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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Survival acid indicator in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author)

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:37:55 +0100

Survival acid indicator I needed to have a character test the acidity of the water without any access to modern technology. Fortunately, there are some fairly common foods that can be used. Red cabbage is the best indicator, but cherry, rose petals, and beets alsoContinue reading“Survival acid indicator”

Blog: The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2021 urban fantasy romance, first of a trilogy. Nine years ago
Vivienne had a summer thing with Rhys, youngest son of the Welsh
family that founded the small and […]

Blog: Why Planes Crash Case Files 2003, Sylvia Wrigley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 04 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2016 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of
aircraft incidents.

Jason Latnar commented on the post, Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon, on the groupblog Outside News

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:59:37 +0100

I know, right.

Blog: Stolen in Death, J. D. Robb from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 romance/SF/mystery; 62nd novel of Robb’s In Death series (SF
police procedurals). After a burglary, the multimillionaire is dead,
and his secret vault of […]

Sam Smith commented on the post, Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon, on the groupblog Outside News

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:49:03 +0100

How am I only now learning about this?

Jason Latnar edited the blog post Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon in the group Outside News

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:21:28 +0100

Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon Independent bookstores are beacons of hope, offering intangible commodities such as connection, empathy, and knowledge, in addition to physical […]

Blog: Danger Point, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

1941 mystery/thriller, fourth in the Miss Silver series. Lisle
Jerningham is newly married, but nervy; someone who knows her
husband’s family has been talking […]

Blog: Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:45 +0100

An ex-offender searches for meaning and beauty in the second novel from the spoken-word performerKae Tempest’s new novel is dedicated to “you”, the reader. It also […]

Blog: This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:43 +0100

Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fareBoth Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights […]

Blog: Will Get Starstruck For Consoles from Fully Ramblomatic - the blog of Yahtzee Croshaw in the group Fans of Yahtzee Croshaw

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:00 +0100

Time for me to once again remember I have a personal blog so I can post announcements for a couple of things. Both of them this time in the form of videos. First […]

Blog: Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0100

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female wri […]

Blog: Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:38 +0100

The Girls creator has endured brickbats and breakdowns – but she doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for herAt the end of last year, Netflix released Too Muc […]

Blog: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:37 +0100

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by traumaThe American author Elizabeth Strout famously […]

Blog: ‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:16 +0100

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains whyA few weeks after […]

Blog: Do stronger borders ever work? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0100

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictableFour millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by n […]

Blog: Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:35 +0100

The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to writeMy earliest rea […]

Blog: The Flying Legion, George Allen England from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1920 adventurous SF novel. Bored after the War, "The Master"
determines to gather some like-minded people and find Adventure!

Blog: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0100

Dual timelines reveal the real reason a mother was forced to leave her daughter in the 80s, in this Nero prize-winning novel inspired by real-life eventsThe debut […]

Blog: The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions, Kerry Greenwood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2021 historical detection short stories, in Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher
series (1920s flapper detective in Australia).

Blog: Collision Course, Michelle Diener from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 SF/romance, sixth in (and a late addition to) the Class 5 series.
Dav, Sazo and a pregnant Rose are on the expedition to make contact
with the race that built […]

Blog: Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1985 fantasy for children (and everyone else), second of its series.
Nita and Kit are on a family holiday on Long Island, when a
whale-wizard in distress invites […]

Blog: Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2025 fantasy. Fern the bookseller, whom we met in Bookshops &
Bonedust, sells up and moves to the city of Thune to set up again
next to Viv’s coffee shop. But it […]

Blog: Communion by Jon Doyle review – a charged debut about sin and solace from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:02 +0100

A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novelJon Doyle’s debut novel tells the story of Mack O […]

Blog: The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0100

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girlsMany readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this […]

Blog: When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:02 +0100

Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes aren’t always as meritocratic as t […]

Acorn Boi joined the group Brandon Sanderson Fans

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:48 +0100

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Stuart Murdoch to be awarded an honorary degree in the group Outside News

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:35:17 +0100

Stuart Murdoch to be awarded an honorary degreeMusician, author and filmmaker Stuart Murdoch is to be awarded an honorary degree by The University of Glasgow on the Commemoration Day of 17th June this year (2026). Read the announcement here.

Blog: Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:58 +0100

The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changesMichael Rosen, the poet and author known f […]

Toni McHadden joined the group General Chat

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:12:13 +0100

Blog: On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:04 +0100

Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography“I’ve had a life and I’ve also had a life as a […]

Bob Bobson replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:30:39 +0100

Today I am doing the “get the cat to the vet” side-quest.

jeffjohns joined the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:23:31 +0100

Blog: My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:01:02 +0100

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in ParisThe narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty s […]

Blog: Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0100

Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own […]

Blog: Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:39 +0100

A reincarnation mystery drives this exploration of spiritual interconnectedness in a globalised worldWhat happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or […]

Blog: Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:38 +0100

After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First FolioThis is really two books in one. The first part […]

Blog: Is AI the greatest art heist in history? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:17 +0100

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has n […]

Blog: A Wicked Conceit, Anna Lee Huber from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2021 historical mystery; ninth in Huber’s Lady Darby series
(post-Regency amateur detection). As the cholera epidemic is starting
to fade in Edinburgh and Lady […]

Blog: The Missing and the Dead, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2015 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, ninth in the Logan
McRae series. As the rescue of a serial killer’s victim involves
enough procedural irregularity to […]

Acorn Boi started the topic I found this and had to share in the forum Aspiring Authors

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:08:39 +0100

I found this and had to share

Blog: Shadow of Mars, Glynn Stewart from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2026 SF, eighteenth of its series. Chimera is still occupied, and the
force that’s hiding to conserve its strength for the day of liberation
is having to watch as […]

Blog: Enchanting the Fae Queen, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 romantic fantasy, second of its series. Gerard de Moireul is the
Golden Beacon, the Empire’s most popular and successful general. He’s
clearly going to lead […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post She fell in love with the man who had murdered her in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar commented on the post, The old man's parrot, on the groupblog The Muse of Last Resort

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:07:04 +0100

Oh man, I have to do this when I get old!!

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The old man's parrot in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

The old man's parrot Ever the prankster, just before he died, the man trained his parrot to say phrases like, “help me, I’ve turned into a parrot” and “don’t tell anyone about the gold”. What happened next?

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Try these restrictions to challenge your writing in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Try these restrictions to challenge your writing When you describe the colour of things, never name the colour directly. The narrator is a total liar; the reader should be able to tell. The […]

Burty Burtman replied to the topic What's the opposite of a plothole? in the forum General Chat

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:20:09 +0100

Checkov’s gun – something that the reader thinks the characters/author overlooked, only for it to spring up as a defining moment.

Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Help and Support: I'm about to live-test something. Possible disruption should […]

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:45 +0100

I’m about to live-test something. Possible disruption should last about 5 minutes.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Website improvements in the group Help and Support

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:40:52 +0100

Website improvements A big old feature update today. The activity feed for the site now runs from the same dynamic system as the rest of the site. Which means: You […]