"There are so many ways to celebrate #NationalCrimeReadingMonth… here are just a few ideas! 🔪🩸 Got some ideas of your own? Please share in the comments!🕵🏾🫆 #Go_All_In_2026 #NCRM #TheCWA #PickUpAPageTurner "

'The Escape of Arsène Lupin' by Maurice Leblanc, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, reviewed for National Crime Reading Month, #PickUpAPageTurner. #BookSky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/l...

@gbnewsonline.bsky.social is trying to gut the #BBC. Their radical plan would force shows like Strictly and The Traitors to be axed or hidden behind a Netflix-style paywall. Sign the petition to say NO to a BBC subscription model: 38d.gs/5bgx

I just signed the campaign calling on the new Health Secretary to get #Palantir out of our #NHS! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/to-the-n...

Ofcom is investigating @gbnewsonline.bsky.social for its outrageous #Trump interview. @ofcom.bsky.social must enforce its own rules and hold them to account! Add your name to the open letter now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ofcom-st...

My review of 'Ombria in Shadow' (2002) by Patricia A McKillip for #WyrdAndWonder and #Booksky. wp.me/sezD85-omb

A post for #InternationalMuseumDay: the storeyed and the storied. #logophile #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-imd

A review and extended discussion of Iris Murdoch's 'The Black Prince' for #IrisMurdoch26. calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/tag/the-blac...

Winding Up the Week #470 bookjotter.com/2026/05/16/w... #Booklovers #AmReading #Books #BookReview #Reading #bookbloggers #parisinjuly2026 @wordsandpeace.bsky.social @scholar1977.bsky.social @rhapsodybooks.bsky.social @calmgrove.bsky.social @debutiful.bsky.social @bookmunch.bsky.social

My review of 'Rose/House' by #ArkadyMartine for #WyrdAndWonder #Booksky. wp.me/sezD85-rose

My review of 'Travel Light' by Naomi Mitchison for #WyrdAndWonder. #BookSky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/h...

A defence of SF from the late #ChristopherPriest and his indebtedness to #BrianAldiss and #JohnChristopher. christopher-priest.co.uk/here-it-bega...

Another Iris Murdoch re-read, I managed to fit in "A Severed Head" for #1961Week - hooray! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/b... #booksky 💙📚

My review of 'The Black Prince' (1973) by Iris Murdoch for #ReadingTheTheatre and #IrisMurdoch26. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/bp/

@uklabour.bsky.social Much as I respect and applaud what #KeirStarmer is doing in virtually every other area, I'm confused and appalled at his appeasing of #Netanyahu and #Trump's genocidal policies. You can't appease bullies by pretending to be friends, they despise you and will betray you.

My discussion for #ReadingTheTheatre of ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘ (1982) and ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (1982), short stories by Angela Carter in her 1985 collection, Black Venus. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mnd

#Brexit has failed, and everyone knows it. Remember, Farage's #UKIP promoted it, Farage's Brexit Party championed it, then Farage's #ReformUK claimed it had failed, and now wants to reduce Wales to the equivalent of an English county. #ReformAreNotYourFriends www.threads.com/@steven.cook...

To celebrate #ShalespeareDay and #WorldBookDay, 'A Vorpal Blade: my review of 'Shakespeare’s Sword' by Alan Judd. #BookSky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/s...

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

"Mischiefs feed like beasts": review of 'Volpone, or The Foxe: A Comedie' by Ben Jonson for #ReadingTheTheatre. wp.me/p2oNj1-84R

Magic Flutes by #EvaIbbotson. Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009). #ReadingTheTheatre wp.me/p2oNj1-82s

#BookSky Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025. wp.me/pezD85-j4

'A Doll’s House' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen: my review of 'Et dukkehjem' for #ReadingTheTheatre. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-adh

April is a good month to read fiction, biographies, playscripts and studies about theatre, drama and those who tread the boards. #ReadingTheTheatre wp.me/sezD85-stage

#ReadingTheTheatre Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky wp.me/sezD85-cursd

'A Doll’s House' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen: my review of 'Et dukkehjem' for #ReadingTheTheatre. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-adh

@kat4obama.bsky.social Thought you might like this view of late sunshine in mid-April in our colourful but untidy garden. 🙂

Two children's classics from 1961: reviews of Else Holmelund Minarik's 'Little Bear's Visit' and Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach' for the #1961Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-jgp

Hosted by @stuckinabook.bsky.social and myself, the #1961club starts today! Share your posts on my dedicated page here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/club-pages/1... and on Simon's blog! www.stuckinabook.com

'A Stranger at Green Knowe' (1961) by Lucy M Boston, reviewed for the #1961Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-sgk

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

In my 1960s childhood, Garner's books provided a bridge from oral storytelling to literature. The dynamic between those two traditions made me the author I am. #booksky #writingcommunity

My review of 'Elidor' (1965) by Alan Garner, illustrated by Charles Keeping, for #InternationalUnicornDay. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-ldr

My review of 'The Comforters' (1957) by #MurielSpark, introduced by Ali Smith. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-comf

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

My review of 'Rufus' (1969), a children's book by #CatherineStorr, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

#OTD 'Sicut Camelus: the Life of St Meontologia of Nephelococcygia' – my review of the Vita of an obscure Egyptian saints, whose feast day is today. #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-1aU

My review of 'The White Goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth', by Robert Graves. #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-twg

Did you watch #Channel4's Dirty Business series and can't believe how much water companies have got away with? They're putting profit before public health; it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of #sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

BBC News: Farage pauses Cameo account "for security reasons," says Reform UK. A spokesman declaring he recorded messages "without knowledge of the individuals involved beyond what is written for him" is both disingenuous and risible, even mendacious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My review of 'Love and Summer' by William Trevor, read for #ReadingIrelandMonth26. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-rath

@aonghusfallon.bsky.social Good to put a face to a name, and an excellent reminder that I need to acquire some more Fallon to read over this summer – it's been too long!

My review of 'I Saw a Man' by Owen Sheers for #ReadingWales. #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-18u

An overview, preparatory to a planned read, of 'Changeover', the 1970 novel by #DianaWynneJones that reflected Britain's relinquishing of Empire in the 1960s as well as her own mischievous wit and humour. #MarchMagics2026 #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-never

Please keep writing letters to help save Prescott House Museum & books, arts, culture, tourism, and heritage in Nova Scotia sarahemsley.com/2026/03/13/p... via @sarahemsley.bsky.social

Repost of a review of 'Howl’s Moving Castle' (1986) by #DianaWynneJones. #MarchMagics2026 #Booksky wp.me/s2oNj1-howl

My review of 'Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic: The Graphic Novel', the first #Discworld #graphicnovel for #MarchMagics2026. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-tcom

Teeth too big for his mouth still he spits out bile with a laugh, close-lidded eyes concealing disdain for a populace he leads by the nose. Spared grillings by broadcasting ninnies, cocking a snook at all and sundry, a joke of a man, yet as serious a threat [...] #poem #Farage wp.me/p4H9zI-lk

#Trump: A repost from 2018, to which we could add 'murdering', 'pædophile' and 'warmongering'. Bears repeating, and remembering. Forever. wp.me/p4H9zI-iW

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only. It's got to be Voldemort, surely?