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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Never fight humans in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 6 months agoYou sat on the command chair of the new flagship. It was designed to face enemy ships in head-on fire for solar cycles on end. You would, you felt, lead your people to another great victory. The occupation of the […]
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Blog: On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell review – first-hand stories of a shameful day from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoThis oral history, using the testimony of survivors, relatives and witnesses, is meticulous and moving in telling the story of the massacre in Derry 50 years […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Angel On My Shoulder from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 6 months agoAngel On My Shoulder Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) is a gangster who is released from prison and is immediately murdered by his partner, Smiley Williams. Finding […]
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Blog: Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford review – unnatural selection from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoThe geneticist offers a short, sharp, illuminating overview of the science, politics, uses and abuses of human gene editingAdam Rutherford begins this sharp and […]
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Blog: Kellyanne Conway Announces Memoir and Gets Mocked on Twitter from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 6 months agoThe post Kellyanne Conway Announces Memoir and Gets Mocked on Twitter appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Word of the Day – Gadzooks from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 6 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Gadzooks appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Gary Shteyngart: ‘We’re entering a time of permanent crisis’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoThe US satirist on why he had to find a UK publisher for his latest novel, his son’s Korean lessons, and the appeal of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Continue reading…
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Blog: ‘A world inside one head’ – Anne Enright on James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoMy mother considered it a dirty text, but this profoundly democratic book has liberated female Irish authorsWhen I was young, growing up in Dublin, Ulysses was […]
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Blog: ‘A trailblazing queer writer’: Carmen Maria Machado on They by Kay Dick from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoAlthough this dystopian novel was first published in 1977, it was out of print for decades until a literary agent chanced upon it in a charity shop. Now it’s b […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Memories on the beach in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 6 months agoYour earliest memory is of building a sandcastle on the beach. That was ten minutes ago and you have finished making it now.
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the tricky business of asking for your ball back – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Read Books: Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 6 months agoAngela Carter’s Book Of Fairy Tales Angela Carter edited two books of Fairy Tales from around the world for Virago, though she did not complete her notes on the s […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Take a look at our new browsing friendly writing prompt site in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 6 months agoTake a look at our new browsing friendly writing prompt site – we are still The Muse of Last Resort but we have a new look. Muse is now browsing focused, with a clean new look and a layout focused on getting you […]
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Blog: The Go-Between by Osman Yousefzada review – magic behind closed doors from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoA designer who dresses Lady Gaga reflects on his upbringing in a deeply conservative Birmingham communityOne day, Osman Yousefzada’s parents removed him from s […]
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Blog: For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2022 – February from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 6 months agoThe post For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2022 – February appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown started the topic Moderator(s) wanted in the forum General Chat 3 years, 6 months ago
I have come to realise that running all this by myself is getting a bit much. So, in the spirit of problem-solving, I thought I would put out a request for some moderators. The first round of selection is open to anyone who is active on the site.
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Big update finished in the group Help and Support: 3 years, 6 months agoI just finished running a network-wide update. The update went smoothly. Everything looks fine as far as I can tell.
However, if there are problems, please report them to the help and support group and I will […]
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Blog: ‘More than wonderful’ … Gaza bookshop to reopen after unexpectedly successful global campaign from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoAfter it was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, Samir Mansour’s beloved book store has been rebuilt and restocked, as tens of thousands of books flood in from a […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they’ve enjoyed in January from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoMegan Nolan, Rishi Dastidar, Alison Flood and Guardian reader gladarvor discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the c […]
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Steven Nall became a registered member 3 years, 6 months ago
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Blog: Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoA monster trying to order pizza, a Nigerian girls’ boarding-school story, a YA Indian fantasy about scheming siblings – and much moreBaby, Sleepy Baby by Atinuke an […]
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Blog: Edmund White: ‘My earliest reading memory is a lady toad with a nasty temper’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoThe author on being snobbish about Proust, discovering Death in Venice, and the dark side of WaughMy earliest reading memoryWhen I was four or five we had a […]
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Blog: Sweat by Bill Hayes review – a history of the physical that gets personal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoAn all-encompassing book about bodies and exercise through the ages that leaves you hungry for moreA theatre director once told me that you should never ask what a […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Deathdream from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 6 months agoDeathdream (aka Dead Of Night) Andy Brooks is an American soldier in Vietnam, and he’s shot. His mother prays that he will return, saying that he promised. T […]
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Blog: Devotion by Hannah Kent review – 19th-century voyage of discovery from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 6 months agoTwo young Prussian women emigrate to Australia in Kent’s rapturous but overblown third novelThe Australian writer Hannah Kent has found critical and commercial s […]
