Felicity McCarthy
@mccarthy-felicity.bsky.social
My house is a library
What I always do on vacation: acquire books. And note new bookstores visited.
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What I always do on vacation: acquire books. And note new bookstores visited.
March 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
February 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
February 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Humanism is not a panacea, a cure all, a magic pill. But it is a state of mind. It is not humanitarianism, or a religion, or regime. It is: a desire to control ourselves, an attempt to be human.
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Thank you Sarah Bakewell for this lucid examination.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #humanlypossible
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Thank you Sarah Bakewell for this lucid examination.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #humanlypossible
February 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Humanism is not a panacea, a cure all, a magic pill. But it is a state of mind. It is not humanitarianism, or a religion, or regime. It is: a desire to control ourselves, an attempt to be human.
📚
Thank you Sarah Bakewell for this lucid examination.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #humanlypossible
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Thank you Sarah Bakewell for this lucid examination.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #humanlypossible
Yesterday was Charles Dickens’ birthday.
February 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yesterday was Charles Dickens’ birthday.
Now starting this one. It’s on the list at the back of #onceuponaprime and I’ve had it in my library for a while, unread.
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#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #theluminaries #eleanorcatton
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#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #theluminaries #eleanorcatton
February 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Now starting this one. It’s on the list at the back of #onceuponaprime and I’ve had it in my library for a while, unread.
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#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #theluminaries #eleanorcatton
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#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #theluminaries #eleanorcatton
Reading now: Once Upon a Prime, by Sarah Hart, Gresham Professor of Geometry.
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Clever, kind, funny, and mathematical. If you like math and literature, I think you will like this one…
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There is a BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oh yeah.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #onceuponaprime
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Clever, kind, funny, and mathematical. If you like math and literature, I think you will like this one…
📚
There is a BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oh yeah.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #onceuponaprime
February 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reading now: Once Upon a Prime, by Sarah Hart, Gresham Professor of Geometry.
📚
Clever, kind, funny, and mathematical. If you like math and literature, I think you will like this one…
📚
There is a BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oh yeah.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #onceuponaprime
📚
Clever, kind, funny, and mathematical. If you like math and literature, I think you will like this one…
📚
There is a BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oh yeah.
#booksky #myhouseisalibrary #onceuponaprime
Reposted by Felicity McCarthy
When you write something, you pin a piece of yourself down. It's like nailing your pant leg down to the floor. Once it is written, you can't stray from it, you have to walk within the circumference established. The more public the writing, the deeper the nail is driven. Thus writing changes you.
February 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When you write something, you pin a piece of yourself down. It's like nailing your pant leg down to the floor. Once it is written, you can't stray from it, you have to walk within the circumference established. The more public the writing, the deeper the nail is driven. Thus writing changes you.
Reposted by Felicity McCarthy
1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...
January 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...
Started reading The Day We Found the Universe. I continue finding unread books in my library. Not really a surprise, that.
#booksky #marciabartusiak
#booksky #marciabartusiak
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Started reading The Day We Found the Universe. I continue finding unread books in my library. Not really a surprise, that.
#booksky #marciabartusiak
#booksky #marciabartusiak
My library; scenes by day. A small fraction of the total.
January 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My library; scenes by day. A small fraction of the total.
January 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
RIP Jules Feiffer
January 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
RIP Jules Feiffer
January 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reading now.
Someone recently started a Ngaio Marsh read through. If I could only remember who, I could send them the invoice for the time I will surely spend rereading them myself.
#booksky
Someone recently started a Ngaio Marsh read through. If I could only remember who, I could send them the invoice for the time I will surely spend rereading them myself.
#booksky
January 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reading now.
Someone recently started a Ngaio Marsh read through. If I could only remember who, I could send them the invoice for the time I will surely spend rereading them myself.
#booksky
Someone recently started a Ngaio Marsh read through. If I could only remember who, I could send them the invoice for the time I will surely spend rereading them myself.
#booksky
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now settling in to Sunday. Predictably reading. Library, first floor.
#shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
#shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
January 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Now settling in to Sunday. Predictably reading. Library, first floor.
#shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
#shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
Tags which predictably reflect my days and ways: #shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
Pictures that predictably reflect my tags…
Pictures that predictably reflect my tags…
January 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tags which predictably reflect my days and ways: #shelfiesunday #myhouseisalibrary
Pictures that predictably reflect my tags…
Pictures that predictably reflect my tags…
*plink*
Hello? A new social media platform?
Reading now.
Hello? A new social media platform?
Reading now.
January 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
*plink*
Hello? A new social media platform?
Reading now.
Hello? A new social media platform?
Reading now.