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Signe Maene
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'Follow, follow, nigher, nigher - Over bank, and pond, and briar, Down into the croaking ditches' -George Meredith 🎨Elizabeth Forbes
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Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social
Weekly themes: signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/
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Signe Maene
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'Follow, follow, nigher, nigher - Over bank, and pond, and briar, Down into the croaking ditches' -George Meredith 🎨Elizabeth Forbes
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Signe Maene
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'Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing! That I must chant thy lady’s dirge, And death to this fair haunt of spring, Of melody, and streams of flowery verge' -John Keats 🎨Sophie Gengembre Anderson
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Signe Maene
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A Flemish folktale tells of a captain who had made a deal with the devil. He was the luckiest and wealthiest man alive, but when his time was up, the devil rode over the waves to his ship in a horse-drawn carriage and murdered him. 🎨Egide Linnig
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Signe Maene
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He's interested in the feathers and not in the book despite the fact that he makes an appearance in one of the tales. 😼
Anyhow, Flemish Folktales Retold is OUT NOW! More info here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Rachel Deering
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‘Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now…and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth…There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.’ ~
Daphne du Maurier. #BookWormSat
🖼️ William Holman Hunt
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Joy Parry
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#BookWormSat
"... I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines ..."
Joanne Harris - Chocolat
#WorldChocolateDay
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Joy Parry
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#BookWormSat
"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbored by fruit of baser quality."
Shakespeare - Henry V
🎨Walter Crane - Flowers From Shakespeare's Garden
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Rachel Deering
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‘The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.
Which was fine, too, except you forget the direction you’re taking.
Suddenly you are interested in some new thing
And can’t tell how you got here.’ ~ John Ashbery. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cassell’s Household Guide, Vol3, circa 1869.
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Rachel Deering
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‘I carried to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had let soften a bit of madeleine. But at the very instant when the mouthful of tea mixed with cake crumbs touched my palate, I quivered...’ ~ Proust for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Gilles David
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EssAeEm
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"Paddington removed his hat and laid it carefully on the table while Mr Brown poured out the tea. He looked hungrily at the cakes, in particular at a large cream-and-jam one which Mr Brown placed on a plate in front of him."
-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington
#BookWormSat
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BookWormSat
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‘Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.’ ~ Fernando Pessoa.
We’re here for all of your sweet treats for the rest of #BookWormSat 🍫
🖼️ 1910 postcard
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Bevan Thomas
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Beorn "picked up the hobbit and laughed: 'Not eaten up by wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet, I see!' He poked Mr. Baggins’ waistcoat most disrespectfully. 'Little bunny is getting nice and fat again on bread and honey. Come and have some more!'"
- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"
#BookWormSat
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Bevan Thomas
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"Lie close," Laura said,
Pricking up her golden head:
"We must not look at goblin men.
We must not buy their fruits.
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry, thirsty roots?"
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting
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Rachel Deering
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‘Yes,’ said Frog, reaching for a cookie, ‘we need willpower.’
‘What is willpower?’ asked Toad.’ ~ Arnold Lobel for #BookWormSat
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Signe Maene
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In a Flemish folktale a father locked up his daughter in a tower because she wanted to marry someone he disapproved of. He eventually drowned her. The sun set the tower on fire. Since then, the father could only hear his daughter's cries in the river. He went mad.
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Signe Maene
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Flemish Folktales Retold surrounded by the magical owls who are the dear companions of one of the witches in the book. 🦉🖤
Info with places where the book is available here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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BookWormSat
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‘Charlie…desperately wanted something more than…cabbage soup. The one thing he longed for more than anything else was…CHOCOLATE.’ ~ Roald Dahl.
This #BookWormSat coincides with #WorldChocolateDay and so we will eat, I mean, celebrate the sweet treats of literature.
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Wherever you open this collection, a strange poetic music snakes its way into your ears.’ 🐍 🎶 🖊️ 🌳
A huge boost for @racheldeering.bsky.social with this review by poetic powerhouse Lesley Curwen
Please check out Lesley’s take on ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.lesleycurwenpoet.com/review-of-in...
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Candace Robb Author
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Just ordered! #books #folktales
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Signe Maene
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More information about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Signe Maene
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Hello lovely people, to celebrate Flemish Folktales Retold's release, I have recorded a video with a reading of one of the stories.
Hares are said to be shapeshifting witches and the message is to stay away from them, but sometimes, the hares meet the right person.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Swf...
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Signe Maene
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Enter the long forgotten world of Flemish folktales and dance on a dark tune with spirits who live in the wind, monsters who lurk in rivers, ghosts, devils, witches, and other unearthly creatures...
Info about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Rachel Deering
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Everyone should know about Flemish folklore. 👇 Written beautifully and expertly.
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Signe Maene
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📚🐦⬛Flemish Folktales Retold is OUT NOW!📚🐦⬛
Walk on Flanders's paths to murky castles where will-o'-the-wisp's hover and meet the unearthly creatures who roamed this haunted region.
With @cazerin.bsky.social and @kerria.bsky.social. Info about the book here: signemaene.com/flemish-folk...
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Joy Parry
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#BookWormSat
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lip maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
A E Houseman
🎨Briton Riviere
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
#BookWormSat
🎨Elffyie
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Joy Parry
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#BookWormSat
Richard could see all the way across the bridge. It was deserted. "Where is she?" he asked ....
...."She's gone," said the woman. "The bridge takes its toll. Be grateful it didn't take you too."
Anaesthesia is lost to the darkness in Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
🎨MegaZeph
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Bevan Thomas
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"Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.... Or as if you drank water and it were dry water."
-C. S. Lewis, "The Last Battle"
#BookWormSat
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Rachel Deering
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‘The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?
The love that goes down the drain like spit?
The love that said forever, forever
and then runs you over like a truck?
Despair,
I don't like you very well.’ ~ Anne Sexton. #BookWormSat
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Sadness and despair’
#Art 🎨 by hushalice
#BookWormSat
#bookquotes
#literature
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Signe Maene
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'And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?'
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
🎨Edward Robert Hughes
#BookWormSat
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Sadness and despair’
#Art 🎨 by Melanie-Roseart
#BookWormSat
#bookquotes
#literature
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Signe Maene
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'My life is very lonely,
My days pass heavily,
I’m weary of repining;
Wilt thou not come to me?'
-Anne Brontë
🎨Arthur Hacker
#BookWormSat
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Rachel Deering
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‘I have experienc'd
The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst
That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb
With whisper'd Discontents the dying prayer--
I have beheld the whole of all, wherein
My Heart had any interest in this Life.’ ~ Coleridge for a very sad #BookWormSat
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Signe Maene
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I have received the loveliest package today. Thank you so much, my wonderful friend, @racheldeering.bsky.social. 🖤💫🖤
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Ewan Lawrie,
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Sometimes, the postman brings joy in a packet...
@racheldeering.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Signe Maene
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In Flemish folktales, alvermannekes who are gnome-like creatures help farmers with their harvest if they don't have enough farmhands. In some of these tales, the farmer spies on them and the alvermannekes take revenge by burning the harvest. 🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Deering is someone who always brings us back to a higher contemplation, a true, natural, mystical and highly enigmatic nature poet’ 🤔
A review by Mab Jones of Buzz Mag Wales of 1 of the books of the summer, @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ 🤩
www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-j...
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Rachel Deering
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Very happy about this from Buzz magazine and Man Jones: ‘0⃣6⃣ of the best new entries from the British poetry landscape of June 2024’ www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-j...
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Bevan Thomas
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? ... [Even] Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred."
- Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
🎨Junji Ito
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Sadness and despair’
#Art 🎨 by AleAritistic
#BookWormSat
#bookquotes
#literature
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BookWormSat
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‘Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked…Oh the mad coupling of hope and force
in which we merged and despaired.’ ~ Pablo Neruda.
Signe and Rachel here for the remains of this #BookWormSat of woe.
🖼️ Shipwreck, Goya, 1793.
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Rachel Deering
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‘Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!’ ~ Tolkien. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Ted Nasmith
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The Kingdom of Shadows, by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in Ebony and Crystal in 1922. The Kindle version of this poetry collection is available from Project Gutenberg.
#BookWormSat
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Paul Robichaud
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‘Seek not the face of Pan to see;
Flee from his clear note summoning thee
To darkness deep and black!
He dwells in thickest shade.
Piping his notes forlorn
Of sorrow never to be allayed...’
— Walter de la Mare, ‘Sorcery’
#BookWormSat
🎨Arnold Böcklin
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Rachel Deering
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‘Beneath this gloomy shade,
By Nature only for my sorrows made,
I'll spend this voice in cries;
In tears I'll waste these eyes…
Ah wretched youth! said I;
Ah, wretched youth! twice did I sadly cry;
Ah, wretched youth! the fields and floods reply.’ ~Abraham Cowley. #BookWormSat
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BookWormSat
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‘Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.’ ~ Mary Oliver.
Tomorrow is #BookWormSat and this week we want to whimper, weep and wail over all the sadness and despair we can find in literature. Join us. #BringTissues
🖼️ E Nourse, 1883.
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
#BookWormSat 📖
🎨Maria Kutinova
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A Paladin’s Venture
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“Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Summon up Courage’
#Art 🎨 by Aenami
#BookWormSat
#bookquotes
#literature
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Bevan Thomas
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As soon as Piglet woke, he said to himself, "Oh!" Then he said bravely, "Yes," and then, still more bravely, "Quite so." But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting about in his brain was "Heffalumps."
- A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh"
🎨E. H. Shepard
#BookWormSat
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