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Harvard Book Store #HarvardBookStore Independent bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#MayWeFeedtheKing #RebeccaPerry I found my King on the fifth day… I found his scant entry in the ledger…The single page dedicated to his reign was now a mess…one great question mark by people who damned him. It’s important to say that I cried, I wept, when I saw it. What a reduction of a life.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#AnneCarson 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature “It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came roaring across the garden at him. He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars crashing against the window screen."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Transit #RachelCusk There has been a great harvest, he said, of language and information…the faux-human was growing more substantial…the mechanised interface was the distillation not of one human but of many…for him the erosion of individuality was also the erosion of the power to hurt.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#chamblinbookmine Independent bookstore in Jacksonville, FL “After 50 years, Chamblin Bookmine owner Ron Chamblin plans to hand part of the business to longtime employees and gradually step back.” www.firstcoastnews.com/article/mone...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#TheRenovation #KenanOrhan The man always wanted serious and meaningful conversations, wanted to incite you to serious and meaningful change. If you didn't take a stake in your country, you didn't deserve much respect from it, a motto he invoked in response to everything…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Concord Bookshop #TheConcordBookshop Independent bookstore in Concord, MA

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#TheMezzanine #NicholsonBaker …the letter of complaint, the copies of canceled checks…boom, stapled, a unit…In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where staples have been removed and replaced…copied and sent on to other departments…copying, and stapling.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

…slow thinking absolutely required yet absolutely ravaged by our contemporary climate and culture, a climate and culture that would laugh at a man, myself for example, a man who would like nothing more than to sit alone in a dark room at dusk, staring at the wall….

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

…the prerequisite to time, the period during which one prepares to advance into the deep balmy waters of an intellectual campaign; I yearned for the time to ponder and deliberate and do the slow thinking banished from our contemporary world…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LesserRuins #MarkHaber …wanting nothing more than to be alone, to contemplate and meditate, to escape mediocrity by working on my Montaigne essay…a writer and a philosopher who demands vast swathes of fathomless time, not just intellectual time but the time leading up to intellectual time….

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished #Switzy #EmmaCline They fidgeted…Waiting to be released outside,back to freedom,but first the debt that had to be paid. They were learning how to be bored…a fraction of how bored they would be in the years that waited for them. Better that they didn't tell you this…So you had some chance.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#CrisisActor #MattLee From: Joyce Ladd Sexton Re: Anne Sexton Mother was like wallpaper. She plastered herself all over the walls.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Rosa ‘Heritage’ Rosa 'AUSblush' English breeder #DavidAustin

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"And if you open her eyes, succeed in making her unhappy?" "That would be much more interesting, for a start. At least she would no longer be satisfied— she would be searching..."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finished #Marshlands #AndréGide Finally,Hubert was moved to speak: "Why do you want to upset her if she's happy how she is?" "But she isn't happy,my friend! She thinks she is, because she is unaware of her condition; you must admit, to be blind as well as average makes it that much more pathetic."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Papilio cresphontes Giant swallowtail butterfly larva

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#CrisisActor #MattLee The Doctor ran out of rope. Maintaining stock of even the most basic supplies had always been a challenge…due to the Byzantine nature of the government… The Doctor…spoke to the Soldier. “…I trust you'll stay put while I go search for something else to finish tying you up with."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Motte & Bailey Booksellers #Motte&BaileyBooksellers Independent Bookstore Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Switzy #EmmaCline He had listened attentively, tried to detect some kind of shape in the sonic junk…Straining to be moved in some way. And even as the music had started…he wanted to be elsewhere. Perhaps his entire life had been a form of that wish. To be somewhere else. To hurry this along.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finished #AllThemDogs #DjamelWhite And guns. God was I sick of seeing guns…His voice was calm…it was a voice I wanted to follow. And I did follow it…they cuffed me, before they lifted me by arms and legs and carried me off to the next place, wherever it may be. Once more, someone else could decide.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Nine o’clock,” she said. “I have to go. Hubert is giving his reading tonight.” “What is he reading?” I asked, in spite of myself. “Not Marshlands, that’s for sure!” And she left.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“That’s not how I feel about it,” Angela said. “That’s because you don’t think about it. Precisely the subject of my book…But look at yourself, look at your own story…Must I go on? Your dresses, must I make you ashamed of them, too? And do you think we have ever really loved each other?”

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Marshlands #AndréGide “Angela, Angela, please! When will you understand what books are about? What I'm trying to express is the emotion I get from my life: boredom, vanity, monotony…And as for you and me, Angela, I promise you, our own prospects are even duller and more mediocre."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finished #BlackBag #LukeKennard Shame, says Claudio. The shame that runs under masculinity like a great and powerful river. Ever it roars, and we dip into it at the least provocation.... Drowning in shame, I say. And black bag is the life raft.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#NoImmediateDanger #WilliamTVollmann We all have in us the ghosts of long-vanished things, of fallen cities and marvelous machines. #GeneWolfe, 1982 from #TheSwordoftheLictor of #TheBookoftheNewSun

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce —In this country people sell much more than she ever had and do a roaring trade. Fear not them that sell the body but have not power to buy the soul.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#AllThemDogs #DjamelWhite Christmas morning I woke with the taste of him just inches from my tongue and I immediate knew I'd be left with only the company of his absence that day, as I had been every day of the week since the job. We were laying low.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore #TheSilverUnicornBookstore Independent Bookstore Acton, Massachusetts

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finished #ThePalmHouse #GwendolineRiley I suppose it was obvious that I didn't want to get anything wrong. When he moved me I stayed where he put me…When he was pulling my hair I tipped my whole head back…I imagine then, on his recording, I looked something like a frightened horse.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Finished #BeginningMiddleEnd #ValeriaLuiselli Because fiction is where memory and imagination meet. What do you even mean, Ma? Just that imagination looks forward and memory backward, and where the two meet, that's fiction.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Marshlands #AndréGide “Me!" I answered, a bit ashamed. "I am writing Marshlands…story of a bachelor living in a tower surrounded by marshes." … “That's it…what does he do?" "He looks at the scoters." After a long silence, she said: "Why do you write these books of yours?"

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BLOOM: (WINCING) Powerful being. In my eyes read that slumber which women love. THE FAN: (TAPPING) We have met. You are mine. It is fate.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce THE FAN: (FOLDED AKIMBO AGAINST HER WAIST) Is me her was you dreamed before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now we? (BELLA APPROACHES, GENTLY TAPPING WITH THE FAN.)…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Literati Bookstore #LiteratiBookstore Independent Bookstore Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#BlackBag #LukeKennard The next time I climb into black bag I realize that I have already bonded with it on some level. It feels right and fitting…. Black bag, soft to the touch but hard-wearing black leather like the binding of a King James Bible sans the embossed gold letters.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

…So Iris, glistening dew, comes skimming down from the sky on gilded wings...hovering over Dido's head, declares: "So commanded, I take this lock as a sacred gift to the God of Death…” she cut the lock with her hand and all at once the warmth slipped away, the life dissolved in the winds.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#TheAeneid #Virgil #RobertFagles, translator she sobbed… Dido, trying to raise her heavy eyes once more, failed. deep in her heart the wound kept rasping, hissing on… Her gaze wavering into the high skies, she looked for a ray of light and when she glimpsed it, moaned…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal… —The ways of the Creator are not our ways,Mr Deasy said… Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window,saying: —That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! —What? Mr Deasy asked. —A shout in the street,Stephen answered…

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#ThePalmHouse #GwendolineRiley ‘I’ll be happier when I know what he's going to do?,’ I said. 'He seems to have decided that it's all over for him. That no one wants him. Although he left…’ Katherine's look here indicated that she'd done her time in that particular labyrinth. She held up her hands.

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