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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 12h

I smiled,-for what had I to fear. I bade the gentlemen welcome.
~Edgar Allan Poe

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 12h

You and me both💜

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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 17h

Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Todd, (temporary) shop dog

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Dragons

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20h

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 18h

A series of 'spooky events' are taking place across Ireland’s heritage sites over the next couple of weeks.

The OPW said ghost stories, tours, and treasure hunts are among the offerings this year
www.thejournal.ie/halloween-ev...

Halloween events to be hosted across Ireland's heritage sites

The OPW has announced events at eight heritage sites across Ireland.

www.thejournal.ie

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

How creating your own Book Bootcamp can transform your literary fitness on.ft.com/4q8oGqb | opinion

How creating your own Book Bootcamp can transform your literary fitness

From judging a book prize to taking part in an online challenge, intensive reading is incredibly rewarding — as long as it doesn’t start to feel like homework

on.ft.com

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

Can you IMAGINE the epic that would be a Jonathan Franzen dragons novel

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Dragons

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20h

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19h

"One star, not enough dragons"😂

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Todd, (temporary) shop dog

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 20h

Hot take!🔥

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20h

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 24d

Are other book folks noticing that dragons are having a bit of a moment?

No Page Unturned Podcast @nopageunturned.bsky.social · 28d

The paperback edition of Blood of the Old Kings by @sung-il-kim.com and translated by @antonhur.com is out today, so we are re-releasing our interview with them from last year. The cast loved the first book and found this interview to be a delight.

geeklyinc.com/off-the-book...

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 20h

Sounds like a threat more than anything else tbh

'She's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything'
ANN PATCHETT

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 22h

Atwood’s here! With a spine that looks like a sneeze and - I regret to inform - sprayed edges.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 20h

Hot take!🔥

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20h

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

2026 Lunar Calendars have arrived!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men

In the latest novel from the acclaimed avant garde author, the narrator considers the impact of the relationships she’s left behind

www.theguardian.com

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
~Edgar Allan Poe

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Not just because we get a lovely shout-out but because "I have measured my life out in book spines"❤️ From the wonderful Aoife McLysaght in the Irish Country Magazine

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to reading this!

V&Q Books @vqbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, kids!

A rusty ship sinking, on the cover of Ivana Sajko's novel EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, translated by Mima Simić. The writing says: Launching Ivana Sajko's Every Time We Say Goodbye / 14 October, 7 pm / DAAD Galerie / Oranienstr. 161 / Berlin

Writer Ivana Sajko (white, long dark hair, smiling in a flowery shirt) and translator Mima Simić (white, short greying hair, enigmatic sideways glance in a black T-shirt)

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also wondering how many croissants would be destroyed in the making of PSI France😄

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Yes to ALL the gossip.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

A woman in my book-signing line at the Heartland Book Festival gave me these miniature versions of my books. So delightful! 📚I'm going to keep this tiny library on my desk. Nearly every book I've written.

Nnedi's fingers holding a box of miniature Nnedi books.

All the miniature books spread on Nnedi's hand.

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