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This Thursday falls on #JumpforJellyBeansDay and #BookologyThursday is celebrating with the delicious theme: ✨🍬🍭History, Literature, and Folklore of Candy, Cakes, and Cookies🍭🍬✨ ‘A Confectioner’ by Martin Engelbrecht
Always great to visit Sainsbury’s Books in Camberwell #Melbourne #bookshops #ambookshopping
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 4 #SaturdayHashtags
3:50pm TODAY on @SkyArts The 2024 #Documentary📺 “Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story” directed & written by Sinéad O'Shea Shortly before her passing at 93, Irish writer Edna O'Brien recounts her controversial life, love affairs & stardom through personal journals #BookchatWeekly
12:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra On Consolation by Michael Ignatieff (Omnibus) The 2021 book📖 “On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times” abridged by Penny Leicester and read by William Hope #BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat #NonFictionSaturday 1 of 2
"Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne." - Barry Cornwall #BookChatWeekly
"I was sick-sick unto death with that long agony..." Opening line from The Pit and the Pendulum in Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. Many adaptations, including the 1961 film starring Vincent Price.🎨 Harry Clarke #grimlitFriday #bookchatweekly
5:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Ep 5 of 5, The Brink Ruth Rendell’s 1987 novella📖 read by Oona Beeson 📻Listen 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday
7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra Feel Free by Zadie Smith Ep 5 of 5, Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner Zadie Smith reads from her essay collection: the Alte Frau, an enigmatic painting of a woman by Balthasar Denner. From 2018. #BookchatWeekly bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…
7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra Hardy's Women,The Woodlanders Ep 10 of 10, Another Chance Thomas Hardy's 1887 novel📖 dramatised by #AyeeshaMenon & directed by #EmmaHarding 🌟#KatySobey #OliverHembrough #HolliDempsey 📻Listen 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #BookchatWeekly
Thank you for your incredibly inventive posts, dear Bibliophiles!✨ See you next week on #BookologyThursday 🎈 art by Dan Craig
Jane Austen’s beloved “Pride & Prejudice” first arrived more than two centuries ago. This story of courage, inner strength & the pursuit of true love has gained an avid fan base & inspired multiple film adaptations over the years. Did you enjoy Pride & Prejudice? Let us know 🩷
Such a wonderful account to follow, full of wonderful words and verses! #FollowFriday
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
Oh! I'd like these! #IrishHistory
New reprints!💃 It has been a while since these titles were last printed, but not to worry, they’re back again! Both The world of the galloglass and The Early Finn Cycle are now available to order on our website😁 ⚔️fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/wor… 🐕fourcourtspress.ie/books/2017/ear…
“The forest is a dangerous place,” said the birds in unison. “Now that I’m here, it most certainly is.” ~Asya Yordanova #GrimLitFriday #bookChatWeekly
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” —Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo #BookChatWeekly #BornOnThisDay
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.” —Madeline Miller, Circe Madeline Millet was #BornOnThisDay in 1978. #BookChatWeekly
"Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done." - Celia Thaxter #BookChatWeekly
#GrimLitFriday #bookchatweekly "The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future." Peter Benchley, Jaws.