“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King

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Floating around with mum!

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

A safe place to hide from morons is a library or book store.

Fellow bookworms, sound off what book you’re currently reading or what book you’re hoping to start! I’m looking to add to my TBR #booksky

“I’m reading this great book and I’ll lend it to you once I’ve finished it” is is the biggest #greenflag I’ve ever heard of #booksky

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

This place is like therapy.

Having a library card is the BIGGEST green flag ✅

When you see someone else you recognize has joined Bluesky

Does anyone else leave the To line empty in long emails until you're ready to actually send, so that you don't send it early by accident?

I think the only thing I’m annoyed about is that this is all very real and not scripted comedy, because if it was scripted comedy it would be incredibly elite.

We are going to need a lot of fantasy books to get us through the next 4 years.

Everyone on this site has a library card

Holiday baking tip #17: check to make sure you have all the ingredients you need, then take the most important one and hide it in your trunk, that way when things get overwhelming you can "run out to the store" and just go sit in the blessed solitude of your car for 25 minutes

but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests?