I may have developed an obsession with Victorian writing slopes/boxes. Is there a support group for collectors of writing boxes, fountain pens, and stationery items?

Please advise, posthaste.

Meanwhile, I am uttering the distress call of my people.

#twelvesteps #stationery #writingbox #slopedesk #fountainpens #bluestalking

How are things, Mastodonians?

In the positive column, I've almost finished reorganizing two rooms, started on my Master closet, and I scored big at the thrift store this afternoon for half-off Monday.

I'm taking a rest break before I get back to it.

#productivity #monday #bluestalking

Took a brief walk on a sub-freezing Sunday afternoon. Followed a walkway I'd seen before but never taken.

What do you know, it leads toward a small park area - very small but in sprawling suburbia that's like stumbling onto the equivalent of Yosemite.

I am a mighty explorer. Follow me for more underwhelming experiences.

#sundeefundee #bluestalking #suburbanwarrior

Turned on a film while eating my avocado toast for brunch and it's left me in a melancholy daze. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont isn't nearly as good as the book - SHOCK - and it's harshed my chill.

Anyway. I'm considering a short walk, followed by reading something very good, indeed, by Willa Cather.

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

#films #mrspalfreyattheclaremont #willacather #americanliterature #nebraska #bookstodon #sundee #bluestalking

This book arrived and I'm excited to start really digging into Nova Scotia before my trip in October.

Have you read any great books by N.S. writers or books set there? I'd love recommendations.

#novascotia #canada #johndemont #bluestalking

Book 2 of 2023 is a sheer delight!

#reading2023 #elspethbarker #ocaledonia #gothic #literaryfiction #scottishhighlands #bluestalking

If you're participating in any exciting #readingchallenge this year, please share! I'm interested in possibly jumping on board, depending how it fits with my schedule.

I'm going to be reading more #worldliterature #willacather #salmanrushdie and #virginiawoolf among others. I'm interested in #classicliterature and #literaryfiction but also #nonfiction and other genres.

#bookstodon #bookdiscussion #reading2023 #bluestalking

I'll meet you in 2023. I'm starting my first book of the new year, tucked in to read before midnight strikes in the Chicago area.

Peace and cheers. x

#elspethbarker #ocaledonia #2023reading #bookstodon #bluestalking

My eyeballs are sore. So that's a Covid thing? I don't want to subject them to the light of the TV, or a lamp, so I can read. 😭

I'm getting off screens and hopping to podcasts. This is like the olden days, before infinite scroll. Not a bad practice, though.

#fireupthevictrola #covid #bluestalking

I really came through for me this year!

#books #christmas2022 #virginiawoolf #cemeteries #bluestalking

Since I've blown far past any sane person's idea of an appropriate number of books to buy oneself for Christmas, I'm sneaking this one in under the guise of a New Year's present.

I fully intend to buy fewer books in 2023 (buy them more mindfully, rather) but according to my calendar it's still 2022, thanks very much!

#books #joandidion #essays #bluestalking

I've started writing my best reads of 2022 blog post. I'm so rusty at this.

I started my blog sometime around 2005 or 2006, way back in its infancy. I've written it irregularly over the past decade or so but I'm trying to get back to it again in a meaningful way.

Practice greases those wheels.

#books #reading #blogging #writing #bluestalking

@BostonBibliophile @bookstodon I like this!

#7books to get to know me by

1. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
2. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
3. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
4. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
5. The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
6. All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West
7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

#books #bluestalking #booklists