Book page with this line highlighted: “We’re all unreliable narrators,” Claire said. “Everything that’s written is just someone’s perspective.”
BEST LINE: LAST ONE SEEN True. And also terrifying. #booksky #mystery #thriller #darkacademia #writerslife #mfalife @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @rebeccakanner.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: …that my father and the culture at large have been giving me the steady message that women have feelings that don’t matter, that women are fucktoys wrapped in lies about female empowerment and responsibility for our own orgasm.
BEST LINE: EARTH TO MOON That moment when you realize you were fed a political line. #booksky 💙📚 #memoir #genx #feminism #moonunitzappa @iammoonunitzappa.bsky.social
Book page with this text highlighted: “What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said.
BEST LINE: HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS He’s a man. She’s a girl. Hemingway was a misogynist. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #classics #hemingway #feminism #reproductiverights
Photo of Meryl Streep in the role of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.
Emily…Emily…
I loved Rez Ball!
Book page with this section highlighted: That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else. Something I don’t quite understand. Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity or how to flirt.
BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social
I love a good midlife heroine! Putting this series on my TBR.
This looks like a great read.
I loved this — and I was not a huge Huck Finn fan. This novel broke new ground.
Book page with this line highlighted: “Support groups are line bras—some aren’t that supportive,” Carol said.
BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social
I read Trout Fishing in America in college. It blew my Brooklyn-born mind.
More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading
What’s not to love? ❤️
I feel you. I’m also a writer and there are many times I’m too busy to read. When that happens, I like to read poetry. Hang in there — and keep writing 🙂
Book page with the following line highlighted: Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales
I feel you — but do check it once a day. I once had a story accepted and didn’t see it for a week.
Book page with this phrase highlighted:…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?
BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist
More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.
Especially television commercials.
Book page with this line highlighted: Dig within; for within you lies the fountain of good, and it can always be gushing forth if only you always dig.
BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism
This is so true. I sometimes think about writing as similar to being a chef.
Book page with this line highlighted: To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics
Book page with this line highlighted: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read
So many wine cellars! So little time.
I like this review. There’s an adventure in following the language even (especially?) when you’re not sure what’s going on.
Book page with this page highlighted: “Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything.
BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist
Book page with this line highlighted: On paper, my credentials looked terrific, but selling believability in front of middle schoolers was something else.
BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers
Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallange #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
What is “great” anyway? I studied Classics in college. To relax, I read Star Trek novels. #booksky #classics #startrek #readers
Book page with this line highlighted: But this too is true: stories can save us.
BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers