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'After the dark, and before the light,
One lay sleeping; and one sat weeping,
Who had watched and wept the weary night.'
-Christina Rossetti
🎨Kinuko Y. Craft
#OfDarkAndMacabre #BookChatWeekly
'It was easy enough
to bend them to my wish,
it was easy enough
to alter them with a touch,
but you
adrift on the great sea,
how shall I call you back?'
-Circe, H.D.
🎨Frederick Stuart Church
#FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly
‘There is communion past the need of speech,
There is a love no words of love can reach’ From Deep-Sea Soundings, Sarah Williams.
Tomorrow, for Emily Bronte’s birthday, join us to celebrate the writing of women in the C19th.
#BookWormSat
'A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.'
-Jean Rhys
🎨Edmund Dulac
#BookChatWeekly #OfDarkAndMacabre
'There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...'
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is American Literature. Use #BookWormSat for a retweet. 📚🐛
🎨Martin Aagaard
'Oh, how near to Fairyland!
Blow, blow, gust of wind!
Sweep away my soul-boat against that very shore!'
-Yone Noguchi
@MaeneSigne is with you for the first half of a #BookWormSat that is all about Fairies in Literature.
🎨Asako Eguchi
‘Would talk about the haunted glen,
The wicked, quaint fruit-merchant men,
Their fruits like honey to the throat
But poison in the blood’ Goblin Market, Rossetti.
#BookWormSat here to spend the day wandering through your other worlds. Join us there.
'But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.'
Dear bookworms, Saturday we're celebrating Hans Christian Andersen's birthday with the theme Fairytales.📚🐛
Use #BookWormSat for a retweet! (9am - 10pm CET)
'Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.'
- Virginia Woolf
Good morning bookworms! @MaeneSigne is with you for the next couple of hours and bids you welcome to a spring themed #BookWormSat! 📚🌼
🎨Sir John Lavery
'The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.'
-White Fang
Jack London was born #OTD in 1876.
🎨Alfred Kowalski