Maud Burnett McInerney
@maudmci.bsky.social
Teacher, cat lover, medievalist, poet, Francophone and a bunch of other stuff.
Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
Day 2 (started late)
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
Day 2 (started late)
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
Day 2 (started late)
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
Day 2 (started late)
Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Choose 25 holiday-themed books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
#BookSky #BookChallenge
#Christmas #HolidayReading
I like this one:
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I like this one:
#BirdOfTheDay #Posts Does a pigeon on a gargoyle count?
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#BirdOfTheDay #Posts Does a pigeon on a gargoyle count?
@bookologythursday.bsky.social
I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man… What I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man… What I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
@bookologythursday.bsky.social
I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man… What I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man… What I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
October 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Carlisle, PA! That’s CENTRAL Pennsylvania for those not familiar.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Carlisle, PA! That’s CENTRAL Pennsylvania for those not familiar.
Yes. It is. The beginning of that novel is pretty great too:
October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yes. It is. The beginning of that novel is pretty great too:
This is a green heron. He’s very small for a heron, and not really green, but he just finished gobbling down two fresh minnows and I like him.
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is a green heron. He’s very small for a heron, and not really green, but he just finished gobbling down two fresh minnows and I like him.
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Found this tiny visitor on my desk today.
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Found this tiny visitor on my desk today.
In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread.
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
#bookologyThursday
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
#bookologyThursday
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread.
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
#bookologyThursday
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.
#bookologyThursday
Went for my daily turtle walk. My daughter, pensively: “If I had a turtle I’d call him turtlelini.” Dear readers, she is 32.
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Went for my daily turtle walk. My daughter, pensively: “If I had a turtle I’d call him turtlelini.” Dear readers, she is 32.
5 minutes from home… I met this lovely family.
#ForestFriday
#ForestFriday
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
5 minutes from home… I met this lovely family.
#ForestFriday
#ForestFriday
Reading by the pond as resistance. Terrance Hayes wrote these poems during the first 200 days of the first Trump presidency. They are ever more relevant and brilliant.
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reading by the pond as resistance. Terrance Hayes wrote these poems during the first 200 days of the first Trump presidency. They are ever more relevant and brilliant.
John Donne, man...never fails to take my breath away.
Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new...
No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.
Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new...
No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
John Donne, man...never fails to take my breath away.
Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new...
No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.
Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new...
No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.
Days when I feel like this angry snail-cat. Maastricht Hours, Netherlands, 14th century.
September 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Days when I feel like this angry snail-cat. Maastricht Hours, Netherlands, 14th century.
College students and one professor being indoctrinated… into bird watching.
September 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
College students and one professor being indoctrinated… into bird watching.
Unfortunately…
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Unfortunately…
Trust me. I’m a Professor of Arthurian literature.
September 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Trust me. I’m a Professor of Arthurian literature.
Rereading The Obelisk Gate, second in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. So unbelievably brilliant, painful and true. Best SF writer of the 21st century (so far).
July 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Rereading The Obelisk Gate, second in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. So unbelievably brilliant, painful and true. Best SF writer of the 21st century (so far).