‘It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?’ ~ John le Carré.
For John le Carré’s birthday, this
#BookWormSat
spies on the spies of literature. Join us for a day of espionage.
'People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.'
-Ursula K. Le Guin
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
!
🎨Elenore Abbott
‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.’ ~ Jane Eyre , Charlotte Brontë.
Tomorrow we celebrate powerful female characters in literature. Do join us. 💪
🖼️ Edward A. Wilson, 1944.
‘Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper…’ ~ Tove Jansson.
This
#BookWormSat
, we will unwrap the gifts of literature and celebrate all acts of kindness.
'I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.'
-Marie Corelli
#BookChatWeekly
#BookWormSat
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.’
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
We are going to be speechless tomorrow for
#BookWormSat
as we explore silence and solitude in literature. Do join us. Quietly.
Rackham, 1907.
'I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.'
-Virginia Woolf
Thank you for all your tweets!
#BookWormSat
will be sleeping until Saturday but do share your literary tweets with
#BookChatWeekly
anytime!
'He skips through the copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!'
-Oscar Wilde
At
#BookWormSat
we're following song. Join us tomorrow for a day of Balls and Dances in Literature!
'I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave.'
-Mary Shelley
Dear Bookworms, tomorrow we're sailing on the seas with the theme Ocean Literature. Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet.
🎨Miquel Carbonell Selva
‘Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.’
~ Angela Carter, 'Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories'.
Tomorrow we are going wild for a
#BookWormSat
of wolves, bears, big cats and all other untamed creatures.
🖼️ Caitlin Clarkson
'So many horrid ghosts.'
-Shakespeare
Dear bookworms, welcome to the first day of 13 Days of Ghosts. We'll share your spooky specters with
#BookWormGhost
throughout the day!
🎨William Ladd Taylor
'What greater gift than the love of a cat.'
-Dickens
To celebrate Love Your Pet Day on Monday
#BookWormSat
&
#BookChatweekly
are teaming up with the shared theme: Dogs, Cats, Parrots and Cuddly Animals in Literature.
Don't forget to tag us both and we'll see you tomorrow!🐈⬛🐕🦜
'Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?'
-J. M. Barrie.
Welcome to
#BookWormSat
! Today's theme is children's literature! 📚🐛
🎨Arthur Rackham
‘Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.’ ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden.
This
#BookWormSat
celebrates children’s literature.
Share your favourites with us.
‘One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...’ ~ Leo Tolstoy.
It’s World Bee Day tomorrow and so
#BookWormSat
will sip nectar from all the Spring blooms and welcome all signs of the season in literature.
'The laughter was the laughter of fair voices not of goblins, and the singing was beautiful, but it sounded eerie and strange...'
-The Hobbit
🎨William M. Timlin
#30DayswithTolkien
#BookChatWeekly
'Terror made me cruel...'
-Emily Brontë
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's
#BookWormSat
's theme is novels and poetry that really, really scare you.
#BookWormGhost
is still going as well and we are loving the ghosts! Thank you! 👻🖤
🎨Cipriano Mannucci
'Though the winds are keen and chill
Roses' hearts are beating still'
-L. M. Montgomery
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
. Because we have been strolling through the snow with our friends
#BookChatWeekly
and
#OfDarkAndMacabre
today's theme is Winter!
'We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.'
-Daphne du Maurier
🎨Serafino Macchiati
#BookChatWeekly
#OfDarkAndMacabre
'There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...'
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is American Literature. Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet. 📚🐛
🎨Martin Aagaard
‘Yet come, dark thunderstorms,
And brood your heavy hours;
For when you rain me words,
My thoughts are dancing flowers
And joyful singing birds.’ ~ W H Davies
Tomorrow, batten down your hatches as we weather your storms in Literature for
#BookWormSat
⛈️
'It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.'
-Joseph Conrad
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's
#BookWormSat
theme is bits and pieces by exophonic and multilingual writers.
🎨Zdzisław Beksiński
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'
-James Stephens
🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookChatWeekly
#BookWormSat
'But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.'
Dear bookworms, Saturday we're celebrating Hans Christian Andersen's birthday with the theme Fairytales.📚🐛
Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet! (9am - 10pm CET)
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.'
-Daphne Du Maurier
Dear bookworms, Saturday's theme is Houses in Literature. Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet. 📚🐛
🎨Grimshaw
‘I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.’ ~ Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
This
#BookWormSat
is all about love. Of the tragic variety. All literary broken hearts welcome tomorrow!
‘The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood.’ ~
Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
For a late start
#BookWormSat
, but we’re here now! 👻
‘there is a
moon sole
in the blue
night
amorous of waters
tremulous,
blinded with silence the
undulous heaven yearns’ ~ e.e cummings, Amores III.
To honour
#InternationalMoonDay
this week,
#BookWormSat
looks to the night sky for literary inspiration. 🌚 ✨
'He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.'
-Mary Shelley
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's
#BookWormSat
's theme is Last Lines in Literature.
🎨Harrison Bird Brown
‘Guard well within yourself that treasure - kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.’ ~ George Sand.
Tomorrow is Sand’s birthday and so for
#BookWormSat
we will travel to France for our literature.
'In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon, but loved best the stars; and they wandered in the great forests that grew tall in lands that are now lost.'
🎨Asako Eguchi
#30DayswithTolkien
#BookChatWeekly
‘My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.’ ~
Mary Wollstonecraft.
@DeeringRachel
here for a
#BookWormSat
of women’s words.
🖼️ Dream, Joan Brull, c.1905
'I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
-Lewis Carroll
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is Children's Literature. 📚🐛
Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet! (Saturday, 10am-8pm CET)
🎨Arthur Rackham
‘After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...’
Walter de la Mare, The Return.
@DeeringRachel
here for the remaining weirdness of
#BookWormSat
'You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.'
-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women.
Welcome to
#BookWormSat
.
@MaeneSigne
is with you for the next couple of hours.
🎨George Elgar Hicks
'What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...'
-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Happy
#BookLoversDay
everyone! 📚💙
🎨George Goodwin Kilburne
‘I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.’ ~ Tolkien, LOTR.
This
#BookWormSat
we gather and feast on feasts and gatherings in literature. Join us!
🖼️ Inger Edelfeldt
‘I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.’
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot.
Tomorrow, for April Fool’s Day,
#BookWormSat
honours all fools.
🖼️ Jan Matejko, 1862.
'I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad!'
-Emily Brontë
We introduce
#BookWormGhost
with 13 Days of Ghosts to celebrate spooky season. Starting from 19/10 until Halloween we'll retweet your literary ghosts every day.👻📚
“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Bring your berries and meadows and join us tomorrow for a day of summer in literature for
#BookWormSat
‘Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.’ ~ George Eliot.
As Summer surrenders to Autumn, this
#BookWormSat
embraces the coming season in literature. Join us for some autumnal joy. 🍂 📖
'Here comes, here comes the Befana
She comes from the mountains in the deep of the night'
-Giovanni Pascoli
Tomorrow
#BookWormSat
will be celebrating La Befana with the theme folklore characters in literature. Do join us!
🎨Giada Rose
'I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
. Today we belatedly celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's birthday.
🎨Edmund Dulac
'The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, 'It was the best butter, you know.'
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to a hungry
#BookWormSat
!
‘I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,’ Moomintroll thought and let himself go.’ ~ Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter.
@DeeringRachel
here in galoshes for a
#WorldMetDay
#BookWormSat
Dear bookworms, it's announcement time!📚❄️ Join
@BookChatWeekly
and
@lit_saturday
for a frosty stroll through the chilly and wondrous world of winter literature!
From 09/01 until 16/01
#BookWormSat
and
#BookChatWeekly
will retweet your snowy tweets every day. See you there!
‘He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.’ ~
H.G. Wells.
It being Louis Wain’s birthday means cats, cats, cats for
#BookWormSat
#Miaow
'The King went into the Castle, and at first his Queen didn’t know him, he was so wan and thin, through wandering so far and being so woeful.'
From fairy tales to Dickens to Winnie-the-Pooh, do join
#BookWormSat
tomorrow to share quotes and illustrations from illustrated books!
‘But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.’ ~ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30
This
#BookWormSat
celebrates both World Poetry Day and Shakespeare Week with a day of sonnets. Bring us your little songs!
St John's College Library at Oxford University is said to be haunted by the ghost of Archbishop William Laud who was beheaded in 1645. He allegedly frightens readers by wandering the library headless and kicking his detached head around the library floor.
#WyrdWednesday
‘"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT MY PORRIDGE, AND HAS EATEN IT ALL UP!" said the Little, Small, Wee Bear, in his little, small, wee voice.’
Tomorrow is Robert Southey’s birthday so we will tiptoe into fairytales in literature to honour his Goldilocks for
#BookWormSat
#DontUpsetTheBears
'There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep'
-Elizabeth Bishop
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's
#BookWormSat
theme is Music in Literature! 📚🎶
🎨Edward Robert Hughes
'Well, mind and hold tight by my shaggy coat, and then there's nothing to fear,' said the Bear, so she rode a long, long way, till they came to a great steep hill.'
-From East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Tomorrow's
#BookWormSat
theme is adventures!
🎨Kay Nielsen
'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.'
-Edgar Allan Poe
Thank you for all you wonderful tweets!
#BookWormSat
is sleeping until Saturday but share your literary lines with our friend
#BookChatWeekly
anytime, and
#OfDarkAndMacabre
loves a dark quote too!
‘Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ ~ Yeats
This
#BookWormSat
we are away with the fairies for
#InternationalFairyDay
. Do join us.
🖼️ John Anster Fitzgerald
‘And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers, ‘Tis the fairy
Lady of Shalott.’’
On Saturday, we celebrate Tennyson’s birthday with literature inspired by Arthurian legend.
#BookWormSat
Join us for tales of chivalry and courtly love.
'I have a need of wilder, crueler waves;
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.'
-Dorothy Parker
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to a stormy
#BookWormSat
.
🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
'Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.'
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
! Today we are celebrating your favourite lines from literature!
🎨Anna & Elena Balbusso
'First sentences are doors to worlds.'
-Ursula K. Le Guin
Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is favourite opening lines, paragraphs and scenes in poetry, novels and plays! 📚🐛
Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet! (Saturday 10am-08pm CET)
🎨Margaret Tarrant
‘as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.’ 🪰 ~ Rilke.
For
#BookWormSat
we are all European 🇪🇺
#Remainer
🖼️ Lionel Lindsay
‘Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted’ ~ Poe’s The Raven
This
#BookWormSat
we brave devils in literature. Do join us. 😈
'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.'
-C.S. Lewis
Thank you for all your tweets.
#BookWormSat
will be in the reading conservatory until Saturday, but do share your literature tweets with our wonderful friend
#BookChatWeekly
anytime!
‘Well, thief. I smell you. I hear your breath. I feel your air. Where are you? Come now. Don't be shy. Step into the light!.’ ~ Tolkien.
It was Hobbit Day on the 22nd and so our theme for
#BookWormSat
, this week, is high fantasy. Join us in epic other worlds.
🖼️ Tolkien, 1937.
‘I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.’ ~ Oliver Herford.
This
#BookWormSat
we will search for hints of Spring in literature for Imbolc.
'The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.'
-Robert Frost
Thank you for all your dark & brilliant tweets today! Have a lovely bookish week!📚🖤
🎨Anders Andersen-Lundby
'The dark owls sit in solemn state,
Like stranger gods; by twos and twos
Their red eyes gleam. They meditate.'
Afternoon bookworms,
@MaeneSigne
is very late but is finally here on this dark
#BookWormSat
!📚🐛
🎨Lucy Campbell
‘Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy – with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes…Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?’ ~ Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
This
#BookWormSat
the undead of literature will rise again. Prise open these tombs with us.
'It lived down there in the deep green hollow,
My own old home, and the fairies say
The word of a bird is a thing to follow,
So I was away a night and a day.'
-The Changeling, Charlotte Mew.
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
!
🎨Jean-Baptiste Monge.
As it’s Beatrix Potter’s birthday today, we only want to hear about literary hares and rabbits for
#BookWormSat
tomorrow. Bring carrots and lettuces.🥕 🥬
‘Peter gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows…’~ Peter Rabbit.
‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?’
~ Lewis Carroll
Tomorrow we embrace the bitter winds of January, a
#BookWormSat
of a snow day. Join us for wintery words, bring hot chocolate and mittens.
'They danced by the light of the moon.'
-Edward Lear
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
and the moon! 🌜Unfortunately retweets will still be slower than usual as we hope not to exceed any rate limits.
🎨Gustave Doré
Dear bookworms, we are delighted to announce that the brilliant
@DeeringRachel
is joining the
#BookWormSat
team! 📚🐛
Please give a warm welcome to Rachel who will help us to share literary gems every Saturday! 🎉🎉🎉
‘There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—…which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.’ ~ Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
Tomorrow, come with us as we visit the haunted houses of literature for
#BookWormSat
‘Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth.’ Tennyson
@MaeneSigne
and
@DeeringRachel
are very much looking forward to waking up to your devils and monsters tomorrow.
#BookWormSat
'...and they did not dare to sing or talk too loud, for the echoes were uncanny, and the silence seemed to dislike being broken-except by the noise of water and the wail of wind and the crack of stone.'
-The Hobbit
#30DayswithTolkien
#BookChatWeekly
'There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.'
-Mary Shelley
Welcome to a fear and trembling edition of
#BookWormSat
.
@MaeneSigne
is with you for the next couple of hours.
🖼️elevenrivers
‘..how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind.’ ~ Daphne du Maurier,The Birds.
This
#BookWormSat
we turn to tales of mystery for Daphne du Maurier’s birthday.
‘Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.’ ~ Christina Rossetti.
This
#BookWormSat
will turn chilly with the snow and ice of literature. Do join us, dress warmly.
🖼️ Munch
'Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf'
-The Brothers Grimm
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to a frightening
#BookWormSat
!
🎨Mandy Cao
‘Love loves to love love.’ ~
James Joyce, Ulysses.
And yet, this
#BookWormSat
we remember the sorrow of lost love, the unrequited, heartbreak and the alone in our own bookish anti-Valentine. Do commiserate with us. ❤️🩹
🖼️ Marie Spartali Stillman
'That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.'
-L.M. Montgomery
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
🎨Waterhouse
'She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies'
Dear bookworms, tomorrow we're celebrating the birthday of two great poets. Lord Byron and John Donne!📚🐛
Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet (Saturday, 10am-8pm GMT).
🎨Alfred Stevens
'You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. WHY did you despise me? WHY did you betray your own heart, Cathy?’ ~ Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Join us tomorrow for
#BookWormSat
when we delve into betrayals and disloyalties in literature.
'Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!'
-William Allingham
This week's theme is Other Worlds or Otherwordly Beings in this World.
@DeeringRachel
and
@MaeneSigne
will see you Saturday. Use
#BookWormSat
for a retweet.
'Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies...'
Voltaire was born
#OTD
in 1694.
🎨Snyders
'The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. "Off with his head!" she said, without even looking round.'
-Lewis Carroll
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
!
🎨Arthur Rackham
'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth'
-Robert Frost
@MaeneSigne
welcomes you to
#BookWormSat
!
🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary'
Dear bookworms, tomorrow
#BookWormSat
belatedly celebrates the birthday of one of our favourite authors: Edgar Allan Poe.
🎨Gustave Doré