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Sherry
@sherryl.bsky.social
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Writer, gardener, library lover, 🇨🇦
Short fiction: EQMM, @UBC Creative Writing, Curtis Brown Creative alumn
📚The Missing Pages by Alyson Richman
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nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎

Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).

Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
An illustration of this year's game. Text says: "Hidden Books Game is BACK! Play at nationalbooktokens.com" and "Win £500 to spend on books".
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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jilly.ca
Today is a great day!
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Reuniting for Fourth ‘Mummy’ Movie
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for a fourth "Mummy" movie.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!

5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians
October 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Sexy Sweatered Man Who Has Worked Through Issues in Therapy"
Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Straight Men
Sexy Coworker Who Doesn’t Interrupt Sexy Sweatered Man Who Has Worked Through Issues in Therapy Sexy Football Player Who Advocates For Women’s Spor...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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ivory1.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
Tips for improving concentration: Make a list of tasks. Take on one task at a time. Take On Me was a fun song. Ooh I found the video.
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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hayfestival.bsky.social
We’re marking #BannedBooksWeekUK with Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale as our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...
Publishing wants debut authors to produce bestsellers. What happens if they don't? | CBC Arts
Writers Tajja Isen and Jen Sookfong Lee explore how sales data affects authors.
www.cbc.ca
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Tell it like it is: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...
Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Title: Let's create a Movie for Netflix! Jason Statham is.. [choose path 1, 2 or 3)] 1. THE EDITOR 2. THE LIBRARIAN 3. THE BOOKSELLER A heroic special forces officer retires to a sleepy town to follow his true passion of setting up a... 1. Poetry Anthology 2. Public Library 3. Local Bookshop (image of our hunky hero holding his suitcase looking at a vacant shop) He settles happily into the routine of small-town life, but when the townspeople are menaced by a... 1. Greedy Billionaire 2. Corrupt Politician 3. Evil Corporation (the hero puts doen his morning coffee and looks out the window as a sinister black helicopter lands) He must combine his literary and military skills to protect his new community with the help of... 1. An attractive poet 2. A Young Borrower 3. The Bookshop Cat (The hero runs through a hail of bullets holding a novel and a machinre gun)
April 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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savethecbc.bsky.social
Save Our Bacon, Save the CBC!

Picture this: a sizzling plate of Canadian bacon… but wait—it's shaped like the CBC logo! Because just like our beloved public broadcaster, it's a national treasure.

The CBC isn’t just radio waves and pixels; it’s the voice that keeps us connected, the stories (cont)
March 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
2025 in a nutshell…
January 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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drago.media
Librarian humor. 🤣
Library shelf filled with red books. Sign at top: “I don’t remember the title but the cover was red.” Bookshelf with a bunch of romance novels with bare-chested men in the cover. Sign at top: “Dude, where’s my shirt?” Bookshelf wit books that have no titles. Sign at top: “Mystery” Empty bookshelf with sign: “A new reading display is coming soon! Meanwhile, please enjoy our large selection of invisible books.”
January 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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theelleboyd.bsky.social
That Minor Chores gets me every time.
December 13, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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bookwormtony.bsky.social
What better on a cold and wet winter’s night to listen to The Shadow key a gothic tale
There’s something devilish going on in the quiet Welsh village of Penhelyg. Will the shadow key unlock its dark secrets?
#bookish
What better on a cold and wet winter’s night to listen to The Shadow key a gothic tale There’s something devilish going on in the quiet Welsh village of Penhelyg. Will the shadow key unlock its dark secrets?
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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janetalcorn.bsky.social
This. You’ll be amazed at how much even a small public library has to offer.
nelnelnellie.bsky.social Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · Nov 23
I’ve mentioned this before, but if you’re short on cash but have an urge to shop, go to your library digital apps and browse the books, audiobooks, movies, shoes, magazines. It works really well to give you the same feeling without spending the cash. (Plus you’re supporting public libraries.) 💙📚
November 23, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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authormsbev.bsky.social
I love Grant Snider static01.nyt.com/images/2014/...
November 21, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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kirstinmills.bsky.social
I’m excited to be giving a talk this weekend for The Friends of Coleridge Seminar Series! I’ll be exploring some of my research on Coleridge & the Gothic, focusing on his extensive Notebook writings about the nightmares that haunted him & how we can best understand them via the lens of the #Gothic!
A poster depicting Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a Gothic castle in the background. The text reads: “Haunted by Nightmares: Coleridge and the Gothic in the Notebooks” by Kirstin A. Mills for The Friends of Coleridge Seminar Series. Online (via Teams), 23 November 2024.
November 21, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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junipergreenwood.bsky.social
Reasons you shouldn't ask the new barista on a date:
🛑 Your murdered mom's spirit lives in your necklace (awkward)
🛑 You're in the middle of tracking down a serial killer
🛑 She might be possessed by a demon

Reasons you should:
✅ She's cute

#UnhingedPit #Q #YA #M #PN #LGBTQ & a lil bit #H #U too
November 14, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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dani-s-writes.bsky.social
#UnhingedPit #A #T

If Katherine Pierce, Villanelle, and James Moriarty merged into one man.
Meet Eamon.
Black and neon collage of obscured faces and a quote from the story
November 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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sampeil.bsky.social
Vote or else🔪
🧔🏻‍♂️LOTR (but make it gay) fanfic writer
+ 🏃🏻‍♀️anxious library worker
+ 👱🏻‍♀️90s obsessed art student

What’s the best thing about these 3 strangers during the zombie apocalypse?

🔪 rebar, bat, machete, 👶

🥼Their dentist is HOT

🎣They love to go fishing

🏳️‍🌈 Bi angst

#UnhingedPit #A #h #lgbt
November 14, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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justonecarew.bsky.social
#UnhingedPit a collection of posts that I saved on my phone bc they made me chuckle and reminded me of my book 🥰

#unhingedpit #amquerying
A screenshot of a Tumblr post. The initial post says “Theoretically, since living things want to stay that way and being alive is the natural state of all things which can achieve it, all things that have once lived should have some innate, physical desire to do so again. Therefore, necromancy should be the easiest and most feasible form of magic.” The comment below the post reads “What a good and not at all worrisome argument of course you can borrow my shovel.” A screenshot of a Tumblr post that reads: “Tiny dragons with colorful scales living in trees and feeding on fruits and flowers’ nectar. Bioluminescent aquatic dragons roaming in the abyss and scaring the hell out of sailors. Fluffy dream dragons capable of feeling when children are having nightmares and materializing into their room to cuddle with them. Giant, old as the universe dragons exploring space, needing nothing but starlight to survive. DRAGONS” A screenshot of a tumblr post that reads “petting a dragon’s warm scaly shoot would fix me forever I am so serious. or a sea serpent’s cold wet slimy snout. I’m not that picky” A two-panel comic title “Tolkien vs Lewis: Allegories.” In the top panel, a man asks JRR Tolkien “Is it true that you wrote your novels as an allegory for the First World War?” Tolkien says “No. Never. Ask me that again and I will call the police.” In the bottom panel, CS Lewis sits alone, thinking “If even one person reading this does not understand that the big lion is Jesus, I will set myself on fire.” The comic is signed by reparrishcomics in 2020.
November 14, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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authorlavleo.bsky.social
#unhingedpit #F #A #Q
THE MUMMY x DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
you're in his dms i'm haunting his conscience. sure, you may be the latest object of his affections, but i'm the reason he believes he destroys everything he loves.
November 14, 2024 at 12:23 AM