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March is #ReadingIrelandMonth
I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors

March is Reading Ireland! #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 Reading Ireland Month (or The #Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the 12th year during March 2026, although this will only be the 6th year I have participated. It is hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books. Cathy is a supporter of everything Irish and a promoter of Irish culture. Check out her page for suggestions of what to read and listen to some wonderful Irish music from her spotify list.

March is Reading Ireland! #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26

Reading Ireland Month (or The #Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the 12th year during March 2026, although this will only be the 6th year I have participated. It is hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books. Cathy is a…

f the poem. The text reads: The Clothes Shrine It was a whole new sweetness In the early days to find Light white muslin blouses On a see-through nylon line Drip-drying in the bathroom Or a nylon slip in the shine Of its own electricity - As if St Brigid once more Had rigged up a ray of sun Like the one she’d strung on air To dry her own cloak on (Hard-pressed Brigid, so Unstoppably on the go) - The damp and slump and unfair Drag of the workaday Made light of and got through As usual, brilliantly. From Electric Light (2001)

“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney.

Source: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Facebook.

#TodaysPoem #PoetrySky #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 #SeamusHeaney #poem #poetry

Eating chocolate cake in the bath during a snowstorm while listening to Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito narrated by Anna Burnett 🎧 with the @libbyapp.com. As one does. #AmReading #AmListening #VictorianPsycho

Purr-fect casting: is Orangey the most important movie cat ever? A new retrospective celebrates the work of the cat credited with roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Comedy of Terrors and Rhubarb

#Caturday #Orangey 🏆🐈

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We have power and power is its own excuse!

It Can't Happen Here
~Sinclair Lewis

#SundaySentence

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville

The book is beautifully written. And heartbreaking.

Hadn’t heard of that game before, just gave it a go.

Connections
Puzzle #956
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#TodaysPoem
“The Problem with Early Warnings” by Charles Rafferty @southernreview.bsky.social

Right up there with “what is that smell?… who stuffed a dirty diaper down back of that shelf?” type of days.

Cover image of The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle. Adjacent text is "He spoke our language."

Dr. Dolittle first took shape in illustrated letters that Lofting, #botd in 1886, wrote to his family and children from the trenches of WWI. Beloved stories, less successful adaptations, but then the books weren't cut out for Hollywood blockbusters.

#booksky #childrensbooksky #filmsky

Anne Frank, 1943:

we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.

- Gwendolyn Brooks, quoted in “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good” by Danez Smith, Harper’s Bazaar: bit.ly/4pylLG4

Poem: poets.org/poem/paul-robe…

#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem

We’re gonna need more dragons.

Snow-covered shrubs and trees with grey sky.

“January has never been a month for reinvention.”

#SundaySentence

The quiet #folklore of #January:

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📸 @laralou.bsky.social in my yard in January, with more ❄️ just starting and a winter storm forecast - #NLwx

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YouTube video by professorenol Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put A Little Love In Your Heart [HQ]

Happy New Year
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." MLK 12/25/57

#TodaysPoem

The Old Year Another poem I did not finish. Or, rather: An ode I’ll continue to write.

#smallpoemsunday ✨

Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025 All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

Anthony Law, Colourful Skaters (Head of Williams Lake, Nova Scotia), oil on canvas, 1991

Lovely book

Just discovered the #SmallPoemSunday hashtag on this last Sunday of 2025 and look forward to sharing and following in 2026!

Classic Gothic Gloucester Cathedral, South West England

Classic Gothic Gloucester Cathedral, South West England
Groundbreaking in 1089, it was completed in 1482, 393 years later!

Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.

Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence

Brings to mind an illustration l’m sure l’ve seen in a children’s picture book.

#SundaySentence

"As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."

- Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory (1956)

Also a sea slug that does photosynthesis. Amazing!