Chris Lovegrove 💙📚

#MarchMagics2026 begins today, celebrating the lives and work of #DianaWynneJones and #TerryPratchett!

Intimations of mortality (c) C A Lovegrove. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2000 (1988). This Diana Wynne Jones book has an intriguing title: we are used to The Live…

My review of 'The Lives of Christopher Chant' by #DianaWynneJones, posted for #MarchMagics2026. wp.me/s2oNj1-lives

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre Hero Of The Year: US Politician DESTROYS Nigel Farage Over Free Speech!

Please watch and share this! People who are taken in by Farage need to see this and open their minds and eyes to what he is.
This video needs to be shared as much as possible.

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The faculty of imagination: #TheBookOfDust Map of Lyra’s Oxford, with a globe showing the Eurasian landmass. © C A Lovegrove. “No; we have other ways of travelling.”  “The way you have,” Lyra said, “…

As it happens I've published a few posts about the geography of Lyra's world, including this latest post: calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/l...

Lincolnshire mayor cuts English classes for some foreign nationals Dame Andrea Jenkyns says the funding will be reallocated and spent on literacy skills for everyone.

"Mayor cuts English lessons for foreign nationals" – what a petty-minded hate-filled specimen #AndreaJenkyns is, but then what else can one expect from #Reform, and especially a #Reformatory. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tanka: #NaHaiWriMo After Kitagawa Utamaro: detail of Pink Flowers with Butterflies and a Dragonfly. I have filled each day with senryu or haiku to prove that I could. Now at month’s end I too end, haiku prolong…

I have filled each day
with senryu or haiku
to prove that I could.

Now at month’s end I too end,
haiku prolonged: a tanka.

A final #DailyHaiku in February for #NaHaiWriMo National Haiku Writing Month
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Warmth: #NaHaiWriMo WordPress Free Photo Library. Now February is almost done, warmth seeps in as the sun peeps out. 27/28 #DailyHaiku for National Haiku Writing Month

Now February
is almost done, warmth seeps in
as the sun peeps out.

27/28 #DailyHaiku for #NaHaiWriMo National Haiku Writing Month wp.me/p4H9zI-BX

Whither: #NaHaiWriMo © C A Lovegrove. whether the weather goes hither or yon, it will go whither it will 26/28 #DailyHaiku for National Haiku Writing Month

whether the weather
goes hither or yon, it will
go whither it will

#DailyHaiku
#NaHaiWriMo
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Identity and change definitely characterises much of this novel! I've long resisted The Midwich Cuckoos but that's the next of his titles I've got waiting.

I can't disagree with what you say: it's certainly not perfect but because it's crammed with lots of thought-provoking ideas and questions I confess I got a lot more out of it than I expected. Only the ending really disappointed, almost as if he was getting a bit bored of where he might go next.

Genie out of the bottle: #SpeccyFicChal Created using text-generated imaging © C A Lovegrove. The Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham. Penguin Books, 1987 (1960). ‘There’s more in that girl that she is allowing to meet the ey…

My review of 'The Trouble with Lichen' (1960) by John Wyndham. #SpeccyFicChal #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lchn

Crossroads: #JapaneseLitChallenge19 WordPress Free Photo Library. Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida. Oyasumi, Tōkyō (2018) translated by Haydn Trowell. Europa Editions, 2025. “Tokyo was considerably smaller than one might thi…

Review of 'Goodnight Tokyo' by #AtsuhiroYoshida ('Oyasumi, Tōkyō', 2018). #ReadIndies wp.me/sezD85-tky

Must you read all the books you’ve acquired? #logophile William Morris’s study, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith: illustration by Edmund Hort New for Mackail’s ‘Life of Morris’ (1898). “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you bu…

Must you read all the books you've acquired? Umberto Eco's #antilibrary, #tsundoku and more.
#logophile
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The high life: #ReadIndies Grand Hotel Kronenhof, Pontresina, Switzerland, in the 1920s. The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig. Rausch der Verwandlung (‘The Intoxication of Transformation’, 1982) translated by Joe…

'The Post Office Girl' (Rausch der Verwandlung) by #StefanZweig reviewed for #ReadIndies.
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a man is crawling on the ground in a video game while a monster attacks him . ALT: a man is crawling on the ground in a video game while a monster attacks him .

Is this headline from the New York Post the best clickbait so far today?
"Science: Skull of ‘dinosaur from Hell’ discovered with sword jutting from its head."

Oh wait, you mean there wasn't enough space to include "swordlike horn protruding from its head"? My bad.

Angry: #NaHaiWriMo © C A Lovegrove. Applause, sharp, sudden: hail and sleet hammer skylight; the gods are angry. #DailyHaiku 23/28 for National Haiku Writing Month

Applause, sharp, sudden:
hail and sleet hammer skylight;
the gods are angry.
#DailyHaiku #NaHaiWriMo
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Chaos: #NaHaiWriMo the world in turmoil antisocial technocrats chaos for profit 21/28 posts for National Haiku Writing Month #DailyHaiku

the world in turmoil
antisocial technocrats
chaos for profit

#DailyHaiku #NaHaiWriMo
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The high life: #ReadIndies Grand Hotel Kronenhof, Pontresina, Switzerland, in the 1920s. The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig. Rausch der Verwandlung (‘The Intoxication of Transformation’, 1982) translated by Joe…

'The Post Office Girl' (Rausch der Verwandlung) by #StefanZweig reviewed for #ReadIndies.
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White and grey wavelets,
pink buoys bobbing, sea murmurs:
ageing audience.

20/28 #DailyHaiku for #NaHaiWriMo
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Must you read all the books you’ve acquired? #logophile William Morris’s study, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith: illustration by Edmund Hort New for Mackail’s ‘Life of Morris’ (1898). “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you bu…

Must you read all the books you've acquired? Umberto Eco's #antilibrary, #tsundoku and more.
#logophile
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Words: #NaHaiWriMo WordPress Free Photo Library. Mightier than swords: more than brute force ever will, words can sway beliefs. 18/28 daily contributions to National Haiku Writing Month

Mightier than swords:
more than brute force ever will,
words can sway beliefs.

18/28 daily contributions to National Haiku Writing Month.
#NaHaiWriMo #DailyHaiku wp.me/p4H9zI-Bx

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Clichéd: #NaHaiWriMo © C A Lovegrove. Once upon a time I spoke in clichés; but now I’m living the dream. 17/28 senryu/haiku through National Haiku Writing Month

Once upon a time
I spoke in clichés; but now
I’m living the dream.

17 of 28 senryu/haiku through National Haiku Writing Month #NaHaiWriMo

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Clichéd: #NaHaiWriMo © C A Lovegrove. Once upon a time I spoke in clichés; but now I’m living the dream. 17/28 senryu/haiku through National Haiku Writing Month

Once upon a time
I spoke in clichés; but now
I’m living the dream.

17 of 28 senryu/haiku through National Haiku Writing Month #NaHaiWriMo
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Crossroads: #JapaneseLitChallenge19 WordPress Free Photo Library. Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida. Oyasumi, Tōkyō (2018) translated by Haydn Trowell. Europa Editions, 2025. “Tokyo was considerably smaller than one might thi…

Review of 'Goodnight Tokyo' by #AtsuhiroYoshida ('Oyasumi, Tōkyō', 2018). #ReadIndies wp.me/sezD85-tky

Change the law to fix music streaming It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming!

It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing the Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming! @wearethemu.bsky.social #FixStreaming www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...

The absolute nonsense that is #AIscraping of #WordPress blogs, and pretty much all of it from one of the USA big tech entities. Bloggers tend to write to inform, entertain and interact with other bloggers, not to have their creativity sucked dry by greedy behemoths. 😠

Thoughts of love: #logophile Stencil cover art by Bernie Reid for an edition of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast;In the Spring the wanton…

Thoughts of love: meditations on spring, valentines, romance and words for #ValentinesDay. #logophile wp.me/sezD85-val

Unlucky: #NaHaiWriMo © C A Lovegrove. February has just twenty-eight days: bad luck – thirteenth’s Friday. 13/28 senryu/haiku for National Haiku Writing Month #NaHaiWriMo

February has
just twenty-eight days: bad luck –
thirteenth’s Friday.

13/28 senryu/haiku for National Haiku Writing Month #NaHaiWriMo #DailyHaiku
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