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bigbriggers.bsky.social
Semi-retired solicitor - reading, guitaring, cooking.
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Sorry to say you can’t get 25 per cent off but I see @waterstones.bsky.social has declared A Line In The Sand one of their “bucket-list books”, so if you’ve been meaning to read it, now’s the moment

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Lovely lunch. Chicken jalfrezi, tarka daal and basmati rice with peas. Not bad for a Thursday lunchtime!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 10 days ago • 230 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge #bookchallenge

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submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Monday morning and that means we talk about what we're reading. I'm currently reading Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett, lovely piece of folk horror What book(s) are you reading this week? #BookSky 💙📚 #AmReading #MondayReads

submitted 28 days ago • 168 comments

Any other mystery/crime readers out there? Do you know there’s a feed where we can talk books & gossip about authors? Maybe if we’re really nice we can get @ellygriffiths.bsky.social to spill a secret about her new book. Join me on the Mystery feed! (Click & pin.) ⚡️📚💙 bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

submitted 34 days ago • 90 comments

A moving tribute for a brilliant filmmaker.

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Finished C J Sansom's Lamentation (excellent). Starting Robert Harris's An Officer And A Spy about the Dreyfus scandal, and also Elephant In The Stadium by Arunabha Sengupta, about India's first series win in England in 1971. (Cricket, for any US followers!)

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 45 days ago • 443 comments

Every single thing that everybody suddenly wants to do in Greenland - mine for minerals! use shipping lanes! set up bases! - can be done right now, while Greenland is part of Denmark. The discussion of "occupying" Greenland is just a pointless piece of aggression towards an ally.

submitted 45 days ago • 653 comments

OK. So, Im here. This is my first Bluesky post. I should probably make it memorable. OR... I could just post this rakish picture of me eating a slice of cake... If you don't know me, I write crime novels. See my website: www.vaseemkhan.com . If you do know me, help me connect & tell me what to do.

submitted 47 days ago • 18 comments