Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Chris Perera

@chrispwriter.bsky.social

150 followers 94 following 65 posts

Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him [email protected]

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social · Jul 26

“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”

Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes

#BookWormSat

🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly

4 27 100

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 5d

‘The badger grunting on his woodland track
With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black
Roots in the bushes and the woods, and makes
A great high burrow in the ferns and brakes.’ ~ John Clare
And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a #WorldAnimalDay #BookWormSat

🖼️ Newton Smith Fielding, 1821.
Badger in rural landscape with ruins, illlustration.

1 13 54

Reposted by Chris Perera

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5d

‘after its feasting it seeks
its rest in a secret place
within an earthen cave—
there the mighty fighter
for three nights’ space
wends into slumber,
occupied by sleep’ ~ The Panther, From The Exeter Book. #BookWormSat #Caturday
🖼️ Wellcome Collection

20 73

Reposted by Chris Perera

Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 5d

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

#BookWormSat

4 27

Reposted by Chris Perera

The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 5d

I love Arthur Rackham but occasionally I feel he overworks the detail. Pared down silhouettes like this one of Dick Whittington's cat 'making short work' of the rats and mice for the Sultan are reminders of his superb penmanship. From 'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book' (1933).
#BookWormSat #Rackham

Scanned from my 1939 copy of 'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book', a cat scatter mice and rats to the joy of four men in Persian costume. A ship can be seen through a door in the background; in the foreground are bottles, goblets and foliage. The artwork is rendered in silhouette.

2 20

Reposted by Chris Perera

Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 20d

#Books #ChildrensLiterature #Newbery 📚💙 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by
Rachel Field with
Dorothy P. Lathrop
(Illustrator) 1929
Newbery Medal (1930)

2 5

Reposted by Chris Perera

Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 11d

"I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone" Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues" 1955 #BookWormSat #Trains #PoeticLicense

6 28

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 5d

'Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?'
-The Cat and The Moon, W.B. Yeats

@signemaene.com welcomes you to this week's #BookWormSat!

🎨Denise Warren

Artwork of a black cat who seems to be dancing or jumping. Green background. Full moon.

12 63

Reposted by Chris Perera

Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5d

'In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright'
-Walter de la Mare

🎨Lucy Grossmith
#BookWormSat

Artwork of a hare running across a field. Night sky. Stars.

31 130

Reposted by Chris Perera

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.

2 28 88

Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social · 5d

I understand what you are saying, and your comments are valuable..

but I'm going to ignore your advice.

#BookWormSat

Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox
#BookChatWeekly

🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)

7 26

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 14d

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍂

art by Annya Marttinen

1 7 24

Reposted by Chris Perera

Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 12d

The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer.

Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline.

#BookchatWeekly

The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer

Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline

www.telegraph.co.uk

1 6 10

Reposted by Chris Perera

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 13d

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

~E.M. Forster
art by John Atkinson Grimshaw
#PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly

2 15 64

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 12d

‘The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.’ ~ Ezra Pound.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here on the railways for #BookWormSat

Hans Baluschek: City railway station painting. Night scene, steam, smoke, lights.

15 46

Reposted by Chris Perera

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12d

‘I am never sure of time or place upon a Railroad. I can't read, I can't think, I can't sleep — I can only dream... I take it for granted I am coming from somewhere, and going somewhere else…I know nothing about myself — for anything I know, I may be coming from the Moon.’ ~ Dickens for #BookWormSat

This image is a flatbed scan from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., published in 1879. Titled Lunar Day, it represents a historical concept of the lunar surface appearance of craters and sharp rocks.

13 82

Reposted by Chris Perera

Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 12d

12noon TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1960 East German / Polish #SciFi film🎥 “FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS” directed & written by Kurt Maetzig

Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1951 novel📖 “The Astronauts”

🌟Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, Yoko Tani, Oldřich Lukeš

2 5

Reposted by Chris Perera

Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 12d

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

#BookWormSat

art by John Austen

8 21

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 13d

Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work, or, advancing smoothly to their journey's end, and gliding like tame dragons…’ ~ Dickens, Dombey and Son.
This #BookWormSat commemorates the first public railway of the same date in 1825. Do travel with us. 🚂

Impressionist painting, "Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare," - depicts a bustling scene within the Gare Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris, focusing on the arrival of a steam train from Normandy.
The painting prominently features billowing steam and smoke from the locomotives, which fill the vaulted iron and glass structure of the station, creating a hazy, atmospheric effect.
Two locomotives are visible in the foreground, enveloped in steam, surrounded by crowds of passengers likely waiting to board or disembark.

1 18 61

Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social · 12d

Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more

🖊️ John Betjemen

#BookWormSat

#BookChatWeekly

🎨 JMW Turner

5 27

Reposted by Chris Perera

Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 26d

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

~Joseph Conrad

3 6 26

Reposted by Chris Perera

BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social · 27d

The raven is an infamous folklore trickster, associated with death and the afterlife. Armed with a clever bag of tricks, they are legendary for their puzzle solving and thievery. In many Northwest Coastal Tribal tales, a raven steals the sun and brings light to the world.

1 6 22

Reposted by Chris Perera

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 25d

‘Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one’s face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.’ ~ Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Steerpike surveying Gormenghast, Charles W. Stewart, 1973.

Illustration of a detailed architectural landscape of the Gormenghast Castle.
A complex arrangement of towering, weathered stone structures, including multiple turrets, battlements, and rooftops, characteristic of a vast, ancient castle.

2 18 99

Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social · 25d

😆

Reposted by Chris Perera

Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 26d

#BookwormSat
"Maveric Prowles
Had Rumbling Bowles
That thundered in the night.
It shook the bedrooms all around
And gave the folks a fright.
The doctor called;
He was appalled
When through his stethoscope
He heard the sound of a baying hound,
And the acrid smell of smoke"

Spike Milligan

a man is standing in front of a microphone with the words " i 'm a hero with coward 's legs "

ALT: a man is standing in front of a microphone with the words " i 'm a hero with coward 's legs "

media.tenor.com

1 3 19

Reposted by Chris Perera

Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 26d

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#BookWormSat

🎨AnnParrs

6 29