nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Terrific writing opens Didion’s Miami - “Havana vanities come due in Miami…in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Scifi fans: The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year. I've always found these lists to be a goldmine of discovering good scifi, and this year's list looks terrific: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/col...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am so angry that that petty vindictive man (who probably has never been in a library in his life) fired Carla Hayden. For her whole career she’s been a shining light—the North Star—of the library community, making the world better for everybody.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is what I hate-an idiot woman put her mini poodle on the counter while ordering & chatting & the young barista helping her was clearly not empowered to do anything about it. U Village Starbucks South

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is from a 1956 novel for teens by William Campbell Gault, and it’s one of the very best opening paragraphs ever. His novels Mr Quarterback and Mr Fullback are also satisfying reads

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Downsizing for an imminent big move ahead is not fun. The only word that encompasses how I felt when I found these examples from the past is complicated. Keep or recycle?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Sad to think that there’ll be no more Jane Gardam novels or collections of stories. By a weird coincidence I was rereading Faith Fox when I learned of her death. Big thank you to @europaeditions.bsky.social for keeping lovely editions of her work in print.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Too true

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

These AI tv ads are awful

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Done & dusted. A bit challenging, as are all @galison.bsky.social 1000-piece puzzles but still great fun. I listened happily to Linda Holmes’ romcom Back After This while I was puzzling

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

From Mick Herron’s Clown Town (9/25): “River once described Lamb as a coiled sponge. That was his current mode. At any moment, without warning, he might not do anything.” Just brilliant writing. @sohopress.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

“On the struggle bus” — describing a bball player playing badly but could be a description of most of us in these parlous times

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

submitted 23 days ago • 443 comments

The megrims have arrived and I am expecting a visit from Ann Hedonia shortly

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is an important and relevant work of history about the city I grew up in, and I loved interviewing Michelle Adams -

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

What I’d like on Bluesky is more poetry

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Sentences like “You’re always three zeros behind the geist” is just one of the many pleasures of @shteyngart.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel Vera, or Faith (coming 7/25). It’s a delight

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Done and dusted. Another 1000-piercer from Galison that’s perfect for readers who also love cats. When I was working on this I was listening to Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders, excellently read by Lesley Manville and Allan Corduner

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Cherry blossom time on the quad (and all around Seattle)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 40 days ago • 156 comments

🏆

submitted 44 days ago • 120 comments

As the service academies purge libraries of books Hegseth doesn’t like, remember what Eisenhower, a West Point grad, said on the matter: “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 46 days ago • 112 comments

Done & dusted : this 500 piece @eeboopieceandlove.bsky.social puzzle was great fun to do. I finished listening to Connie Willis’s All Clear while I was working on it

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Done & dusted. Another excellent 1000-piece puzzle from @eeboo.bsky.social. While I was working on this I re-listened to Connie Willis’s Blackout and began the sequel, All Clear. They’re so good.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Getting set to interview Michelle Adams about her fascinating account of a lawsuit that would have changed Detroit schools forever - The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North - I’ll be on the @seattlechannel.bsky.social in April. Stay tuned

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I fit a puzzle piece in, I get a little jolt of (much needed) happiness

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I got an early copy of The Listeners, Maggie Stiefvater’s 1st adult novel & am delighted to report that it’s a truly wonderful read; it’s set during WW 2 at a boutique resort in the West Virginia mountains, w/just a soupçon of elastic realism woven throughout + a great heroine.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

“The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, / While drivel gushes from his lips.”

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Met up with Tim & Carol Sandlin for brunch today so of course I was reminded me of how much I enjoyed Tim's novel Honey Don't. If you're looking for a very raunchy, very funny Carl Hiaasen-ish novel, this is it.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments