Look who caught up on his monthly reading posts! eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2026/06/09/w...

#NYRBWomen26 The Moomin Official YouTube channel is a treasure trove of videos about Tove Jansson! Here are a couple of my favorites: youtu.be/bl8uwLKtMPM?...

As if I couldn’t love him more! #FilmSky

Here’s what I was up to in April both on the page and off. eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2026/06/04/w...

MAY HER MEMORY BE FOR A REVOLUTION ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 (dammit. dammit.)

TCL’s #TopTenTuesday - No, I haven't, Actually - June 2, 2026. tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/06/02/t...

Doorstopper fantasy novel! Epistolary novel for Gen Xers! Octavia Butler! And as always Astro-Hungarians on the verge! eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2026/06/01/w...

Gustave Dore's drawing (1882) was made for Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem, 'The Raven.' It depicts the narrator opening his chamber door to a mysterious tapping, as described in the poem: 'I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.'

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films. ALIEN BLADE RUNNER 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY THE THING (1982) UNDER THE SKIN LA JETEE THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE METROPOLIS (1927) THE BEAST (2023) THE TERMINATOR #FilmSky

One possible path to introduce you to Bohumil Hrabal, if this is a thing you would choose. :)

What’s the best Canadian newspaper for national news?

What is the best newspaper for Canadian national news?

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Today on the blog, a glacier-set fable: Novella a Day in May 2026 – No.3 madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2026/05/03/n...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple cups of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of scones, you will have accomplished more than enough.

“The rest is silence. O, o, o, o” #Hamlet_2026 Rackham illustration

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Richard Burton as Hamlet — youtu.be/NBOGfxaQ704?...

New on the blog today, I've written about THE SUNDIAL by Shirley Jackson. Shades of Barbara Comyns & Ivy Compton-Burnett in this irresistible blend of Gothic horror, suspenseful ambiguity & barbed humour in the dying days of an era. I loved it! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/t...

Each day another author will be added to the Victorian period until morale improves. Virginia Woolf is now a Victorian author.

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

It’s Shakespeare’s birthday. Used to show this to all my classes as one of the great examples of how to quickly & powerfully connect with your audience rhetorically under the guise of naturalism. Lewis is superb at building up his murderous contempt for the conspirators. youtu.be/q89MLuLSJgk?...

Good morning, Bluesky! Roosevelt Elk and Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon 📸Ross Troxa

“There with fantastic garlands did she come…” #Hamlet_2026 Act 4, scene 7 Arthur Rackham illustration

Here's the short list for the 2026 Plutarch Award for best biography published in 2025: I'm hoping for Nicholas Bogg's James Baldwin: A Love Story -https://mailchi.mp/biographersinternational/bio-announces-long-list-for-2020-plutarch-award-for-best-biography-of-5758435?e=5c81e23333

Some very idiosyncratic choices here! www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

Going through some old files, I found this 2022 book list from a talk I gave at an AAUW meeting here in Seattle; I was reminded of how much pleasure I’d gotten when I first read each of these books. I highly recommend each one.

Calling all Elizabeth Bowen fans! This will be available to view online. #BookSky 💙📚

I love the promise of a new book, but the opening movement is often the hardest for me. It’s so nice when an authors voice or the plot or something helps me know I’m in good hands. In this week’s episode @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I talk about the opening movement. substack.com/@mookse/note...

Margaret Lockwood, The Lady Vanishes Jessie Royce Landis, To Catch a Thief Claude Rains, Notorious Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat Joan Fontaine, Rebecca Peter Lorre, Man Who Knew George Sanders, Foreign Correspondent Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo Cary Grant, North by Northwest Vera Miles, Revenge

McNally Editions make me book greedy. I want them all. Plus that Ex-Wife tote bag. But what I want most right now is to hear what your favorites are. Trying to choose just one for a future episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. @mcnallyeditions.com

As an adjunct to the bookish #1961Club, which officially starts tomorrow, I'm planning to watch some films released that year. Here's my watchlist of potential choices, too many to see in one week. But feel free to join me if the mood takes you! #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚 letterboxd.com/jacquiwine/l...

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (1/20)

New episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social is up now. We discuss The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor - Rebecca’s pick inspired by a recent listen to an episode of the Windham Campbell Prizes podcast that featured Hanif Abdurraqib sharing love for the book. onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Our conversation about Gloria Naylor's terrific THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is live! onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Something that really unnerves me about these bad historical narratives is that you can almost be certain they’re creeping into LLMs and a couple of people in positions of relative influence can do real damage.

THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Akira Kurosawa, 1960, rewatch). Corporate corruption and embezzlement aplenty in this noirish film loosely based on HAMLET. Mifune is terrific as his intentions and complexities are gradually revealed. Thanks @princecharlescinema.com for a great screening on 35mm! #FilmSky

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

If you think it's just another Regency romance, you're wrong: The Unknown Ajax is possibly Georgette Heyer's finest moment. there's a fabulous hero, a smuggling plot, and one of the greatest finales in any book.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Happy Thursday. @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I were delighted to talk to @luispanini.bsky.social about reading projects in our latest episode. I myself love sitting down and making a reading project! Carrying through is much harder, but I’m getting better at it! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

For years, Pueblos, Mescalero Apache, archaeologists, Utah and New Mexico politicos, conservation groups, recreation, water and timber interests fought over the land around Chaco Canyon. The Biden ppl finally got a settlement all could live with. Now a few disgruntleds have got Trump to undo it.

Wonderful opportunity!

Scott Fitzgerald sent a “full conjugation” of the verb “to cocktail” to Blanche Knopf in 1928 after hearing from Mencken that she was drinking far more than she was eating. A unique display of concern.

Well, Pilgrimage fans, one dream is coming true. Naxos audiobooks has just released the first of four volumes of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, read by Lucy Scott (an ideal reader, IMHO). No word on when the next three are coming, but this is a wonderful start! www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...

#BookSky people! Anyone can join in with the #1961Club. Just read a book first published in 1961 and post about it on here. (Other social media platforms are available.) I’ve got a couple of choices lined up, and maybe some 1961 films too! #FilmSky

I don't like Amazon recommending books to me based on what I've already read. I don't like them trying to "customise" my reading. I don't like any platform which does that. I like the serendipitous, the surprises, the exciting finds I come accross by looking for myself, be that bookshops or online.

i reread martyr! by Kaveh Akbar recently and it is easily one of my favorite books i have ever read. anybody else who has read it: are there any books out there similar to it? i’d really love to find and read some.