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‘Grey and furtive in the final twilight,
he lopes by, leaving his spoor along the bank
of this nameless river that has quenched the thirst
of his throat, these waters that repeat no stars.’ A Wolf, Borges. 🐺
Join us on #BookWormSat for a day of South American literature.
'I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave.'
-Mary Shelley
Dear Bookworms, tomorrow we're sailing on the seas with the theme Ocean Literature. Use #BookWormSat for a retweet.
🎨Miquel Carbonell Selva
'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)