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“Education determines the quality of governance. An investment in education takes a generation to bear fruit. Likewise, countries feel the impact of this disregard for education a generation later.”

― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

#SundaySentence

really excellent✨✨

LOVED both!!

just reviewed it! loved it!!

^^ #rfkuang #babel

photo: a black-and-white covered copy of Babel sits atop a white bookshelf, and against a white window frame and white wall a black shadow cuts diagonally across the book cover.

Recently: #babel (RF Kuang).
•🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
•Outstanding
•A powerful, captivating genre bender of a saga
•sophisticated, accessible
•great character development
•explores power, privilege, colonization, idealism
•for language lovers, histfic/dark academia/sf/fantasy fans

#booksky #bookrecommendations

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

~Ray Bradbury, ‘Fahrenheit 451’

#SundaySentence

🤞🤞!

migrations is an all-time personal fave and i think fans of migrations in particular will love wild dark shore!

thank you so much for the comment!✨ i'm glad you like them✨

it's absolutely excellent!

Recently finished an advance copy of WILD DARK SHORE, by Charlotte McConaghy, releasing March 4. Absolutely phenomenal. Completely immersive, enthralling, unputdownable, AND deeply wise. 5 stars.
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🌿 #climatechange #books #booksky #litfic #bookrecommendations #wilddarkshore #charlottemcconaghy

My Sunday Sentence (belated) is above.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #naturebooks #margaretrenkl #thecomfortofcrows

"I'm not trying to hide from the truth
but to balance it,
to remind myself that there are other truths, too.

I need to remember that the earth,

fragile as it is,

remains heartbreakingly beautiful."

~Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows

#sundaysentence

A book sits open on a white window ledge next to a clear drinking glass and a white vase... a snowy view and winter branches through the window.

A snowy view from my reading spot today.✨

🌿 #snowonsunday #books #booksky #bookishBsky

Recently finished & recommend THE INHERITANCE, by Trisha Sakhlecha.

New release, psychological thriller, U.S. debut, twisty, centers a wealthy Indian family gathering on a private Scottish isle, murder, a final page that packs a big punch.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookrecommendations #thrillerbooks

Book nook closet, yes please✨

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enjoyed this one!

Cover reveal - KATABASIS, by RF Kuang. Out this August.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #rfkuang #katabasis #coverreveal

oh i'm so glad to hear that!✨

great question! i've found comfort in nature nonfiction and in travel memoirs.

loved Wolves and Migration even more!

Thrilled to have received an advance readers copy of my most anticipated 2025 release: WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy.

🌿: #books #booksky #bookishBsky #wilddarkshore #charlottemcconaghy #oncetherewerewolves #migrations

Out today, a book I've been anticipating & that was just announced to be Feb's Reese's Book Club pick - ISOLA.

“Allegra Goodman’s latest novel is a feminist castaway tale about love, faith, & self-actualization.”—Time, “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #isola #litfic

loved The Safekeep!

What most struck me throughout Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King was an almost pervasive sense of nostalgia. Themes related to childhood innocence, & to alternately welcome & unwelcome means of coming of age are explored in nuanced ways.

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#booksky
#bookishbsky [use this new hashtag!✨]

Boston Public Library - beautiful✨

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #beautifullibraries

finishing it up! will be posting my thoughts on it✨

At twilight, a sunset glows yellow, orange and blue on the horizon. A tree in the foreground is silhouetted against the sky: it looks like coral or a cross-section of a brain, but lacey.

As we close out another episode of #SundaySentence, I just wanted to say Thank You to all the wonderful readers who have stoked the fire each week with some great lines from literature. Y’all are the colors in a sunset to me.

^^ My Sunday Sentence is above.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #bookquotes #rfkuang #babel #thepoppywar