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Waterford home of international travel writer Dervla Murphy bought by local council A treasured piece of Irish literary history has been acquired in perpetuity for the public in Waterford following a long-running campaign

Wonderful! www.independent.ie/regionals/wa...

Finished reading My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni today. An existentialist fable from the perspective of a beech marten. What does it mean to be animal? Are we better off not knowing? A unique novel, beautiful and cruel, strongly recommend! #booksky

OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.

Have developed a habit of reading and napping in the woods this summer and it is genuinely the best thing ever.

A hand holding up a copy of the book The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. The cover is pink with a drawing of a girl popping bubblegum in the mouth of a shark. In the background are a wooden deck and green trees.

Started this collection of short stories & flash fiction today.

Absolutely loved this book. Just beautiful.

It is! Really enjoying it so far.

A hand holding a copy of the book Merchants of Culture by John B Thompson. The cover of the book shows a tower of books on a black background. In the background of the photo is a white deck railing and a green tree.

Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson. A fascinating look at the publishing industry.

On it

Really enjoying it so far!

A hand holding up a copy of the book Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami. The cover of the book is a pale blue with a sideways illustration of a woman floating in water. In the background is a blue table, a small stack of books, and a glass door.

Just sitting down to start Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Asa Yoneda).

I hate this piece. It is very good.

A hand holding a copy of the book The Wall by Marlen Hushifer. The cover is a blue and white background with a black and white cow on it.

Started The Wall by Marlen Haushofer yesterday.

Monsterland is so good!!

A hand holding a book, Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. In the background is a forest of green trees.

Retreating into the woods with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, searching for some sanity in this mad, mad world.

This looks great!

I am sure I will, I am a big fan of strange fiction and this looks very much up my street!

I was just given a copy of this! Looking forward to reading it.

A hand with green fingernail polish holding a copy of the book Night Boat by Alan Spence against a dark brown background. The cover of the book is a Japanese woodcut style illustration of Mount Fuji and water.

Just started Night Boat by Alan Spence. Only two chapters in but absolutely incredible so far.

Nick Cave fans swarm charity bookshop in UK after musician donates thousands of books ‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker

What I wouldn’t give to have a root around in this collection! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

A hand with green fingernail polish holding a copy of the book Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani. The cover is a dark blue night sky above the desert, with two illustrations of camels with buildings on their backs. A grumpy terrier mix is in the background, looking suspiciously at the camera.

Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani has been on my list for ages, I finally started it today. Lovely so far. Dog not sold though.

A hand holding two books up against the background of green trees. The books are From Here to Eternity and Smoke Geta in Your Eyes, both by Caitlin Doughty.

Tore through both of these this week. Fascinating, hilarious… boy, does North America ever get dealing with death wrong.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

I would like to get off this dystopian ride now. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

#WorldAlbatrossDay is celebrated annually on June 19 to raise awareness about the conservation crisis facing albatrosses and other seabirds. This Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans, Status: vulnerable) is from Joseph F Green's "Ocean Birds" (1887). www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380127 #ILoveBHL

A hand holding a book titled The Rarest Fruit, by author Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Hildegarde Serle. In the background is a train station.

Had to spend a couple of hours on a train today, felt like just a few moments once I started The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem.

Contemplating my next walk. Anyone done the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way?

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is a hell of a thing to read.

My absolute favourite. One of a kind!

A hand holding up a copy of the book The Instant by Amy Liptrot. The background is a cloudy but blue sky and green trees.

Finished Éric Chacour’s utterly devastating novel What I Know About You this morning and now on to The Instant by Amy Liptrot.

People think LLM stands for Large Language Model, but it's actually "Lots and Lots of Monkeys". This in an homage to the technology's origins where a million monkeys were chained to typewriters until one accidentally produced something resembling useful text. This model was deemed unsustainable.