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Posting about StoryGraph has become a thing today, huh? I‘m on there too, feel free to look for me. As others have said, I use it for tracking and because I love the graphing, I don‘t really use it socially.

Defines "hiraeth" as an "excellent Welsh word for the mournful longing for home", ugh. No. It's a longing for Wales, specifically -- a Wales that may not exist.

Absolutely nuts to say that Mole in Wind in the Willows feels hiraeth when he passes his old burrow.

I've been having trouble settling down to read in the past few days, but I did manage to read a few chapters of this today! I'm enjoying it and it matches well with the course I did on children's literature in my undergrad, and what I remember of my third-year housemate's dissertation.

I appreciate that it's very clear that it's mostly talking about British childhood reading, rather than defaulting to that silently.

Happy Samhain 🖤🎃🖤

Wishing you all a blessed day in whichever way you celebrate.

Sharing this amazing artist @Swanbones
Go check out her Insta page. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBG0-kCuyhT/?igsh=dnhma3g1cDlrcjUw

Yesterday's acquisitions. The tagged book sounds fab - a history of childhood reading. I've spotted chapters on Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew,, Anna Sewell, E Nesbit, Moomins, brothers grimm, and all sorts of goodness. I'm thinking this could be a perfect winter or Christmas read.

I'm joining the #JustOnemoreChapter #readathon this weekend, hosted by @TheAromaofBooks

Planned reads
📚 Tagged
🎧 The Light Eaters
📚 Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil

#HauntedBookshelf Team #GrimReaders

@PuddleJumper @CSeydel

I started reading the tagged book ages ago- after viewing Martin Johnson Hearde‘s hummingbird paintings in the early American Art Gallery at Yale‘s Art museum yesterday,I pulled it out of a stack to begin to read again.

Visitors to London, especially those from outside of the UK, who wish to see the remnants of early Victorian London are probably going to be somewhat disappointed, although this is not just a recent thing, As the author argues, the truth is that the London of Dickens's time was already being lost before the end of the Victorian era & his writing was beginning to be thought of as 'old hat' by then too.

“My” sweet hummingbird, loves my garden‘s bee balm. I have a perfect view of him from my porch. The hummingbird‘s presence is reminding me of the tagged book which I started long ago. Now I feel a pull to return to it. #porchlife #hummingbird

#VirginiaBloomsberries

I really enjoyed this glimpse into the rural life of VW and her fellow authors.

🌿 What did you think of the biography?

🌿 Did the accounts of VW's contemporaries, Townsend-Warner & Lehmann, help give context into her world?

All welcome to join in. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.