Nancy Pearl
@nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social
Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
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"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
December 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
What’s wrong with Joe Burrow? Check out The Ringer NFL show for 12/17. @sheilkapadia.bsky.social and @billygil.bsky.social discuss their theories. Very enlightening. 😀
December 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What’s wrong with Joe Burrow? Check out The Ringer NFL show for 12/17. @sheilkapadia.bsky.social and @billygil.bsky.social discuss their theories. Very enlightening. 😀
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“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.”
- Robert Wyatt
- Robert Wyatt
December 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.”
- Robert Wyatt
- Robert Wyatt
Here's "A Great Poem" by mid-20th century poet Gavin Ewart.
A Great Poem
This is a great poem.
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
This is a great poem.
Full of true emotion.
A Great Poem
This is a great poem.
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
This is a great poem.
Full of true emotion.
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Here's "A Great Poem" by mid-20th century poet Gavin Ewart.
A Great Poem
This is a great poem.
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
This is a great poem.
Full of true emotion.
A Great Poem
This is a great poem.
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
How I suffer!
This is a great poem.
Full of true emotion.
Done & dusted. “Springtime in Paris,” another 1000-piecer from @galison.bsky.social. Great fun: all those teeny tiny boats! I listened to John Lanchester’s terrific novel Capital. Highly recommend puzzle and novel
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Done & dusted. “Springtime in Paris,” another 1000-piecer from @galison.bsky.social. Great fun: all those teeny tiny boats! I listened to John Lanchester’s terrific novel Capital. Highly recommend puzzle and novel
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function," from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay "The Crack-Up,” although I’ve never thought it sounded Fitzgeraldish
"This sort of simultaneous awareness that there’s nothing that really matters to us more than literature, and at the same time there’s nothing that matters less on this sad, lonely planet than literature."
– Nell Zink
– Nell Zink
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function," from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay "The Crack-Up,” although I’ve never thought it sounded Fitzgeraldish
Collective nouns, anyone? No one does it better than Bilston:
“An enjambment of
poets.”
“An enjambment of
poets.”
Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Collective nouns, anyone? No one does it better than Bilston:
“An enjambment of
poets.”
“An enjambment of
poets.”
Goethe
We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Goethe
Goethe
December 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Goethe
Just finished listening to John Lanchester’s terrific novel Capital, read by Colin Mace, which describes a cross-section of Londoners leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. By now the characters feel like old friends.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Just finished listening to John Lanchester’s terrific novel Capital, read by Colin Mace, which describes a cross-section of Londoners leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. By now the characters feel like old friends.
This is the poem I used as an epigraph to my novel George & Lizzie. I am ever-grateful to Terence Winch for writing it and so happy that I read it long before either George or Lizzie came into existence.
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is the poem I used as an epigraph to my novel George & Lizzie. I am ever-grateful to Terence Winch for writing it and so happy that I read it long before either George or Lizzie came into existence.
“It has always been evening
and now you know”
Perfect
and now you know”
Perfect
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“It has always been evening
and now you know”
Perfect
and now you know”
Perfect
Good one
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Good one
Howard Norman's 2024 novel Come to the Window has everything his novels are known for-lovely writing, quirky characters and plots, and satisfying endings. This is now my favorite of his, probably recency bias, since his 1994 novel, The Bird Artist, is just about perfect.
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Howard Norman's 2024 novel Come to the Window has everything his novels are known for-lovely writing, quirky characters and plots, and satisfying endings. This is now my favorite of his, probably recency bias, since his 1994 novel, The Bird Artist, is just about perfect.
“And as for you, you could be anyone
Who’s done, who’s said, the things you’ve said and done.”
What an amazing poem: Poem without Metaphors by Matthew Buckley Smith
Who’s done, who’s said, the things you’ve said and done.”
What an amazing poem: Poem without Metaphors by Matthew Buckley Smith
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“And as for you, you could be anyone
Who’s done, who’s said, the things you’ve said and done.”
What an amazing poem: Poem without Metaphors by Matthew Buckley Smith
Who’s done, who’s said, the things you’ve said and done.”
What an amazing poem: Poem without Metaphors by Matthew Buckley Smith
Done & dusted. “Garden Party,” another great 1000-piecer from @eeboo.com - I love doing these colorful puzzles on these rainy, grey (and grayer) November days
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Done & dusted. “Garden Party,” another great 1000-piecer from @eeboo.com - I love doing these colorful puzzles on these rainy, grey (and grayer) November days
"Someday I'll wake and hardly think of you;
You'll be some abstract diety, a myth--
Say Daphne, if you knew her as a tree."
Oh, I really love this poem so much
You'll be some abstract diety, a myth--
Say Daphne, if you knew her as a tree."
Oh, I really love this poem so much
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"Someday I'll wake and hardly think of you;
You'll be some abstract diety, a myth--
Say Daphne, if you knew her as a tree."
Oh, I really love this poem so much
You'll be some abstract diety, a myth--
Say Daphne, if you knew her as a tree."
Oh, I really love this poem so much
"Not everything that happens // is a learning experience. Maybe nothing is."
I do love this John Ciardi poem, which I read long ago in the New Yorker (I can tell by the typeface.)
I do love this John Ciardi poem, which I read long ago in the New Yorker (I can tell by the typeface.)
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Not everything that happens // is a learning experience. Maybe nothing is."
I do love this John Ciardi poem, which I read long ago in the New Yorker (I can tell by the typeface.)
I do love this John Ciardi poem, which I read long ago in the New Yorker (I can tell by the typeface.)
Done & dusted. “The World of Oscar Wilde.” Challenging 1000-piecer from Laurence King, w/huge amount of info on Wilde’s life and work both incorporated in the puzzle as well as in additional material. I listened to John Lanchester’s novel Capital while I was working on the puzzle
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Done & dusted. “The World of Oscar Wilde.” Challenging 1000-piecer from Laurence King, w/huge amount of info on Wilde’s life and work both incorporated in the puzzle as well as in additional material. I listened to John Lanchester’s novel Capital while I was working on the puzzle
I’ve loved Susan Straight’s books ever since I read her novel “I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots” way back in 1992. Can’t believe I never interviewed her before this.
📚 @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social interviews author Susan Straight for a conversation about her newest book, "Sacrament," a story of three nurses fighting through COVID’s first year. She also shares how family histories have fueled her writing.
Book Lust: Susan Straight on COVID, caregiving, & the women who shaped her
YouTube video by Seattle Channel
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I’ve loved Susan Straight’s books ever since I read her novel “I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots” way back in 1992. Can’t believe I never interviewed her before this.
"It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
than they are now, or have been known to be" - Robyn Sarah "Riveted"
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40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
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Selling books is undoubtedly awesome, but there's something truly special about people borrowing your book from the library.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Selling books is undoubtedly awesome, but there's something truly special about people borrowing your book from the library.
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Who remembers Nancy Drew’s father’s name ? What about the name of their housekeeper?
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Who remembers Nancy Drew’s father’s name ? What about the name of their housekeeper?
Done & dusted. The painting itself was done by an unknown artist sometime in the 16th century; it depicts the “First Meeting of Rostam and his Grandfather, Sam” from the Iranian national epic, the Shanama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (c934-c1020.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Done & dusted. The painting itself was done by an unknown artist sometime in the 16th century; it depicts the “First Meeting of Rostam and his Grandfather, Sam” from the Iranian national epic, the Shanama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (c934-c1020.