BookWormSat
@bookwormsat.bsky.social
Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social
Weekly themes: https://signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/
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‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!’~ Yeats
This #BookWormSat takes elvish delight in the fairies, sprites, pixies and little people of literature. Join us. 🧚
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Great new review from the lovely @raindegrey.bsky.social. Very grateful.
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Great new review from the lovely @raindegrey.bsky.social. Very grateful.
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Lovely, lovely autumn. 🍂
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Lovely, lovely autumn. 🍂
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Support this wonderful poet if you can! 🖤 Also, if you haven't read In the Shadow of Gods yet, you're missing out on some of the most beautiful lines ever written.
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Become a supporter of Rachel Deering today!
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November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Support this wonderful poet if you can! 🖤 Also, if you haven't read In the Shadow of Gods yet, you're missing out on some of the most beautiful lines ever written.
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A reminder that you could buy my collection on Amazon or review it there or on Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it already. It really helps. In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A reminder that you could buy my collection on Amazon or review it there or on Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it already. It really helps. In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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‘We have eyed the mystery of one another'
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
‘We have eyed the mystery of one another'
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. Consider getting yourself a copy, links in post below or reviewing it. 👇
‘We have eyed the mystery of one another'
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
'Wren' by Rachel Deering from 'In the Shadow of Gods', available with Black Bough, a bumper collection. @racheldeering.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. Consider getting yourself a copy, links in post below or reviewing it. 👇
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WE ARE FUNDED!🖤 🐈⬛️🖤 Thank you so much!! 🌙
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
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Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
WE ARE FUNDED!🖤 🐈⬛️🖤 Thank you so much!! 🌙
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The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
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So close now. Please keep sharing, please contribute if you can. 👇
The forgotten witches of Flanders are everywhere, and we are very close to giving them an illustrated short story collection! 🖤🌙🖤
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
Thank you so much to everyone who has backed our project! It means the world! We are now 97% funded. Consider helping transmute that number into 100. 🖤
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So close now. Please keep sharing, please contribute if you can. 👇
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Please share, please support if you can.
We are very close to being fully funded for this project!!
There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
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There is one week left for The Witch's Child Kickstarter! Please consider pledging or sharing this link with all of your witchy friends. Thank you so much!🕷️🐍🐺
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Please share, please support if you can.
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With the full moon starting to wane, you can help to keep the light shining on the Witches of Flanders by supporting our Kickstarter. We are nearly there! 🖤🧹🐈⬛
kck.st/492NqKt
kck.st/492NqKt
The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders
An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders
kck.st
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
With the full moon starting to wane, you can help to keep the light shining on the Witches of Flanders by supporting our Kickstarter. We are nearly there! 🖤🧹🐈⬛
kck.st/492NqKt
kck.st/492NqKt
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In modern fiction, peace is often portrayed as the work that begins after the banners fall. In Atonement, the war is not the wound. The wound is regret, guilt, and the lifelong struggle to make amends. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In modern fiction, peace is often portrayed as the work that begins after the banners fall. In Atonement, the war is not the wound. The wound is regret, guilt, and the lifelong struggle to make amends. #BookWormSat
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…The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
…The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
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‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
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Literature shows that war is not only fought with weapons. In dystopias like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the battlefield is the mind. Resistance becomes quiet rebellion, and peace becomes the courage to remember truth. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Literature shows that war is not only fought with weapons. In dystopias like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the battlefield is the mind. Resistance becomes quiet rebellion, and peace becomes the courage to remember truth. #BookWormSat
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"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#BookWormSat
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
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“S.S. City of Benares”, by George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980), born #OTD, 8 November.
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“S.S. City of Benares”, by George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980), born #OTD, 8 November.
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
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"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#BookWormSat
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
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#BookWormSat #RemembranceDay
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#BookWormSat #RemembranceDay
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
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"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#BookWormSat
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
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Shakespeare’s histories understood that war reshapes identity. Kings rise, fall, and break under crowns they fought to claim. Victory is rarely clean. Peace is rarely complete. It is all negotiation. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Shakespeare’s histories understood that war reshapes identity. Kings rise, fall, and break under crowns they fought to claim. Victory is rarely clean. Peace is rarely complete. It is all negotiation. #BookWormSat
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What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air.
A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no.
William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no.
William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
a man and a woman laying on a bed
ALT: a man and a woman laying on a bed
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November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air.
A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no.
William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no.
William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
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"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth