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Creator of "A Booklovers Guide to Independent Bookstores" at angryalgonquin.com. Please support independent bookstores! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration fan. Museums. Libraries. Animal rescues. #bookblogger angryalgonquin.com
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Oh! Did we remember to tell you that our book bundles are up and running on the new site? portersquarebooks.com/list/book-bu...

London tonight

My kinda book!

this is also true of postdocs

Finished this excellent book from @dougjohnstone.bsky.social and @orendabooks.bsky.social yesterday. You lot are in for a treat in August. The whole trilogy has been brilliant, and this wraps it all up in style. Thrilling and thought-provoking in equal measure!

I have a joke about Scylla and Charybdis but if I tell it one way it’s too dirty and if I tell it the other way it’s just not funny.

I told a joke about Medusa but only got a stone-faced response

Independent Bookshop Week 14-21 June 2025 #IndieBookshopWeek @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social @booksaremybag.bsky.social booksaremybag.com/IndependentB...

Raining every day since we returned: 😦 My garden: #GardenSky 🍃

The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 has been awarded to Yael Van Der Wouden for her “unsettling, tightly-plotted” debut, The Safe Keep. The Women’s Prize for Non-fiction was awarded to Dr Rachel Clarke for The Story of a Heart 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/yael-va...

Los Angeles, please join me this Sunday at Barnes & Noble @ The Grove for a discussion and signing of my new graphic memoir, IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI, moderated by Dr. Alexander Cho — the same journalist who conducted my coming-out interview twenty years ago! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

@bertsbooks.bsky.social on a mission from god

#BirdSky #photography Another stunning shot from @banditelli.org

OH NOES Who could POSSIBLY have guessed that a show about an oblivious twatwaffle wouldn't set the public on fire

Today’s steps, Kiel Church, Morven, Scotland’s beautiful west coast.

Way to go, Sweden!

everything is going to SHIT but on the other hand @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social IS ON BLUESKY!!

Please welcome @eveninglandbooks.com to my Independent Bookstore #StarterPack Part Deux! go.bsky.app/DYmY7tU I want more! My goal for the starter packs is 300 wonderful indie bookstores. With both packs I have 192. #BookSky 📚

do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser. I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...

Huge congrats to @rachelclarke.bsky.social for winning the #WomensPrize for nonfiction! All the shortlisted authors were brilliant, and I would have had a hard time choosing a winner. THE STORY OF A HEART is the unforgettable journey of how one family's grief transformed into a lifesaving gift.

#MuseumSky #London

Broadway Books in Portland, OR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💙📚

Come and see myself and Baroness Commander Val McDermid at the tail end of July. We’ll be talking about my new blockbuster book The Good Liar, about forensic expert witness Claudia O’Sheil, who realises that she’s been peddling junk science www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

I call bullshit

Nothing EVER EVER has my name on it (keychains, coffee cups, etc.) but this is the closest I've ever seen, courtesy @thewhothismonth.bsky.social

#Chicago #BookFair

This Pride month check out our selection of LGBTQ+ books and books by LGBTQ+ authors in our online store, to support we are authors, radical publishing, and our historical research this Pride month: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

It's fixed! Thanks to my brilliant cousin Ben, who knows a lot more about these things, he was able to pinpoint the flickering issue to the failure of a remote-control wiring that I was able to simply remove. We're curious again!

One hundred years from now, #Zuckerberg will be known as the one who helped destroy what's left of our humanity. Or tomorrow. Both are plausible. #MetaAI #AI #privacy #Facebook

🎧 Audiobook of the Week 🎧 This week, we honor the brilliance of Octavia E. Butler with a powerful spotlight on her groundbreaking novel, Parable of the Talents. 🎧 Listen now on @librofm #sistahscifi #OctaviaEButler

"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century

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#BookSky 📚

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you.

There's still time to buy all of your Festival books (most of them are signed!) from our fantastic Festival partner, and friend, @foxlanebooks.bsky.social‬. For Festival books, and lots more - www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/york-festiva... #YorkIdeas

We all just won the damn lottery, my weird friends! Viva the weirdo!

Can confirm; eel facts are thin on the ground EXCEPT for #Bluesky!

Bring back #WOT (Wheel of Time) and I promise to join the epic battle of "faerie" spelling. BRING IT BACK.