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

Wordle 1,656 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Leona Rockwood attended the Mummer's Parade in St. John's on Saturday. youtu.be/6HVYpSM7jZ4

Elisabeth Sommerville (Canadian, born 1947) "The Skating Party", 2015. Lithograph on Paper, 51 × 38 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Port de Grave, Newfoundland Canada #xmas #Newfoundland #Canada

Four White Boats: Canadian Gothic Christopher Pratt 2003

🌈COVER REVEAL🌈 From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss and A Gentleman's Gentleman comes a riotous Regency romp, featuring a charming and unforgettable genderfluid lead. A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS is out March 10. Preorder & full synopsis: tjalexander.com#books6

“The world is wide and full of grace, I promise you.” - A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander #SundaySentence @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social

“Red grit in her slippers, yellow-gray evening in her hair, shrieking birds, darkening tombs, Sonia fell into her own depression and thought that this, here, was the end of love, surely.” Kiran Desai #SundaySentence

Dolly and I are sending some extra rainbow joy to anyone who needs it right now.

I will not Be measured Simply by What has Befallen me. I am both The wound And the Healing. #poetry

Split Grilse Mary Pratt 1979

Grounds of the Grand Falls House.

From “We Make Our World” by Alfred Grant Walton: We make our world by the life we lead, By the friends we have, by the books we read, By the pity we show in the hour of care, By the loads we lift and the love we share. Full #poem: bit.ly/47r2Ky2 #TodaysPoem #Poetry #Poetrysky #PoemSky

🦇A colony of bats took up residence at the University of Coimbra in Portugal over 125 years ago. They are thriving today "singing" to the librarians on rainy days and keeping book eating insects at bay. 🦇 #libraries #books #bats

Baked Apples on Tinfoil Mary Pratt 1969

Cillian Murphy reading Yeats’s “When You Are Old” ❤️ 🇮🇪 📖 #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #WBYeats #CillianMurphy #PoetrySky YouTube: youtu.be/qRBgbUhc9TE?...

#Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and LGBTQ themes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u... #Libraries

It’s #FridayReads time and still Latine Heritage Month! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) Stoker/Locus/Goodreads finalist that’s perfect for spooky season: dark magic, old gods, revenge, blood, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

My #FridayReads is Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. Audiobook with the Libby library app. 🧙‍♀️ 🎧 📖 #BookSky #witchy #SpookySeason @libbyapp.com #AmReading #AmListening #WeekendReads

#TodaysPoem: Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful #poem about his sisters, published for the first time: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @IrishTimes #SeamusHeaney #poetrycommunity #poetry

#JaneGoodall 🩵

My #FridayReads: Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley - on Libby 🎧 #AmReading #AmListening #LibbyApp #audiobook #LibraryLover

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

Beyond shaming Carney for this, we really need to talk about the way we've become addicted to convenience. Bezos has people thinking they can't live without getting everything mailed directly to them within 24 hours. It's awful for the environment AND workers. Rampant consumerism is fucking us.

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

My #FridayReads is The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher, listening with the Libby app. 🎧 #audiobook #AmReading #AmListening

Kaoru Yamada - Bright Morning by the Bay

“The world begins at a kitchen table.” #SundaySentence from “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo. poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/pe… @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoeme#poeme#poetryry

🎥 Film features #librarians who’ve been thrust into the spotlight over their commitment to the freedom to read. bookriot.com/the-libraria... @bookriot.bsky.social Trailer: youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?... #TheLibrarians #bannedbooks #bookbans #film #documentary #libraries #documentaries #freedomtoread

Our sense that our struggles were our own fault, our acceptance of the way things were, helped keep American industry humming to the benefit of the wealthy #SundaySentence @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social

#TodaysPoem “The Hag’s Call” by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin printed in #Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie @sharonblackie.bsky.social, @newworldlibrary.bsky.social. Illus by Natalie Eslick. You can also read it at: www.connotationpress.com/featured-gue... #poem #poetry #poems

„Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.“ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

#AmReading #AmListening to Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - #audiobook from @libbyapp.com. There are vampires. How did l not now there would be vampires? #BuryOurBonesintheMidnightSoil

“To see little parts of ourselves in other people’s stories.” Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson 📖 We Will Be Jaguars #SundaySentence

“And l have become the child of clouds, and of hope.” #SundaySentence from Mary Oliver’s "To Begin With, the Sweet Grass" from Devotions.