Robin Gustafson
@robingustafson.bsky.social
Lover of books, book groups, reading, walking, dogs, cats, coffee. Librarian.
The books I read in October and November. I love epistolary novels so The Correspondent by Virginia Evans was a top read for me. I’m also a fan of epic family dramas so Buckeye by Patrick Ryan was right up my alley. And of course, once again, Willa Cather never disappoints!
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The books I read in October and November. I love epistolary novels so The Correspondent by Virginia Evans was a top read for me. I’m also a fan of epic family dramas so Buckeye by Patrick Ryan was right up my alley. And of course, once again, Willa Cather never disappoints!
The books I read in August. What a great reading month! Look forward to reading more Thomas Mann.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The books I read in August. What a great reading month! Look forward to reading more Thomas Mann.
#bookstagram
#thereadinglife
#bookstagram
#thereadinglife
This book came to me at just the right time. I listened to the audio book narrated by Gornick which is a bonus. I absolutely adored her observations on friendship, literature, and walking the streets of NYC. I’m embracing my odd woman spirit as I take long walks on the opposite side of the U.S.
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This book came to me at just the right time. I listened to the audio book narrated by Gornick which is a bonus. I absolutely adored her observations on friendship, literature, and walking the streets of NYC. I’m embracing my odd woman spirit as I take long walks on the opposite side of the U.S.
The books I read in July. I’m really enjoying reading a Willa Cather novel each month along with others participating in @colleenka’s Willa Cather 2025 project. Cather is a guaranteed good read.
August 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The books I read in July. I’m really enjoying reading a Willa Cather novel each month along with others participating in @colleenka’s Willa Cather 2025 project. Cather is a guaranteed good read.
The books I read in June. Standouts included a reread of The Professor’s House by Willa Cather, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase, and Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh. All in all another great reading month.
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The books I read in June. Standouts included a reread of The Professor’s House by Willa Cather, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase, and Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh. All in all another great reading month.
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Ready to broaden your reading horizons? We've compiled a reading list of 50+ books featuring writers from or descended from the countries on the Trump administration's travel ban and restricted-travel lists. pen.org/a-travel-ban...
A Travel Ban Reading List: 50+ Books to Broaden Your Horizons - PEN America
To limit our experience of the fullness of the world’s cultures, to cause us to live in a circumscribed culture, is itself a form of censorship.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ready to broaden your reading horizons? We've compiled a reading list of 50+ books featuring writers from or descended from the countries on the Trump administration's travel ban and restricted-travel lists. pen.org/a-travel-ban...
Beautiful morning for a long walk, followed by a library visit to pick up all the holds waiting for me.
#ilovelibraries
#ilovewalking
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#ilovewalking
June 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Beautiful morning for a long walk, followed by a library visit to pick up all the holds waiting for me.
#ilovelibraries
#ilovewalking
#ilovelibraries
#ilovewalking
The books I read in May. It was another excellent reading month. My Friends by Hisham Matar, The Pastor by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aiken, and a reread of Willa Cather’s One of Ours were standouts. These three will certainly go on my top reads of the year.
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The books I read in May. It was another excellent reading month. My Friends by Hisham Matar, The Pastor by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aiken, and a reread of Willa Cather’s One of Ours were standouts. These three will certainly go on my top reads of the year.
Tonight I discovered my aunt and I have a thing for Willa Cather and Kazuo Ishiguro novels. Interesting pairing
May 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tonight I discovered my aunt and I have a thing for Willa Cather and Kazuo Ishiguro novels. Interesting pairing
Time for a Barbara Pym novel! Next up: No Fond Return of Love
May 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Time for a Barbara Pym novel! Next up: No Fond Return of Love
Happy to add another Hanne Ørstavik novel to my collection. Peirene Press published the first ever English translation of one of her novels - The Blue Room - as part of their Coming of Age series. Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.
#hanneørstavik
#womenintranslation
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May 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy to add another Hanne Ørstavik novel to my collection. Peirene Press published the first ever English translation of one of her novels - The Blue Room - as part of their Coming of Age series. Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.
#hanneørstavik
#womenintranslation
#hanneørstavik
#womenintranslation
I’ve heard so many good things about Hisham Matar’s novel My Friends. I’m excited to dive into this one.
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May 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I’ve heard so many good things about Hisham Matar’s novel My Friends. I’m excited to dive into this one.
#fridayreads
#fridayreads
This is now on my literary landmarks bucket list! Until then, I still have several Barbara Pym novels to enjoy before I can call myself a Pym completist!
It was a gigantic honour to unveil the new English Heritage Blue Plaque on the Pimlico home of one my absolute favourite novelists, Barbara Pym. She lived there just after World War Two. Thanks so much to the @BarbaraPymSociety for these 📷 and for a wonderful tea! I'll treasure my memories.
May 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is now on my literary landmarks bucket list! Until then, I still have several Barbara Pym novels to enjoy before I can call myself a Pym completist!
Spending Sunday morning with Willa Cather. I love the cover of this Vintage Classics edition. Cover painting, Wind and Poppies by Susanne Wind
May 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Spending Sunday morning with Willa Cather. I love the cover of this Vintage Classics edition. Cover painting, Wind and Poppies by Susanne Wind
The Story of Lucy Gault is the first novel I’ve read by William Trevor. Something about these lines gutted me. Looking forward to reading more of his work
May 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The Story of Lucy Gault is the first novel I’ve read by William Trevor. Something about these lines gutted me. Looking forward to reading more of his work
Such a lovely interview and celebration of the power of poetry! Give it a listen!
It’s #NationalPoetryMonth and we chat with James Crews about the poetry anthology LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends. Co-edited with his husband Brad Peacock and featuring illustrations by Lisa Congdon.
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Open to Surprise - Celebrating National Poetry Month with James Crews
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April 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Such a lovely interview and celebration of the power of poetry! Give it a listen!
The books I read in February. Two rereads: O Pioneers and The Haunting of Hill House. Memorial Days : a memoir by Geraldine Brooks was a moving, beautiful, and comforting memoir about grief. It will make it on my top reads of the year.
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The books I read in February. Two rereads: O Pioneers and The Haunting of Hill House. Memorial Days : a memoir by Geraldine Brooks was a moving, beautiful, and comforting memoir about grief. It will make it on my top reads of the year.
Celebrating Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr. on the “Authors of Our Own Destiny” sculpture at the North Natomas Branch of the Sacramento Public Library
February 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Celebrating Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr. on the “Authors of Our Own Destiny” sculpture at the North Natomas Branch of the Sacramento Public Library
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Reading Schedule: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust's infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way. This is the first collaborative read we're doing as part of the project (with another…
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust's infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way. This is the first collaborative read we're doing as part of the project (with another…
Reading Schedule: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust's infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way. This is the first collaborative read we're doing as part of the project (with another happening later this year for Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey). If you'd like to engage fully, you can find the group on Instagram via the host, …
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January 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reading Schedule: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust's infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way. This is the first collaborative read we're doing as part of the project (with another…
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust's infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way. This is the first collaborative read we're doing as part of the project (with another…
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Libby and Kanopy achieve new milestones as libraries, schools, and institutions worldwide expand access to ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines, and...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Is it too soon to decide this beautiful novel will be in my top ten reads of 2025?
January 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Is it too soon to decide this beautiful novel will be in my top ten reads of 2025?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or have influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#Books
#BookChallenge