Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost! MOV 2:7 #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." H. Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches #ClassicLitMonday

We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars. ~Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy (1308-1320)

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations #ClassicLitMonday

Monday #AllMetalMonday #BenchmarkMonday #BlueMonday #BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal #ClassicLitMonday #JadeMonday #MagentaMonday #MallardMonday #MammalMonday #ManholeCoverMonday #ManuscriptMonday #MapMonday #MarbleMonday #MaritimeMonday #MarketMonday #MedievalMonday #MementoMoriMonday

7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 2016, Ep 6 of 10 of Drama 📻 “JANE EYRE” directed by Tracey Neale Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce 🌟 Amanda Hale, Tom Burke, Susan Jameson, Tracy Wile, Ewan Bailey 📻👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, Percy B Shelley Charles Conder #ClassicLitMonday #BookChatWeekly

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” 📖 “An Outcast of the Islands” ~ Joseph Conrad, 1896 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Outcast of the Islands”, 1951 11am TODAY on @Film4

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.” 📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956 1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Brontë, Fall, leaves, fall #ClassicLitMonday

“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.” 📖 “Far from the Madding Crowd” ~ Thomas Hardy, 1874 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Far from the Madding Crowd”, 1967 1pm TODAY on @Film4

7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra From 1995, Ep 1 (of 10) 📻 “The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux” “The Ghost” abridged by #AndrewSimpson & read by #JackKlaff #GastonLeroux's novel🎥, first published in 1909. 📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

kerriasea I am extremely happy walking on the downs...l like to have space to spread my mind out in. ~ Virginia Woolf art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #bookchatweekly #ClassicLitMonday

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

Oh Monday! The day when even my coffee needs coffee.🥱🫩😴☕️☕️☕️ #GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood #CoffeeTime

2pm TODAY on @SkyArts The Brontës by Anita Rani: Sisters of Disruption Anita Rani explores the Brontë sisters & their enduring influence. How and why these sisters became ground-breaking 'literary disruptors' whose work still feels relevant & influential today #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

As his antagonist came roaring toward him, Lord Greystoke tore his long knife from its sheath, and with an answering challenge as horrid and bloodcurdling as that of the beast he faced, rushed swiftly to meet the attack Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes #AuthorsBornThisDay #ClassicLitMonday

Monday #AllMetalMonday #BenchmarkMonday #BlueMonday #BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal #ClassicLitMonday #JadeMonday #MagentaMonday #MallardMonday #MammalMonday #ManholeCoverMonday #ManuscriptMonday #MapMonday #MarbleMonday #MaritimeMonday #MarketMonday #MedievalMonday #MementoMoriMonday

"It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary." Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist #ClassicLitMonday

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

"Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things?" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Nature #ClassicLitMonday

This Buzzard also sat on the same tree every night. I slowed down the car and edged closer, trying to capture a 📷 from the car window, but this is the best I could do before it took off. 🪶

"Water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient." Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad #ClassicLitMonday

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely. Brian W. Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer Long (adapted into A.I. Artificial Intelligence) #ClassicLitMonday #AuthorsBornThisDay

We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

This week on #BookologyThursday✨

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ art by Richard Scarry

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” The Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

This Thursday falls on #JumpforJellyBeansDay and #BookologyThursday is celebrating with the delicious theme: ✨🍬🍭History, Literature, and Folklore of Candy, Cakes, and Cookies🍭🍬✨ ‘A Confectioner’ by Martin Engelbrecht

"It is not enough merely to exist,” said he, “I need freedom, sunshine, and a little flower." Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly #ClassicLitMonday

In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent. Virginia Woolf, The Waves #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

During that first summer of his life Bobby learned many things. He learned that he might chase rabbits, squirrels and moor-fowl, and sea-gulls and whaups that came up to feed in plowed fields. Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Atkinson #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. Werner Herzog #GrimLitFriday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.” 📖 “The Thirty-Nine Steps” ~ John Buchan #ClassicLitMonday #BookchatWeekly 🎥 “The 39 Steps”, 1959 1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel

"I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." RW Emerson, Fable #ClassicLitMonday

For Achilles was the fiercest fighter of them all, and the swiftest-footed man, and the most courteous prince, and the gentlest with women and children, but he was proud and high of heart, and when he was angered his anger was terrible. Andrew Lang, Tales of Troy and Greece #ClassicLitMonday

But my body was like a harp, and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. Dubliners, James Joyce. #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social

Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. Hamlet 4:6 #ShakespeareSunday

The night was very thick. So black was the sky that only the sound of the rain allowed me to picture the garden. That percussion was the rain on the windows. The soft random squalls were fresh rain on the lawn. The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield. #BookChatWeekly

Cutting ties with toxic people that repeatedly trigger your mental health and lower your vibe is top tier self-care.

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.” 📖 “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1908 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 📺 “The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes” s2 Ep 4, “The Bruce Partington Plans”, 1988 12:25pm TODAY on @ITV4

#ClassicLitMonday #BookChatWeekly #BookSky “You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.” - Thomas More, Utopia

After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said. Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas #ClassicLitMonday #AuthorsBornOnThisDay

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." (Little Gidding) T.S. Eliot #BookWormSat

About his neck A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself AYLI 4:3 #ShakespeareSunday artist unknown