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Reading quietly in the company of bookish friends

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Joined November 2019
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You can find me (aka @bookgaga) posting silent book club updates on Bluesky, Instagram (instagram.com/vzbookgaga/) and Mastodon. I've also started a separate Instagram account for @sbctoronto: instagram.com/sbctoronto/
Vicki Ziegler (@bookgaga) profile pictureVicki Ziegler@bookgagaOct 26
This month, I'm observing 17 years on this platform. It's been a long time, filled with learning, delights, connections and genuine friendships. Hashtags like #TodaysPoem and #SundaySentence have built community and unearthed discoveries for other readers.
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"A screaming comes across the sky." #SundaySentence from Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973 The Viking Press) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravit…
First edition copy of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon sits on a gray carpet

ALT First edition copy of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon sits on a gray carpet

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaOct 25
I would like to invite @devinjcooley and his rabbit to our next @silentbookclub (aka @silentbookTO) meeting: reddit.com/r/hockey/comments…
From the hockey community on Reddit: Devin Cooley postgame interview after his third win in a row

From the hockey community on Reddit: Devin Cooley postgame interview after his third win in a row

Explore this post and more from the hockey community

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"The body is a myth or a ghost or a horror story or a beast of burden, depends on who you ask." #SundaySentence from A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022 @PenguinCanada) penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/…
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt | Penguin Random House Canada

A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt | Penguin Random House Canada

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of...

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaOct 16
"Touching is bringing things into contiguity in space and time. The forces in operation in this problem are electromagnetic." #TodaysPoem #poetry Contact Forces by Dawn Macdonald (2021 @The_Temz_Review) thetemzreview.com/poetry-daw…
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📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇 archive.org/details/winniepo…
Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration by E. H. Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh sitting on a log and gazing upward beside a large tree. Behind him is a dark doorway at the tree’s base, with a sign reading “MR SANDERS” above it, a small bell, a hanging bell pull, and a partial note reading “RNIG ALSO.” A small pile of sticks lies on the ground to the right. Dense cross-hatching forms the tree.

ALT Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration by E. H. Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh sitting on a log and gazing upward beside a large tree. Behind him is a dark doorway at the tree’s base, with a sign reading “MR SANDERS” above it, a small bell, a hanging bell pull, and a partial note reading “RNIG ALSO.” A small pile of sticks lies on the ground to the right. Dense cross-hatching forms the tree.

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“The increased vitality of an aged hand is hard to explain.” #SundaySentence by Kenneth Mackenzie Clark from The artist grows old (2006 Daedalus) amacad.org/publication/daeda…

The artist grows old

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaOct 8
"Above the treeline is as blank as the inside of a wrist. Rock stays. Names stay. Names fell on him, hissing." A jubilant #TodaysPoem! Short Talk On Holderlin's World Night Wound by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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"Outside the sun shone bright and mean." #SundaySentence from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013 @LittleBrown and Company) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go…

The Goldfinch (novel) - Wikipedia

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There is something else there, I mean here, in the dark where the poets live, outside the lines of perfect, in the deep-down outskirts of unmeasured eternity. #sundaysentence #cloudrunner #joharjo @wwnorton #netgalley
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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaOct 1
Bookmaxxing before it was a thing ... here's the latest from the mighty east end Toronto @silentbookclub chapter (celebrating its 9th anniversary)! bookgagabooks.ca/2026/10/01/… #SilentBookClub
Group book pile at Sprouty Cafe - titles and publications include Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, fairy by Kirby + more (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

ALT Group book pile at Sprouty Cafe - titles and publications include Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, fairy by Kirby + more (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

Silent book club member Kathryn's recent reading, including The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao, stacked on a sofa in front of a cushion with the caption "Just One More Chapter ..." (Photo by Kathryn Eastman)

ALT Silent book club member Kathryn's recent reading, including The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao, stacked on a sofa in front of a cushion with the caption "Just One More Chapter ..." (Photo by Kathryn Eastman)

Silent book club members reading on the 2nd floor of the Sprouty Cafe, with member Ruth Barlett holding her book in the foreground (Photo by Ruth Bartlett)

ALT Silent book club members reading on the 2nd floor of the Sprouty Cafe, with member Ruth Barlett holding her book in the foreground (Photo by Ruth Bartlett)

Silent book club member Vicki (me) shows off her crocheted afghan with the embroidered panel that reads "Eff Off / I'm Reading" (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

ALT Silent book club member Vicki (me) shows off her crocheted afghan with the embroidered panel that reads "Eff Off / I'm Reading" (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

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"All that will be left of me: in the margins of books pencilled murmurs you will never decipher." #SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) The Mist by Stuart Ross from The Sky is a Sky in the Sky (2024 @CoachHouseBooks) chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Sky-…
The Sky is a Sky in the Sky

The Sky is a Sky in the Sky

CBC BOOKS' "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"Imagining a vast blue expanse of what a poem might beThe Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a laboratory of poetic approaches and experimen...

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 20
"Occasionally she takes her one good foot and applies it to surfaces otherwise flat and safe, the expressway progressing itself through her, expressly." #SundaySentence Acceptable Dissociations by Sina Queyras from Expressway (2009 @CoachHouseBooks) poetryfoundation.org/poems/5…

Acceptable Dissociations

1 Meanwhile the expressway’s hum, it roars into Her, the expressway cargo and tree-lined, stretched Radio towers, mowers its horns and hogs, its beef And…

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 19
"die like an aviator andor do a thelma and louise ending andor work out your own salvation with diligence" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Tapeworm Foundry [excerpt] by Darren Wershler-Henry (2000 @HouseofAnansi) poets.org/poem/tapeworm-foun…
The Tapeworm Foundry [excerpt]

The Tapeworm Foundry [excerpt]

insinuate that much can be learned from the fact that jackson pollock is know to

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The Paris Review
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“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote Fahrenheit 451 I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are.” —Ray Bradbury buff.ly/i5O3KkG
Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203

Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203

“A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hand and pray to it.”

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"But I’m here, and a hard wall grows where the door used to hang." #TodaysPoem #poetry This Stone House by Melissa Ostrom (@melostrom) (2026 @SweetLiterary) sweetlit.org/melissa-ostrom-…
Melissa Ostrom

Melissa Ostrom

This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…

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"If aesthetic standards are the foundation of your sexual requirements, I learned, you have restricted yourself to a very small portion of the human race." #SundaySentence from The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (2023 @picadorbooks) us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
The Kingdom of Sand

The Kingdom of Sand

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE AND PAPERBACK ROW“[Holleran’s] new novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isol...

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John@John_in_SoCalSep 13
“It is significant for the field, I think, that a scientist of Koch’s standing has come to doubt that scientific materialism (or physicalism, as it’s sometimes called by scientists) will ever be able to explain #consciousness.” - @michaelpollan “A World Appears” #SundaySentence
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"I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit." #TodaysPoem #poetry A Time to Talk by Robert Frost (1916) poets.org/poem/time-talk
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A Time to Talk

When a friend calls to me from the road

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"I undressed, lay down beside him, and the closeness of our skin softened his impatience." #SundaySentence from the short story Patron Saints by Richard Kelly Kemick from Hello, Horse (2024 @Biblioasis) biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/…
Hello, Horse - Biblioasis

Hello, Horse - Biblioasis

Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. A teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new […]

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