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Posting about the good, the true, and the beautiful in books and life! A retired collegiate minister enjoying life on a blue island in Ohio. Book influencer and reviewer at bobonbooks.com
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
-Tracy Kidder, born this day, 1945
-Tracy Kidder, born this day, 1945
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
-Tracy Kidder, born this day, 1945
-Tracy Kidder, born this day, 1945
In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
Ken Burns Brings the War of Independence to the Unruly Present
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November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
Review: The Light Fantastic
Saved from falling off Discworld, Rincewind, Twoflower, and the Luggage try to avert its destruction by a red star.
Saved from falling off Discworld, Rincewind, Twoflower, and the Luggage try to avert its destruction by a red star.
Review: The Light Fantastic
Saved from falling off Discworld, Rincewind, Twoflower, and the Luggage try to avert its destruction by a red star.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Review: The Light Fantastic
Saved from falling off Discworld, Rincewind, Twoflower, and the Luggage try to avert its destruction by a red star.
Saved from falling off Discworld, Rincewind, Twoflower, and the Luggage try to avert its destruction by a red star.
Question of the Day: As you shelve your books, how important is the appearance of your shelves/stacks from an aesthetic point of view? #booksky
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Question of the Day: As you shelve your books, how important is the appearance of your shelves/stacks from an aesthetic point of view? #booksky
"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
- Kurt Vonnegut, born this day, 1922
- Kurt Vonnegut, born this day, 1922
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
- Kurt Vonnegut, born this day, 1922
- Kurt Vonnegut, born this day, 1922
Featured Book. Always thought librarians rock. Little did I know of their role in WW2! @eccobooks.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Featured Book. Always thought librarians rock. Little did I know of their role in WW2! @eccobooks.bsky.social
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by John Devolle from Humans, a book of funny, flat, graphic images and few words, in the Big Science for Little Minds series. Look for the bats, flea, mouse, moth, spiders, seagull, badger, robin, chicken, other wildlife and pets. Pushkin 6 Nov. @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by John Devolle from Humans, a book of funny, flat, graphic images and few words, in the Big Science for Little Minds series. Look for the bats, flea, mouse, moth, spiders, seagull, badger, robin, chicken, other wildlife and pets. Pushkin 6 Nov. @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
Review: The Sacred Art of Slowing Down
Explores ways to become aware of our inner state, to tune into our bodies, and tend our souls.
Explores ways to become aware of our inner state, to tune into our bodies, and tend our souls.
Review: The Sacred Art of Slowing Down
Explores ways to become aware of our inner state, to tune into our bodies, and tend our souls.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Review: The Sacred Art of Slowing Down
Explores ways to become aware of our inner state, to tune into our bodies, and tend our souls.
Explores ways to become aware of our inner state, to tune into our bodies, and tend our souls.
Question of the Day: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today. Are there maritime stories, fictional or historical, that you like? #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Question of the Day: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today. Are there maritime stories, fictional or historical, that you like? #booksky
Featured Book. For those who affirm the authority of the Bible, this raises an interesting question. NT writers and early church fathers often quote from the Septuagint. @ivpacademic.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Featured Book. For those who affirm the authority of the Bible, this raises an interesting question. NT writers and early church fathers often quote from the Septuagint. @ivpacademic.bsky.social
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."
-Vachel Lindsay, born this day, 1879
-Vachel Lindsay, born this day, 1879
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."
-Vachel Lindsay, born this day, 1879
-Vachel Lindsay, born this day, 1879
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Ray from Anya‘s Quest, the story, based on Hindu mythology, of a girl trying to save the planet. By Jasbinder Bilan, Walker Books 6 Nov. Ravishing and magical use of colour and decoration and fantastical Hindu imagery. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @janeray.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Ray from Anya‘s Quest, the story, based on Hindu mythology, of a girl trying to save the planet. By Jasbinder Bilan, Walker Books 6 Nov. Ravishing and magical use of colour and decoration and fantastical Hindu imagery. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @janeray.bsky.social
Review: The Gales of November
A new history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its final voyage, crew and captain, and the possible reasons for its sinking.
A new history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its final voyage, crew and captain, and the possible reasons for its sinking.
Review: The Gales of November
A new history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its final voyage, crew and captain, and the possible reasons for its sinking.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Review: The Gales of November
A new history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its final voyage, crew and captain, and the possible reasons for its sinking.
A new history of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its final voyage, crew and captain, and the possible reasons for its sinking.
Question of the Day: What book series did you like when you were young?
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Question of the Day: What book series did you like when you were young?
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
-Bram Stoker, born this day, 1847
-Bram Stoker, born this day, 1847
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
-Bram Stoker, born this day, 1847
-Bram Stoker, born this day, 1847
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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lou Baker-Smith from Welsh Children's Laureate Nicola Davies' The Secret World of Seahorses. An absorbing and beautifully composed and coloured scene of the destructive practice of turning sea horses into potions and trinkets. Walker Books 6 Nov @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lou Baker-Smith from Welsh Children's Laureate Nicola Davies' The Secret World of Seahorses. An absorbing and beautifully composed and coloured scene of the destructive practice of turning sea horses into potions and trinkets. Walker Books 6 Nov @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Man Who Rescued Faulkner
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition
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November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8 Writing for AI One of the articles I feature this week highlights one writer's realization that those of us still writing may not only use AI to write but are likely writing for AI. I know this to…
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8 Writing for AI One of the articles I feature this week highlights one writer's realization that those of us still writing may not only use AI to write but are likely writing for AI. I know this to…
The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8 Writing for AI One of the articles I feature this week highlights one writer's realization that those of us still writing may not only use AI to write but are likely writing for AI. I know this to be true. My blog software tells me where people are referred from who don't come directly to my site.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8 Writing for AI One of the articles I feature this week highlights one writer's realization that those of us still writing may not only use AI to write but are likely writing for AI. I know this to…
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 2-8 Writing for AI One of the articles I feature this week highlights one writer's realization that those of us still writing may not only use AI to write but are likely writing for AI. I know this to…
"We have art in order not to die of life."
~ Albert Camus, born this day, 1913
~ Albert Camus, born this day, 1913
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"We have art in order not to die of life."
~ Albert Camus, born this day, 1913
~ Albert Camus, born this day, 1913
Featured Book. Newly arrived. A magisterial study of the person and work of Christ, both in Scripture and in historical theology. P&R Books
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Featured Book. Newly arrived. A magisterial study of the person and work of Christ, both in Scripture and in historical theology. P&R Books
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by German illustrator Michele Ganser from non-fiction study Amazing Shark, with narrative by Michael Stavaric. Painstaking, monochrome image with the elegance of an old-fashioned etching. Pushkin Children’s 6 Nov @michaelstavaric.bsky.social @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by German illustrator Michele Ganser from non-fiction study Amazing Shark, with narrative by Michael Stavaric. Painstaking, monochrome image with the elegance of an old-fashioned etching. Pushkin Children’s 6 Nov @michaelstavaric.bsky.social @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
Review: Let’s Be Reasonable
An conservative argument for liberal education rooted in John Locke's idea of the cultivation of reason.
An conservative argument for liberal education rooted in John Locke's idea of the cultivation of reason.
Review: Let’s Be Reasonable
An conservative argument for liberal education rooted in John Locke's idea of the cultivation of reason.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Review: Let’s Be Reasonable
An conservative argument for liberal education rooted in John Locke's idea of the cultivation of reason.
An conservative argument for liberal education rooted in John Locke's idea of the cultivation of reason.
Question of the Day: When is your best time of the day to read?
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Question of the Day: When is your best time of the day to read?
"I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people."
James Jones ("From Here to Eternity"), born this day, 1921
James Jones ("From Here to Eternity"), born this day, 1921
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people."
James Jones ("From Here to Eternity"), born this day, 1921
James Jones ("From Here to Eternity"), born this day, 1921