Taught herself to draw a few years ago..
Here’s what beauty that can can bring…

Gorgeous!

A cluster of mayflowers. They always make me think of stars. ✨️

Nature's #trickery—
Galaxy of tiny stars
Sitting at my feet

(My 📸) #vss365 #haiku #Bloomscrolling

😅

Books are ad free. AD FREE. This glorious feature is largely undercelebrated imho.

GREAT last line!

May Swenson (1913-1989). Excerpt from her poem "A City Garden in April, The Magnolia".

~ A City Garden in April ~
by May Swenson

In the shade
each tight cone

untwists to a goblet.
Under light

the rim widens,
splits like silk.
Seven spatulate

white flakes
float open, purple
dregs at the nape.

📷From my wife's walk.

🥰

Pausing this morning's #5amwritersclub to celebrate the LA Times awarding me their Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction this past weekend.

I'm gobsmacked and grateful.

#5amwritersclub #debutauthor

You are on 🔥!!

It helps so, so much to keep that journal going. ⭐️

Oh how lovely, Barbara!

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

—J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Books #BookSky

Pale light emerging from dark clouds and cast symmetrically onto the surface of Lac Léman.

The lake surface answers even the quietest call from the morning sun.

#booksky 📖
#5amwritersclub 🖊️⌨️✒️

Short Reviews for April I’ve only finished six books so far in April, but at the rate I’m going with (not) sitting at my desk, I’ll probably need another six months to review them properly. So instead I&…

Short Reviews for April: Enard, Kawakami, Park Eun-wo, Gwendoline Riley, Martin Suter and Rene Karabash findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/s...

No - am at around p. 400 and proceeding very slowly!

☺️

Oh good! She’ll actually be speaking on Friday evening at a Foundation near to where I live. I’m looking forward to that too!

I can believe it.
I’m glad to hear how you felt about the book.

Hurray!

White cover with title Greyhound at top and author’s name, Joanna Pocock in the centre. At bottom is the embossed bell and name of Fitzcarraldo Editions. Print size scales from largest to smallest as you travel top to bottom.

Greetings, fellow book lovers,
I’m only just beginning this journey of a writer revisiting places between Detroit and LA where she’d traveled nearly 20 years earlier. Loved her earlier memoir, Surrender… Have a great reading week!
#booksky 🦋
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Yes!

I loved it but probably loved Panenka by the same author even more!

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It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Men, Women, and Chain Saws" by Carol J. Clover

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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Picture of the week - Odesa…😢

Interesting that he’s sort of Canadian Sri Lankan!
Is it too obvious if I suggest short stories of Alice Munro?

She takes flight so easily in a topic like Nabokov, as if she’s effortlessly read everything and is merely spinning some off the cuff gossamer interpretation, and it pretty much blows my mind. I’m astonished by her and afraid to read No One Is Talking About This…

And love to Mocha! ☺️💐

Sounds lovely

Lockwood is an experience. I mostly read her reviews in the London Review of Books but have read none of her fiction. A voice like no other tho.