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It's been a hell of a week. Finally finding time to relax and enjoy a good book 😊📚
#books #reading #booksky

Chuffed to bits with this, i been a fan of #BuyAStrangerABook @biggreenbooks.bsky.social since waaaaay back in the old country, long enough to have bought 3 x copies of The Sound Mirror for folk when it came out and that was in 2020 😱

📚 #BookSky, it's every Wednesday, check it out!

Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won' and says UK aircraft carriers not needed - follow live Meanwhile, Iran continues attacks on Gulf states as UAE officials say a Dubai resident has been killed by falling shrapnel.

ITMA...
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International Women's Day 8th - celebrate all the international women! [not quite what it means - Ed.]

"For centuries people have been #reading more and more. Recently the trend has gone into reverse. The number of people who pick up a #book has been falling steadily for twenty years. Now half of adults no longer read regularly.

How will this change us? "

@jennyrohn.bsky.social sounds really interesting! 👍

Monster Realm Short Stories Collection by Joharra Harper Undergrounder by J.E. Glass The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden The Shoreline: How Swim Trunks Saved My Life by A.C. Harper

In honor of #WorldBookDay, what are some of the indie books you've read so far this year?

Here are some I've read so far, including books by @joharraharper.bsky.social, @jaeeglass.bsky.social, @bookspotlight.bsky.social, @harperac.bsky.social!!!

#booksky #readersky

BBC Radio 4 - Understand, How Reading Made Us, 1. How Reading Made Our Brains Did learning to read rewire your brain? With James Marriott.

Sorry I failed to acknowledge today being World Book Day! #worldbookday #booksky
Next Monday on BBC Radio 4
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How Reading Made Us
1. How Reading Made Our Brains

Got that for my sister (I am so generous!)

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk It’s been only a couple of weeks since I last tackled a book by Seishi Yokomizo. In fact, on the day I post this review you will still see my post about The Inugami Curse listed as a recent post on the homepage! Given I try to mix things up on the blog, how has this come about? Well, there are a couple of reasons…

Back to back reviews of the same author? Well, I don't usually do that but I couldn't resist after picking up a copy of this earlier this week. Today's post offers thoughts on Seishi Yokomizo's Murder at the Black Cat Cafe.
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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death of Mr. Gantley by Miles Burton Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was a serving British army officer who attained the rank of Major. He was also a pillar of Golden Age crime fiction, writing under multiple names, producing fo…

An early mystery from Miles Burton in which an inheritance depends on the time of death. A pair of potential legatees are definitely suspicious. Other titles in the series have lovely dust jacket art, I can't imagine what happened to this one. #FFB 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Enjoying a good book, a little whisky, and good beer while listening to jazz. Celebrating being mostly pain free after a steroid injection to treat a pinched nerve in my arm. 💙📚 #booksky ⚡️📚

100+ Complaints From Troops Over 'Divine Plan' Rhetoric Service members allege commanders are framing Iran conflict as biblically ordained battle

Well this is disturbing. I for one am not in favor of Armageddon.

Not coy! 👍

More of yesterday’s coyotes. Bonus red winged blackbird tweets in the background.

A photo of the main entrance of the Natural History Museum, flanked by two towers, on a sunny day.

Time for a Nature News Roundup from the Natural History Museum!

Stay up to date on some of the latest animal updates from the past month (1/4) 🧵

As soon as spring started on Sunday, it is like last year when the rain ceased in March. Then we had in Norwich almost 6 months with very little rain. I wonder if this is a weather pattern that will be repeated - wet winter with little frost followed by a dry spring & summer. I hope not!

Time to dig up the future In a terrible irony, the green technologies we need to move away from fossil fuels rely on minerals that can only be extracted with terrible environmental consequences

In my latest column for The New World I take a look at the geopolitics of rare earth elements.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Also seems remarkable that this bastion of humanity vs. machinery has a website with no option to decline cookies.

Britain’s LOST Megalithic Wonder (that’s bigger than Stonehenge!) YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wshf... Interesting! #Prehistory

International Women's Day 2026 theme FREE International Women's Day 2026 theme resources - #IWD2026

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Women's History Month www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...

For those of us who have never heard of this...
pushcartprize.com
#booksky

Seems remarkable that this is needed, but there you go...
#booksky

Should You Self-Publish? - field15 Writing a book? At some point you have to choose how to publish it. The old assumptions about self-publishing being a last resort and traditional publishing being the only path to credibility don't qu...

Is self-publishing right for your non-fiction book? My latest blog post will help you weigh the pros and cons:
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#nonfiction #writing #publishing #selfpublishing

A book in desert colors titled Salt Lakes An Unnatural History by Caroline Tracey.

In the mail today, this brave, haunting, powerful book from @wwnorton.com. If you're looking for an elegantly written memoir mixed with natural history, this one's for you. 💙📚 #scicomm #nonfiction

A stack of eight thrifted paperback and hardcover books piled vertically on a dark wooden surface against a dark background. From top to bottom, the titles are: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (green spine) IT by Stephen King (thick spine with a green and white design) Different Seasons by Stephen King (orange and yellow spine) Prey by Michael Crichton (white spine with red and black text) Death Wish by Brian Garfield (slim white spine) Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (white spine) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (white spine with black accents) Disclosure by Michael Crichton (a thick red hardcover at the base of the stack)

My February thrift book haul

$9 for 8 books!

Since discovering the thrift bookstore near me I've been buying books faster than I can read them. I might have a problem...

#thrifting #booksky 💙📚🩸📚💡

Life After Cars book cover Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon

"Cars are cars. The problem is cars, and the problem of cars cannot be solved with different cars."
#booksky #cars #infrastructure
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Trump says 'everything's been knocked out in Iran' as he criticises UK and Starmer

... & this is no Roosevelt! 😂
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Silhouette of an Indian Spotted Deer stag standing slightly left of center beneath a natural arch formed by dark trees. Warm golden light glows through mist in the background, creating a tunnel-like forest scene at Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan. The stag’s antlers are sharply outlined against the illuminated haze.

Framed by nature.
Sustained by respect.

World Wildlife Day.

Indian Spotted Deer

#lensonwildlife #nature #photography #mammals #WorldWildlifeDay #ThePhotoHour