As a bookseller, it's emotionally wrenching when a book sells.
One of my favorites left us for a good home (which is a comfort.)
It looks like it's about
Dark Magic.
In a way, yes? Caltech lectures on Space from the 50s.
Fare thee well...
#BookwormSat
#Space
One of my favorites left us for a good home (which is a comfort.)
It looks like it's about
Dark Magic.
In a way, yes? Caltech lectures on Space from the 50s.
Fare thee well...
#BookwormSat
#Space
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
As a bookseller, it's emotionally wrenching when a book sells.
One of my favorites left us for a good home (which is a comfort.)
It looks like it's about
Dark Magic.
In a way, yes? Caltech lectures on Space from the 50s.
Fare thee well...
#BookwormSat
#Space
One of my favorites left us for a good home (which is a comfort.)
It looks like it's about
Dark Magic.
In a way, yes? Caltech lectures on Space from the 50s.
Fare thee well...
#BookwormSat
#Space
…The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
…The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
In modern fiction, peace is often portrayed as the work that begins after the banners fall. In Atonement, the war is not the wound. The wound is regret, guilt, and the lifelong struggle to make amends. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In modern fiction, peace is often portrayed as the work that begins after the banners fall. In Atonement, the war is not the wound. The wound is regret, guilt, and the lifelong struggle to make amends. #BookWormSat
‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.
Literature shows that war is not only fought with weapons. In dystopias like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the battlefield is the mind. Resistance becomes quiet rebellion, and peace becomes the courage to remember truth. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Literature shows that war is not only fought with weapons. In dystopias like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the battlefield is the mind. Resistance becomes quiet rebellion, and peace becomes the courage to remember truth. #BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#BookWormSat
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
"We got to Pegu and were all lined up ready to go in and the word came that the war in Europe was over. And we shouted, 'What the bloody hell use is that to us? When's our was going to be over?'"
Julian Thompson - Forgotten Voices of Burma
🎨Jacqueline Hurley - Forgotten Army
#BookWormSat
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#BookWormSat
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
"Standing as I do in the light of god and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody ... My conscience is clear. I die for god and for my country."
German Report on the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, 1915
“S.S. City of Benares”, by George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980), born #OTD, 8 November.
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“S.S. City of Benares”, by George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980), born #OTD, 8 November.
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
On 18 September 1940, at one minute past midnight, the SS CITY OF BENARES was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Of 134 passengers, 90 were child refugees bound for Canada. Only 13 children survived.
#BookWormSat
Shakespeare’s histories understood that war reshapes identity. Kings rise, fall, and break under crowns they fought to claim. Victory is rarely clean. Peace is rarely complete. It is all negotiation. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Shakespeare’s histories understood that war reshapes identity. Kings rise, fall, and break under crowns they fought to claim. Victory is rarely clean. Peace is rarely complete. It is all negotiation. #BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#BookWormSat
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
"... Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves."
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
📷Flanders Crosses [Great War 1914-18]
#BookWormSat #RemembranceDay
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#BookWormSat #RemembranceDay
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
Plunge into WWII's pivotal showdown with The Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby—Churchill's "war of groping & drowning" comes alive through U-boat hunts, code-cracking triumphs, & convoy grit. Essential for honoring Atlantic guardians like my dad. #WW2
Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. He is best known for his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' a landmark in vampire literature. What is your favourite quote from the novel? #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. He is best known for his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' a landmark in vampire literature. What is your favourite quote from the novel? #BookWormSat
Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 60min):
💨x199 - 1﹐603
💨x1* - democracy 🔓
💨x1* - ukraine 🔓
💨x1* - gaza 🔓
💨x70 - bortoleto
💨x41 - vessicchio
💨x39 - batida
💨x34 - ciclone
💨x33 - 2025-11-08
💨x30 - md-11
*🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img)
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![Emoji Legend
💨x# | "Increased Trending Rate" for a Word (meaningful value; "💨x8 - burger" will mean "burger" is trending at 8 times its own normal rate for this time of day)
🔓 | "Unlocked" Ongoing Emergency Word (such words are not weighted down by their own previous usage; their *ongoing* increased usage--weeks, months, years--would otherwise move them down the list.)
[PREVIOUSLY USED]
⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating"
⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above)
⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane]
💬# | 10min Post Count
🆎# | 10min Word Count
🙂# | 10min Emoji Count](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k43ha6nlknmdw4owymqnvcat/bafkreigp6bgag3jzkool6uxrujpcrwtn6zkd7cbfrmevhaxaqhhewgolmu@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 60min):
💨x199 - 1﹐603
💨x1* - democracy 🔓
💨x1* - ukraine 🔓
💨x1* - gaza 🔓
💨x70 - bortoleto
💨x41 - vessicchio
💨x39 - batida
💨x34 - ciclone
💨x33 - 2025-11-08
💨x30 - md-11
*🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img)
#йобанарусня 🇺🇦
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Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 10min):
💨x1* - democracy 🔓
💨x27 - 1﹐603
💨x1* - ukraine 🔓
💨x1* - gaza 🔓
💨x12 - bortoleto
💨x11 - pluribus
💨x11 - norris
💨x10 - sprint
💨x10 - piastri
💨x10 - cornell
*🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img)
#ListenToBlackVoices
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![Emoji Legend
💨x# | "Increased Trending Rate" for a Word (meaningful value; "💨x8 - burger" will mean "burger" is trending at 8 times its own normal rate for this time of day)
🔓 | "Unlocked" Ongoing Emergency Word (such words are not weighted down by their own previous usage; their *ongoing* increased usage--weeks, months, years--would otherwise move them down the list.)
[PREVIOUSLY USED]
⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating"
⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above)
⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane]
💬# | 10min Post Count
🆎# | 10min Word Count
🙂# | 10min Emoji Count](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mcb6n67plnrlx4lg35natk2b/bafkreigp6bgag3jzkool6uxrujpcrwtn6zkd7cbfrmevhaxaqhhewgolmu@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#BookWormSat
Remembering my dad, Marshall Hopkins a 19-year-old signalman in the Royal Canadian Navy. For 6 years, he signaled from warships, escorting merchant convoys through U-boat wolfpacks in the Atlantic, vital supplies for Britain. Amid RCN's tragic losses 2K+ gone! #Remebranceday #WW2 #Hero
Remembering my dad, Marshall Hopkins a 19-year-old signalman in the Royal Canadian Navy. For 6 years, he signaled from warships, escorting merchant convoys through U-boat wolfpacks in the Atlantic, vital supplies for Britain. Amid RCN's tragic losses 2K+ gone! #Remebranceday #WW2 #Hero
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#BookWormSat
Remembering my dad, Marshall Hopkins a 19-year-old signalman in the Royal Canadian Navy. For 6 years, he signaled from warships, escorting merchant convoys through U-boat wolfpacks in the Atlantic, vital supplies for Britain. Amid RCN's tragic losses 2K+ gone! #Remebranceday #WW2 #Hero
Remembering my dad, Marshall Hopkins a 19-year-old signalman in the Royal Canadian Navy. For 6 years, he signaled from warships, escorting merchant convoys through U-boat wolfpacks in the Atlantic, vital supplies for Britain. Amid RCN's tragic losses 2K+ gone! #Remebranceday #WW2 #Hero
Fantasy often disguises real conflicts. Tolkien wrote of war with the memory of the trenches in his bones. Middle-earth’s peace is not naive. It is something won through loss, sorrow, and unshakable fellowship. #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fantasy often disguises real conflicts. Tolkien wrote of war with the memory of the trenches in his bones. Middle-earth’s peace is not naive. It is something won through loss, sorrow, and unshakable fellowship. #BookWormSat
When you have walked through a town, as an infantryman
you’ll never go through streets the same way again.
There is shoulder-ache from rifle-sling, and sore
butt-bruise, of bolt, on hip and thigh…
—Colin McIntyre (1927–2012), “Infantryman”
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
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you’ll never go through streets the same way again.
There is shoulder-ache from rifle-sling, and sore
butt-bruise, of bolt, on hip and thigh…
—Colin McIntyre (1927–2012), “Infantryman”
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
When you have walked through a town, as an infantryman
you’ll never go through streets the same way again.
There is shoulder-ache from rifle-sling, and sore
butt-bruise, of bolt, on hip and thigh…
—Colin McIntyre (1927–2012), “Infantryman”
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
you’ll never go through streets the same way again.
There is shoulder-ache from rifle-sling, and sore
butt-bruise, of bolt, on hip and thigh…
—Colin McIntyre (1927–2012), “Infantryman”
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
“This is the time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have…All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have…is what we want to be.”
Max Brooks - World War Z
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angel Bracho - poster celebrating victory over Nazis 1945
Max Brooks - World War Z
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angel Bracho - poster celebrating victory over Nazis 1945
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“This is the time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have…All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have…is what we want to be.”
Max Brooks - World War Z
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angel Bracho - poster celebrating victory over Nazis 1945
Max Brooks - World War Z
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angel Bracho - poster celebrating victory over Nazis 1945
#BookWormSat
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#BookWormSat
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
"They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign"
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice - the role of the army in peacetime
🎨William Hogarth
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
#BookWormSat
🖼️ - War Scene A Female Casualty - Theodule-Augustin Ribot 1870
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
#BookWormSat
🖼️ - War Scene A Female Casualty - Theodule-Augustin Ribot 1870
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
#BookWormSat
🖼️ - War Scene A Female Casualty - Theodule-Augustin Ribot 1870
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
#BookWormSat
🖼️ - War Scene A Female Casualty - Theodule-Augustin Ribot 1870
Lord Dunsany had some feels on the matter of war #bookwormsat
" ... it is our own time that has ended in blood and broken bricks."
" ... it is our own time that has ended in blood and broken bricks."
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Lord Dunsany had some feels on the matter of war #bookwormsat
" ... it is our own time that has ended in blood and broken bricks."
" ... it is our own time that has ended in blood and broken bricks."
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
W.B. Yeats
🖼️Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
#BookWormSat
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
W.B. Yeats
🖼️Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
#BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
W.B. Yeats
🖼️Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
#BookWormSat
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
W.B. Yeats
🖼️Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
#BookWormSat
“War is not declared any more but simply continued. The terrible is an everyday thing…The uniform of the day is patience, its decoration the shabby star of hope above the heart.”
Ingeborg Bachmann
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Jacob Lawrence - War Series Casualty
📍Whitney
Ingeborg Bachmann
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Jacob Lawrence - War Series Casualty
📍Whitney
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“War is not declared any more but simply continued. The terrible is an everyday thing…The uniform of the day is patience, its decoration the shabby star of hope above the heart.”
Ingeborg Bachmann
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Jacob Lawrence - War Series Casualty
📍Whitney
Ingeborg Bachmann
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Jacob Lawrence - War Series Casualty
📍Whitney
Will Mankind drag along the scourge of war to the stars?
Tongues of the Moon by Philip Jose Farmer. 1970, cover artist not attributed. #bookwormsat #booksky
Tongues of the Moon by Philip Jose Farmer. 1970, cover artist not attributed. #bookwormsat #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Will Mankind drag along the scourge of war to the stars?
Tongues of the Moon by Philip Jose Farmer. 1970, cover artist not attributed. #bookwormsat #booksky
Tongues of the Moon by Philip Jose Farmer. 1970, cover artist not attributed. #bookwormsat #booksky
"... every shelved book knowing the sun will rise again, waging war on their spines."
home library #bookwormsat contemplations, by me
home library #bookwormsat contemplations, by me
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"... every shelved book knowing the sun will rise again, waging war on their spines."
home library #bookwormsat contemplations, by me
home library #bookwormsat contemplations, by me