Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Yesterday's Word Count = 533 Moving on...

Ah ha! A REMARKABLE PLACE TO DIE tricked me - she IS the wayward daughter,

I’m heading out to…. youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fi...

I'm a big fan of Ben Atrariulovtich. He should team up with that thriller writer, A Fimery Sweltine, they'd be great together. 🤖

If you're going to illegally post my audio book at least take a bit more care with the cover.

Yesterday's Word Count = 829 Just to clarify these are all books that I have read (although I am currently rereading Excession) showing the covers I originally read them under. At the moment I'm in research mode and reading MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER by ADAM BECKER.

¡Empieza la cuenta atrás para el #Festival42 en BCN! Tendremos nuestros autores @annasmithspark.bsky.social y @benaaronovitch.bsky.social en varios eventos a partir del 6/11. En el enlace tenéis todos los actos (y firmarán al acabar las charlas).😎 www.barcelona.cat/festival42/es

📚 @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , aclamado autor de la serie "Ríos de Londres", es uno de los invitados este año al #Festival42 y estará en @fabraicoats.bsky.social en dos mesas: 📆 Jueves 6 de noviembre - 17:15h 📆 Viernes 7 de noviembre - 16:00h 📌 Fabra i Coats. Sala 1 (Planta baja) ✨

Y también estará en el +42 🙌 Presentación y firma de libros de @benaaronovitch.bsky.social en @gigamesh.com, en conversación con @monicagutierrez.bsky.social y Ana Pareja de #OzEditorial ❄️📖 📆 Jueves 6 de noviembre - 19:45h 📌 Librería Gigamesh. Calle Bailén, 8 🏛️📚

ooooh dead sister - didn't even have that on the list.

The new #RiversOfLondon graphic novel slipcase set is out today from @comicstitan.bsky.social, including my story HERE BE DRAGONS based on @benaaronovitch.bsky.social's urban fantasy series, along more from Celeste Bronfman & Andrew Cartmel - details: amazon.co.uk/Rivers-Londo... 🐉🚁

New #RiversOfLondon boxset out now! zenoagency.com/news/new-riv... Written by Andrew Cartmel, @benaaronovitch.bsky.social @jmswallow.bsky.social & @celbron.bsky.social. Art by José María Beroy. Published by @comicstitan.bsky.social.

STONE & SKY by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social and TAILORED REALITIES by @brandonsanderson.com are among “The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror of 2025” according to @waterstones.bsky.social! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

Aha new TV from NZ - A REMARKABLE PLACE TO DIE - start the check list... - troubled detective? - small town? - mysterious nearby wilderness? - buried secrets (town)? - buried secrets (detective)? - wayward son/daughter?

Yesterday's Word Count = 680 I remember buying this for 25p

Yesterday's Word Count = 597 Yes he might have been writing them at speed to save New Worlds but sometimes I think, on a line by line basis, Moorcock's prose is far more elegant than in his longer, more considered work.

I thought this might be a useful way to practice my German.

Yesterday's Word Count = 675 And now - an out of context problem...

Yesterday's Word Count = 547 I don't want to get ahead of my reread so.... ...have some Harrison instead.

German 🇩🇪 research - I need a translation of 'What is the password?' preferably in an peremptory style if that makes a difference. I think it's 'Wie lautet das Passwort?' but I don't trust my German whoch is sehr bisschen.

Yesterday's Word Count = 290 Weirdly this is one of the most consistantly funny books Banks ever wrote.

Yesterday's Word Count = 569

Slovakian edition of FOXGLOVE SUMMER out now! zenoagency.com/news/ben-aar... @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Published by Slovart, translated by Oľga Kralovičová.

Gonna ask ChatGPT how to rephrase "Fuck off into the sun you fucking fuck" in more formal language.

Those of you who were interested in the Islands in WINTER'S GIFTS might find this interesting... youtu.be/pGezX_ClP6c?...

Yesterday's Word Count = 893 Let's have the optimistic* culture book. (* for a certain value of optimism)

@markbeumer.bsky.social - | Ritual Dynamics within the Christianisation of Temple Sleep in 200-700 | - I swear that is one of the most specific historical topics I have ever seen in public 🙂

Yesterday's Word Count = 984 Let's celebrate with a bit of Iain M. Banks, all that chilly Scottish irony.... brrrr refreshing.

Reminder that two #RiversOfLondon novellas by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social are included in Audible UK’s “Spooky Listens” 2-for-1 sale at the moment… • THE OCTOBER MAN: www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Octob... • WINTER’S GIFTS: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Winters-G... Published by @orionbooks.bsky.social.

German Research - if I was listing Tobias Winter in a document what would be the usual form ie: KK Tobias Winter BKA KDA (rank, name, Organisation, Department)?

Wakefield Library 📚 hooray

Passing through Thatcher country - Grantham

Heading for Wondrous Wakefield 😎

Yesterday's Word Count = 869 Time for some seventies satire.

☠️ Our library members have access to hundreds of amazing online audiobooks with uLibrary! Listen to 'Whispers Underground' by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social! For more information and to access, visit: wakefield.ulverscroftulibrary.com/help #uLibrary # Audiobooks #RiversOfLondon

If you're at Spiel Essen and are fans of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social, pop by the @chaosium.bsky.social booth where you'll find the RPG based on his Rivers of London novels! (Core rules, standalone scenarios, and the new US sourcebook) #SpielEssen2025

Yesterday's Word Count = 530 Just wrote a section of the book 5 chapters ahead of where the current completion point* (* the point in a WIP where the text is contious from start forward)

Also included in the sale is @benaaronovitch.bsky.social's WINTER'S GIFT, another novella in the #RiversOfLondon world! www.audible.co.uk/pd/Winters-G...

THE OCTOBER MAN by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is included in Audible UK's "Spooky Listens" 2-for-1 sale! www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Octob...

Yesterday's Word Count = 267 Would have been more but I did a library visit at HMP Thameside, no phones allowed so no pictures of that. Followed by enormous meal and sleep. Up now and ready to go.

Yesterday's Word Count = 382

Research - do senior fellows at OXford Universities still have flats inside their college?

But the important question is...did Oberon know him. OK I admit that historically he's more important in his own right but still... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Yesterday's Word Count = 813 The last of the big faces...

Yesterday's Word Count = 779 Man did EC Tubb write fast, mind you SF writers of that era had to if they wanted to make a living.

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,168

Yesterday's Word Count = 562 And we return to the big faces in the sky...

But souls there were...nine dozen of them... I wonder if that's where Mike Barr got the idea for CAMELOT 3000 from.

Do not despise the snake for having no horns for who is to say it will not become a dragon. So may one just man become an army. - Tonight's entertainment was nearly Monkey but I haven't seen this since I was 12.