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Jennifer Bew Orr πŸ“–πŸ–ŠοΈπŸ“·

@jenniferbeworr.bsky.social

American/British reading/writing. Living inπŸ‡¨πŸ‡­with spouse, builders tea & old New Yorker mags. Photos my own unless otherwise stated.

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Good idea!

09.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love that one.
I almost added a 🎢 to the post…

09.03.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜…

09.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely!

09.03.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love Cat Stevens

09.03.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hm, now I’m realizing, you’re right, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin were both apparently a big an influence on their daughter Mary, although Mary was particularly obsessed with her father. So it must have been Mary’s own first baby who died after 10 days. Mary then lost two more… so tragic.

09.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This seems to be one of the more recent interpretations and it has legs. She had recently lost her first baby before she wrote it. I’ve read that her own mother (Mary Wollstonecraft) died when Mary was only ten days old. Curious that the tale plays on the idea of MEN overreaching as to creation…

09.03.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custodyβ€”the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Centerβ€”he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

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04.03.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2419    πŸ” 1540    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 158

Vivid mural and sky, a treat for the eye’

09.03.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It would have good to listen in.
Big love for translators!
I don’t have that kind of skill.

09.03.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

09.03.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s so encouraging to hear. The chat surrounding the book itself is weighted with so much interpretation around abolition, modern technology, etc… before you even get the actual text. To approach it with a clear and open mind for all the foreknowledge is rewarding.

09.03.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I admit I’ve only tried with Cassandra (trans. into English) but I want to try again!

09.03.2026 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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know, I know, times are tough and money is short but as we find ourselves increasingly in a world where stories are censored and the corporates buy up shelf space with their discounts.

If you are able please do support Independent publishers.

@northernfiction.bsky.social

08.01.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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It appears to be the 1931 with an explanation of what little changed and why between the two. This page might help reinforce. It has a naked male on the cover so it gets marked as β€˜adult content’ when you try to share thatI’

09.03.2026 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it is very likely to repay that effort. The Penguin Classics edition has a lot of biographical notes and an intro from Mary Shelley plus a preface from Percy Shelley. xx

09.03.2026 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very best wishes, wish I was there!

09.03.2026 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already looking forward to the quotes!

09.03.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood Born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, Lady Caroline Blackwood was, for many years, largely known as a socialite and muse. Her marriages to the artist Lucian Freud, the pianist Israel Citkow…

New on the blog today, I've written about THE STEPDAUGHTER by Caroline Blackwood.

A short, sharp shock of a novel where the reader bears witness to a stepmother’s unravelling and the impact of this nightmare on those who are under her care. #BookSky πŸ’™πŸ“š

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/t...

08.03.2026 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I've been watching this docudrama too. And my husband's work is in freshwater systems. It's horrific. Thames Water have been criminally negligent.

09.03.2026 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm only a little more than halfway through, but can see this is a very good point. The trial and execution of innocent and wonderful Justine Moritz is a perfect example of that. We barely know her but we learn what she suffers, for sure.

09.03.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Translating across borders both literary and linguistic, we’re excited to welcome award-winning translator and novelist Kate Briggs to #DeptfordLitFest πŸ“šοΈ for an in-conversation with writer and critic @jennifer_hodgson_

πŸ“… Wednesday 25 March, 7-8pm
πŸ“ Room 137A, Richard Hoggart Building @goldsmithsuol

09.03.2026 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Recent Reads: from Taiwan and South Korea I’m continuing the theme of #ReadIndies and the Far East, with two more books from independent publishers and from my favourite part of the world. They couldn’t be more different in sty…

Two Recent Reads: from Taiwan and South Korea findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/t...

04.03.2026 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're so right, and I don't know why I had so little notion of what it would be like. It is so interesting that Victor experiences the guilt of being directly responsible for whatever his 'creature' does. It provokes interesting thoughts about parenthood as well as how intelligence is formed! x

09.03.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was really important to me, and I also spoke about your words afterward, to a very talented friend. She is a traditionally published novelist, but also a single mother in a 'soul-destroying' job who is desperate to be writing instead.
I'll share your work with her, and thank you!

09.03.2026 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is almost beyond words to think about a teenager writing this novel. It is carrying so much about guilt, compassion, the influence of what we read on us, and the way we push others into a terrible fate by condemning them based on factors that distinguish them as an 'other'. Wow. xx

09.03.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
The layout for the original beginning of three volumes of Frankenstein. No mention yet of Mary Shelley! Includes quote from Paradise Lost:

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?β€”

Printed in London in 1818

The layout for the original beginning of three volumes of Frankenstein. No mention yet of Mary Shelley! Includes quote from Paradise Lost: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?β€” Printed in London in 1818

Good morning! I’m still with Frankenstein, moving very slowly, and it’s giving me a lot to think about. Here’s the intro for the original publication…

With all good wishes for your reading week!

09.03.2026 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

It's Monday again and today I'm reading "The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating" by Tiffany Hunt

What book(s) are you reading this week?

πŸ’™πŸ“š #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

alt text in images please

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Watching 9th March 2026 currently reading The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating by Tiffany Hunt Finally getting into town to get my new Hawaiian shirts today, feel naked with only twelve…...

9th March 2026 currently reading The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating by Tiffany Hunt Finally getting into town to get my new Hawaiian shirts today, feel naked with only twelve…...

09.03.2026 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I very much enjoyed her novel A Burning.
I’m sure this one will be very good!

09.03.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0