Nancy Pearl
@nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social
Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
"It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
Who remembers Nancy Drew’s father’s name ? What about the name of their housekeeper?
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Who remembers Nancy Drew’s father’s name ? What about the name of their housekeeper?
Done & dusted. The painting itself was done by an unknown artist sometime in the 16th century; it depicts the “First Meeting of Rostam and his Grandfather, Sam” from the Iranian national epic, the Shanama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (c934-c1020.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Done & dusted. The painting itself was done by an unknown artist sometime in the 16th century; it depicts the “First Meeting of Rostam and his Grandfather, Sam” from the Iranian national epic, the Shanama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (c934-c1020.
Jane Haddam's Act of Darkness-"She was a single-minded machine for the operation of triumphant narcissism, and that narcissism had a nasty edge of envy to it.(She) was one of those people who was happiest not when she won but when she could watch other people losing."
I know someone just like this
I know someone just like this
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Jane Haddam's Act of Darkness-"She was a single-minded machine for the operation of triumphant narcissism, and that narcissism had a nasty edge of envy to it.(She) was one of those people who was happiest not when she won but when she could watch other people losing."
I know someone just like this
I know someone just like this
From Jane Haddam's mystery Festival of Deaths: "Café Blasé was one of those vaguely French restaurants that decorated all its food with flower petals, so that a perfectly respectable piece of fried chicken breast arrived at the table looking as if it had been drowned with Ophelia."
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
From Jane Haddam's mystery Festival of Deaths: "Café Blasé was one of those vaguely French restaurants that decorated all its food with flower petals, so that a perfectly respectable piece of fried chicken breast arrived at the table looking as if it had been drowned with Ophelia."
Another quotation from my notebooks, this one from Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian mystery Glass Houses:
"Hell was a place where mediocrity reigned day by day, without the relief of outright awfulness."
"Hell was a place where mediocrity reigned day by day, without the relief of outright awfulness."
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Another quotation from my notebooks, this one from Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian mystery Glass Houses:
"Hell was a place where mediocrity reigned day by day, without the relief of outright awfulness."
"Hell was a place where mediocrity reigned day by day, without the relief of outright awfulness."
Done & dusted. Another winner from @galison.bsky.social - Dog Gallery is just the right amount of crazy-making 1000 pieces. While I worked on this I listened to Natasha Pulley’s Hymn to Dionysus with great pleasure
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Done & dusted. Another winner from @galison.bsky.social - Dog Gallery is just the right amount of crazy-making 1000 pieces. While I worked on this I listened to Natasha Pulley’s Hymn to Dionysus with great pleasure
I was looking through my notebooks of quotes and found this, from The Half Life of Valery K by @natashapulley.bsky.social. It gave me chills
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I was looking through my notebooks of quotes and found this, from The Half Life of Valery K by @natashapulley.bsky.social. It gave me chills
Done & dusted. Perfect 1000-piecer, just what I always expect (and get) from @eeBoo. This one is Alchemist’s Orchard
October 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Done & dusted. Perfect 1000-piecer, just what I always expect (and get) from @eeBoo. This one is Alchemist’s Orchard
Done & dusted. “Serenity Meow”-a terrific 1000-piecer from @galison.bsky.social. While I worked on it I listened to Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye with much enjoyment
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Done & dusted. “Serenity Meow”-a terrific 1000-piecer from @galison.bsky.social. While I worked on it I listened to Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye with much enjoyment
Absolutely loved Mimi Pond's Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me. Her drawings complement the biographical details to a tee, and the bibliography is filled with other interesting titles about the family. You go, Decca!!!
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Absolutely loved Mimi Pond's Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me. Her drawings complement the biographical details to a tee, and the bibliography is filled with other interesting titles about the family. You go, Decca!!!
Another favorite poem, this one by Katha Pollitt - Wisdom of the Desert Fathers:
“Before they knew it, it was too late to go back:
the farm had gone under, cancer had taken Mother,
everyone was married. Even the demons
hardly came round anymore
with their childish bribes of money and sex.”
“Before they knew it, it was too late to go back:
the farm had gone under, cancer had taken Mother,
everyone was married. Even the demons
hardly came round anymore
with their childish bribes of money and sex.”
October 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Another favorite poem, this one by Katha Pollitt - Wisdom of the Desert Fathers:
“Before they knew it, it was too late to go back:
the farm had gone under, cancer had taken Mother,
everyone was married. Even the demons
hardly came round anymore
with their childish bribes of money and sex.”
“Before they knew it, it was too late to go back:
the farm had gone under, cancer had taken Mother,
everyone was married. Even the demons
hardly came round anymore
with their childish bribes of money and sex.”
“Praise the odd, serendipitous world.” I really wish I had interviewed Stephen Dunn so I could tell him how much I loved his poetry. This one, especially
October 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“Praise the odd, serendipitous world.” I really wish I had interviewed Stephen Dunn so I could tell him how much I loved his poetry. This one, especially
I love @tomgauld.bsky.social’s work
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I love @tomgauld.bsky.social’s work
"Say Daphne, If you knew her as a tree."
Midcentury poet Howard Moss is one of my favorites, and this poem, Shorelines, is one of my very favorites of his.
Midcentury poet Howard Moss is one of my favorites, and this poem, Shorelines, is one of my very favorites of his.
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Say Daphne, If you knew her as a tree."
Midcentury poet Howard Moss is one of my favorites, and this poem, Shorelines, is one of my very favorites of his.
Midcentury poet Howard Moss is one of my favorites, and this poem, Shorelines, is one of my very favorites of his.
R.I.P. Thomas Perry, author of two of my very favorite thrillers: 1983's Metzger's Dog (which featured a particularly interesting cat) and 1995's Vanishing Act, (which introduced his series star Jane Whitfield).
September 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
R.I.P. Thomas Perry, author of two of my very favorite thrillers: 1983's Metzger's Dog (which featured a particularly interesting cat) and 1995's Vanishing Act, (which introduced his series star Jane Whitfield).
Done & dusted. “Fantasy Toy Shop,” a 1000-piecer from @ravensburgertcg.bsky.social was-I cannot lie-tricky to do (all those dolls!)
While I worked on it I listened with great pleasure to Amy Gamerman’s The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West.
While I worked on it I listened with great pleasure to Amy Gamerman’s The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West.
September 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Done & dusted. “Fantasy Toy Shop,” a 1000-piecer from @ravensburgertcg.bsky.social was-I cannot lie-tricky to do (all those dolls!)
While I worked on it I listened with great pleasure to Amy Gamerman’s The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West.
While I worked on it I listened with great pleasure to Amy Gamerman’s The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West.
Another excellent sign
September 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Another excellent sign
Best sign of the day;
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Best sign of the day;
Love this photo of Joe and I walking the Kennet-Avon canal footpath into a darkening sky and potential torrential rain. Sort of a metaphor of aging together in a very long marriage
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Love this photo of Joe and I walking the Kennet-Avon canal footpath into a darkening sky and potential torrential rain. Sort of a metaphor of aging together in a very long marriage
Late to the party, but really loved Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall. Still processing how amazingly current a novel orig pub some 30 years ago can be. Excellent plot, wonderful writing. Grateful to Tor Essentials for reprinting this last year.
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Late to the party, but really loved Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall. Still processing how amazingly current a novel orig pub some 30 years ago can be. Excellent plot, wonderful writing. Grateful to Tor Essentials for reprinting this last year.
What Seattle definitely needs (I am tempted to say, more than anything) is a Marks & Spencer Food Hall
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What Seattle definitely needs (I am tempted to say, more than anything) is a Marks & Spencer Food Hall
In his terrific book Everything is Tuberculosis, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social quotes a friend of his who says "Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past," which I haven't stopped thinking about since I heard it on the audiobook, which Green reads.
August 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In his terrific book Everything is Tuberculosis, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social quotes a friend of his who says "Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past," which I haven't stopped thinking about since I heard it on the audiobook, which Green reads.
Finding an "Easter egg" in a novel you're reading is such a treat, and here's one I found while I was listening to the audio book: the librarian in Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books uses "nancypearl" as her password! Very very cool, thank you @kirstenmiller.bsky.social !
August 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Finding an "Easter egg" in a novel you're reading is such a treat, and here's one I found while I was listening to the audio book: the librarian in Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books uses "nancypearl" as her password! Very very cool, thank you @kirstenmiller.bsky.social !
I was looking through some old notebooks of mine and found this, which I wrote when I was 17 or 18
August 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I was looking through some old notebooks of mine and found this, which I wrote when I was 17 or 18