As an American myself I can hardly disagree! x
03.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As an American myself I can hardly disagree! x
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on a table with a lamp, spoon, cup of tea and glasses case.
Let’s see if this gets an adult content label. (Unclothed body warning!)
There is barely suppressed rage in me at the pornographic violence of leadership from people who are SUPPOSED to be adults.
Am reading Frankenstein the novel.
While the real monsters wage ♾️ wars. 🔥 #booksky ❤️🔥
That really is… unnecessary.
03.03.2026 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
28.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
‘…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.
02.03.2026 07:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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#5amwritersclub
I hope you’ll soon be feeling better, Kip.
02.03.2026 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes to that 🖤
01.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your star is rising, Jay!
01.03.2026 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🏆💐
01.03.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s okay!
01.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you dearie! 😘
28.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Obviously!
28.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I 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
28.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Love her! 🎈
28.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I bought it at the LRB book shop at the holidays and look forward to reading! X
28.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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, …
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An Absence of Sea by Christina Tudor-Sideri | *out 16 April* www.erratumpress.com/an-absence-o...
20.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
‘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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28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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27.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A 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.
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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, Jazz Tenor Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1923, in Los Angeles
📸 Herman Leonard (New York, 1948)