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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 7h

Favorite line: "...lust wreaking its usual havoc on grammar." [p.209 of the Little Brown hardback]

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 7h

Books I've read in the past few months ...

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan, the final book (and my favorite) of the Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn trilogy.

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #humor #classic #GayClassic #JoeKeenan @joekeenan.bsky.social

Book cover of My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 8d

Richard Bach:
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

#booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #classic #RichardBach

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 16d

Our Hyacinth has passed away. 😥 RIP Dame Patricia Routledge

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 21d

W. Somerset Maugham:
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

#booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #WSomersetMaugham

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · 27d

Books I've read in the past few months ... the moving and beautifully written novel Grief by Andrew Holleran

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #classic #GayClassic #AndrewHolleran

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 13

Joy Division "Atmosphere"

Walk in silence
Don't walk away, in silence
See the danger
Always danger

Endless talking
Life rebuilding
Don't walk away

#music #poetry #Atmosphere #JoyDivision
#IanCurtis #BernardSumner #StephenMorris #PeterHook

Photomof the band Joy Division: Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have you found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

#music #poetry #PinkFloyd #WishYouWereHere

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wish You Were Here is my favorite Pink Floyd album. I can listen to it nonstop.

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 12

Charles Bukowski:
"I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy.' But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there."
(Ham On Rye)

#booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #poetry #novel #CharlesBukowski

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11

#RememberTheSky #NeverForget911

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 9

Star Trek was everything to me growing up. Mr. Spock was my hero. 🖖

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 8

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 6

Franz Kafka:
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

#booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #FranzKafka

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 6

Christopher Coe (1953.11.27–1994.09.06) wrote two novels: I Look Divine (1987), a brilliant tale about the fragility of beauty and vanity, and Such Times (1993), a beautiful, heart-breaking semi-autobiographical story about a love affair cut short by the AIDS virus.

#booksky #books #lgbtq #reading

Photo of Christopher Coe (1987) by Thomas Victor

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oscar Wilde:
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
[The Picture of Dorian Gray]

#booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #art #OscarWilde

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 5

James Baldwin:
"One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."

(Notes of a Native Son 1955)

#booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #JamesBaldwin

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Sep 3

Such memories! I haven't been there--or back in Colorado--in more than 30 years. ❤️ 📚

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 31

Truman Capote:
"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

#booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #TrumanCapote

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 31

Such fun!

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 31

Don't forget book 3, My Lucky Star

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 30

Books I've read in the past few months ...
Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan, entertaining second novel about gay friends Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn.

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #humor #classic #GayClassic #JoeKeenan @joekeenan.bsky.social

Book cover of Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 28

Albert Camus:
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

#booksky #books #novel #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #classic #AlbertCamus

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 24

Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."

#booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #poetry #EdnaStVincentMillay

Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dorothy Parker:
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

#booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing

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Ax 🌈 Franz Ax 🌈 Fz @fzax.bsky.social · Aug 22

Books I've read in the past few months ... one of my favorites and a very entertaining movie, as well
Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund @boyculture.bsky.social

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #GayClassic #MatthewRettenmund

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