Tom Pugh

Gorrilas in the mist?

Nope, these are cattle. I'm not a trained farmer for nothing.

A farmer with messy hair you say? I feel called out.

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍🌈

#LGBTQ+

Watchya word watchers. Another grid, you know the score.

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In the Age of Vikings roleplaying game, you are transported to medieval Iceland—a vibrant land on the edge of the known world, where Vikings seek honor and fame through adventure.

www.chaosium.com/age-of-vikin...

Didn't she try and get naughtiness banned on the telly?

I don't think I've ever seen a thread where everyone comes across as such a twat

We have a beginners level grid this week.

Arrange the 16 words/phrases below into four groups of four, with a link for each (just look at last week's answers for an idea).

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Go on then.

What's everyone's work stations looking like today? I find mine very quickly fills up with books

This chart shows the most democratic countries, but it could be the countries with the best literature. Coincidence..?

Thank you!

Looks interesting, just added it to my tbr

Even bleaker than the title suggests. But very good.

A change is as good as a rest

Do you have a source for that? All I've read said that truth was not a defense, not that it was worse.

I was going to do something special for my 200th word grid. But then I didn't.

(Story of my life).

Arrange the 16 words/phrases below into four groups of four, with a link for each group.

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www.enworld.org D&D 5E (2024) - Sorcerers Take The Reins

Sorcerers Take The Reins #ttrpg #dnd

Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes The original (French) version of Vernon Subutex was published in 2015 After finishing my extra French book, Faces on the Tip of My Tongue , ...

Read more on my world literature blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/vern...

ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS
78: Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes (translated by Frank Wynne) - France

A no-holds-barred social epic, looking at the seedy side of Parisian life

#booksky #bookreview #france #readingtheworld

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano The ordinal French title was Un renard à mains nues, (A Fox with Bare Hands) alluding to a particularly dark and  memorable scene  There is ...

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A (too small) flag of Occitan A red banner with the cross of Toulouse and seven pointed star in the upper right corner.

The cover of Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

a map showing the progress of Reading Round the World challenge, from Algiers, Marrakesh, Madrid, the Pyrenees (x2), then Occitan

ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS
77: Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated by Jennifer Higgins and Sophie Lewis) - France

An intriguing and poetic fragmentary novel

#booksky #bookreview #france #readingtheworld

When I Sing, Mountains Dance Novel by Irene Solà Again full points to the design team on this cover the image, part textbook,  part stylised almost to the point of surrealism, really fits t...

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ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS
76: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Faye Lethem) - Spain (yet again)

An amazing novel which slowly pulls a story out of the mountains.

#booksky #bookreview #catalonia #spain

Watssup Blueskiers?

Tis Friday again.

Arrange the 16 words/phrases below into four groups of four, with a connection for each group (for an example, see last week's answers).

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After a lifelong hatred of the music of ABBA it is hard to believe they could make this mindless, besequined drivel any worse. And yet... Mamia Mia!

I've got as far as France on my reading round the world challenge

You've got the groups correct, but the last link isn't what I had.

16 words/phrases in a grid: Tommy Lee Vinnie Pelennor Flanders Elysium Spandex Plates Cotton Velvet Denim Strawberry Tom Terry Loaf Jugs Quincy

Yet another week rolls by, and as the world slowly descends into chaos, like a battered fish into the deep fat fryer of life, what do we have to look forward - except word puzzles.

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