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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 3d

I think you’ll love it -

Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely loved Mimi Pond's Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me. Her drawings complement the biographical details to a tee, and the bibliography is filled with other interesting titles about the family. You go, Decca!!!

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 4d

Another favorite poem, this one by Katha Pollitt - Wisdom of the Desert Fathers:
“Before they knew it, it was too late to go back:
the farm had gone under, cancer had taken Mother,
everyone was married. Even the demons
hardly came round anymore
with their childish bribes of money and sex.”

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 7d

“Praise the odd, serendipitous world.” I really wish I had interviewed Stephen Dunn so I could tell him how much I loved his poetry. This one, especially

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 8d

Great quote, from jmarriott.substack.com

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one."

— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Cultural Capital | James Marriott | Substack

A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts. Click to read Cultural Capital, by James Marriott, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

jmarriott.substack.com

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 12d

I love @tomgauld.bsky.social’s work

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, that’s another terrific line

Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 12d

"Say Daphne, If you knew her as a tree."

Midcentury poet Howard Moss is one of my favorites, and this poem, Shorelines, is one of my very favorites of his.

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 13d

I haven’t read it but it’s now high on my tbr list - thanks!

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 13d

We should all thank Anthony Trollope when we see a postbox in Britain. (Personally, I curtsy when I encounter one)

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 13d

1930s France sounds so much like what’s happening here that it’s eerie

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 23d

Here's a link to my @seattlechannel.bsky.social interview with the most wonderful Kira Jane Buxton: bsky.app/profile/seat...

Seattle Channel @seattlechannel.bsky.social · 23d

"I think all my bones are funny bones." Author Kira Jane Buxton shares how humor shapes her storytelling, including in her newest book "Tartufo." Watch her full Book Lust interview with @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social: youtu.be/uoHPS6wdFOQ

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 24d

R.I.P. Thomas Perry, author of two of my very favorite thrillers: 1983's Metzger's Dog (which featured a particularly interesting cat) and 1995's Vanishing Act, (which introduced his series star Jane Whitfield).

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 24d

Done & dusted. “Fantasy Toy Shop,” a 1000-piecer from @ravensburgertcg.bsky.social was-I cannot lie-tricky to do (all those dolls!)
While I worked on it I listened with great pleasure to Amy Gamerman’s The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West.

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 29d

Another excellent sign

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Best sign of the day;

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Sep 5

Love this photo of Joe and I walking the Kennet-Avon canal footpath into a darkening sky and potential torrential rain. Sort of a metaphor of aging together in a very long marriage

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Sep 5

Late to the party, but really loved Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall. Still processing how amazingly current a novel orig pub some 30 years ago can be. Excellent plot, wonderful writing. Grateful to Tor Essentials for reprinting this last year.

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 28

What Seattle definitely needs (I am tempted to say, more than anything) is a Marks & Spencer Food Hall

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 27

The LAF is delighted to meet another librarian named Nancy !

RGU Library @rgulibrary.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have some new team members in the library. One of the Librarians brought their @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social action figure in to meet our new colleague also called Nancy!

Nancy Pearl action figure next to a Lego desk name tag saying Nancy

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 24

I miss the show with Diante and Steven -

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 23

In his terrific book Everything is Tuberculosis, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social quotes a friend of his who says "Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past," which I haven't stopped thinking about since I heard it on the audiobook, which Green reads.

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 23

Finding an "Easter egg" in a novel you're reading is such a treat, and here's one I found while I was listening to the audio book: the librarian in Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books uses "nancypearl" as her password! Very very cool, thank you @kirstenmiller.bsky.social !

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · Aug 22

Newts. Planet of the salamanders

Reposted by Nancy Pearl

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Aug 21

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

Hannah Arendt

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