Hope is never futile - it is one of the greatest forms of resistance we have.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." – Maya Angelou

Choose 20 book 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 4/20

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (50) Montag #RayBradbury2024 Fahrenheit 451

Choose 20 book 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 3/20

Life got busy yesterday so I’m aiming for two today. Choose 20 book 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 2/20

I’ve decided to play! Choose 20 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 1/20

Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now.

“I’m not the kind of person who is able to do things, have I told you this already? I lie down and let life leave its footprints on me.” #SundaySentence from Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

My #FebruaryReads Another pretty good month! - The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng - Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward - The Good Lord Bird, James McBride - Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese - Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson - The Secret Hours, Mick Herron (1/2) 💙📚

“Ms. Beckett was drinking coffee from a reusable cup, or, as such items had once been known, a cup.” #SundaySentence from The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

My #JanuaryReads - The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler - Death is Hard Work, Khaled Khalifa - The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman - Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny - The Cold Millions, Jess Walter - Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue - The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish (1/2) 💙📚

Trying to get back into blogging, so of course I needed to share my favourite books of 2023. 💙📚 www.knowledgelost.org/literature/b...

Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point. Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.

Barbara Comyns knew how to dispatch a minor character.

"An apple is nothing but a seed's escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides - in the bellies of animals, or by taking to the wind - all to get as far away from their parents as they possibly can." #SundaySentence by Michael Christie tinyurl.com/yk7pk6kk

“Death is a solitary experience, of course, but nevertheless it lays heavy obligations on the living.” #SundaySentence from Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

In the world’s largest cypress forest, Surf Durrani captures atmospheric autumnal colors. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/surf...

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognise it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries. #SundaySentence Robertson Davies / Fifth Business The Deptford Trilogy

“He was on Sprague Avenue, in the fancier part of downtown, where a better class of steam escaped people’s mouths.” #SundaySentence from The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

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I've picked out six of my favourite books that I read this year – by coincidence, three from the International Booker Prize, and three from the 1930s... www.davidsbookworld.com/2023/12/28/a...

Please do vote if you're in the US. Literally every school board/director up for us had a book burning type running, some more subtle than others. I know it's boring off year stuff but holy shit those types can do damage en masse.

Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900

I’m on a slow and steady mission to read one book from every country in the world. I’ll drop each book into this thread as I read them. #ReadTheWorld

The occupation is an intolerable crime, and resistance to it is a fundamental right, and murdering civilians is wrong, and collective punishment of an entrapped population is immoral. We live in a world of ands, not ors.

“Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw - what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people’s maps on you.” #SundaySentence from Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

My September reads: - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan I thought the first three were excellent.

A summer (reading) recap for 2023: more reading than last summer, more capacity to take in what I read.

“But we are always interlopers into history, dropped into a story that has been going on far before we are born…” #SundaySentence from Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera

My August reads: - Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera - Circe, Madeline Miller - An Elderly Lady series, Helene Tursten - Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro - Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata - Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin (1/2)

Good morning Bluesky! Hope everyone is staying cool today.

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

1/5 🧵 Fresh nature/science feeds thread in alphabetical order! Aquariums/Zoos: tinyurl.com/BskyZoos Arachnids: tinyurl.com/BskyArachnids Astronomy: tinyurl.com/AstroBsky Birds: tinyurl.com/BirdsBsky Fishes: tinyurl.com/BskyFishes Flowers: tinyurl.com/BskyFlowers Fungi: tinyurl.com/BskyFungi

@literaturedawn.bsky.social Hiya! Can I be added to the books feed?

Excited to see this crane-fly orchid blooming! It’s a native orchid that volunteered in my yard this year.

Hi Bluesky! I wandered over here for book recommendations as well as nature/birding/native plants news and pictures. I spend most of my free time reading or somewhere outside enjoying the fresh air. I occasionally post pictures. Nice to “meet” all of you!