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Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
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This #BookologyThursday we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
January 8, 2026 at 4:22 AM
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "What should we do," said his brothers, "but to make straight at them and attack them, and bring away the apples or fall ourselves, since we cannot escape from these dangers that are before us without meeting our death in some place." "It would be better," said
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January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "What should we do," said his brothers, "but to make straight at them and attack them, and bring away the apples or fall ourselves, since we cannot escape from these dangers that are before us without meeting our death in some place." "It would be better," said
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January 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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#bookologythursday #celtic: The three apples #lugh asked of the sons of Tuirenn as part of the compensation for the murder of his father „are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the […]
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[Original post on hear-me.social]
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: The three apples #lugh asked of the sons of Tuirenn as part of the compensation for the murder of his father „are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the […]
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Do I dare to eat a peach?
~T.S.Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683)
#BookologyThursday
~T.S.Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683)
#BookologyThursday
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Do I dare to eat a peach?
~T.S.Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683)
#BookologyThursday
~T.S.Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683)
#BookologyThursday
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Soft words and a safe place to sleep; a woman's hand in his hair; a last, wrinkled apple cut carefully in half and savored by candlelight, in the dead of winter--all worth more than power ...
Marie Jakober
📖The Black Chalice
🖼️Johannes Vermeer
#BookologyThursday
Marie Jakober
📖The Black Chalice
🖼️Johannes Vermeer
#BookologyThursday
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Soft words and a safe place to sleep; a woman's hand in his hair; a last, wrinkled apple cut carefully in half and savored by candlelight, in the dead of winter--all worth more than power ...
Marie Jakober
📖The Black Chalice
🖼️Johannes Vermeer
#BookologyThursday
Marie Jakober
📖The Black Chalice
🖼️Johannes Vermeer
#BookologyThursday
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The peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise as it floated along.
~Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
#BookologyThursday
~Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
#BookologyThursday
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise as it floated along.
~Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
#BookologyThursday
~Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
#BookologyThursday
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Join us this #BookologyThursday ✨
This #BookologyThursday we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Join us this #BookologyThursday ✨
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"For the bite of a mad dog... ...pound leek and vinegar in a mortar, or fennel seed and honey and put it on it."
Some of the earliest Welsh language references to the leek, the Welsh national vegetable, are found in the medicinal recipes of the Physicians of Myddfai.
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"For the bite of a mad dog... ...pound leek and vinegar in a mortar, or fennel seed and honey and put it on it."
Some of the earliest Welsh language references to the leek, the Welsh national vegetable, are found in the medicinal recipes of the Physicians of Myddfai.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
#BookologyThursday
"For the bite of a mad dog... ...pound leek and vinegar in a mortar, or fennel seed and honey and put it on it."
Some of the earliest Welsh language references to the leek, the Welsh national vegetable, are found in the medicinal recipes of the Physicians of Myddfai.
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"For the bite of a mad dog... ...pound leek and vinegar in a mortar, or fennel seed and honey and put it on it."
Some of the earliest Welsh language references to the leek, the Welsh national vegetable, are found in the medicinal recipes of the Physicians of Myddfai.
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: The three apples #Lugh asked of the sons of Tuirenn as part of the compensation for the murder of his father „are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the most beautiful and have most virtue in
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January 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: The three apples #Lugh asked of the sons of Tuirenn as part of the compensation for the murder of his father „are the three apples from the Garden in the East of the World, and no other apples will do but these, for they are the most beautiful and have most virtue in
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Just when you thought #JapaneseFolklore couldn't get any weirder, I present you with ringo no kai. This #yokai is the spirit of apple trees whose fruit has been left too long without being picked. They appear in the evening near apple orchards, taking...
#FolkyFriday
🎨Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
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#FolkyFriday
🎨Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
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January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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“As the home of Aberdeen Angus, Ayrshire bacon, & haggis, Scotland has an especially meaty reputation”
—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
#BookologyThursday
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/vege...
—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/vege...
January 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
“As the home of Aberdeen Angus, Ayrshire bacon, & haggis, Scotland has an especially meaty reputation”
—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
#BookologyThursday
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/vege...
—From BUDDHA DA, DUCK FEET, THE PANOPTICON, TRAINSPOTTING, & more: Gina Lyle looks at vegetarianism in contemporary Scottish fiction
#BookologyThursday
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/vege...
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In #JapaneseFolklore tantan kororin are #yokai that are the spirits of persimmon trees. They appear when fruit is left on the tree unpicked. They take the form of giant monks with heads resembling persimmons. They wander through towns letting overripe persimmons fall out of...
#FolkyFriday
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#FolkyFriday
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January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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In #JapaneseFolklore there is definitely a #yokai for every occasion. When it comes to fruit, I present suika no bakemono, which appears as a watermelon-headed samurai. Very little is known about this strange supernatural creature. It comes from the Buson Yokai Emaki, a...
#BookologyThursday
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January 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
In #JapaneseFolklore there is definitely a #yokai for every occasion. When it comes to fruit, I present suika no bakemono, which appears as a watermelon-headed samurai. Very little is known about this strange supernatural creature. It comes from the Buson Yokai Emaki, a...
#BookologyThursday
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Here is a Japanese folktale featuring persimmons for #BookologyThursday.
🎨'Bird on a Persimmon Tree' - Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1930s.
🎨'Bird on a Persimmon Tree' - Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1930s.
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Here is a Japanese folktale featuring persimmons for #BookologyThursday.
🎨'Bird on a Persimmon Tree' - Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1930s.
🎨'Bird on a Persimmon Tree' - Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1930s.
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Glad you do! And if I may, under these auspices, I wrote a few lines about him... a while ago...
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2015/07/from...
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2015/07/from...
From the “Bohemian Parnassus” and the Rudolfine Wunderkammer – the Phantastic Compositions of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
11 July 1593, the Italian painter and Renaissance virtuoso Giuseppe Arcimboldo, best known for his panel paintings of fruit, vegetable, fish and books composed into allegoric portraits or still lifes,...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Glad you do! And if I may, under these auspices, I wrote a few lines about him... a while ago...
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2015/07/from...
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2015/07/from...
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Fruits which that unknown orchard bore;
She sucked until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gathered up one kernel-stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turned home alone.
Laura gets hooked on fruit in Christina Rossetti's 1862 Goblin Market.
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
She sucked until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gathered up one kernel-stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turned home alone.
Laura gets hooked on fruit in Christina Rossetti's 1862 Goblin Market.
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Fruits which that unknown orchard bore;
She sucked until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gathered up one kernel-stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turned home alone.
Laura gets hooked on fruit in Christina Rossetti's 1862 Goblin Market.
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
She sucked until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gathered up one kernel-stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turned home alone.
Laura gets hooked on fruit in Christina Rossetti's 1862 Goblin Market.
#BookologyThursday 💙📚
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Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨
Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨
Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
Today we celebrate National Apricot Day with the theme:
🍒A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEG🍒
Come join our feast in literature, lore, and art!
art by Abigail Larson
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: ‘Some translations hold that the name of the blackthorn fruit, sloe, and the word ‘slay’ are connected. These all give excellent clues to the magical and spiritual significance of straif, the blackthorn.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: ‘Some translations hold that the name of the blackthorn fruit, sloe, and the word ‘slay’ are connected. These all give excellent clues to the magical and spiritual significance of straif, the blackthorn.
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#bookologythursday #celtic: ‘Some translations hold that the name of the blackthorn fruit, sloe, and the word ‘slay’ are connected. These all give excellent clues to the magical and spiritual significance of straif, the blackthorn. The blackthorn features in […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: ‘Some translations hold that the name of the blackthorn fruit, sloe, and the word ‘slay’ are connected. These all give excellent clues to the magical and spiritual significance of straif, the blackthorn. The blackthorn features in […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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"I'll lay knife and fork and we'll see how you manages a pear."
"A pear, Mam?"
"It takes a gentleman to eat a pear proper," said Nancy. "He had it on the floor in no time - oh, I made him look a fool!"
- The housekeeper in 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner derides her new employer
#BookologyThursday
"A pear, Mam?"
"It takes a gentleman to eat a pear proper," said Nancy. "He had it on the floor in no time - oh, I made him look a fool!"
- The housekeeper in 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner derides her new employer
#BookologyThursday
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"I'll lay knife and fork and we'll see how you manages a pear."
"A pear, Mam?"
"It takes a gentleman to eat a pear proper," said Nancy. "He had it on the floor in no time - oh, I made him look a fool!"
- The housekeeper in 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner derides her new employer
#BookologyThursday
"A pear, Mam?"
"It takes a gentleman to eat a pear proper," said Nancy. "He had it on the floor in no time - oh, I made him look a fool!"
- The housekeeper in 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner derides her new employer
#BookologyThursday
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Root vegetables appear quietly in wartime novels and rural fiction. Potatoes, turnips, onions. Humble foods that carry nations through hunger and remind characters what endurance tastes like. #BookologyThursday
Art: Root Vegetables On A Table by Marilyn Conway
Art: Root Vegetables On A Table by Marilyn Conway
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Root vegetables appear quietly in wartime novels and rural fiction. Potatoes, turnips, onions. Humble foods that carry nations through hunger and remind characters what endurance tastes like. #BookologyThursday
Art: Root Vegetables On A Table by Marilyn Conway
Art: Root Vegetables On A Table by Marilyn Conway
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Tradition still holds that dandelions are the "beemaster’s thermometer." If dandelions are closed, it is deemed too cold to open a hive. Bees, like flowers, respond to the sun and warmth. Dandelions aren't the most nutritious food source but are a significant 'first food'.
#BookologyThursday #Bees
#BookologyThursday #Bees
January 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Tradition still holds that dandelions are the "beemaster’s thermometer." If dandelions are closed, it is deemed too cold to open a hive. Bees, like flowers, respond to the sun and warmth. Dandelions aren't the most nutritious food source but are a significant 'first food'.
#BookologyThursday #Bees
#BookologyThursday #Bees
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"[He] remembered... How on a July 4 at a church picnic, a family was about to break open a watermelon... The man swung the melon down to the edge of a rock... The melon was jagged, and hunks of rind and red meat scattered on the grass."
—The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
#BookologyThursday
—The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
#BookologyThursday
a person is cutting a watermelon on a wooden cutting board
ALT: a person is cutting a watermelon on a wooden cutting board
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January 8, 2026 at 6:27 AM
"[He] remembered... How on a July 4 at a church picnic, a family was about to break open a watermelon... The man swung the melon down to the edge of a rock... The melon was jagged, and hunks of rind and red meat scattered on the grass."
—The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
#BookologyThursday
—The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
#BookologyThursday
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The cornucopia spills through literature as more than food. Apples, figs, grapes, and roots become shorthand for abundance, temptation, survival, and care. A full table tells a story before a word is spoken. #BookologyThursday
Art: Amy Ferrell
Art: Amy Ferrell
January 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The cornucopia spills through literature as more than food. Apples, figs, grapes, and roots become shorthand for abundance, temptation, survival, and care. A full table tells a story before a word is spoken. #BookologyThursday
Art: Amy Ferrell
Art: Amy Ferrell