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Review: ‘The Painter’s Daughters’ by Emily Howes A haunting historical novel about art, family and illness that lingers in the memory. ‘The Painter’s Daughters’ is set in eighteenth-century England and is based on the true story of the portrait a…

Review: 'The Painters Daughters' by Emily Howes #booksky

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'With Love, from Cold World' by Alicia Thompson, a sweet seasonal romance that really packed an emotional punch
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Incredible list of poetry recommendations from @holliemcnish.bsky.social @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social 📚 #poetry #booksky

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Thank you to @devoney.bsky.social and @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a great talk on Jane Austen's wildness! Looking forward to reading the book 📚☺️ #WildforAusten #reading #booksky

Found this in #Knutsford this morning whilst I was on my way for a filling! 📚🧚‍♂️ #ibelieveinbookfairies #reading #thetimehopcoffeeshop #booksky @headofzeus.bsky.social

Thankyou to the lovely bookworms at House of Books and Friends and @littletigeruk.bsky.social for this goody bag which brightened up a rainy lunchtime! 📚🍂☔#Manchester #reading #booksky

You had me at Lord Byron murder mystery set in Venice 🌹💀 🇮🇹 #romanticism #byron #reading #booksky

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