Original Bookhart
@bookhart.bsky.social
Librarian. She/her. Interested in books, old movies, travel, history, cute babies and animals (I’ll cop to it), and dark humor.
CR. Nothing is engaging me. I’ll try a little escapism.
March 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CR. Nothing is engaging me. I’ll try a little escapism.
Forgot to post a pic of my CR!
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Forgot to post a pic of my CR!
CR. Combining my 2 favorite genres—history and mystery—with this book about the murder of Louis of Orleans in 1407.
February 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
CR. Combining my 2 favorite genres—history and mystery—with this book about the murder of Louis of Orleans in 1407.
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Fernand Léger, The Three Musicians, 1944 (after a drawing of 1924-25; dated on painting 1924-44)
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135282
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135282
February 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Fernand Léger, The Three Musicians, 1944 (after a drawing of 1924-25; dated on painting 1924-44)
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135282
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135282
CR. A mystery series set in London’s Chinese community in the 1920s. Advertised as “swashbuckling,” so I’m looking forward to some action on top of the standard sleuthing.
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CR. A mystery series set in London’s Chinese community in the 1920s. Advertised as “swashbuckling,” so I’m looking forward to some action on top of the standard sleuthing.
CR. The title does not do justice to how bonkers and slyly humorous this book is.
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
CR. The title does not do justice to how bonkers and slyly humorous this book is.
CR. Engaging biography of White, a NAACP investigator and proponent of African-American civil rights in the first decades of the 20th century.
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
CR. Engaging biography of White, a NAACP investigator and proponent of African-American civil rights in the first decades of the 20th century.
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Me?
Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’.
🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne
Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’.
🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne
February 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Me?
Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’.
🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne
Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’.
🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne
CR. Reading for a book club.
February 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
CR. Reading for a book club.
CR. My first professional job out of graduate school was organizing the records of the Knopf publishing house, including Judith Jones’ editorial files. This will be a nice trip down memory lane.
February 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
CR. My first professional job out of graduate school was organizing the records of the Knopf publishing house, including Judith Jones’ editorial files. This will be a nice trip down memory lane.
Foyle’s War screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has written an amusing mystery series featuring a screenwriter named Anthony Horowitz. Now the Doyle estate has authorized him to write a new Sherlock Holmes. Good, so far.
February 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Foyle’s War screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has written an amusing mystery series featuring a screenwriter named Anthony Horowitz. Now the Doyle estate has authorized him to write a new Sherlock Holmes. Good, so far.
CR. My favorite type of history read. I know absolutely nothing about Ethiopia, and this story is giving me context and background on the life of an orphaned prince brought to England after the defeat of his father to the British Army at the height of colonialism.
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
CR. My favorite type of history read. I know absolutely nothing about Ethiopia, and this story is giving me context and background on the life of an orphaned prince brought to England after the defeat of his father to the British Army at the height of colonialism.
CR. This is the second in a series about a woman police inspector in Bombay post independence. This one has a library setting to boot, so I’m enjoying it.
It feels a little like fiddling while Rome burns to post about books, honestly.
It feels a little like fiddling while Rome burns to post about books, honestly.
February 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
CR. This is the second in a series about a woman police inspector in Bombay post independence. This one has a library setting to boot, so I’m enjoying it.
It feels a little like fiddling while Rome burns to post about books, honestly.
It feels a little like fiddling while Rome burns to post about books, honestly.
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
CR. I’m finding the history of absinthe prohibitions more interesting than the referenced “forgery,” which seems an odd word for people representing new absinthe as old in a very select market.
February 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
CR. I’m finding the history of absinthe prohibitions more interesting than the referenced “forgery,” which seems an odd word for people representing new absinthe as old in a very select market.
CR. I’m enthralled by this. The author, a British potter, explores the roots of a family collection of Japanese netsukes that have been in his once-obscenely wealthy family’s hands since the late 19th century. It’s absolutely remarkable. One of my favorites so far this year.
January 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
CR. I’m enthralled by this. The author, a British potter, explores the roots of a family collection of Japanese netsukes that have been in his once-obscenely wealthy family’s hands since the late 19th century. It’s absolutely remarkable. One of my favorites so far this year.
CR. Police procedurals from the UK are my comfort reads. This is the first in a series set in Glasgow. I was legitimately surprised by the reveal which is unusual for me. And I like the protagonist enough to continue to the next in the series.
January 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
CR. Police procedurals from the UK are my comfort reads. This is the first in a series set in Glasgow. I was legitimately surprised by the reveal which is unusual for me. And I like the protagonist enough to continue to the next in the series.
CR. Netflix’s docuseries on the Cold War prompted me to read more about this.
January 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
CR. Netflix’s docuseries on the Cold War prompted me to read more about this.
I think this might be my favorite account on Bluesky so far.
#FrogFriday 🐸:
Woman's brooch
USA, 1950's
Bakelite on brass, 6.1 x 4.6 cm
Royal Ontario Museum 2022.24.140 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/2546...
Woman's brooch
USA, 1950's
Bakelite on brass, 6.1 x 4.6 cm
Royal Ontario Museum 2022.24.140 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/2546...
January 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I think this might be my favorite account on Bluesky so far.
CR. I forgot I owned this. Just started and it’s already brutal. Not sure I’m in the right headspace for brutal RN, but I’m going for it anyway. Man, Colson Whitehead can write.
January 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
CR. I forgot I owned this. Just started and it’s already brutal. Not sure I’m in the right headspace for brutal RN, but I’m going for it anyway. Man, Colson Whitehead can write.
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Reposted by Original Bookhart
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
bookriot.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
CR. A loving reminiscence of the author’s grandfather, an autodidact and book collector in London.
January 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
CR. A loving reminiscence of the author’s grandfather, an autodidact and book collector in London.
CR. Readable and engaging. Prescient.
January 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
CR. Readable and engaging. Prescient.