems #poetry #booksky
A penny
for your thoughts, she said
My dear
you’ll need much more
The imaginings
that fly around my head
are myriad
For I am a reader, a writer
a dreamer
and my mind is filled with tales
more valuable than gold
But here
sit beside me, for I have
a tale
begging to be told


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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
So true <3 #Booksky
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, 
an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the 
pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, 
you will never go completely back to where you were before. 
The kind of book you might hesitate to lend for fear you 
might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from 
the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's 
forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.”

~ E. J. Banfield
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Remembering Greg Iles (1960–2025) - forreadingaddicts.co.uk/remembering-... #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Why buying books and reading them are two separate hobbies #Booksky
Oh these books? No, these are my 
emotional support books, they’re not
for reading. They simply exist in my
peripheral to one day be buried with
me in a huge coffin as though I were
a pharoah.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Dystopia is not a prediction... #Booksky
#HotTake

No piece of dystopian fiction has ever 
predicted the future. 
All dystopia is a representation of the present.

Orwell was not a mind reader who could see
the future, but a man who understood human
nature and exaggerated the surveillance system
he could already see building.

Many dystopian worlds in novels, already exist.
Margaret Atwood didn’t predict the future, she took things
happening to marginalised people and applied
them to you.Dystopian writers are not oracles, they are satirists.
Their predictions came true, because they were
already true, and in truth, there is no cruelty under
the sun that is new.~ for Reading Addicts
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
They said I could be anything... #Booksky
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Birthday candles began as sacred offerings in Greece, became protective charms in medieval Germany, and by the 1800s spread to the U.S. Today, blowing them out is a global ritual of wishes and celebration. 🎂✨ #birthday #TheLolgic #Greece #USA #germany #artemis #Europe
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I don't have insomnia... #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm not a bookworm I'm an escape artist. #Booksky
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
That's how it works!
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The last words of some famous writers. #Booksky
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The Perseids peak Aug 12–13! Expect up to 120 meteors/hr under dark skies - but 2025’s bright moon will hide faint ones. Watch after midnight from a dark spot & see dazzling fireballs streak overhead! ☄️ #perseidmeteorshower #TheLolgic #meteorshowers
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
When I tell people I'm booked for the evening. #Booksky
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Powered by caffeine, plot twists, and bad life choices #TheLolgic #memes #memesdaily #BookLovers
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Representation matters! #Booksky
If you don’t think that representation
in literature matters, then you’re 
probably already well represented.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A library is nothing but a deal with the universe. #Booksky
You’re not buying books
you’re buying immortality;
a library is nothing but
a deal with the universe
that you’ll live long enough
to read them all.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There's something about reading... #Booksky
There’s something about reading that just slows time down.
No autoplay, no scroll—just you and the page.
It doesn’t rush to the next scene; it waits,
lets your mind fill in the colors, the voices, the sky.
It’s quiet, but loud where it matters.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#BannedBooks #Booksky
"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" was banned in China in 1931—because it portrayed animals acting like humans.

Censors claimed it was "disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level" and feared it would teach children to treat animals as equals. So, the Cheshire Cat’s grin and the White Rabbit’s waistcoat were considered a bit too rebellious!
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Your assumptions...
Your assumptions are a
window on the world.
scrub them off once in
a while, or the light
won’t get in.
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For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#WordNerd
Today we may have ‘fortnight’ 
(fourteen nights)but while we 
have kept that, we have lost 
‘sennight’ (seven nights) and 
replaced it with ‘week’. We’ve 
also lost ‘yestreen’ (last evening),
‘ere-yesterday’ (the day before 
yesterday) and ‘overmorrow’ 
(the day after tomorrow)
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The Lolgic @thelolgic.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Octopuses have 3 hearts! 🐙💓 2 pump blood to the gills, 1 (systemic) sends it to the body - but it stops beating when they swim. Oh, and their blood? It’s BLUE, thanks to copper-rich hemocyanin. Nature’s built different. 🌊 #TheLolgic #Weird #Octopus
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