Abibliophobia

Hope sits in the trenches, the last one standing, its teeth cracked, its knuckles bruised, its body broken; but its eyes are still gleaming with the light of a million lamps. Its heart is still beating because even here, even now, it knows that a better world is worth fighting for. - Nikita Gill

Hope is never futile - it is one of the greatest forms of resistance we have.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." – Maya Angelou

Photo of the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott propped up on a bookshelf. The book is extremely worn and has a purple border and picture of four girls going through a chest.

Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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4/20

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (50)
Montag
#RayBradbury2024

Fahrenheit 451

Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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3/20

Life got busy yesterday so I’m aiming for two today.

Choose 20 book that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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2/20

Photo of cover of The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone. Cover shows Grover, a sweet blue monster, hanging out next to a light pole in front of a red brick wall.

I’ve decided to play!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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1/20

I loved this book!

Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now.

I’m hoping to finish the quirky Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin.

Oh good - thank you!

I didn’t notice that - thanks! Can you post a screenshot where it says invalid or point me in a direction to look? I’ve only just started reusing Bluesky again and not sure I know how to do everything.

“I’m not the kind of person who is able to do things, have I told you this already? I lie down and let life leave its footprints on me.”

#SundaySentence from Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

- The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow
- A Man With One of Those Faces, Caimh McDonnell

My favorite was definitely Sing, Unburied, Sing. What was your favorite read last month?

My #FebruaryReads Another pretty good month!

- The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
- The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
- Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Secret Hours, Mick Herron

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“Ms. Beckett was drinking coffee from a reusable cup, or, as such items had once been known, a cup.”

#SundaySentence from The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

I’m hoping to finish up The Secret Hours by Mick Herron and start Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson.

My #JanuaryReads cont.

- The Wake-Up Call, Beth O’Leary
- A Man With One of Those Faces, Caimh McDonnell

Another good month in which I enjoyed most of what I read (the first two being my favorites)!

My #JanuaryReads

- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
- Death is Hard Work, Khaled Khalifa
- The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman
- Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny
- The Cold Millions, Jess Walter
- Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
- The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish

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Trying to get back into blogging, so of course I needed to share my favourite books of 2023. 💙📚
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The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point.

Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.

Love your house! And your lawnless yard!

‘I never saw Miss Thomas again. It was only a week or two later that she was killed in the street by a runaway horse-and-dray carrying barrels of beer. It wasn’t the horse that killed her but one of the barrels: it rolled off and completely crushed her. She was a little wisp of a woman and a barrel of beer was too much for her. Poor thing! she was a member of the Temperance Society, too, and they all clubbed together and sent her a beautiful wreath of violets woven into a harp.’ (from The Vet’s Daughter, 1959)

Barbara Comyns knew how to dispatch a minor character.

This week I’m finishing Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (ebook) and The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish (audio). Hope everyone has a great week of reading!

Greenwood by Michael Christie review – an arresting eco-parable Ecological catastophe has led to the destruction of trees … a bleak vision of the future with Steinbeckian cadences

"An apple is nothing but a seed's escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides - in the bellies of animals, or by taking to the wind - all to get as far away from their parents as they possibly can."

#SundaySentence by Michael Christie tinyurl.com/yk7pk6kk

“Death is a solitary experience, of course, but nevertheless it lays heavy obligations on the living.”

#SundaySentence from Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

In the world’s largest cypress forest, Surf Durrani captures atmospheric autumnal colors. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/surf...

Good morning! I’m finishing Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa (ebook) and listening to The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish.