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- Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛
- Thank you for your illuminating posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday ⚜️ Detail from the Sherborne Missal (1400)
- #BookologyThursday 📚👻 Bibliomania spotlights 'Little Ghosts Books,' located in Toronto Canada's first (and still premier) indie horror bookstore! ✨Founded in 2022 by Chris & Jason Krawczyk, it's a cozy, welcoming space with dark shelves, killer coffee, (home to a giant skeleton named R.L. Spine!)
- The Lüneburg Manuscript (1440-50) references a piper leading 130 children out of Hamelin. While not the act of a magic rat-catcher as depicted by the Grimm brothers in ‘Der Rattenfänger von Hameln’ there was a real-life tragic event that occurred in 1284. #BookologyThursday
- #BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The Danann were defeated and tricked out of #Ireland by a race of mortal man known as the Milesians, or Sons of Mil. According to the Book of Leinster, the Danann later took revenge on the sons of Mil by destroying their wheat and souring their milk. 1/2
- Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. Maud Hart Lovelace Winslow Homer #BookologyThursday
- The Brothers Grimm 1865 German book cover: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3482... #bookologythursday #art #bookcover #vintage #illustration #fairytales #literature #bookchatweekly #homedesign #gifts
- Just to confirm that my library did have secret doors! From Verily Anderson's notes for her book, Daughters of Divinity, 1960. #BookologyThursday #Brassey
- “I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor. “You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.” —Robert Louis Stevenson, FABLES: “The Reader” #BookologyThursday #C19 💙📚
- "I see this roll had a kind of face and it had a bit of band tied round underneath. It fell right over and this face hid in his neck." - M R James., 'The Uncommon Prayer Book' #BookologyThursday & also #PhantomsFriday, for which I'm looking forward to another spirited series of ghostly posts.
- Perfect duo (imo) for #BookologyThursday - this classic pair by Christopher Morley. 1945, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Parnassus on Wheels & The Haunted Bookshop. #booksky
- #bookologythursday Did you know the Black Book of Carmarthen is reputedly haunted?? Researchers using ultraviolet light found several creepy faces in the margins, invisible to the naked eye. Well, it's either ghosts, or the doodles of a bored scribe that someone then erased with a pumice stone!
- Detail from the Scheibler Armorial, an armorial manuscript from the 15th to 17th centuries. Named for the baronial Scheibler family of Hülhoven in the Rhineland. #BookologyThursday
- “One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...” - Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas #BookologyThursday
- #BookologyThursday Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, M.R. James. "'Good God! a hand like the hand in that picture!...' "The shape, whose left hand rested on the table, was rising to a standing posture behind his seat, its right hand crooked above his scalp." en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ghost_S...
- “It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree.” (Coleridge) 🎨 Elisabeth Shippen-Green #bookologythursday
- Julie had been looking over Perdita's bookshelves with natural envy. – Richard Le Gallienne, An Old Country House, 1902 #BookologyThursday
- Welcome to #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: ✨📜BIBLIOMANIA📜✨ Mysterious Manuscripts, Haunted Bookshops, Secret Libraries, Odd Collections, Grimoires, & Rare Books. …in literature, art, legends, and folklore. Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416)
- 'Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.' ~William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' 🎨Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale #bookologythursday
- "Nora said that Jean sometimes dreamed of a hand passing backwards and forwards over the dining-room bookcase until it found a certain book. At this point she was always so frightened that she woke up." - Margaret Irwin's 'The Book' casts its evil spell in a suburban household. #BookologyThursday
- “Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.” (Francis Bacon) 🎨 Evvie "Evvin" Marin #bookologythursday
- Crows (and ravens) are deeply connected to the Mabinogion, primarily through Brân the Blessed, whose name means "Blessed Crow" or "Raven," a giant king from the Second Branch whose severed head guards Britain, linking him to the legend of the Tower of London's ravens. #BookologyThursday #Folklore
- Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: ✨📜BIBLIOMANIA📜✨ Mysterious Manuscripts, Haunted Bookshops, Secret Libraries, Odd Collections, Grimoires, & Rare Books. …in literature, art, legends, and folklore. art by Marlowe Lune
- Do I dare to eat a peach? ~T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683) #BookologyThursday
- The peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise as it floated along. ~Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach #BookologyThursday
- 'On the bat's back I do fly' 🦇Ariel by Louis Rhead #BookologyThursday
- 🌙'By thy pale beams I solitary rove, To thee my tender grief confide; Serenely sweet you gild the silent grove, My friend, my goddess, and my guide.' ~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 🎨 The Fairy of the Moon by Hermann Kaulbach #bookologythursday
