Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him chris@chrisperera.co.uk
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Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
· Jul 26
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in-what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
#BookWormSat
🎨Roman Bozkhov
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
#BookWormSat
🎨Roman Bozkhov
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 AM
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in-what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
#BookWormSat
🎨Roman Bozkhov
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
#BookWormSat
🎨Roman Bozkhov
Reposted by Chris Perera
#BookWormSat
„Behind the home is a walled garden, with a small terrace. There is a table, and two chairs, and beside them a tall electric fan, its green paint half given over to rust. I have not seen it in use, and do not think it has been working for some time,…
1/2
„Behind the home is a walled garden, with a small terrace. There is a table, and two chairs, and beside them a tall electric fan, its green paint half given over to rust. I have not seen it in use, and do not think it has been working for some time,…
1/2
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
#BookWormSat
„Behind the home is a walled garden, with a small terrace. There is a table, and two chairs, and beside them a tall electric fan, its green paint half given over to rust. I have not seen it in use, and do not think it has been working for some time,…
1/2
„Behind the home is a walled garden, with a small terrace. There is a table, and two chairs, and beside them a tall electric fan, its green paint half given over to rust. I have not seen it in use, and do not think it has been working for some time,…
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‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ‘I wish you could talk!’
‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’ ~ Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat
🖼️ Tenniel
‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’ ~ Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat
🖼️ Tenniel
January 24, 2026 at 5:36 AM
‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ‘I wish you could talk!’
‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’ ~ Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat
🖼️ Tenniel
‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’ ~ Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat
🖼️ Tenniel
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“Town gardens are small, as a rule, and the Longs’ garden was no exception to the rule; there was a vegetable plot and a grass plot and one flower-bed and a rough patch by the back fence.” ~ Tom's Midnight Garden (1958), Philippa Pearce.
#BookWormSat
[🎨Suzanne Henriette Einzig.]
#BookWormSat
[🎨Suzanne Henriette Einzig.]
January 24, 2026 at 8:46 AM
“Town gardens are small, as a rule, and the Longs’ garden was no exception to the rule; there was a vegetable plot and a grass plot and one flower-bed and a rough patch by the back fence.” ~ Tom's Midnight Garden (1958), Philippa Pearce.
#BookWormSat
[🎨Suzanne Henriette Einzig.]
#BookWormSat
[🎨Suzanne Henriette Einzig.]
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'And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad.'
-Arthur Machen
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!🌹
🎨Edward Burne-Jones (detail)
-Arthur Machen
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!🌹
🎨Edward Burne-Jones (detail)
January 24, 2026 at 9:21 AM
'And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad.'
-Arthur Machen
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!🌹
🎨Edward Burne-Jones (detail)
-Arthur Machen
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!🌹
🎨Edward Burne-Jones (detail)
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Blake’s
I went to the garden of love, with his own illustration, from
Songs of Experience, 1794.
#BookWormSat
I went to the garden of love, with his own illustration, from
Songs of Experience, 1794.
#BookWormSat
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Blake’s
I went to the garden of love, with his own illustration, from
Songs of Experience, 1794.
#BookWormSat
I went to the garden of love, with his own illustration, from
Songs of Experience, 1794.
#BookWormSat
January 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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'Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨Valentine Cameron Prinsep
#BookWormSat
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨Valentine Cameron Prinsep
#BookWormSat
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 AM
'Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨Valentine Cameron Prinsep
#BookWormSat
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone'
-Lord Tennyson
🎨Valentine Cameron Prinsep
#BookWormSat
Reposted by Chris Perera
‘Ivy held prior place in this lost garden, the long strands crept across the lawns, and soon would encroach upon the house itself.’ ~ Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of landscape architect, Leonard Springer with Gardens in Literature.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of landscape architect, Leonard Springer with Gardens in Literature.
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 AM
‘Ivy held prior place in this lost garden, the long strands crept across the lawns, and soon would encroach upon the house itself.’ ~ Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of landscape architect, Leonard Springer with Gardens in Literature.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of landscape architect, Leonard Springer with Gardens in Literature.
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Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
art by Arantza Sestayo
art by Arantza Sestayo
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
art by Arantza Sestayo
art by Arantza Sestayo
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Happy #WinnieThePoohDay 🎈
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Happy #WinnieThePoohDay 🎈
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882)
#BookChatWeekly
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Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)
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'The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
January 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
'The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
Reposted by Chris Perera
Bonus for #BookWormSat
Emily Dickinson by Edward Gorey for Howard Moss’ book Instant Lives.
Emily Dickinson by Edward Gorey for Howard Moss’ book Instant Lives.
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Bonus for #BookWormSat
Emily Dickinson by Edward Gorey for Howard Moss’ book Instant Lives.
Emily Dickinson by Edward Gorey for Howard Moss’ book Instant Lives.
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#BookWormSat 🎉It's Anne Brontë's birthday!
This timeless wisdom from "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,"(1848)
—“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;—and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse...exposed to all the action of the elements.”
This timeless wisdom from "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,"(1848)
—“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;—and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse...exposed to all the action of the elements.”
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
#BookWormSat 🎉It's Anne Brontë's birthday!
This timeless wisdom from "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,"(1848)
—“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;—and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse...exposed to all the action of the elements.”
This timeless wisdom from "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,"(1848)
—“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;—and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse...exposed to all the action of the elements.”
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"It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
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‘One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
‘One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
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‘My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.’ ~ Anne Brontë
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM
‘My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.’ ~ Anne Brontë
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
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‘But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.’ ~ Anne Brontë.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthdate of Anne Brontë with a day of nineteenth century women’s literature. Do join us.
🖼️ The Soul of the Rose, Waterhouse, 1908.
Should never crave the rose.’ ~ Anne Brontë.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthdate of Anne Brontë with a day of nineteenth century women’s literature. Do join us.
🖼️ The Soul of the Rose, Waterhouse, 1908.
January 16, 2026 at 5:32 AM
‘But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.’ ~ Anne Brontë.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthdate of Anne Brontë with a day of nineteenth century women’s literature. Do join us.
🖼️ The Soul of the Rose, Waterhouse, 1908.
Should never crave the rose.’ ~ Anne Brontë.
This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthdate of Anne Brontë with a day of nineteenth century women’s literature. Do join us.
🖼️ The Soul of the Rose, Waterhouse, 1908.
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"I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters"
The dying Earth visited by the time traveler in HG Wells' 1895 novel
#BookWormSat
The dying Earth visited by the time traveler in HG Wells' 1895 novel
#BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 7:14 AM
"I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters"
The dying Earth visited by the time traveler in HG Wells' 1895 novel
#BookWormSat
The dying Earth visited by the time traveler in HG Wells' 1895 novel
#BookWormSat
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Blow on, wild wind, thy solemn voice,
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.'
-Anne Brontë
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a sad and bleak #BookWormSat! And on that note, Happy belated New Year!
🎨J. W. Waterhouse
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.'
-Anne Brontë
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a sad and bleak #BookWormSat! And on that note, Happy belated New Year!
🎨J. W. Waterhouse
January 10, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Blow on, wild wind, thy solemn voice,
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.'
-Anne Brontë
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a sad and bleak #BookWormSat! And on that note, Happy belated New Year!
🎨J. W. Waterhouse
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.'
-Anne Brontë
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a sad and bleak #BookWormSat! And on that note, Happy belated New Year!
🎨J. W. Waterhouse
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Dear bookworms, we have added themes for #BookWormSat until April! If you would like to know what's to come, you can have a look over here: signemaene.com/bookwormsatu...
Happy reading and see you Saturday! 📚🐛
Happy reading and see you Saturday! 📚🐛
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Dear bookworms, we have added themes for #BookWormSat until April! If you would like to know what's to come, you can have a look over here: signemaene.com/bookwormsatu...
Happy reading and see you Saturday! 📚🐛
Happy reading and see you Saturday! 📚🐛
Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.
-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.
-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.
-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.
-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
Reposted by Chris Perera
He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings…
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
#BookWormSat
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
#BookWormSat
January 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM
He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings…
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
#BookWormSat
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
#BookWormSat