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Thank you for your valident and ferocious posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday 🎨William Stout

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” — Reginald Heber (1783–1826) Today is the Spring Equinox, when day and night are held in perfect balance. From this moment, the light grows stronger, and the earth answers as buds swell and flowers unfold.

In Irish folklore, Mis went mad from grief when her father, Dáire Dóidgheal died. Fleeing to the Sliabh Mis mountains, she grew long fur, feathers & claws- killing anyone who came near. The kind harper Dubh Ruis found & took care of her. #FolkloreThursday 🎨 by Hans Hoffmann

Ellison Hoover 'Dancers in a Moonlit Garden' #GothicSpring

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📖 Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth review – profound story of a woman’s love for a horse Where does it come from, this passion for an animal that isn’t even hers? An astonishing debut delves into deep truths about love, motherhood & care #BookchatWeekly theguardian.com/books/2026/mar…

For this is the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed himself in their helping: the gift of forgetfulness. Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly

🖤🖤🖤 #classiclitmonday #bookchatweekly 'We’ve braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I’ll keep you. I’ll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won’t rest till you are with me. I never will!’ She paused, and resumed with a strange smile. Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

“For broken dreams, the cure is, dream again and deeper.” C.S. Lewis Image: Moonboat by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #NewYear #FolkloreSunday

Fruit the Fairies steal away, Never comes again. Elfin Song Florence Harrison 1912 #FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly

Spring in The Secret Garden isn’t just a backdrop — it’s a metaphor for grief turning toward healing. As Mary coaxed the garden back to life, she unknowingly revived herself and those around her. The soil wasn’t the only thing that needed tending. #BookChatWeekly 🎨Laurie Kidd

#BookChatWeekly A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies 🎨Mother Reading Helene Schjerfbeck (1902)

I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the Palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter. The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde Charles Robinson #FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly

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Thank you for your valident and ferocious posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday 🎨William Stout

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"There was an old dragon under grey stone; His red eyes blinked as he lay alone. His joy was dead and his youth spent, He was knobbed and wrinkled, and his limbs bent In the long years to his gold chained; In his heart's furnace the fire waned." - J R R Tolkien #BookologyThursday

#BookologyThursday The mysterious Dragon's Blood Tree from which runs a scarlet resin with healing & preservative powers. In Greek #Mythology, the tree was said to have sprung up from the blood of the 100 headed Dragon, Ladon, after it was slaughtered.