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Blog: 41. Rebellion 1776 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks ago41. Rebellion 1776. Laurie Halse Anderson. 2025. 405 pages. [Source: Library] [YA historical; MG historical, 4 stars]First sentence: “Take away this puke bucket, […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: The old pond full of flags and fenced around … by John Clare from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks agoA closely observed country scene teems with the vitality of early summerThe old pond full of flags and fenced around
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Blog: Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks agoThe Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornographyIn 2021, JD […]
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Blog: Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks agoAn altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectatorMany years ago there was a B […]
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Blog: The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoThe strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling readingOne muggy afternoon in […]
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Blog: The North Road by Rob Cowen review – the poetry and pain of Britain’s backbone from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoA beautifully written study of our longest numbered route, the A1, is full of rich asides and haunting explorations, conjuring the visual pleasure of a road […]
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Blog: Week in Review #16 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 1 day agoThis week I read eight books. 38. Wonderland. Barbara O’Connor. 2018. 288 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars, mg fiction, mg realistic fiction] Read this one […]
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Blog: Doing some smol web stuff from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 3 weeks, 1 day agoToday, I have mostly been attending to my pixel wall and thinking small and personal. Thus, I added 88×31 badges to my pixel wall for my two Evil Password Validator […]
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I made little animated badges for Password Game and Pasword Game 2 (both games by me) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 weeks, 1 day agoI made little animated badges for Password Game and Pasword Game 2 (both games by me)
The banners are for my Pixel Wall project. Password Game is the original (web-only) evil password validator game. More polished versions came later, but […] -
Blog: Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 3 days agoNarrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her motherIn this novella from the t […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘The opposite of Swedish death cleaning’ by Alison Binney from
Seren in the group Seren Books 3 weeks, 3 days agoThis week’s Friday Poem is the title poem from ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ by Alison Binney.
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Blog: The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 4 days agoThe philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herselfMelinda French […]
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Blog: Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 4 days agoThe privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating lossMegan Hunter’s remarkable debut, The End We Start F […]
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Blog: Books I Read in March 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 4 days agoBookish by Lucy Mangan does what every great bibliomemoir should do: it reminded me of lots of books I would like to reread, helped me discover lots of books I now […]
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Blog: 40. Once For Yes from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 4 days ago40. Once for Yes. Allie Millington. 2025. 272 pages. [Source: Library] [magic realism, mg fiction, 3 stars]First sentence: My beginning began with a brick. Might […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – Opening of ‘I.M’ by Deryn Rees-Jones from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 month agoThis week’s Friday Poem is parts 1 & 2 of the long poem ‘I.M.’ by Deryn Rees-Jones from her collection Erato.
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Blog: Sam Warburton Celebrates 3 Years of Sketchnoting at The London Book Fair from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 1 month agoBack in 2023, I became the official sketchnote artist for The London Book Fair (LBF). As well as illustrating my experience and key sessions at the three-day fair […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 1 month agoI am happy to have helped. Also, yes, I, too, have a low opinion of Boris.
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Danny H commented on the post,
I’m standing for election, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 1 month agoGood luck Matt
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I’m standing for election in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 1 month agoI'm standing for election
I am officially the Liberal Democrat candidate for Margate in the Kent County Council elections. Posts where I might talk about politics or the election, or anything tangentially related toContinue reading“I’m standing for election” -
Matthew Brown replied to the topic
What’s the best software for organising your writing? in the forum Aspiring Authors 1 month agoI might not be the right person to answer this question as I’m a big fan of LibreOffice. I like to put each chapter in a separate file and then add a section for each chapter linked to the files to get one master file. That way it “understands” chapters (at least as much as I need it to).
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Blog: Novelist OisÃn Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month agoThe Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-firstOisÃn Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meat […]
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Blog: ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoWhen Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he […]
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Blog: ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoAs Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped s […]
