Sarah Pritchard

Radiohead in the round at the O2. Large screens surround the circular stage and lift to reveal the band

Amazing Radiohead at the O2 last night. Songs across all albums and an unforgettable encore of absolute classics, ending with karma police

Finished Ethan Frome. Love Wharton, and this slimmer tome didn't disappoint. Might start a Brontë. It's the weather for classic literature...

First order placed. Exciting! 😋

(and hope all is as well as can be with your parents 🫂)

They are so good aren't they! My parents just visited us in the SE and brought a pack down for us 😊

Just relogged into my AXS account and they've corrected it, thank god 😅

@radiohead.wastehq.social please help!?

Just had the same. It must be wrong!

Diane Keaton was such an awesome actor. That Annie Hall lobster scene was👌

@alanfricker.bsky.social

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

These librarians are amazing. Not sure whether I'm more angry or depressed after watching this brave documentary
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ooooh, lovely!

I would really like Humankind: a hopeful history if the kind offer still available

AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy

Amazing! (not in a good way)

Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like ‘Jimmy Stewart on acid’ (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-...

Really interesting piece on the strange and wonderful films of David Lynch. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Verdict?

*a

Book cover of I who have never known men with woman's face in shadows and a large circle partly obscuring her

Well. This is a gut-punch of novel. A highly intriguing, and somewhat depressing it has to be said, dystopia. (I'm recommending it, by the way!) 💙📚

I can highly recommend The Poisonwood bible and Demon Copperhead if you enjoy them!

"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

Animal Farm at Eighty

“I took it out of the library, and read it quietly, in bed, under the covers.”

On the 80th anniversary of its publication, read my first encounter with Orwell’s Animal Farm:

orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/it-all-mad...

@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@orwellprize.bsky.social

Book covers for flight behaviour but kingsolver and I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman. Nice butterflies on the kingsolver!

Morning! Just finished Flight Behaviour and onto the Harpman 💙📚

In 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitor sent me a libel threat - and said I wasn’t even allowed to say he’d written to me.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that was improper.

Now he’s appealing.

A 🧵 on why it matters.

A 7-year-study of 70,000 elderly people from 19 towns in Japan has found that the more public library books there are in a town, the fewer residents need long-term nursing care.

I had a friend in grad school who grew up in the South who used to joke that no matter how hot it is in the summer you always close the car windows when you park your car because if you don't you'll come back and find your back seat full of zucchini.

Nigel Slater’s recipes for potato and mushroom gratin, and mincemeat slices Garlicky gratin and a light and a quick and easy fragrant festive cake

Here it is! www.theguardian.com/food/2023/de...

A slice of cake with a birthday candle in

Mincemeat cake fresh from the oven

This mincemeat cake by @nigelslater.bsky.social is my husband's favourite. I learnt the hard* way that mincemeat is tricky to source in the summer, so now every Christmas I buy an extra jar and keep it for July 😇
*expensive #foodsky #cake

3/4 of the way through this and absolutely loving it. Such a nice idea to tell their biography through song analysis.

The End of the Affair, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Age of Innocence, House of the Spirits, Paradise Lost.... this is too hard!

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...