"He was, as I’d expected, sitting on the most precarious slope of the roof... as he gazed out over the stonewalled pastures, the barns and byres and cottages, to the smoke gray and velvet green and misty blue of the forest."

—Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier

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Also Bobbie Ann Mason is under-appreciated. She was an early inspiration for me and when I found out they described her work as shopping mall realism I started calling my fiction strip mall realism 😏

Also I love u Audrey for reading for us. 😊

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"At last she came to the slope of the mountain on that side... a gradually falling grassy bank... The doe and the fawn followed some distance; then they turned back, letting Eepersip go on alone."

—The House Without Windows, Barbara Newhall Follett

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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. 🕯️🦇

"The spirits I have raised abandon me,
The spells which I have studied baffle me,
The remedy I recked of tortured me
I lean no more on superhuman aid;"

(Lord Byron "Manfred")

🎨 John Martin "Manfred on the Jungfrau" (1837)

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"After drying himself with a rough towel, Bond rubbed a small amount of Guerlain’s Imperial Cologne into his skin before putting on a pair of lightweight worsted navy slacks, and a white Sea Island cotton shirt." ~ 'Licence Renewed' (1981), John Gardner.
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‘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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‘“Afraid?” murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. “Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!”’— Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #BookWormSat

🎨 Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
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"... then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."

(Herman Melville "Moby Dick")

🎨 Barry Moser

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"Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some can't even be read. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people; that frightens me."
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, "The Club Dumas"
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