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#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #19 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #18 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #17 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #16 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. (oops, missed yesterday) #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #15 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

"I will not be sneered at by hens." Thoughts on reading 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴 by P. G. Wodehouse. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/p...

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #14 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #13 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #13 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

Pretty moon tonight. Yes, I know, tomorrow night's the supermoon, but the not-quite-supermoon ain't bad either.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #11 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #10 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #9 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

"But I feel no need for emotional justification." Thoughts on re-reading (because I don't remember the first read) Umberto Eco's book of humorous essays, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/u...

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #8 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #7 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #6 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky #5 of ?20 or until I forget or get bored.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

“'Fiat imprimere!' the master cried...." Thoughts on reading the wonderful 2015 historical novel 𝘎𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨'𝘴 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 by Alix Christie. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/a...

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

"There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something." Thoughts on reading James Joyce's 𝘋𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/j...

Sigh - my first celebrity crush. Still love you, babe.

"Tell me, O Reader, the story of that resourceful man ...." My preview of Laura Jenkinson-Brown's delightful 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘴, a Choose Your Own Adventure style retelling of Homer's Odyssey. 💙📚👀 @greekmythcomix.bsky.social @catherineproject.bsky.social sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/l...

"I don’t believe I can really do without teaching." A mixed reaction - on [finally] reading Richard Feynman's memoir, "𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘔𝘳. 𝘍𝘦𝘺𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘯!" 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/r...

As part of the First Friday Art Walk in Ptld ME, there's a brass band downtown playing/singing Down By the Riverside ("Gonna lay down my sword and shield..."), giving an ironic end to this week.

I'm currently reading an ARC of this - it's delightful! Not only is it great fun, but I'm learning a lot about the Epic Cycle and details from the Odyssey that escaped me (or that I've forgotten).

"'Everybody deserves a show about people like them, right?'" Thoughts on reading Danzy Senna's latest novel, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/d...

Post a movie from the year you were born. imgur.com/gallery/lege...

I'm very choosy about covers of this song - but this makes the cut. (their Nessun Dorma is pretty amazing, too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...

"My song is of war and a man." The extraordinary experience of reading Virgil's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, translation (and guest visit) by Shadi Bartsch, with The Catherine Project. sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/v...

"But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real. " Thoughts on reading Umberto Eco's classic conspiracy novel 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵'𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘮. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/u...

"I swear amid these flames and holy forces: Italy will never break this pact of peace, whatever comes to pass." [Narrator: Italy breaks the pact of peace 60 lines later] - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, Book 12.202, Bartsch trans. Catherine Project Reading Group, Week 6

"How blind the minds of men to fate and future, to minding limits even in good luck!" - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, Book 10.501, Bartsch trans. Catherine Project Reading Group, Week 5

"There, my tale's afloat. I like to imagine it drifting age after age, while the generations fight, sing, live, expire." Thoughts on reading John Barth's 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, or, my elementary education in postmodernism. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/j...

"The hinges turn, the iron gates of war burst open" - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, Book 7.622, Bartsch trans. Catherine Project Reading Group, Week 4

Right now I'm trying to decide between Plato (Republic), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway/To The Lighthouse), or Borges (Ficciones). Or James Joyce (Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). Oh, Or Dostoevsky. Or

Who wants to read something cool with me this Fall?

#WilliamSBurroughs once famously suggested that “language is a #virus from #outerspace.” That got me thinking what if it was really #money that was the virus from outer space. So, I wrote a #sciencefiction story based on that theme. doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/01/mone...

"What kind of fool wanted it only one way?" Thoughts on reading Maile Meloy's short story collection, 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘐𝘵, in tandem with my reading buddy Andrew. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/m...

"Three times he tried to wrap his arms around his father's neck; three times his hands passed through the insubstantial shade..." - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, Book 6.700, Bartsch trans. Catherine Project Reading Group, Week 3

This little hoopoe is based on an old piece, from a series that predates Bsky, so this is an opportunity to post the whole thing here. The Conference of the Birds is a 12th-c mystic poem by Attār of Nishapur. Its tale of birds seeking their King is an allegory of the seeker’s journey to Truth. 🧵

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.” Thoughs on reading E.M. Forster's 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘥 with The Catherine Project. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/e...

"Cursed love, you make us stoop to anything." - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, Book 4.12, Bartsch trans. Catherine Project Reading Group, Week 2

Oh glory hallelujah, my MS subscription finally renewed, so that annoying AI divot in the left margin of all my Word docs - the one that gets in the way of everything I do - is gone!

"It is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone." E.M.Forster, 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘥, ch 40 Catherine Project Reading Group, week 4

"What he fails to learn from these notes tonight will lodge in his lungs until they stop pumping." My (somewhat unhinged) experience of reading Richard Powers' extraordinary 1991 novel blending science, art, and love: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘉𝘶𝘨 𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 💙📚👀 sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/r...