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#Flashback Fiction | Dylan, my hero #authorsky I was searching for a suitable flashback today, and one with Dylan crossed my search path. Apart from links to stories that featured him and his buddies, there was an extract from the BookElves Anthology featuring him. I didn't want to feature that…

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“A familiar bird sweeps along the far horizon”. Yes, this makes a nice change from random photo prompts! 💙📚✍️

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Book Review | The Clockmakers Daughter #booksky #classicfm The Clockmaker's Daughter is the first pick for a new weekend bookclub on Classic FM (Tim Lihoreau's breakfast show). Tim asked listeners to recommend a book, and got no doubles, so picked five and asked us to vote... and I was one who…

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Just as I finally work out the difference, with several Lesser Redpolls visiting my feeder the past three weeks, they go and merge the species! #UKBirding www.bto.org/community/ne...

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Book Review | The Green Kingdom #MMGM #bluesky The Green Kingdom by Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung is a fascinating new book for children/middle grades. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity of an ARC. It is due to be published on 6 March (in the UK). The Green Kingdom By…

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#guineapigs got hand-cut grass for the first time since November. Happiness reigns! Ludo, Pippin and Victor.

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#AtoZchallenge 2025 The THEME REVEAL (optional bonus hop) : March 9- 15 <BR> Official Challenge Sign-ups : March 24 to April 5 <BR> Reflections (optional bonus hop) : May 2-9 <BR> Road-trip (sign up to keep visiting others all year _ optional bonus) : Opens May 10 <BR>

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Book Review and Tour | Death at the Scottish Broch 💙📚https://jemimapett.com/blog/2025/02/15/book-review-and-tour-death-at-the-scottish-broch/

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Book Review and Tour | Death at the Scottish Broch Death at the Scottish Broch: A Mia Reid, Archaeologist, Mystery by Rose Kerr Cozy Mystery1st in SeriesSetting - Isle of Skye, ScotlandPublisher ‏ : ‎ Level Best Books (November 5, 2024)Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1685128025ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎…

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Reality screaming | #writephoto Flash Fiction #booksky Reality screaming swam into my brain shortly after reading Rebecca Douglass's review of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, a story of the people in the Great Dust Bowl. In fact the title/prompt I invented after I'd finished writing it. Then…

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Book Review | The Captain Who Broke the Rules #booksky The Captain Who Broke the Rules is the second novella in the Ptolemy Lane series. It follows the Body in the Zero-Gee Brothel. It's a quick read, but just right for when I want something light and easy after getting bogged down in a…

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Changing the Story #IWSG #authorsky Changing the story when you've already written and published it is risky. I know. I've done it. But it is the question of the month, and I couldn't think of much else to write about today, so ... Joylene Nowell Butler, Louise Barbour, and Tyrean Martinson!…

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@classicfm.bsky.social Just wondered if this might be the place to talk about Tim Liheureux’s new book club? I got The Clockmaker’s Daughter today. Hope to start it by next weekend. I think he said by the end of the month. 💙📚#classicfm #bookclub

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Book Review | The Meteorites by Helen Gordon The Meteorites is out on 6th February, and I thank Netgalley and the publishers for the chance of an ARC. I really enjoyed this book, but I thought it had some problems which needed a good edit. It also had some errors of fact, so I dropped the…

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#projectgutenberg has the Simple Sabotage Field Manual available for free in lots of formats. This document was created by the US Office of Strategic Services in the 40s to teach ordinary people how to subvert fascism in everyday life. #booksky #free #resist www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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Flashback Fiction: Willow’s Day Off #booksky I'm giving you a flashback to the early days of the Princelings stories today. Specifically, this belongs to the end of October in the Traveler in Black and White. Hugo is visiting Sowerby, up north, when Willow has to squeeze in the a visit to Vexstein…

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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. 💙📚 Book 20/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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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. 💙📚 Book 19/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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Hello from BTO Garden BirdWatch! 🏡🐦 We're the UK’s longest-running weekly citizen science survey on #GardenWildlife! We're excited to join Bluesky to chat about nature in gardens, share the latest garden and urban ecology findings, events and survey updates! 🐝🌸🌍✨ #UKBirding #Ornithology #addBirder

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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. 💙📚 Book 19/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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Book Review | The Best of Michael Moorcock #booksky I got the Best of Michael Moorcock as part of a storybundle of scifi, possibly of short stories. I read a lot of Michael Moorcock as a late teen/student, and couldn't for the life of me remember any of these characters except for Elric of…

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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. 💙📚 Book 18/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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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. 💙📚 Book 18/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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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. 💙📚 Book 17/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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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. 💙📚 Book 16/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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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. 💙📚 Book 15/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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Book Review | The Ship-Thief #MMGM The Ship-Thief was one of two books I picked up in a charity bookshop in Norfolk, first in a related series. The first one I reviewed in November, Hunting Gumnor. This is another post joining in Marvellous Middle Grade Mondays, run by Greg Pattridge at Always in…

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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. 💙📚 Book 14;20 #Books #BookChallenge

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“If you like your aliens to do different things from humans, to think differently, have other ethics, and work with alternative applications of physics, you’ll love this. If not, well, give it a try, you may change your mind.” my review of the Rosetta Mind by Claire McCague 💙📚#scifi #rosettamind

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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. 💙📚 Book 13/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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Book Review | The Rosetta Mind (Rosetta 2) #booksky The Rosetta Mind by Claire McCague is the follow-up to the marvellous Rosetta Man. I enjoyed that so much that I added this to my reading list as soon as I heard of it. Then it came out, I bought it, and started to see some fairly disappointing…

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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. 💙📚 Book 12/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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Plans for 2025 Last year finished with a bit of a wobble, as I wasn’t well enough to do the craft fairs in September. But the last one of the year, in Romsey, went very well, and with good sales of the Princelings books. The trouble with a long series is that people rarely buy more than the first…

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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. 💙📚 Book 10/20 #Books #BookChallenge

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