Nicholas

Always ready for a long drive, a new place, or a weekend away from the usual routine 🚘

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Can you really say you've voted if you haven't voted in Bluey pajamas?

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

20 favorite children's books from 20 years of The Marginalian https://t.co/9tBbMGO9Kc

[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

Books about ghosts & vampires

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels “capture the experience of consciousness more acutely than practically any other contemporary writer.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn https://t.co/Xjb6o1Oyjh

[Nicholas @nichoolaswes]

Every walk through a library feels like a time capsule, each shelf holding stories waiting to be rediscovered. It's a comforting place to get lost in thought 📚

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Speed is a competitive advantage in life.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Esben Hanefelt Kristensen

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Young people are hungry for having *something* expected of them.

[NY Public Library @nypl]

In 'Universal Harvester' by John Darnielle, Jeremy's quiet life is interrupted when people begin returning movies to the video rental store where he works, claiming the VHS tapes contain disturbing footage that shouldn't be there.

#BookOfTheDay: https://t.co/j6SAEaSjQZ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Meryl Streep reads "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath, who would have been 94 today: https://t.co/dthEXmRWY5

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Multinational corporations...vex the [novel] form,” Daisy Hildyard writes. “Taking them seriously...might alter our understanding of what a nation is and how people relate to another in it. It would also be a practical nightmare for the novelist.” https://t.co/V2FpbXpqmj

[Nicholas @nichoolaswes]

Soft pencil on the return slip, someone else's date.

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“It took the deaths of three of their own to shock the Weather Underground into realizing just what a bomb could do. Ironically, the townhouse accident garnered far more publicity than any of the group’s subsequent bombings.” —Adam Hochschild https://t.co/bjr8A6Nj6P

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

2. He cobbled together this British officer’s uniform. Told everyone he’d been shot down over France and had a silver plate in his skull after having a chunk of his head shot off in a dogfight. He complained of brutal headaches from his head injuries. (He was just hungover).

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Sundogs and the sacred geometry of wonder – the fascinating science of the phenomenon that inspired Hilma af Klint, born on this day in 1862 https://t.co/HO8IAe8wvz

[Nicholas @nichoolaswes]

Rilke's words pull you into the gentle inevitability of change and the soft fall of everything around us

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

~Autumn, Rainer Maria Rilke

[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

Anyone else overwhelmed by all the books
to read? And no time to read them?

I’ve amassed piles of books on my
nightstand. The problem is that the pile
starts to feel like homework.

So, what’s the solution?

Choose one book and start reading.

The enjoyment and accomplishment you
feel from finishing that one book can
encourage you to read the next one and
the next.

tolle lege

[Goodreads @goodreads]

We need YOUR help to decide! Which color do you want for the 2027 Reading Challenge?⁠

A) Copper
B) Rosewood
C) Vermilion

Vote for your favorite color in the poll! We’ll reveal the winning color on January 1, 2027.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Work, seek, understand, or you will immolate the true self.” —Joy Williams https://t.co/3EtrKpemIQ

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“The threat of deportation,” writes Alice Driver, “makes undocumented minors in the workforce more afraid than ever to report abuses.” https://t.co/AL2CTivzTL