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Blog: ‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoForsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels […]
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Blog: How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoShe was Michael Gove’s wife and Samantha Cameron’s best friend. But then Brexit happenedPolitics is awful.If you want the digested read of Sarah Vine’s memoir on li […]
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Blog: Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoFormer footballer Ally McCoist also among guests as festival seeks to broaden its appealThe Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later […]
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Blog: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas review – a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoA philosopher challenges us to forget about ourselves in this powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishismIdentity is something socially negotiated, both […]
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Blog: Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal review – an ambitious Indian panorama from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoIn the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuriesGurnaik Johal’s first b […]
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Blog: Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86 from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoBritish novelist and former MI6 agent died after a brief illness
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robert henry became a registered member 8 months, 1 week ago
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Blog: Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen review – anything can happen on this remote Scottish island from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoLife is turned upside-down by a new arrival, in this weird and charming tale of nature and family – with a guest appearance from the ghost of Robert Louis S […]
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Blog: Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 1 week agoGwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
A brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 8 months, 2 weeks agoA brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets
I’ve been pondering the weird collection of sets I cooked up in this post. In this post, I’d like to take a crack at defining the sets. I’m going to bo […] -
Blog: ‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 2 weeks agoThe novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories t […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman from
Seren in the group Seren Books 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman from his collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’.
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Blog: Geoff Dyer: ‘I don’t go to books for comfort; I have a memory foam pillow for that’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 2 weeks agoThe author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth TaylorMy earliest reading memory
Beatrix Potter when I was having my […] -
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From my social node: Bury me with some weird shit in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 8 months, 2 weeks agoFrom my social node: Bury me with some weird shit
Bury me with some weird shit If/when I pass, I want everyone who attends the service to bring things to fill my coffin with. These must be unique or […] -
Matthew Brown commented on the post,
How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 8 months, 2 weeks ago@Error_Conditioner Happy to help. Thank you for the kind words
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Blog: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene audiobook review – Sam West captures the menace of this modern classic from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 2 weeks agoThe seaside town’s seedy underbelly is vividly evoked in this timeless tale of murder, romance and revengeWe are not short of audio versions of Brighton Rock, G […]
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Blog: Not the art of the endless rooms from
The Endless Rooms in the group The Endless Rooms 8 months, 2 weeks agoI’m not sure how to feel about this. I asked ChatGPT if it knew about this project. It did. I asked it to draw an image in the style of this project. It gave me […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
What’s your favourate sweets (candy)? in the group Shall we talk?: 8 months, 2 weeks agoWhat's your favourate sweets (candy)?
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Blog: I ask ChatGPT to draw Jane Sillybottom from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 8 months, 2 weeks agoI was bored, so I asked ChatGPT to draw Jane Sillybottom. This is what happened. Hi chat, are you aware of the fictional therapist Jane Sillybottom from […]
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Blog: Explore more from
The Endless Rooms in the group The Endless Rooms 8 months, 2 weeks agoAlso on: brid.gy
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
In the last days of the 21st century… in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 8 months, 2 weeks agoIn the last days of the 21st century…
… no one expected that the world would be saved by a duck with self-esteem issues and a flatulent monk. #WritingPrompt -
Acorn Boi replied to the topic I'm boared, talk to me in the forum General Chat 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Blog: Oops, I think they are mad at me from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 8 months, 3 weeks agoDear Jane, I think that my wife has found out about one of my girlfriends. What should I do? Serial cheater of Kent Dear Serial Cheater of Kent, Oh my, you’ve r […]
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Toni McHadden wrote a new blog post
Who in your life deserves praise? in the group Shall we talk?: 8 months, 3 weeks agoWho in your life deserves praise?
Who in your life deserves praise, thanks, or recognition? Tell us about how deserving they are.
