Finished watching Wentworth today and I'm genuinely a bit sad. What great characters that show had. Also, the lingo made me want to visit Australia.
Rowena M.
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Art, literature, culture, language, nature and textile arts. Vancouver, BC. "Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind."- Gwendolyn Brooks
Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell - an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/08/03/d...
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell – an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …
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It's #WITMonth here's what I'm looking forward to reading, a few thanks to reviews @jacquiwine.bsky.social that top up my WIT TBR annually. 1st up #LallaRomano A Silence Shared 'A thoroughly hypnotic novel, full of beauty & sadness, written with such brilliance & meticulous care' says #SaraBaume
A few more pics from yesterday’s glorious #hike to #rifugioColdai and #LagoColdai in the #Dolomites #hiking #CAI
“…they have their part to play in this great and trivial story.”- Balzac, Lost Illusions #BalzacTogether
Quite a few people I’ve spoken to said they didn’t like Frankfurt so I wasn’t expecting much, just wanted to leave the airport during an 11-hour layover. I absolutely loved it ❤️
I planted this mango tree in my mum’s village 6 years ago. I was soooo happy to see it thriving ❤️
Liwonde National Park at sunset. Saw some hippos earlier in that river.
I've finished reading Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell. Just wow. It's an important book and I hope I'll be able to write a good blog entry about it. Has anyone read it?
James Baldwin, August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987. With Nina Simone
Yesterday while I was out and about a man who is running for mayor of my municipality stopped me to explain his platform. He asked me about my background and then asked me if id like to register as a councillor in his new party 😂😂😂
It’s been ages since I read a classic novel and I’m excited to get into this one. Didn’t even know I had it until I started organizing my bookshelves last week. #Balzactogether
Bargain! Today on #kindle The Jewel Keepers is 99p. Ideal #holidayread #summerread. I mean, I would say that 😂 but if lost treasure, family secrets and hidden Scottish history is your thing, then nip over to amazon and get it on your device. There are also deals going on #audiobooks. White rabbits!
Currently reading, with a foreword by @johnnymains.co.uk Extraordinary prose - a wonderful discovery.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐@pjrobichaud.bsky.social · last wk.Haynes is a remarkable writer. Her stories are perfectly structured and any one could serve as an example of Mark Fisher’s definition of ‘weird’ as a presence that shouldn’t be there. Shifts in time or space, ghosts, supernatural beings, spirit voices — Haynes explores them all.
August has always felt like late Sunday afternoon.
I’m going to tell y’all’s kids that this is Charlie Brown & Friends.
I've won the Fugere Book Prize. My novella will be published by Regal House Press in 2028.
Lawrence Coates
Winner of the 2026 Fugere Book Prize In the early 1980s, when I was twenty-five, I picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times near the docks in San Diego. I was working as a third mate aboard …
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In this painting, I wanted to capture the feeling of water lilies floating on the surface of a still pond, filled with reflections of the clouds. Lilies in the Clouds by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/li... #dailyart #lilypond #art #artist #womanartist
I didn’t buy any books on this trip but a bookstore/art gallery owner gifted me two books, one he wrote himself and another by a professor who used to visit us when we lived in Scotland 🤣 Small world
I was away from North America for a month and I cant explain it but being in the company of different types of people who have different types of conversations felt like a real vacation.
