Nefarious Habits

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2025 Toronto Book Awards Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards honour works of literary merit that are inspired by the city and its residents.  2025 Longlist Encampment by Maggie Helwig (Coach…

NBCC member Hollay Ghadery’s collection of short fiction, "Widow Fantasies" (Gordon Hill Press, 2025), is a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards:

LONGLIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE DROPPED YIPPEE

‘Take now this Ring,’ he said; ‘for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.’

- The Silmarillion

Book: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Lesbian History!!

Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck 316 pages • digital • 1946

#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky
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#Books #WomenWriting #AmericanInChina #Nobel #HistoricalFiction
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Pavilion of Women by
Pearl S. Buck

316 pages • 1946

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

Another International @thebookerprizes.com longlist treat for the summer. Fast paced meandering. Is that a thing? If it is, Kracht is a master of it. #booksky 🖋️📚

I've commissioned so many people I just love having everyone's art on my walls

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All Fours (Miranda July, 2024)

Had been circling this one for a while, perhaps waiting for the right moment to read it. Not sure it was now - but the book certainly deserves all the attention it got. An important, at times uneasy, read.

#booksky 📚💙🖋️

Hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published by The Folio Society. The clothbound cover is illustrated with abstract waves in shades of blue and gray, with a white lighthouse near the bottom right. The book rests in a dark navy slipcase.

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves." 🌳🍂

-Virginia Woolf, _To the Lighthouse_

I hope to own this Folio Society edition of the novel someday.

#booksky #literaturesky #litfic #books #quote #snippetsaturday

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator) 448 pages • first pub 1982

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#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator)

448 pages • first pub 1982

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 110 pages • first pub 1984

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💙📚 🖋️📚💙 #AmericanLit #Chicago
#Books #WomenWriting #Classics
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros

110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago

I bought an ebook about dynamic poses to practice illustration, but it was never delivered. I think I got scammed. Should have done more research.

Looks cool! Will pick up!

Just posted to The Journal of #Tolkien Research my book review of @roberttally.bsky.social excellent Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Form and Ideology scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Today SCOTUS prioritized the rights of a small group in an attempt to erase the reality that LGBTQ families exist. They won't succeed. Schools can and should continue doing the right thing, and tell the stories of all our families.

Read all about it here ➡️ glaad.org/releases/bre...

No problem! You draw Iroh so well I can't tell who is done by who 🙈

@alexandriamonikart.bsky.social quick question but is the Iroh and Zuko tea shop displate illustrated by you? Was just curious! I know you drew Iroh before so I wasn't sure! But didn't see Displate on your bio.

So good!

The Paramount building??? That's so exciting omg!!! Im jealous!!!

And time square is amazing! Although can be scary sometimes. Last I went a scammer tried to grab my purse 😭😭

Glad you had fun!! I hope you have many more trips!! 🤸☺️

No problem! Good luck on your projects! 🥰

@grassflu.bsky.social your ellie drawing is so good! Do you take commissions?

#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #literaryfiction #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙

Awards: The Women’s Prize for Fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden for The Safekeep. The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction goes to Rachel Clarke for The Story of a Heart.

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Whoops, three days late. 😭😭 Sorry. Probably already back home by now.

There's one bookstore I absolutely LOVED while visiting there on a work trip. I can't for the life of me remember but it was inside a building with lots of stores. Google telling me it could be McNally Jackson books? Lots of cool contemporary literary fiction, many local authors as guests!

34 Writers Selected for Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme 2025 - Irish Writers Centre 34 Writers Selected for Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme 2025

BIG NEWS!

34 writers have been chosen for the 2025 Irish Writers Centre #NationalMentoringProgramme 🥳

The awardees will receive one-to-one mentoring from an established writer, offering invaluable creative and professional guidance over the coming months.

irishwriterscentre.ie/34-writers-s...

Yay
But your dms are not open

@gelsomeme.bsky.social hello! I love your art. Do you take commissions?

If you can’t spare a room, fill a pillar.

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