A cup of coffee and a very beat-up copy of Turtle Diary
#TurtleDiary by #RussellHoban is going to haunt me. Such an insightful novel. Thanks for the recommendation, @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social!
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Love these books. Russellโs sister Lillianโs raccoon story is very funny. #bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit #ChildrensBooks #russellhoban #lillianhoban
A pile of books by Russell Hoban
Today would be Russell Hoban's 101st birthday. A great novelist, a great children's author, and a great picture book writerย โย and always completely and utterly unique. One of my favourites.
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Author of the Year: 2011
The most significant author who died in 2011.
Russell Hoban (1925-2011)
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Photo of book, Turtle Diary, by Russell Hoban
This is turning out to be my perfect book. Thank you @jacquiwine.bsky.social and others who drew my attention to it! #TurtleDiary #RussellHoban
(Adult v Childhood brain conflict)
Mouse and offspring living in the air filter is detrimental to operation of automobile.
However... #RussellHoban
(But if the Ride don't run, I become a Walker.) #BookSky
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"She said, 'Its some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals.'" It sure is. Jesus what a book. #riddleywalker #russellhoban
An astonishing book. I passed it to the boy last night and heโs devouring it. Or Arga Warga-ing it. #RiddleyWalker #RussellHoban #Books
Not strictly speaking on my reading list this year, but it has been mentioned now...genies back in bottles and all that... #RiddleyWalker #RussellHoban
If we were playing Desert Island Books (as opposed to discs) it would be the one book I would keep when the others had to be washed away. #RiddleyWalker #RussellHoban
โMore and more I think that madness is the worldโs natural state and to expect anything else is madness compoundedโ. #RussellHoban Turtle Diary #SA4QE #Botd
๐๏ธ NEW EPISODE: Our guest, @daveawl.bsky.social, shares the wild story of how he went from being a devoted Russell Hoban reader to becoming friends with the author himself.
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In the pre-internet era, finding this author's books was like a treasure hunt through used bookstores. For one superfan, the hunt led to something far more valuable.
3 days until the episode drops!
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Warning: contains some of the most beautiful writing about animals ever. Beautifully read, too. Enter at your pleasure. #RussellHoban #TurtleDiary #genius.
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A quirky paperback from a museum book sale sparked a decades-long connection between a reader and his literary hero. New episode drops this Sunday! #russellhoban #hoban100 #truestories #podcast #writingcommunity
@daveawl.bsky.social will be on the upcoming episode of YMIS, which drops January 19th, to talk about HIS most interesting story... which does indeed involve Russell Hoban. Stay tuned! #RussellHoban #Hoban100 #truestories #turtlediary #RiddleyWalker
โWel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on not there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve just got to clinch your teef and get on with it.โ #RiddleyWalker chapter 10, #RussellHoban
Ouch.
The Mole Family's Christmas, by Russell Hoban with pictures by Lillian Hoban.
One of today's pickups... The Mole Family's Christmas. Who are the Mole Family? I don't know but when it comes from the same team that brought us the original Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas it's worth finding out.
#Christmas #ChristmasThrifting #ChristmasThrifting365 #ChristmasBooks #RussellHoban
Author Belicia Rhea talks about some of her earliest influences, from inside the genre and out.
#writing #influences #inspiration #thefly #starshiptroopers #houseofleaves #russellhoban #brunoshulz #horrorwriters #horrorfromthehighdesertpodcast
#TurtleDiary #RussellHoban "I felt friendly towards the coaches, cars and motorcycles the forecourt, the people & the pigeons. I sat on the porch with the paper in my lap, sunlight again on my closed eyes....I was waiting for the self inside me to come forward (1/2)
Hit a turgid spot in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant in my endeavor to catch up with #AnthonyPowellTogether (on The Kindly Ones!) Tempted to take a break with #RussellHoban #TheTurtleDiary or #ElizabethTaylor #SleepingBeauty or some #WendellBerry essays. Or a long walk. ๐ง
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Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker"
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Ooh, love her- will add to my list. That's why I was also reading the cozy, lightness of #NorthangerAbbey ! Just pulled #TurtleDiary by #RussellHoban from my shelves - to balance the gravity of #HenryIVpart2 .
