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Blog: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood review – getting through the day from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoAlex Jennings’s performance hums with buried rage in Christopher Isherwood’s landmark exploration of griefAt the start of A Single Man, George Falconer wakes up at […]
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Blog: ‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoThe Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential timesEarly on in her latest collection, […]
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Blog: Dark Light, Jayne Castle from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 1 week, 6 days ago2008 romance/SF/mystery; fifth of its series but effectively
stand-alone. Sierra McIntyre may be working for a trashy tabloid, but
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Blog: Vigil by George Saunders review – will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoThe ghosts of Lincoln in the Bardo return to confront a dying oil man’s destructive legacy – but this time they feel like a gimmickGeorge Saunders is back in the […]
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Blog: An Unexpected Peril, Deanna Raybourn from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks, 3 days ago2021 historical thriller, sixth of its series. Veronica and Stoker are
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Blog: The Romance Edit: January from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 2 weeks, 4 days agoWelcome to the January issue of The Romance Edit. It’s a new year, and we’ve got the perfect books to … Continued
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Share your epiphanies in the group Shall we talk?: 2 weeks, 4 days agoShare your epiphanies
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Blog: I Spy an Alien, Jenny Schwartz from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks, 4 days ago2023 SF, second of a loose series. Elif Moora hosts the interview vlog
The Human Eye, introducing the rest of Universal Society to the
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Blog: Hornblower and the Atropos, C. S. Forester from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks, 5 days ago1953 Napoleonic naval fiction, eighth written and fifth by internal
chronology. Hornblower takes command of a sloop of war, the smallest
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Blog: Arabella, Georgette Heyer from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks, 6 days ago1949 Regency romance. Arabella Tallant is to go to London to make a
brilliant match, and thereby provide for the rest of her family (her
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Blog: The Glass Room, Ann Cleeves from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 weeks, 1 day ago2012 contemporary police mystery, fifth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. One of Vera’s neighbours has vanished from her house, so Vera
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The time I used diagramming for success in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 weeks, 1 day agoThe time I used diagramming for success
I had a project idea in my head that seemed too complex to work on until I tried diagramming it. The idea was a multipurpose CRM-like action/account […] -
Blog: Seven by Joanna Kavenna review – a madcap journey to the limits of philosophy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoWith its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality – even as it slips from our intellectual graspJoanna K […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on performative reading – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 2 days agoContinue reading…
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Blog: Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 2 days agoForget puritanical self-discipline – the way to really make a new habit stick is to lace it with instant gratificationLike many people, I spent New Year’s Eve mak […]
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Blog: My Books of the Year 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 3 days agoThe 2025 debut novels which will stay with me are Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell about an emotionally abusive marriage and We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown a […]
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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah in the group Outside News: 3 weeks, 3 days agoAdelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Blog: Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 3 days agoFrom Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their […]
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Blog: Week in Review #2 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 3 days agoThis week I read SEVEN books. (I’m shocked too!!!) At Operation Actually Read Bible, I reviewed a delightful Christian romance–historical set in Canada–titled The […]
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Blog: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 4 days agoGodfall by Van Jensen; The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier; The Poet Empress by Shen Tao; A Hole in the Sky by Peter F Hamilton; Hello Earth, Are You There? by Brian […]
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Horror Writing Prompts (a slowly updated thread) in the forum Writing prompts and insperations 3 weeks, 4 days agoI’m making this thread for horror writing prompts. Feel free to add to it, ignore it, or use it. In fact, do as you will.
First up: Wedding Day Secrets
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Blog: Sarah Moss: ‘I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 4 days agoThe author on the trouble with the Brönte novels, what she gained from reading John Updike and Martin Amis – and the brilliance of Barbara Pym My earliest re […]
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New Year… Again in the group Writing prompts and insperations: 3 weeks, 4 days agoNew Year… Again
You have been trapped in a loop of New Year’s Eve for longer than you can remember.
