@togaspring.bsky.social
Avid reader and aspiring writer in Upstate NY
Self-defeating for them not to waive it
31.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did you see this one - @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
30.01.2026 22:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Highest recommendation!
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I wonder how you know this is true?
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Beautiful cover. Can't wait to read these stories by @joycecaroloates.bsky.social available 6.16.26
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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
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The End of an Era at One of America’s Most Famous Artist Retreats www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
11.12.2025 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So enjoy this genre birthed by Donna Tartt's amazing The Secret History of
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Dark Academia: A Starter Pack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
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@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Hi Joyce, have you read any of The Booker Prize long list selections or short list finalists announced today?
23.09.2025 22:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great audience!
22.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Master—but if I had the Beard on my cheek (like you) and you — had Daisy’s petals and you cared so much for me— what would become of you? Could you forget me in fight, or flight or the foreign land?
-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”
William Orpen's radiant colours and his luscious textures celebrated not only wealth but sensuality, a quality deemed unnatural in the early years of the new century if you weren't Italian or French. This is his 'The Eastern Gown,' from 1906.
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Just finished. Interesting novel using present day themes of relationship and unchecked altruism (with the flair of Albanian culture) left this reader asking throughout: did that person actually say that? Did I hear that response correctly?" 4/13 titles completed ☑️ @thebookerprizes.com
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Just finished! Wonderful themes and characters with the flair of Albanian culture woven throughout.
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That’s the kind of phrase that condenses experience into language so precisely, it's philosophical. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
13.09.2025 12:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You are visiting and not a patient yes?
07.09.2025 22:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
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Mahogany rinse indeed
06.09.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
Just finished "Flesh" by 2nd time long-list nominee David Szalay @thebookerprizes.com A novel about male alienation and the vertical life of a Hungarian man who spent it as an outsider, never saying "no" to anything he encountered - all the way to the top and then back down again He only said "okay"
31.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0family-tended gardens of beauty have a sentimental effect upon me-- filling my eyes with tears. recalling the old "flower gardens" & backyard vegetable gardens that were so common when I was growing up. but some local gardens are extraordinary, home-tended, not professional landscapers.
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Idolizing billionaires is like thinking a stripper really likes you.
I think this is my favorite sign that I saw at the #handsoff2025 protest in Raleigh:
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