“I will never forget that clearing of her throat, as if she was about to say something.” #SundaySentence from @rachelmalik.bsky.social on @lrb.co.uk Blog: ‘It’s enough now’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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We Meet Apart 5 book #giveaway app.hive.co/l/3ysc3x

#Art: A Light Catcher (2012) #Artist: #HélèneBéland (b. 1949; #🇨🇦) #ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #VisualArt Medium: Oil on linen 30 x 45 cm (12 x 16 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory #WomensArt 227

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It's #weirdpoemwednesday convened by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social. Here's a wee one from me.

This evening! Join members of The Torbay Public Library Book Club for a special meeting with Angela Antle, winner of the 2025 BMO Winterset Award, discussing her novel The Saltbox Olive, with a photo presentation of the 166th Field Artillery Newfoundland Regiment. Free, no registration required.

Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.

Plus ça change...

Eggs in an Egg Crate Mary Pratt 1975

Opinion: The free exploration of library shelves is the essence of childhood reading /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #censorship #libraries #books #reading

“…fill up on nature, on her staggering, showoffy beauty and her schoolmarm lessons: let her blow your mind with awe and the interconnectedness of all things.” #SundaySentence from Anne Lamott post of May 2/26 on Facebook: bit.ly/49dndbp @annelamott.bsky.social

"April is one of the / broken folk" a poem from Classic Crimes for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

‪"Often, catching sight of something or other—a drop of water, a shell, a hair—you stopped, stood quite still, your gaze transfixed, your heart opened" — Gustave Flaubert, qtd. in "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment" #SundaySentence

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life, by Helen Whybrow: “I am reminded, as I often am, how nature is invisible to us until we start to notice, and how this noticing is both a source of wonder and undoing, of transcendence and grief.” #SundaySentence

In many ways the 21st century is not that different from the thirteenth century. Both will be recorded in history as times of unprecedented religious clashes, cultural misunderstandings and a general sense of insecurity and fear of the Other. - Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love #sundaysentence

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.“ Henry David Thoreau.

We are torn between the desire of knowing and the despair of having known. -- Rene Char, Notes from the French Resistance, 1943–44 #SundaySentence

“I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.” #SundaySentence from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social) Via Read a Little Poem on Facebook. @readalittlepoem.bsky.social #SmallPoemSunday #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poem

Alice and Vivian Sharon Cave 2021

“There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)” by Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) poets.org/poem/there-w... #TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth #Spring #poem #poetry

The #FirstDayOfSpring in my backyard. Sun is shining, birds are singing, bees are buzzing, butterflies are flitting! If l close my eyes. #NLwx #Spring

#TodaysPoem #PoetrySky #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 #poem #poetry #smallpoem #smallpoems

Billie Eilish to star in The Bell Jar lithub.com/happier-than...

PSA: If you can, support your local Library! Thanks 💙📚 #BookSky

Hosted by Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social March is #ReadingIrelandMonth I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors

March is Reading Ireland! #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 Reading Ireland Month (or The #Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the 12th year during March 2026, although this will only be the 6th year I have participated. It is hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books. Cathy is a…

“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney. Source: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Facebook. #TodaysPoem #PoetrySky #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 #SeamusHeaney #poem #poetry

Eating chocolate cake in the bath during a snowstorm while listening to Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito narrated by Anna Burnett 🎧 with the @libbyapp.com. As one does. #AmReading #AmListening #VictorianPsycho

#Caturday #Orangey 🏆🐈 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... @theguardian.com

We have power and power is its own excuse! It Can't Happen Here ~Sinclair Lewis #SundaySentence

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville

#TodaysPoem “The Problem with Early Warnings” by Charles Rafferty @southernreview.bsky.social

Dr. Dolittle first took shape in illustrated letters that Lofting, #botd in 1886, wrote to his family and children from the trenches of WWI. Beloved stories, less successful adaptations, but then the books weren't cut out for Hollywood blockbusters. #booksky #childrensbooksky #filmsky

Anne Frank, 1943:

we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks, quoted in “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good” by Danez Smith, Harper’s Bazaar: bit.ly/4pylLG4 Poem: poets.org/poem/paul-robe… #SundaySentencec#TodaysPoemem

“January has never been a month for reinvention.” #SundaySentence The quiet #folklore of #January: open.substack.com/pub/sarahdon... ✍️ @sarahdonoghue.bsky.social 📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx

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Happy New Year "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." MLK 12/25/57

#smallpoemsunday ✨

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

Anthony Law, Colourful Skaters (Head of Williams Lake, Nova Scotia), oil on canvas, 1991

Just discovered the #SmallPoemSunday hashtag on this last Sunday of 2025 and look forward to sharing and following in 2026!

Classic Gothic Gloucester Cathedral, South West England Groundbreaking in 1089, it was completed in 1482, 393 years later!

Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield. Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence

#SundaySentence "As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes." - Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory (1956)

“Even the air will have to pretend.” - Prince of Fire/Prince by Jane Mead www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoem #SundaySentence