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- I was lonely for the sky, for the feel of it on my face. — Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese Great book #SundaySentence
- “Word came down from the White House in mid 2017 to stop providing the president with lengthy documents. If there was a staple in it, the briefing paper was probably too long and needed to be cut.” “Blowback” Miles Taylor #SundaySentence #WhyDidNoOneListen
- BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is indeed that story of America. What a remarkable novel. #SundaySentence
- "I will live only as long as these two remember me." SO FAR GONE By Jess Walter (June publication date) #SundaySentence
- A #SundaySentence by @sgj.bsky.social and his Buffalo Hunter Hunter (which is high on my TBR list)
- When I saw this post this week I thought of Dr. Carla Hayden and my heart broke. #SundaySentence #BookSky #LibrarySky 📚💔
- "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Woolf's writing table by photographer Gisèle Freund #WomensArt
- Woot! A bookish #SundaySentence by @jfkane.bsky.social
- If you're one who reads a #SundaySentence aloud, take a deep breath. from "Lucky" by Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social
- I finished BLUE HIGHWAYS by William Least Heat-Moon yesterday. It was a grand and fulfilling 3-month journey through its pages. Wistfully, I leave you with one final BH #SundaySentence: Alice Venable Middleton was one of those octogenarians who make age look like something you don’t want to miss.
- All the most powerful forces are invisible. Love, electricity, wind. And the waves following a bomb blast. One more #sundaysentence form The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
- All stories conclude with a fade to black. Shehan Karuniatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida #sundaysentence
- I missed last week’s #SundaySentence because we were offline and out of service (one of the big drawbacks of van life), but I’m connected this week and can’t wait to read your picks for Best Sentence of the Week.
- No, what makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth & flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains & potential of its young people for—what? A technological fad? #SundaySentence ,https://bit.ly/44xQQCU
- If one is capable of throwing self-doubt out the window, this power can be a beneficial weapon to deploy. HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel #sundaysentence
- “…the nation's future would ‘shine with the daring, brave and gallant deeds of the black soldier and sailor.... In fact, I do not stop short of the possibility of a black man occupying the Executive Chair at Washington.’” Joshua A. Aldridge #SundaySentence 📖 Storm Over Key West by Mike Pride.
- A panoply of possibilities exists in every being, because a being is a creature which lives in the world, which has shape, color, form, which has life and a soul within it, a soul which will be changed by its existence in the world. (288) #SundaySentence Norman Mailer Cannibals and Christians
- “A strange, sometimes fortuitous, sometimes tragic, aspect of being a human being is that we are born of parents and exist as a fruit cocktail of their personalities and genes.” #sundaysentence Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
- “If wrestling and novels were merely the result of people trying to cast yet another universe where they’re the more heroic, patient, and capable versions of themselves.” Ocean Vuong, THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS #sundaysentence
- My #SundaySentence is from Imperial by William T. Vollmann : “This is the place of beleaguered trading posts, of mine tailings and of ghost towns from whose marker-robbed graveyards fangs of bone peep out from the cracked earth.” (47) Chapter 2, Delineations
- All stories conclude with a fade to black. Shehan Karuniatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida #sundaysentence
- “The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.” #sundaysentence David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
- The truth is heavy to carry compared to the lightness of a lie #SundaySentence Dean Koontz Forest of lost souls
- "The rich are the blight of this land." Natalia Theodoridou, Sour Cherry #SundaySentence
- “When I told my father that the steam from the coffee cup looked like a ballerina dancing, he told me to write a poem.” #sundaysentence Yukiko Tominaga’s “My Father” in Bellingham Review, Issue 78
- We will never know who we are and why we are here if we do not ask the uncomfortable questions. — The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski #SundaySentence
- My wound is geography. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy #SundaySentence
- #sundaysentence Why Bother? Sean Thomas Dougherty Because right now, there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words. @atriabooks.bsky.social
- People barely had room to grieve the loss of others, let alone pieces of themselves. And yet, unmourned, such fragments were bound to haunt. — Mothers and Sons: A Novel by Adam Haslett #SundaySentence
- “There was nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being.” #sundaysentence Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America (“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Sone People”)
- #sundaysentence from Mary H.K. Choi’s Yolk: “My chest is a too-small shoe for the blood-filled foot of my heart.”
- ….Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie, Carole King, James Taylor, Yusef Islam, and (of course) Bob Dylan. I am so grateful for their brilliant work. #SundaySentence From acknowledgments! The People We Keep @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social
- The soundtrack to this book and this phase of my life has been full of Mark Erelli, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, David Goodrich, Tracy Chapman, Dar Williams, The Waterboys, R.E.M., Counting Crows, Indigo Girls, Steve Earle, Glen Phillips, Meg Hutchinson… #SundaySentence The People We Keep
