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People who think books are information delivery systems aren't reading the right books.

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You know how when Fish left Marillion they got a new singer? They could’ve done one of those ‘search for a star’ TV shows: Who Wants To Be A Marillion Heir?

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My father and I have told each other we're OK so that's us good for another year.

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Carlo Gebler recalling his Stakhanovite mother, Edna O’Brien, her “Colette-esque responsiveness” and experimenting with LSD - great way to kick off the day at the #dbf2025 in Dalkey at - where else - Finnegans

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

PREMIER INN, IF YOU ARE STAYING IN A HOTEL IT IS NOT A STAYCATION.

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Until recently, my husband was working for the BBC Archive team. Brilliant stuff on there, so of course it's been wound down. youtu.be/1x0heeBTUFc?...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

This looks like the cover of their third album

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i don't know about you guys but i think Trump's first six months have gone pretty well

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I enjoyed Lee Cole’s novel Fulfillment [sic - US spelling], with its fizzy energy of people on the make - even if they don’t really know what they want - and its astute ear for the verbal racket of modern life, even if you can sometimes hear the clunk of the author pulling the levers of the plot.

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Any agents/editors in this line follow me?

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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz346bs

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I asked “What do you do with books you don’t want anymore?" More than 600 people responded: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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Genuinely thought there was a rabbit in the grounds of the school I walked past earlier.

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Listening to Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief, an album I’ve long mentally filed as underrated, to discover that it is in fact accurately rated.

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"Did you get that picture of JRR Tolkien for the calendar?" "Yeah, all sexy just like you asked for." "Sorry, what...?" (H/t @kaiserofcrisps.bsky.social )

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[Killing Me Softly voice] Chessington World Of Adventures

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RECREATE the joy of buying cinema popcorn by pouring melted margarine over some polystyrene and setting fire to a £20 note.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

“A holiday wouldn’t do any good, or make any difference. I should have to take myself with me.” Not quite sure how this book is so much better the second time around. Sadder, funnier, more layered. Books, eh.

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Questions for the age: what is the singular of Munchies? Munchy? Munchie?

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