Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him [email protected]
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Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
· Oct 25
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
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November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.”
📖 “Brighton Rock” ~ Graham Greene, 1938
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
🎥#BrightonRock, 1948
2:15pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
📖 “Brighton Rock” ~ Graham Greene, 1938
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
🎥#BrightonRock, 1948
2:15pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.”
📖 “Brighton Rock” ~ Graham Greene, 1938
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
🎥#BrightonRock, 1948
2:15pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
📖 “Brighton Rock” ~ Graham Greene, 1938
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
🎥#BrightonRock, 1948
2:15pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
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Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.
Lois Lowry, The Giver
#BookWormSat
Lois Lowry, The Giver
#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.
Lois Lowry, The Giver
#BookWormSat
Lois Lowry, The Giver
#BookWormSat
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‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ ~ The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ ~ The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
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‘I wanted to be grown up, and now I wanted to be a child again, and I wanted to be what I had been before, and I wanted to be a boy with a free heart.’ ~ Dickens, Great Expectations.
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
‘I wanted to be grown up, and now I wanted to be a child again, and I wanted to be what I had been before, and I wanted to be a boy with a free heart.’ ~ Dickens, Great Expectations.
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
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'Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.'
-Louisa May Alcott
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!
-Louisa May Alcott
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
'Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.'
-Louisa May Alcott
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!
-Louisa May Alcott
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!
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"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Penguin Classic
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Penguin Classic
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Penguin Classic
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Penguin Classic
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‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
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'Dear, dear, dear!' he cried, 'one trouble after another! When I was dead, I wished I was alive; now I’m alive, I wish I was dead again.'
-Jean de Bosschère
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat. Reposts will be slower than usual today, but we are here, so bear with us! 🦴
-Jean de Bosschère
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat. Reposts will be slower than usual today, but we are here, so bear with us! 🦴
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'Dear, dear, dear!' he cried, 'one trouble after another! When I was dead, I wished I was alive; now I’m alive, I wish I was dead again.'
-Jean de Bosschère
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat. Reposts will be slower than usual today, but we are here, so bear with us! 🦴
-Jean de Bosschère
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat. Reposts will be slower than usual today, but we are here, so bear with us! 🦴
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'The spirits of the dead, who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Edmund Dulac
#BookWormSat
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Edmund Dulac
#BookWormSat
November 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
'The spirits of the dead, who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Edmund Dulac
#BookWormSat
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Edmund Dulac
#BookWormSat
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
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The hour of midnight must be near
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night
Longfellow
The Neighbouring Nunnery
Rob Blair #BookWormSat
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night
Longfellow
The Neighbouring Nunnery
Rob Blair #BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The hour of midnight must be near
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night
Longfellow
The Neighbouring Nunnery
Rob Blair #BookWormSat
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night
Longfellow
The Neighbouring Nunnery
Rob Blair #BookWormSat
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‘Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.’
Steinbeck ~ Tortilla Flat
@racheldeering.bsky.social here to be terrified for the rest of this spooky
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angela Deane
Steinbeck ~ Tortilla Flat
@racheldeering.bsky.social here to be terrified for the rest of this spooky
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angela Deane
October 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
‘Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.’
Steinbeck ~ Tortilla Flat
@racheldeering.bsky.social here to be terrified for the rest of this spooky
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angela Deane
Steinbeck ~ Tortilla Flat
@racheldeering.bsky.social here to be terrified for the rest of this spooky
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Angela Deane
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‘Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.’ ~ Macbeth for #BookWormSat
🖼️ George Cattermole, C19th.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.’ ~ Macbeth for #BookWormSat
🖼️ George Cattermole, C19th.
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
‘Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.’ ~ Macbeth for #BookWormSat
🖼️ George Cattermole, C19th.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.’ ~ Macbeth for #BookWormSat
🖼️ George Cattermole, C19th.
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‘I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.’
📕Anne Sexton, Her Kind
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Operation Wednesday
#BookWormSat #witches #poetry
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.’
📕Anne Sexton, Her Kind
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Operation Wednesday
#BookWormSat #witches #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
‘I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.’
📕Anne Sexton, Her Kind
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Operation Wednesday
#BookWormSat #witches #poetry
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.’
📕Anne Sexton, Her Kind
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Operation Wednesday
#BookWormSat #witches #poetry
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This mornings gift from nature was a huge rainbow and a hawk hunting. Both gratefully accepted.
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This mornings gift from nature was a huge rainbow and a hawk hunting. Both gratefully accepted.
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"My dear man, why have people come throughout the ages to the necromancer—to the sorcerer—to the witch doctor? Only two reasons really. There are only two things that are wanted badly enough to risk damnation....So simple, isn’t it? Love—and death.”
-The Pale Horse
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
-The Pale Horse
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"My dear man, why have people come throughout the ages to the necromancer—to the sorcerer—to the witch doctor? Only two reasons really. There are only two things that are wanted badly enough to risk damnation....So simple, isn’t it? Love—and death.”
-The Pale Horse
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
-The Pale Horse
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
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'She was a wicked witch who was lying in wait there for children. She had built her house of bread only in order to lure them to her, and if she captured one, she would kill him, cook him, and eat him; and for her that was a day to celebrate.'
-Hansel and Gretel
🎨Laura Barrett
#BookWormSat
-Hansel and Gretel
🎨Laura Barrett
#BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'She was a wicked witch who was lying in wait there for children. She had built her house of bread only in order to lure them to her, and if she captured one, she would kill him, cook him, and eat him; and for her that was a day to celebrate.'
-Hansel and Gretel
🎨Laura Barrett
#BookWormSat
-Hansel and Gretel
🎨Laura Barrett
#BookWormSat
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
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'...for beauty is a witch.'
-Shakespeare
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a witch's favourite edition of #BookWormSat.
-Shakespeare
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a witch's favourite edition of #BookWormSat.
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'...for beauty is a witch.'
-Shakespeare
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a witch's favourite edition of #BookWormSat.
-Shakespeare
@signemaene.com welcomes you to a witch's favourite edition of #BookWormSat.
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#Gothtober photopoem shared 18th October 2025
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
#Gothtober photopoem shared 18th October 2025
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On a bare branch
A crow is perched
Autumn evening
✍️ Matsuo Bashō
🖌️ Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow Resting
#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku
A crow is perched
Autumn evening
✍️ Matsuo Bashō
🖌️ Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow Resting
#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
On a bare branch
A crow is perched
Autumn evening
✍️ Matsuo Bashō
🖌️ Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow Resting
#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku
A crow is perched
Autumn evening
✍️ Matsuo Bashō
🖌️ Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow Resting
#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku
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Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
#BookWormSat
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
#BookWormSat
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
#BookWormSat
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
#BookWormSat
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Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook … leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow.
Donna Tartt / The Secret History
Jo Grundy #BookWormSat
Donna Tartt / The Secret History
Jo Grundy #BookWormSat
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook … leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow.
Donna Tartt / The Secret History
Jo Grundy #BookWormSat
Donna Tartt / The Secret History
Jo Grundy #BookWormSat