Self & Universe
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Whitman broke all the rules. His poetry is free, sensual, and democratic. He embraces the body and the soul equally. The vast voice of America. 🌿
✨#WaltWhitman #Poetry #AmericanLit #Classics
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Whitman broke all the rules. His poetry is free, sensual, and democratic. He embraces the body and the soul equally. The vast voice of America. 🌿
✨#WaltWhitman #Poetry #AmericanLit #Classics
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Self & Universe
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Whitman broke all the rules. His poetry is free, sensual, and democratic. He embraces the body and the soul equally. The vast voice of America. 🌿
✨#WaltWhitman #Poetry #AmericanLit #Classics
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Whitman broke all the rules. His poetry is free, sensual, and democratic. He embraces the body and the soul equally. The vast voice of America. 🌿
✨#WaltWhitman #Poetry #AmericanLit #Classics
Did you know Booth Tarkington penned a play about marriage and societal expectations in 1921? The Intimate Strangers explored themes of love and convention in the Jazz Age, blending humor with profound social commentary. (Q131056529) #AmericanLit #RoaringTwenties #BoothTarkington
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Did you know Booth Tarkington penned a play about marriage and societal expectations in 1921? The Intimate Strangers explored themes of love and convention in the Jazz Age, blending humor with profound social commentary. (Q131056529) #AmericanLit #RoaringTwenties #BoothTarkington
"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." - A brilliant, paradoxical line from Chief Bromden that speaks to the nature of storytelling and subjective reality. #Kesey #AmericanLit
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." - A brilliant, paradoxical line from Chief Bromden that speaks to the nature of storytelling and subjective reality. #Kesey #AmericanLit
"On a field, sable, the letter A, gules." - The stark, heraldic description of the symbol of shame that is at the novel's core. #AmericanLit #Symbolism
August 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"On a field, sable, the letter A, gules." - The stark, heraldic description of the symbol of shame that is at the novel's core. #AmericanLit #Symbolism
Re-re-rereading As I Lay Dying. Faulkner's description of the mule team as the Bundren family presses on despite the flood waters is brilliant, so good it gives me chills.
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Re-re-rereading As I Lay Dying. Faulkner's description of the mule team as the Bundren family presses on despite the flood waters is brilliant, so good it gives me chills.
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
#WritingCommunity #AmericanLit #classics #Faulkner #writing #BookSky
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖊️📚💙 #SlaveNarrative #USHistory
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself by
Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861 - Two editions
💙📚 🖊️📚💙 #SlaveNarrative #USHistory
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself by
Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861 - Two editions
August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖊️📚💙 #SlaveNarrative #USHistory
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself by
Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861 - Two editions
💙📚 🖊️📚💙 #SlaveNarrative #USHistory
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself by
Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861 - Two editions
"124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom." - The chilling opening line that immediately immerses you in a house saturated with a malevolent past. #FirstLine #AmericanLit
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom." - The chilling opening line that immediately immerses you in a house saturated with a malevolent past. #FirstLine #AmericanLit
"But not us! An' why? Because... I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." - The simple, powerful dream that fuels them. #AmericanLit #BookQuote
August 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"But not us! An' why? Because... I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." - The simple, powerful dream that fuels them. #AmericanLit #BookQuote
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - A testament to the indomitable human spirit. #AmericanLit
July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - A testament to the indomitable human spirit. #AmericanLit
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Classics #NewHampshire
#Books #WomenWriting
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by
Harriet E. Wilson
109 pages • 1859
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Classics #NewHampshire
#Books #WomenWriting
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by
Harriet E. Wilson
109 pages • 1859
July 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Classics #NewHampshire
#Books #WomenWriting
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by
Harriet E. Wilson
109 pages • 1859
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Classics #NewHampshire
#Books #WomenWriting
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by
Harriet E. Wilson
109 pages • 1859
Come on and read #MobyDick with me! #classics #classiclit #Americanlit #whales www.tiktok.com/t/ZT667ne2E/
I’m digging into a classic this summer - Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I don’t know if I had expectations, but I am enjoying this more than I expected to! #classic #classicliterature #moby #whitewhale...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Come on and read #MobyDick with me! #classics #classiclit #Americanlit #whales www.tiktok.com/t/ZT667ne2E/
#ErnestHemingway was born on this day in 1899. Up until a few years ago, I was unaware that he'd worked for the #TorontoStar as a foreign correspondent in the 1920's. This entertaining 1961 #biography was published the year he died. $15. #Booksky #authors #AmericanLit #literature
July 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
#ErnestHemingway was born on this day in 1899. Up until a few years ago, I was unaware that he'd worked for the #TorontoStar as a foreign correspondent in the 1920's. This entertaining 1961 #biography was published the year he died. $15. #Booksky #authors #AmericanLit #literature
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit
#Books #WomenWriting #HarlemRenaissance #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Passing by
Nella Larsen
182 pages • first pub 1929
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit
#Books #WomenWriting #HarlemRenaissance #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Passing by
Nella Larsen
182 pages • first pub 1929
July 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit
#Books #WomenWriting #HarlemRenaissance #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Passing by
Nella Larsen
182 pages • first pub 1929
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit
#Books #WomenWriting #HarlemRenaissance #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Passing by
Nella Larsen
182 pages • first pub 1929
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Chicago
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros
110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Chicago
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros
110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago
July 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Chicago
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros
110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Chicago
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros
110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #NewYorkCity
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
338 pages • 1905 "Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City"
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #NewYorkCity
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
338 pages • 1905 "Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City"
July 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #NewYorkCity
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
338 pages • 1905 "Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City"
💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #NewYorkCity
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
338 pages • 1905 "Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City"
Gotta a feeling this’ll be appropriate tomorrow, Monday, June 23:
#amreading #fiction #scifi #vonnegut #uslit #americanlit #literature #littérature #iran #bombing #war #taco
#amreading #fiction #scifi #vonnegut #uslit #americanlit #literature #littérature #iran #bombing #war #taco
June 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Gotta a feeling this’ll be appropriate tomorrow, Monday, June 23:
#amreading #fiction #scifi #vonnegut #uslit #americanlit #literature #littérature #iran #bombing #war #taco
#amreading #fiction #scifi #vonnegut #uslit #americanlit #literature #littérature #iran #bombing #war #taco
When you just finished a book, but it's time for bed and you can't decide which one to read next - 1 you've already started - or 2 of these other ones from your TBR list that are equally if not even more intriguing?
#booksky #diversebooks #worldlit #americanlit #bookwormproblems #tbr
#booksky #diversebooks #worldlit #americanlit #bookwormproblems #tbr
June 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
When you just finished a book, but it's time for bed and you can't decide which one to read next - 1 you've already started - or 2 of these other ones from your TBR list that are equally if not even more intriguing?
#booksky #diversebooks #worldlit #americanlit #bookwormproblems #tbr
#booksky #diversebooks #worldlit #americanlit #bookwormproblems #tbr
#500GreatBooksByWomen
#BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern - 336 pages • pub 1854
#BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern - 336 pages • pub 1854
May 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#500GreatBooksByWomen
#BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern - 336 pages • pub 1854
#BookSky
💙📚 🖋️📚💙
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics #AmericanLit
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern - 336 pages • pub 1854
Come talk about nests with me in Pittsburgh next March!! #nemla #literature #americanlit #ecocriticism
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Come talk about nests with me in Pittsburgh next March!! #nemla #literature #americanlit #ecocriticism
I guess I should hashtag so #bookclub #blueskybookclub #americanlit #sherwoodanderson #winesburgohio #literature #englishlit #existentialism #realism #hemingway #fitzgerald #grotesque #bookswithlorilou
May 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM