Book 20: Yoshiko Shibaki's Susaki Paradise - one of today's @vocebooks.bsky.social purchases - and a @verdantbrew.bsky.social Putty.
28.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 20: Yoshiko Shibaki's Susaki Paradise - one of today's @vocebooks.bsky.social purchases - and a @verdantbrew.bsky.social Putty.
28.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the uninitiated. "What a time to be alive!"
27.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The fact that cricket offers a place for the likes of Rakheem Cornwall is, in my opinion, one of the best things about the sport.
27.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 19: Maria Stepanova's The Disappearing Act (from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social).
26.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book 18: Neige Sinno's Sad Tiger.
23.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 17: Eimear McBride's The City Changes Its Face and a Põhjala Faraway Friends.
14.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 16: Liliana Colanzi's You Glow In The Dark - a @vocebooks.bsky.social recommendation - and a Pühaste Kuuvalge.
13.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I do wonder, actually, how the experience of the last ten years must have shaped their views about politics. I was born in the mid-1980s and basically only knew four PMs (one of whom I could barely remember) until my mid-twenties. This lot have seen six in a decade.
13.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh, there's all sorts on it. We were talking about (among other things) Scotland and Wales today, so they got Dafydd Iwan's 'Yma O Hyd' and The Proclaimers' 'Letter From America'.
13.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of course, the students on that module this year were all born after the 2003 Iraq War and were mostly still in primary school at the time of the 2016 EU referendum. So...
13.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 15: Ali Smith's Glyph.
09.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mr Cube has a lot to answer for...
05.02.2026 11:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Obviously not the main story in the team selection, but France's substitute tighthead is named Régis Montagne - "King Mountain" - and if that isn't a perfect name for 132kg prop then I don't know what is...
03.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 14: Yoko Tawada's Facing The Bridge.
02.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 13: Makenna Goodman's Helen of Nowhere (from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and a DEYA Off Piste Honeycomb.
31.01.2026 19:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book 12: Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake and a @verdantbrew.bsky.social Putty.
25.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 11: Giulia Caminito's The Bitter Water of the Lake.
22.01.2026 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 10: Anna Pazos's Killing The Nerve.
20.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 9: Susanna Bissoli's Struck and a DEYA Steady Rolling Nelson.
18.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Someone needs to arrange a fixture between this lot and Gorilla FC of Rwanda: El Gorillico.
18.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think 1979 would be the obvious case in point... but if that election had happened nine months earlier Thatcher would probably have lost. You could argue that Labour '74 is to the left of Labour '70, maybe? But, again, context.
17.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 8: Daisy Christodoulou's I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR and a @verdantbrew.bsky.social Don't Fear The Ferryman.
16.01.2026 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 7: Agnes Lidbeck's Supporting Act.
13.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 6: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming (from @andotherstories.bsky.social) and an Unbarred BA Stoutzilla.
10.01.2026 19:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book 5: Geetanjali Shree's The Roof Beneath Their Feet (from @andotherstories.bsky.social) and a DEYA BA Imperial Hokum.
09.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 4: Olivia Laing's The Silver Book.
06.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The good news for Rosenior is that, even if he does not make it until 2032, he has already outlasted the mere ten minutes that his dad spent as Torquay United manager on 1 June 2007.
06.01.2026 12:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 3: Tove Ditlevsen's Vilhelm's Room.
04.01.2026 20:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 2: Park Seolyeon's Capitalists Must Starve and a Põhjala Tiramisu Bänger.
03.01.2026 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I shall be quite content with an audience of one...!
01.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0