@nglynn.bsky.social
Dublin. I suppose I should put more things here but I can think of nothing that isn’t embarrassingly trite.
Though I see Achebe in there too so perhaps I’m missing something?
09.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You could safely cut Joyce from your British fiction class anyway.
09.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0‘Poor Mexico - so far from god, and so close to the United States’
23.08.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What about Vincent Browne? I think he'd be a nice change in the #Aras25, he has tons of experience, charm, wit and personality and shur I have the badges already #vinb
14.08.2025 21:17 — 👍 42 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 2> It's a thriving subgenre in literature
Recommendations please!
AMKNOB-1 - first pharaoh of Dublin.
26.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com devil on my shoulder: go ahead, try and shred a semi-soft cheese with a julienne peeler! nothing bad will happen! ah ha ha ha ha! angel on my other shoulder: there's no real ethical or moral angle to this one but i would still advise against it August 7, 2023 at 4:37 PM
19.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 111 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1Must have been some mad display, I’m 6km away and it was loud even from indoors.
03.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0bsky.app/profile/lisa...
03.07.2025 22:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was just asking myself the same question - sounded too deep to be fireworks!
03.07.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You’re a founding member of my “funny hoors” list which migrated from Twitter and continues to deliver over here.
03.07.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Notification from Spotify saying “New album coming soon. Elvis Presley started the countdown on Spotify. Pre-save now.” I told you he was alive.
I *knew* it!
14.06.2025 06:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0God yes - in my dreams I drive a Ford Taurus down a rain-slicked road overhung by towering evergreens, drinking black filter coffee in diners and sleeping in roadside motels.
30.05.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d love some recommendations if any specifics come to mind? I’m thinking along the lines of Ballard but maybe there are others that would be interesting to take on.
15.05.2025 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think I speak for all your Irish followers when I thank you for your dual-function apology.
14.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s great stuff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(d... - I spent a few months in Argentina - it’s omnipresent there.
11.05.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0*Latin speech intensifies*
08.05.2025 17:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Subtitle text from the RTE player of the new pope’s speech - it reads: (Speaks Latin) (Speaks Latin)
Nice work RTÉ Player…
08.05.2025 17:33 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is like if Starship Troopers was set in the Idiocracy universe.
03.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I rummaged out the paper to start Saturday’s crossword only to be interrupted by an ad for www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/74... and now I’m staring bankruptcy in the face.
22.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Not to defend them (because I wouldn’t buy one if you paid me - and am the happy owner of an EV from a different manufacturer) the monthly data often looks like this as some months they don’t have a ship come with deliveries. Might not be the case here - but I suspect it is.
04.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Undulating layers of rock in a cliff face with the sea in the background.
A path leads up a frosty hill, at the top is a Martello tower.
Layers of rock in front of a beach with the sea in the background.
Sand with a layer of textured rock above.
Out for a winter walk today.
08.01.2025 18:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I just spent 30 minutes experiencing the same practice under a cold and slightly hazy sky in Dublin.
03.01.2025 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And that’s it! It was a bit of an atypical year’s reading for me - very sci-fi heavy which is something of a return to youth for me. I really liked pairing things up, I’ve a feeling I’m going to more consciously do this in 2025 to see where it takes me.
01.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Been meaning to read for a while but had it queued behind The Ambassadors, it got mentioned a few times in A Thread of Violence so I said feck it I’d go ahead (bonus points for potentially queuing up a series). Unsettling and tense read which I enjoyed.
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
I liked Liminov by Carrère and this seemed a good pairing with ‘A Thread of Violence’ (similarly exploring a high profile set of murders but through a self-consciously considered and mediated account involving the author themselves), it was good! Awful story.
Nova Swing by M John Harrison.
Sequel to Light - probably not _quite_ as good but still very much enjoyed it.
A Thread of Violence by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social
Somehow the first book I’ve got around to reading by Mark O’Connell. Wonderful! See ‘pairings’ below also.
Canada by Richard Ford
What can I say - I love Richard Ford. I’m still rationing out Bascombe novels (with only Call me Frank left). I liked it, but I’m not sure what someone unfamiliar with Ford would make of it.
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Took this on after seeing it mentioned in context of Trump election win. It’s an interesting if weirdly unfocused and free-roving book. I don’t read much long-form American current affairs but the slightly weird and broad set of subjects here made for a good read.
