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geekycleary @geekycleary.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Fantasy Reader: According to legend the cup was last seen 3 millennia ago in the time of the Great Kings. It is said, by some scholars & madmen, that the cup contained the elixir of life, but surely that’s nothing more than myth.💙📚

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 22,1951

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

AUNT FRITZI - - -I CAN’T GET TO SLEEP

TRY THINKING OF SOMETHING VERY
PLEASANT

(NANCY IMAGINES THAT THE SCHOOL
BUILDING BLOWS UP )

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

I am user number 854,792, first 10% even though I joined well well after the early chaos.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

It's wonderful, Marge. I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.

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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Sassy and the raccoon held some epic matches in the park. #grickledoodle #sasquatch #bigfoot #chess #racccoon #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of Big Foot and a raccoon playing chess in a park.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Day 4 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

"Nobody, she reflected, ever brings their real selves with them on to a tube train. None of us have. We have all left our identities behind in some vast spiritual Left Luggage office..." #BookSky #Books #CrimeFiction #CeliaFremlin 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/a...

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Appointment with Yesterday by Celia Fremlin

Last summer, I read and loved Celia Fremlin’s 1959 novel Uncle Paul, a wonderfully compelling story about what can happen when our imagination runs wild, conjuring up all sorts of nightmare scenarios ...

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Woaxster 🌳 🌎 🌻 🍉 @woaxster.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 7

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KenneyM @toffeeboy.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

I am reposting all these because I see that I took it literally and simply posted a cover. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #bookchallenge Day 6

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ClaireK💙🪻🌱🌹📒 📚 @ckbook.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Book cover for Madame Bovary by Flaubert.

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Lajfun @lajfun.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

I read a lot and this book will stay with me for a long time. Highly recommend! #Books #BookClub #TimeTravel

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Simon King @ksimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

The cover of the original paperback of the Hitch-Hikers guide to the Galaxy.

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Bear 𓃩 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣 𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔞𝔰𝔱 𓅑 @egyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 03/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book #1: #BookSky 📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Marilyn French's seminal feminist novel, "The Women's Room." ESSENTIAL reading. I'm going to follow the directions in this challenge and NOT explain anything about the book or its affect on me... But since this is MY post and ALT Text... I WILL entreat anyone reading this to pick up a copy of this book and read it as soon as humanly possible. ONLY, however, if you're willing to have your mind fucking blown. Because if you think you knew what life was like for women before the feminist movement... And you haven't actually studied it or lived it... oh, you sweet summer child. Gird those lions. Grrr.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Today my second book (my first published fantasy and first also in a duology) releases! #books #fantasy Imbued was the product of a few months of fever dream drafting "something light and nice, like a fantasy love story!" which then turned into some of the most personal writing I've done. 🧵

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Ian Goldsworthy @iangoldsworthy.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book #12: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” ~ Emily Dickinson #NationalReadABookDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJourney #BookLovers #Books #Read

Fanciful poster of a book being ridden through the air like a flying-bicycle ship. The BOOK is slightly open, spine down, its pages spreading like bird wings, while below a man is seated upright as if riding a unicycle that is turning the bigger bike-wheel behind and above him, serenely being propelled through the air. Birds wheel in the soft pastel-sky as the book-ship soars over a city visible in the distance below.

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geekycleary @geekycleary.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 15 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Special edition cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin with shiny gold foil peacock feathers and gold text on a dark green background. A peacock stands with its wings slightly open and its right leg held up on top of a round, ornate pedestal. Both are also in that same gold color. Illustrated by Hugh Thompson.

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Kathy Condon @kathyyc.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

💙📚The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 8

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Serving as ‘an invitation to the study of Carolingian civilization,’ this book examines the political and societal changes that took place in Western Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries. www.medievalists.net/2024/09/new-... #Carolingians #books

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New Medieval Books: Introduction to the Carolingian Age - Medievalists.net

Serving as 'an invitation to the study of Carolingian civilization,' this book examines the political and societal changes that took place in Western Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries. It is mostly ...

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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The First Collection SOLD OUT long ago BUT there's still time to get the Second Delightful Graham Annable Doodle Collection! Each book ships with a signed and doodled Bookplate from yours truly! gricklemart.com/second-delig... #grickledoodle #books #gifts #cartoon #art #funny #drawing

A photo of a cartoon book titled "The second delightful Graham Annable doodle collection" containing 126 pages of fan favorite single panel gag cartoons from Graham Annable's internet posts.

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Christine @nosugartea.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 19

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 07/09/2024

. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Book #5: #BookSky 📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Book cover - John Irving's "The World According to Garp." I couldn't possibly say what Irving's BEST book is; I love almost everything he's written, with the notable exception of "A Son of the Circus," and that might be because of where I was when I tried to read it. But GARP... Garp will always be the FIRST, you know? Owen Meany is GREAT. A Widow for One Year is AMAZING. Hotel New Hampshire, extraordinary. Cider House - well, come on. But GARP... well, if you haven't read it, then you are truly missing out on a life-changing experience. Read it. Read it as soon as humanly possible. You will never regret it.

*This challenge specifically says "No explanations, no reviews, just covers." But I am an inveterate rule breaker, so fuck that.

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 01/09/2024

The literal pile of 'To Be Read' on my bedside table, which will one day crush me in my sleep. #Books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum
Shigidi by Wole Talabi
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaicovsky
Terrible Worlds by Adrian Tchaicovsky
Poems to Live Your Life By, by Chris Riddell
The Cleaving by Juliet McKenna
City of Aston Chances by Adrian Tchaicovsky
Her Majesty's Toyal Coven by Juno Dawson
One Extra Corpse by Barbara Hambly
A Man With One of those Faces by Caimh McDonnell
A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey
The Wrath To Come by Sarah Churchwell
Art I the Blood by Bonnie MacBird
The Autobiography of Mr Spoxm by Una McCormack
Stars and Bones by Gareth L Powell

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🌻Margarance🌻 @margarance.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Am image of the book Pride and Prejudice.

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⭑ sah que viu a elay @saalvxz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

book recommendations *. #Books #bookslover #livros ( romance )

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✧ O filho sábio 📖. @ofilhosabio.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

ⓘ this user is obsessed with knowledge and wants to meet similar people. #sdv #meow #books

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 05/09/2024

If you enjoy #VideoGames 🎮 and #Books 📚… Here’s a quick starter pack of amazing publishers, talented authors and great resources that have all contributed to the world of Video Game Literature 📖 📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙 go.bsky.app/Js5KkJJ

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 06/09/2024

Between people asking why I'm not yet out of business (idk, why does the NYT think #bookstores are dying this week?) and people talking about my shop as though it were a can redemption center, but make it #books... it's time for a chat. Let's talk about the culture of secondhand books. <rant/?>

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 07/09/2024

I'm trying to work out where the popular idea that HG Wells' Martians are killed specifically by the common cold arose. In the book, it's the general existence of bacteria on Earth, which have been eliminated on Mars, that does for them. There's no identification of a specific fatal pathogen.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Clive James, not terribly impressed with what Lindsay Anderson did with an Alan Bennett piece, comes up with this line about a sense of humour. It's just made me catch my breath slightly.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

"More council flats, fuck landlord rats" Seen in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 07/09/2024

Poppet claims she didn't drink out of my cereal bowl. What do we think?

Absurdly adorable one eyed tabby kitten with milk on her chin denies all charges

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

im reading all creatures great and small and it still slaps

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Jove @joves-techart.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Digging through some Art for my folio and thought that I might as well start posting some here while I'm at it. Looks like I made this one in 2020, sweet jeebus, time really flies 😐

Colored Illustration of a dark hooded figure.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 07/09/2024

One thing I've learned as a writer is that I'll never stop learning. I don't know everything, and things that were valid ten years ago have changed significantly today. Some things hold, others don't. Basically, I will never be an expert and I'm fine with that.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Getting ready for my shift in the bookshop. I really enjoy helping people find their next great read.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I’m actually a big fan of stories where not every background detail and character background is fully explained. Where we just get some glimpses, sometimes not even knowing they are glimpses, and have to piece them together, while other parts will never be explained.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Hot take: the problem with time travel plots is that the moment you add them, all urgency and stakes vanish. The story becomes more and more meaningless the more of your own farts you sniff trying to be clever.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

As an author, I know that piracy will always exist. I know many people justify it as "sticking it to the man," even though piracy impacts individual authors worse than it will ever impact big publishers. But for gods' sake, do not contact the authors whose work you steal & ask them to absolve you!

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