Robynne Kilborne Blake

lawyer/librarian; Bellingen girl; Island woman; traveller; passionate reader, mother of sons, daydream believer by day, champagne queen by night

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

Whatever you do, please don't stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read books. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better."

- Ray Bradbury

📷 the vintage library on IG

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Girls try extremely hard to avoid misogynistic content online. And yet they're bombarded with it.

We need to recognise that this is a business decision by the platforms, not a technical problem.
It is, however, a cultural, legal and moral problem.
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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The embroidery design of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor who opened a school for women artists #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

[Muse @xmuse_]

The spiral staircase in Iowa's State Capitol Law Library has stunned ever since 1886.

Details matter.

[Robynne Kilborne Blake @RobynneKay]

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[Jane Austen First Drafts @Austen1stDrafts]

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"Reading is a biological necessity of the species. No screen and no technology will be able to suppress the need for traditional reading."

Umberto Eco

Artwork by Edward B. Gordon

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

When reading

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

9-year-old gymnast Oleksandra Paskal, who lost her leg from a Russian attack in 2022, won bronze at the Rizatdinova Cup 2025 rhythmic gymnastics tournament.

Oleksandra shared on social media that she was unable to fully and properly prepare for the competition due to frequent stays in a bomb shelter, but despite this, third place for her is a "special victory."

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[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

- A. Einstein

[Robynne Kilborne Blake @RobynneKay]

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[PhillyPhill @PhillfromPhilly]

@EllenBarkin

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[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

With childhood literacy declining steeply, you need to give books to the kids in your life this Christmas. Children who read are smarter, more empathetic and more socially adjusted than their non-reading peers. Nothing ensures a child's success like a love of reading.

[Robynne Kilborne Blake @RobynneKay]

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