Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him www.chrisperera.co.uk
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Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
· Jul 26
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
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Book Cover of the Day:
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#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
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"A ghost from the world today, with the soot of the factories on its face & the pounding of machinery in its soul. The kind that would haunt coal yards & slip around at night through deserted office buildings... A real ghost. Not something out of books."
'Smoke Ghost' by Fritz Leiber #BookwormSat
'Smoke Ghost' by Fritz Leiber #BookwormSat
September 12, 2026 at 10:59 AM
"A ghost from the world today, with the soot of the factories on its face & the pounding of machinery in its soul. The kind that would haunt coal yards & slip around at night through deserted office buildings... A real ghost. Not something out of books."
'Smoke Ghost' by Fritz Leiber #BookwormSat
'Smoke Ghost' by Fritz Leiber #BookwormSat
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"Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard - jukebox-winking, rock'n'roll moaning: America at night fusing its dark cities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness."
- The start of 'City Of Night' by John Rechy
#BookWormSat
- The start of 'City Of Night' by John Rechy
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM
"Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard - jukebox-winking, rock'n'roll moaning: America at night fusing its dark cities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness."
- The start of 'City Of Night' by John Rechy
#BookWormSat
- The start of 'City Of Night' by John Rechy
#BookWormSat
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"Once, earlier, I passed this route and from a rail station, maybe Berlin, looked out on empty streets and dark houses. Except one where a childs face looked back, like the prisoner of a plague city."
Johannes Jörgensen: "Glimpses of München" (1901)
#BookwormSat
🎨 Edward Gorey
Johannes Jörgensen: "Glimpses of München" (1901)
#BookwormSat
🎨 Edward Gorey
September 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
"Once, earlier, I passed this route and from a rail station, maybe Berlin, looked out on empty streets and dark houses. Except one where a childs face looked back, like the prisoner of a plague city."
Johannes Jörgensen: "Glimpses of München" (1901)
#BookwormSat
🎨 Edward Gorey
Johannes Jörgensen: "Glimpses of München" (1901)
#BookwormSat
🎨 Edward Gorey
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His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
T. S. Eliot / Preludes IV
John Atkinson Grimshaw #BookWormSat
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
T. S. Eliot / Preludes IV
John Atkinson Grimshaw #BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
T. S. Eliot / Preludes IV
John Atkinson Grimshaw #BookWormSat
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
T. S. Eliot / Preludes IV
John Atkinson Grimshaw #BookWormSat
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And how cold the city seemed, and how dismal, all its jewels and its glamour faded by the brightness of the sun
-Tanith Lee-
📖 Night's Master
🖼️John French Sloan
#BookWormSat
-Tanith Lee-
📖 Night's Master
🖼️John French Sloan
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
And how cold the city seemed, and how dismal, all its jewels and its glamour faded by the brightness of the sun
-Tanith Lee-
📖 Night's Master
🖼️John French Sloan
#BookWormSat
-Tanith Lee-
📖 Night's Master
🖼️John French Sloan
#BookWormSat
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‘ I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last.’
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Hopper
New York Movie
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Hopper
New York Movie
September 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
‘ I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last.’
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Hopper
New York Movie
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Hopper
New York Movie
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"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."
(Charles Baudelaire "Paris Spleen")
🎨 Jean Béraud
#BookwormSat
(Charles Baudelaire "Paris Spleen")
🎨 Jean Béraud
#BookwormSat
September 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."
(Charles Baudelaire "Paris Spleen")
🎨 Jean Béraud
#BookwormSat
(Charles Baudelaire "Paris Spleen")
🎨 Jean Béraud
#BookwormSat
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"By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere."
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ Georgia O'Keeffe, My New Yorks
#BookWormSat #Urban
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ Georgia O'Keeffe, My New Yorks
#BookWormSat #Urban
September 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM
"By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere."
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ Georgia O'Keeffe, My New Yorks
#BookWormSat #Urban
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ Georgia O'Keeffe, My New Yorks
#BookWormSat #Urban
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"New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost."
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ J.-M. Basquiat, New York
#BookWormSat #Urban
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ J.-M. Basquiat, New York
#BookWormSat #Urban
September 12, 2026 at 10:28 AM
"New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost."
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ J.-M. Basquiat, New York
#BookWormSat #Urban
📘 Paul Auster, City of Glass
🖼️ J.-M. Basquiat, New York
#BookWormSat #Urban
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... the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
#BookWormSat
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
... the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
#BookWormSat
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
#BookWormSat
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"The mill stood in a narrow side-street in the heart of a district characterised by squalor & the numerous streets of a similar sort, as well as by the number of houses crammed in those streets & the multitude of human beings herded in those drab dwellings." ~ Odd Man Out, F.L.Green.
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
"The mill stood in a narrow side-street in the heart of a district characterised by squalor & the numerous streets of a similar sort, as well as by the number of houses crammed in those streets & the multitude of human beings herded in those drab dwellings." ~ Odd Man Out, F.L.Green.
#BookWormSat
#BookWormSat
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'It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.'
#BookWormSat
This quote from a LIFE Magazine interview in May of 1956 is commonly misattributed to Agatha Christie, but she did not quip this herself – in fact, she thinks quite the opposite:
#BookWormSat
This quote from a LIFE Magazine interview in May of 1956 is commonly misattributed to Agatha Christie, but she did not quip this herself – in fact, she thinks quite the opposite:
September 12, 2026 at 9:21 AM
'It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.'
#BookWormSat
This quote from a LIFE Magazine interview in May of 1956 is commonly misattributed to Agatha Christie, but she did not quip this herself – in fact, she thinks quite the opposite:
#BookWormSat
This quote from a LIFE Magazine interview in May of 1956 is commonly misattributed to Agatha Christie, but she did not quip this herself – in fact, she thinks quite the opposite:
Reposted by Chris Perera
‘And meanwhile the city will go on, regardless
Of any new arrival, trains like prayers
Radiating from stations haughty as cathedrals…’ ~ MacNeice
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of urban life in literature.
Of any new arrival, trains like prayers
Radiating from stations haughty as cathedrals…’ ~ MacNeice
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of urban life in literature.
September 12, 2026 at 9:40 AM
‘And meanwhile the city will go on, regardless
Of any new arrival, trains like prayers
Radiating from stations haughty as cathedrals…’ ~ MacNeice
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of urban life in literature.
Of any new arrival, trains like prayers
Radiating from stations haughty as cathedrals…’ ~ MacNeice
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of urban life in literature.
Reposted by Chris Perera
‘The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine,
The yarn-mill called its funeral cry at noon;
Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor
Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon.’ ~ MacNeice #BookWormSat
The yarn-mill called its funeral cry at noon;
Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor
Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon.’ ~ MacNeice #BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 9:42 AM
‘The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine,
The yarn-mill called its funeral cry at noon;
Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor
Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon.’ ~ MacNeice #BookWormSat
The yarn-mill called its funeral cry at noon;
Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor
Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon.’ ~ MacNeice #BookWormSat
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"This is the lesson: great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn."
"Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of the City That Never Sleeps and Occasionally Needs Milk at Two A. M."
- N. K. Jemisin, "The City We Became"
#BookWormSat
"Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of the City That Never Sleeps and Occasionally Needs Milk at Two A. M."
- N. K. Jemisin, "The City We Became"
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 9:50 AM
"This is the lesson: great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn."
"Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of the City That Never Sleeps and Occasionally Needs Milk at Two A. M."
- N. K. Jemisin, "The City We Became"
#BookWormSat
"Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of the City That Never Sleeps and Occasionally Needs Milk at Two A. M."
- N. K. Jemisin, "The City We Became"
#BookWormSat
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The Saga of Noggin the Nog created by Peter Firmin was inspired by the Lewis Chessmen.
Noggin was King of the Nogs, son of King Knut and Queen Grunhilda. His Queen was Nooka Princess of the Nooks, and their son was Prince Knut
#WyrdWednesday
Noggin was King of the Nogs, son of King Knut and Queen Grunhilda. His Queen was Nooka Princess of the Nooks, and their son was Prince Knut
#WyrdWednesday
September 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM
The Saga of Noggin the Nog created by Peter Firmin was inspired by the Lewis Chessmen.
Noggin was King of the Nogs, son of King Knut and Queen Grunhilda. His Queen was Nooka Princess of the Nooks, and their son was Prince Knut
#WyrdWednesday
Noggin was King of the Nogs, son of King Knut and Queen Grunhilda. His Queen was Nooka Princess of the Nooks, and their son was Prince Knut
#WyrdWednesday
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Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
#BookWormSat
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty.
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
#BookWormSat
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
#BookWormSat
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"Urban enclave of lawns and water,
Lacquered ducks and young men sculling,
Children who never had seen the country
Believing it this while those who had once
Known real country ignore the void
Their present imposes, their past exposes."
-Excerpt from "The Park"
Louis MacNeice
#BookWormSat
Lacquered ducks and young men sculling,
Children who never had seen the country
Believing it this while those who had once
Known real country ignore the void
Their present imposes, their past exposes."
-Excerpt from "The Park"
Louis MacNeice
#BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"Urban enclave of lawns and water,
Lacquered ducks and young men sculling,
Children who never had seen the country
Believing it this while those who had once
Known real country ignore the void
Their present imposes, their past exposes."
-Excerpt from "The Park"
Louis MacNeice
#BookWormSat
Lacquered ducks and young men sculling,
Children who never had seen the country
Believing it this while those who had once
Known real country ignore the void
Their present imposes, their past exposes."
-Excerpt from "The Park"
Louis MacNeice
#BookWormSat
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“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”
✍️Truman Capote, Summer Crossing #BookWormSat
✍️Truman Capote, Summer Crossing #BookWormSat
September 12, 2026 at 7:31 AM
“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”
✍️Truman Capote, Summer Crossing #BookWormSat
✍️Truman Capote, Summer Crossing #BookWormSat
"Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night."
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Paul Klee
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night."
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Paul Klee
September 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
"Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night."
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Paul Klee
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night."
#BookWormSat
🖊️ Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Paul Klee
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‘Of the West the factory chimneys on sullen sentry will all night wait
To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate.’ ~ Louis MacNeice
To mark the birthdate of MacNeice, #BookWormSat will explore the urban landscape in literature tomorrow. Do join us. 🏙️
To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate.’ ~ Louis MacNeice
To mark the birthdate of MacNeice, #BookWormSat will explore the urban landscape in literature tomorrow. Do join us. 🏙️
September 11, 2026 at 4:59 AM
‘Of the West the factory chimneys on sullen sentry will all night wait
To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate.’ ~ Louis MacNeice
To mark the birthdate of MacNeice, #BookWormSat will explore the urban landscape in literature tomorrow. Do join us. 🏙️
To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate.’ ~ Louis MacNeice
To mark the birthdate of MacNeice, #BookWormSat will explore the urban landscape in literature tomorrow. Do join us. 🏙️
Reposted by Chris Perera
"Show me how the impossible can be possible!”
“It is a good phrase that,” said Poirot. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
-Murder on the Orient Express
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
#ReadABookDay
“It is a good phrase that,” said Poirot. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
-Murder on the Orient Express
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
#ReadABookDay
September 5, 2026 at 4:09 AM
"Show me how the impossible can be possible!”
“It is a good phrase that,” said Poirot. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
-Murder on the Orient Express
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
#ReadABookDay
“It is a good phrase that,” said Poirot. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
-Murder on the Orient Express
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
#ReadABookDay
“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”
Winnie the Pooh
by AA Milne
#BookWormSat
🎨 Bai Xueshi (China)
Winnie the Pooh
by AA Milne
#BookWormSat
🎨 Bai Xueshi (China)
September 5, 2026 at 7:56 AM
“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”
Winnie the Pooh
by AA Milne
#BookWormSat
🎨 Bai Xueshi (China)
Winnie the Pooh
by AA Milne
#BookWormSat
🎨 Bai Xueshi (China)
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‘To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair.’ ~ Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop.
It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖
It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖
September 4, 2026 at 6:19 AM
‘To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair.’ ~ Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop.
It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖
It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖