👍

Reading matters

Why does fiction matter?

Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.

A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.

⏰📚💙📚🎧 #books #reading #fiction

I’m reading Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card right now to take a break from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. What about you?

Something like this 👇
What about you?

Why? 😳

Dear #booksky, please send more readers my way.

I’d love to connect with more people who read books,
post about #books,
write #bookreviews,
share #recommendations,
and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature

⏰📚💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚💡
#booklovers #bookworm #readers #amreading #bookaddicts
📚🎧🩸📚🖋️📚⏳📚⚡️

Haiku day

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

Katsushika Hokusai

💙📚 #poetry #haiku #haikuday

Cupid and Psyche

Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.

The Golden Ass Apuleius

Reading The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), I felt something strangely close and familiar.

No wonder: Apuleius, writing in the 2nd century AD, inspired generations of great authors.

This ancient novel still feels vivid, playful, and alive.

💙📚 #books #reading #literature #Apuleius

It’s driving me nuts how social media giants can get away with anything. They ban people without a single word of explanation. This is worse than censorship 🤬

🤯

F. Scott Fitzgerald pictured here with a Zelda and their daughter, Frances.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

💙📚 #books #writers #Fitzgerald

Thanks for recommendation 🫶

🎉

Omar Khayyam

💙📚 #khayyam

The US publishing industry finished 2025 at $14.6B in revenue, according to the Association of American Publishers.

Trade books alone were $9.8B.

Big market, but still only modest annual growth: +1.1%.

💙📚 #books

A History of Rome

A History of Rome is a book that feels vivid, intelligent, surprisingly dramatic.

It is more than just history.
It is a story of power, ambition, political struggle, and the making of a civilization.

Theodor Mommsen won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for this monumental work.

💡💙📚 #books

Project Hail Mary, The Andromeda Strain and The Andromeda Evolution

If you enjoyed Project Hail Mary, you may also like The Andromeda Strain and The Andromeda Evolution.

They offer a similar mix of extraterrestrial biology, scientific mystery, and a race to save Earth.

Sci-fi readers, what else would you recommend?

🪐💙📚 #books #andyweir #projecthailmary

Didn’t recognise you at first… thought it was bunny 🐰

The story of Fabritius’s Goldfinch is like a book within a book. That small bird somehow became a friend to me, and the art of painting itself started to feel more familiar, more soulful.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch painting

Finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. What stayed with me most was how truthfully it shows trauma - and the ways people try to outrun it through addiction, lies, escape, and self-destruction

A powerful, deeply human novel. A great one for #bookclub discussion.

📚💙 #books #reading #goldfinch #Tartt

What’s truly absurd is that on Zuckerberg’s platforms, people get banned by stupid bots that can’t even recognize a real human being - despite a selfie and phone verification. The verdict is brutally simple: “You’re banned. We won’t tell you why… anyway you have no right to appeal”.

For sure!

High-five! 🖐️
More time for better things 🙂

😉

Stupid ban on threads

Social network with a double-digit IQ

Worst social platform ever created - Threads

After less than a month on Threads, I finally got banned.

Permanently, with no right to appeal.

Just occasional posts about books and writers, same as here.

Without any clear explanation… so I can only assume my IQ was slightly above what the platform is built to tolerate. 🤷‍♂️

📚💙 #books #threads

Speed reading sport

The worst thing social media did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport.

You don’t need to read 50 or 100 books a year.

You just need to read.

Books you like.
At your own pace.
And think about them for longer than you spend scrolling.

📚💙 #books #reading

It’s a little slow in places, but overall it’s a rewarding read — especially for anyone who has struggled with depression or regrets about the past.

Today is the birthday of John Fowles, a writer who made fiction feel dangerous, strange, and impossible to forget.

He wrote novels that unsettle, provoke, and stay with the reader long after the last page.

What does John Fowles mean to you as a writer?

📚💙 #books #reading #literature #writers

Sully Prudhomme - The first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate The Broken Vase The vase where this verbena is dying was cracked by a blow from a fan. It must have barely brushed it, for it made no sound. But the slight wound, biting into the crystal day by day, surely, invisibly crept slowly all around it. The clear water leaked out drop by drop. The flowers’ sap was exhausted. Still no one suspected anything. Don’t touch! It’s broken. Thus often does the hand we love, barely touching the heart, wound it. Then the heart cracks by itself and the flower of its love dies. Still intact in the eyes of the world, it feels its wound, narrow and deep, grow and softly cry. It’s broken. Don’t touch!

The very first Nobel Prize in Literature in history was awarded to Sully Prudhomme in 1901.

Most people don’t know him today - which makes it even more interesting to read the man who started Nobel literary history.

Try his elegant, heartbreaking “The Broken Vase”.