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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 2h

תנחומים 💔

Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 3h

Aww, thanks. But what I really miss is the in-person. Anyway, I hope it’s a great event. I loved SUNWARD. I have SAINT DEATH’S HERALD on my to-read pile but I think I’ll have to reread SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER first!

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 5h

Last Thursday’s #sockaday that I forgot to post. I wore them to match the cover of my entry for the Geffen award, they were supposed to bring me luck - black cats! We didn’t win the Geffen this time but I suppose we had other, more important kinds of luck instead.

My feet in yellow socks patterned with black cats

The cover of THE THIEF by Megan Whalen Turner, which is yellow and black

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 7h

יש אולי דרך להרוויח עוד שנה, אצטרך להיכנס לזה מחר

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 7h

It’s VERY good.

Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 7h

Hello, UK-people! Asunder is coming to your shores in January, and it would be very nice if you preordered it.

www.waterstones.com/book/asunder...

A infographic with details regarding the WATERSTONES 25% OFF:
On Upcoming Books sale.

Asunder is part of that.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 19h

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds as reasonable a response as any to life in this day and age.

Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe I will just climb into a tree and scream like a cicada.

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 10h

That’s what I liked about P.L. Travers’ response. She wasn’t bowing down to marketing pressure she didn’t understand, but reassessing who her readers were.

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 11h

That happens. Much respect to P.L. Travers - though apparently she was an awful person - for explaining why she rewrote a chapter in MARY POPPINS decades after first publication: she said that she realized certain passages may be hurtful to dark-skinned children WHO ARE HER READERS.

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 11h

People are blinkered by their assumptions, whether these are assumptions about the ”default” human experience or assumptions about minority experiences they know little about (aka stereotypes). I suppose we all have blind spots, but some people are blind to having them!

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 11h

But Alom, everyone knows the Calormene are evil because they follow Tash and refuse to accept Aslan into their lives. It’s only coincidence that they are dark-skinned savages!

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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social · 11h

That happens. Much respect to P.L. Travers - though apparently she was an awful person - for explaining why she rewrote a chapter in MARY POPPINS decades after first publication: she said that she realized certain passages may be hurtful to dark-skinned children WHO ARE HER READERS.

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