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Reading. Dreaming. Living. One page at a time.
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💙📚 2025 Books 📚💙
"How many damn books have you actually read?"

"Not nearly enough."

💙📚 Fredrick Backman, My Friends

—ditto
#Booksky
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Books become more than paper between hard cardboard, more than the alphabet organized into words and printed on a page.

💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

#Booksky
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I turned to books to keep me company. I stayed awake until the sun started to break through the blinds, lost in those other worlds, so vivid and so removed from my own.

💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

#Booksky
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I've read too many books.

💙📚 Richard Bachman [Stephen King], Rage

— me, too, and I want to read too many books more.

#Bluesky
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On some rare occasions a person can be so engrossed in a book she does not hear the surrounding voices and sounds.

📚💙 Toshikazu Kawaguchi, When the Coffee Gets Cold

#BookSky
October 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Above painting she loved literature. She was a tireless reader who followed her inclinations rather than the rules dictated by the guardians of taste.

Murder mysteries. A mere pastime, of course. But she was always trying to outsmart the detectives.

💙📚 Hernan Diaz, Trust
#BookSky
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

📚💙 Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#BookSky
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I read The Great Gatsby. It is one of my favorite books.

📚💙 Donna Tartt, The Secret History

—mine, too, Donna Tartt. Mine, too.

#BookSky
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

💙📚 Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1)

#BookSky
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
She had always been a good reader... she had read with rigor what she had to read, and went on reading what she liked best: love stories by well-known authors, the longer and more ill-fated the better.

💙📚 Gabriel García Márquez, Until August

#BookSky
August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

💙📚 Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

#BookSky
August 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I'd taken solace in books for my entire life. As a child I'd become so absorbed in my favorite stories. Even as an adult, I could still lose myself in fictional worlds, feeling the wrench when I was forced to return to real life.

💙📚 Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

#BookSky
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"Read your own heart, and know yourself."

💙📚 A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

#BookSky
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"So what do you like to watch on television?"

"I prefer to read."

"That's great! What do you like to read?"

"Books."

"What kind of books?"

"The kind with words."

💙📚 Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

#BookSky
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Every encounter with a poem would be unique, every reading an interaction between the same words and a different spirit. There is no key to unlocking the precise meaning, because a poem is not a puzzle to be solved. Each reader encounters a poem as nobody else ever has.
—Jeff Chu, Good Soil
#BookSky
June 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Dostoevsky put his feelings in a book. I don't have his talent."

"You didn't strike me as a reader," Bannon said

"I get by," Reacher said.

💙📚 Lee Child, Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)

#BookSky
June 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Was Shakespeare a difficult author? she asked.

💙📚 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

*Yes, I had difficulty reading Shakespeare. I had to read and reread his words (several times!) to understand what he means.

#BlueSky
June 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
#BookishPetPeeves
(in no particular order)

#BookSky 💙📚
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June 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Although novels, including detective stories, had the greatest hold over his affections, he was also fond of poetry.

💙📚 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1)

#BookSky
May 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When you had Gideon Cross's focus, it was absolute and laser-sharp, making you feel like no one else existed for him.
— Eva Cross

💙📚 Ireland by @sylviaday.bsky.social 📚🌶️

#BookSky
#Romancelandia
April 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Each book's as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone's thoughts and feelings long after they're gone.

💙📚 Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

#BookSky
April 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Books were a refuge from her own ineptitude in company.

"I kept so strictly to myself and my books."

💙📚 Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

#BookSky
March 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm a Virgo, I'm like Greta Garbo, I like to be left alone.

I have to be totally comfortable in a social situation before I step into it and that can make me seem like a very boring person.

💙📚 Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words
March 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
He studies my face for several moments, like he cannot stop on the cover or the first page, like he needs to read the whole book every time.

💙📚 Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

#BookSky
February 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's never taken effort—that’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface.

💙📚 Emily Henry, Book Lovers

#BookSky
February 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM