#bookologythursday The Minotaur speaks...
“I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child”
― Thomas Burnett Swann, Day of the Minotaur
“I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely.'
- Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
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🎨 by Adrian Paul Allinson
#BookologyThursday “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly & their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
📷Church of St. Michael, Bamberg, Germany. By Johann Georg Laimberger
All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
The Black Rabbit of Inlé
Watership Down #bookologythursday
#BookologyThursday 'Tales of the Golden Corpse' is a collection of Tibetan #folktales recurring in several cultures. In it, a boy carries a talking corpse full of wondrous tales on a long journey, without himself speaking a word.
You can find everything that exists in the world in books – sometimes in truer colors, and without the real pain of everything that really does exist.
~José Eduardo Agualusa
The Book of Chameleons
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I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
~Kafka
Greetings Bibliophiles✨
This #BookologyThursday , we invite you to join us with the theme:
✨Unusual Narrators & Protagonists✨
~in literature, art and folklore.🍃
''Quite likely whoever knew how to bring tunes from that has spent the last century on nine yards of water.' he said.'
'Sweetwater' (1973) by Laurence Yep
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🎨 (possibly) by Julia Noonan
'Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.'
~Sylvia Plath, Mirror
🎨William M. Paxton
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In the popular children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon, the four-year-old protagonist has the power to create things just by drawing them.
Ozan Varol, Think Like a Rocket Scientist
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A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny, is narrated by Snuff, a watch dog. It's also a fun and exciting romp through late Victorian horror and mystery fiction. You must read it! #bookologythursday
Take a look at me. My name's Lemmy Caution by rights but I got so many aliases that sometimes I don't know if I’m John Doe or it’s Thursday.
This Man Is Dangerous
Peter Cheyney 1936
#BookologyThursday #noir #NoirWhispers
Cover art: 1st Edition William Collins
'Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God!—no, no! They heard!—they suspected!—they knew!—they were making a mockery of my horror!—this I thought, and this I think.'
🖊️The Tell-tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe.
🎨H. Clarke.
#DailySpookLore
#31DaysOfHaunting
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'We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.'
--Kazuo Ishiguro--
📖Never Let Me Go
🎨Boris D Grogoriev
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'...his basilisk eyes were nearly quenched by sleeplessness, and weeping, perhaps, for the lashes were wet then: his lips devoid of their ferocious sneer, and sealed in an expression of unspeakable sadness.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Rovina Cai
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I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
#ContinentalOp
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
#BookologyThursday #NoirWhispers
#noir
art: Lou Marchetti
Perma Books 1958
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#BookologyThursday #Dostoevsky
#FirstPersonNarrative
art: Game of Bezique
by Gustave Caillebotte 1880
