Sol 💫🐆

the week (monday, 2 pm):

preparing for the week

Have been a day.

A world in flowers.

I'll say close to zero, given that is a very bad economical system.

Lies! No hordes of furious communists cancelling me! Twitter lied to me once again.

OK. Experiment 1:

Communism is a failure. Cuba is a failed state. Because of communism.

(Testing. Testing).

Where are the hordes of furious communists of BlueSky. Are they mythical? What happens if I say I love free markets (I love free markets).

I just love to rant online.

I'm still riding that compliment I once got from being compared to Audrey Hepburn 💫.

sunday

The same as Plutarch in Parallel Lives, I like to do this thing of pairing 2 books by a common subject/thread: Jane Eyre & Agnes Grey; Emma & Miss Marjoribanks; Hotel Iris & Lolita; Udolpho & Haunting of Hill House.

What books are like this? Which novel goes "well" with another?

Sexless September books:
- John Guy's Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
- Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

Spinster September, Saphic September or Sexless (virgin) September?

Spinster September books:
- Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey
- Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day

Saphic September books:
- Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet

🤍 Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) 🤍 Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever then It’s Over 🤍 Tezer Özlü, Cold Nights of Childhood (tr. Maureen Freely) 🤍 Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary 🤍 Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster 🤍 Annie Ernaux, La Place (A Man’s Place) / Passion Simple (Simple Passion) 🤍 Lisa Tuttle, My Death 🤍 Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife 🤍 Avril Horner, Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence 🤍 Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey

🤍 Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) 🤍 Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever then It’s Over 🤍 Tezer Özlü, Cold Nights of Childhood (tr. Maureen Freely) 🤍 Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary 🤍 Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster 🤍 Annie Ernaux, La Place (A Man’s Place) / Passion Simple (Simple Passion) 🤍 Lisa Tuttle, My Death 🤍 Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife 🤍 Avril Horner, Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence 🤍 Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey

My top 10 books of 2024 (well 11, I’m cheating a little as I can’t pick one Ernaux over the other so they take one spot together) #booksky 💙📚

For the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Recording in the morning. Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention.

Stack of books for Spinster September. They are: A Start in Life by Anita Brookner Tea With Mr Rochester by Frances Towers Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker Salka Valka by Haldor Laxness A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence Mary Olivier by May Sinclair Rhine by Ann Schlee

Ten recommendations from me for #SpinsterSeptember with a particular focus on books I've read and loved in the last couple of years.
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OMG.

There is a certain magic in being a woman reader

this is how i see you

I have been compared 4 times in my life to Jesuits. What means.

Man in the Moon: A European Folktale - Yale University Press London In this extract from her book, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, Ayoush Lazikani discusses the medieval myth of a man in the moon.

In this extract from her new book, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, Ayoush Lazikani discusses the medieval myth of a man in the moon.

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#IMC2025 #MedievalSky

Dump him. Correct answer.

Thursday's night is the time of the week where I relish what will I study on the weekend.

next life im coming back as an accountant i swear

How beautiful is to be sorrounded by beauty.

Am I the only person who thinks this looks like one of these contemporary literature covers?

the week

me today

Can we think big, please. I really dislike zero-sum games.