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Abby Breyer
@abbybreyer.bsky.social
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English Teacher | Rhet/Comp PhD Student | Book Lover | Writer | Fan of too many things |

In my work I explore digital activism, disability justice, fandom studies, queer theory, and more!📚
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Reading The Song of Achilles in class and several of my students are adamant that we must avoid spoilers at all costs… my guys 😭 the story has been around for 3000 years
February 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Spent the snow day sitting with this incredible book. It dances with love and light and horror and loss - everyone needs to add it to their reading list ASAP! #booksky
A book cover for the book Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa. The cover is splashes of red, purple, and blue - almost fitted together like a patchwork quilt. The blue and purple parts are cut together to make the face and upper body of a woman.
January 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Just finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land and I’m in awe. It reminded me of why I fell in love with reading as a child. The magic, the humanity, the suffering, the joy!! #BookSky
The image shows a cover of a book with the title “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr. The cover has a white background with a blue book in the center with stars and a cloud on it. Surrounding the blue book is a city of golden turrets with a flock of birds emerging from it. The bottom of the cover says, “An instant New York Times bestseller” and “Wildly inventive.. a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.”- The New York Times Book Review
December 3, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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An office in my hall has a quote of the day and today’s is from Natalie Diaz’s poetry:

“Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.”
November 26, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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I finished this poetry collection last night and it filled me with so much joy and wonder- I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it
The cover of a book called The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science and Poetry. A bright red flower sits in the middle of a ring of trees and stars against a black background. A picture of a poem on a page that reads: FIGURES OF THOUGHT HOWARD NEMEROV To lay the logarithmic spiral on Sea-shell and leaf alike, and see it fit, To watch the same idea work itself out In the fighter pilot's steepening, tightening turn Onto his target, setting up the kill, And in the flight of certain wall-eyed bugs Who cannot see to fly straight into death But have to cast their sidelong glance at it And come but cranking to the candle's flame— How secret that is, and how privileged One feels to find the same necessity Ciphered in forms diverse and otherwise Without kinship that is the beautiful In Nature as in art, not obvious, Not inaccessible, but just between. It may diminish some our dry delight To wonder if everything we are and do Lies subject to some little law like that; Hidden in nature, but not deeply so.
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 PM