Sarah Dent

I adored The Way of All Flesh, must catch up with the rest of this series! 📚

Review: ‘Ootlin’ by Jenni Fagan I recently finished Scottish poet and novelist Jenni Fagan’s extraordinary memoir Ootlin which was unlike anything I’ve read before. Jenni spent the first 16 years of her life in care, being passed…

I recently finished Jenni Fagan's extraordinary memoir 'Ootlin' which was unlike anything else I've read. Full review on my blog -

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This was waiting for me when I got home today ☺️ happy publication day @jeansthoughts.bsky.social !
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

Currently listening to Helen Castor's 'The Eagle and the Hart' #audiobook, perfectly read by the author #booksky #history #nonfiction

Hello #Booksky and everyone else who's trying to find a new platform for all things writing and literature in this corner of the internet!

We're in the same boat, and as an attempt to help Northern #Booksky grow, we made a list of folx to follow. Check it out👇

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Despite its provocative title, rather than explicitly stating that God does not exist, the essay used empirical resoning to suggest that since God cannot logically be proved to exist, the possibility of atheism must be allowed.

#OTD in 1811 #Shelley was expelled from Oxford for refusing to deny his authorship of 'The Necessity of Atheism', which argued that "every reflecting mind must allow that there is no proof of the existence of a Deity. QED"

"Greatness, Shelley taught, lies not in the power a person may snatch for personal glory. It lies rather in caring for one another and for nature, from which alone a universal quality of life can spring. That message is as true for our times as it was for his."

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New to #booksky 👋 I love the Romantics, Jane Austen, the Brontës, poetry and historical fiction 📚 I write about these and other things on my blog thebookhide.wordpress.com

Currently reading 'The Painter's Daughters' by Emily Howes which I'm enjoying so far 😊📚 #reading #historicalfiction #booksky