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Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂 BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow. art by Timothy Adam Matthews

Please sign this petition if you haven’t already. It’s takes less than a minute and it’s so important. Hares are magical and beautiful; what a tragedy it would be if their population declined any further than it has already. 🖼️ Hugo Mühlig petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2011, Ep 10 (of 10) of Drama 📻 “THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL” -“Startling Intelligences” directed by David Hunter Anne Brontë’s 1848 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce 🌟 Robert Lonsdale, Hattie Morahan, Leo Bill, Carl Prekopp #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2008, Ep 4 (of 5)📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway” - “The Affair of the Birmingham Bank” Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.” 📖 “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893 #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday 📺 “A Good Read” with Mike Read 4:15pm @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost. ~E.M. Forster art by John Atkinson Grimshaw #PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer. Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline. #BookchatWeekly

The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation. “The Golden Road” by William Dalrymple #BookchatWeekly

#bookwormsat THE RAILWAY CHILDREN 🚂 "Stick to it, everything has an end, and you get to it if you keep trying..: Edith Nesbit ..the central message, is to encourage resilence, and perseverance, during difficult times, and the intrepid three, have their own challenges to face.. #bookchatweekly

"This led to his famous experiment with the Smokehorse, this familiar horror of the nursery.... He found that he could produce the Smokehorse... as a waking hallucination, in his own consciousness and that of the children on whom he experimented." - C. S. Lewis, "The Dark Tower" #BookWormSat

Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall, Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl: Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore, Long-sunk islands from the sea once more 🖊️ John Betjemen #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly 🎨 JMW Turner

“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.” 📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 #BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat 📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002 9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

11:32am TODAY on ⁦‪@bbcworldservice‬⁩ Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem Trending BBC Trending investigates how negative ‘pre-read’ and pre-publication Goodreads ratings are leaving writers - and readers - mystified. #BookchatWeekly

12:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2008, omnibus 📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway” Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch 📻 @BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookchatWeekly

From her children's book 'The Enchanted Forest' by Ida Outhwaite (1921), which she both wrote and illustrated. #fairy #fairies #faerie #bat #marsh #illustration #womensart #BookChatWeekly

"On an apple-ripe September morning Through the mist-chill fields I went ..." Patrick Kavanagh (this poem was composed on September 27, 1943 and is repeated in his novel 'Tarry Flynn') 🎨 John Elwyn (1916-1997) #BookSky #poetry #Autumn #bookchatweekly @bookcat.bsky.social

2:45pm TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4‬⁩ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Opening Lines John Yorke looks at the background to 📖 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and assesses the appeal of this worldwide bestseller. #BookchatWeekly

3pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 Ep 1 (of 2) #Comedy Drama📻 “A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian” directed by Kate Guelke Adapted by Tanika Gupta from the 2005 novel📖 by Marina Lewycka 🌟Bogdana Kalantay, Istan Rozumny, Christina Kowalchuk, Rebecca Front #BookchatWeekly

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits. ~Alfred Tennyson The White Owl William James Webbe (1853-1878)

7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2008, Ep 4 (of 5) 📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway” - “The Stolen Necklace” Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch 📻@BBCSounds👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #BookchatWeekly

7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2011, Ep 9 (of 10) of Drama 📻 “THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL” -“Reconciliation” directed by David Hunter Anne Brontë’s 1848 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce 🌟 Robert Lonsdale, Hattie Morahan, Leo Bill, Carl Prekopp, Samuel Bridger #BookchatWeekly

9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2015, Ep 5 (of 5) of 📻 “The Railways: Nation, Network and People” - “Trainspotting” Simon Bradley’s 2015 book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by Stephen Tompkinson 📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #BookchatWeekly #Railway200

11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4 A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke, Ep 5 of 5, Green - ‘The Groundsman’ by Zaffar Kunial Catherine Clarke reads her new and original history of England - told through poetry. #BookchatWeekly

Another of my ghost bibles, ‘Haunted England’ (1947) by Christian Hole. Lots of detail and accounts written in a matter of fact style which makes them seem more eery. Not much Warwickshire tho – a shame as the county has some most excellent ghosts. #PhantomsFriday #books

Maiden Castle, Dorset, is one of the largest Iron Age hill forts in Europe. As to be expected of a location with a 4000 year history it is associated with many legends; from spectral Romans attacking the fort to their ghostly defenders… #PhantomsFriday

"A Ghost Still Walks At Drury Lane. Augury of Good Luck Says Well-known Author. When alterations were being carried out 104 years ago, a small room was discovered in a very thick wall. In the room...was a skeleton with a dagger through its heart." Bexhill Observer 20.2.1954. #PhantomsFriday #Ghost

When an impoverished Irish nobleman agrees to sell a holy book that has been in his family for 1,000 years or more, its monkish author manifests from beyond the grave to convince the dealer otherwise. 'The Book Of Brother Mael-Isu' by Ethna Carberry (The Strand 1906) #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly

Good morning! Welcome to another #PhantomsFriday. I'm looking forward to another fascinating day of posts on all things #ghost: art, words, #folklore, haunted places and so on and so forth. Feel free to join the feed. #ghosts #haunted #legends #BookChatWeekly #booksky #artsky

Thank you for your fierce posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday✨ art by Charles Lepec (1874)

In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread. Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk’s flight On the empty sky. #bookologyThursday

Fairy tales sometimes soften the dragon into helper. In Eastern Europe, tales tell of three-headed dragons who, when defeated or befriended, gift the hero with magical objects: flying carpets, crowns, golden apples. #BookologyThursday

For an enchanting evening, head over to #BookologyThursday @bookcat.bsky.social

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Martin’s Stane is a 6th-7th century Pictish stone recording the tale of Martin and the Dundee Dragon. While the stone has undergone some weathering in its many years, the shape of the fearsome beast and the hero on horseback can […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Prince Charming and the wooing of La Belle La Belle et la Bête Felix de Gray, 1926 #BookologyThursday

The “wyrm” of Anglo-Saxon poetry was not just monster but metaphor. A coiled, glimmering dragon curled around treasure symbolized greed itself. Wealth that consumes the one who covets it. #BookologyThursday

"Woe to the red dragon, for his banishment hasteneth on. His lurking holes shall be seized by the white dragon, which signifies the Saxons whom you invited over; but the red denotes the British nation, which shall be oppressed by the white." - Geoffrey of Monmouth #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday 📚🐉 Dragons leap off the pages in J.K. Rowling’s #HarryPotter: from Norbert(a) in Philosopher’s Stone (1997) to the Triwizard Tournament’s beasts in Goblet of Fire (2000) & the Gringotts guardian in Deathly Hallows (2007) #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖 🎨 Norbert (a) by Alex Radfield

#BookologyThursday: `To this very day, people in the area of Owenreagh say they feel fear when they cross certain parts of Lough Foyle, and the odd tides and disturbances in the water's currents defy explanation. When the river Owenreagh floods, they say it is […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C.S. Lewis #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday 📚 🐉✨ In folklore and spiritual traditions worldwide, the Dragon often symbolizes the inner beast—our fears, passions, and transformative power. Embracing the Dragon within us can lead to growth, wisdom, and self-discovery. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

#BookologyThursday 📚 #WelshDragon 🐉 🐉✨ Dive into the legend of the Welsh Dragon—an enduring symbol of strength, resilience, and national pride. From ancient folklore in the Mabinogion to the vibrant flag of Wales, this fiery creature embodies centuries of myth and identity. #BookChatWeekly 📖🫖

In art, Renaissance painters loved dragons as symbols of sin vanquished. Saint George spears the beast while maidens kneel. The dragon’s death is the triumph of virtue over vice, treasure of the soul over glittering lies. #BookologyThursday

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit was a childhood favorite of C. S. Lewis and an influence on his Narnia books. He once mentioned to a friend that he wanted his book to be "in the tradition of E. Nesbit." #BookologyThursday

1/2 ...The band sat down, and watched on the water worm-like things, sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep, and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness -- 🎨Gustave Dore www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1472... #BookologyThursday #art #vintage #illustration #literature #giftidea #bookchatweekly

2/2 ...such as oft essay at hour of morn on the road-of-sails their ruthless quest, -- and sea-snakes and monsters. -Beowulf (Old English) 🎨Arthur Rackham www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3401... #art #vintage #illustrationart #poetry #poem #BookologyThursday #bookchatweekly #dragons #literature

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "The Death of Fráech" is a poem from The Book of the Dean of Lismore In this story Medb, Queen of Connacht, who has been described as fair haired and beautiful, is jealous of Fráech’s love for Findabair. Findabair is said to be her […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” 📖 “Jane Eyre” ~ Charlotte Brontë, 1847 #BookologyThursday #BookchatWeekly 📺 “Jane Eyre”, 1997 4:30pm TODAY @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social