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‘I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.’ ~
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son. #BookWormSat #ReadABookDay
🖼️ Christian Schloe

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For #ReadABookDay, Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820).

A haunted valley, autumn nights, old superstitions and one Headless Horseman. 🐎🌙

Over 200 years later, the Horseman still rides.

#TheLegendofSleepyHollow 🎃 #WashingtonIrving

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For #ReadABookDay, a Gothic classic: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

Vampires, old folklore, crumbling castles and things that stir after dark. Some classics never stay buried. 🕯️🦇

‘I watched him recede, at grips (myself) with the temptation to get up and follow him…so as to know him better, be myself less lonely. But in spite of my soul’s leap out to him, at the end of its elastic, I saw him only darkly.’ ~ Beckett, Molloy. #BookWormSat #ReadABookDay
🖼️ Robert Henri

“You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second."

"I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed."

Joseph Heller, CATCH-22

(full quote, one of a quotable multitude, in ALT-text)

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Post 10 books you finished in less than 48 hours. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading (Maybe more than ten...) #ReadABookDay

Day 4 Citizen: An American Lyric by
Claudia Rankine

166 pages • paperback • first pub 2014

"He is by profession a maker of brogues... discovered by the sounds which he makes hammering his brogues" ~ the Leprechaun by Thomas Keightley

from my: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
bardofcumberland.com

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art: W. Anderson

‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.’ ~ Tolkien, The Hobbit.

@racheldeering.bsky.social here for #BookWormSat today and #ReadABookDay tomorrow.
🖼️ Tolkien, 1937.

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The Greenwood Faun - A book within a book within a novel
'To leave anything of worth to posterity, the artist has to shine a light in death's unblinking eye.' Now available via Snuggly Books.

'Now I realised that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me.'

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose #BookWormSat #ReadaBookDay

"Goblins are creatures of magic and mayhem. Never trust a goblin, but respect their space" ~ SGR

more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk

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art: Stephen G. Rae

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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