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Abibliophobia
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I read books and wander outside
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Hope is never futile - it is one of the greatest forms of resistance we have.
Hope sits in the trenches, the last one standing, its teeth cracked, its knuckles bruised, its body broken; but its eyes are still gleaming with the light of a million lamps. Its heart is still beating because even here, even now, it knows that a better world is worth fighting for. - Nikita Gill
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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salena.bsky.social
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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maireadhearne.bsky.social
"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
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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
Photo of the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott propped up on a bookshelf. The book is extremely worn and has a purple border and picture of four girls going through a chest.
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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thepaleusher.bsky.social
“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
November 23, 2024 at 8:49 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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
Photo of the book joy of Man’s Desiring by Jean Giono propped up on a bookshelf. Cover of book has a black and white photo of two middle-aged men, one of whom is smoking a pipe, at what appears to be a cafe table.
November 23, 2024 at 10:29 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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
Photo of the book Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby propped up on a book shelf.
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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
Photo of cover of The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone. Cover shows Grover, a sweet blue monster, hanging out next to a light pole in front of a red brick wall.
November 22, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
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.
November 18, 2024 at 5:49 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
“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
March 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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

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March 1, 2024 at 7:43 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
“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
February 4, 2024 at 3:26 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
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

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February 1, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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knowledgelost.bsky.social
Trying to get back into blogging, so of course I needed to share my favourite books of 2023. 💙📚
www.knowledgelost.org/literature/b...
January 31, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
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.
January 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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seanjcostello.bsky.social
Barbara Comyns knew how to dispatch a minor character.
‘I never saw Miss Thomas again. It was only a week or two later that she was killed in the street by a runaway horse-and-dray carrying barrels of beer. It wasn’t the horse that killed her but one of the barrels: it rolled off and completely crushed her. She was a little wisp of a woman and a barrel of beer was too much for her. Poor thing! she was a member of the Temperance Society, too, and they all clubbed together and sent her a beautiful wreath of violets woven into a harp.’ (from The Vet’s Daughter, 1959)
January 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"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
Greenwood by Michael Christie review – an arresting eco-parable
Ecological catastophe has led to the destruction of trees … a bleak vision of the future with Steinbeckian cadences
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January 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
“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
January 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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thisiscolossal.com
In the world’s largest cypress forest, Surf Durrani captures atmospheric autumnal colors. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/surf...
January 19, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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thepaleusher.bsky.social
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
January 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
abibliophobia.bsky.social
“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
January 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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kamakru.bsky.social
Friends! Here's how to remove ai from your google searches using the example; fantasy horse

Fantasy horse, before:2023
Brings up everything posted ONLY before the year 2023

Fantasy horse, -ai -prompt -stock -openai
Gets rid of MOST generative images and includes current/recent images
January 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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davidheb.bsky.social
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...
A selection of 2023 favourites
I don’t know why it happened, but there were times this year when I just fell out of the habit of reading. This is not what I want, and my aim for 2024 is to find my way back in – with this s…
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December 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
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.
November 7, 2023 at 6:12 AM
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daviddlevine.com
Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900
There is a species of water beetle that regularly gets swallowed whole by frogs. And while there’s a lot of things you can do to keep from being eaten, once you’re inside a frog, your options are severely limited. Generally you get digested. But this particular species of beetle said “You know, I bet there’s another way.” And it started walking. In fact, it walked through the frog’s digestive tract and out the back end. This is 100% true, you can look it up. 19 out of 20 of these beetles will simply walk out of the frog, unharmed. It usually takes them about an hour, although one beetle speed-ran the frog in five minutes, which I’m sure was very exciting for the frog. The moral of this story, if there is one, is that no matter how dark the situation, there is always a way through. And there’s always a light at the end of the frog.
October 21, 2023 at 11:04 PM