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Blog: July Reflections from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoIn July I reviewed 48 books. Nineteen were review copies. Twenty-four were library books. Five were books I bought myself. This month I read some books that I […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
I just don’t know in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 3 years, 9 months agoThis post will not have much by way of answers (as if the title “I just don’t know” didn’t give that away). There will, quite likely, be a bunch of questions.
The reason being is that this post is just me […]
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Blog: Sarah Perry: As an author, I felt useless in the pandemic. So I trained to be a vaccinator from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoInspired by a desire to be good and help others during the pandemic, novelist Sarah Perry trained to vaccinate people. But what does it mean to be good when there […]
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Blog: Body Slam! from
Beans in Dungeons in the group Beans in Dungeons 3 years, 9 months ago -
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Your new life and you in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoLife was utterly awful for you for a long time. Then you discovered that you had a secret ability. When you touch someone you can choose to swap lives with them. They become your old self with that old self’s […]
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Blog: Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoA zombie thriller, a flooded world, poetry and a very worried pig … plus the best new YA novelsThis month, readers of eight plus with a taste for apocalyptic f […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Man Of War from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 9 months agoMan Of War Hervey is back in England to get married, and possibly to attend a politically sensitive investigation into an attack on a gunpowder mill. Things get a […]
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Blog: Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel review – a sparkling debut from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoA whirlwind of screwball comedy, murder and friendship that examines the cannibalisation of experience to feed social mediaThe treatment of female celebrities in […]
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Blog: Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 3 years, 9 months agoTunbridge Wells Poetry FestivalThe Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival runs from the 15th to the 27th of August.The Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival is a free poetry […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 3 years, 9 months agoThe Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival runs from the 15th to the 27th of August.
The Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival is a free poetry event with readings and performances throughout Tunbridge Wells (funnily […]
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Blog: 78. The Forgotten Orphan from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoThe Forgotten Orphan. Glynis Peters. 2021. [May] 400 pages. [Source: Review copy] First sentence: Maisie Reynolds peered through the grubby window of Holly Bush […]
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Blog: Roberto Calasso obituary from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoWriter who invited the gods back into literature in an ambitious series retelling the great ancient mythsRoberto Calasso, who has died aged 80, wrote: “A life in w […]
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Blog: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: campaigners push to revive fame of working-class novelist from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThought to be the first blue-collar female novelist, Holdsworth once outsold HG Wells. Now reprints and an alternative blue plaque aim to restore her […]
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Blog: 77. Jo and Laurie from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoJo & Laurie. Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz. 2020. [June] 384 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: “Little Women? That’s the title?” The author looked […]
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Blog: Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoFans in Nobel prizewinner’s favourite haunt of Key West hold their 40th competition on his birthdayErnest Hemingway is survived as much by his macho mythology as h […]
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Blog: Forget AC-12, meet DS-5: Jed Mercurio on his new graphic novel Sleeper from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoFresh from the record-breaking Line of Duty, Mercurio has created a conspiracy thriller set in the 24th-century, with co-writer Prasanna Puwanarajah and […]
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Blog: David Peace: ‘My comfort read? Old Labour party manifestos’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThe novelist on the brilliance of Bulgakov, the Japanese short story that changed him, and wanting to live in Pogles’ WoodThe book I am currently readingI am t […]
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Blog: Attack from
Beans in Dungeons in the group Beans in Dungeons 3 years, 9 months ago -
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Time for the truth in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months ago
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Blog: I Read Stories: Bear Creek Gazette Issue 4 from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 9 months agoBear Creek Gazette Issue 4 Bear Creek Gazette is a magazine of weird fiction from the fictional town of Bear Creek. I have a piece in Issue 4 about cannibalism, […]
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Blog: The Booker Prize 2021 Longlist from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoThe Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam Second Place by Rachel Cusk The Promise by Damon Gal […]
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Blog: 76. We're Not From Here from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoWe’re Not From Here. Geoff Rodkey. 2019. 256 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The first time I heard anything about the Planet Choom, we’d been on Mars for […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
The door to all of the house in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoYou and your family have moved into an old house. The house was originally built in 1902 and had undergone many changes during its long existence.
One day, you notice a hatch in the ceiling. You fetch a […]
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Blog: English Magic by Uschi Gatward review – exquisitely eerie withholding from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoA striking debut collection of unsettling short stories invites us to trust our imaginationsUschi Gatward won the 2015 Wasafiri new writing prize for “My Brother I […]
