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@silentbookTO

Reading quietly in the company of bookish friends

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Joined November 2019
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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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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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Internet Archive
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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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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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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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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

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
@parisreviewSep 18
“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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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 16
"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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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 13
"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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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 11
"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
A Time to Talk

A Time to Talk

When a friend calls to me from the road

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaSep 2
We're friends from everywhere, united in reading. Our silent book club proudly boasts membership outside our east end Toronto neighbourhood, and in fact, beyond this province and this country's borders. Check out what we're reading and talking about here: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/09/01/…
Silent book club member Vicki (me!) shows off her Sealey Challenge poetry collection stack, gesturing from it while on-screen in a zoom window (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

ALT Silent book club member Vicki (me!) shows off her Sealey Challenge poetry collection stack, gesturing from it while on-screen in a zoom window (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

Some of us engaged in needlecrafts during this month's silent book club meetings!

ALT Some of us engaged in needlecrafts during this month's silent book club meetings!

Group book pile at Sprouty Cafe - titles and publications include Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, all about love by bell hooks, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco + more (Photo by Jenn Ellis)

ALT Group book pile at Sprouty Cafe - titles and publications include Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, all about love by bell hooks, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco + more (Photo by Jenn Ellis)

Silent book club member Kathryn's recent reading, including Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, stacked on a sofa (Photo by Kathryn Eastman)

ALT Silent book club member Kathryn's recent reading, including Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, stacked on a sofa (Photo by Kathryn Eastman)

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaAug 30
"This unfortified boundary line between the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America should quicken the remembrance of the more than a century old friendship between these countries, a lesson of peace to all nations." #SundaySentence 1957
Worn cover of the photographic collection Between Friends (1976 McClelland & Stewart)

ALT Worn cover of the photographic collection Between Friends (1976 McClelland & Stewart)

Plaque from 1957 commemorating the friendship between Canada and the United States (photo by Paul Von Baich)

ALT Plaque from 1957 commemorating the friendship between Canada and the United States (photo by Paul Von Baich)

Two people peering from different windows in a wood-shingled house with a Canada/USA border marking on the side of the house (photo by Randal Levenson)

ALT Two people peering from different windows in a wood-shingled house with a Canada/USA border marking on the side of the house (photo by Randal Levenson)

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Rick Barry 📚@RickBarry44Aug 30
It was a particularly good evening to begin a book. TOVE JANSSON, The Summer Book #SundaySentence
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"He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because "Reading is backward immortality." Umberto Eco
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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaAug 6
"Grăbeşte-te incet. Hurry slowly." #SealeyChallenge 6/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry Pentru Vremuri Catastrofale / For Catastrophic Times by Adriana Oniță from Descântec For My Split Tongue (2026 Palimpsest Press) palimpsestpress.ca/books/des…
Poetry collection Descântec For My Split Tongue by Adriana Oniță (Palimpsest Press) sits on a wooden chair with a notebook with an ornate cover and a black felt tip pen

ALT Poetry collection Descântec For My Split Tongue by Adriana Oniță (Palimpsest Press) sits on a wooden chair with a notebook with an ornate cover and a black felt tip pen

Handwritten transcription of the poem Nădejde from the poetry collection Descântec For My Split Tongue by Adriana Oniță

ALT Handwritten transcription of the poem Nădejde from the poetry collection Descântec For My Split Tongue by Adriana Oniță

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaAug 2
"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/…
Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review

Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review

A review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerner

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Vicki Ziegler@bookgagaJul 30
"the average person is arguably consuming more written words each day than ever before in history. But higher-level reading, which is associated with a slew of essential critical thinking skills, is declining ..." via @CBCIdeas cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2…
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