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Simon Prior's review of The Dead Of Night 5/5: After being disappointed by the opening Sam Pope novel, I was skeptical whether I would enjoy this series by the same author. I’m glad I tried it as this was really enjoyable. It helped that it w...

Book 11 - The Dead of Night by @robertenright.bsky.social

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Simon Prior's review of A Litter of Bones (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #1) 5/5: A really gripping read and another series of detective thrillers to dive into. I loved the dynamics between Jack Logan and the other main characters. While I almost predicted the ending, it didn...

Book 10 - A Litter of Bones by @jdkirk.bsky.social

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Simon Prior's review of Love Me Not (Helen Grace #7) 5/5: Another great Helen Grace Thriller. I loved the time element to this one and the race against the clock to find the killer. Less focus on Helen’s personal life in this one which didn’t impact the...

Book 9 -Love Me Not by @mjarlidge.bsky.social

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Simon Prior's review of See No Evil (DI Grace Archer, #2) 5/5: An amazing, fast paced read. I love the depth of DI Archer and her troubles and the complexity of the story makes it really exciting. The amount of twists along the way make this a really enjoya...

Book 8 - See No Evil by @davidfennell.bsky.social

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Simon Prior's review of The Black Dog 3/5: Wanted to like this more as love the authors work as a comedian. Found the chapters long and it could have been broken down into smaller sections. Liked how the story came together at the end.

Book 7 - The Black Dog by Kevin Bridges

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Simon Prior's review of Where Secrets Lie (Detective Karen Hart, #2) 5/5: A great second book in this series. I love the characters of the detective team and the way this case was pieced together was fantastic. Can’t wait to read the next one in the series.

Book 6 - Where Secrets Lie by @dsbutler.bsky.social

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#opentowork #qualityengineering #transformation #softwaretesting | Simon Prior 🌻 The Quality Engineering Transformation Model is designed to help teams who want to modernise their testing practices. There may be nothing wrong with the way you’re currently testing, but are there wa...

I’ve designed a #QualityEngineering Transformation model. Check out this post below for all the details.

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#peerscon25 | Simon Prior 🌻 A bit of Saturday morning fun, inspired by Linda Van De Vooren at #PeersCon25… I’ve always loved my comedy & have been working on a short set about Testing…

My attempt at a standup comedy set about #SoftwareTesting and #QualityEngineering.

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Yeah it’s the third book in the Wayward Pines series. Definitely worth reading if you’ve read the other two

Simon Prior's review of The Night Shift (Sam Pope #1) 3/5: This took me longer to read than intended as I just struggled to get through it. I really wanted to like Sam Pope as a main character but it wasn’t sticking for me. The plot was ok and it get b...

Book 5 - The Night Shift by Robert Enright

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Simon Prior's review of The Last Town 4/5: A solid end to the trilogy. Lots of loose ends tied up. While it felt a bit rushed in places. It worked well. It feels like it may have been left open for a future book but if not, I feel it ende...

Book 4 - The Last Town by Blake Crouch

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Simon Prior's review of Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2) 4/5: A great second book in the trilogy which gave more backstory on Wayward Pines and more depth on Ethan Burke, his family and other key characters. Some big questions left unanswered for book 3 an...

Book 3 - Wayward by Blake Crouch

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Simon Prior's review of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar 3/5: I keen to read this as Chris’s work has always been inspiring. I found it difficult to follow due to the jumping around of stories and although got the general gist and theme throughout, found ...

Book 2 - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham

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YouTube video by Testing Minutes Episode 49: Software testing and quality culture for airlines with Simon Prior

Check out the latest episode of the Testing Minutes podcast, where I and @grygorenko.bsky.social talked with @simonjprior.bsky.social about testing and quality culture youtu.be/17u0Dd_aEgM?...

Ahh hello Bluesky! Much calmer and nicer place to be today!

Simon Prior's review of Damascus Station 4/5: First Spy novel I have read and I was gripped from the beginning. It felt nerve wracking at times and several times I physically gasped at what happened. I liked the fact that different characte...

My completed reads thread for 2025

Book 1 - Damascus Station by David McCloskey

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Simon Prior's review of Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... 5/5: A great nostalgic trip through the 90s written by one of my favourite comedians. I really enjoyed the format of the chapters and certainly found myself reminiscing and remembering a lot of the sh...

Book 24 - Watching Neighbours Twice a Day by Josh Widdicombe

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Great game at @wwfc.com yesterday. Most dominant performance I’ve seen for a while without getting the winner.

First game for my youngest son yesterday too so first time we’d been as a family!

Simon Prior's review of The Quartet Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #2) 4/5: A gripping read set in Halifax when a musician is shot during a performance. Luckily DI Oldroyd was in the audience but it wasn’t as clear cut as he’d hoped. It’s only after finishing this that...

Book 23 - The Quartet Murders by JR Ellis

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As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

Hey #BookSky 📚💙, how do you choose your next book? I can never decide so found an app called “Tiny Decisions” which spins a wheel for me.

Most logical choice with the Heyman link. No explanation for the unanswered phone call last week though?

Podcast Episode 120 - Does the role of the SDET have a future? - Testing Peers Welcome to another Testing Peers podcast episode. This time, join Chris, David, Richard Bradshaw and Al Goodall (whose surname Chris had some real issues remembering, sorry Al!) In this episode, the P...

Episode 120 of the podcast is live, join @christovskia.bsky.social, David Maynard, @friendlytester.bsky.social and @testninja77.bsky.social to hear the discussion around the future of the role of the SDET!

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Awesome evening at the European Software Testing Awards. We may not have won but the team is award winning in my eyes!

Yep same here!

Mine too! 147! 😂

Who’s off to the European Software Testing Awards this evening? See you there!

Really does! Is it 2014 Twitter? We’re just older, balder (in my case) and more experienced! 😂

Great to see @wwfcchairboys.bsky.social trailblazing on BlueSky like they are this season in league one! One more reason to stop using Twitter!

Think my son approves! 😂