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Blog: Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThis startling debut follows a young woman on a surreal and bluntly graphic quest to be the perfect girlfriendSet in upstate New York, Sophie Kemp’s surreal s […]
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Blog: 88×31 from
The Endless Rooms in the group The Endless Rooms 11 months agoI made an old-school 88 by 31 graphic to link here if you want.
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Blog: 41. Rebellion 1776 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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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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: 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 1 week 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: I watched a movie about a man eating chicken from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agoIt was ten feet tall and ate half the people in the town.
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Blog: I’m trying to give up innuendo from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agobut it’s hard; it’s so hard.
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Blog: 40. Once For Yes from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 11 months, 1 week 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: What is the difference between a weasel and a stoat? from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agoWell, a weasel is weasily identified, and the stoat is stoatally different.
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Blog: Waiter, do you serve chicken? from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agoPlease take a seat, sir, we serve anybody.
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Blog: Trumps tarrifs: from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agoThey make so little sense that you don’t even get a dollar.
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Blog: Tai-Pan by James Clavell from
Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed 11 months, 1 week agoThis was Clavell’s second book, after the semi-autobiographical King Rat and the second chronologically in his Asian Sequence after Shõgun. It’s set in 1841 and […]
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Blog: I just made a chicken curry from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 11 months, 1 week agoIt turns out it would have preferred seeds
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Blog: Friday Poem – Opening of ‘I.M’ by Deryn Rees-Jones from
Seren in the group Seren Books 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 […]
