BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social

BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social

More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading

What’s not to love? ❤️

BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales

BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist

More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.

BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism

BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics

BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read

So many wine cellars! So little time.

BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist

BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers

Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallange #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

What is “great” anyway? I studied Classics in college. To relax, I read Star Trek novels. #booksky #classics #startrek #readers

BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers

BEST LINE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I was a shocked teenager sitting in AP English the day I learned Shylock was a person, not a profession. #booksky #drama #shakespeare #apenglish #brooklynmemories

BEST LINE: SILENT SPRING That truth is gaining on us. #booksky 💙📚 #nature #environment #earth #nonfiction #climatechange

BEST LINE: THE KILLER ANGELS This war novel was so very human. #💙📚#booksky #historicalfiction #civilwar #maine #bowdlin #history

BEST LINE: HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER Erica Jong did not invent that phrase. It was widely — and wryly — used to describe parenting in that era. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #reading #genx #memoir #ericajong #mollyjongfast

"“You just purchased the mixed nuts. How fun!” sang the voice from the ceiling speaker." Take a delightful trip to the Fun-Do Desk with this wryly clever new #fiction from @ellenneuborne.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elle... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Thank you to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for including my story on this great issue — and for pairing our words with original artwork. My story feels seen! www.doesithavepockets.com #writers #writing #writingcommunity #shortstory

Ever felt washed up at work? I wrote a short story that imagines a very Vegas solution. 💙📚 #writers #writing #writingcommunity #writesky @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elle...

Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

BEST LINE: LYSISTRATA Proof that weak men have been freaking out about women with agency since 411 BCE. #booksky💙📚#classics #feminism #drama

BEST LINE: JAMES Every page in this novel is a testament to the power of language. #booksky 💙📚 #litfic #retellings #codeswitching

BEST LINE: MY HUSBAND Even an unlikable narrator can have moments of truth. #booksky 💙📚 #readers #translations

Why, oh why, must so many #booksky challenges be in sums of 20? 20 is a lot! I have 20 books I’d recommend, 20 women writers I love, 20 authors I’ve read 5+ titles, etc. But I also have a job. And family. And a novel I’m trying to draft before Christmas. You’re killing me, 20. 😫 #bookchallenge

BEST LINE: LORD OF THE FLIES We’re living this right now. We’re all just kidding ourselves. #booksky #reading #readers #litfic #classics

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. #booksky Publisher: @sibyllinepress.bsky.social

More #booksky -ers playing the BEST LINE game. This one will make your heart drop right down to your shoes.

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. #booksky Publisher: @tachyonpub.bsky.social

BEST LINE: WATERSHIP DOWN: We are the storytellers. We’re there when you need us most. #booksky 💙📚 #reading #writers #amwriting #litfic #fables

At a time in human history when technology gets all the buzz, it’s nice to remember that books are amazing. #booksky 💙📚 #books #reading

BEST LINE: THE FROZEN RIVER 236 years after this story takes place and we *still* have a problem with women who excel. #booksky 💙📚 #readers #historicalfiction #women

More booksky-ers playing the BEST LINE game! I loved The Cairo Trilogy. 💙📚 #booksky #litfic #reading

BEST LINE: MAID We blame the victim — the poor, the oppressed, the raped, the abused — because otherwise we’d have to blame ourselves. And we don’t want to do that. 💙📚 #booksky #read #reading #memoir #justice

BEST LINE: DEMON COPPERHEAD This sentence—really, the last word—hit me like an anvil. In that instant, I got it. 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #reading #summerreading

Another booksky-er playing the BEST LINE game. This line from Anna Karenina hits all the senses and breaks your heart. 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #reading

BEST LINE: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Just add an “er” in that opening phrase and you’ve got a message for our times. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #fiction #oscarwilde

Another best line. This one from JAWS.

BEST LINE: THE CRUCIBLE How well do you know your neighbors? How quickly do you think they’d turn on you? 💙📚 #booksky

BEST LINE: THE JOY LUCK CLUB The ice cream scene helped me say goodbye to the guy who was using me as his backup girl. 💙📚 #booksky

BEST LINE: THE GRAPES OF WRATH These days, this novel echoes in my head. It’s not like we don’t know how this story always ends. 📚💙 #booksky

One of these is my local library branch. I like to go there in the afternoon, when the place is often crawling with kids, to bask in the sound of young readers.

BEST LINE: CHARLOTTE’S WEB So true. #booksky 📚💙

BEST LINE: THE BOURNE IDENTITY You say spy thriller, I say philosophy treatise. #booksky 💙📚

BEST LINE: JANE EYRE As a teenager, I cheered at this line. As a college student, I criticized it as sexist. As a professional writer, I admire its staying power as a catchphrase. #booksky 📚💙

Sharing for my fellow writers and editors. As someone who collaborates on text for a living, this has been driving me bonkers.

BEST LINE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. Mood. #bluesky 💙📚