Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷

That really is… unnecessary.

Review by sarahmatthews - Perfection Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico Tr. Sophie Roberts Read on audioNarrator: Sophie HughesFitzc...

I’ve written a few thoughts on Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, 2022, tr. Sophie Roberts. A brilliant critique of the Instagram generation, it’s endlessly quotable, I loved it! 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #ReadIndies https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1e5bf325-0a66-4eae-b4d0-c74bc6eedc03

Said Khatibi and the Algerian Crime Novel Algerian novelist Said Khatibi talks with us about his latest novel, and the conversation turns to organ theft, the global shifts in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and what he hopes to illuminate wi…

‘…the crime novel, at its core, contains all other kinds of novels. It requires effort, research, and perseverance. It connects the past and the present, not by placing them side by side, but by making one complete the other.’

Said Khatibi and the Algerian Crime Novel arablit.org/2026/02/13/s...

Penguin Classics cover shows the sculpted body of a muscular naked male. Light makes the skin glow and his expression seems fierce. The author name Mary Shelley is in slightly larger font than the work’s title of Frankenstein.

Early pages still with Frankenstein. Lots of biographical notes preceding the text but was especially struck by the preface.

This was the only one of the dark tales started in 1816 Geneva to be completed. I happen to be reading it very near to its setting.

Good luck with the reading week! 📚♥️

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It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Monk and Robot" by Becky Chambers

What book(s) are you reading this week?

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It is so tough, this history, and the novel is so worthwhile.

Swan with wings raised and gliding, the hook of a curved neck reflection in the lake surface.

Let’s make waves in a new week!

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I hope you’ll soon be feeling better, Kip.

Yes to that 🖤

Your star is rising, Jay!

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That’s okay!

Thank you dearie! 😘

Obviously!

I was so taken by the quotes from it. I read Surrender with great interest. Greyhound will be a more personal read for me. I put it in my list of 26 important books for me personally to read in 2026. X

Love her! 🎈

I bought it at the LRB book shop at the holidays and look forward to reading! X

Aesthetica Magazine - Roads Less Travelled Hayward Gallery presents the work of Samuel Laurence Cunnane, which encourages viewers to look intently at the world in moments of stillness.

Photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane travels around the world by van, capturing fleeting scenes that result in luminous images, revealing remarkable beauty hidden in plain sight. The Irish artist makes his London debut at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery with Blue Road, …

An Absence of Sea by Christina Tudor-Sideri | *out 16 April* www.erratumpress.com/an-absence-o...

Greyhound – Joanna Pocock Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’ is a wonderful work of hybrid literature that artfully combines memoir, travel writing, reportage, and social commentary seen through the prism of her Greyhound bus journey...

‘the Greyhound is a moving space inhabited largely by those who cannot afford alternatives…’

Just a few of the words composing a passionately comprehensive review.

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Sun rising from behind French Alps. Light casting across Lac Léman. POV from Nyon, Switzerland.

POUR FORTH
new day

A curve of stones on a lake bottom. A corner of a planter, plants springing from it.

Another morning beginning
Giving it every chance
To be a good day

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Most of all, just walking around Victoria Park. Vicky Park ‘Village’ has good bars and restaurants. The Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green is good if you’ve never been. I so love this part of the East End.

More central is a fun bistro called Savoir-Faire. Good luck!

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A lot of historical authoritarian regimes ultimately foundered because there are upper limits to how much brutality human enforcers are willing to carry out on a broad civilian resistance that includes their family and old classmates. An AI controlled drone is never going to refuse an illegal order.

In 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins published The Lamplighter, one of the best-selling novels of the 19th century. The critics—mostly men—rolled their eyes. They called it "sentimental trash."

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon, Jazz Tenor Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1923, in Los Angeles

📸 Herman Leonard (New York, 1948)

Well exactly.

Better for your showing babes! 💛