The artificer nodded. "I can build this wheeled chair, but why? You have an enchanted hover seat." "Yes," the wizard fumed, "but the palace have erected magic-cancelling wards." "Why?" "Don't know. But they didn't think of people who need mobility aids. So I need wheels to go shout at the king."

“A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it.” —Lily King in Heart the Lover #sundaysentence

#SundaySentence "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” --George Eliot

"If a person couldn't even run a pickle factory profitably, how was that person going to run a whole country?" —from Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" 💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

I think most of my bookcase consists of comfort reads at this point, now I've got it so whittled down, but a few longtime comfort reads are: –Adams's "Watership Down" –Sewell's "Black Beauty" –Tolkien's "The Hobbit" –Williams's "The Velveteen Rabbit" 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

The four stages of "Hungry for Knowledge", my book-loving Woolbeast troll sculpture at Beinart Gallery this month. Lumps -> doodle -> lumps -> "draw the rest of the owl". #artprocess #sculpting

Four for me (and I still have them!): –"The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses" by Paul Goble –"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien –"The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams –"Where Have the Unicorns Gone?" by Jane Yolen 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Happy International Volunteer Day, lovelies! 💬📚 Do you tend to donate your finished books? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

It was quite chilly out today, but the library was pleasantly toasty. I've been craving SF, but nothing on my list was in this time (which is fine—plenty yet to read). –Shelley Parker-Chan's "She Who Became the Sun" –Tim Curry's "Vagabond" –Alan Moore's + David Lloyd's "V for Vendetta" 💙📚 #BookSky

Today's book: "Grave Peril" (Dresden Files, Book 3) by Jim Butcher Got knocked flat by a migraine this week, but I'm ready for more wizard action, now with an all-new Carpenter companion for double the fun! (Each sold separately. Batteries not included.) 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Here's four goblins in a wizard robe trying to scam their way into a very secret wizard meeting ✨️ #myart #goblins

It's time to vote for November's #BlueskyBookclub book! Like any of the posts below to vote for your choice! Feel free to vote for multiple options. Please repost, let's get as many people on board as we can! 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

Question of the Day: What books can you think of in which snow was a significant part of the story? #booksky

Yes! Andrew Joseph White's "Compound Fracture" is narrated by an autistic protagonist. Several sections had me on the verge of tears because this is the first book I've read with explicit (and well executed!) autistic rep, not just coding, and it felt so validating. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Robin of the Day: Snow Mountain Robin 📷 Jonas Landolt

Happy National Build Joy Day, lovelies! 💬📚 What genre is bringing you the most joy lately? 💙📚✨ #QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

Today is the last day to suggest a book for the second month of #BlueskyBookclub before we start voting tomorrow! Get your suggestions in! 📚💙 #booksky 💙📚

Five books you've said more than once you "really should read one day" but still haven't: –"Wuthering Heights" (Brontë) –"The Count of Monte Cristo" (Dumas) –"The Mist" (King) –"X-Men: Age of Apocalypse" (Lobdell, Nicieza, Harras, et al.) –"Moby-Dick" (Melville) 💙📚 #BookSky

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec.1 A male white-winged crossbill with his spruce cone on a frosty winter day. #Birds #photography #wildlife

I finished my first read of the month today, but it's one I have... Opinions about, and I don't want to tear down someone else's fave, so I'm just gonna sleep it off and probably pick up my next Dresden File tomorrow. No goals. Goals and I aren't good bedfellows. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Happy Decembear 🐻❄️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

It's been a good reading month: a few books I was excited for ended up not being for me, but plenty of hits too. Some standouts I'd reread: –Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" –Julie Leong's "The Teller of Small Fortunes" –Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" –Nicola Dinan's "Bellies" 💙📚 #BookishQOTD

What society thinks disabled people want to hear: “You’re so brave!” “We look past your disability!” What disabled people actually want to hear: “We acknowledge your disability and will happily accommodate your needs.” “You can marry without losing your benefits.” “We’d like to offer you the job.”

'"It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it."' —Harry Dresden (wizard), from Jim Butcher's "Fool Moon" (Dresden Files, Book 2) 💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

Do you like #trains / #railroads ? Here's a fun craft I came up with for my TrainBoy. You print the crossing guards onto cardstock or heavy photo paper, cut them out, then tape them back to back around the candy cane drop bars!

Yes. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer

"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin: it's one of only four new-to-me books I've read this year that I have earmarked to purchase and add to my own bookcase (the other three comprise the Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore). 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Today's book: "Compound Fracture" by Andrew Joseph White Chose this one for its autistic and trans rep, its Appalachian setting, and because I wanted to read something outside my usual wheelhouse. I'm about a third of the way through, and it is brutal. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

"Trolls" by Brian and Wendy Froud: not only an art book of Brian Froud paintings and Wendy Froud maquettes and props, the Frouds weave everything together with the tale of a young troll who must collect his first three stories from elder trolls in a coming-of-age ritual. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

The last library stack didn't keep as long as expected, ha ha. A smaller stack this time to help get through the chaotic and stressful holiday week: –Andrew Joseph White's "Compound Fracture" –Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" –Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" 💙📚 #BookSky

Today's book: "Fool Moon" (Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher The series reread continues! I love these books. They're a howl of a good time. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

borbs!! #art #illustration

Since I finally read it just the other week and keep thinking about it, I'll have to go with "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

walking my fish

Today's book: "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier Last of this library stack, and another book I was recommended early in the year. So far the language and imagery are gratifyingly Gothic. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

"Maybe that's what people are supposed to do, sponge out the bad, wring out the suffering as much as we can, even if it stains our hearts and hands." —Ming, from Nicola Dinan's "Bellies" 💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

If asked even just a few months ago, I'd have had some preference, probably toward third person past, but the books I've been reading lately span the spectrum and as long as the story works I haven't minded in the least which perspective or tense it's in. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD

Today's book: "Bellies" by Nicola Dinan Been looking forward to reading this ever since it was recommended to me early this year. I'm a few chapters in already, thoroughly hooked. Ming's dysphoria is extremely relatable. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Succulents Chicken - Botanimal Portrait [ #art #illustration #botanimals #bird 🪶]

Mango Flower Conure - Botanimal Pet Portrait [ #art #illustration #botanimals #bird ]

Water Lily Turtle - Botanimal Portrait [ #art #illustration #botanimals #reptiles ]

Finished! Rhys's writing style wasn't for me, but this was worth the read regardless. It's complex and scathing, and very human. I also really liked Rhys's letters included at the back of the book: it's fascinating how much of her own life made it into this story, and into her other works too. 💙📚

Today's book: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys I love "Jane Eyre", but poor Bertha really gets the short end of the stick. I'm eager to read her side of the story. My library's copy has lots of annotations and essays which should be interesting as well. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

Today's book: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens When I last tried to read this—gosh, almost 10 years ago now—I put it down after only a few pages. (I was quicker to DNF then.) Historically Dickens hasn't been for me, but this time I'll finish it. 💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading

I try to read at least a little every day, especially in the mornings and evenings, but it can vary. Sometimes I'm just too busy or don't have the mental bandwidth for reading. More often, my chronic migraines visit uninvited; I physically can't read through the worst ones. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookishQOTD