LAND by Maggie O'Farrell

Dammit. Now where the hell did I park my. . . Ah. Found it.

I finished John Boyne's The Elements a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. The subject matter, child sex abuse and its insidious legacy, could hardly be more grim. The four separate but interlocking stories are a perfect vehicle for exploring the tentacles of abuse

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. You're not too smart are you. I like that in a man.

Another shot of the door at St Edward’s, Stow-on-the-wold.

Great example of textual ambiguity on a door in the Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo.

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. --Jack Gilbert

Kelly Latimore's painting of The presentation of christ features Joseph with an @ufw.bsky.social shirt on. Absolutely losing my mind about this.

Reading Speak to Me of Home by @jeaninecummins.bsky.social. As previously mentioned, I love books with maps (San Juan!!). There is also a bonus family tree. And a great story. Heaven. #💙📚

Loving the new Mick Herron--CLOWN TOWN. 💙📚

Latenite archival BabbyGonz time!

Just finished @patrickryannyc.bsky.social 's BUCKEYE and I could feel my heart expanding as I read it. A bighearted novel.

Reading Stephen Greenblatt's Dark Renaissance, a biography of Christopher Marlow. You need two bookmarks because the endnotes are great. I had no idea reading Virgil and Ovid in 12th grade Latin was so subversive. I am now rethinking my entire life. 💙📚

New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite spinsters in literature for @pear-jelly.bsky.social's #SpinsterSeptember, which starts tomorrow. Featuring books by Anita Brookner, Muriel Spark, Rumer Godden and many more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/s...

Reading @alexhaybooks.bsky.social 's The Queen of Fives. It's so much fun-- a twisty Victorian caper with a great female lead. You never know who's going to wink at the reader next.

When I picked up @garrettcarr.bsky.social 's The Boy from the Sea, I knew it was set in 70's-80's Northern Ireland, I had read a review, but it wasn't what I expected. So much hard but gentle truth about relationships, families, and time, how time changes things and doesn't change things. Wow.

'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Just read Beena Kamalani's The English Problem. I'm so completely in this world. I need to think about "desire."

What is Louise Hegarty doing in Fair Play? Golden Age mysteries as a coping mechanism for grief? Strangely, it works. And that final chapter--my heart!

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

This is a gorgeous description for a glowing c 1817 carriage gown, made of tartan bombazine. Bombazine is a twilled fabric that typically has a silk warp & worsted weft to create a particular type of texture. The sleeve details are especially lovely. Sold via #kerrytaylorauctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Ok I just finished Paraic O'Donnell's The Naming of the Birds. Am I the only one that thinks that the voice of the boy Finch is very like that of Henry Cutter? I kept waiting for a big reveal. 📚💙

Most definitely an art that I frequently work to perfect. 💙📚🌶

Just finished Paraic O"Donnell's The House on Vesper Sands. Such a variety of unique voices, and a great story! 💙📚

I've read Heart of Darkness maybe a dozen times. Each time I think "Now I get it." Just finished Colum McCann's Twist and it might be a similar situation. 💙📚

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...

A good friend, who knows me very well, has just sent me a link to this article about an adaptation of EXCELLENT WOMEN. Great to see this level of interest in Barbara Pym, but I shall be very cross if they muck it up! #BookSky #BarbaraPym 💙📚 www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

“You’re going to end up all alone with just a bunch of cats” isn’t quite the insult you think it is! 😹

Niall Williams' Time of the Child finally arrived. I'm heading back to Faha. 💙📚

In the Woods by Tana French As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. And then the bears moved in..

I've begun Pat Barker's The Voyage Home, waiting for Agamemnon to get his. I wish here weren't so much collateral damage. 💙📚

From the AMAZING children’s author and illustrator @mowillems.bsky.social.

The stars of Avalon. Taken last night here in Glastonbury.

Just starting John Banville's The Drowned. Quirke and Strafford--enough said.

I'm reading Niall Williams' History of the Rain. Ruth Swain, the narrator, is a force. I haven't felt this compelled to listen since Coleridge's mariner fixed me with his glittering eye. 💙📚 @christinebreen.bsky.social

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

Every morning I do a Duolingo lesson in Haitian Creole. It's a solidarity thing. I'm terrible at languages and will never be able to speak Creole, but I know that folks in Springfield are struggling to learn English, so I'll struggle too.

Agree. Never turn your back tho…

#Blackreadingjoy #booksky #blacksky #theresistance

I always wait until the coldest day of the year to clean the oven. I think this is it. Sigh.

Just starting Susannah Gibson's The Bluestockings. It will take a while because there are plenty of endnotes and of course I have to read each one. Yum. 💙📚

My brother gave me Compton Mackenzie's The Monarch of the Glen for Christmas, and I started it today. Laugh out loud funny. Why have I never encountered it before?

Making a cauliflower cheese. I told my husband I felt like a character in a Barbara Pym novel. He had no idea what I was talking about.

#Light is today’s #Januarty word. There must be light for art. You need light for colors to have value. Some hours are magically lit and 🔥 for creating. It’s crazy what happens when you finally see the world through art - you’ll never see things the same way again #Moonlight Watercolor and ink 4x6