@readwriteswim.bsky.social
Reader, writer, swimmer, children’s librarian & sometimes artist. Interested in silliness, stories, human rights & good manners. F**k bigots, greedy people, enablers & liars.
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.
Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.
Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).
The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
06.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 21649 🔁 4054 💬 918 📌 695Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
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Love that album.
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Laura’s Luck was a book about two sisters who were sent to camp after their mother was badly injured after getting hit by a car. Laura, the introvert struggles until she makes friends.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with your or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookSky
#Bookchallenge
#Books
2/20
I realised this year that I really like the expression, ‘first world problem’. It keeps so many things in perspective. I was just told my car probably isn’t worth fixing. Awful timing… but really, it’s not cancer, war or death of a loved one. It’s a car.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with your or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Bookchallenge
#Books
1/20
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19.11.2024 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books
18.11.2024 20:05 — 👍 19126 🔁 2989 💬 273 📌 163Yeah, I’m blocking any guys without a description, who say God Bless, and any topless photos. Uggh.
18.11.2024 22:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi Alice, Thanks for saying hello. We can share good books!
18.11.2024 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jeesh, I sound like, ‘I Thomas Cromwell’.
18.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello, I still don’t have many followers so thought an introduction might help. 1. I’m a librarian & an obsessive reader, one of my favourite authors is Sara Donati. 2. I think we need to update #IUnderstandTheAssignment to #NewAssigment & figure out how to combat rage/despair. 3. ❤️sharing stories.
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I (from the US) was grunting and complaining about the thin skinned lime I was trying to zest when my British husband handed me another implement and said, ‘Make America grate again’.
17.11.2024 18:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My 9-11yr old Booksters reading groups (x2) are begging for a brilliant Christmas book. It has to be well enough known that we’re likely to have ample copies around our 30+ libraries. Hit me up!
16.11.2024 22:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ran 4 book groups this week. 9-11 year olds loved Wolf Brother and Read, Scream, Repeat. Teens loved Five Survive & HappyHead. Nearly all top scores.
16.11.2024 20:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dog!!!
16.11.2024 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely seeing your face on here! You keeping well? 🥰
16.11.2024 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No, Iggy does that too. He also hates the rain.
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My did, Iggy Pup, feeling’ it. He was dressed up for our online library rhymetime during lockdown.
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