David Abrams
@imdavidabrams.bsky.social
Novelist (“Fobbit” & “Brave Deeds”), husband (42 years), human father (3x over), Cat Daddy (3x over). Avid reader. Founder and curator of #SundaySentence. Author of Van-ishing America on Substack: https://davidabrams.substack.com/
What if I told you the most beautiful novel I read this year was about a mass shooting at a school?
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What if I told you the most beautiful novel I read this year was about a mass shooting at a school?
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
Read the full review of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/what-im-re...
#FridayReads #bookreview #bestbooks
The latest installment in "The Month in Photos" at Van-ishing America features Kindle the #cat, #witches, #zombies and the #Halloween residents of #EurekaSprings, #Arkansas (along with a sidetrip to #Montana to pick up our household goods). See the pics here: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The latest installment in "The Month in Photos" at Van-ishing America features Kindle the #cat, #witches, #zombies and the #Halloween residents of #EurekaSprings, #Arkansas (along with a sidetrip to #Montana to pick up our household goods). See the pics here: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
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I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
#SundaySentence
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
This is, in a nutshell, the whole raison d’etre of #SundaySentence
"But it is precisely by thus quoting an isolated line that one multiplies its power of attraction tenfold."
#SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2015/10/22/t...
#SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2015/10/22/t...
The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu 3) by Marcel Proust
I’m caffeinated up to the eyeballs and on holiday in the backwoods of Finland, and have spent the last two days alternating between staring out of a cabin’s window at the empty wilderness of a Scan…
triumphofthenow.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is, in a nutshell, the whole raison d’etre of #SundaySentence
Reposted by David Abrams
#SundaySentence
"The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach."
- Carson McCullers, 1951
"The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach."
- Carson McCullers, 1951
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#SundaySentence
"The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach."
- Carson McCullers, 1951
"The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach."
- Carson McCullers, 1951
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By early Sunday morning, the City, so far from settling itself for a deeper sleep, lies silently expectant, awaiting the visitation of a ghostly army, summoned by bells to worship old gods in their carefully preserved shrines and to walk down quiet, remembered streets.
P D James
#SundaySentence
P D James
#SundaySentence
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
By early Sunday morning, the City, so far from settling itself for a deeper sleep, lies silently expectant, awaiting the visitation of a ghostly army, summoned by bells to worship old gods in their carefully preserved shrines and to walk down quiet, remembered streets.
P D James
#SundaySentence
P D James
#SundaySentence
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“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
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theresakishkan.com/2025/10/22/r...
a #SundaySentence from Theresa Kishkan's redux: morning (parenthesis) ...
This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout jumped out of the water just beyond where I was heading, the curve of its body an opening parenthesis to my thinking.
a #SundaySentence from Theresa Kishkan's redux: morning (parenthesis) ...
This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout jumped out of the water just beyond where I was heading, the curve of its body an opening parenthesis to my thinking.
on the river
Visit the post for more.
theresakishkan.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
theresakishkan.com/2025/10/22/r...
a #SundaySentence from Theresa Kishkan's redux: morning (parenthesis) ...
This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout jumped out of the water just beyond where I was heading, the curve of its body an opening parenthesis to my thinking.
a #SundaySentence from Theresa Kishkan's redux: morning (parenthesis) ...
This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout jumped out of the water just beyond where I was heading, the curve of its body an opening parenthesis to my thinking.
It’s Sunday: Do you know where your sentence is?
Each week, #readers share the very best sentence(s) they read in the past week. Share your favorite at #SundaySentence
Each week, #readers share the very best sentence(s) they read in the past week. Share your favorite at #SundaySentence
a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo sitting in a crowd .
Alt: a black and white GIF clip of Buster Keaton in a tuxedo sitting in a crowd looking at something off camera.
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It’s Sunday: Do you know where your sentence is?
Each week, #readers share the very best sentence(s) they read in the past week. Share your favorite at #SundaySentence
Each week, #readers share the very best sentence(s) they read in the past week. Share your favorite at #SundaySentence
My #SundaySentence is from the remarkable, unforgettable BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt:
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My #SundaySentence is from the remarkable, unforgettable BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt:
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
Other than telling her your name is Eddie, you won't remember what exactly you say. But you will remember how unique this moment feels, like two swimmers from separate shores meeting in the open water.
Reposted by David Abrams
#SundaySentence is from Gravity by Rickie Lee Jones, on The Magazine:
I try to imagine another
planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do
matters
https://tidal.com/browse/track/4616705?u
I try to imagine another
planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do
matters
https://tidal.com/browse/track/4616705?u
Rickie Lee Jones - Juke Box Fury
Listen to Juke Box Fury on TIDAL
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October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#SundaySentence is from Gravity by Rickie Lee Jones, on The Magazine:
I try to imagine another
planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do
matters
https://tidal.com/browse/track/4616705?u
I try to imagine another
planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do
matters
https://tidal.com/browse/track/4616705?u
Reposted by David Abrams
Struggling with creativity and focus, I come back to Natalie Goldberg’s foundation for my #SundaySentence :
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Struggling with creativity and focus, I come back to Natalie Goldberg’s foundation for my #SundaySentence :
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
Reposted by David Abrams
#SundaySentence from About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)
![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of calamari à l'armoricaine and the words Uncle also claims to be the custodian of the time-honored recipe for calamari à l'armoricaine, a recipe that consists of frozen squid rings vaguely cooked in half a gallon of cheap red wine seasoned only with a pinch of pepper, a dish, I should add, reserved for special occasions, for honored guests, for first-time visitors, because Uncle likes to give all newcomers a lavish welcome, at least those who are too polite to refuse what they're so beamingly being offered, and when we suggest to Uncle that he add some garlic, and go a little lighter on the red wine, and have a look at the sell-by date on the squid, and also take a shower, just a little more often, a real shower, not just a swipe with a wet washcloth, no, a real cleaning from top to bottom, Uncle says simply no, he doesn't want to, he's sticking to his father's recipe.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreicardznbtr25fn6knqd7wvtn4asttxh32fib6zeyhsfvluyfbfjt4@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#SundaySentence from About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)
Reposted by David Abrams
“And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners.”
A #SundaySentence by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
A #SundaySentence by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners.”
A #SundaySentence by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
A #SundaySentence by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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“The continuous cycle of pronominal expansion and contraction is the heart of writing for me, it is the time of writing, the filling and emptying of the chambers of the art.”
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“The continuous cycle of pronominal expansion and contraction is the heart of writing for me, it is the time of writing, the filling and emptying of the chambers of the art.”
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
—— Ben Lerner, Cardiography
#SundaySentence
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#sundaysentence
"I kissed your birthmarks
little islands on your skin;
new, discovered lands."
- Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters In
"I kissed your birthmarks
little islands on your skin;
new, discovered lands."
- Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters In
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#sundaysentence
"I kissed your birthmarks
little islands on your skin;
new, discovered lands."
- Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters In
"I kissed your birthmarks
little islands on your skin;
new, discovered lands."
- Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters In
Here's a #SundaySentence (or two) from These Truths
by Jill Lepore
by Jill Lepore
“Knowing that heat and sparks and hammers and anvils are not enough, they would have to forge an anchor in the glowing fire of their ideals. And to steer that ship through wind and wave, they would need to learn an ancient and nearly forgotten art: how to navigate by the stars.”
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Here's a #SundaySentence (or two) from These Truths
by Jill Lepore
by Jill Lepore
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“Whenever he walked up the creaking mast of stairs to their seagull’s nest apartment, he was surprised anew by Ulla’s elfin beauty, by the pine floors, by the white Ikea couch, by the Western lightness and comfort that was, apparently, his.
—Kiran Desai #SundaySentence
—Kiran Desai #SundaySentence
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“Whenever he walked up the creaking mast of stairs to their seagull’s nest apartment, he was surprised anew by Ulla’s elfin beauty, by the pine floors, by the white Ikea couch, by the Western lightness and comfort that was, apparently, his.
—Kiran Desai #SundaySentence
—Kiran Desai #SundaySentence
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Despite the weight of her mountainous hairdos, she didn't feel her head wobbling on her shoulders.
Hilary Mantel, Royal Bodies
Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books
found in their wonderful bookshop this week ❤️📚 #SundaySentence
Hilary Mantel, Royal Bodies
Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books
found in their wonderful bookshop this week ❤️📚 #SundaySentence
October 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Despite the weight of her mountainous hairdos, she didn't feel her head wobbling on her shoulders.
Hilary Mantel, Royal Bodies
Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books
found in their wonderful bookshop this week ❤️📚 #SundaySentence
Hilary Mantel, Royal Bodies
Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books
found in their wonderful bookshop this week ❤️📚 #SundaySentence
So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
October 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
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“Their marriage had ceased to be conjugal; his body did not conjugate hers; there was no grammar between them.”
~Namwali Serpell, ‘The Old Drift’
#SundaySentence
~Namwali Serpell, ‘The Old Drift’
#SundaySentence
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Their marriage had ceased to be conjugal; his body did not conjugate hers; there was no grammar between them.”
~Namwali Serpell, ‘The Old Drift’
#SundaySentence
~Namwali Serpell, ‘The Old Drift’
#SundaySentence
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Not from a book but a song:
Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
- John Prine
#sundaysentence
Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
- John Prine
#sundaysentence
October 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not from a book but a song:
Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
- John Prine
#sundaysentence
Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
- John Prine
#sundaysentence
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“If there were ‘new women’, really, in 1907, then you could hardly find a better example than Mary Mallon, a single, childless, domestic laborer pinned to the floor of a careening Health Department ambulance.”
Another #SundaySentence from Anthony Bourdain’s “Typhoid Mary”
Another #SundaySentence from Anthony Bourdain’s “Typhoid Mary”
October 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“If there were ‘new women’, really, in 1907, then you could hardly find a better example than Mary Mallon, a single, childless, domestic laborer pinned to the floor of a careening Health Department ambulance.”
Another #SundaySentence from Anthony Bourdain’s “Typhoid Mary”
Another #SundaySentence from Anthony Bourdain’s “Typhoid Mary”
I am accomplishing quite a lot in my own nice quiet noisy way.
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I am accomplishing quite a lot in my own nice quiet noisy way.
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
~May Sarton, "As We Are Now"
#SundaySentence
(I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)
September's installment of The Month in Photos is very Eureka Springs-centric. Pics include the Jeep parade, the Run Unicorn Run, and Hillbilly Jim taking a bath. Oh, and #cats, of course.
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
September's installment of The Month in Photos is very Eureka Springs-centric. Pics include the Jeep parade, the Run Unicorn Run, and Hillbilly Jim taking a bath. Oh, and #cats, of course.
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...
See the photos at Van-ishing America: davidabrams.substack.com/p/the-month-...