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Aaahhh thank you so much! 🥰💞

The cover of The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu, by Mindy Hung. The cover is dark blue, with a shadowy silhouette of a hand, and gold lines surrounding it.

I was so absorbed by The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu, by @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social - beautiful contemporary fantasy about a midwife who develops magical powers as she enters perimenopause. It's got lots to say about community, identity, complicated family relationships and being true to yourself!

Aaahhhh happy birthday to these wonderful books! One of my favourite ever stories about storytelling.

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Yesssss #TEAMBEV !!!

Aahhhhhhh this sounds amazing, I'm so excited!

A stack of thin pink books that say OBSTETRIX * Naomi Kritzer on the spine.

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!!

YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

The cover of Magician First Class (Book 1 of Sparks and Recreation) by Kate Healey. It's a purple and dark blue cover showing a young woman holding a book, with magical symbols and a cityscape in the background.

I had SUCH a good time reading @kehealey.bsky.social's Magician First Class. Parks and Rec vibes at a supernatural community centre, great characters, tons of heart, plus my personal catnip, a badass competent middle-aged woman to adore. Can't wait for more in this series!

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"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities.

This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.

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The cover of Some Body Like Me, by Lucy Lapinska. The tagline reads: Less than human. More than machine. The cover shows a woman's face in profile, a hand on her cheek, and what looks like distorted reflections as if she's rising out of water, but the water is made of triangles and diamond shapes.

Some Body Like Me by @ldlapinski.bsky.social was SUCH a good read, I'm still chewing over it weeks later. It's queer, it's complicated, it's about history and memory and bodies, what it means to be a person, what love is. Terrific apocalyptic sci-fi with characters I absolutely loved.

Well this sounds amazing!

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

I loved it SO much!! 💞

I just read this and it's DELICIOUS!

- enemies-to-lovers with terrific chemistry
- they both wear masks - hers is frivolity, his is stoicism - but they learn to see each other past them
- emotional arcs are as gripping as the plot, which is to say VERY 😭😍
- fight fascism with friendship and glitter

Butches in Books Updating the list of my favorite butches in (mostly) fantasy

someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years!

*as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c

A promo image shows the ebook cover of Romantasy Rebels: A Fantasy Romance Anthology of Standing Up and Pushing Back, brought to you by FaRo Society. The cover image shows a sword piercing a crown. The text beside the cover reads: Limited Edition. Proceeds will be donated to PEN America, which fights book banning, advocates for authors targeted based on marginalizations, and fights for the right for writers to write whatever they want, worldwide.

Have you grabbed your copy of the Romantasy Rebels anthology yet? It includes 26 fantasy romance novellas starring women fighting back, including my own A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience - and it's raising money for PEN America!

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SANDIE SHAW certainly warrants a high Top Ten position with her latest in a long line of Chris Andrews compositions, Tomorrow. I am amzed that Sandie can manage to get so many completely different kinds of song from the same composer, WORTHING TOP TEN 1 (2) Michelle, Overlanders (Pye) 2 (5) Spanish Flea, Herb Alpert (Pye International) 3 () These Boots Are Made For Walking, Nancy Sinatra (Reprise) 1+ (7 Love's Just A Broken Heart, Cilla Black (Parlophone» 3 (D 1 Four «.ts Hang On Seasons (Philips) 6 (1) Keep ()rrlrml‘trilnning. Spencer Davis Group (Fontana) S 7 () Tili The End Of The Day, Kinks kP_ve) BRSO 8 (4) Tears, Ken Dodd (Colum- bia) 9 (9 A Must To Avoid, H man's Hermits (Cotu bia) You Were On My Mind, Crispian St. Peters

TOP TEN IN LEICESTER 1 (3) On My Mind Crispian Peters (Decca) 2 - Kind The Mind- (Fontana) The 4 These Walking Nancy Sinatra 5 (S) Just Broken Heart Cilia Black Spanish T ana - To Herman’s (Columbia) (7) Let’s Hang On— T () — (Columbia) (-) Sandie Shaw (Pye)

Pop' Scene MID SOMERSET TOP TEN (From information kindly supplied by local retailers). 1 Michelle—The Overlanderc. 2 Keep On Running—The Spencer Davis Group. 3 Spanish Flea—Herb Alpert. 4 A Must To Avoid—Herman's ' Hermits. 5 Daytripper—The Beatles. 6 You Were On My Mind— Crispian St. Peters. 7 Love's Just A Broken Heart— Cilia Black. 8 Till The End Of The Day—The Kinks. 9 These Boots Were Made For Walking—Nancy Sinatra. 10 Let's Hang On—The Four Seasons.

PONTYPRIDD’S TOP TEN— Tuesday February 1 Published in conjunction with Mr Fred Fey (Fountain Record Shop) (2) MICHELLE The Overlanders (3) (1) KEEP RUNNING The Spencer Davies Group (7) (8) LOVE’S JUST A BROKEN HEART Cilia Black (2i (-) THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR WALKING Nancy Sinatra (1) (9) YOU WERE ON MIND Crispian St Peter (3 SPANISH FLEA Herb Alpert (4) (5) MUST TO AVOID Herman’s Hermits (4) (4) LET’S ON The Four Seasons (5 (6) SHIP IS The Walker Brothers (7) 10 (-) MIRROR MIRROR Pinkerton's Assorted Colours (1) Last s positions are in brackets the left Figures right indicate that each record has been in the charts

A thing I did not discover until today but somehow makes perfect sense: in the 60s local papers would report their own local record charts, by the same method as the national ones: ring up the shops (sometimes, shop) and ask what's selling well.

Fascinating woman! She taught herself several languages from scratch, Welsh included.

Ahhhhhh I am SO excited to hear we're getting this, I adored Dreadnought and Sovereign!

Ooh, I need to get my hands on this book for my "being a nerd about Lady Charlotte Guest" collection!

Whaaaaat, did Iolo Morganwg really get me again?! FFS dude.

Census topic consultation response guide for trans community and advocacy groups Census topic consultation Response guidance for the trans community and advocacy groups Background The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is consulting on what topics should be included in the UK’s ...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is consulting on what topics should be included in the 2031 Census.
@transactualuk.bsky.social have produced this really helpful guidance, and are encouraging both organisations & individuals to respond.
Deadline 4 Feb 2026.
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Oh my gossshhhhh look at them! I love this book so much.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Gang, have yall read Cosmoknights? 👀⚔️

Because Hannah Templer is an incredible artist 🔥 and I heard y’all like big ladies and space mecha fights 😙

Several of the M*A*S*H ones, all the Ghosts (UK) Christmas specials, X-Files’s How the Ghosts Stole Xmas, the Jam and Jerusalem Christmas special, lots of the Doctor Who ones!

YouTube video by Cyw | Cymraeg i Blant bach | Welsh Kids Songs Pwy Sy'n Dŵad Dros y Bryn? | Cân Siôn Corn - Nadolig Cymraeg ar Cyw | Welsh Christmas Songs

#AllIsBrightAdvent As alluded to in today’s chapter, Welsh children must scream-sing this song as loudly as possible in order to summon Father Christmas: youtu.be/Y-HN-3ckAls?...

And a huge thank you to everyone who’s been reading and following along all month, I appreciate you all so much! 🎄✨💞

For more on the Ladies of Llangollen, I recommend a highly fictionalised, melodramatic, delightful account of their lives - Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. #AllIsBrightAdvent