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Avid reader, book blogger, former Latin teacher/classicist, fountain pen addict. Blogging about literature and life at www.thebookbindersdaughter.com
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Phoebe with her Canadian sisters, Willow and Juno.
January 18, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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“miracles of darkness”
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Stunned by this poem by Romanian Lucian Blaga.

I wait for my sunset

I wash my sight in the sky's
star-filled vault -
I know that I too in my soul
carry many many stars
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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A wonderful study on imagery by Thom Gunn

Consider the snail

I cannot tell
what power is at work, drenched there
with purpose, knowing nothing.
What is a snail's fury?
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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'Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library'
— Walter Savage Landor
A view of the statue of Isaac Newton through the iron gates of the British Library. The ironwork of the gates spells out 'British Library' in a repeated column.
November 18, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
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You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard
Austrian poet, writer and librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal signalled a break with his earlier works when, in 1902, he published the story “A Letter,” also known as “The Lord Chandos Letter.” It is…
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January 16, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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'…Really that young man, I’ve no patience at all with him; he behaves like a very unconvincing character in a book, not like a human being at all.’ #BookSky 💙📚

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Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
First published in 1932, Christmas Pudding was one of Nancy Mitford’s early books, written before she hit the big time with her semi-autobiographical novels, In the Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love …
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January 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here!

BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026!

Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/
The front cover for Denise Rose Hansen's Blue Sunset features a mostly blue painting of a person asleep in a bed by Kaye Donachie. The front cover of What Remains is black and white and features a photograph of a building designed by Miguel Fisac.
January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Managed to find a used copy & looking forward to timetravel

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Allen Ginsberg - Iron Curtain Journals - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Announcing the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Iron Curtain Journals - January-May 1965 - edited by Michael Schumacher
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January 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Ashbery
January 17, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Re-upping for the holiday weekend crowd: New issue on boredom quotes Barbara Pym, Henry James, The Kills, Elisa Gabbert, Penelope Fitzgerald, Nicola Griffith, Mary McCarthy, Lars Iyer, Ilka Chase, Orson Wells, and many other folks.

Napoleon among them.
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Julian Barnes's departure: his cancer, his deaf dog, Martin Amis's last email to him, and why he's stopping writing novels so that he doesn't die in the middle of one and have some other bastard finish it for him.

Me on Barnes's final book:
Julian Barnes bids farewell: ‘My cancer and I will trundle along until the day I die’
In his final book, Departure(s), the Booker-winning author explores love death, and ageing
www.thetimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM