#booksky This week’s featured book is The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald: mariellahunt.substack.com/p/the-tearoo...

#booksky, Chapter 9 of Tearoom Tales is live! Matthew Cuthbert comes to take Rosamund to the Tearoom - but he isn’t arriving in a soulless car… mariellahunt.substack.com/p/chapter-9-...

#booksky There are people who think too much reading makes you less present in the world. They have never understood that some of us are only present because we learned how to read it first.

#booksky The older I get, the more I understand that reading is not escapism for many people. It is how they return to themselves after being pulled apart by the world.

#booksky One of the loneliest feelings in adulthood is realizing how many people abandoned their inner worlds in order to survive. The older I get, the more radical imagination begins to feel.

There are people who will never understand why someone would spend an entire evening reading, writing, or thinking quietly by themselves. But some of us have built whole inner worlds there, and abandoning them would feel like abandoning home. #booksky

My cozy reading nook so far! I even have a little glass table for my teacups! #booksky

#booksky Some people build careers. I built an inner world so vast that fictional houses feel more familiar to me than most real ones. I used to think this made me strange. Now I think it may have saved my life.

#booksky Some people inherit houses. I inherited an inner world built from books, teacups, quiet rituals, and all the lives I have loved through literature. The older I get, the more I realize that art did not distract me from life — it taught me how to survive it.

#booksky, this week the featured book at the Tearoom Library is Piranesi. Have you read it? There’s a lot to unpack here. I’d love to read your thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/mariella...

#artsky A frightening number of women have lived entire lives without ever being taken seriously as artists. Sometimes I think the most radical thing a woman can do is continue creating anyway.

#booksky! Chapter 8 of my cozy serial is now available on Substack! Here’s the link: mariellahunt.substack.com/p/chapter-8-...

#booksky - I thought I would explain to you what the Tearoom is and why I think you should read it! 📚

Experience this moment with me - when my invitation to the Tearoom arrived at the door! #booksky

Greetings, #booksky! The proof copy is here! You are all invited to attend the Tearoom on May 30! The link to preorder this short story, my brainchild and refuge, is here. Thanks for supporting indie authors! a.co/d/02GfCUg9

Everyone says you have to share more to matter, but most of what is sacred in a life was never meant to be performed. What if the most important parts of your life are the ones no one will ever see?

I attended an intermediate #watercolor class last week. I emerged rather disappointed, but I won’t give up. Here’s the story. #bloggers #indieauthor mariellahunt.com/2026/05/04/a...

This is my passion project, #booksky - to create a gallery where I review and praise all of my very favorite novels. Maybe you’ll like a few of them, too. mariellahunt.substack.com/s/the-tearoo...

I can’t think of a prison more terrible than being told, on pain of punishment, what to read and what not to read. We must respect one another’s reading lives. #booksky

#booksky, have you read Isola? It haunts me. It will haunt me forever. I had to write about it. What a fantastic and painful novel. open.substack.com/pub/mariella...

This is my passion project, #booksky - to create a gallery where I review and praise all of my very favorite novels. Maybe you’ll like a few of them, too. mariellahunt.substack.com/s/the-tearoo...

I’m almost done reading this amazing memoir of an extremely courageous, dedicated woman named Marianne North. #booktok

Some strawberries I painted this afternoon! #watercolor

This morning I made a video for #booktok explaining why it’s so important for me to keep a journal. Follow me on TikTok - @TearoomPress 💕📚

My second (and hopefully more successful) attempt to join #booktok! If you’d like to be friends there, my handle is @TearoomPress ☺️

#naturesketching by #uskdortmund on Sunday.🌞 We had chosen the poplar toboggan run in Rombergpark. The azaleas were in bloom and many crows were circling in the sky. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #pleinair #urbansketching #urbansketchers #pleinair #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

I attended an intermediate #watercolor class last week. I emerged rather disappointed, but I won’t give up. Here’s the story. #bloggers #indieauthor mariellahunt.com/2026/05/04/a...

Story time for Badgers Acrylic on board #badgers #reading #booksky

#books #reading

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.” Honore de #Balzac 💙📚🖋️⏰📚 #FatherGoriot #books #reading #bookstagram #book #literature #writers #author #quotes #quote #readingcommunity

What is everyone #reading this week?