art by Charles van Sandwyk #bookchatweekly #bookwormsat
January 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
art by Charles van Sandwyk #bookchatweekly #bookwormsat
‘It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.’ ~ Tolkien, LOTR.
This #BookWormSat is Tolkien’s birthday so we will travel to other worlds and fantasy universes. Come with us.
This #BookWormSat is Tolkien’s birthday so we will travel to other worlds and fantasy universes. Come with us.
January 2, 2026 at 8:47 AM
‘It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.’ ~ Tolkien, LOTR.
This #BookWormSat is Tolkien’s birthday so we will travel to other worlds and fantasy universes. Come with us.
This #BookWormSat is Tolkien’s birthday so we will travel to other worlds and fantasy universes. Come with us.
“To show our simple skill, / That is the true beginning of our end.”
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
As the year ends, here’s wishing you all a true beginning to 2026!
#ShakespeareSunday
#BookWormSat
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
As the year ends, here’s wishing you all a true beginning to 2026!
#ShakespeareSunday
#BookWormSat
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December 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“To show our simple skill, / That is the true beginning of our end.”
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
As the year ends, here’s wishing you all a true beginning to 2026!
#ShakespeareSunday
#BookWormSat
Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 5.1
As the year ends, here’s wishing you all a true beginning to 2026!
#ShakespeareSunday
#BookWormSat
Thank you for continuing #BookWormSat even with a broken bone and painkillers 🦸🏻♀️But please rest up & put your recovery first
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December 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thank you for continuing #BookWormSat even with a broken bone and painkillers 🦸🏻♀️But please rest up & put your recovery first
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possibly am not the only filmgoer with a new interest in John Dickson Carr since viewing Wake Up Dead Man, which features The Hollow Man prominently (I've ordered it!) but I bought a handful of used Carrs at Whodunit Bookshop this week and boy, the guy can WRITE
#bookwormsat
#bookwormsat
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
possibly am not the only filmgoer with a new interest in John Dickson Carr since viewing Wake Up Dead Man, which features The Hollow Man prominently (I've ordered it!) but I bought a handful of used Carrs at Whodunit Bookshop this week and boy, the guy can WRITE
#bookwormsat
#bookwormsat
somewhere in my house is the very first Stephen King I've ever bought (If It Bleeds, so I could read the origin story of the wonderful movie Life of Chuck) but it has very mysteriously gone missing, and I'm starting to get pretty freaked out
#bookwormsat
#bookwormsat
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
somewhere in my house is the very first Stephen King I've ever bought (If It Bleeds, so I could read the origin story of the wonderful movie Life of Chuck) but it has very mysteriously gone missing, and I'm starting to get pretty freaked out
#bookwormsat
#bookwormsat
Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat
“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”
📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002
9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002
9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”
📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002
9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat
📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002
9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
“I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen…”
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#BookwormSat
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#BookwormSat
![I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen in this my first winter in the glen; and the Diary is to be a record of my life here during the weeks ('tis said it may be months) in which the glen is 'locked,' meaning it may be so happit in snow that no one who is in can get out of it, and no one who is out can get in. Then, according to the stories that crawl like mists among our hills, where the English must have picked them up, come forms called the 'Strangers.' You 'go queer' yourself without knowing it and walk and talk with these doolies, thinking they are of your world till maybe they have mischieved you.
It is all, of course, superstitious havers, bred of folk who are used to the travail of out of doors, and take ill with having to squat by the saut-bucket; but I have promised with a smile to keep my eyes and ears intent for tergiversations among my flock, and to record them for the benefit of the English when they come back next August.
My name is the Rev. Adam Yestreen; and to be candid I care not for the Adam with its unfortunate associations. I am twenty-six years of age and, though long in the legs, look maybe younger than is seemly in my sacred calling, being clean-shaven without any need to use an implement; indeed I may say I have desisted for two years back.
I took a fair degree at St Andrews. but my Intellectuals suffered from […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreianenhymex6ib547fnynx3dni35bia5xs3bzaevs777kxxuqu3exi@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“I am trying to make a start at the Diary the English have challenged me to write. There is no call to begin tonight, for as yet not a flake has fallen…”
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#BookwormSat
JM Barrie’s “Farewell Miss Julie Logan”: an uncanny romance between a minister & a mysterious young woman, set in a snow-locked glen
#BookwormSat
"[If] we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that."
—The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
#BookWormSat
—The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
#BookWormSat
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December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"[If] we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that."
—The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
#BookWormSat
—The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
#BookWormSat
"In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold... Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from."
—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
#BookWormSat
—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
#BookWormSat
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December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold... Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from."
—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
#BookWormSat
—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
#BookWormSat
"[He] took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
—The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
#BookWormSat
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
—The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
#BookWormSat
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December 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"[He] took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
—The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
#BookWormSat
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
—The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
#BookWormSat
"He made one more feeble effort to resist. Then, realizing even while he struggled that this soft weight about his heart was sweeter than anything life could ever bring, he let his muscles relax, and sank into the soft oblivion of the snow."
- Algernon Blackwood, "Glamour of the Snow"
#BookWormSat
- Algernon Blackwood, "Glamour of the Snow"
#BookWormSat
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"He made one more feeble effort to resist. Then, realizing even while he struggled that this soft weight about his heart was sweeter than anything life could ever bring, he let his muscles relax, and sank into the soft oblivion of the snow."
- Algernon Blackwood, "Glamour of the Snow"
#BookWormSat
- Algernon Blackwood, "Glamour of the Snow"
#BookWormSat
"Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?"
(Vafþrúðnismál)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#Bookwormsat #wintersky
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?"
(Vafþrúðnismál)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#Bookwormsat #wintersky
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?"
(Vafþrúðnismál)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#Bookwormsat #wintersky
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?"
(Vafþrúðnismál)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#Bookwormsat #wintersky
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#BookWormSat
Much in the Mabinogion is felt, rather than stated.
Seasons in particular are often implied, as in the opening of ‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’. The scene is set with stormy weather, carpeting of boughs of holly, a hearth with barely sufficient warmth, and peasants carrying bundles of wood.
Much in the Mabinogion is felt, rather than stated.
Seasons in particular are often implied, as in the opening of ‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’. The scene is set with stormy weather, carpeting of boughs of holly, a hearth with barely sufficient warmth, and peasants carrying bundles of wood.
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#BookWormSat
Much in the Mabinogion is felt, rather than stated.
Seasons in particular are often implied, as in the opening of ‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’. The scene is set with stormy weather, carpeting of boughs of holly, a hearth with barely sufficient warmth, and peasants carrying bundles of wood.
Much in the Mabinogion is felt, rather than stated.
Seasons in particular are often implied, as in the opening of ‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’. The scene is set with stormy weather, carpeting of boughs of holly, a hearth with barely sufficient warmth, and peasants carrying bundles of wood.
“All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and that her side was really the right side sounded to him silly now.”
C.S. Lewis, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
#BookWormSat
#Edmund #Jadis #WhiteWitch #Winter
MORAL: Don’t make excuses for a totalitarian despot.
C.S. Lewis, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
#BookWormSat
#Edmund #Jadis #WhiteWitch #Winter
MORAL: Don’t make excuses for a totalitarian despot.
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and that her side was really the right side sounded to him silly now.”
C.S. Lewis, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
#BookWormSat
#Edmund #Jadis #WhiteWitch #Winter
MORAL: Don’t make excuses for a totalitarian despot.
C.S. Lewis, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
#BookWormSat
#Edmund #Jadis #WhiteWitch #Winter
MORAL: Don’t make excuses for a totalitarian despot.
A winter miniature poem by Catalan Pere Gimferrer
Winter
Trees: allegories on the road.
This silence prods us amid clotted light.
The whole of my being erodes
Winter
Trees: allegories on the road.
This silence prods us amid clotted light.
The whole of my being erodes
December 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
You are now sail’d into the north of my lady’s opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valor or policy.
Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT, 3.2
#BookWormSat
Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT, 3.2
#BookWormSat
December 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You are now sail’d into the north of my lady’s opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valor or policy.
Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT, 3.2
#BookWormSat
Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT, 3.2
#BookWormSat
'There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.'
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
#BookWormSat
🎨 Winter Star by Cha Hyeonwook
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
#BookWormSat
🎨 Winter Star by Cha Hyeonwook
December 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
'There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.'
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
#BookWormSat
🎨 Winter Star by Cha Hyeonwook
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
#BookWormSat
🎨 Winter Star by Cha Hyeonwook
"The Snow Queen flies, her minions a-flurry
To serve the haughty, ice-crowned witch.
The earth beneath her royal train
Lies lost in slumber, deep dark sleep...
For freeze she will, the dying sun
No match for regal, icy arts..."
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#BookWormSat #Poetry
www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...
To serve the haughty, ice-crowned witch.
The earth beneath her royal train
Lies lost in slumber, deep dark sleep...
For freeze she will, the dying sun
No match for regal, icy arts..."
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#BookWormSat #Poetry
www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...
December Skies
Are the seasons but a step in our journey, or a picture we see along the way?
www.storiesspace.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"The Snow Queen flies, her minions a-flurry
To serve the haughty, ice-crowned witch.
The earth beneath her royal train
Lies lost in slumber, deep dark sleep...
For freeze she will, the dying sun
No match for regal, icy arts..."
❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄
#BookWormSat #Poetry
www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...
To serve the haughty, ice-crowned witch.
The earth beneath her royal train
Lies lost in slumber, deep dark sleep...
For freeze she will, the dying sun
No match for regal, icy arts..."
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#BookWormSat #Poetry
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'Yellow Eye O Yellow Eye
Yellow as the yellow Moon.
Out of the Black Hole of the North
The Ice Age is flying!
The Moon is flying low-
The Moon looms, hunting her Hare-
The Moon drops down, big with frost
And hungry as the end of the world.'
'The Snowy Owl', Ted Hughes #BookwormSat
Yellow as the yellow Moon.
Out of the Black Hole of the North
The Ice Age is flying!
The Moon is flying low-
The Moon looms, hunting her Hare-
The Moon drops down, big with frost
And hungry as the end of the world.'
'The Snowy Owl', Ted Hughes #BookwormSat
#OwlishMonday 'Arctic Owl and Winter Moon' by Charles E. Burchfield, 1960
Love his shimmery watercolour scenes
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Love his shimmery watercolour scenes
burchfieldpenney.org/art-and-arti...
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
'Yellow Eye O Yellow Eye
Yellow as the yellow Moon.
Out of the Black Hole of the North
The Ice Age is flying!
The Moon is flying low-
The Moon looms, hunting her Hare-
The Moon drops down, big with frost
And hungry as the end of the world.'
'The Snowy Owl', Ted Hughes #BookwormSat
Yellow as the yellow Moon.
Out of the Black Hole of the North
The Ice Age is flying!
The Moon is flying low-
The Moon looms, hunting her Hare-
The Moon drops down, big with frost
And hungry as the end of the world.'
'The Snowy Owl', Ted Hughes #BookwormSat
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
#BookWormSat
#ShakespeareSunday
Harlem: NYC Blizzard
27 December 2025
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
#BookWormSat
#ShakespeareSunday
Harlem: NYC Blizzard
27 December 2025
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
#BookWormSat
#ShakespeareSunday
Harlem: NYC Blizzard
27 December 2025
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
#BookWormSat
#ShakespeareSunday
Harlem: NYC Blizzard
27 December 2025
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Saturday
#BookwormSat
#NonFictionSaturday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend
(What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 5 #SaturdayHashtags
#BookwormSat
#NonFictionSaturday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend
(What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 5 #SaturdayHashtags
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Saturday
#BookwormSat
#NonFictionSaturday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend
(What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 5 #SaturdayHashtags
#BookwormSat
#NonFictionSaturday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend
(What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 5 #SaturdayHashtags