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Blog: A Kid from Marlboro Road by Edward Burns review – the most Irish-American novel of the year from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months ago
A 12-year-old New Yorker records his childhood memories and family anecdotes in the film-maker’s vivid and tender first bookThis intensely nostalgic debut novel f […]
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Blog: A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – an extraordinary book from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months ago
The late author’s reflections on his cancer diagnosis thrum with life and wit, and will make you laugh and cryThere was an outwardly unspectacular pub in Oxford, j […]
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Blog: All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – poignant meditation on masculinity and alienation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months ago
A working-class writer rails against the corporate world and small-mindedness in a striking debut novel written as a monologueMark Bowles’s striking debut e […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Skewwhiff from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 10 months ago
Word of the Day – Skewwhiff (adj)
skew-if
Not straight; askew
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Blog: Word of the Day – Mendacious from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
Word of the Day – Mendacious (adj)
men-day-shus
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Blog: 73. Westfallen from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
Westfallen. Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares. 2024. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars] [MG speculative fiction, MG science fiction, MG dystopia, TIME TRAVEL, […]
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Blog: Dame Judi Dench on Costumes, Connections and Shakespeare from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 10 months, 1 week ago
Moving, endlessly entertaining and frequently downright hilarious, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent – our Non-Fiction Book of the Month for October – is the […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Nightswimming’ by Lorcán Black from
Seren in the group Seren Books 10 months, 1 week ago
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Nightswimming’ by Lorcán Black from his Poetry Book Society Recommended collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.
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Blog: Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy to Publish Memoir with Scribner as Part of Global Publishing Agreement from
News and Corporate Information about Simon & Schuster in the group Simon and Schuster 10 months, 1 week ago
Credit: Mayank Austen Soofi NEW YORK, September 20, 2024—Scribner is delighted to announce the September 2025 publication of Mother Mary Comes to Me, a major new b […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Twp from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
Word of the Day – Twp (adj) (Welsh)
toop
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Blog: Word of the Day – Rubberneck from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
Word of the Day – Rubberneck (verb)
rub-er-nek
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Blog: George Lucas explains what he did after inventing time travel. from
Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill 10 months, 1 week ago
I saw this short Time Travel sketch and had to share it. YTL
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Blog: I Need It Yesterday (Chris & Jack) from
Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill 10 months, 1 week ago
Time travel! The theories exist, but could it truly be possible? And if it were, would you use it to email a client report to your boss yesterday? Alternatively, […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Gainsay from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
Word of the Day – Gainsay (verb)
gayn-say
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Upgrading OpenMentions.com in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 10 months, 1 week ago
Upgrading OpenMentions.com
Some of you may know that I help run OpenMentions.com. And by help I mean it is my baby and so all the work is mine too. For a while now a few […]
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Blog: 72. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
72. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. J.K. Rowling. 2000. 734 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars]First
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Blog: 71. Not Nothing from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago
71. Not Nothing. Gayle Forman. 2024. 288 pages. [Source: Library] [MG Historical Fiction] [3 stars]First sentence: Let me tell you a story. Actually, it’s two […]
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Blog: Jacqueline Wilson on Friendships, Growing Up and Writing Think Again from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 10 months, 1 week ago
In her new novel for adult readers, the former Children’s Laureate Dame Jacqueline Wilson returns to the world of her beloved Girls series. Excecuted with Wilson’s […]
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Blog: The Waterstones Podcast – Joe Lycett from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 10 months, 1 week ago
Comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, AND world-renowned portraitist!
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic Writing courses? in the forum General Chat 10 months, 1 week ago
I’ve just discovered that American writer, Brandon Sanderson lectures in creative writing and his classes are all on YouTube. Maybe start there?
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Toni McHadden replied to the topic Is your MC you? in the forum Aspiring Authors 10 months, 1 week ago
I have a story in my head. I might write it down one day. The MC is me but better, slimmer, and funny.
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Is this enshitification or old age? in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 10 months, 1 week ago
Is this enshitification or old age?
While browsing Mastodon today, I saw a link to Terence Eden’s Blog and the post asking “Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?” The a […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘R-O-M-J-X’ by Martyn Crucefix from
Seren in the group Seren Books 10 months, 2 weeks ago
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘R-O-M-J-X’ by Martyn Crucefix from his collection ‘The Lovely Disciplines’.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic At what point do I need a website of my own? in the forum Aspiring Authors 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The best time to start a website is yesterday. The second best time is right now.
Websites can take a long time to build traction so it is best to start building that traction well in advance of when you need it.
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Blog: Martin Howard's Top Spooky Books for Children from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 10 months, 2 weeks ago
A deliriously hilarious slice of comic horror, Martin Howard’s Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull is the perfect Halloween read for all young readers who […]