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@pear-jelly.bsky.social
Seasonal reader, Comyns head, spinsterlit, midcentury women writers, heritage publishing and secondhand bookshopping #spinsterseptember 🇮🇪 Dublin
The books I read in September 📚 (not pictured: 🎧 Rural Hours by Harriet Baker) #booksky #spinsterseptember #womenintranslation
October 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The books I read in September 📚 (not pictured: 🎧 Rural Hours by Harriet Baker) #booksky #spinsterseptember #womenintranslation
The three books I read for #spinsterseptember 🍏 #booksky
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The three books I read for #spinsterseptember 🍏 #booksky
Thank you Lawrence! @miriamgershow.bsky.social i made a post a while back on 60+ heroines in books, you might find what you are looking for in the below picture (i’d also add The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington)
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thank you Lawrence! @miriamgershow.bsky.social i made a post a while back on 60+ heroines in books, you might find what you are looking for in the below picture (i’d also add The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington)
“Her panic-stricken face would be reflected back at her as she struggled to deny her identity, slowly cosseting herself away from the truth. She was learning to triumph over reality, and the truth wad beginning to leave her in peace” — Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, a #spinsterseptember recommendation
September 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Her panic-stricken face would be reflected back at her as she struggled to deny her identity, slowly cosseting herself away from the truth. She was learning to triumph over reality, and the truth wad beginning to leave her in peace” — Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, a #spinsterseptember recommendation
Started book 2 for #spinsterseptember today - first line pulled me in straight away 🪦 #booksky
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Started book 2 for #spinsterseptember today - first line pulled me in straight away 🪦 #booksky
A slow start to #spinsterseptember but book 1 is done ✔️ not technically spinsterlit but a fun, quippy and empathetic look at the lives of single women working in a London department store in the 1930s. Loved it!
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A slow start to #spinsterseptember but book 1 is done ✔️ not technically spinsterlit but a fun, quippy and empathetic look at the lives of single women working in a London department store in the 1930s. Loved it!
Check out @onebrightbook.bsky.social latest episode to hear what @nonsuchbook.bsky.social is reading for #spinsterseptember “I love spinster novels not for some tale of the diminutive or the suffering but for those who dare to be weird, who dare to be different, who dare to be themselves” #booksky
September 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Check out @onebrightbook.bsky.social latest episode to hear what @nonsuchbook.bsky.social is reading for #spinsterseptember “I love spinster novels not for some tale of the diminutive or the suffering but for those who dare to be weird, who dare to be different, who dare to be themselves” #booksky
The books I’m planning to read for #spinsterseptember 📚 #booksky
September 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The books I’m planning to read for #spinsterseptember 📚 #booksky
D-7 for #spinsterseptember !! Will you be joining next month? (Please find in the ALT Text how to take part + lots of recommendations) #booksky
August 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
D-7 for #spinsterseptember !! Will you be joining next month? (Please find in the ALT Text how to take part + lots of recommendations) #booksky
I read this passage the same week i watched fanny & alexander where there’s a scene with a magic lantern Alexander and the young narrator are since weirdly superimposed in my brain
August 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I read this passage the same week i watched fanny & alexander where there’s a scene with a magic lantern Alexander and the young narrator are since weirdly superimposed in my brain
Bookmail from @charcopress.com ❤️🖤 Restoration is a “ghost story about photography, feminism, bad men and old houses” and An Infinite Sadness is a sanatorium novel set in the Swiss Alps after WW2. Yes please! #booksky #witmonth
August 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Bookmail from @charcopress.com ❤️🖤 Restoration is a “ghost story about photography, feminism, bad men and old houses” and An Infinite Sadness is a sanatorium novel set in the Swiss Alps after WW2. Yes please! #booksky #witmonth
June & July wrap up 📚 (not pictured: 📖 Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, 📖 Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz, 🎧 Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson and 📖 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin) #booksky #nyrbwomen25
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
June & July wrap up 📚 (not pictured: 📖 Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, 📖 Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz, 🎧 Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson and 📖 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin) #booksky #nyrbwomen25
The books I’m hoping to read in June 🌺 #booksky #nyrbwomen25
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The books I’m hoping to read in June 🌺 #booksky #nyrbwomen25
The books I read in May (not pictured: 🎧 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad and 🎧 The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd) 📚 #booksky #nyrbwomen25
June 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The books I read in May (not pictured: 🎧 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad and 🎧 The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd) 📚 #booksky #nyrbwomen25
“But then she couldn’t imagine any other, more appropriate life” 💔 #nyrbwomen25
May 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“But then she couldn’t imagine any other, more appropriate life” 💔 #nyrbwomen25
Happy #dalloway100 & happy pub to ‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel’ @markhussey.bsky.social a tender examination on how this literary landmark came to be & the ways it still resonates with us today 💐 out now in UK/out July 8 in US (with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social for the proof) #booksky
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy #dalloway100 & happy pub to ‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel’ @markhussey.bsky.social a tender examination on how this literary landmark came to be & the ways it still resonates with us today 💐 out now in UK/out July 8 in US (with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social for the proof) #booksky
Sunday reading 📚 didn’t get to read much this week so i’m going to catch up with these four this afternoon. I just started Three Summers for #nyrbwomen25 and the writing is so evocative, it’s the most perfect Summer read! 👒 💕 #booksky
May 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sunday reading 📚 didn’t get to read much this week so i’m going to catch up with these four this afternoon. I just started Three Summers for #nyrbwomen25 and the writing is so evocative, it’s the most perfect Summer read! 👒 💕 #booksky