Another Inventory cracker - and what a wonderful record this is!!

Some lovely little @renardpress.com books spotted in the wild yesterday at the equally lovely @dauntbooks.bsky.social ! 😊📚💙

On the blog today, a fascinating new release from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in which Gorky shares his memories of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev - translated by Bryan Karetnyk - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/w...

A while back @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social @johnwilliams.bsky.social discussed starter libraries—which inspired me to imagine my own eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/10/01/a...

September was a brilliant month for reading - here's a picture of what I enjoyed, and you can read more about them, plus plans for October, here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s...

I'm in the town where the author of Das Passagen-Werk, fearing the Spanish authorities would not grant him passage into Spain, requested passage from Charon instead. The Walter Benjamin memorial monument, aptly titled "Passages" is an underground stairway leading to the sea.

NEXT BOOK PROJECT. We could do with a little help. We've gone live with our @crowdfunder.bsky.social today! Please do help us spread the word, Mr Schwitters is a remarkable book, he was a remarkable man. There are some lovely rewards. Huge thanks www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo... #BookSky

Final review of the month on the Ramblings today, and it's another marvellous reissue from @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social "AndSo Did I" by #malachiwhitaker with a foreword by Catherine Taylor - a wonderful read!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

September Summary and Settling In findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s... > via @marinasofia.bsky.social

Getting great feedback for this; a long read that took me a long time to pull together!

Really interesting use of first/third person narrative voice as well as cleverly arranged chronology. Looking forward to volume 2.

I Want to Break Free* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/09/25/i...

My final read for #shortstoryseptember is a remarkable collection by Rosalind Brackenbury, reissued by Michael Walmer - No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Why she’s not better known is beyond me! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

Looking After Your Books by @francescagalligan.bsky.social - out now!

GenAl slop is the current bane of every reader everywhere. Someone I know, and value, got tricked into actually buying one of those books. I usually reviews those quietly on GR & Amazon, to warn people. But in this instance I'm making an exception. Why? It's in the review - okay it's more a rant.

On the blog today - a new book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing which is perfect for any booklover - Looking After Your Books! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, enjoy this angry diatribe, support the podcast. This week: Chiffchaff > Chillout. www.patreon.com/backlisted

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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For #spinsterseptember I return to the wonderful writing of #AnitaBrookner with her third novel, Look At Me - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/i...

Today on my blog: margot-kin-berg.com/2025/09/20/a...

Three short #Gothick romances by #MaryShelley: ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-J9

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Busy recently, so I haven't been online much, but in November I'm hoping to be more active to help with this year's #GermanLitMonth - here's the badge, with a building you may recognise :)

On the blog today, a stunning book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing - "Mapping the North" - if you love maps, you've love this!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/m...

On the Ramblings today, another read for #shortstoryseptember - a fascinating collection of works by Eileen Chang in a lovely #PenguinArchive volume. Definitely want to read more by her now! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/s...

Who doesn’t love a festive mystery? #BookSky 💙📚

From The Gulag Archipelago to Khrushchev Remembers, Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of The Death of Stalin, chooses the five best books on the Soviet Union for FiveBooks @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

On the blog today, I reach the penultimate book in my #Moomin80 readalong with @lyzzybee.bsky.social - and it seems that many more of the characters are at sea than just Moominpappa!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/m...

Available now to Patreon subscribers! www.patreon.com/backlisted

Surely everyone on Bluesky is a Backlisted Patreon subscriber? If not, correct that terrible oversight as soon as funds allow.

Time to share a few nice recent #bookish arrivals! First up, courtesy the author Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social "Ring the Hill" - current reading and loving it!

On the Ramblings today! A book which qualifies for #spinsterseptember AND #shortstoryseptember - and, oh joy, it's Miss Marple!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t...

There's a new cat in town - well, the cat's translator, anyway! So how does Nick Bradley's version of Natsume Sōseki's 'I Am a Cat' compare to Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson's version? Well, I can't promise a definitive answer, but... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/i...

#ANote_2025 #BookSky 💙📚

On @shinynewbooks.bsky.social today, I have a new review - the marvellous "Lowest Common Denominator" by Pirkko Saisio shinynewbooks.co.uk/lowest-commo...

@bethlcampbell.bsky.social reviews Kerri Andrews’ ambitious edited collection, Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024): modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

On the blog today, my thoughts on a fascinating new essay from @nottinghilleds.bsky.social by Tom McCarthy exploring the writing of Ingeborg Bachmann - and much more! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/s...

ICYMI I wrote about the latest novel from Dutch writer Gerrand Bakker, tr. by David Colmer @archipelagobooks.bsky.social The reluctant barber: The Hairdresser’s Son by Gerbrand Bakker roughghosts.com/2025/09/07/t...

On the Ramblings today - my journey through the #Duluozlegend takes me to the wonderfully titled And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Kerouac and Burroughs - what a read! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/d...

Look for our ad for the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in the next issue of @nybooks.com

Another wonderful instalment - Inventory is about so much more than a record collection! 😊

This week on @puncturedlines.bsky.social read an excerpt from Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction by @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social -- the first academic volume devoted to ex-Soviet Jews living and writing in the US, where the largest number of such immigrants resides.

The light is sufficient to perceive the motions of prayer and the place cool. -Basil Bunting, from "The Spoils"

On the blog today, a fascinating book by Sheila Fitzgerald which covers the complex history of the Soviet Union in concise fashion! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/c...

Such a good episode!!!

This is (another!) really good one.