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#BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this Thursday🎉

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

~P.G. Wodehouse

Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:

✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨

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Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.

art by Timothy Adam Matthews

When a hare crosses your path repeat this phrase to avoid misfortune~

"Hare before, Trouble behind:
Change ye, Cross, and free me."

British Folklore (1875) #FolkloreSunday
art by Amanda Clark

#owlishmonday #bookchatweekly

The painting was found in the dusty attic of UK teacher, Jane Cordery and was auctioned at Christie's for close to a million dollars in 2012.

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.

~Alfred Tennyson

The White Owl
William James Webbe (1853-1878)

Tiles by William De Morgan (1839-1917)
English tile designer, potter and novelist. A designer for Morris & Co. (1875–1940)

#ArtsandCraftsMovement

book cover a fox and birb all togged up nicely.

fox and birb dining. they have a frog waiter

fox and raven in a tree,the raven has something shiny in its beak

grasshoppers with a guitar and a basket of sticks. I'm sure a pedant will correct me and say these are crickets not grasshoppers.

De fabelen van La Fontaine, 1900.

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I love Whistler’s comment, "I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures"

Two women in traditional dress walk along a path holding an umbrella. On either side are maple trees with autumn leaves.

'A Walk in Autumn' - Miyagawa Shuntei, 1898. 🍁
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

~E.M. Forster
art by John Atkinson Grimshaw
#PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

art by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)

Someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

~ C.S. Lewis
#BookologyThursday

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

~John Trelawney, Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated by Angel Dominguez
#BookologyThursday

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.

~Joseph Campbell

Welcome to #BookologyThursday ✨ Today we explore our theme:

🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉

in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍂

art by Annya Marttinen

Sending magic✨

art by Tijana Lukovic

Pan's Labyrinth by Santiago Caruso

for #WyrdWednesday

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

 ~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme:

🐉Dragons and Treasures of the World🐉

in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

Hello, dear Bibliophiles🍂

Happy Richard Scarry Autumn Days!✨

#bookchatweekly

Current read. Fascinating.

Death in Early America by Margaret Coffin
The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning.

art by Jon Carraher

If anyone needs me, I’m here in the enchanted forest brewing Dragonwell tea, baking Crone scones, and casting spells of kindness.✨

art from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany by Jean Bourdichon (1503-1508)

Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for everyone who needs one✨

art by Shannon Stamey

Washington Irving's Headless Horseman, the terror Sleepy Hollow, was said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier, decapitated by a canon ball in the Revolutionary War. At night, the phantom horseman was often seen in the graveyard, searching for his lost head.

#BookChatWeekly #folklore