I hope my review will inspire you to read these books. It's as simple as that. books.beledit.com/the-forcing-trilogy/ #BookReview #SpecFic #Climate @orendabooks.bsky.social 💙📚

I just had fun writing an 88-word sentence at the end of one of my book reviews. Yes, editors (editors never really 'retire') are word-nerds! If you do spot a mistake, let's have a long and detailed discussion about it ;-)

A single rose bush stretches 10 m from its trunk around the corner. The only 'fertiliser' it ever gets is the coffee grounds we dump under it every few days. It seems to like them.

I’m slowly catching up on my backlog of reviews. For fans of historical fiction, plunge into the world of Rembrandt and 17th century Amsterdam, with Barbara Leahy’s sumptuous debut novel: books.beledit.com/rembrandts-p... #BookReview #HistFic @barbleahy.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social 💙📚

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It doesn't matter if we all become woke socialists, survive on heirloom tomatoes and offer free tree hugs. As long as we need 1.7 Earths to continue to exist, we are a species that is about to become a fossil." www.amazon.com/Biology-Coll...

Really interesting, well worth the read

Like many old folks, I too mourn the 'old' internet, but few things I've read recently have cheered me up as much as this. If you also feel kinda guilty that you 'still' love the internet, this will make you feel better 😁. It may have been subverted but there's still hope!

LAST WEEK TO VOTE!⏳ We’d love your support for @essiefox.bsky.social's #Dangerous, nominated for Historical Crime Book of the Year 2026 in @capitalcrime.bsky.social’s Fingerprint Awards!🤩 Lord Byron. Venice. Scandal. Murder. What more could you want? VOTE NOW! shorturl.at/Tq0iB #TeamOrenda

The Forcing by Paul Hardisty is all about this. A good read but so close to the bone it hurts #TheForcingTrilogy

Unputdownable! Had an early night last night, reading The Forcing before going to sleep. After 2 attempts, finally managed to put it down 4.5 hours later, at 3.25 am. Couldn't stop thinking about it and eventually took a sleeping pill. So now I'm exhausted. Thanks a bunch!

I'm boycotting #eurovision but I wish I didn't have to. Fuck Israel. Genocide should be a valid reason for 'making it political'

As a fan of dystopian novels, the more 'realistic' the better, this definitely sounds like a series worth reading! I just bought book 1, currently on special offer.

Buy it today! If you've been living under a rock, you might have missed Tana French's latest. It soars above most contemporary [crime] fiction: books.beledit.com/the-keeper-t... #BookReview #CrimeFiction @vikingbooks.bsky.social 💙📚

At a funeral this morning, had to feel sorry for the African priests reduced to doing funerals for old white people in nearly-empty damp, cold churches in northern Europe. I'm happy to see signs of the Catholic church dying out (fuck religion), but hey, they must get depressed.

Very difficult to credit. My take? Insider job to halt the event - no way was Fuckwit Unstable Pedophile Evil Bellicose Narcissist With Ultrafragile Ego going to be able to handle people openly laughing at him. They had to prevent it.

Pretty sure my Uncle (Aunt?) Vincent, who died at age 9, circa 1930, was trans. One of 5 children (siblings: 2 boys and 2 girls) in Cork, Ireland, a photo shows him/her with elbow-length hair in ringlets and a ribbon, dressed entirely in girl's clothes. Parents were a train driver and housewife.

Deadlock over. The EU just cleared way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package. Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost. We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.

Discovered a very entertaining Bluesky account today!

AI text checkers are NOT reliable! I ran a review I wrote yesterday - 100% me, in my words, my own style, very typically "me", untouched by AI. A checker tells me that my text was '96% likely' to have been written by AI. Bad enough writers are using AI, but even worse to be unjustly accused of it.

🎶 If you wish that he were gone Clap your hands If you wish that he were gone Clap your hands If you wish that he were gone Very permanently gone If you wish that he were gone Clap your hands 👏👏 🎶

One day, the war crimes Israel has committed will be counted. History will judge them. The crimes still are being committed. Israel has slaughtered unknown thousands in Palestine and now Lebanon. The world should be acting to save innocent lives. The Hague should be judging them, now.

That's a perfect way to express it. Having to be hyperalert to assess risks is literally PTSD.

For those interested in psychology and the psychotherapeutic process, Dr Gwen Adshead's #Unspeakable is essential reading! Moving, thought-provoking and informative. books.beledit.com/unspeakable #BookReview #NonFiction @faberbooks.bsky.social 💙📚

No words.

EU citizens, YOUR VOICE MATTERS. Stop EU trade with war criminals. Sign the Justice for Palestine petition. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

"the State Department was... gutted - Middle East and Iran - with more than 3,800 employees shown the door, including the bulk of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, its dedicated Iran office, 13 Arabic speakers, and four Farsi speakers." So Fuckwit sent these guys instead of qualified negotiators.

Kushner and Witkoff a couple of corrupt real estate clowns as internationa negotitators. How stupid. These bumbling clowns were so inept Iran's hardliners could barely keep straight faces www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Of course nearly everyone stopped talking about the epstein files, so there's that.

The worse Pedophile Trump gets, the more I abhor everyone who is defending, enabling and not stopping him.

An advantage of a poor memory is the chance of rereading a once-loved novel and it's like reading it for the first time. Thoroughly enjoying Margaret Oliphant's Hester.

Insane that the day has come when MTG posts something on X and I'm thinking "💯". Insane that Trump is hinting at the unthinkable and nobody is stopping him. Really hard to organise all the insane stuff happening in order of how bad it is

Hey @gutenberg.org ,now might be a great time to publish The Mortal Storm (1938) by Phyllis Bottome!

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The year 2000 is coming.
And not everyone will survive it. #Blackwater by Sarah Sultoon is OUT NOW😱 ORDER BELOW
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#Entheóphage Though-provoking impending-climate-collapse speculative fiction, perfect for fans of 'realistic' sci-fi. books.beledit.com/entheophage #BookReview #SpeculativeFiction @dremadeoraich.bsky.social 💙📚

This one might hurt. #AssemblingAilish Deeply moving debut from Sharon Guard, read by Shelley Atkinson. books.beledit.com/assembling-a... #BookReview #LitFic 💙📚 @BolindaAudio

If you enjoy zombie novels, I recommend these. Set in the UK they are action packed and gripping!

Odd subtitles to the hymn being sung for the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Mulally

Not short, but this article is one of the most interesting (and readable) things I've read in a long time; debunking myths about life in medieval times. Well worth reading, so grab a coffee and settle in! The information was not all new to me but the sources are.

"My damn parents 'disappeared' the mouse I gave them. That's gratitude for you."

“The European Commission is preparing to exclude the European Parliament from a reform of the EU's chemical #safety rules, abandoning a six-year project to overhaul the laws…the normal route… a major win for the EU’s influential #chemicals lobby” #REACH #deregulation www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...

‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine? | Press freedom | The Guardian share.google/fbQmD7qIP9Bu... #Palantir

Nothing can be ruled out while that insane sociopath and his bootlickers retain power

Looking for European accounts to follow? #euroskyff

A message for 🇪🇺President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and 🇩🇪Chancellor Merz: "You can't support those who set the world on fire and then blame the smoke caused by the fire." In an era where most of Europe's leaders are so spineless, Pedro Sanchez really stands out.

Bjorn, our favourite legal psychopath, is back, discovering how mindfulness and working with his inner child can help solve so many problems! books.beledit.com/inner-child-... #BookReview #Books 💙📚

Reminder: You can take steps to protect your social identity, no matter where your account is hosted. With a rotation key and backups, your PDS going down is just a bump in the road. I wrote a bit on it here

And now I realise I never did get around to publishing my review of Laura Shepherd-Robinson's previous book! Better late than never, here it is! books.beledit.com/the-square-of-sevens/. #BookReview #HistoricalFiction 💙📚 @laurasrobinson.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social