Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵
@literarycolin.bsky.social
Reading widely (and deeply) to become a better writer ✍️
Let’s be literary friends ✨
https://www.goodreads.com/literarycolin
Let’s be literary friends ✨
https://www.goodreads.com/literarycolin
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
November 30 marks the birthday of Mark Twain, whose stories, humor, and insight continue to inspire readers and writers alike. ✍️📚
#booksky
November 30 marks the birthday of Mark Twain, whose stories, humor, and insight continue to inspire readers and writers alike. ✍️📚
#booksky
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
November 30 marks the birthday of Mark Twain, whose stories, humor, and insight continue to inspire readers and writers alike. ✍️📚
#booksky
November 30 marks the birthday of Mark Twain, whose stories, humor, and insight continue to inspire readers and writers alike. ✍️📚
#booksky
Are you doing "Non-fiction November"?
I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but these blew me away:
🐦 Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
🏃 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Murakami
📖 Knife – Salman Rushdie
✉️ Letters to a Young Poet – Rilke
🏚️ Ghost Town Living – Brent Underwood
#booksky
I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but these blew me away:
🐦 Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
🏃 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Murakami
📖 Knife – Salman Rushdie
✉️ Letters to a Young Poet – Rilke
🏚️ Ghost Town Living – Brent Underwood
#booksky
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are you doing "Non-fiction November"?
I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but these blew me away:
🐦 Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
🏃 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Murakami
📖 Knife – Salman Rushdie
✉️ Letters to a Young Poet – Rilke
🏚️ Ghost Town Living – Brent Underwood
#booksky
I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but these blew me away:
🐦 Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
🏃 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Murakami
📖 Knife – Salman Rushdie
✉️ Letters to a Young Poet – Rilke
🏚️ Ghost Town Living – Brent Underwood
#booksky
Happy 86th Birthday to Margaret Atwood! 🎉 One of literature’s most powerful voices, she’s inspired generations with stories that challenge, warn, and captivate. 📚 photo via thegentlewoman.co.uk
#booksky
#booksky
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Happy 86th Birthday to Margaret Atwood! 🎉 One of literature’s most powerful voices, she’s inspired generations with stories that challenge, warn, and captivate. 📚 photo via thegentlewoman.co.uk
#booksky
#booksky
Mid-month reading progress check for Native American Heritage Month 📚
Just finished The Devil Is a Southpaw, and it was challenging, impressive, and unbelievably rewarding — a fascinating portrait of obsession.
#booksky #nativeamerican #nativeamericanheritagemonth
Just finished The Devil Is a Southpaw, and it was challenging, impressive, and unbelievably rewarding — a fascinating portrait of obsession.
#booksky #nativeamerican #nativeamericanheritagemonth
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Mid-month reading progress check for Native American Heritage Month 📚
Just finished The Devil Is a Southpaw, and it was challenging, impressive, and unbelievably rewarding — a fascinating portrait of obsession.
#booksky #nativeamerican #nativeamericanheritagemonth
Just finished The Devil Is a Southpaw, and it was challenging, impressive, and unbelievably rewarding — a fascinating portrait of obsession.
#booksky #nativeamerican #nativeamericanheritagemonth
Only eleven vertical spines in my collection 📚
I love their uniqueness, how they choose to go up and down instead of sideways ✨
I'm curious, how many vertical spines do you have on your shelves?
#booksky
I love their uniqueness, how they choose to go up and down instead of sideways ✨
I'm curious, how many vertical spines do you have on your shelves?
#booksky
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Only eleven vertical spines in my collection 📚
I love their uniqueness, how they choose to go up and down instead of sideways ✨
I'm curious, how many vertical spines do you have on your shelves?
#booksky
I love their uniqueness, how they choose to go up and down instead of sideways ✨
I'm curious, how many vertical spines do you have on your shelves?
#booksky
Can you guess which book I selected for my November BoTM? 📦📖
Here’s a hint: “A luminous novel of love, loss, science, and art, that asks if the past can ever be truly revisited, and at what cost?”
I’m looking forward to reading this one!
#botm #bookmail #litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
Here’s a hint: “A luminous novel of love, loss, science, and art, that asks if the past can ever be truly revisited, and at what cost?”
I’m looking forward to reading this one!
#botm #bookmail #litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Can you guess which book I selected for my November BoTM? 📦📖
Here’s a hint: “A luminous novel of love, loss, science, and art, that asks if the past can ever be truly revisited, and at what cost?”
I’m looking forward to reading this one!
#botm #bookmail #litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
Here’s a hint: “A luminous novel of love, loss, science, and art, that asks if the past can ever be truly revisited, and at what cost?”
I’m looking forward to reading this one!
#botm #bookmail #litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
It’s that time again! Which books are you voting for? 📚 👀
My picks:
Fiction- Wild Dark Shore
Hist. Fic.- Buckeye
Mystery- Heartwood
Sci-fi- Automatic Noodle
Horror- Hungerstone
Audiobook- My Friends
Memoir- Things In Nature Merely Grow
#booksky
My picks:
Fiction- Wild Dark Shore
Hist. Fic.- Buckeye
Mystery- Heartwood
Sci-fi- Automatic Noodle
Horror- Hungerstone
Audiobook- My Friends
Memoir- Things In Nature Merely Grow
#booksky
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s that time again! Which books are you voting for? 📚 👀
My picks:
Fiction- Wild Dark Shore
Hist. Fic.- Buckeye
Mystery- Heartwood
Sci-fi- Automatic Noodle
Horror- Hungerstone
Audiobook- My Friends
Memoir- Things In Nature Merely Grow
#booksky
My picks:
Fiction- Wild Dark Shore
Hist. Fic.- Buckeye
Mystery- Heartwood
Sci-fi- Automatic Noodle
Horror- Hungerstone
Audiobook- My Friends
Memoir- Things In Nature Merely Grow
#booksky
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut on his bday (Nov 11)
He said: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Which is your favorite Vonnegut novel, or which do you plan to read next?
#booksky #onthisday
He said: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Which is your favorite Vonnegut novel, or which do you plan to read next?
#booksky #onthisday
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut on his bday (Nov 11)
He said: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Which is your favorite Vonnegut novel, or which do you plan to read next?
#booksky #onthisday
He said: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Which is your favorite Vonnegut novel, or which do you plan to read next?
#booksky #onthisday
📚 Just finished Shadow Ticket, and wow, what a trip!
➡️ Up next: Tom’s Crossing
Shadow ticket is classic Pynchon chaos, and he’s clearly just having fun. It's a jazzy, Depression-era detective fever dream that’s as playfully strange as it is eerily relevant.
#booksky #litfic #pynchon
➡️ Up next: Tom’s Crossing
Shadow ticket is classic Pynchon chaos, and he’s clearly just having fun. It's a jazzy, Depression-era detective fever dream that’s as playfully strange as it is eerily relevant.
#booksky #litfic #pynchon
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Remembering Albert Camus on his bday (Nov 7th)
Camus didn’t write to escape the world; he wrote to face it. To insist that even in the absurd, there is room for rebellious hope.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
—Return to Tipasa
#booksky
Camus didn’t write to escape the world; he wrote to face it. To insist that even in the absurd, there is room for rebellious hope.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
—Return to Tipasa
#booksky
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remembering Albert Camus on his bday (Nov 7th)
Camus didn’t write to escape the world; he wrote to face it. To insist that even in the absurd, there is room for rebellious hope.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
—Return to Tipasa
#booksky
Camus didn’t write to escape the world; he wrote to face it. To insist that even in the absurd, there is room for rebellious hope.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
—Return to Tipasa
#booksky
📚 November TBR!
This month I added a few titles in honor of National Native American Heritage Month. 🍂
Wherever your TBR is taking you, tell me what you’re diving into — I always love seeing what everyone’s reading.
#booksky
This month I added a few titles in honor of National Native American Heritage Month. 🍂
Wherever your TBR is taking you, tell me what you’re diving into — I always love seeing what everyone’s reading.
#booksky
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
📚 November TBR!
This month I added a few titles in honor of National Native American Heritage Month. 🍂
Wherever your TBR is taking you, tell me what you’re diving into — I always love seeing what everyone’s reading.
#booksky
This month I added a few titles in honor of National Native American Heritage Month. 🍂
Wherever your TBR is taking you, tell me what you’re diving into — I always love seeing what everyone’s reading.
#booksky
Did you ghost your TBR in October… or did your TBR ghost you? 👻💔
Or maybe you were out here putting the boo in BOOkworm? 📚🐛✨
Spooky season may be over, but cozy reading season is just getting started 🍂📖
What book are you most excited to dive into in November?
#booksky #october #octoberreads
Or maybe you were out here putting the boo in BOOkworm? 📚🐛✨
Spooky season may be over, but cozy reading season is just getting started 🍂📖
What book are you most excited to dive into in November?
#booksky #october #octoberreads
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Did you ghost your TBR in October… or did your TBR ghost you? 👻💔
Or maybe you were out here putting the boo in BOOkworm? 📚🐛✨
Spooky season may be over, but cozy reading season is just getting started 🍂📖
What book are you most excited to dive into in November?
#booksky #october #octoberreads
Or maybe you were out here putting the boo in BOOkworm? 📚🐛✨
Spooky season may be over, but cozy reading season is just getting started 🍂📖
What book are you most excited to dive into in November?
#booksky #october #octoberreads
R.I.P. = READ IN PEACE 💀🪦📚
What are you reading on Halloween? 🎃
Pelvis Presley here is rereading Animal Farm AGAIN (13th time's a charm?) 👻🐷
Drop your spookiest read of the day below… or tell me the book that haunts you because you STILL haven’t finished it. 😭📚
#booksky #halloween
What are you reading on Halloween? 🎃
Pelvis Presley here is rereading Animal Farm AGAIN (13th time's a charm?) 👻🐷
Drop your spookiest read of the day below… or tell me the book that haunts you because you STILL haven’t finished it. 😭📚
#booksky #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
R.I.P. = READ IN PEACE 💀🪦📚
What are you reading on Halloween? 🎃
Pelvis Presley here is rereading Animal Farm AGAIN (13th time's a charm?) 👻🐷
Drop your spookiest read of the day below… or tell me the book that haunts you because you STILL haven’t finished it. 😭📚
#booksky #halloween
What are you reading on Halloween? 🎃
Pelvis Presley here is rereading Animal Farm AGAIN (13th time's a charm?) 👻🐷
Drop your spookiest read of the day below… or tell me the book that haunts you because you STILL haven’t finished it. 😭📚
#booksky #halloween
Do BIG books terrify you? 😱📚
If so… which ones give you the most TBR dread?
Behold a frightening stack of monstrously THICC must-reads from my shelves — fiction that will haunt your nightstand 👻
#booksky #literaturesky #litfic #literaryfiction
If so… which ones give you the most TBR dread?
Behold a frightening stack of monstrously THICC must-reads from my shelves — fiction that will haunt your nightstand 👻
#booksky #literaturesky #litfic #literaryfiction
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Do BIG books terrify you? 😱📚
If so… which ones give you the most TBR dread?
Behold a frightening stack of monstrously THICC must-reads from my shelves — fiction that will haunt your nightstand 👻
#booksky #literaturesky #litfic #literaryfiction
If so… which ones give you the most TBR dread?
Behold a frightening stack of monstrously THICC must-reads from my shelves — fiction that will haunt your nightstand 👻
#booksky #literaturesky #litfic #literaryfiction
I finally got my first Book of The Month box! 🎉 The free baseball cap offer was just too good to resist 🧢🤪
As for my pick? I went with a title from their back catalog, one I’ve been meaning to revisit for ages... and yes, it’s a re-read! 👀 📖
Do you subscribe to Book of the Month?
#booksky
As for my pick? I went with a title from their back catalog, one I’ve been meaning to revisit for ages... and yes, it’s a re-read! 👀 📖
Do you subscribe to Book of the Month?
#booksky
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I finally got my first Book of The Month box! 🎉 The free baseball cap offer was just too good to resist 🧢🤪
As for my pick? I went with a title from their back catalog, one I’ve been meaning to revisit for ages... and yes, it’s a re-read! 👀 📖
Do you subscribe to Book of the Month?
#booksky
As for my pick? I went with a title from their back catalog, one I’ve been meaning to revisit for ages... and yes, it’s a re-read! 👀 📖
Do you subscribe to Book of the Month?
#booksky
🎂 Remembering Sylvia Plath on her birthday (Oct. 27)
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
—Sylvia Plath
#booksky #onthisday
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
—Sylvia Plath
#booksky #onthisday
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎂 Remembering Sylvia Plath on her birthday (Oct. 27)
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
—Sylvia Plath
#booksky #onthisday
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
—Sylvia Plath
#booksky #onthisday
I hit up the Friends of the San Tan Library book sale this weekend and had to do some serious digging, but it paid off-2 books for $2! I hadn't heard of either before (Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx and Old School by Tobias Wolff), but that's half the fun.
Support your local library! #booksky
Support your local library! #booksky
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I hit up the Friends of the San Tan Library book sale this weekend and had to do some serious digging, but it paid off-2 books for $2! I hadn't heard of either before (Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx and Old School by Tobias Wolff), but that's half the fun.
Support your local library! #booksky
Support your local library! #booksky
Just discovered the new Folio Society edition of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — complete with 7 beautiful illustrations by Manshen Lo and a new intro by Gabrielle Zevin (happy birthday!).
T3 is one of my favorite novels. Anyone else love this one?
#litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
T3 is one of my favorite novels. Anyone else love this one?
#litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just discovered the new Folio Society edition of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — complete with 7 beautiful illustrations by Manshen Lo and a new intro by Gabrielle Zevin (happy birthday!).
T3 is one of my favorite novels. Anyone else love this one?
#litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
T3 is one of my favorite novels. Anyone else love this one?
#litfic #literaryfiction #booksky
🎂 Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin on her birthday! (Oct 21)
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
#booksky #onthisday
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
#booksky #onthisday
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎂 Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin on her birthday! (Oct 21)
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
#booksky #onthisday
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
#booksky #onthisday
🎉✨ Remembering Oscar Wilde on his birthday! (Oct. 16)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
Over a century later, his wit, wisdom, and fearless individuality still inspire us to live boldly, think deeply, and embrace the beauty in our quirks.
#booksky
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
Over a century later, his wit, wisdom, and fearless individuality still inspire us to live boldly, think deeply, and embrace the beauty in our quirks.
#booksky
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎉✨ Remembering Oscar Wilde on his birthday! (Oct. 16)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
Over a century later, his wit, wisdom, and fearless individuality still inspire us to live boldly, think deeply, and embrace the beauty in our quirks.
#booksky
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
Over a century later, his wit, wisdom, and fearless individuality still inspire us to live boldly, think deeply, and embrace the beauty in our quirks.
#booksky
🌮 National Taco Day reading: Tortilla Flat
Because Of Mice and Menudo doesn’t exist. (Yet 😆)
📚
If you've got any other literary taco puns, please share!
#booksky #taco #tacos #nationaltacoday #tacotuesday
Because Of Mice and Menudo doesn’t exist. (Yet 😆)
📚
If you've got any other literary taco puns, please share!
#booksky #taco #tacos #nationaltacoday #tacotuesday
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🌮 National Taco Day reading: Tortilla Flat
Because Of Mice and Menudo doesn’t exist. (Yet 😆)
📚
If you've got any other literary taco puns, please share!
#booksky #taco #tacos #nationaltacoday #tacotuesday
Because Of Mice and Menudo doesn’t exist. (Yet 😆)
📚
If you've got any other literary taco puns, please share!
#booksky #taco #tacos #nationaltacoday #tacotuesday
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
💀 Spooky month TBR 🎃
October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚
Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂
Which one should I start with first?
#booksky
October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚
Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂
Which one should I start with first?
#booksky
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
💀 Spooky month TBR 🎃
October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚
Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂
Which one should I start with first?
#booksky
October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚
Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂
Which one should I start with first?
#booksky
Did you know about the IRL Halloween tree at Disneyland?
On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”
On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”
October 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Did you know about the IRL Halloween tree at Disneyland?
On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”
On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”
“The Halloween Tree” by a Halloween tree… Happy October! 🎃
Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it?
#booksky #october #spookyseason
Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it?
#booksky #october #spookyseason
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“The Halloween Tree” by a Halloween tree… Happy October! 🎃
Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it?
#booksky #october #spookyseason
Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it?
#booksky #october #spookyseason