Zoe Darme
@zoedarme.bsky.social
Come for the book recs, stay for the dollar store art.
Book #29 of 2025
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Book #29 of 2025
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
Happy Halloween, nerds
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy Halloween, nerds
A little late to this party, but I love a self-publishing success story. Fun cotton candy book.
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
October 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A little late to this party, but I love a self-publishing success story. Fun cotton candy book.
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This book is remarkable (and I don't even like cats).
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This book is remarkable (and I don't even like cats).
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
#27 of 2025, Gogol's Dead Souls
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#27 of 2025, Gogol's Dead Souls
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
Another great Sunday painting nite w @melvinpena.bsky.social !
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Another great Sunday painting nite w @melvinpena.bsky.social !
Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
September 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
It's obnoxious to read everything as commentary on our current political moment (and this was written years ago, set in an alt-Balkans). But I can't NOT think of the divide b/t maga & not-maga, and how we end up policing that boundary ourselves through fear, myth, and violence.
#booksky
#mieville
#booksky
#mieville
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This book feels like an extended, 846 page chuckle. It's if Thackeray were from Yorkshire and wrote fantasy. It's a stay-up-until-1-am-to-read-the-last-200-pages kind of book.
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
August 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This book feels like an extended, 846 page chuckle. It's if Thackeray were from Yorkshire and wrote fantasy. It's a stay-up-until-1-am-to-read-the-last-200-pages kind of book.
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
Today's big post-kayak activity, squeezed in between two naps.
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Today's big post-kayak activity, squeezed in between two naps.
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
Reminder that Edith "HBIC" Wharton was a contemporary of Saussure:
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reminder that Edith "HBIC" Wharton was a contemporary of Saussure:
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
I wonder if Whitehead had in mind The Invisible Man when he wrote this book. The brutality and spectacle of the Griff chapters seem so familiar, but without the caustic humor present with Ellison.
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
August 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I wonder if Whitehead had in mind The Invisible Man when he wrote this book. The brutality and spectacle of the Griff chapters seem so familiar, but without the caustic humor present with Ellison.
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
Fun beach read!
However, the idea that "every human being has a basic instinct to help another human out" hasn't seemed to age well, and this book's only ~15 years old.
IRL there'd be an anti-science "let mark watney die" faction on x dot com clamoring for NASA to be defunded.
#booksky
However, the idea that "every human being has a basic instinct to help another human out" hasn't seemed to age well, and this book's only ~15 years old.
IRL there'd be an anti-science "let mark watney die" faction on x dot com clamoring for NASA to be defunded.
#booksky
August 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fun beach read!
However, the idea that "every human being has a basic instinct to help another human out" hasn't seemed to age well, and this book's only ~15 years old.
IRL there'd be an anti-science "let mark watney die" faction on x dot com clamoring for NASA to be defunded.
#booksky
However, the idea that "every human being has a basic instinct to help another human out" hasn't seemed to age well, and this book's only ~15 years old.
IRL there'd be an anti-science "let mark watney die" faction on x dot com clamoring for NASA to be defunded.
#booksky
I read The Satanic Verses earlier this year, and the throughline is obvious.
While Rushdie's is a middling novel, what it shares with its predecessor is a reaffirmation that state-sponsored terror and censorship is ultimately a fool's errand.
"Manuscripts don't burn."
#booksky
#bulgakov
While Rushdie's is a middling novel, what it shares with its predecessor is a reaffirmation that state-sponsored terror and censorship is ultimately a fool's errand.
"Manuscripts don't burn."
#booksky
#bulgakov
July 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
No painting content this week because I stupidly tried crochet on Sunday instead thinking, "how hard could it be?"
Well, folks, it's ... a lot of counting, manual dexterity, and patience, and I'm not good at those things.
Well, folks, it's ... a lot of counting, manual dexterity, and patience, and I'm not good at those things.
July 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
No painting content this week because I stupidly tried crochet on Sunday instead thinking, "how hard could it be?"
Well, folks, it's ... a lot of counting, manual dexterity, and patience, and I'm not good at those things.
Well, folks, it's ... a lot of counting, manual dexterity, and patience, and I'm not good at those things.
My kestrel turned out a wee chubbier than expected but, like me, he binged on too much potato salad and Nathan's hot dogs this weekend.
July 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My kestrel turned out a wee chubbier than expected but, like me, he binged on too much potato salad and Nathan's hot dogs this weekend.
Fun beach read! Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. It's a book about books & libraries & the people who love them.
H/t to Ms Christopher, Armstrong Elementary's librarian, who shoved a lot of great reads into my hands while instilling a deep fear of putting my feet up on furniture.
#booksky
H/t to Ms Christopher, Armstrong Elementary's librarian, who shoved a lot of great reads into my hands while instilling a deep fear of putting my feet up on furniture.
#booksky
July 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Fun beach read! Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. It's a book about books & libraries & the people who love them.
H/t to Ms Christopher, Armstrong Elementary's librarian, who shoved a lot of great reads into my hands while instilling a deep fear of putting my feet up on furniture.
#booksky
H/t to Ms Christopher, Armstrong Elementary's librarian, who shoved a lot of great reads into my hands while instilling a deep fear of putting my feet up on furniture.
#booksky
Imagine Interstellar but a book, written by a Chinese Christopher Nolan who's 10 times trippier and more imaginative.
Truly a wild ride.
#bigliu
#deathsend
#threebodyproblem
#booksky
Truly a wild ride.
#bigliu
#deathsend
#threebodyproblem
#booksky
July 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Imagine Interstellar but a book, written by a Chinese Christopher Nolan who's 10 times trippier and more imaginative.
Truly a wild ride.
#bigliu
#deathsend
#threebodyproblem
#booksky
Truly a wild ride.
#bigliu
#deathsend
#threebodyproblem
#booksky
June 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Everything looks so much better with a bit of tape to finish the edges of a mini painting. Thanks for the tip, @melvinpena.bsky.social!
#artsky
#artsky
June 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Everything looks so much better with a bit of tape to finish the edges of a mini painting. Thanks for the tip, @melvinpena.bsky.social!
#artsky
#artsky
Juneteenth!
I've tried twice but DNF both times. I don't know why. I love an American picaresque ... Huck Finn, Augie March, etc.
This is the year! 2025 Juneteenth is going to be me, Ralph, and a sunny spot in the yard.
#booksky
I've tried twice but DNF both times. I don't know why. I love an American picaresque ... Huck Finn, Augie March, etc.
This is the year! 2025 Juneteenth is going to be me, Ralph, and a sunny spot in the yard.
#booksky
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Juneteenth!
I've tried twice but DNF both times. I don't know why. I love an American picaresque ... Huck Finn, Augie March, etc.
This is the year! 2025 Juneteenth is going to be me, Ralph, and a sunny spot in the yard.
#booksky
I've tried twice but DNF both times. I don't know why. I love an American picaresque ... Huck Finn, Augie March, etc.
This is the year! 2025 Juneteenth is going to be me, Ralph, and a sunny spot in the yard.
#booksky