Frances Evangelista
@nonsuchbook.bsky.social
Usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to start the year’s Christmas mystery stack. But did you know this one is (in part) about one of the best board games ever, Clue? And the real people that created it? Multiple levels of joy here!
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to start the year’s Christmas mystery stack. But did you know this one is (in part) about one of the best board games ever, Clue? And the real people that created it? Multiple levels of joy here!
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
Starting (Th)ings and (Th)oughts by Alla Gorbunova, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter. Hooked from the start. “Many people who after death find themselves in hell turn to psychologists , psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts since being in hell causes them to develop neuroses.”
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Starting (Th)ings and (Th)oughts by Alla Gorbunova, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter. Hooked from the start. “Many people who after death find themselves in hell turn to psychologists , psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts since being in hell causes them to develop neuroses.”
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Have you listened to our latest episode yet???
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Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat a…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Have you listened to our latest episode yet???
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I’m not working for the next nine days. That’s all. Imagine what you will.
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I’m not working for the next nine days. That’s all. Imagine what you will.
Plans for the day
sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Plans for the day
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Happy Noirvember to all who celebrate! On the Criterion Channel, enjoy a wide array of private eyes, femmes fatales, toughs, and fall guys in our British Noir, Blackout Noir and Japanese Noir collections, plus so much more! 🖤
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Happy Noirvember to all who celebrate! On the Criterion Channel, enjoy a wide array of private eyes, femmes fatales, toughs, and fall guys in our British Noir, Blackout Noir and Japanese Noir collections, plus so much more! 🖤
Just took this off the shelf, knowing that we’ll be reading it for the January episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Tempting to start rereading now. But I think I’ll wait for the December holiday break.
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just took this off the shelf, knowing that we’ll be reading it for the January episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Tempting to start rereading now. But I think I’ll wait for the December holiday break.
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
(Alfred Hitchcock)
(Alfred Hitchcock)
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
(Alfred Hitchcock)
(Alfred Hitchcock)
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Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...
onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...
Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat a…
onebrightbook.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...
onebrightbook.com/2025/11/18/e...
You know I love a good book subscription. And I’m not saying that you should bid on this NYRB Classics Book Club Subscription just because it would benefit my school. I think you really need it. And will thank me later if you’re the winning bidder. tinyurl.com/3e6ecfae
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You know I love a good book subscription. And I’m not saying that you should bid on this NYRB Classics Book Club Subscription just because it would benefit my school. I think you really need it. And will thank me later if you’re the winning bidder. tinyurl.com/3e6ecfae
Happy November 18 to those who celebrate.
Most stories in the time-loop genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happy November 18 to those who celebrate.
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A sentence in a conversation-book is something of the nature of an extinct monster in a museum: only the specially initiated can tell you that it is related to the live animal.
—Virginia Woolf, “An Andalusian Inn”
—Virginia Woolf, “An Andalusian Inn”
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A sentence in a conversation-book is something of the nature of an extinct monster in a museum: only the specially initiated can tell you that it is related to the live animal.
—Virginia Woolf, “An Andalusian Inn”
—Virginia Woolf, “An Andalusian Inn”
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🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
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“Dig in,” said the king, looking disapprovingly at Milo’s plate. “I can’t say that I think much of your choice.”
“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo.
“Of course, of course, everyone here does,” the king grunted. “You should have made a tastier speech.”
“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo.
“Of course, of course, everyone here does,” the king grunted. “You should have made a tastier speech.”
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Dig in,” said the king, looking disapprovingly at Milo’s plate. “I can’t say that I think much of your choice.”
“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo.
“Of course, of course, everyone here does,” the king grunted. “You should have made a tastier speech.”
“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo.
“Of course, of course, everyone here does,” the king grunted. “You should have made a tastier speech.”
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This week, @mookse.bsky.social and I joined are by @ds228.bsky.social of @onebrightbook.bsky.social to talk about the difficult, liberating art of culling books. What does it mean to let go of the stories we’ve carried with us? Is it an act of loss, renewal, or self-knowledge?
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This week, @mookse.bsky.social and I joined are by @ds228.bsky.social of @onebrightbook.bsky.social to talk about the difficult, liberating art of culling books. What does it mean to let go of the stories we’ve carried with us? Is it an act of loss, renewal, or self-knowledge?
Still time to sign up to hear Francesca Wade discuss her book Gertrude Steiner: An Afterlife tonight at Lost City Books.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Still time to sign up to hear Francesca Wade discuss her book Gertrude Steiner: An Afterlife tonight at Lost City Books.
Tucked in with this one.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Tucked in with this one.
Another fun conversation with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social Coming to you… sometime this week. What can I say? We do this for giggles! 🤭
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another fun conversation with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social Coming to you… sometime this week. What can I say? We do this for giggles! 🤭
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This is good news, but consistency is key. If we believe in libraries, which of course we do, we have to use them.
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November Elections Show Widespread Library Support
The November 4 elections across the country may have been local but taken as pieces of a larger picture they showed Democratic voters turning out in strength to make their voices heard—and a…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is good news, but consistency is key. If we believe in libraries, which of course we do, we have to use them.
www.libraryjournal.com/story/novemb...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/novemb...
Reading Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen. www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction... @biblioasis.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reading Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen. www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction... @biblioasis.bsky.social
Getting excited for this event on Sunday at Lost City Books. If you’re in or close to DC… www.eventbrite.com/e/the-queen-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Getting excited for this event on Sunday at Lost City Books. If you’re in or close to DC… www.eventbrite.com/e/the-queen-...
Through the mail slot today. The very best of @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org subscriber packages. Loved The Queen of Swords. Looking forward to my first Garro. Love the sticker. ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Through the mail slot today. The very best of @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org subscriber packages. Loved The Queen of Swords. Looking forward to my first Garro. Love the sticker. ❤️
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David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...