#BookWormSat

‘I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.’ ~ William S. Burroughs. This #BookWormSat wears whiskers for International Cat Day with cats, catting, cattiness and all things cattish in literature. 🐈‍⬛ Do join us.

#BookWormSat "... And the scent of that fair land came up to him like the odour of one giant nosegay. So he came to where the land was level, and there were many trees, as oak and ash, and sweet-chestnut and wych-elm, and hornbeam and quicken-tree ..." William Morris - The Wood Beyond The World

Book Cover of the Day: #BookWormSat

“Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.” Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë #BookWormSat 🖼️ George Richmond 1850

‘Thief of nests, though you winnow leaves No one accuses you, nor impedes you Fire won’t burn nor treason harm you. You shall not drown, as you’re aware, You’re never stuck, you’re angle-less air’ ~ Dafydd ap Gwilym, The Wind. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Emily Carr, 1939.

'Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.' Mary Wollstonecraft, The Collected Letters #BookwormSat (The Enlightenment) 🎨 Barbara Regina Dietzsch

🦋 Folklore-related tags on Bluesky, along with their hosts—already active on the platform—who run weekly themes: #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday #BOOKOLOGYTHURSDAY #FolkyFriday #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly Please see their accounts below 👇

Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat

‘But outer Space, At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Stays more popular Than populous’ ~ But Outer Space, Robert Frost. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Earth, Sun, Moon and Star, Castle Bolton, George Graham, 1881–1949.

Goodnight. ‘Love is a salt, a gall, a rue, A vinegar-vintage. Dos y Ddw, Vaya con Dios, quickly, too!” “Ah, not yet, never yet, my love; The stars and moon still shine above.’ ~ Dafydd ap Gwilym. #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Franz Stuck

“Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? “ 📚 Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose 🎨 Pompeii fresco, Helen meeting Paris #BookWormSat #HistoricalFiction

‘She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who kept a parrot.’ ~ Mark Twain 🦜 #BookWormSat 🖼️ The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh or The Legend of the Parrot, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, c.1865.