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Just started The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix.

I’d much rather watch a Superb Owl than the Super Bowl 🤪

Still reading and enjoying The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

Now that is cool.

I loved that book for the plot not going the way I was expecting it too.

These days I would be lost without the calendar on my phone 😳

Oh and having to put the correct bin out on the right day..

WTF!

A friend does a silent book club where people bring their own books, read silently for a while then have a chat afterwards.

This week I started The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

Waiting impatiently for the new series to drop.

Finished that book yesterday, enjoyed it.

Just started The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura.

You made a typo with your current read it’s Slow Gods not Small Gods.

The Return of the King tonight, over 4 hours long..eeek!

Just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I do love a story that features an alien civilisation that has vanished in mysterious circumstances.

Saw the extended version of the movie adaption last night.

Saw the extended edition of The Fellowship
Of the Ring tonight at the cinema.

Yes my backside started getting sore for sitting for so long 😱

Post your Favorite Star Trek Character. Wrong Answers Only!

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Listening to the latest round up episode, in regards to old 2000AD stories, I would recommend;

The Apocalypse War and its prequel Block Wars for Judge Dredd stories.

They adapted several of The Stainless Steel Rat novels by Harry Harrison.

They also rebooted Dan Dare

Just started The Future by Naomi Alderman.

Finally got round to using the Borrowbox app to loan out an audiobook from the library.

I prefer the Shatner cover of Common People.

I’ll get my coat.

Ulrika O'Brien cartoon

Ansible 462, January 2026:
news.ansible.uk/a462.html

Still reading and enjoying The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines - with intro

One of his songs seems relevant today:

youtu.be/eFvxqQTh3m4?...

One of my sisters has been bad all last week with suspected flu, fingers crossed it’s just a cold.

There’s a lot of it about.

A witch!

Watching John Hurt ordering coffee in a hotel in Berwick as I was having breakfast.

Wine
Friend
Pussy

That wine had better be mead..

Went back to my TBR pile and started The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow.

As for your second question:

Fiction - A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Non fiction - The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

I feel Mary should have kicked his ass more.

Also as others have pointed out, ending up alone and a librarian is not in practice as terrible as portrayed in the movie.

It was released at the cinema for its 45th anniversary and Ingit to watch it in the big screen for the first time.