Some thoughts on They by Helle Helle www.stuckinabook.com/they-by-hell...

Something a little different for today's post as I take a deep dive into 'The Confucius Chronicles' (translated and edited by Wai-yee Li, courtesy of Columbia University Press): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/t...

‘Is Uncle Brendan coming?’ asked Rae. ‘Uncle Brendan has no decent suit to put on. Besides he once said he didn’t like the sea. It makes him want to drown himself.’ ‘I’ll come,’ said Adam, shaking his head. ‘I’ll come and drown myself instead.’ #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/a...

'It was incredible how much litter could gather in one small house in one day. It would have been simpler to burn the place down and start afresh, but the insurance policy had run out.' #BookSky 💙📚 #AgnesOwens #BornOnThisDay #BOTD jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/a...

"...there is no reason for anything to be real." #angelacarter #blackvenus kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/t...

Old Soldiers by Paul Bailey is an exceptional little tour de force - odd, funny, moving www.stuckinabook.com/old-soldiers...

Today on the blog, the second (and equally fascinating) book from @oldstpublishing.bsky.social on controversial art exhibitions! "...an insult to the taste of the English people." #ArtQuake1910 #oldstreetpublishing kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/a...

From the archive for the Russian writer Teffi, #BornOnThisDay in 1872, thoughts on RASPUTIN AND OTHER IRONIES (tr Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France, Anne Marie Jackson). 💙📚 A marvellous collection of writing, by turns ironic, insightful & poignant! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/r...

The audio version of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: Depression, Curtis Mayfield, and why - IMIO - we are better off listening to him than to Fearne Cotton. Keep on keeping on at www.patreon.com/backlisted.

On the blog today, the first of two brilliant art books from @oldstpublishing.bsky.social "It is a dance, a collaboration, this outrage". #degenerateart @OldStPublishing kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/i...

On the Ramblings today - a stunning Scottish poet! "To find the music of the words..." #williamjtait #adaybetweentheweathers kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/t...

Tremendous obituary for Ian Watson from Lisa Tuttle. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

ABBA AC/DC Arthur Alexander American Music Club The Apples in stereo Neil Ardley Harold Arlen Virginia Astley Pete Astor Aztec Camera

As ever, a magnificent piece of writing. Funny, poetic, moving and profound.

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: Keep On Keeping On: The Beautiful Lies of Curtis Mayfield. www.patreon.com/backlisted

To accompany this INVENTORY, I made a playlist of Curtis Mayfield's best depression-defying, 'keep going, move on up, you've got this, we've got this', songs. Listen here and feel better. cc. @backlisted.bsky.social @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social open.spotify.com/playlist/4H1...

YVONNE'S SHORTIES #569 - The Happiest Man On Earth // The Possession Of Alba Diaz melovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/y... via @yvoaboutbooks.bsky.social

In which I am slightly underwhelmed by a book... "But sometimes, though rarely, some men go out never to return." #theruinedmap kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/b...

Uncharacteristically, I read a book with 'horror' in the title THREE times www.stuckinabook.com/horror-horro...

20 Books of Summer 2026 – my list. #20BOS26 Annabel is hosting 20 Books of Summer again! Thank you! This is a blogging event when a reader decides to read 10, 15 or 20 books from June 1st to August 31st. So, 20 Books of Summer it is for me and 20 Books of Winter it is for our friends from down…

Life in a dictatorship - over @shinynewbooks kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/l...

On the blog today - an intriguing look at Kafka through the lens of his translators! "...the self and the other always meet in the end..." #kafkaesque kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/t...

For the afternoon crowd, I have a somewhat mixed response to a pioneering woman journalist...

"Some call this equality." #nelliebly kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/s...

‘It was so hot. I could feel sweat trickling down my face. The music blared & stopped. Faces popped on and off like lamps. Mouths clapped up & down; words shot in and out, but the room full of people seemed to have escaped me. I could not reach in to it.‘ 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/t...

I awake and realise what an excellent visual metaphor this is. What Reform supporters think they're voting for/what they'll get.

"The reality was no doubt much more complex than this summary". #borges kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

For the evening crowd, my thoughts on Cynics by Anatoly Marienhof, brilliantly translated by Bryan Karetnyk are over @shinynewbooks : shinynewbooks.co.uk/cynics-by-anatoly-marienhof/

A rediscovered Soviet satire - over at #shinynewbooks! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/a...

"Hell is for your edification and wisdom" #ashortstayinhell kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/h...

📣This Radical May, get 50% off all books from Pluto Press📣 Shop the sale now until May 14th: www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...

"I'd rather spend time with the living." #julianbarnes #nothingtobefrightenedof kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/i...

Winding Up the Week #468 bookjotter.com/2026/05/02/w... #AmReading #Books #BookReview #Reading #bookbloggers #InternationalHarryPotterDay #WriteAReviewDay #1949Club #IrishLitNews @kaggsy59.bsky.social @cathybrown746.bsky.social @shereadsnovels.bsky.social

An amazing April full of good books! 😊📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/a...

'Mrs. Willow was a large and overwhelmingly vocal woman, with a great bosom and an indefinable air of having lost some vital possession down the front of it, for she shook and trembled and regarded herself with such enthusiasm...' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/t...

Most of us want to see our water back in public hands, but never actually had a say. That’s why I’ve signed this petition calling for a referendum on water ownership. Can you help reach 100,000 signatures so it gets considered for debate in Parliament? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Just finished reading Diana Wynne Jones' 'Fire and Hemlock'. Very interesting and complex story. My review is here. #DianaWynneJones #ChildrensLiterature #Fantasy vishytheknight.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/b...

It's Chapter 26, 'Tokonatsu', of 'The Tale of Genji' on the blog today, in which we meet an interesting new character. But what's with the dice, you ask? Well, read the post, and find out ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: 'It's Amazing to be Young' by Fontaines D.C., and matters arising from the group's sheer bloody competence. www.patreon.com/backlisted

On the blog today, a brilliant reissue from @blpublishing.bsky.social "I've never known you take a case so casually." #leobruce #carolusdeene kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/i...

“I have also given some considerable thought to my own costume for the occasion; it is going to be in shocking bad taste, but of course it is for my last public appearance. I think to sit on the terrace under a gold canopy.” “Disgraceful,” Aunt Fanny said. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/t...

"...you didn't get to be a Communist without learning to ignore what was in front of your face." #alexeisayle kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/y...

'Mevagissey, Cornwall.' (c1914) Like many female artists working at the beginning of the 20thC, Doris Zinkeisen’s work traversed the boundaries between fine and decorative art; she was one of the first artists to enter the Belsen camp in April 1945.

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

THE PERFECT CIRCLE by CLAUDIA PETRUCCI and translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel via @worldedbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful, not perfect, read: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Kicking off the blog tour for The Future of Fraud! @melvillehouse.bsky.social kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/k...

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: Faith by the Cure, the soundtrack to my quinquage rampage. www.patreon.com/backlisted

On the Ramblings today - an unnerving pair of Nightjar chapbooks! @nightjarpress.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social "Death, after all, is not a great thing to want for." #nightjarpress kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/d...

While THE CHILDREN’S HOUR looks at the damage gossip and hearsay could do, especially when manipulated by vindictive individuals, VICTIM explores blackmail, extortion and criminality. A fascinating pairing from my #1961Club viewing! (3/3) #FilmSky @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social

The #1961Club comes to an end - but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t...