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Here are my thoughts on everything that I read in February that wasn't from libraries. It was a good month. ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/f... #loveyourlibrary #reading #bookreview

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I read five books from libraries in February, ranging from one of the thicker—and more brilliant—19th century classics to theory of education as revolutionary praxis to a 21st-century classic of how what we remember makes us ourselves. Here's what I thought: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/l...

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This year I got some book tokens for Christmas as well as some actual, physical books! Here's how I ended up spending them. ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/p...

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2 brand-new paperbacks for free! (Well—on @waterstones.bsky.social loyalty points.) The Deep Sky as recommended by @lauratisdall.bsky.social; Bridge just because.

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I finished fourteen books in January; here's what I thought of most of them. ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/j...

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I fear to report that I have just laughed aloud while reading The Pickwick Papers, and can therefore no longer be considered young.

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Most of what I've been reading in January has been Christmas presents or secondhand purchases, but here's the scant handful of this month's library books, and what I thought: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/l... #LoveYourLibrary

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Important #DigitalFriday update, it's not just costa that has free access to the BNA! (100% not a Weatherspoons endorsement, many other venues are available)

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Two fantastic Appalachian family novels, considered together: Lee Smith's Oral History and Kaye Gibbons's A Cure for Dreams ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/t...

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More places should do this. I am 100% confident it would generate more sales/borrows than staff recommendation shelves.

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It's here! The long-awaited (lol) Best Books of 2024 according to me (by which I mean the best books I read this year, not the best books published this year). ellethinks.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/b...

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A most unprecedented development!

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Round two of considering the New Yorker Fiction Podcast short stories (plus two from the most recent editions of the magazine): ellethinks.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/s...

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Interesting thread, with lots of good points…

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One caveat: that for a variety of logistical/legal reasons PG used a lot of 19th century editions of older texts, which were often heavily bowdlerized or just aren’t reliable. In some cases this doesn’t impact much. In others it can mean something as major as “the ending of the novel is different”

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Many bodes are fored by such a notice...

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The rest of November's reading, from sci fi about bodily autonomy to neo-Victoriana to a Murakami that I actually really liked! ellethinks.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/n... #books #reading #bookreview

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OBSESSED with this. Like a Georgian version of underwear that says "Spank me" on the butt. (Or, like, "Harris Walz 2024", I guess)

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I like to claim a strong antipathy towards a) short stories, and b) absorbing fiction via audio. Still, I've been listening to the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, and... really enjoying it? Herewith, some consideration of the stories I’ve listened to so far. ellethinks.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/s...

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What's your favourite track/song with bouncy brass and/or keys? For a playsuit provisionally entitled "happy striding". Currently contains things like House of My Soul by Langhorne Slim, Shame Shame Shame by Shirley and Company, and Midnight Rider by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

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A good library month! I read the rest of the new purchases I asked them for, found the end of Mary Stewart’s original Arthurian saga (obsessed), and dipped a toe into graphic memoir. Thoughts here: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/l... #loveyourlibrary #books #reading #bookreview

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Visit to bestie @ellakirsh.bsky.social at Cambridge this weekend! 14 years ago this term, we missed the last bus back to Oxford and slept on a fellow student's floor. Things have rather improved since.

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What a great talk from Lama Elsharif, illustrating how the language used to describe C18th North African corsairs (or pirates, or privateers) was an effective tool for legitimising, glorifying, or diplomatically negotiating around them. Salutary to be reminded that vocabulary often has an agenda!

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Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter. And, hoo boy, have I got one for you. Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit. 🪡 🧵 🪡

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Bye bye, Bezos! Who do I know who's on Storygraph? I'm eleanorfranzen there, as everywhere.

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Really loving how many people are on Bluesky all of a sudden. Welcome, bleeple! This place has been a bit quiet but hopefully it'll liven up now. Come hang out with me if you want to talk(/yell) about books, writing, the C18th, historic sex work, choral music. Not usually all at once.