Mark, Rick, or Steve
@rickyreads.bsky.social
I like books, cats, and coffee. I like knitting, crocheting, and baking. I like making things, writing things, and putting things in groups of three. he/him/his
#BookSky #WintersetHollow #JonathanEdwardDurham he couldn't help but notice what a beautiful morning it was. He was glad to have a moment alone [...] He always relished the grace that so often came with silence, and said a little prayer that he would find more of it in the years to come.
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Mark Truesdale@marktweedale.bsky.social · 3w agoName a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics
#BookSky #EricHoffer #TheTrueBeliever Once the harmony with the self is upset, and a man is impelled to reject, renounce, distrust or forget his self, he turns into a highly reactive entity. Like an unstable chemical radical he hungers to combine with whatever comes within his reach.
#BookSky #HannahWFoster #TheCoquette My imagination is so impressed with the festive scenes of the day, that Morpheus waves his ebon-wand in vain.
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AU where Macbeth is a modern primary school teacher married to a wealthy executive. They argue about having children. He reminds her that even if an 'accident' happened to head teacher Duncan, he wouldn't take his boss's job, no matter what the three dinner ladies say.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Evan Rachel Wood: I love watching two men together
Alt: Evan Rachel Wood as Queen Sophie Anne, trying to get the male vampires to fuck in front of her, because she's a lesbian who loves gay-male porn.
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Wuvable Oaf 🖤🤍🩷@wuvableoaf.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you see this post, a vampire that isn't Dracula...
#BookSky #PatriciaAMcKillip #SolsticeWood Maybe this is what happened, maybe that. Something happened, that's what we know for sure. The story changes every time you take another look at it. It changes into what you need most at the moment you choose to look at it.
#BookSky #UrsulaKLeGuin #TaoTeChing Those who think to win the world by doing something to it, I see them come to grief. For the world is a sacred object. Nothing is to be done to it. To do anything is to damage it. To seize it is to lose it.
#BookSky #ThursdayMurderClub #RichardOsman Donna has always been headstrong, always acted quickly and decisively. Which is a fine quality when you are right, but a liability when you are wrong. It's great to be the fastest runner, but not when you're running in the wrong direction.
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
Your periodic reminder that All Nationalism Is Bad Nationalism. It feels “good” in the way meth or crack feel good, but it always leads to bad outcomes, because it’s made out of poison.
Last night I dreamed that I got a chocolate milkshake and a bunch of Oompa Loompas popped up to sing a song about it.
#BookSky #WilkieCollins #ManAndWife I have observed that people are oftener quick than not to feel a human compassion for others in distress. Also, that they mostly see plain enough what's hard and cruel and unfair on them in the governing of the country which they help to keep going.
#BookSky #WilkieCollins #ManAndWife Life has surely hardships enough that are inevitable, without gratuitously adding the hardship of absolute government, administered by a clock?
describe your music taste with only three artists. no genres allowed. The Bangles John Grant Dolly Parton
Stephen Baird@bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 3mo agodescribe your music taste with only three artists. no genres allowed. The Clash Faithless Supertramp
#BookSky #AlbertEinstein #Letters The consideration is amusing and seductive; but for all I know, God Almighty might be laughing at the whole matter and might have been leading me around by the nose.
Confession: I used to think that Pink Floyd was a Muppet. Specifically, one of the Electric Mayhem. Took me a long time to recognize that it was a real band.
#BookSky #VictoryCity #SalmanRushdie Nothing endures, but nothing is meaningless either. We rise, we fall, we rise again, and again we fall. We go on.
We'd like to get this space for the bookstore so we can reopen in a brick and mortar format and also adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 20% off your order with promo code Buster at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com
#BookSky #SuTong #BinuAndTheGreatWall You can stop a spirited horse, but not a woman with her mind set on something, for she is willing to suffer for others.
A worthwhile subject to think on, the divergence of Netiquette from politeness. How the Internet Taught Nice People to Be Cruel justmerveilleux.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/h...
How the Internet Taught Nice People to Be Cruel
Not to sound like Emily Post, but there is something faintly depressing about watching people who once considered empathy a virtue suddenly decide it is optional. For years, many of us absorbed a f…
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#BookSky #VictorPelevin #TheHelmetOfHorror #AndrewBromfield the concept of progress has been around for so long that now it has all the qualities of a myth. It is a traditional story that pretends to explain all natural and social phenomena. It is also a belief that is widespread and false.
#BookSky #DashiellHammett #TheMalteseFalcon The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
#BookSky #DashiellHammett #TheMalteseFalcon There's nothing like five thousand dollars here. You're betting your eyes. You could come in and say you'd pay me a million for a purple elephant, but what in hell would that mean?
#RainbowMap 2026 is live! Spain breaks Malta's decade-long hold on top spot. As the rules-based international order fractures and democracy is under pressure, Spain's No’1 ranking stands as proof that political courage remains the most powerful answer. Find out more at rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org!
