whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 10hReading The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir this week. Can't get enough of the French existentialists. #booksky #existentialism #frenchlit #beauvoir #simonedebeauvoir 060
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I Love Reading!! What's wrong with me? Sartre's The Reprieve has mostly (sub) sub par reviews online. From the few who read it. But damn I love this book! I'm in love with the world Sartre creates. And I'm thinking about history like never before. With passion. #sartre #booksky #reading 0100
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Now reading Sartre's second book in the Roads To Freedom. The Reprieve. 8 days leading up to the Munich Agreement. Lots of echoes to our current world situation. (Btw. I loved Power and The Glory) #existentialism #sartre #massmarketpaperback #vintagepaperback #booksky 090
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Current read: Graham Greene's The Power And The Glory. About half way through. Wow! The prose is sublime. I need to read more Greene. #booksky #vintagepaperback #grahamgreene #read 190
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Felt like reading a book from my childhood that I still owned. This one is completely forgotten. From 1950, Let 'em Roll by Charles Michael Daugherty. I picked it up as a kid because I wanted to make movies. The illustrations, by the author, are wonderful. #booksky #vintagebooks #movies 090
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I watched Le Petit Soldat and decided to read Godard's interview on the making of it. But What I Discovered Was ... The Cahiers De Cinema crowd loved Italian exploitation director Riccardo Freda. I had no idea. I LOVE the Horrible Dr Hitchcock. LOVE the Ghost. #booksky #godard #freda 080
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reading (again) what I believe is the best book about the world of european philosophy in the first half of the 20th century. Sarah Bakewell's writing is clear and engaging. She explains ideas wonderfully. If you want to know the human history of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, read this! #booksky 1101
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Currently reading: Wild Palms (If I Forget Thee Jerusalem I love William Faulkner. I love that Godard loves Wild Palms. I love that Camus and Sartre love Faulkner. I'm also reading Sartre on Faulkner. #booksky #read #faulkner Library of America 2132
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Finished The Myth of Sisyphus. Now reading Sartre's essay on The Stranger and Myth. His thoughts on Camus. I love this stuff. #booksky #sartre #philosophy #absurdism #existentialism Mass Market Paperback Club 2121
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Currently reading The Myth Of Sisyphus. By Albert Camus. My Revolt, my Freedom, and my Passion. #camus #booksky #existentialism #philosophy 1101
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Currently reading The People Of The Abyss by Jack London. Library of America: Novels And Social Writings. Damn. This hits hard. Brutal living conditions, brutal way for any human to have to live a life. A powerful call for reform and revolution. The writing is superb. #booksky #jacklondon 080
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I felt the need to celebrate mass market paperbacks this evening. I love Laser Books. Wish I owned more of them. Enjoy: Kane's Odyssey. By Jeff Clinton. #massmarketpaperback #sciencefiction #pulpfiction #vintagepaperback #booksky 090
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Current Read: Mourning Becomes Electra. By Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill is my favorite playwright. Love him. I got to see Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards in 80s. Incredible. #booksky #americanplays #americanplaywrights #eugeneoneill 1132
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Currently reading some Christian philosophy. Saint Augustine. Confessions. #booksky #penguinclassics #philosophy #saintaugustine 051
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Saigon Commandos. #7. by Jonathon Cain. What a pulp paperback! What a read! Feel free to comment. #booksky #pulpfiction #read #vintagepaperback #vietnam 071
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Finished Count Of Monte Cristo. Loved it. Now reading, for the first time since childhood, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's my original Scholastic Book Club copy (thanks mom!). #booksky #robertlouisstevenson #treasureisland #vintagepaperback 062
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I've been reading prose translations of The Odyssey this week (after reading Fagles). I'm more emotionally engaged by these prose translations than the verse (to my surprise). EV Rieu. Butcher and Lang. #booksky #odyssey #theodyssey #homer #harvardclassics #penguinclassics 0120
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I read The Odyssey in May but didn't post it. I wanted to rewatch Godard's Contempt with The Odyssey fresh in my mind. I want people to reimagine The Odyssey! I want Alberto Moravia and Godard to examine a marriage falling apart by retelling the story of Odysseus and Penelope. Can't wait for Nolan 091
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I read J.A. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw yesterday. From Library of America Slave Narratives. I've also read Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Jacobs. These are powerful. More visceral and gut punching than any fictionalized account of slavery. #booksky #africanamericanliterature #read 1131
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I like sci fi July. So I always read sci fi in July. The Space Merchants by Frederik Poul and C.M. Kornbluth Library of America American Science Fiction 1953-1956. #booksky #read #sciencefiction *I've got 200 pgs to go Count of Monte Cristo! 261
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Don't make me read you (again!) After watching Straight Time I ended up re-reading all of No Beast So Fierce. Just re-watched Some Came Running for first time in years. Wow. Incredible movie. I want to "sample" the book. But ugghh. So many books on my TBR. I must stay away. #booksky #read 1111
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Do you ever wish you could message people who follow you, and you follow back, on Letterboxd? I wish I could tell Gav: Gav. I'm at the end of my William Beaudine Bowery Boys run. I promise. Thank you for liking all my posts. 131
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I watched Straight Time on Criterion Channel last night. Love the movie. The book is terrific. My beat up copy of No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker. #booksky #paperback #vintagepaperback #read #crimefiction 1111
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you have the Criterion Channel don't sleep on No Down Payment. Maybe the first Hollywood movie to explore suburbia. *Girl In Red Velvet Swing is also worth watching. For beautiful production design and wide screen color design. #filmsky #criterion #film 0122
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Reading Jean Paul Sartre. The Age of Reason. Fantastic intro in this edition. Mass market paperback covers are awesome! #booksky #paperback #vintagepaperback #philosophy #sartre 1122
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I am subpar when it comes to using BlueSky. I am an Eddie Cahn superfan and just randomly searched his name on BlueSky. If I didn't do the work I would have never known there was a new Edward L Cahn book coming out! bsky.app/profile/robe... 010
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Im almost at the half way mark! Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas. What an awesome book! #read #booksky #frenchliterature #penguinclassics 3111
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Read Everything! Read Just To Read! Read For Fun! Frankenstein Jr. The Menace Of The Heartless Monster. A Whitman Big Little Book. I have a small stack of these from my childhood cuz my mom kept everything! Inspired by a BlueSky post this morning of Franky Jr. #booksky #read 3122
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Can't believe this happened. Paul Giamatti ends up on one of my favorite pulp paperback YouTube shows. Giamatti's knowledge of the history of mass market genre/pulp paperbacks is insane! The interview is a window into an age when men were voracious readers. youtube.com/watch?v=NAcF...youtube.comTalking Vintage Books with Paul GiamattiYouTube video by The Book Graveyard 240
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Reading: Cotton Comes To Harlem in my awesome Everyman's Library edition. (My 3rd Chester Himes after Rage In Harlem and Real Cool Killers) #chesterhimes #booksky #read 181
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Something about me: This year I put my owned/unread books on a spin app. I let it choose my next read. Taking a break from Monte Cristo. Gonna spin the wheel this morning for my next read. #booksky #read #imridiculous 060
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I will probably get yelled at for not following the #junesploitation schedule but I can barely manage my own life. Watched Demons directed by Lamberto Bava today. I dug it! Watched a beautiful print on Arrow Player. Watched it because it showed up a lot on my time line 0100
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The movie version of Trick Baby by Iceberg Slim showed up on my #junesploitation feed this week. The movie takes one part of the book and creates a movie around it. The book is larger in scope. The story bigger and more involved in showing the entirety of a person. #booksky #icebergslim 1150
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I'm jumping on the Count of Monte Cristo bandwagon. Cuz all the cool kids on Bookstagram are reading it! #booksky #penguinclassics #dumas #frenchlit #reading 4251
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Currently reading: Conan The Conqueror by Robert E. Howard (edited by L. Sprague De Camp) It's my first time reading a Conan book and it's a fun read. 2151
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Currently Reading: Michel De Montaigne. The Essays: A Selection Easier to read then I expected. And more entertaining. #booksky #philosophy #frenchliterature #penguinclassics 0152
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Saturday morning Friends of the Public Library book sale haul. #booksky #read #paperbacks 2110
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Currently reading: The Stars My Destination By Alfred Bester #booksky #sciencefiction #classicpaperback #vintagepaperback Image found online. I'm reading it in American Science Fiction Volume 1956-1958 by Library of America 1142
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Next Up Read: The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert I got to know Gavin Lambert in Hollywood in the 90s. If BlueSky allowed longer posts I'd share a memory of him. I've seen the movies he wrote. But never read his fiction. Found at a used bookstore. #booksky #vintagepaperback #read 060
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I'm a movie nerd addicted to Letterboxd. I'm having fun following the New Bev and Vid Archives screenings of William Beaudine movies. And watching the movies at home (I don't live in L.A.) So many of the people seeing the movies in person are on Letterboxd. Logging in the Beaudine movies. Yes! 150
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I don't want a reputation as a snob who only reads quality fiction. I love paperback pulp! Here is one of my favorite series: Mafia: Operation Loan Shark. By Don Romano Published by Pyramid Books. #booksky #pulpfiction #pulppaperback #mafia #paperback 0130
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Current Read: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch. Just finished the long pre history and loved it. Now into the meat of the book. First time reading Murdoch. #booksky #irismurdoch #penguinclassics #britishliterature 1130
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026My current read: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. My first Lessing. I'm 150 pages in and love it. Have this book, this author, fallen out of favor? #booksky #britishliterature #feminism #vintagepaperback 1120
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026youtube.com/watch?v=8IHC... I've been fortunate enough to see many Maurice Pialat films on the Criterion Channel lately. Oh man I hope and pray this ends up there too.youtube.comLA MAISON DES BOIS - Official TrailerYouTube video by JANUS 020
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Current Read: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. #booksky #americanlit #americanliterature #read 050
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Currently reading a classic of degenerate, outsider lit: Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr #booksky #grovepress #americanlit I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn when I was younger and am surprised that some of the book takes place in Bay Ridge. But excited to read about it. 0141
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Reading more Thomas Pynchon. This one is fun. The Crying of Lot 49 #thomaspynchon #booksky #read #pynchon #americanliterature #books 192
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Finally reading Stoner by John Williams. #booksky #read #nyrb 230
whiskeybooks.bsky.social @whiskeybooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Happy World Book Day from the law firm of Flywheel shyster and Flywheel!!! #booksky #marxbros #marxbrothers #groucho #read 040
