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"Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot
Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday & #Cats of course
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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · Jan 6
HERCULE POIROT WAS RIGHT 1) Live in a cosy home 2) Keep a few close friends 3) Have a signature style 4) Sip hot cocoa before bed 5) Attend house parties with fascinating eccentrics 6) Whenever possible, travel by train 7) Holidays should be educational, frequent & luxurious 8) Work from home whenever you can 9) Bring order and truth to every aspect of your life 10) Be observant and use your little grey cells
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flipturns.bsky.social
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
---Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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scalzi.com
Update: SAJA HAS FOUND THE TREE THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Saja the kitten laying at the base of the Christmas tree
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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williambaude.bsky.social
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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tlrose.bsky.social
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?"

📖 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
🖼️ Ramon Casas
#BookWormSat
A painting of a woman in an old fashioned dressed and hairstyle flopped back on a couch with a book in one hand
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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tatiana1979.bsky.social
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights #BookWormSat

Art- Robert McGinnis
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find one’s passion and to give oneself up to it.’ ~ Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Candle in Silence,
Serhii Zavadenko.
Painting of candle in silver candlestick holder, candle is white/blueish with a flame, against a dark background.
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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prokopetz.bsky.social
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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barrybutler9.bsky.social
Winter Storm is on for today in Chicago. 5-9 inches predicted. Drive carefully!
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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startrekcc.bsky.social
Day 39 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot

#StarTrek #StarTrekGenerations #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets #MuppetTreasureIsland
A screenshot from a scene in Star Trek: Generations depicting Picard and Riker in the holodeck aboard a 19th-Century Earth sailing ship named Enterprise. They are clad in the appropriate sea-faring uniforms and hats. Standing next to them is Kermit the Frog as Captain Abraham Smollett from Muppet Treasure Island, who is wearing a very similar uniform.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘Let me stop here, at this remarkable turning point of my stormy youth...transformed into sense and wisdom while losing little of the enchantment and liberty that have led me to write them down.’ ~ The Exploits of Moominpappa, Tove Jansson for
#BookWormSat
Moominpappa stands in the center of the oval-framed illustration. He is shown leaning casually against a small, fluted column. Moominpappa is encircled by a dense, lush border of various plants, large flowers, leaves, butterflies, and other small characters from the Moomin universe, including a ghost figure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
‘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.
An antique, hand-colored plate by Eleazar Albin, originally published in his work A Natural History of English Insects in 1749. It illustrates the life cycle of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Deilephila elpenor) on its food source, the bedstraw plant.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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jayneband.bsky.social
#bookwormsat

"Music acts like a magic key to which, the most tightly closed heart opens.."
THE STORY OF THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS
By: Maria Von Trapp

Lisa"I am sixteen going on seventeen."
#thesoundofmusic #bookchatweekly
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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edmondsscanner.bsky.social
Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Read an article stating that Bluesky will never have the amount of users that the other place does. As if that’s a bad thing? There’s something to be said about quality over quantity.

They can have their bot-infested dystopia over there, whilst we have tea and scones in front of the fire over here.
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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mjjaxn.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Madeleine L’Engle!
'The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.'
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read. It was books that taught me that that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
- James Baldwin
#BookWormSat #JamesBaldwin
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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mjjaxn.bsky.social
“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.”
― Joyce Rachelle
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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mjjaxn.bsky.social
"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look." ~ Jodi Picoult
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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whatters2.bsky.social
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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chrispwriter.bsky.social
“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
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
'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!
Painting by Georges Merle. Title: the sorceress. Woman with long black hair looking at the viewer wearing a white/goldenish gown. Red headgear. She's holding a staff. Skull in the background.
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
'When I have fears that I may cease to be' seems prophetic to us, as Keats died only a few years after writing the sonnet.

Yet, in 1818, he was still very much alive and in those exhilarating years of young adulthood and overwhelming call of life.

#BookWormSat #poetry #booksky #romanticism
Painting: 'Winter Landscape with Skaters' by Regis Francois Gignoux 1860 A snowy scene with a frozen river or lake. It's daytime, but hazy. Several figures are skating on the ice, while a few people stand watching. Text: When I have fears that I may cease to be    Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,    Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,    Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace    Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,    That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power    Of unreflecting love—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. – JOHN KEATS 1818
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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benmce.bsky.social
Autumn’s Waning 🍂
A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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beesincampanula.bsky.social
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort…

Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Young Girl Reading Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1770 The painting depicts a young girl seated in profile, her hair up, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons. She is reading from a small book held in her right hand.
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
flackjd.bsky.social
"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
One of the numerous covers of "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, with art by Leo and Diane Dillon. This cover features three children (Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace) in the foreground with the Happy Medium, a clairvoyant being, standing behind them holding a crystal ball. In the background three old ladies can be seen (Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit), and behind them is a dark, ominous shadow covering part of a starry sky.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM