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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2 days ago

American poet & essayist Louise Glück died #OTD in 2023. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in #Literature for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." US Poet Laureate, 2003-04. #poetry #LitSky #BookSky

Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück (1943–2023) is captured in this contemplative portrait, set against a rich, saturated forest-green background. A master of the "austere beauty" that made her one of America's most celebrated literary figures, Glück is shown in a three-quarter view, seated on a wooden chair. Her expression is one of quiet, penetrating observation—a look that mirrors the candid, often stark nature of her Pulitzer Prize-winning work like The Wild Iris. She is dressed simply in a black tank top paired with a matching black cardigan. Her silver-grey bob is neatly styled, framing a face that conveys a lifetime of intellectual rigor and creative reinvention. Her pose is thoughtful: her right arm rests on the chair's back, while her left hand is tucked under her chin. The composition is asymmetrical, with Glück positioned on the right, leaving a wide expanse of deep green to the left that heightens the image's sense of stillness and interiority. The mood is intimate and dignified, fitting for a woman who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate and whose legacy remains a cornerstone of contemporary literature.

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Beca Dreadful 🖤🌙 @becadreads.bsky.social · about 1 hour ago

Do you hate 🧊? Do you have a good throwing arm? If you answered yes to these unrelated questions, here are some book recommendations! 💙📚 #booksky

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · about 17 hours ago

“One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.” -English novelist and humorist, Pelham Grenville "P. G." Wodehouse 🧵 #WriterSky #BookSky #Bertie #Jeeves #Aunts #History #BOTD

P. G. Wodehouse, 1904
Source: Reader's Digest

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · about 4 hours ago

English explorer, writer, photographer & naturalist Isabella Bird is one of history's most prolific #travel authors. On her doctors' advice to seek "fresh air" at sea, she set sail for America in 1854, turning her letters home into her first bestseller, "The Englishwoman in America."🧵 #BookSky

A black-and-white engraved portrait shows a close-up, front-facing view of Isabella Bird (1831–1904), the celebrated British explorer, naturalist, and the first female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The historic engraving, composed of intricate hatched and cross-hatched lines, captures her from the shoulders up with a composed, solemn, and determined facial expression. Her steady, dark eyes look directly forward. She is outfitted for cold-weather travel, wearing a high-domed, textured winter hat featuring a thick, dark fur trim band across the forehead. A voluminous, dark ruffled collar or scarf is wrapped securely around her neck, tied into a large, prominent bow under her chin, with the fabric draping over her dark winter coat. The background consists of stark, diagonal hatching lines that create a radiating, dramatic aura behind her head, emphasizing a stark, adventurous, and dignified nineteenth-century mood.

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Yip Yip Mo 🎃📚 @moplayspoke.bsky.social · about 1 hour ago

FairyLoot’s YA sub has been bangin’ lately. Look how gorgeous Reap & Sow is! #booksky 📚💙 I FREAKING LOVE WHEN THEY USE FOIL LIKE THIS. In my opinion, 10/10 design.

Front cover of reap and sow (grey and pink)

The actual hardcover is a map with pinn foil vines everywhere

The edges are a bright pink that both goes with the dust jacket and also pops from the grey

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MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social · about 6 hours ago

Thanks Winter! 📚💙 Sand City is Book 1 ;)

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 1 day ago

New Zealand novelist Katherine Mansfield was born on this day in 1888. She experimented with style, writing stories in pieces – not in a linear way. She felt this better expressed her characters’ psyches. This helped re-shape literary modernism. #WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTD

Katherine Mansfield, 1914
Photo: © photos.com/Getty Images
Source: Britannica

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Hannah 🎃 @doomaglow.bsky.social · about 1 hour ago

CR (arc): Skating the Line by Shayna Douglas IT'S TIME 📚💙 #currentlyreading #arc

a book cover for skating the line by Shayna Douglas, if features a turquoise blue frame with three different drawn scenes, the top one has the blonde girl and brunette girl wearing hockey gear and in a face off, the second has them without helmets on and in uniform on the ice, and the third is them in regular clothes one standing between the others legs

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