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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor
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Non-fiction editor of award-winning and bestselling books and other media 📚 Freelance. Also photographer 📸 Loves art 🎨 and the guitar 🎸

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In the bluebell wood 2... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk #FlowerPhotography #weekend #green
A view along a shaded path in a beech wood with bluebells
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In the bluebell wood... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk
A view of a bluebell wood in shade
April 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1800.

The national repository for every book published in the USA, important historic documents and much more! 📚📜

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the Library, a huge building in white stone in the American classical style. Immense and imposing Epic interior of the circular reading room. An ornately painted dome in the ceiling centre looks down on arched stained glass windows around the room. Beneath them, inset arches on two levels in Roman amphitheatre style surround wooden desks in rows around a central statue
April 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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It's that magical time of year...🪻

#bluebells #Beechwood #nature #flowers #floral #woods #NaturePhotography #photography #LandscapePhotography #ThePhotoHour #BluebellWood #woodland #WoodlandWalk
A view of bluebells flowering in a beechwood. A shaft of light is streaming across the carpet of flowers diagonally, from left to right
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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One for the graphic designers and typographers out there 😁

#design #GraphicDesign #typography #editing #designers #DesignSky #edibuddies
Picture of the front of a house with the number 39 on the nameplate, underneath it reads 'Lorem Ipsum'
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I don't know about you, but this glorious weather and millions of people out showing their value of freedom has really lifted my spirits 😊

Plus blossom 💮

How y'all doing, lovely Skyers?

#Spring #blossom #photography #NaturePhotography #GardenPhotography #trees #flower #floral #HandsOff #nature
Cherry blossom on a branch
April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Bishan Public Library, Singapore, 2006.

I believe an appropriate description for this would be: wow!

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the Library: a rectangular building with white sloping roof supported by columns, and fully glass-fronted in blue panes. White narrow vertical rectangular blocks in blue, green and yellow glass protrude from the front elevation, forming places to sit inside Interior of the library in white. There is a high atrium and walkway to the left, while on the right the rooms on the second floor appear suspended on white pillars. The interior continues the outside colour theme, with huge walls of glass in blue, green and yellow
March 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Twilight in Spring🪻

#ScillaChionodoxa #GloryOfTheSnow #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #GardenPhotography #flower #floral #twilight #evening #blue #spring #SpringFlowers #dusk #ThePhotoHour
A sea of Glory of the Snow blue flowers (Scilla Chionodoxa) at dusk
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Random question: T-shirts over long sleeves. Is '90s layering back, or did it never go away?

Asking for a friend 😁

#fashion #style #clothing #1990s #UrbanStyle #layering
A black t-shirt over a grey long-sleeve shirt
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Post a cool library 📚

New South Wales State Library, Australia, 1826.

Entered on the Heritage Register in 1999, the library is a stunning Sydney landmark!

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the Library beautifully lit in multicolours at night. The grand entrance is classical, with triangular pediment, columns and steps up to the entrance Stunning, vast interior of the Mitchell Reading Room, with huge curved plaster coving on the ceiling perimeter, square roof glazing in pale blue and pink, and bookshelves around the room in dark wood. Rows of wooden desks are arranged on either side of the room, with staff stations and desks in the centre
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Like cherry blossom, magnolia season is short but oh-so-lovely ❤️

#magnolias #MagnoliaTree #garden #nature #tree #flower #NaturePhotography #GardenPhotography #photography #ThePhotoHour #blossom #floral
A beautiful magnolia tree in bloom with pink and white flowers open to the sun under a clear blue sky
March 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

New York Public Library, 1895.

Stunning building in the classical style, with the Rose Main Reading Room a truly opulent experience!

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
View up the steps up to the exterior of the New York Public Library, constructed in white stone with statues and columns in the Greek classical style. Beside the entrance hang vertical garlands in red: The library is here for you' and 'Get a library card!' Stunning interior of the Rose Main Reading Room in wood, with a central aisle flanked on either side by long wooden desks, and bookshelves along the wall. Opulent glass chandeliers hang above them and arched, mullioned windows light the space. The dark wooden ceiling is carved ornately and recessed, with paintings in the centre of each tray
March 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Spring is here 🪻🌿

#Spring #seasons #EndOfWinter #photography #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #ThePhotoHour #flowers #daffodils #FirstBloomsOfSpring #Wordsworth #poetry
A host of golden daffodils in a sunlit green space with trees in the background
March 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Spring is coming... 🪻🌿

#Spring #flowers #floral #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #GardenPhotography #seasons #EndOfWinter
A close up of beautiful lilac-coloured crocuses, flowers open to the sun in late February
February 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) Art Library, London, 1857.

A beacon for art in the capital in the tradition of fine Victorian urban architecture!

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the museum courtyard in red and white brick,with open columned entrance in white stone, and a small contemporary arrow-shaped extension in glass on the ground floor to the left Luxurious mid-Victorian interior of the library on two floors, decorated with turquoise walls and round columns on the ground floor, ornate green ironwork on the first floor, ornate chandelier, gold insert ceiling, dark wood bookshelves around the perimeter and rows of dark wood desks across the room
February 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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If it's Friday, it must be Guardian Style Guide time! 👇

Pithy 😁

#WritingCommunity #writing #AmWriting #editing #AmEditing #subediting #StyleGuides #journalism #newspapers #edibuddies #humour #funny #FridayFunny
Guardian Style Guide reads: basically this word is unnecessary, basically
January 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 20

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World by Harry Thompson
January 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 19

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Kenneth Williams Diaries
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 18

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of Murder in the Kitchen by Alice B. Toklas
January 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Good, innit! Next, I'm going back to the canon: the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice ❤️
A still from the 1995 BBC series Pride and Prejudice, with Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and the really rather gorgeous Colin Firth as Darcy 😁
January 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 17

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Seattle Central Library, USA, 2004.

A massive glass and steel terrarium out of Tron with books, music and more! Wow 😍

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
The building is angular, shaped at 45° off the ground on the left and vertical on the right, stepped back from the pavement, with a shaped overhang at the top. Constructed of steel and glass in a cross-mesh design, it reflects its surroundings. This thing is space age! Interior of the library under the huge side of the building's glass and steel wall at 45°, with seating under round lamps to the left, a large central space with green carpet mimicking undergrowth, a square raised bed with real planting, and rows of bookshelves to the right
January 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 16

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
January 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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It's Friday, so more excellent shade from the Guardian Style Guide 👇

#WritingCommunity #writing #AmWriting #editing #AmEditing #subediting #StyleGuides #journalism #newspapers #edibuddies #humour #funny #FridayFunny
The Guardian Style Guide reads: brilliant "a word applied indiscriminately by the Guardian to anything new, no matter how ordinary” (2010 tweet from a reader)
January 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Choose 20 nonfiction 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.

Day 15

#BookSky
📚💙
#nonfiction
#BookChallenge
Cover of Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull
January 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM