My #sundaysentence for this week: "When he was weak like this -- in a crowd of taller men, nervously twisting a sheaf of papers, feeling his authority undercut by their superior height -- that was when she loved him best."

summer is icumen in!

thou furnace of foul reeking smoke!

DG in the NYT gave this a pretty piss-poor review. I love DG and i respect the NYT generally, but…fuck all that, this is a really wonderful novel.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

This novel was disappointingly…thin. Still, a #sundaysentence: “The giver wishes the taker would stop.” (Posting early due to early travel on sunday)

He’s a disease that must be cut away.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

YAY VIRGINIA!!!

Not like her 1st book, this one was just petty. I live in this town, know some of these people, but i think i would have felt that way regardless. But… a #sundaysentence: “To believe the things we believe about our families is to be able to declare about ourselves the things we wish to be true.”

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

I love not using AI. I love looking at art made by human beings, sculpting kaleidoscopic mushrooms out of clay, learning a new skill from a real person, playing with cats, spotting bats silhouetted in a crepuscular sky. Not using AI is very fun.

My #sundaysentence this week relates to the dangers found on the road to Galicia: "One French guidebook of the early twelfth century issued grave warnings of the loose morals of the people who dwelled there, such as Navarrese farmers 'who practice unclean fornication' with their mules and mares."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

my heroes also: i learned that edinburgh used to have the nickname Auld Reekie and going forth i will only be answering to that, thank you

Come on then, and remove him.

No ma’am, not an emergency, it’s your advice I need

he is risen & the eggs await their doom kentishtown, london 7am

If you don’t have your French-Canadian IGA grocery bag at the Philadelphia airport are you even going to London???

Less “Hustle culture." More “Casually perusing quaint bookstores on cobblestone streets in Edinburgh" culture.

good morning new hope pa wednesday

I love Kelly Braffet, and this second in the series was even better than The Unwilling. I hope she does a third. My #sundaysentence this week: "Korsa tried to parse how anyone could know that a child needed to be taken care of and not -- take care of them."

Along with a heart-healthy diet, 30 minutes of enemy smiting each day reduces your risk of stroke by 90%.

advice for the 14th c housewife - read all about it! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

There are two kinds of writers: writers who know exactly what they want to write about, and then write; and writers who discover that birds have sub-atomic magnet particles in their eyes to correspond with the earth’s magnetic compass so now they need to change their whole book to fit that fact in

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL.

This novel had the kind of quiet, thoughtful beauty that gets me really excited. Today's #sundaysentence: "Turning head on heel in the slow drift of their hurtle, head on hip on hand on heel, turning and turning with the days." I need to find more by her.

The King is mad

Latest editorial acquisition for Blackstone Publishing! Hitting bookstores in time for Halloween 2027. This horror novel is SO good. @blackstonepub.bsky.social @christianbauman.bsky.social @dianafinchagt.bsky.social

this is SUCH a fun book

Pardon the hooplah, but it's been a long time: My new novel Kosha is officially coming your way. I love it and hope you will too. The amazing @naomialderman.bsky.social calls it "Nosferatu meets Generation Kill"; man, I love that. Huge thanks to blackstonepublishing.com & @brendandeneen.bsky.social.

read all about it! medievalmarginalia.substack.com/p/medieval-p...

My #sundaysentence today: "If a spirit hovers, as some believe, for an hour or two over the cadaver it has abandoned, what banalities it is doomed to hear, while it waits in a despairing hope that some serious thought will be uttered, some expression which will lend dignity to the life it has left."

“There’s only so much justice in a world of broken men.” –Ani Fucking DiFranco

snow settles sand saturday 3:02pm cape may, nj

Spent the day researching all the varied ways a ghost might kill another ghost…as one does on a february thursday

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind. A little late for medieval, but shh, let me have this one. I could stare at the details all day.

Well this is all very weird

I read this on a whim this week and enjoyed it more than expected; always fun when that happens. My #sundaysentence this week: "Endurance has always counted more for me than accomplishment or happiness."

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Happy THEY ARRESTED A ROYAL DAY 2025. It happens roughly every 400 years. Alternatively (and 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished) maybe this is a new era, and they're going to start arresting Royals, Presidents, and Oligarchs on the regular.

wednesday 2:20pm stoneham, quebec

wednesday 6:57am stoneham, quebec

Sadly, no #sundaysentence from this, but it was a fun read nonetheless. And bonus: I’m a huge fan of The Rest is History podcast, and now whenever I read Tom Holland I hear his voice in all its loveliness. (posting a day early because 10-hour drive to quebec on sunday)

Look, here comes a lover of mine, and a lover of hers.

I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever

Patti Smith is a goddamn national treasure. My #sundaysentence this week is about imagination and navigating an adult world as a child: "If the truth didn't interest me, I presented an alternative reality."

it shouldn’t happen to a pug saturday 11:54am new hope, pa