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The only way forward is shitposting through
From #CalebFemi 's collection #Poor, a stirring, passionate and strong debut release from 2020.

Femi is sitting on this year's Booker Prize panel and recently dropped a new collect #TheWickedist.
May 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"What thoughts keep him company, alone at his desk? How is he sufficient to himself?"

"How is anyone to do anything if the gap between an idea and its realisation, a thought and its expression, should be a chasm?"

Serving anxious, awkward queer kid realness 3.5/5

#MichaelAmherst #TheBoyhoodofCain
April 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"What are you into?" ...
Go on. Answer him. Don't you know who you are?

Tolcher takes de Balzac's claim that every ejaculation is death to creative energy very seriously and gives us this horny journey of self inquiry while abstaining from orgasm.

5/5 high impact, fun and reflective read.
April 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
James Kelman, author of the 1994 Booker Prize winning novel How Late It Was, How Late.

#booksky #BookerPrize #reading
March 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Reading Ellen van Neerven's Throat, a powerful and proud collection of brilliant poetry.

#booksky #reading
March 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"And my present bubbled and frothed in my past, and was borne naturally away."
#DavidFosterWallace somehow making taking a piss in a shitty toilet on campus at your alma mater sound very beautiful.

#booksky #BroomOfTheSystem
March 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
She's beauty and she's grace she's @overlandjournal.bsky.social mail.
March 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
February 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Fun fact! The French tuck was invented by me in 1794 because I had coffee on the corner of my shirt.
February 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Super late to the Valentine's posting, but this!!

#booksky #davidfosterwallace
February 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
February 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
February 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I want to sit down to dinner with the 1% of Storygraphers who reviewed #JoanDidion #TheYearOfMagicalThinking and found it to be "relaxing" or "funny".

#booksky #reading #memoir #grief #death
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking
February 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Kidman was brilliant in this as our highly strung, sexually repressed, over injected and over achieving lead, but a lot happens in terms of personal growth for her beaux too. It may even be where the real story is. Highly recommend.

#babygirl #movie
February 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
1. As I type, the Wikipedia page for Babygirl pronounces it to be an 'erotic thriller'. This movie wasn't a kinky movie. The erotic façade was a trap to lure you into the cinema so that you view the 10/10 nuanced discourse on feminism, masculinity and sexuality in the current age. Well played Reijn.
February 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
2. Kidman was brilliant in this as our highly strung, sexually repressed, over injected and over achieving lead, but a lot happens in terms of personal growth for her beaux too. It may even be where the real story is. Highly recommend.
February 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#Stoner on love: "Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming,a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart."

#booksky #JohnWilliams
February 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."

#booksky #Stoner #JohnWilliams
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Internet needs more dog pictures.
February 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Mining #bookstagram for memes and dumb things originally posted on #twitter or #booktok to post on #booksky. It's the circle of life. It's trickle down economics actually working at its best.
February 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Finally he realised that it had become a refuge, a haven, an excuse to come to the office at night. He read and studied, and at last came to find some comfort, some pleasure, and even a ghost of the old joy in that which he did, a learning toward no particular end."

#booksky #ClassicLiterature
January 31, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Sharing this because it was such a good prompt to open up a conversation and check with a friend.

Also cc: For the Love of Men, by Liz Plank.

#booksky
January 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM