Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

4/20
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

3/20
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

The notebook sweet spot is so small.
Like the chances of finding one that's nice enough to buy but not too nice to ruin by writing in it are basically zero. Madness. This world is absolute madness.

Could tonight be the night?

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.

Morning.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

mental health break? you bet it did

What book, novel, poem, film, piece of music etc has ever made you feel "thank GOD we have this art & that I have experienced this"? It doesn't have to be "literary"or "high brow," don't worry about that, just tell me yours

New here and no idea how it works, but glancing around, I already see a lot more books here than in the other place, so I think I’ll stay

"We live for books."
Umberto Eco.

🎨Friedrich Frotzel, The old book case, 1929.

writer: bop it!
main character: *bops it*
writer: twist it!
main character: *twists it*
writer: help me process years of personal trauma by shouldering it all under the guise of a silly magical adventure
main character: what
writer: pull it!
main character: ha! *pulls it*

Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

Everyone on this site has a library card

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.