Simon Thomas

Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro

Did everyone read this in the 90s? I'm new to it and already blown away by the voice so well captured.

So glad you're enjoying it, Ali!

Don't think I've ever seen SRK on better form than in Dear Zindagi - he gives such warmth, charisma and humour to a character who could easily have been awkward (and Alia Bhatt excellent too).

Bleeding out in a pavilion (Emmerdale 28 July - 8 August) Dingle All The Way: an Emmerdale podcast · Episode

'Bleeding out in a Pavilion' - the latest ep of Dingle All The Way, recapping #Emmerdale, is now live! open.spotify.com/episode/3ahG...

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Clip: BBC Scotland - Professor Chris Ponting explains why large-scale genetic research into #MECFS didn’t happen sooner — despite its prevalence. He says the field was “hugely stigmatized” and “held back… in part because this disease is very strongly female biased.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - would it KILL Dave Franco and Alison Brie to make a romcom??

AMAZING!
In summary:
People with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences in their DNA compared to the general population.
Eight genetic signals have been identified.
The signals discovered are involved in the immune and the nervous systems.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...

My friend and I still sometimes use 'shrugalero' to mean 'I don't know/care'

always and forever!

I've long suspected it! 🤝

I am so glad that you got so much from her voice! I've read a few people's reviews and just baffled that we're reading the same book. I don't know why my experience is so different from other people's. Maybe the near-total lack of dialogue? That's obviously a choice, but maybe I miss it too much.

Say more 😄

I'm most of the way through Long Live Great Bardfield by Tirzah Garwood, and I've seen several rave reviews, but... I'm amazed by how poorly, dully written it is? Garwood is clearly a fascinating, talented person, but she is not at all an able writer IMO.

Such needless sabotage 😆🫠

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Ohhhh Hargreaves! Why did you have to tear the dustjacket on a book that is (a) borrowed from a friend and (b) seemingly only available from America in this edition?

A before and after look at some of the covers in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, all the work of the talented Louise Aspinall.

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Happy, Happy #WITmonth!💃🎉📚 In August we celebrate books written by women in a language other than English that have been translated.

Read (even if it's just one book), share, #NameTheTranslator without whom literature would be less rich. For more, do check out www.womenintranslation.org/witmonth

and also wow! You are catering to my interests 😁

Wowwww!!

Yes, I'm getting very ahead of myself!

Stories for Summer and Days by the Pool – Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier and many more! Over the past few years, the British Library has continued to develop its excellent Women Writers series, reissuing lesser-known novels by female authors from the 20th century for modern-day r…

"She was less beautiful than he had remembered her, and very tall and thin in her black dress. Her composure did not astonish him; her smile, undimmed, and the sound of her voice recalled to him the poignancy of his feelings when he had first known her.." 💙📚

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I'm listening to Love by Elizabeth von Arnim (currently free in Audible Plus catalogue) and think it's going to be up there with my favourites of hers.

Project 24: Book 16 I’m always excited when a new reprint publishing house pops up – and there are so many out there now, whether imprints from big publishing houses or tiny indies. Obviously I think the B…

Book 16/24 for the year comes from the newest reprint publisher on the block @quiteliterallybks.bsky.social

The Woman in the Hall by G.B. Stern The Woman in the Hall by G.B. Stern, Book Review, British Library Women Writers, British Library Publishing, 1930s, Women’s Stories, Swindlers

Love Carosbookcase's enthusiastic take on The Woman in the Hall by G.B. Stern, recently out from @blpublishing.bsky.social Women Writers (also the beautiful pics!)

Stories for Summer and Days by the Pool – Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier and many more! Over the past few years, the British Library has continued to develop its excellent Women Writers series, reissuing lesser-known novels by female authors from the 20th century for modern-day r…

New on the blog today, I've written about STORIES FOR SUMMER & DAYS BY THE POOL, an excellent, evocative collection of summer-themed stories, full of heady, sunny days & warm sultry nights - with entries by Elizabeth Taylor, Bowen, du Maurier & many more! 💙📚

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Make Charity a healthy smoothie (Emmerdale 14th-25th July 2025) Dingle All The Way: an Emmerdale podcast · Episode

New #Emmerdale recap podcast ep now live! open.spotify.com/episode/5cVq...

FYI my bro was on Countdown today - a mere 19 years after I was a contestant!

Huffley Fair by Dorothy Evelyn Smith Ever since discovering the miraculously good O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith, I’ve been steadily making my way through her other novels – wondering if anything will be equal …

How does Huffley Fair by Dorothy Evelyn Smith compare to her masterpiece, O The Brave Music?