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Rachel
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Love to read, cook & bake, film photography, the supernatural, and the macabre.
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Rachel @mango5.bsky.social · May 22
Reading low reviews of a book I loved and thought highly of

#booksky 💙📚
Photo of Doctor Evil from Austin Powers saying, "You just don't get it, do you? You don't."
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From Ask the Dust by John Fante. Wow woowwww shooketh
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tion. I got up from the counter and walked away in fear, walkin fast down the boardwalk, passing people who seemed strange an ghostly: the world seemed a myth, a transparent plane, and all things upon it were here for only a little while; all of us, Bandini. and Hackmuth and Camilla and Vera, all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all: we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die. Even you, Arturo, even you must die. I knew what it was that swept over me. It was a great white cross pointing into my brain and telling me I was a stupid man, because I was going to die, and there was nothing I could do about it. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. A mortal sin, Arturo. Thou shalt not commit adultery. There it was, persistent to the end, assuring me that there was no escape from what I had done. I was a Catholic. This was a mortal sin against Vera Rivken. At the end of the row of concessions the sand beach began. Beyond were dunes. I waded through the sand to a place where the dunes hid the boardwalk. This needed thinking out. I didn't kneel; I sat down and watched the breakers eating the shore. This is bad, Arturo. You have read Nietzsche, you have read Voltaire, you should know better. But reasoning wouldn't help. I could reason myself out of it, but that was not my blood. It was my blood that kept me alive, it was my blood pouring through me, telling me it was wrong. I sat there and gave myself over to my blood, let it cany me swimming back to the deep sea of my beginnings. Vera Rivken, Arturo Bandini. It was not meant that way: it was never meant that way. I was wrong. I had committed a mortal sin. I could figure it mathematically, philosophically, psychologically: I could prove it a dozen ways, but I was wrong, for there was no denying the warm even rhythm of my guilt. Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, wh… and walked aray in o & people who seemed yth, a transparent ple I walk on and on, and still the land goes stretching away to the y a little while: all a to lera, all of us were be as ver achieved it. We are go Tsay unto myself, but what has happened to the sea? And I answer, the sea is back there, back in the reservoir of memory. The sea is a ere else; we were not ins horizons. A year, five years, ten years, and I have not seen the sea. myth. There never was a sea. But there was a seal I tell you I was bom on the seashore! I bathed in the waters of the sea! It gave me iven you, Arturo, en yea er me. It was a great when food and it gave me peace, and its fascinating distances fed my le I was a stupid man, bead dreams! No, Arturo, there never was a sea. You dream and you wish, but you go on through the wasteland. You will never see the thing I could do about sea again. It was a myth you once believed. But, I have to smile, for a. A mortal sin, Artum Tal the salt of the sea is in my blood, and there may be ten thousand was, persistent to the ed a roeds over the land, but they shall never confuse me, for my heart's from what I had done. In blood will ever return to its beautiful source. Then what shall I do? Shall I lift my mouth to the sky, stumbling Vera Rivken. and burbling with a tongue that is afraid? Shall I open my chest and ions the sand beach beg beat it like a loud drum, seeking the attention of my Christ? Or is it the sand to a place where be not better and more reasonable that I cover myself and go on? thinking out. I didnt he There will be confusions, and there will be hunger; there will be ating the shore. This ished loneliness with only my tears like wet consoling little birds, tum- u have read Voltaire, yes bling to sweeten my dry lips. But there shall be consolation, and ıldn't help. I could reas there shall be beauty like the love of some dead girl. There shall be ood. It was my blood tie some laughter, a restrained laughter, and quiet waiting in the n…
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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3/15 The Cure- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 🥀

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If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
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December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Bout half way through this one. It’s really something. It reads like… drunkenly talking to yourself in the mirror.

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Photo of the book Ask the Dust by John Fante
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I post, then I delete, repeat.

I'm Disturbed, I'm Depressed, I'm Inadequate – I've Got It All!
Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN” Photo wearing a George Costanza shirt that reads “MASTER OF MY DOMAIN”
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This ad is demonic
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December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Can’t stop thinking about this
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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2/15 The Cure- High

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High (2022 Remaster)
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December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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#ArtistFave15 The Cure- A Forest

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A Forest (2006 Remaster)
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December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Someone on Facebook has just commented that this is too much effort "for a book" and I feel sorry for the people she gives presents to.
bertsbooks.bsky.social Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 11d
You’ve got 5 hours left to sign up for Secret Santa

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December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Swoon
schweizercomics.bsky.social Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 4d
Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube:
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production stills of Curry and McShane in costume
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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There is magic in it.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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OK #BookSky let's hear your books of the year. Just your personal faves, no other criteria. Doesn't have to have come out this year, just something you read this year. What made the most impact for you?
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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How are the holidays going?
Photo of Robert Smith of The Cure laying surrounded by various objects
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Babe, come over, we’re straying further & further from god’s light
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Card for the Weekend December 5 - 7: Ten of Swords - A situation comes to an end. Don't fight this. Let it go. #tarot #tarotcardmeanings #cardfortheweekend #weekendtarot #thetarotlady
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Vacations just make me want to work even less. Back to it I guess….
a man is dancing in a jail cell through the bars .
ALT: a man is dancing in a jail cell through the bars .
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December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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who up turning and turning in the widening gyre
February 1, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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I finally watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. So good! Every time Victor is an asshole they’d be like, “But wait, don’t forget he’s hot.”
I was locked in the whole 2 hours and 30 minutes. Guess I should read that…

#moviesky #frankenstein #GuillermodelToro
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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An edited version of the Pantone color of the year where it has been replaced by an iconic picture of a roach that has received "the landlord special" and been completely painted over in thick white paint
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I just finished A Confederacy of Dunces. It was SO good. If you want to laugh, do yourself a favor and read this. It's brilliant with its comedic beats.

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Book cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
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But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness; that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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So what are we liking as an alternative app that is not Spotify?

#spotifywrapped #musicsky
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Ok #SpotifyWrapped... rude to call me out like that
A black and white graphic that reads "You eavesdropped on 4,687 minutes of other hikers' conversations (Good listening. Great family drama.)"
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This is my third work finished by Billy Martin. I liked Lost Souls, and Exquisite Corpse is a favorite. A lot different than what I expected, some of these gut punched me a bit emotionally. His dedication to Toole on the first story felt so right as I’m reading Confederacy of Dunces too #booksky 💙📚
Cover of the short story collection Back cover reads: Abandoning past gothic trappings and using a cleaner, simpler style, Brite emerges as a writer of honesty and wit. — Publishers Weekly Brite describes sumptuous meals at swanky restaurants and icy death with equal aplomb, and her stories are spirited and snappy. - Booklist In her third short story collection, Poppy Z. Brite finds fresh ways of exploring territory both familiar and strange. Here you'll mect the Devil and his giant cat last seen in the pages of Bulgakov, the gourmand coroner of New Orleans, the mad-genius chef who can't stand to have his cheese list criticised, and an assortment of Crescent City characters who also appear In Brite's novels Liquor and Prime. Poppy Z. Brite has found a way of writing about New Orleans that bypasses the clichés and approaches the city's tie heart: the hard-working, hard-partying cooks; the ways in which race, class, and sexual orientation do and don't matter; the love of bottom feeders, be they crustaceans or politicos; the million little justapositions of sacred and profane, bizarre and mundane, sublime and ridiculous that make up the everyday life of New Orleans. Some of these stories are set elsewhere, but Brite always returs home in the end. Bite's short fiction has been praised by a diverse assortment of writers: Harlan Ellison, Michael Chabon, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Andrei Codrescu. In The Devil You Know you'll find her strongest work yet.
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Recently discovered Stihl Timbersports holy shit

#sportsky
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM