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Ellen Neuborne
@ellenneuborne.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, ghostwriter. 📚Rep’d by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management. I also review books. Authors, feel free to reach out no matter your genre or pub date. I read widely and I don’t require an ARC. she/her.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Dec 2
My Intro: I’m a writer and I have a novel on sub. My agent insists that if I’m not on social media it will Never Ever Happen for me. But the Bad Place is just horrifying. So I’m here and hoping the universe will reward me with a nice, fat book deal.
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BEST LINE: LAST ONE SEEN True. And also terrifying. #booksky #mystery #thriller #darkacademia #writerslife #mfalife @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @rebeccakanner.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: “We’re all unreliable narrators,” Claire said. “Everything that’s written is just someone’s perspective.”
October 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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BEST LINE: EARTH TO MOON That moment when you realize you were fed a political line. #booksky 💙📚 #memoir #genx #feminism #moonunitzappa @iammoonunitzappa.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: …that my father and the culture at large have been giving me the steady message that women have feelings that don’t matter, that women are fucktoys wrapped in lies about female empowerment and responsibility for our own orgasm.
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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BEST LINE: HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS He’s a man. She’s a girl. Hemingway was a misogynist. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #classics #hemingway #feminism #reproductiverights
Book page with this text highlighted: “What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said.
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social
Book page with this section highlighted: That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else. Something I don’t quite understand. Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity or how to flirt.
September 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: “Support groups are line bras—some aren’t that supportive,” Carol said.
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading
bownie.bsky.social Richard Bown @bownie.bsky.social · Sep 14
"I See You've Called In Dead" is so funny. I've not laughed as much at a book in decades. It might be the funniest, driest, most touching thing ever, and I'm only halfway through. #booksky
September 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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What’s not to love? ❤️
talltbh.bsky.social tall and sleepy @talltbh.bsky.social · Sep 10
Not to be a big ol’ nerd but I do love reading
September 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales
Book page with the following line highlighted: Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist
Book page with this phrase highlighted:…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?
September 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.
patdeklotz.bsky.social Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · Sep 4
The best resource for understanding why GOP elites caved during the last decade is JRR Tolkien:
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism
Book page with this line highlighted: Dig within; for within you lies the fountain of good, and it can always be gushing forth if only you always dig.
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics
Book page with this line highlighted: To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
August 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read
Book page with this line highlighted: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
August 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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So many wine cellars! So little time.
August 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist
Book page with this page highlighted: “Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything.
August 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers
Book page with this line highlighted: On paper, my credentials looked terrific, but selling believability in front of middle schoolers was something else.
August 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallange #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
August 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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What is “great” anyway? I studied Classics in college. To relax, I read Star Trek novels. #booksky #classics #startrek #readers
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 16
"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."
Read Whatever the Hell You Want
Enjoy yourself.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers
Book page with this line highlighted: But this too is true: stories can save us.
August 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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BEST LINE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I was a shocked teenager sitting in AP English the day I learned Shylock was a person, not a profession. #booksky #drama #shakespeare #apenglish #brooklynmemories
Page of Shakespeare’s play with his original stage direction highlighted: Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew.
August 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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BEST LINE: SILENT SPRING That truth is gaining on us. #booksky 💙📚 #nature #environment #earth #nonfiction #climatechange
Book page with this line highlighted: Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature.
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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BEST LINE: THE KILLER ANGELS This war novel was so very human. #💙📚#booksky #historicalfiction #civilwar #maine #bowdlin #history
Book page with two lines of dialogue highlighted: “How do I take care of a hundred and twenty mutinous men?” “Yes, sir,” Kilrain sympathized. “Well, you’ll have to talk to them, sir.”
August 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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BEST LINE: HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER Erica Jong did not invent that phrase. It was widely — and wryly — used to describe parenting in that era. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #reading #genx #memoir #ericajong #mollyjongfast
Book page with this sentence highlighted: It’s funny because when I was young my mom would tell me she was a great mom, then when I got a bit older, she would tell me she practiced “benign neglect” —as if this parenting style was somehow by design.
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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"“You just purchased the mixed nuts. How fun!” sang the voice from the ceiling speaker."

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August 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Thank you to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for including my story on this great issue — and for pairing our words with original artwork. My story feels seen! www.doesithavepockets.com

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