Melissa Diskin

Atlanta writer: food, travel, style, parenting, & luxury (Brides, Daily Candy, Vera Wang, CNN, NBC). Books, gardens, tea, kids, truth. Occasional librarian.

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

Build your own home library— Because it’s not really about sensitivity. It’s about control. And if you had read the right books, you would have seen this coming years ago.

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

Agatha Christie thrillers posthumously edited to comport with modern sensibilities https://t.co/unpxLqy4qJ

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@megha_lilly I wore those in the 80s as a kid. Pretty as a princess, and nicely made.

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@musings_blonde I am your FIL. (Sorry, kids.)

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@trad_poet I do too, but having them in proper order numerically is SO satisfying

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@megha_lilly More Mog!

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@HarperCollins is sitting on a goldmine— all they need to do is publish a Narnia box set *in original publication order* and they’ll have literally the entire homeschooling population buying multiple sets.

Crowns are in the gutter if you care to pick them up!

[R.A.R. Knight @trad_poet]

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”

I know Tolkien didn’t appreciate this Narnia business but I did, before I had even heard of The Hobbit. ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was the first book that truly captured my childhood imagination.

This set is a facsimile of the original works published by Geoffrey Bles (first 5 books) and The Bodley Head (final 2 books) - and are as hard to come across as the originals in this box set.

Also really the last two should not have “Bles” under the Harper logo!

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@JeremyWingert79 The Winged Watchman, by Hilda Van Stockum. Set in Holland in WW2, seeing the end of the war through the eyes of children.

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@FreddyLA7 Get the pecan waffle!

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

New best insult

[vbspurs @vbspurs]

Princess Louise lobbed one of those inscrutable royal insults that future Queen Mary had "Württemberg hands".

Presumably, a devastating put-down about her dodgy royal origins. Her granddad had abdicated his Rights to the Throne for the love of a woman.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

This is the way.

[Duckie Louise 🌦️🦝🌸🍓🎨☕️ @DuckieLouise]

If I sense a post was written with ai, I stop reading immediately. I don’t want my own human brain to get infected with that cadence or that flatness or any of it. Gross gross gross, get it off me.

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

“‘Friend,’ said the Spirit. ‘Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?’”

- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@itsme_urstruly And actually it was 2 bowls PLUS a well-balanced third meal of protein, veg and starch. 😇

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@itsme_urstruly I wrote about this for Kelloggs UK! Good times.

[Going Godward @goinggodward]

Think about the moment of your death. Think about the days and weeks after you’re no longer on this side of eternity.

Now, think about what would bring peace to you in that moment; think about what you want people to remember and say about you when you’re gone.

Now, think about what you need to do to live in peace and to be the kind of person who is redeeming this world right. this. minute. You’re preparing to die right now! The legacy you leave is in motion today!

Maybe you’re thinking, “wow, I have effed up everything, and if I faced death today, I have nothing to show for myself except bad choices and broken relationships.” Guess what?? Today is the day of salvation! You can still die well. Do not delay.

Memento mori yourself into peace with God and the world around you.

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

Love this interview, this journey, and this friend!

[Shemaiah Gonzalez @shemaiahng]

A few weeks ago I was able to sit down with @cordialcatholic and tell my entire conversion story. What a gift! I hope you will enjoy this story and share far and wide. https://t.co/i67MfB4fNJ

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@kittensnotkids @delonperc Genius!

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

The last straw that sends Frodo to the Undying Lands:

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

@PGC1a_RB @davante0bx8 May-Thurner syndrome? Or another compression?

[Melissa Diskin @MDiskin]

Into the Silence, by Wade Davis— a detailed account of Mallory’s wartime exploits and Everest expeditions of the 1920s. I have read and listened to it 3 times. It never ceases to move me to weeping. Highly recommend listening, and then reading over the same chapters in the evening, to savor every detail.

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@JeremyTate41 This is so exciting!

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<scribbles> coats, inside out

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

There’s an incredible bit in Simon Young’s Fairy Census where a man becomes unaccountably lost with his friends, immediately realizes there’s fairy nonsense afoot, and deploys a traditional remedy for getting out of that type of situation. Folkloric OODA Loop.