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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · Feb 16
A more in-depth introductory post to the goings-on in my brain. (Format for this was inspired by @smrehwrites.bsky.social.)

#BookSky #booksky #author #writers #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #writing #hobbies #interests
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chembarathi.bsky.social
I severed a leaf from its tree
And a water-drop in the green flagon Cupped a hunted bit of your smile. All things about me were steeped in your remembrance
And shivering as they tried to tell me of it.
- To One Dead

Maxwell Bodenheim
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
To One Dead Maxwell Bodenheim I walked upon a hill And the wind, made solemnly drunk with your presence, Reeled against me. I stooped to question a flower, And you floated between my fingers and the petals, Tying them together. I severed a leaf from its tree And a water-drop in the green flagon Cupped a hunted bit of your smile. All things about me were steeped in your remembrance And shivering as they tried to tell me of it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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It is a great lineup, though.

#Horror
#MovieNight
A social media post by shinyhappygoth on October 11 with the title "The Least Specific Movie Night Ever" followed by a bulleted list of movie titles: "The Thing," "The Stuff," "The Substance," "The Entity," "It," and "The Others."
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The next 3 authors/illustrators/reviewers/etc to join the BookSky Patreon at the 'Author in Residence' tier will get a 7 day rotating post like this one on the main BookSky feed ! 🤩

Patreon members also get featured on the BookSky website and a monthly shoutout post on this account too. 💙📚
July 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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artdog.bsky.social
Do you write #book #reviews? They help #authors even more than people deciding if they’ll buy a #book! If you enjoy a book, please rate and review it! #BookLovers #BookReviews #amreading #BookSky 📚💙
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This square design from Liana George has a pale cream-colored background. Several bars in pastel colors contain items in a list, with bullet-points that look like a heart in a circle. At the top it says, “WHY BOOK REVIEWS MATTER TO AUTHORS” The listed reasons are: “Insights as to who’s reading their books. Insights as to what they did well. Influences readers and potential buyers. Affects how people find their books. Morale booster.” Centered at the bottom it says, “lianageorge.com.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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lilithepunk.bsky.social
Question One of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Roofs and Attics. Bonus folklore: thatchers used to 'sign' their work with bespoke finials so everyone could see who'd thatched what. #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Crafts #PublicationDay
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question One - of Roofs and Attics Finials are said to deter flying witches from landing on your roof, due to their reputation for tearing the witches’ clothing. However, in California, there is a relatively new tradition of putting an ornamental owl up on the roof as finial. Other than detering other birds from landing up there, what else is the owl said to be a talisman against?
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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lisamcsherry.bsky.social
November Book List

This month my focus is on books that are perfect for easing into Winter.

#booksky
#bookchallenge

Day 10: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
cover of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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stephengrae.bsky.social
In Cumbrian dialects, 'pyat' is magpie

one is for sorrow,
but two for mirth,
three's for a wedding,
four for a death,
five for heaven,
six for hell,
but seven's the divil's oan sel

more: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#birds #folklore #booksky
art: Georgia Cox
Magpies in Eucalyptus by Georgia Cox
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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ninaantonia13.bsky.social
1937, Lady Seton foolishly steals a bone whilst visiting a pyramid. Sir Alexander Seton described the accursed item as 'round & resembling a digestive biscuit'. Despite having it exorcised & burned, the Setons suffered misfortune to the end of their days & probably never ate digestives again.
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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woodenvelt.bsky.social
Just throwing this out there! November is now #Bookvember for writers and readers who want to yap about books and authors they love.

#writesky #booksky #authors #books #writingcommunity
#Bookvember A book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Introduce yourself and share how you came to be a reader/writer. Share a children’s book that influenced you as a writer or reader. Share a children’s author that sparked a love of reading/writing in you. Share your favorite non-fiction children’s book or series. Share your favorite children’s poetry book / author. Share a children’s book with illustrations that captivated you. Did anyone monitor your reading as a kid? Or was it a free for all. Share a book by a female author that you love. Share a book by a queer author that you love. Share a book by an author of color that you love. Share a book by a neurodivergent author that you love. Share a book you love by an author from an underrepresented demographic. Share a book that acted as a window to someone else's life. Share a book that acted as a mirror, reflecting a part of yourself. Share a book you love from your favorite genre. Speaking of genres, what’s your favorite(s) and why do you love it? Share a book you consider an overlooked gem from your favorite genre. Share a book you consider overhyped from your favorite genre. Which 4 authors from your favorite genre would you enshrine on your genre Mt. Rushmore? Share a book you love from a genre you don’t usually read. What genre do you refuse to read? Why is it off limits? Share the book with your favorite hero/ heroine’s journey. Share the book with your favorite unreliable narrator. Share the book with your favorite heel turn. Share a book you love with a mentor character. Share a book you love with a setting that acts like its own character. Cliff hangers. Love them? Hate them? How do you read? Paperback in a cozy corner? Ebook on the train? Audiobook while folding laundry? A mix? What’s at the top of your current TBR or TBW list? If you could only recommend one book to someone to turn them from a non-reader to a reader, what would it be?
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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beckjoneshere.bsky.social
Poet Anne Sexton, #botd in 1928, also wrote plays and children's books, and although she was a confessional poet, her specific feelings in "Her Kind" below resonated with many women then and now.

#booksky #poety #writers
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

– Mary Shelley, #Frankenstein

#gothic #romanticism #books #booksky
'Darial Pass' by Ilya Zankovsky An oil painting, depicting a dark moonlit scene over a mountain pass.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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woodenvelt.bsky.social
#Bookvember 9

I really love Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. It is so weird and wonderful at the same time. A spooky, haunted house story but in space with weird death magic and angry lesbians? What's not to love?

#WritingPrompts #Writesky #Books #BookSky
Book cover for the fantasy novel Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. The cover shows a woman with her face painted like a skull holding a sword out to her side. She is dressed in black and bones fly through the air all around her.
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
hansentor.bsky.social
An interesting contrast with crossing the fingers for luck is the idea of mudras, or hasta mudras / hand mudras to be specific.

#folklore #research #BookSky📚💙

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Fingers Crossed & Other Handy Things
Part X of Amulets & Talismans Crossing your fingers for luck, or to prevent “evil luck” has been a common thing in English-speaking regions for centuries — mostly in the UK, t…
nightwalks.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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rhysaurus.bsky.social
Exactly thirty years ago, the very first experimental story I ever wrote was published.

I had only written stories with conventional structures until I decided to try something different.

An important point: back then, aubergines weren't considered rude :-)

Here's the first page... #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #memoirs #booklovers 📚💙

Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir: In Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.

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Atwood in Los Angeles in 1980. (Wally Fong/AP) Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood. Doubleday. 624 pp. $35. ‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.’ Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents – entomologist father, dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’), but also thrilling and beautiful. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned Cat’s Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations. Atwood in Nova Scotia in 2022. (Courtesy of Margaret Atwood)
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#booksky #writingsky
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social
I loved The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox to pieces! Kwan's spin on the legend of Houyi (Houyi) and Chang'e was such a fun original take. I also get to add Yue to my very long list of favorite Fox Spirits!

#booksky 📚💙 📚🪐
The Legend of the Nine Tailed Fox by Katrina Kwan and Cover by Kuri Huang
Yue is the last of her pack of Nine Tailed Foxes, determined to avenge her sisters' deaths she follows their killer to the city of Longhao...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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claysheldon.bsky.social
Writing Tip:
As an exercise, choose a character you want to develop more. Then, try roleplaying out a diary entry they might write. Even if they're not the type to write in a diary, what would they say? What would be their perspective and opinion of certain events?
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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thebookseller.com
BookTrust has launched its Christmas appeal, aiming to deliver 18,000 book parcels to disadvantaged children and those in care across England, Wales and Northern Ireland 👇 #BookSky
BookTrust launches 2025 Christmas appeal, aiming to deliver 18,000 parcels to young people in need
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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slobpodcast.bsky.social
Since his debut with #Carrie, #StephenKing has published over 60 novels. He’s one of the most successful writers of all time, and not just for horror – everything from the #ShawshankRedemption and #StandByMe (The Body), to #Misery and #TheShining. But what makes his stories so great?

#BookSky
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add Up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.
- And if there is no lining to the world?
- Czeslaw Milosz
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Meaning < When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true meaning, ready to be decoded. What never added up will add Up, What was incomprehensible will be comprehended. - And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other? And on this earth there is nothing except this earth? -Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies And calls out, protests, screams. Czeslaw Milosz
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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tuzroka.bsky.social
So I go into this a little more on my Patreon but in Hungarian mythology there are these house spirits called házikigyó
They’re thought to be like, little dragons that grant blessings and good crops.
So in my book I made them real and as common as pigeons ✨ here’s some concept sketches #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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susiewalsh.bsky.social
Charles Dickens was the originator of "this meeting could have been an email"...

#BookSky
#BleakHouse
Lady Dedlock looks imperiously at her visitor when the servant has left the room, casting her eyes over him from head to foot. She suffers him to stand by the door and asks him what he wants. "That your ladyship would have the kindness to oblige me with a little conversation," returns Mr. Guppy, embarrassed. "You are, of course, the person who has written me so many letters?" "Several, your ladyship. Several before your ladyship condescended to favour me with an answer." "And could you not take the same means of rendering a Conversation unnecessary? Can you not still?"
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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frankjcavill.com
Enjoy the #1 Spanish sci-fi saga! The first books of Project Orpheus are now available in English. What are you waiting for to dive into an epic adventure?

#scifi #sciencefiction #bestseller #BooksWorthReading #scifiworld #scifibook #scifinovel
#SpaceOpera #FirstContact #SoftSciFi🪐📚💙 #BookSky
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM