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Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social Weekly themes: https://signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 5d

‘I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.’ ~ Lewis Carroll

For World Animal Day tomorrow, #BookWormSat will roar, growl, bark, oink, miaow, neigh and bleat its way through the animals of literature. Do join us.

🖼️ Tenniel
An illustration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring the Cheshire Cat's disembodied head floating above the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, and other characters.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d

ABCtales is a brilliant, friendly writing site. Take a look and also give them a follow. There’s a Pick of the Day from writing on the site every day - great poems and stories. @abctales.bsky.social

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Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 4d

Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat 🐈‍⬛ and dog 🐕
And little mouse 🐁 , every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.

Flies 🪰 may do this, but I from this must fly…

Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, 3.3
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Johan @israduscias.bsky.social · 4d

“But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.”
― Tad Williams, Tailchaser's Song

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday
🎨At the Rootwood by Stephanie Law

A drawin in warm and light tones of The Folk at the Rootwood.
Fritti (an orange tabby with a star shaped spot on his forehead) is lying in the foreground amongst red Flowers. He is bathing in rays of yellow light beaming through the canopy. Light green trees form the backdrop while a scattering of cat silhouettes is sitting amonst them. A purple haze in the upper quadrant adds a mystic tone.

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 4d

One of my childhood favourites: 'The elephant's child', Rudyard Kipling -
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/rk_elep... #bookwormsat #animalday #booksky

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 4d

Today's animal theme for #BookWormSat wouldn't be complete without Nael's classic poem 'The Tiger' 🐅

🎨 by Brian Wildsmith

The Tiger by Nael, age 6, from 'They're Singing a Song in The Rocket'

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Painting of a tiger in dense undergrowth by Brian Wildsmith

https://www.brianwildsmith.com/wild-animals

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sascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social · 4d

"Animals don't behave like men, 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality."
-Watership Down, Richard Adams
#BookWormSat

cover image of Watership Down showing a rabbit facing the viewer amid a pattern of vines thistle and leaping rabbit profiles.

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 4d

"There are no ordinary cats."
~Colette

🎨Auguste Danse
#BookWormSat
#Caturday

19th century etching/engraving depicting a woman with long dark hair, wearing a long, sleeveless dress. She is seated, and a black cat sits on her shoulder.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 4d

"Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down."
- Rudyard Kipling, "Jungle Book"
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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 4d

Jump scare rabbits for #BookWormSat

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 13d

from Faustina: A Fantasy of Autumn in the Heart of Appalachia (1888) by Frank Cowan

Please enjoy this description of dilapidation

In a Haunted House

Passing a long reputed haunted house,
The homestead sometime of a murderer,
I make my way with difficulty through
The matted growths surrounding, to the door:
A rabbit darting from beneath the sill
The moment I put foot upon it: and
A pair of chickarees ascending to
The roof, half affright and half in sport,
Stopping betimes to wonder and berate.
But neither ghost nor ghoul I find within,
Nor aught to note of passing interest
Save on a window-pane, surrounded by
A little cloud of fungus spores, the corse
Of a mould-murdered house-fly: and anear,
A fellow doomed to die most wretchedly
Fixed by fungus growing from its mouth!
The while I turn, however, to withdraw,
I suffer haply as severe a shock
As if a gory goblin had appeared:
My right foot passing through the oaken floor
So colandered by termites as to be
But little better than a paper shell!

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay

"Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around & yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.”

Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

Resharing an old post for #BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday

‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.

🖼️ Sydney Smith

An illustration from the children's book The White Cat and the Monk, a retelling of a 9th-century Irish poem "Pangur Bán". The illustration, created by Sydney Smith, depicts a monk sitting in his simple room, holding his white cat, Pangur, on his lap.
‘With my white cat, Pangur’

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

I hold my breath until you creak to life,
Balled hedgehog,
Small and cross.

By Candlelight / Sylvia Plath

Carl Whitfield #bookwormsat

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Suzanne the Spooky 👻 Slacker @suzannef.bsky.social · 4d

“KILLING TIME! Roared the dog-so furiously his alarm went off. It’s bad enough wasting time without killing it. And he shuddered at the thought.”

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

🖼️ = Jules Feiffer

#BookWormSat

Pen and ink drawing of large dog with stop watch attached to him. His paw is reaching the top of the watch to shut it off.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat! 📚
🐴 In Eastern European folklore, the Silver Horse appears during October’s harvest festivals—an emblem of renewal and transformation. Guiding a young hero through changing seasons and into the spirit realm, it embodies the magic of transition.
#Horselore

(📖 Source: Karp, G., 2008)

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree,
What road do I take?
The cat asked, Where do you want to go?
I don’t know, Alice answered.
Then, said the cat, it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
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Cheshire Cat - Alice in Wonderland - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d

1/2 “What IS a Caucus-race? said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
🎨Arthur Rackham
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#BookwormSat #art #vintage #illustration #bookchatweekly

The Pool of Tears - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

The Pool of Tears - Arthur Rackham Please look in my shop for more Alice and many more Rackham art works.

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d

2/2 "Why, said the Dodo, the best way to explain it is to do it. (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)”
-Lewis Carroll
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Alice and the Animals - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

Alice and the Animals - Arthur Rackham Please look in my shop for more Alice

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 4d

“Er ... Where are all the other animals?”
“Inside that one!” ~ Les Lauriers de César (1971), René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo.
#BookWormSat #Astérix et #Obélix

Astérix and Obélix spend a while at gladiator school.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat🐇🧹🧙‍♀️
✨🌙 In folklore, witches riding brooms through the night are symbols of magic and mystery. Rabbits, quick and elusive, often accompany them as familiars—guardians of lunar magic and transformation.
🧙‍♀️🐇Together, they embody the wild, mystical spirit of the witching hour. 🐇🧹 #Rabbitlore

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 4d

“The Lion! Gone! Vanished! The great universe! It was all another dream! A dream! But this time I remember everything!” ~ The Gardens of Aedena (1988), Jean "Mœbius" Giraud.
#BookWormSat
[🎨#Mœbius]

Finally discovering 'The Lion' is the quest ended?

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 4d

Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.
― Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male
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a black cat with vampire fangs wearing a vampire cape.

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d

"I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas" (for that was the title which Puss was pleased to give his master) "has commanded me to present to your Majesty from him."
-Puss in Boots
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Puss In Boots - Gustave Dore by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 4d

Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and wriggled; and the rolling-pin went roly-poly, roly; roly, poly, roly. The rats each held an end.
"His tail is sticking out! You did not fetch enough dough, Anna Maria."
🎨Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly Poly Pudding - Beatrix Potter by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 4d

"When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or... on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone."
- Rudyard Kipling, "Just So Stories"
#BookWormSat

The Cat that walks by himself walks down a path lined by trees. An illustration by Rudyard Kipling.

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

'Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.'

Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

#BookWormSat 💙📚
🎨 Eva Fialka

Painting of a grey cat with yellow eyes. It gazes out from the page of a book, looking past us, ears erect. Despite a serious demeanor, it wears a red bowtie with white spots. The page is printed in French and washed in shades of gold.

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