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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A nice one to read out loud.

Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"His heart didn’t break, obviously, but he hoped the next person he punched wasn’t her." Mick Herron "Clown Town" #SundaySentence 💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing." “Exit Strategy” Martha Wells @marthawells.com #SundaySentence 💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

From the novel "The Music of Bees," by Eileen Garvin #SundaySentence 💙📚

On a background image of shattered glass, the quote says "As long as she made it to the county planning department by 8:30 a.m. five days a week, no one had to know that Alice Holtzman was made of a million tiny broken pieces held together by cookies, solitary driving, and the sheer determination not to go crazy in public."

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"Once you see the ants, for example, once the life underground and nests in the trees are visible to you, you are all the more devastated when an acre is scraped for development, or the dry hills go up in flames." "Heartwood" by Amity Gaige #SundaySentence 💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"I would love to know more about what it takes to arrive at that moment — how tired you must be, how high, how deep in your own creative process, to realize that the final touch your song needs is a nonverbal loop of you imitating a very determined squirrel." #SundaySentence 💙📚 "The Number Ones"

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Well damn. Just finished Alan Sepinwall's excellent book, and now I suppose I must re-watch the entire "Better Call Saul" series. @sepinwall.bsky.social

Front cover of the book "Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The complete critical companion to Better Call Saul" by Alan Sepinwall

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Barbara @calmspin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

#SundaySentence “It is possible that if we spent more time alone in Nature our intuitive abilities - another way of gathering information about the world - would strengthen.” - Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning, 1994/2004

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

"You don’t get ghosts from a past you don’t care about." Brandy Shillace, ‪ @bschillace.brandyschillace.com “The Framed Women of Ardemore House” #SundaySentence 💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"But even the most lax of garages would not certify a vehicle as roadworthy if it had a human skeleton and a pile of maggot cases in the cabin." "Still Life" Val McDermid ‪ ‪@valmcdermid.bsky.social‬ #SundaySentence

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

First red huckleberry of the season

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"Instead of saying ‘I don’t think children should read this book,’ just add a single word: ‘I don’t think MY children should read this book." Dav Pilkey “What it's like to top banned book lists around the world” The Guardian #SundaySentence 💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath. from "Lucky" by Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social

We can’t agree on anything in this world, we can’t even sit with each other long enough to decide whether we want to agree on anything, but of all things, it’s football, this awful game that destroys the brains of college students without even paying them a dime for the privilege, this last refuge of the helplessly meat-headed, it’s football that brings us together, goddammit, and we can assemble and wear red and bark at each other and push all the awful shit down to a place it won’t return until Tuesday at the latest, and we do it seven times a year and that’s seven times a year when we don’t have to live with the rest of it and I gotta tell you, that ain’t nothing.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ellen Crimi-Trent provided the tutorial for this. I have learned to paint a dragonfly. Be very afraid. #watercolor

Watercolor painting of a dragonfly among green foliage.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I need Jelly Belly to make the MANY red flavors better differentiated. I'm having trouble picking out the nasty cinnamons without unknowingly sacrificing the other red flavors that are good.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sitting with a cup of tea, watching Doctor Who ("The Pandorica Opens", which, as you will see, is oddly appropriate), and trying to decide how to paint a picture of a badly-painted door so it doesn't look like a badly-painted painting of a badly-painted door. #watercolor

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London Geodiversity Partnership @londongeodiversity.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you like this account please do give it a share! We are really struggling to get engagement on this platform. London’s geology is more varied than you think and we are here to spread the word, look after and promote London’s geosites #londongeology

A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. A pair of hands holds a slab of the Woolwich Shell Bed, an iron oxide rich clay packed with white fossil shells

A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. The Blackheath Beds, pavked with well rounded, black flint pebbles forms the top of the section at Gilbert’s Pit

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My favorite #SundaySentence from yesterday's offerings.

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I'm trying to keep things as normal as they can be in a world where monsters live. -- Leigh Bardugo in NINTH HOUSE #sundaysentence

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I believe I have found my newest all-purpose insult.

A two-comment thread.
First comment says "Tariffs will finally bring some prices down hopefully, like the iPhone. And Samsung phone $1000 to $$1200 is ridiculous.
Reply says "Apologies for the very personal question, but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?"

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Cheating a little. I have used this #SundaySentence from Naomi Nomik before, at the Other Place, but I just re-read the book and it struck me again, ringing like a solemn bell. "Uprooted" by #@naominovik.bsky.social 💙📚

A dirt road winding through a green grassy field towards some trees in the far distance. The quote says “All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.” It is from Naomi Novik's book "Uprooted."

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I leveled up with an assist from a Mallory Jane video about using sponges to paint tree foliage. #watercolor

Watercolor from a practice sketchbook with two trees, one with green leaves and one with reddish leaves.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My favorite from today's #SundaySentence festival

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.” Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek #SundaySentence 📚💙

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Soft mist leaves glittering drops everywhere

A small drop of water hangs at the end of a hemlock needle

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Red alder catkins are carpeting the ground.

A thin catkin in shades of green and red rests on an evergreen frond

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This #SundaySentence is my favorite of today's delightful choices.

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#SundaySentence from Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod by Robert Finch "Sometimes I think our business is to put ourselves in such favorable positions, open to the sky, where, doing some useful and unimportant work, the poetry of life can catch us unawares." #CapeCod

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“It’s astounding that she didn’t understand [that] taking two toes that had been vomited up by one or two dogs from a deceased person and sell[ing] them on the internet was the wrong thing to do." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #SundaySentence

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Woman who planned to sell human toes regurgitated by dogs avoids jail in Melbourne court sentencing

Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, was working at an animal shelter when she found body parts of dogs’ owner who had died of natural causes

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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

for whoever else is trying their best today

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

You know what I don't love? Reading a novel with a plot point involving bubonic plague, then looking down to found a flea on my leg.

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My favorite #SundaySentence from last week. The rhythm in this sentence is sublime. It aches to be read aloud.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"To read our inarticulable feelings articulated is to receive an act of love." #SundaySentence from Poetry As The Gift Of Attention by Kate Millar (2023 Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2023/08/poet...

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"I’d watch the bats and the birds dip into the river to drink like they were stitching the water to the sky in lacy, swooping, baroque arcs." Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You” #SundaySentence #Booksky💙📚

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

First thimbleberry blossom of the season.

A dark pink flower bud, petals still crumpled before blooming

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I reposted this yesterday, and as it turns out, it's the #SundaySentence that spoke to me more than any. Every single day, there's at least one moment that I'm glad I chose not to be a mother. So here it is again.

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Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It's not just the duty to provide for your family. It's like, as a mother, you're supposed to give up your whole self, like you're not allowed to have a self at all. - Molly Roden Winter, More #sundaysentence

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"I was sixteen years old, a skinny, feral, lonely kid who had grown up longing for normal food, biting the heads off fleas, and never brushing my hair." Neko Case "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir" #SundaySentence #Booksky💙📚

The cover of Neko Case's book "The Harder I Fight The More I Love You"

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My husband just floated the idea that my slight clumsiness is because my feet have ADHD

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"How could Duncan not realize that every time you fell in love and it didn’t work out, it scraped out a little piece of you, like scooping out a piece of cantaloupe with a melon baller, and there were only so many times that could happen before the scoop marks started to show?" #SundaySentence

Book cover for "Early Morning Riser" by Katherine Heiny

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Joy K. @joyousk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My favorite of yesterday's #SundaySentence posts.

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It’s Sunday—do you know where your sentence is? Join us at #SundaySentence for a parade of the best single* line you read this past week. *or two

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a group of ducks walking down a street with a sign that says petcollective

Alt: a group of ducks parading down a cobblestone street

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Peyton Gresham @ownerofh.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#SundaySentence from #BannedBookClub by #KimHyunSook, #KoHyung-Ju, and #RyanEstrada "Do they ban books because they see danger in their authors, or because they see themselves in their villains?" #BookBanning

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