Books for Years

Sharing my love of books, reading, and all things book-adjacent

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2019 feels like just yesterday... although it wasn’t the most prolific year for my posts, it was a good year for books and writing. #2019bestnine #peninkbook #bookstagram #booksofinstagram https://t.co/Np7NnVO3Fh

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“See, Sissie would know how to let folks into one mask and out through another. She’d even raise a toast to the mask, jokin’ about whether folk - black and white - really believed that the opera was wearing her as a… https://t.co/U9Blm4vcPT

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“In the sixteenth century in England, dictionaries such as we would recognize today simply did not exist. If the language that so inspired Shakespeare had limits, if its words had definable origins, spellings,… https://t.co/uBcvHu4EQN

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“Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once.” -THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov 🖊📚 PEN: @twsbi Go w/ Broad nib. INK: pelikan_passion… https://t.co/DVTj7kuMnN

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“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can’t have one without the other.” -from HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III 📚🖊 PEN:Conklin Crescent Filler w/ a medium steel nib, INK: Herbin… https://t.co/QjUiKmMVQc

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“A man sings/ by opening his/ mouth a man/ sings by opening/ his lungs by/ turning himself into air/ a flute can/ be made of a man/ nothing is explained/ a flute lays/ on its side/ and prays a wind/ might enter it/… https://t.co/0ZdLOj4lEe

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“In Autumn, night comes too soon and seems to linger. Patsy, who thought she knew all about loneliness, is surprised to learn that it exists in a place like America.” -from PATSY by Nicole Dennis-Benn, a powerful,… https://t.co/c5ceBq9qDh

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I had a great time looking back at some of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre throughout September for #30inks30days - and pairing some of her quotes with beautiful pens and inks. Here are all the pens I used, as well as the… https://t.co/rID29Myg3n

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It’s the last day of #30inks30days 🥺 and the final pairing is a Monteverde Jolly Green Monza pen with J.Herbin Lie du Thé ink and a quote from Toni Morrison’s literary criticism collection PLAYING IN THE DARK. I hope… https://t.co/CcN0HfxtXD

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For the penultimate day of #30inks30days I chose a quote from Toni Morrison’s work of literary criticism called PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION. I chose @RobertOsterInk Crocodile Green ink… https://t.co/qYTcHbjgbZ

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Day 28 of #30inks30days brings out an absolute favorite ink of mine, and one of the first that I ever bought - @monteverdepens California Teal. It was used In a Noodler’s Neponset to write out a passage from Toni… https://t.co/Tj3QRC4fyc

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Day 27 of #30inks30days with a passage from Toni Morrison’s acceptance lecture of the 1993 nobelprize_org in Literature. The ink is Organics Studio Rogalian and the pen is a conklinpens_official Herringbone. Such… https://t.co/fMJSokKNG2

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I was so shocked by the color-changing ink that I forgot to show the pen! 😮 Day 26 of #30inks30days shows a quote from Toni Morrison’s THE SOURCE OF SELF REGARD written with a Conklin Herringbone pen and… https://t.co/O8dzbba39n

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Day 25 of #30inks30days has a quote from one of the essays in Toni Morrison’s last collection of essays THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD written with a Monteverde Monza fountain pen and Kaweco Sunrise Orange ink. https://t.co/wKvNLbhFbR

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It’s day 24 of #30inks30days and today we have another quote from Toni Morrison’s essay collection THE ORIGIN OF OTHERS. Today’s ink is one I waited a long time to get, because it sells out quickly - @vulpennen SBRE… https://t.co/T2N9iBotR8

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On day 23 of #30inks30days we have a quote from Toni Morrison’s brief collection of essays called THE ORIGIN OF OTHERS, written with a Noodler’s Neponset pen and herbininks Corail des Tropiques ink. https://t.co/O0fe2hahZu

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Day 22 of #30inks30days brings some #truth from Toni Morrison’s novel GOD HELP THE CHILD, written in Diamine Ancient Copper ink with a nemosinepens Fission fountain pen. https://t.co/VPPa7SGxuK

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Day 21 of #30inks30days and we have a quote from Toni Morrison’s last novel GOD HELP THE CHILD written in the gorgeous https://t.co/OeeQqHaHIW Iron Gall Turquoise ink with a conklinpens_official Herringbone pen. https://t.co/hSjknmdThh

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It’s day 20 of #30inks30days and I chose the very pinky-pink ink of Sailor Jentle Sakura-Mori in my fountain_pen_revolution Darjeeling pen to write out a quote from Toni Morrison’s novel HOME. https://t.co/tkm5LiORsG

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Day 19 of #30inks30days and we’re moving onto a quote from Toni Morrison’s novel HOME about a young black Korean War veteran returning from integrated service into segregated society. The quote was written in Kaweco… https://t.co/SfiedjTYlu