Ellen Neuborne

Photo of Meryl Streep in the role of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.

Emily…Emily…

I loved Rez Ball!

Book page with this section highlighted: That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else. Something I don’t quite understand. Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity or how to flirt.

BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social

I love a good midlife heroine! Putting this series on my TBR.

This looks like a great read.

I loved this — and I was not a huge Huck Finn fan. This novel broke new ground.

Book page with this line highlighted: “Support groups are line bras—some aren’t that supportive,” Carol said.

BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social

I read Trout Fishing in America in college. It blew my Brooklyn-born mind.

More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading

What’s not to love? ❤️

I feel you. I’m also a writer and there are many times I’m too busy to read. When that happens, I like to read poetry. Hang in there — and keep writing 🙂

Book page with the following line highlighted: Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales

I feel you — but do check it once a day. I once had a story accepted and didn’t see it for a week.

Book page with this phrase highlighted:…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?

BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist

More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.

Especially television commercials.

Book page with this line highlighted: Dig within; for within you lies the fountain of good, and it can always be gushing forth if only you always dig.

BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism

This is so true. I sometimes think about writing as similar to being a chef.

Book page with this line highlighted: To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics

Book page with this line highlighted: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read

So many wine cellars! So little time.

I like this review. There’s an adventure in following the language even (especially?) when you’re not sure what’s going on.

Book page with this page highlighted: “Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything.

BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist

Book page with this line highlighted: On paper, my credentials looked terrific, but selling believability in front of middle schoolers was something else.

BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers

Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallange #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

What is “great” anyway? I studied Classics in college. To relax, I read Star Trek novels. #booksky #classics #startrek #readers

Book page with this line highlighted: But this too is true: stories can save us.

BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers

Page of Shakespeare’s play with his original stage direction highlighted: Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew.

BEST LINE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I was a shocked teenager sitting in AP English the day I learned Shylock was a person, not a profession. #booksky #drama #shakespeare #apenglish #brooklynmemories

This looks promising. Adding it to my TBR.

Book page with this line highlighted: Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature.

BEST LINE: SILENT SPRING That truth is gaining on us. #booksky 💙📚 #nature #environment #earth #nonfiction #climatechange