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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.

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

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.

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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 ‘adult content’ when you try to share thatI’

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

Very best wishes, wish I was there!

Already looking forward to the quotes!

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 💙📚

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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.

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.

Translating across borders both literary and linguistic, we’re excited to welcome award-winning translator and novelist Kate Briggs to #DeptfordLitFest 📚️ for an in-conversation with writer and critic @jennifer_hodgson_

📅 Wednesday 25 March, 7-8pm
📍 Room 137A, Richard Hoggart Building @goldsmithsuol

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…

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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

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!

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

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?— 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!

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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?

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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…...

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

I find her work very challenging, and want to try re-reading...

Oh wow!

This is a gentle, thoughtful, wonderful newsletter. #booksky

Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today | Los Angeles Review of Books What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?

‘What is the task of the intellectual at a time when, at the heart of liberal democracies, genocide is normalized and protest suppressed?’

Support independent publishing.

Bravo @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

We need you now. #booksky ❤️‍🔥

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Good morning and good wishes as you find a spot of focus in the moment day and week taking shape! 🕊️

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I’ve ordered the paperback❣️
What you have said about publishing in the Observer is so truthful and will strike a chord with anyone struggling who reads it.
So looking forward to republished Orange Laughter
congratulations 🖊️🌹

Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warning: “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”

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Rudolf Schlichter (German) - Portrait of Bertolt Brecht, 1926/27 Oil on canvas, 75.7 x 47 cm Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. "When evil-doing comes like falling rain" [Wenn die Untat kommt, wie der Regen fällt] (1935). Like one who brings an important letter to the counter after office hours: the counter is already closed. Like one who seeks to warn the city of an impending flood, but speaks another language. They do not understand him. Like a beggar who knocks for the fifth time at the door where he has four times been given something: the fifth time he is hungry. Like one whose blood flows from a wound and who awaits the doctor: his blood goes on flowing. So do we come forward and report that evil has been done us. The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

Bertolt Brecht,
(1898~1956)

Two ducks trailing across a lake surface towards the sunrise.

Morning has broken.

Still reading Mary Shelley.

Grateful for anyone writing & reading.

Wishing you a peaceful loving Sunday.

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