Word Hits

Love words, books, libraries, and bookstores.

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@BkClubCare @lovelybookshelf I'm IN! Jusy reserved it at the library.

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@BkClubCare Wha?! Slump from the woman who got me to read Germinal?! Still scarred by that beautiful, wrenching book! Pick something and I'm happy to "along". Kinda slumped myself. @lovelybookshelf

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Yaaass! @MikeBloomberg

[Mike Bloomberg @MikeBloomberg]

Our country has a rich history of presidents who respected the power, decorum, and influence of their office.

Unfortunately, that rich history ended the day Trump became president.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1800 Dorothy writes "A rainy day…. After tea read The Pedlar. Determined not to print Christabel with the LB" [ie, in the 2nd edition of the Lyrical Ballads]

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Mist drifting over the fells above the bookshop. The to and fro of buses, and brisk sales of LMM Montgomery. To quote Anne, "Oh, Marilla...I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

'The pen is the tongue of the mind.'

― Miguel de Cervantes, #BOTD in 1547.

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"To me, a proper dictionary is a book of spells." — Jeanette Winterson, on owning the entire 24 volume @OED
https://t.co/JcYKqFriAl

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@teashopgirl 🤣

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Been eager to read The Rationing by Charles Whelan, but it is is starting w a LOT of backstory. 🙄#petpeeve #weekendreads

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Was about to tweet my #FridayReads when I realized it is Saturday. 🤷‍♀️

[Dewey's Readathon @readathon]

Did you see??? Reader sign ups are open!!! https://t.co/fqgp32M7p0 for the deets. #readathon

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"He does not know (no one can know) my innumerable contrition and weariness." – Jorge Luis Borges rip 6/14/1986

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

🔳 JORGE LUIS BORGES
Died on this day, in 1986

'When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnation.'

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Oh my gosh @winecountryfilm is so SO hilarious! Howling! Kept rewinding. Great way to mark #NationalWineDay 🍷🥂🤣

[Wine Country @winecountryfilm]

Happy #NationalWineDay from the cast of #WineCountryMovie!

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Hmm. @HBO has taken all the prior @GOT seasons off of On Demand. It's as if they don't want the episodes there for comparison. #GOTS8 #GameofThrones #GameofThronesFinale

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[HonoriaPlum @HonoriaPlum]

“I saw her bite a governess once.”
“Indeed, sir?”
“In two places. And with just that serene, angelic look on her face which she wore just now. A great woman, Beach.”

P.G. Wodehouse (Heavy Weather)

[Berfrois @berfrois]

Thread https://t.co/ehtYZfOSk1

[Chip Cheek @ChipCheek]

My debut novel CAPE MAY is out two weeks from today, and this is how I feel: 😬

[Anne O' Neill. @ANNIEON]

'When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.'
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, died #OnThisDay is 2014