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The new album ‘Between The Covers – 9 Songs For Bibliophiles‘ features 9 songs about books and reading, as the punny title suggests, there are 5 new originals sandwiched between 4 cover version.
The album will be promoted by a solo tour of UK and Europe in May and June, with performances in bookshops, libraries, literary festivals ... (Via the ever fabulous Guy Garvey) https://paularmfield.com/events/upcoming-events/
Can you recommend a book that features neurodiversity? Ideally fictional and something you've actually read?
My work bookgroup is looking for something around this theme - so far suggestions are The Maid, How to Stop Time and Intermezzo...
Ebb and Flo bookshop has reopened in Chorley! Now on two floors, packed out for the official opening.
Always the art explored uncharted terrains, and managed to get him outside his comfort zone. Almost every time he was left enthralled by this new generation of artists that were conscious and produced art that was not only beautiful but also effective in its own transgressive way.
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Andzani woke up with a babalas the following day...
[Book not in the database https://wisaniirvin.com/]
Failed attempt to take a picture of beautiful brunch and book...
Book not in the db yet
This is a café, they sell food, but it's also a hardware, see the timber? You can see it all the way from school, it's so long. This is the fastest route to get to the school, after passing this cafe you will find this passage. And out of this passage you are met by that big house with the red tile roofing. It is one of the few houses that have tile roofing around here as you can see. After you have passed the house you will see these boulders.
AI's not quite there yet...
Dangerous times on the Waterstones app...
How did I not know TK Maxx have books?
(Could turn into an expensive discovery)
Ooh shiny new books.
Loved Private Revolutions, so hoping I can get (as many as I can read) through the library too...
panBad. So bad. Title and author shall go unnamed.
Have picked up the usual winter bug from work. I am consoling myself with looking at lovely new penguins.
Big news!
Two of my poems were published in “Sublimation Annual: The Best Of Volume 1“ (Edited by TS S. Fulk), under the pseudonym River Wilde. If you're into speculative poetry this magazine might just be your cup of tea.
It's availabe on Amazon.
Now this is a great way to start the new year! 🍻
#poetry #speculativepoetry #litsyauthor
pickThis collection of 13 short stories is an exploration of horror and the paranormal. Dean brings fresh ideas to scare her readers, allowing them to reconsider the concept of fear. Dean does a great job building that feeling you get when you read horror - a combination of anxiety, fear, isolation, and terror. The atmosphere of each story creates a fantastic backdrop for the characters, allowing the unbelievable and unknown to take center stage.
Me with the 16/17 books I managed to read this year! Top favorites were An Echo in the Bone, All the Lost Things, and Iron Flame. Really enjoyed some of these! Not pictured is My Dark Vanessa.
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoha to Charleston, 1777 -1780 by Rick Atkinson
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
#Weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
Hobson (and I) are wondering if this might be my #JolabokaflodSwap package?! It‘s got no markings to indicate that it is, but I didn‘t order anything and my name isn‘t spelled like a family member would. I suppose we shall see on Christmas Eve!
"Every reader of Singer is at home in Krochmalna Street, the heart of Warsaw‘s Jewish neighborhood, where the author lived from 1908 to 1917 and where he set many of his books. When you read Singer, Krochmalna becomes the center of the world. The feeling is even more powerful because the street now exists only in these texts... and a few black-and-white photos..."
https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-underbelly-of-krochmalna-street/
100 Notable African Books of 2024 from #BrittlePaper
https://brittlepaper.com/100-notable-african-books-of-2024/
The #JolabokaflodSwap package is all put together and ready to get mailed tomorrow! Thanks again, @MaleficentBookDragon for organizing this super fun swap!
🎅🏼 #Jolabokaflod has been sent @MaleficentBookDragon @merelybookish 📚 #LCS has also been sent @bookish_wookish @TheKidUpstairs ❄️ Both are arriving via UPS and should be there before Xmas 🤞🏼🎄
Love a book list!
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/g-s1-34679/npr-books-we-love-2024
(See previous post for the NYT free access link)
Yay! A list...
How many have you read? (8) How many do you want to read? (Well, I've ticked 9, but I think that's likely to rise).
100 Notable Books of 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html?unlocked...
Next up, NPR's list!
For the first time, my book club has chosen to try themed readings. In 2025, we will pick selections that fit (in any way we choose) that month‘s theme. I‘m excited to try this. #FirstSaturdayReaders
I just signed up for my first swap, the #JólabókaflóðSwap hosted by @MaleficentBookDragon , and I‘m very excited to see how it goes!
The 2024 shortlisted authors are:
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry
Lana Makes Purple Pizza
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine
48 Stories of Exile from Palestine
Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
From recent research by the Literacy Trust [UK]. (I think, of course for adults too, it's just they only asked the youngsters for this research!)
Their programmes work to give more children access to books and reading.
They're looking for support and volunteers: https://literacytrust.org.uk/reading-for-pleasure/
🍬Sweet Candy
🎃Make
👻Ghost
🦉Owl
🎃Mummy
🎉Party
👻Carpet
🪄Spell
🕸Cobwebs
🎃Carved
🪦Graveyard
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
I can't believe November is Friday! Ugh! Where as the year gone.
@TheAromaofBooks here's my November #Bookspinbingo list! Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to do each month. 🥰
Sorely tempted by these.
"The First Decade Collection is a limited edition series of ten hardbacks celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions‘ publishing over the first ten years. With a run of 1000 copies, each book is casebound in fine linen cloth ..."
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/first-decade-collection/
#LotteryWinnersOnly
Rather than pretending to know the answers, be there to share your questions. Don't be afraid of saying, "I don't know". We are mudlarkers, walking by the shores of our civilisation, and through the muddle, we find discarded and unloved beauties: shards of ceramic, pieces of lapis lazuli.
5. Trust in the power of words. Both written and spoken, words are magic.
From Elif Shafak's substack.
https://elifshafak.substack.com/
