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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 5h

Library card acquired! It's been literal decades since I was last in a library (I know, I know...). I feel like Macaulay Culkin in "The Pagemaster".

Plus, 6 books left my shelves for new homes, and I found a secondhand copy of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"!

It's been a very good book day. 💙📚

A photo of two books stood upright on a bookshelf, obscuring most of the titles behind them, with a little ceramic turtle figurine squatting on their left. The lefthand book is a paperback Signet Classics copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Hound of the Baskervilles", its cover deep blue and purple with whire and taupe lettering, and an image of an eerily backlit mansion on the edge of a shadowy wood. The righthand book is a paperback copy of Ursula K. Le Guinn's book "The Left Hand of Darkness", with an icy blue image of an iceberg centered on its otherwise cream-colored cover.

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Bob on Books @bobonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Question of the Day: If you could choose five "desert island" books, what would they be? #booksky

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Harlow 🏳️‍🌈 @readintowonderland.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Shine a Light Night, lovelies! 💬📚

Do you prefer lighter or darker covers? 💙📚✨

#QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

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Penguin Ponders @penguin-ponders.bsky.social · 1d

I like -colorful- covers. Not always appropriate for all genres, but they do catch my eye.

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makeshift 🎃👻🦇 @makeshiftwingsplush.com · 1d

a poison apple owl ☠

[ #plushart #sewingpattern #owl #halloween ]

A plush of a stylized owl shaped like an apple. It has drippy green "poison" running down its red body.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 22h

Goose on the loose!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a goose sticking up its head among a bunch of flowers.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 1d

For Peachtober prompt "brush"! :)

#peachtober #art

A digital drawing of little cat characters scattered around the page, most of them doing artist things. There are also lots of flowers, a cup of coffee next to a cup of paint water, and so on.

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 2d

I realize I keep touting this one, but definitely "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers.

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Bob on Books @bobonbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Question of the Day: What book from this century would you consider a "must read"? #booksky

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's room in the world for both modern reinterpretations and reimaginings as well as faithful recreations. Adaptations should respect their source material regardless, but that doesn't mean Sherlock Holmes can't hound Moriarty in the 21st century, nor garden gnomes reenact Romeo & Juliet.

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Bob on Books @bobonbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Question of the Day: When classic books or plays are staged or adapted to the screen, should they be updated or should they reflect the original context? #booksky

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Fox Brassing | SFFH Author Musician @foxbrassing.bsky.social · 2d

Has social media ruined long-form books? Discuss. 👇
#booksky 📚💙

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn't say so, although it tends to be more difficult to hold a nuanced discussion on social media as compared to less limiting avenues of communication.

Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and "The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short I'd recommend. I genuinely enjoyed that one, for whatever reason.

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 2d

If you can compartmentalize enough to analyze his work separate from his racism, sexism, ableism, etc. (I couldn't), some of his work is worth at least one read; he's a pillar of horror for a reason. I liked the atmosphere of "The Shadow over Innsmouth". "At the Mountains of Madness" dragged for me.

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RunicWren @runicwren.bsky.social · 3d

All love triangles would be improved by being poly instead

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 5d

He promises to not steal what he sells you back!!
#art #illustration #peachtober

A digital drawing of a seagull character working in a stand selling french fries. There are frie shaped lamps, ketchup, napkins, and the seagull is standing with his wings outstretched looking happy. On the sign above the stand it says "we love fries" followed by a heart.

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Thinde @thinde.bsky.social · 5d

Mullerthal Luxembourg day 2

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

He tries to explain it to Julia, and she doesn't seem to understand it the same way. But for Winston that moment is huge compared to where he started out at the beginning of the book. For me it made the subsequent events even more crushing: he'd finally shown actual growth—and then the end happens.

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

Alrighty! So the moment right before Winston and Julia are ambushed near the end, Winston looks out the window of the rented room and realizes the woman who does her washing in the yard below isn't ugly or loathsome like he thought when he first saw her, but that she's her own kind of beautiful.

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

I was sick yesterday (still am, ugh) and missed #SundaySentence, so here's mine a day late:

"Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy."

—from Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up", translated by Cathy Hirano

💙📚 #BookSky

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d

Have you finished the book? (Just checking so I don't spoil anything unnecessarily.)

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Willow @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 6d

For me reading provides an escape as well as imagination and critical thinking stimulation.

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Thinde @thinde.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful Mullerthal in Luxembourg

Narrow track between rocks on the B2 Mullerthal route

View from viewpoint at Mullerthal B2 route

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Harlow 🏳️‍🌈 @readintowonderland.bsky.social · 6d

Happy World Mental Health Day, lovelies! 💬📚

How does reading help your mental health? 💙📚✨

#QOTD #BookishQOTD #booksky #readersky #bookishquestions

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