Ralph and Leo don’t like wearing coats and they won’t go out in costume on Halloween.

But they’ll take treats anytime.

Oh wow. Another on my “embarrassed to say I’ve never read but have a copy of [somewhere]” list.

Perhaps some of those windows could be turned (even partially) into shelves.

Very interesting book. Into second half (“Afterlife”).

‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Oh my.

in my capacity as a YLS alumnus I agree we have to throw in the towel on this

Read most recent edition of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social over long weekend. As usual, my TBR (or TB located/purchased) list expanded. Any book budget overruns I blame on @nonsuchbook.bsky.social, who pointed me to Slightly Foxed several years ago.

Who am I kidding? I have no book budget.

Thanks. I have the 2025 subscription.

How often will the group meet?

Is this with the subscription?

Annual village fireworks almost directly overhead last night. Created little cave in bathroom with musical distractions to ride out with dogs. This is how to check a that 14.5 yo dog’s hearing.

Bojo never looked that good

Carrie Bradshaw’s mother

“Talk” for #NYRBwomen25 is like being stuck on Hampton Jitney in traffic, sitting in front of over-educated, under-occupied 29 yo’s. Or rather, on a LIRR local in 1965, stuck eastbound with creaky air-conditioning.

I feel simultaneously old and young. @joiedevivre9.bsky.social

Which should I start with?

Should I try the Spufford? Haven’t been able to get into him but willing to try.

Bunch of things—the Cagneti, the new Gertrude Stein biography (just finished Autobiography of Alice B Toklas), an old mystery by Elliot Paul that I may not finish.

Damn. Except for Lispector, don’t know any of these. @joiedevivre9.bsky.social, I feel unworthy

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Most manage to be characters without being caricatures.

Hope they appreciated it. Among my all time favorites. Always amazed at how short —104 minutes—and yet well-paced it is. Not a wasted minute.

(With all respect to Fred Zinnemann, another fave—Day of the Jackal—could lose most of the 22 min that put it over the 2-hr mark.)

I read it when it first came out. One of the grabbiest first lines ever. Love everything she wrote, but this one hasn’t a sentence out of place.

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Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m considering a class action v. @nytimes.com for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

One of the great books. The first line of the first story is perfect. “My “wife is precise, elegant, and well-dressed, but the sloppiness of my mistress knows few bounds.”

Margery Sharp is a slightly acidic treat.

My mother introduced me to those.

This is great. Might have missed it—thanks.

Love the Spark

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