Worst (or most disappointing) books of 2025 (some are veeery unpopular opinions 😥)
- 'The Starless Sea' by #ErinMorgenstern
- 'I capture The Castle' by #DodieSmith
- 'The Name Of The Wind' by #PatrickRothfuss
But the winner is:
- A Touch Of Darkness by #ScarlettStClair
#BookSky #KillMeNow
Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
"When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it.
✒ #DodieSmith, English novelist and playwright ("101 Dalmatians"), #DOTD 24 November 1990. #Literature #Theatre
'I capture the castle' by #DodieSmith
This novel has 2 parts: the first 1/3 when everything & everyone is promising & charming (you think this might be a 20th century Jane Austen book!).. and the rest when all is reduced to cheap love interests and the castle crumbles.
#JusticeForStephen
#BookSky
It's too hot. Stay inside with something cold to drink and a good book. Like #icapturethecastle by #dodiesmith 📚☕️🥵
"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
✒️ #DodieSmith, English author, "I Capture the Castle," "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," and playwright, was #BOTD 3 May 1896. #Theatre #Literature
#bookwormsat
101 DALMATIONS
Lucky:"I'm tired and I'm hungry. And my tail's froze"
Pongo encourages Lucky, as they make their hazardous journey home, to London, through ice, and heavy snow.."
Dodie Smith #dodiesmith #bookchatweekly
Quality train reading on the Inverness-Thurso line. I Capture The Castle. It's been on my tbr list for a while, and it's one of the best books I've read. #DodieSmith
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
Day 8
#TheHunderAndOneDalmatians #DodieSmith
Jolie, the #pup I share with my Dad 👴🏻, is #helping the ambulance 🚑 along that we heard from our apartment as it rolled on down the street.
Jolie howls to help them know where to go. Kind of like a #StarlightBark, I think! 🐶💭
#the101dalmatians #dodiesmith
#cutepets #chihuahua
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
16/20
#BookSky #ComingofAge #DodieSmith #BookChallenge
Text that reads "But the most important thing I learned from that likeable, vivacious woman was something she never put into words: the fact that all knowledge should add to the fullness of life and not just be a collection of facts shut up in compartments of the brain."
This quote really struck me while reading Dodie Smith's autobiography.
#books #dodiesmith
Happy anniversary to my favorite animated Disney film, ‘101 Dalmatians’. Released this week in 1961. #101dalmations #thehundredandonedalmatians #cruelladevil #disney #waltdisney #dodiesmith #xerography #kenanderson #marcdavis #bettylougerson
youtu.be/b7hr9u8s9gg
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13...
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#DodieSmith
#ICapturetheCastle
5/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#icapturethecastle
#dodiesmith
"When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it.
✒ #DodieSmith, English novelist and playwright ("101 Dalmatians"), #DOTD 24 November 1990. #Literature #Theatre
A stack of four books. From the top: - The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones - The Other Wind by Ursula K LeGuin - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - The Player of Games by Iain Banks
#BoxOfBooks Day--I received four from Folio:
- The Magicians of Caprona by #DianaWynneJones
- The Other Wind (the sixth and final volume of Earthsea) by #UrsulaKLeGuin
- I Capture the Castle by #DodieSmith
- The Player of Games by #IainBanks
Alexander « Sasha » Stewart, Dodie Smith posant aux côtés de l'un de ses dalmatiens (1934).
Un peu plus de vingt ans après la prise de cette photo, l'écrivaine britannique Dodie Smith (1896-1990) écrira son ouvrage de littérature jeunesse le plus célèbre : Les 101 Dalmatiens (1956).
#dodiesmith
Happy anniversary to my favorite animated Disney film, ‘101 Dalmatians’. Released this week in 1961. #101dalmations #thehundredandonedalmatians #cruelladevil #disney #waltdisney #dodiesmith #xerography #kenanderson #marcdavis #bettylougerson
