Nancy Brock
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Nancy Brock
@nancybrock.bsky.social
Writes a little, reads a lot. SC Academy of Authors Board of Governors, 3-times finalist for the Ron Rash Fiction Award.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Rereading THE OLD WAYS 4th time.
August 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy @eliseblackwell.bsky.social Appreciation Day!
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happiness is the latest mystery by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social THE FROZEN PEOPLE @vikingbooks.bsky.social Read this time travel mystery straight through
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My short story HUNTING SEASON is a finalist in the Ron Rash Fiction Awards, and will be published in Broad River Review this fall.
June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Happy Bloomsday! Rejoyce!
June 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Yesterday I received my beautiful signed copy of IS A RIVER ALIVE. Began reading last night. Will finish today and regret it didn't go on longer.
May 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#FridayReads @jeremydauber.bsky.social AMERICAN SCARY @algonquinbooks.bsky.social From the Salem witch trials to today's reads and watches, things scaring us don't necessarily happen only at night
May 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@juliaelliott.bsky.social Best wishes for your All Good Books book launch.
May 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#FridayReads @juliaelliott.bsky.social HELLIONS @tinhouse.bsky.social Amazing stories, best read in a well-lit room.
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Today marks a painful anniversary for me. Some of the writers and books that helped me through this year of grieving: Joan Didion A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social A WIDOW'S STORY, Geraldine Brooks MEMORIAL DAYS.
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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BUFFALO HUNTER
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Long night, 'cause I'm reading this one until I finish.
April 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#FridayReads Geraldine Brooks MEMORIAL DAYS Viking Press. For any one who has lost a loved one. Reading this brought me some comfort.
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#FridayReads Hanif Kureishi SHATTERED Ecco Books. A fall, at home. A life changed. A memoir celebrating resilience of spirit and the triumph of the mind.
February 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#FridayReads @morgantalty.bsky.social FIRE EXIT @tinhouse.bsky.social Nominated by Richland Library for the #DublinLiteraryAward.
February 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Early #FridayReads posting: Books about Greenland I recommend. GREENLANDERS, Jane Smiley's epic set in the 14th century. MY FROZEN HEAVEN: SEVEN SEASONS IN GREENLAND, Gretel Ehrlich (nonfiction). Peter Hoeg SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW, mystery.
January 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#FridayReads Continuing THE DARK IS RISING, Susan Coopers' classic seasonal tale, with the conclusion on Twelfth Night.
January 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#FridayReads Susan Cooper THE DARK IS RISING Tonight will be bad, tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
December 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
The real Europe is not a posh café ... #FridayReads Rachel Kushner CREATION LAKE. It becomes a territory of eco-terroism, with Neanderthal-haunted caves and a woman with an assumed name engaged in espionage. #BookerPrizeShortlist title.
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
I'll begin my annual #DarkIsRising reread on Midwinter's Eve.
December 10, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Most beautiful posts of Notre Dame Reopening. The Macrons, First Lady Jill Biden, Prince William, President Zelensky. Where did I see these? Sorry, not here. I saw these on TWitter. Makes me glad I'm still bouncing back and forth.
December 7, 2024 at 10:33 PM
JAMES by Percival Everett has won the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. Well-deserved honor for a Columbia, SC native.
November 21, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Vinson Cunningham GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Fictionalized account of Obama's presidential campaign. I needed this. One of
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wonderful authors.
November 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Percival Everett JAMES published by KnopfDoubleday. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, one of the great authors appearing in U of South Carolina's
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. We aren't in Mark Twain country any more.
November 15, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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