Jules

My husband might be up for this. He plays Necromunda.

Yes, just been on the website. My son is 7 so I’ll do the admin 🤣 Fabulous idea and I will be signing up.

My son is trying to set up a bookclub at his primary school in the north east. It serves a very deprived catchment area so this would be such a great investment.

Finished The Marriage Portrait last night and it was ok. A bit long and the ending was predictable. Anyway the dice have decreed that my next read is A Passage to India so I’m off to bed in 5. Just got to finish this chapter on ‘Lunch’ from A Bright Cold Day by Nathan Waddell.

6 blossoms. What a lovely game. ❤️ #agentlerain

Prophet Song.

I will be sure to update you. I made the mistake of rereading the end of A Farewell to Arms in a public place having forgotten how much I cried the first time!

❤️❤️❤️ I will be sure to pay this forward after payday!

This is so kind x made my day xxx

I bonded with an American woman in Edinburgh over Small Things…I’d love to read Foster.

A black-and-white portrait photograph of Zora Neale Hurston, taken around the 1930s–1940s. She is shown from the neck up, wearing a dark wide-brimmed hat tilted slightly to one side and a textured, patterned blouse. Her short, curly hair frames her face, and she looks directly past the camera with a warm, confident smile that reveals her teeth, conveying poise and charisma.

The cover of the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. Against a textured blue background, a striking artistic silhouette of a Black woman's profile faces right, her face and neck in black-and-white photography overlaid with vibrant, multicolored abstract patterns in red, yellow, gold, and blue. A large golden halo-like circle glows behind her head. Bold white handwritten-style text at the top reads "ZORA NEALE HURSTON," while the title "THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD" spans the bottom in large capital letters, with "A NOVEL" in smaller text to the right. Faint overlaid text fragments from the book appear in the background.

Author, filmmaker, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was born #OTD in 1891.

She was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and author of the masterwork, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘰𝘥 (1937). #literature #litsky #booksky

zoranealehurston.com

a poster that says all of life is a gamble be bold & roll the dice ALT: a poster that says all of life is a gamble be bold & roll the dice

I have many unread or unfinished books so in 2026 the dice decide what’s next. I have 5 shelves with 10 books on each. My D10 chose The Marriage Portrait! Caveat: 3 chapter rule-hate it and it goes to charity.

Out of the 6 of her books that I read back-to-back, last summer, this was the passage that really struck me.
All too relevant, even a few months ago.
#Booksky #BlueskyBooks

Split-image portrait of Baroness Emmuska Orczy: on the left, a black-and-white studio photograph of the author in early 20th-century attire, wearing a light chiffon gown with lace bodice, double strand of pearls, pearl drop earrings, and an elegant updo; on the right, the iconic red cover of her novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel" featuring a black line drawing of the masked hero aiding aristocrats into a carriage, with bold title text above and "BARONESS ORCZY" below.

#OTD in 1905, Baroness Orczy's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭 opened in London's West End (novel published later in 1905). Origin of the #superhero trope--creating the archetype of the "hero with a secret identity," a concept central to modern superhero fiction. A precursor to Zorro, Batman & more. #booksky

What was the pun? Intrigued.

Nooooooo!!!!!! I thought you were writing a little
Horror Poem!

First bookclub of the year last night discussing ‘All Fours’. We are a new group of 6 women aged 19-50 and 3.5 of us had read the book! A provocative read which resonated in many ways but we disliked how much the protagonist was trying to find who she was by emulating stereotypical male behaviour.

I gift you ‘dickjaw’.

And what does it mean to be a woman without a male counterpart? The use of the word ‘known’ is doing a lot of work. Have you read All Fours?

Read it recently and then had to implore others to read it so I could discuss it. It’s so crazy and brilliant.

Our middle
Daughter bought us this for Christmas x

I like them both but I don’t think either of them actually reflect the soul of the book.

First thing my 7yo said was: I would make them all do a secret handwriting test! First time watcher, detective in the making.

And did you instantly look at the person in the room with you and say: There’s been a …

My current reread. She’s a beauty.

This woman is a genius. The City We Became is one of my favourite reads of 2025 and I’ve just bought (today) The Fifth Season for my husband. I read it a few years ago and he is trying to get back into reading.

Rereading is good for the soul.

@jaekoyanagi.com starting 2026 with a reread, a theme for the year.

Brand new here. Is it as nice as people tell me?