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You too could be like Jacob (ie excellent and reading something from my list of 75 great but neglected books):
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September 28, 2026 at 11:56 PM
You too could be like Jacob (ie excellent and reading something from my list of 75 great but neglected books):
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after a recent post on dower houses, the ultimate book on the subject: Henry James' Spoils of Poynton, a huge delight and as exciting as any crime story clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
The ultimate dower house issue: The Spoils of Poynton
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James published 1896/7 Fleda Vetch. How would you picture this character? In a Patricia Wentworth...
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August 28, 2026 at 8:20 AM
after a recent post on dower houses, the ultimate book on the subject: Henry James' Spoils of Poynton, a huge delight and as exciting as any crime story clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
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"Imitation only makes what it has seen, whereas imagination makes what it has never seen, conceiving it with reference to the thing it really is." - Apollonius of Tyana on A.I.
July 24, 2026 at 11:30 AM
"Imitation only makes what it has seen, whereas imagination makes what it has never seen, conceiving it with reference to the thing it really is." - Apollonius of Tyana on A.I.
On se prend à beaucoup mieux aimer la réalité, parfois, après un très long détour par les rêves.
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
July 19, 2026 at 7:25 PM
On se prend à beaucoup mieux aimer la réalité, parfois, après un très long détour par les rêves.
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
[We come to love reality much more, sometimes, after a very long detour through dreams.]
Pierre Reverdy, Le livre de mon bord
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Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman (1957)
June 27, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman (1957)
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Conte de Printemps | Éric Rohmer | 1990.
June 6, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Conte de Printemps | Éric Rohmer | 1990.
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A really unusual book: Neville Shute's Trustee From the Toolroom doesn't resemble anything else - and is quite splendid clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/06/trus...
Trustee from the Toolroom by Neville Shute
Trustee from the Toolroom by Neville Shute published 1950 sailor with a model - though not quite the right kind Always trust t...
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June 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
A really unusual book: Neville Shute's Trustee From the Toolroom doesn't resemble anything else - and is quite splendid clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/06/trus...
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.
May 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.
They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.
![Book IX
More Light, and the Gloom of That Light. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
[Chapter heading in PIERRE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ztmhef7soq6s6osfex2tays/bafkreihcotqmasmjvc4mfe2nvijkefeo5acgfd7tmc3fmf7qgj3nsoxfkq)
May 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.
“Unravel thy gibberish!”
…said by a character in PIERRE
…said by a character in PIERRE
May 24, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“Unravel thy gibberish!”
…said by a character in PIERRE
…said by a character in PIERRE
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'Lalage, on the other hand, lay on a mossy bank of dark delicious green, with her hands clasped behind her golden head, while that nice young man who drove too fast peeled her a nectarine, and told her about motorcars.' #BookSky 💙📚
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Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard
While Elizabeth Jane Howard is best known for her multigenerational family epic, The Cazalet Chronicles, in 1975, she published a collection of short stories, Mr Wrong, which demonstrates a darker,…
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April 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
'Lalage, on the other hand, lay on a mossy bank of dark delicious green, with her hands clasped behind her golden head, while that nice young man who drove too fast peeled her a nectarine, and told her about motorcars.' #BookSky 💙📚
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Great thread
The French Symbolist challenge is among the most acute & pleasurable I get from reading poetry not in English. Take Mallarmé. (A thread 👇) His defamiliarising language reaches sometimes for what’s otherwise unsayable, metaphysically complex, beyond our perception, unconscious, nuanced, contradictory
Le printemps maladif a chassé tristement
L'hiver, saison de l'art serein, l'hiver lucide,
Et dans mon être à qui le sang morne préside
L'impuissance s'étire en un long bâillement.
(Mallarmé, ‘Renouveau’)
L'hiver, saison de l'art serein, l'hiver lucide,
Et dans mon être à qui le sang morne préside
L'impuissance s'étire en un long bâillement.
(Mallarmé, ‘Renouveau’)
April 23, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Great thread
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“It is said that effort is its own reward,” said Lavinia. “Perhaps that is why it often has no other.”
April 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
“It is said that effort is its own reward,” said Lavinia. “Perhaps that is why it often has no other.”
In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.
March 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.
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"In a sense he will not die.”
“In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”
“In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”
February 28, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"In a sense he will not die.”
“In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”
“In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”
Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.
February 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.
What excellent books are published by Wakefield Press. Many of these I acquired on my most recent trip to Seattle, Elliott Bay Books being stunningly loaded with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
What excellent books are published by Wakefield Press. Many of these I acquired on my most recent trip to Seattle, Elliott Bay Books being stunningly loaded with them.
Hiver — verrerie vide
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hiver — verrerie vide
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“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
February 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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Heads up. Jacques Abeille’s Les Jardins statuaires has been translated into English and is getting published by NYRB.
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The Statuary Gardens
In an unnamed country where the men cultivate statues and the women are nowhere to be seen, a traveler takes a room at an inn. One foggy morning, a mysterious man invites him to take him on a tour of ...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Heads up. Jacques Abeille’s Les Jardins statuaires has been translated into English and is getting published by NYRB.
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Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…
A great writer can make a great novel about anything - Robert Graves wrote Antigua Penny Puce in the 1930s, and you would not guess what the title means. It is an excellent, hilarious story about family inheritance, sibling disputes, auctions court cases clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/anti...
Antigua Penny Puce by Robert Graves
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January 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…
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Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think
January 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think
the wild horse in us
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
the wild horse in us