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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We could really use Carl Sagan right about now… #books #reading #history #libraries

A quote from the great Carl Sagan “One glace at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for a 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

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2bitCharlatan @albertoism.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King #photography #books

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 13h

"Top Shot" Chris Cheng discusses his powerful historical novel PROVEN IN BLOOD, where the most decorated regiment of WWII may surprise you. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/2apyywvp Get the Book: tinyurl.com/46mspsu2 Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/3tspypfu

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 29/09/2026

If you love #cozy #romance, Sharon Michalove's PLAYING FOR HEARTS - LOVE ON THE ICE is right up your alley. Honored to narrate this delightful #audiobook. Grab your copy here! tinyurl.com/ycxparkx

Four stories about members of the famed Chicago Seabirds hockey team. Antarctica to the Rhine, and finally in Chicago, you’ll see unusual settings and unexpected relationships. From a former captain who becomes a recluse after a career ending incident on the ice to a grumpy player forced to work with an attractive physical therapist, these stories will bring different perspectives to romance on and off the ice.

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

50 years ago today, Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was released. It spent thirteen consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year...

Album cover for Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key Of Life."

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the best behind the scenes Documentaries on Pop music you’ll ever see. This group of L.A. session musicians were literally the sound of the 60’s & 70’s. They were known in the industry as… THE WRECKING CREW (2015)

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 29/09/2026

Molly Guptill Manning's "A Librarian's War," tells the incredible story of how one man changed the way a generation discovered reading. Hear the conversation: tinyurl.com/4uypefwr Get the book: tinyurl.com/mswtmb6e Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/yuazsb74

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 22/09/2026

Dr. Patricia Leavy takes on stardom, cancel culture and social media in her powerful new novel, SUGAR SAND LAND. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/mv5vkb5p Get the Book: tinyurl.com/yc8ab398 Read my substack essay: tinyurl.com/46z5cc3y

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You never realize how little self-control you have until you’re eating chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 21/09/2026

Happy heavenly birthday to #WarnerBros #LooneyTunes #animator, Chuck Jones, born today in 1912. His "rules" for the #RoadRunner / #Coyote relationship still resonate today.

RULE 1.
THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!"
RULE 2.
NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS.
RULE 3.
THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC.
(REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM." -GEORGE SANTAYANA)
RULE 4.
NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULES.
THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER.
RULE 6.
ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT.
RULE 7.
ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION.
RULE 8.
WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY.
RULE 9.
THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 21/09/2026

Imagine trying to hide your father’s multi-million-dollar strip club empire from your Catholic school teachers and ballet carpool. For Laurel Woods, that was just the beginning. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/439b229t Get the book: tinyurl.com/ztafpy7z Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/ksaefp2b

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Carrie Armstrong @carriea.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bought these at the used bookstore - they're going in my neighborhood's free little library here in SC. #goodtrouble #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BooksChallenge #BookBansAreBad

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Monica Wilcox @monicawilcox.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you can’t spare a room, fill a pillar. #booksky #books #design #writingcommunity

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 14/09/2026

What happens when a lifelong obsession becomes a test of identity, endurance, and nerve? L. Mark Weeks talks about his new novel, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/2ezh7d57 Get the book: tinyurl.com/ms2xfsr7 Read my Substack Essay: tinyurl.com/48bjeb53

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 10/09/2026

I'm sure my writings won't survive 1,000 years... but I suddenly feel pressure to make em better.

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📚💸 Oh, the Places You'll Go! 🤩😍 #books #reading

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 10/09/2026

What happens when cutting-edge science, climate politics, corporate greed, and murder collide? That's the setup for Award-winning journalist Judy Foreman's "The Scallop Plot." Hear the Convo: tinyurl.com/3pna5eu7 Get the Book: tinyurl.com/5s72uyhh Read my Substack Essay: tinyurl.com/39uxp74k

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 09/09/2026

R. Scott West didn't let a prison sentence get in the way of restoring downtown Knoxville, TN. "Smoke Rings: A Scruffy City Novel" fictionalizes his true story. Here the convo: tinyurl.com/mpwarn9y Get the book: tinyurl.com/5eyptz4x Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/3x9nb8cm

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 08/09/2026

Rich Dunning's life story will terrify and inspire you. He shares the ups and downs in "Silence Was My First Language." Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/2ed8pzcn Get the book: tinyurl.com/332yb27u Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/48paccr4

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 01/09/2026

Gabriella Saab explores what happens to two Titanic survivors when a small boy becomes part of their intersecting lives. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/yte5wz7v Get the Book: tinyurl.com/5f64fyxb Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/bdddfpyt

In Gabriella Saab’s The Survivors Guild, the Titanic is not so much a ship as a threshold. We know before the first page turns what history has already decided. The iceberg, the lifeboats, the black water, the terrible arithmetic of class and chance. But Gabriella’s novel begins where the familiar story usually ends, with the living required to become human again.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 31/08/2026

Husband and wife team K.B. Brodsky creates a riveting debut espionage thriller. We've got the backstory. Hear our convo: tinyurl.com/usjf6dz5 Get the book: tinyurl.com/bdcub497 Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/39t8aejr

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 31/08/2026

How Korey Rowe's being in the wrong place at the wrong time led to a healing outcome that lives on today. Hear our convo: tinyurl.com/3crh5bd4 Get the Book: tinyurl.com/unxj5vb5 Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/35wrufvf

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 26/08/2026

Mesmerizing. The subtexts here are so powerful. Building a better world begins in our hearts. Make a difference… somewhere. Rita Moreno serenaded by Carolyn Hao and Henry Wu.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 25/08/2026

Remembering #DollyParton. terryshepherd.substack.com/p/rememberin...

If there was ever an illustration of the best an American can be, Dolly exemplified it. She lived in that magical intersection of purpose, passion and talent where happiness lives. In a time where there are so many bad actors in positions of fame and temporary power, may we all incorporate the best of who Dolly Parton was in our own lives to honor her memory.

I think she’d love that.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 19/08/2026

David Kibbe's sense of style has inspired millions. In his new book he defines it as a look inside ourselves. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/mrxm2p8n Get the Book: tinyurl.com/3bsfnspu Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/msr6vvy3

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 15/08/2026

14 things that define a true friend…

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🍉🤍 if anyone needs a smile love is love #caturday 🔆♥️🌿

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 15/08/2026

Denise Pérez shares her deeply personal journey in this mystical, enlightening memoir. Here our convo: tinyurl.com/2jm3m9x4 Get the Book: tinyurl.com/b96my8de Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/yc2eydtn

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 14/08/2026

Judith Starkston on #ChristopherNolan's #Odyssey and her own hit, "Achilles's Wife." Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/39pcy8tz Get the book: tinyurl.com/39enbvze Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/33rjrva7

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Owl in the Attic Books @owlintheatticbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, & is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man #terrypratchett #discworld #books #booksky #fantasy #death #light #darkness #reading #writing

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 11/08/2026

Elliot Blake is a true Renaissance Man. He joins me to talk about his fascinating career and taking on prose. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/8nr8namh Get the book: tinyurl.com/aeb58atm Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/5z8wc76n

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 10/08/2026

Laura Jensen Walker on the writing life, nerurodiversity and why she's an Anglophile. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/yz8u58rw Get the Book: tinyurl.com/4ze7u3b4 Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/ykx2vzc5

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 07/08/2026

In Elizabeth Crowens’ fiction, the past is a crowded workplace filled with temperamental stars, frightened executives, recycled scenery, and people trying to finish the day before somebody gets killed. Hear our convo: open.substack.com/pub/terryshe...

Elizabeth Crowens’ latest novel, Round Up the Unusual Suspects is the third installment in her classic-Hollywood detective series. Its setting is the Warner Brothers lot in 1942, where “Casablanca” is being assembled from fog, plywood, borrowed sets, and uncertainty. When a stagehand is murdered on the soundstage, Jack L. Warner calls upon private investigators Babs Norman and Guy Brandt. Their assignment is to identify the killer without interrupting production, a reminder that, in Hollywood, death may be tragic, but delays are unforgivable.
Babs and Guy are former actors, though not especially successful ones. Their partnership began in a cemetery, over a lunch composed of food they had not precisely purchased. After protecting Humphrey Bogart during an earlier adventure, they have earned a place in the studio’s unofficial emergency services. This time, they enlist members of the “Casablanca” company in a mystery that gradually expands beyond the usual collection of grudges, affairs, and contractual resentments.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 04/08/2026

4000 years later and not much has changed. Wonder if they were plotters or pantsers? #writing #authors #emoji

From hieroglyphics to emojis, visual shortcuts have always been à la gage of their own.

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 28/07/2026

Although its reptilian ancestor no longer terrorizes humankind, the #Thesaurus is still a powerful literary predator. #writing #authors #books

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 22/07/2026

Nathan Jorgenson’s new novel, Otto’s Portal, begins with a metaphysical: if the soul leaves the body at death, what keeps it attached while we are alive? Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/yk8h4db7 Get the book: tinyurl.com/mrxt3u4 Read my Substack essay: tinyurl.com/37c7hden

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 20/07/2026

Happy 61st birthday to Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone." Here's our backstory on it's surprising history and enduring popularity. keener13.substack.com/p/like-a-rol... #oldies #Keener13 #Detroit #BobDylan

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Like a Rolling Stone

How Does It Feel? Bob Dylan Blows Up the World

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Which of these have you read? #BookSky

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Delighted to see Song Of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller out front of display at Easons with the Odyssey inspired books. I don't read many books twice but I've read Circe twice. So good.

Photo of the books the song of Achilles and Circe both by Madeline Miller

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TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com · 19/07/2026

From the best-of file. The awesome Tracey S. Phillips shares the backstory on her MINA'S CHOICE Romantic Suspense series, recorded two years ago today. Hear the convo: tinyurl.com/2kxeju55 Get the book: tinyurl.com/4ejvjkkv Read my NEW Substack essay: tinyurl.com/brsjswe4

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today I got 'big mad' at a post on kids not being able to read books like The Hobbit, because they are too hard to read "even as an adult"! Nope. We aren't doing that nonsense. Kids can read big books. And here are my thoughts on the subject. - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/kids-ca... #booksky 💙📚🐉

Image is a child with dark hair reading a book. The child is focused on the book, which is out of focus, and we can only see the top part of their face. Below the child are the words, "Kids Can Read Big Books, A Fantasy-Faction Article."

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy 80th birthday to one of the greatest voices of her generation, LINDA RONSTADT ❤️ (July 15, 1946)

Linda Maria Ronstadt was a founding member and singer of late '60s folk-rock group THE STONE PONEYS before becoming a solo artist in the early '70s. She's not a songwriter but she delivers powerful renditions of songs by other writers. "Ronstadt" favorites include "Rock Me On The Water", "I Fall To Pieces", "Lovesick Blues", "He Darked The Sun", "Desperado", "You're No Good", "When Will I Be Loved", "Tracks Of My Tears", "Heatwave", "It's So Easy", "Blue Bayou", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Tumbling Dice" and "That'll Be The Day" among others. Linda appears on one of my favorite obscure jam session albums, "Music From Free Creek", released in 1973. She does two songs, "He Darked The Sun" and "Living Like A Fool". She made her film debut in the 1978 movie "FM". She performs live versions of "Tumbling Dice" and "Poor Poor Pitiful Me". She explores her Latin heritage with her release "Canciones De Mis Padres" (Songs Of My Fathers).

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