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Blog: Suckerfish by Ashani Lewis review – the ordeals of having a difficult mother from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days agoThis is a wry and likably feisty account of the destructive power an unstable parent can wield over her offspringWhen it comes to attempting suicide, Kolia’s m […]
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Blog: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review – a dazzling wartime fantasy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days agoDark magic, fascism and romance in blitz-stricken London: this exuberant novel is a popcorny delightWhen I teach creative writing, I often find myself insisting […]
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Blog: Tell us: what have you been reading this month? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 4 days agoWe would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this monthAs part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the […]
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Blog: Thicker Than Water, J D Kirk from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 1 week, 4 days ago2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, second in the Jack
Logan series. DCI Logan has transferred to Inverness because Glasgow
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Blog: As If by Isabel Waidner review – surreal doppelganger story from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 4 days agoTwo uncannily similar men switch places in an existential farce that playfully explores the precarity of working lifeIn Isabel Waidner’s previous novel, 2023’s
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Blog: Politics Without Politicians by Hélène Landemore review – could we get rid of Farage, Truss and Trump? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 4 days agoA Yale lecturer’s radical proposal to replace elected leaders with ordinary people, chosen by lotteryNo Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or Liz Truss; no Zack Polanski, J […]
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Blog: Books I Read in January 2026 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 1 week, 5 days agoThe Haunted Wood by Sam Leith is a survey of childhood reading from Aesop to J. K. Rowling. With a focus on British children’s literature, Leith examines how i […]
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Blog: Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 5 days agoIt’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allowsMy psychological res […]
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Blog: Week in Review #8 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 week, 6 days agoThis week I read three books.I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to Gone with the Wind on audio book, however, I did get three book reviews written!A […]
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Blog: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks agoThe Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey; A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver; A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford; Holy Boy by Lee Heejoo; A S […]
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Blog: Georgi Gospodinov: ‘Jorge Luis Borges gave me an exhilarating sense of freedom’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks agoThe Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas MannMy earliest reading memory
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Blog: Murder Under Her Skin, Stephen Spotswood from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks, 1 day ago2021 mystery, second in its series. Pentecost and Parker return to the
circus where Parker grew up, and the Tattooed Woman has just been
fatally stabbed. Something […] -
Blog: 23. A Canticle for Leibowitz from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 weeks, 2 days ago23. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Walter M. Miller Jr. 1959. 335 pages. [Source: Bought] [4 stars, science fiction, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, classic]
First […]
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Blog: I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it. from
Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 2 weeks, 2 days agomyakmyak:I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.
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Blog: My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist. from
Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 2 weeks, 2 days agomyjetpack:ALTMy cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.Tom Gauld
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Blog: 22. A World without Summer from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 weeks, 2 days ago22. A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out. Nicholas Day. 2025. 304 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, nonfiction, […]
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Blog: 21. Bittersweet from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 weeks, 2 days ago21. Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers. Christy Mandin. 2025. 40 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, nonfiction picture book, history, […]
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Blog: Anuradha Roy’s 2026 UK Book Events from
Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books 2 weeks, 2 days agoThe critically-acclaimed author will be in the UK promoting her latest books, Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya. Friday 13 March – Parade’s End Books, […]
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Blog: Fatima Bhutto’s 2026 UK Book Events from
Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books 2 weeks, 2 days agoAcclaimed novelist and journalist Fatima Bhutto will be in the UK promoting her latest memoir, The Hour of the Wolf. Monday 23 February – Daunt Books Summertown, […]
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Blog: In Praise of the Battered Paperback from
Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 2 weeks, 3 days agoOld books are the heart of my childhood. While I was growing up, we had more books in the house than we had furniture. The walls were shelved in hardbacked books; […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Sorting arrays with PHP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 2 weeks, 5 days agoI just googled how to do a particular type of sort and found my own page. My most sincere thanks to past me.
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Considerations for adding an AMA feature, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 2 weeks, 5 days agoAll this time later, and I still don’t love any of my options. Whatever I do will require some hackish fixes somewhere.
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Exploring WebMention sources in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 2 weeks, 5 days agoExploring WebMention sources
Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources. I was interested in […] -
Blog: Heart of Empire by Bryan Talbot from
Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed 2 weeks, 5 days agoThis story picks up twenty or so years after the previous volume. The main protagonist is Victoria, the Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Anne and Luther Arkwright. […]
