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Thank you so much! Yes, in Floreana one character is a scientist returning to the field after a decade away.

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The new rule was: you could violate the first rule if that information was already on the back cover blurb!

The Great Divide, Cristina Henriquez. Not very lablit sorry... the blurb implies a bigger role for the malaria scientist!

No #Lablit that I could see in STimes/Observer

As I [dom] am away a few days probably no BSkying until later in the week! Halfway through The Great Divide - really appears that the scientist is only a supporting character sadly so v. lablit 'lite'

@jennyrohn.bsky.social recently coined a new rule, but I have forgotten it!

Seriously, if you have read we have space for a couple of people to join us on 13th so contact Jenny -it would be nice to have new faces/views

The first rule of Fiction Lab - the #Lablit reading group as it was called when we met in person at the RI - is not to discuss the book before the meeting (a week on Monday 13th Oct 7pm UK time) BUT for those of you not joining, I think I can say...
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I [dom] managed 10 books in September. Had two very low reading months earlier in the year for some reason I cannot recall - Feb & June. I'll be way behind the last two years in volume - on books 56 & 57 (among others) now.

We read & enjoyed My Last Continent a few years ago. It is on the list [with an unfortunate typo missing the first 'c' in Antarctica!] - lablit.com/the-lablit-l...
And Floreana looks interesting - is one character a scientist?...

The last of the three 'trimates' is now Birute Galdikas - I have never heard her interviewed!
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Remembering a life well-lived at teacupsandtomes.com.

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#bookstore #usedbookstore #onlinebookstore #indiebookstore #womanowned #nonfiction #JaneGoodall #booksky

#Lablit from the author of My Last Continent, @midgeraymond.bsky.social & co-author @jyunker.bsky.social ! #booksky 💙📚@jennyrohn.bsky.social

Devils Island Devils Island - Kindle edition by Yunker, John, Raymond, Midge. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Devils Island.

Happy October, readers! It's the best time of year for mysteries and thrillers ... and DEVILS ISLAND is only .99 in the Kindle store this month! #BookSky
@jyunker.bsky.social
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PEN America Index of School Book Bans – 2024-2025 PEN America’s 2024-2025 Index of Banned Books found 6,870 instances of book bans across 23 states and 87 public school districts.

I'd expect something like The Decameron to be on there, or The Satyricon... but Dan Brown?! Stephen Fry's Greek myths books?! Ovid is not listed though! pen.org/book-bans/pe... #booksky

Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored.

Keep it up, Stephen. #BookSky apnews.com/article/step...

Choosing the word "whorish" makes it sound as if Garcia was being whistful. He wasn't. He was angry and emphasized this word in italics. It SHOULD have been translated as "*fucking*".

"One Hundred Years Of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I bought it from Borders and had it for 15-20 years before reading and finishing it."

Less than a century! 👍😁 💙📚

Banville's Doctor Copernicus, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant £3 each, [Oxfam] & Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country £4.99 from a reduced price bookshop... Think I may have read the Banville decades ago, unless I read his Kepler. I gave away a lot of fiction in the last 6-7 years...

A stack of books on a bookshelf. Mother, brother, liver by Jarvis Cooker, Stasiland by Anna Funder, Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Taylor, The Yermakov Transfer by Derek Lambert, and The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown.

Secondhand bookshop finds today. #Booksky

What is the longest time you have owned a book before reading it? I [dom] am reading a Penguin Classics, Cicero, Selected Works, I bought in 1977!!!
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BBC World Service - Science In Action, A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.

A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Science In Action

Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference coming from space. Also, lowering fear of synthetic DNA bad actors, and how scared IS the big bad wolf?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins Those she inspired say she not only revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees - but challenged how we relate to the natural world.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 💚

“Whereas other chalk horses stand stiff and still on their hillsides, elegant, sometimes, but without any spark of life, the Uffington White Horse is magical; full of movement,
power and beauty.”
- Rosemary Sutcliff
💙📚#booksky
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YouTube video by Grindhouse Movie Trailers Black Sheep (2006) - Trailer HD 1080p

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFuA...

you might think there was a rocket-minded millionaire out there interested in space research...

Two weeks ago, Science in Action raised the danger that NASA's terrific Juno mission to Jupiter, costing small change in terms of the federal science budget, would run out of cash today.
With shutdown looming, my fears are for the worst.

"when the judges of a town are fair
To foreigner & citizen alike,
Their city prospers & her people bloom."
Hesiod, Work & Days

Born yesterday in 1618 in Brussels, painter and traveler Michael Sweerts. Here by himself in 1656. We're celebrating his belated birthday today.

That is the end for long poems then!