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Blog: Judy Murray: ‘I’ve seen a lot of toxic behaviour when people believe their own hype’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe veteran tennis coach and mum to champions Andy and Jamie speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about her latest foray into novel writing and the power of sporting role models
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Blog: Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoHarrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember h […]
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Blog: Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoMy vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting forI was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. […]
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Blog: ‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoFrom Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro‘Last night I dreamt I went to M […]
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Blog: Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt from
Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed 2 months, 4 weeks agoPeople have always played games, going back to the very earliest days of civilisation. Conflict of various sorts has been a popular theme, with chess being the […]
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Blog: NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Best of Caine award from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe Zimbabwean writer – who has been twice nominated for the Booker – won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, with her story Hitting BudapestZimbabwean wri […]
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Blog: ‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 months agoIn the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being […]
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Blog: Hit me with your best chicken jokes from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 3 months agoFile this under Jokes And Puns as you give me your best chicken jokes, gags, and puns.
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Blog: Dinosaur names from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 3 months agoA dinosaur who inadvisably ate too much vindaloo – that’s a mega-sore-arse. A dinosaur with one eye – that’s a do-you-think-he-saw-us and his dog is a […]
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Jane Smith posted an update 3 months ago
What are you reading?
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Toni McHadden replied to the topic What's the opposite of a plothole? in the forum General Chat 3 months ago
A plot mountain, I recon.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic What's the opposite of a plothole? in the forum General Chat 3 months ago
Good plotting?
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Toni McHadden posted an update 3 months ago
I don’t have too many books; I have too few bookshelves.
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Arves Corral joined the group
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Blog: My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende audiobook review – portrait of a fiercely independent young woman from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 months agoSent from San Francisco to report on the war in late-19th century Chile, a young writer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in this tale of love, loss and […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
How I charted pain over time on my WordPress blog in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 months agoHow I charted pain over time on my WordPress blog
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Blog: Nettle and Bone, T Kingfisher from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 months ago2022 romantic fantasy. Princess Marra’s eldest sister went off to
marry the prince of the Northern Kingdom, and died. Her second sister
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Blog: Silver Master, Jayne Castle from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 months ago2007 romance/SF/mystery; fourth of its series but effectively
stand-alone. Celinda Ingram is a matchmaker, now trying to rebuild her
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Blog: Heirs and Graces by Eleanor Doughty review – what are aristocrats really like? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 months agoA journalist brings verve and expertise to a subject that is still weighed down by tedious dynastic detailA large number of paragraphs, maybe every paragraph, of […]
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Blog: Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 months agoThe cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdownIt sounds like the setup to a joke: a viral author and a g […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Okay, “make what you need” might be good for the IndieWeb’s future after all, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 3 months agoThat’s odd. I too see the error.
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Blog: Books I Read in August 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 3 months agoIt’s rare for me to binge-read multiple books from a series close together, but having devoured the Apple TV series Slow Horses earlier this year, I gulped down t […]
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Blog: Between Worlds, Martha Wells from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 months, 1 week ago2015 fantasy anthology: six stories of Ile-Rien and Cineth.
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Testimony’ by Alison Binney from
Seren in the group Seren Books 3 months, 1 week agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Testimony’ by Alison Binney from her collection ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘Testimony’ […]
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