@bookwormsat.bsky.social "Although I was called Captain Barry for many years of my life, and have been known as such by the first people of Europe, yet I may as well confess I had no more claim to the title than many a gentleman who assumes it," Wm Makepeace Thackeray "Barry Lyndon". #BookWormSat

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. #BookWormSat

"Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society." -Sketches and Travels in London William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat

'Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets...' -Benjamin Disraeli @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 📚🐛

"The wicked are always surprised to find wickedness in others." William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly 🎨 Hogarth - Election Propaganda

‘The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.’ ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. This #BookWormSat marks the birthdate of William Makepeace Thackeray with portraits of society in literature. Do join us tomorrow.

"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine" (Keats) 🎨 Magnus Gjoen  #bookwormsat

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.” -The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck #BookWormSat

‘But when meadow-sweet, debonair and odorous in amber jerkin, moved graciously to his place in the group, then the play was ready to begin.’ ~ Kenneth Grahame’s TWITW. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of trees and flowers from where you are. 🖼️ E H Shepard

"A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom." "The Elephant Tree" by R.D. Ronald. #BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social

‘Dost ask me, what this primrose shews, Bepearled thus with morning dews? I must whisper to thy ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears…’ ~ Burns This #BookwormSat will explore the literature of native plants from wherever you are. Do join us! 🖼️ John Wainwright

“The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In their freckles live their savours” (a Midsummer Night’s Dream) In Shakespeare ‘s time, the cowslip was the children’s favourite. #BookWormSat

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon The Owl and The Pussycat Edward Lear L Leslie Brooke #BookWormSat

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright And this was odd because it was - The middle of the night 😆 🖊 Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat 🎨 Arthur B. Frost #BookChatWeekly

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here." -Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat

"At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: "Nag, come up and dance with death!" (Rudyard Kipling) 🎨 Maurice De Becque "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" #bookwormsat

‘There’s cold chicken inside it,’ replied the Rat briefly; ‘coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater—’ ‘O stop, stop,’ cried the Mole in ecstasies: ‘This is too much!’ ~ Kenneth Grahame. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Rackham

‘I don't like the look of it at all," said the King: "however, it may kiss my hand if it likes." "I'd rather not," the Cat remarked.’ ~ Carroll, AIW. This #BookWormSat celebrates Alice’s Day with children’s fantasy literature. Do join us. 🖼️ John Tenniel

"I had lived there a year when I had the notion to take a Summer Trip, like everyone else. [...] I decided on an isolated hotel, that I knew existed in the Klarelvsdal where travel was by boat for 10 hours after Edebäck Station in Dalarna." Kolaryd Farm by Ehrencron-Kidde #BookwormSat 🎨 Hanno K.

“Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Song of Hiawatha”) 🎨 Milo Manara #BookwormSat

Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises. Tove Jansson Moominsummer Madness 1954 #BookWormSat #Summer

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald #BookWormSat

We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy, Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven, Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat. To Summer - William Blake #BookWormSat 🎨 Erté - Summer Breeze

'Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come, For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom' ~ John Clare Tomorrow’s heatwave #BookWormSat basks in the summers of literature. Bring sunscreen and a hat. 🖼️ Summer, Maggie Vandewalle.

"Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl’s feather!" William Allingham #BookwormSat 🎨 The Fairy Raid: Carrying Off a Changeling, #Midsummer Eve by Joseph Noel Paton

"My father, my father, o can you not trace The elf-king's daughters in that gloomy place?" "My son, my son, I see it clear How grey the ancient willows appear." (Goethe “The Elf-King”) 🎨 Borja González “El rey de los elfos” (2013) #Bookwormsat

The faery forest glimmered Beneath an ivory moon, The silver grasses shimmered Against a faery tune. The Faery Forest Sara Teasdale 𝖨𝖽𝖺 𝖱𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗎𝗅 𝖮𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗐𝖺𝗂𝗍𝖾 #BookWormSat

"Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well." -The Knapsack Maria Edgeworth #BookWormSat

'I am the green fairy My robe is the colour of despair I have nothing in common with the fairies of the past What I need is blood, red and hot' -Marie Corelli @signemaene.com and La Fée Verte welcome you to a #BookWormSat with hopefully less bloodthirsty fairies. 🎨Albert Maignan

‘Wherever they may be— O’er the strange woods—o’er the sea— Over spirits on the wing— Over every drowsy thing— And buries them up quite In a labyrinth of light.’ ~ Poe’s Fairy-Land. #BookWormSat #InternationalFairyDay 🖼️ Amelia Jane Murray, A Fairy Waving Her Wand Standing Among Blades Of Grass

In their gold coats spots you see Those be rubies, fairy favours In those freckles live their savours I must go seek some dewdrops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear #BookWormSat Shakespeare 🖋 Midsummer Night's Dream 🎨 Willy Pogany

‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.’ ~ Yeats This #BookWormSat will be frolicking with the fairies of literature for #InternationalFairyDay on the 24th of June.

‘I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.’ ~ James Baldwin for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Christian Schloe

That’s the place to get to - nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere. Women in Love D. H. Lawrence Antal Neogrády #BookWormSat

'He skips through the copses singing, And his shadow dances along, And I know not which I should follow, Shadow or song!' -Oscar Wilde @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!

That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited #BookWormSat

"Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite, and stuffed them into a case, often of the most incongruous... a perfect rag-bag of odds and ends... stitched together by a single thread." -Orlando Virginia Woolf #BookWormSat

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow 🖋 Langston Hughes #BookWormSat 🎨Nancy Ekholm Burkert #BookChatWeekly

‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.’ ~ James Baldwin This #BookWormSat celebrates the month of Pride with LGBTQ+ literature. Do join us. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Everything ends. Summer ends. Happiness ends. Days of joy are followed by days of sorrow. Even the gods will meet their end in the last battle of Ragnarok when all the evil of the world brings chaos and the sun will turn dark Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings #BookWormSat

‘Through tattered clothes small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.’ ~ Shakespeare, King Lear. #BookWormSat

‘Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.’ ~ Maurice Druon, The Strangled Queen. #BookWormSat

‘This is idle talk,’ said Gandalf. ‘Needless is Théoden’s demand, but it is useless to refuse. A king will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.’ -The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien #BookWormSat

'For heaven’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison’d by their wives...' -Richard II, Shakespeare. @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!

Far from day, far from night, Out of time, out of sight, In between earth and sea, We shall fly; follow me. (From the musical Camelot based on TH White's Once and Future King) #BookWormSat 🎨 Willy Pogany

Love rained here and there like a heavy cloud, One side became a saffron field, The other side became a tulip garden. Rumi Yusuf Zaman #BookWormSat

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness The Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam #BookWormSat 🖼️ Edmund Dulac

"I carry seeds in my mouth. Plant turmeric, cardamom, and tiny aromatic cucumbers in this garden. Water them with rain I wring from my grandmother’s songs. They will grow, I know, against these blackthorn walls. They can push through anything, uncut". Contemporary poet Sholeh Wolpé #BookWormSat

"Sweetly parading you go, my soul of soul, go not without me; life of your friends, enter not the garden without me. Sky, revolve not without me; moon, shine not without me; earth, travel not without me, and time, go not without me." -Mystical Poems of Rūmī Translated by A.J. Arberry #BookWormSat

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.’ -Rumi @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 🎨Antoine-Louis Barye