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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself...' -Thomas Hardy @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat.

Painting by Sigismund Ivanowski. Title: Girl in the Woods. Woman in the snowy woods gathering berries. Red sky.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This fifteenth-century volume gives instructions for the blessing of bells and for exorcising people who have been cursed. The instructions are written in red, with the words to be said in black. The volume will on display for our new exhibition The Medieval Manuscripts of Marsh's Library.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hello and a warm welcome to new followers. We're a podcast of sounds from quiet places. No ads. No AI. No music. No talking. Explore 300+ episodes from places across the UK and beyond. Find us here - Podbean - radiolento.podbean.com Apple Pod bit.ly/LentoAp YouTube - youtube.com/@RadioLento

the curve of a river in September, trees still green. on a sunny day. no one else around.

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is so sad, many native trees are visibly under extreme stress

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My new response when anyone asks me to do anything

~ No, sir, I am not obliged to do any more. No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life for himself.
-SAMUEL JoHNSON

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes! She just texted "I remember Hugh very well, he was one of the teachers who made the biggest impression..."

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think that he taught my daughter! he was great, I'll check with her...

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A BIG thank you if you have recently shared our posts - either as a RT or with a quote. Or if you have reposted elsewhere or sent a link to someone you know. We have a budget of exactly £0.00 for marketing and promotion and instead rely on word of mouth to reach new listeners. ❤️

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

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Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#WorldBeeDay! How can we plant better for bees? Bees can best see the colour purple, so plants like lavender, alliums, and catmint work great! And although herbarium specimens don't really show colour well - below are examples of Allium, Lavandula and Nepeta from Smith's and LInnaeus' Herbariums.

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We ❤️ Bees! Here's a few of our favourite Bee-things for #WorldBeeDay! There's medieval bees, a model honeycomb, Darwin's kids help-out with an experiment, and poor Oliver Rackham gets stung! 🐝 🧵 1/7...

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bees, for today is their special day! 🐝 This engraved frontispiece by Thomas Loveday is from ‘Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy…’, a book about bees by John Thorley, published in 1744. 📷 Reserve 595.799 THO #WorldBeeDay #BeeDay #RareBooks

Frontispiece featuring three engravings of bees and a leafy border. Captioned 'Frontispiece' and 'T Loveday'.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 15/04/2026

Bookshop Crawl UK has launched The Kent Bookshop Map, the first of its UK County Bookshop Maps 👇 #BookSky

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Bookshop Crawl UK releases first County Bookshop Map

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Reposting for the weekend crowd.

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

In a perfect example of nominative determinism we have just had the windows cleaned by the wonderful Seymour...

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“I feel just worthless today. I have to drive myself. I have used every physical excuse not to work except fake illness. I have dawdled, gone to the toilet innumerable times, had many glasses of water. Really childish.” —John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45

“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean…

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Always a plane to catch, rooms full of baggage to fit into small case. 5 minutes to spare etc etc...so stressful

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Interesting, I also have a version of the Packing Dream franchise...

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Recently limping along the towpath keeping to the level edge due to bad knee, man walks towards me and I hold my ground -came almost face to face and he muttered abuse at me as he reluctantly passed. Very rude.

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

There were two black swans at Kew Gardens that had to be exiled to Slimbridge (I think) because they were always biting people

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Books returned to the shelves upside down and back to front. Entire rows pushed to the back. Spines broken by casual browsers. Wet dogs leaning against paperbacks... All these moments will be lost in time like tears of a bookseller."

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a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

people think that we have a warehouse "in the back"... #Tardis

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Edward Gorey "Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."

Trying if a man walking along the side of a cliff clutching a big book to his chest and smiling briefly we see the feet of somebody who is just been shoved off the cliff
"Books seem to me to be pestilent things,and infect
all that trade in them...with something very perverse
and brutal. Printers,binders,sellers and others that
make a trade and gain out of them have universally
so odd a turn and corruption of mind. that they have
away of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not
conformed to the good of society and that general
fairness which cements mankind."
JOHN LOCKE

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

customer "do you have those books a brief guide to something? or A little guide to something or other? You know the ones..."

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

There it is

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lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I remember watching this with my little brother, it was so good

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, creators of the Book Bracelet inspired by the work of Rembrandt and winners of a design competition for The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam #WomensArt

Photo of a white person's arm with a bracelet created by many square pages with images

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 29/04/2025

Akshi Singh’s IN DEFENCE OF LEISURE uses the work of Marion Milner to answer the deceptively simple-sounding question ‘how do I want to spend my free time?’ On the blog, read an extract from the book exploring the joys of reading and the freedoms to be found in second-hand bookshops: lrb.me/y23

A quote from Akshi Singh’s In Defence of Leisure, which reads: ‘It is often in bookstores that I feel something like ordinary hope – that I am not alone, that something else is possible.’

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ENU Heritage Collections @enuheritage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

☠️| Did you know that books can be dangerous? We discovered a poisonous book today! During the 19th century, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead were sometimes added to book bindings to create the vivid green colours like in this copy of Moore's Irish Melodies (ECC E346). #PoisonBooks #booksky

Photograph showing the front cover of Moore's Irish Melodies (1866), which is a vivid green with golden decoration of a small harp in the centre, enclosed by four interlocking hearts featuring the book's title, and surrounded by swirling leaves and flowers.

Photograph of an hand inside a blue nitrile glove holding the book entitled Moore's Irish Melodies which is inserted into an archival-quality zip lock bag. A handwritten note on the front reads: 'WARNING! This bookbinding contains arsenic & lead. Only handle with nitrile gloves.'

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Beautiful seventeenth century book-clasps, still in good working order.

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Henry Handley @bookgreeble.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Problem: previous book owner(s) wrote their name(s) on the title page of your book Solution: turn them into fish

Two fish doodles in ink obscuring older ink inscriptions on either side of the printed text of a title page

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The Keeper of the Bees @beefolklore.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Winter is tired. She longs to lie down in the arms of spring among the sweet white blossoms and the ripening buds of new beginnings. ✍️March by Caroline Mellor 📷my garden daffs 🏵️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Saturday plans: 🖼️ Marianne Stokes, 1901.

Painting of hand holding a book, green background, purple dress.

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