Birthday gift from the husband rescued me from my holiday reading slump. Shame I finished it in 24 hours and it didn't last longer 😅 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading

Playing my favourite game, can you guess the titles of these blind book dates? Pretty sure the first is The Road by Cormac Mccarthy... #Booksky

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.." - Upper Street Bookshop near Angel, London

A dystopian novel won the YA Booker Prize... More signs of a comeback for the genre?? 👀 #booksky #authorsky www.thebookseller.com/news/moira-b...

Lekker boekje lezen, koffie drinken bij een Amsterdaamse gracht ☀️☀️ And yes this book is just as good as everyone is saying it is! 5✨ #Booksky #travelsky

Back in the Netherlands for the weekend and couldn't resist stopping by Amsterdam for a quick visit. 📚🇳🇱🇳🇱 #travelsky

🌡️ Europe’s #heatwaves are reshaping demand for air conditioning — only 20% of households have AC, but that’s changing. ⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked. Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3

Can't believe I've been in London this long and never visited the Notting Hill Bookshop before. #Booksky

It was a musical weekend with first Evita and then the Devil Wears Prada musical on Saturday. Definitely brought back the nostalgia seeing the movie play out on stage. 💃🏾💃🏾

Completley blown away by every single actor and the production of Evita. Rachel Zegler's voice was breathtaking, she completely owned that role. Diego Andres Rodriguez as the narrator was incredible. That standing ovation went on for ages! #Evita

Absolutely stunning views in Taormina 😍☀️☀️ #travelsky

The food markets in Sicily, Palermo are everything 😍 #travelsky

Really enjoying buddy reading Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood with my sister. I get most of my book recommendations from Olivia-Savannah and I loved her idea of reading this Sicily set romance during our family holiday to Sicily! ❤️☀️🍋 #Booksky #amreading

In the world of afrofuturism, the sankofa is a key image. Ytasha L. Womack writes the word sankofa means to "retrieve," it's about "looking back to go forward," signifying a way to the future by "remembering the past." 1/ #booksky #writingcommunity

It was so great to see Maggie Stiefvater talk about luxury and the themes behind her new novel The Listeners. I love reading historical fiction that introduces me to a new element of WWII that I wasn't aware of, and then there are the captivating characters too. Loved it! #Booksky

Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park was the first self-governing town of formerly enslaved people in the country, according to the nonprofit that runs it. Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.

So my question on this is, if #AI is analysing manuscripts and providing assessments for editors on structure and pace etc. what about the manuscripts that blend genres? Stories that adopt abnormal structures and experiment with dialogue and narrative?

When a five star read leads you to another five star book 😍 Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky

Weekend break = weekend treat 🎁📚 #Booksky #amreading

A day off work means time for a long walk & iced coffee & cake & writing ✍🏾☕ #amwriting #authorsky

Love starting the week with a new book. Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun is already giving me all the expansive, escapist worldbuilding I could hope for. What's everyone else reading this bank holiday Monday? #Booksky #amreading

Investment has been pouring in for data centers the powerful computer processing facilities that are responsible for everything to making sure your Teams meeting runs smoothly to training #AI applications. Earlier this month I travelled to Portugal to visit one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUJ... #tech

I've got two hours to kill after work and before I meet up with friends for a dinner date. What to do... What to do... 🤔

"The war of my life had begun and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered." At times a very harrowing listen, Harriet Jacob's story is truly incredible. #Booksky #amreading

The Home Office has agreed to fly home Winston Knight, 64, a member of the Windrush generation who lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live on the streets of Jamaica in horrific conditions for more than a decade www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Made it my personal goal to convince as many people as I can in the office to go watch the #Sinners movie. It's working so far.. 😏

Love the subtle humour in Martha Wells' Murderbot series. Murderbot's obsession with binge watching TV is just too relatable 😅 #booksky #amreading

For years, data centers have strained local water supplies. The AI boom has made this issue much worse.

Started a new writing goal: 300 words a day. So far I've actually gone over the target every day. But I'm not going to increase the word count just yet. Turns out the daily goal is mostly useful in just making sure I make it to my desk. When I'm there, the writing flows. #writing #authors

Particularly loving this anthology of black horror because it's introducing me to so many new writers. Already adding books from Erin E. Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse and Lesley Nneka Arimah to my TBR. #Booksky #amreading

Still thinking about that transcendental blues scene in #Sinners. It made me feel so happy because a genre I LOVE - horror/speculative fiction/afrofuturism - was executed so fantastically. But sad because I fear that the hype will be fleeting or that it won't cross over to other media. 1/

The rest of my Jamaica reads: A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay and Trisha Tobias' Honeysuckle and Bone. I fell in love with the grumpy Miss Pauline and enjoyed discovering the mystery behind her moving stone house. 🇯🇲🇯🇲 #Booksky

New favourite thing: When authors share the music they listened to while writing their novel. Still have Fiasco's Drogas Wave album on repeat after P. Djeli Clark mentioned it at the end of Ring Shout, and now I'm enjoying reggae tunes that inspired Alex Wheatle's Cane Warriors ☺️🎶🎵#booksky

Just watched #Sinners movie and it's hard to put into words how good this film is. That blues scene, the music, the characters, the singing... 10/10! As an afrofuturism fan, it's so exciting and encouraging to see this kind of storytelling win. More please!

There are so many caves in Jamaica, during our trip we visited the Green Grotto Caves which date way back to the 17th century, used by the Arawak Indians (Tainos), the Spanish when they hid from the British and smugglers running arms to Cuba. We spotted snakes and sleeping "rat bats" 🦇 #travelsky

Lately I've been reading alot about the Maroons, former slaves who escaped plantations to form their own communities. This week I visited Maroon village Accompong town in Jamaica. Descendants of the Maroons welcomed us into their community and shared the history of their people.

Can you guess why this is called the "dead and wake" or "shame" plant? 🇯🇲🇯🇲 #travelsky

Finally in Jamaica when mangoes are in season! Deep in cockpit country, we saw it all from ackee trees, plaintain trees, mango and breadfruit trees and sugar cane. 🥭🌴🌴

What makes Black Mirror such uncomfortable viewing is that the concepts are so close to our own reality. I knew that in Common People, ads and exclusive subscriptions would be a thing before I saw it happen, it's just too real, almost like we're too aware of how tech can be used to exploit 😬

Loving the emergence of this horror / body-horror trend. For me it all started with Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland which I can't recommend enough! #booksky www.thebookseller.com/news/sporror...

Finally watched Anora and it really is good. Felt almost like 3 movies in one, loved the comedy switch in the middle and then that ending that took the story to a much deeper place.

my most absurd strong belief is that no one can truly understand what we’re living through right now if they haven’t read this essay by Walter Ong on oral cultures and how writing restructures our minds: www.bc.edu/content/dam/...

Tens of thousands rally against Trump at DC ‘Hands Off’ protest

It's been a while since I enjoyed a Shakespeare adaptation this much. Much Ado About Nothing was funny and entertaining, great chemistry and banter between Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell. I'd watch it again!

Love loved the All About Love exhibition of Mikalene Thomas' works at Southbank Centre's Hayward Gallery 💕

How many books did I buy during my five day trip to New York? A lot! Or not enough depending on which way you look at it... Have you read any of these books? #Booksky

My New York read was Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle. A bit slow going in places but I loved reading about Harlem in the 1960's – Striver's Row and Riverside and then visiting these streets on a walking tour and seeing how different it is today. #travelsky

The skyline in New York is something else 😍 #travelsky

18 miles of books at NYC's the Strand Bookstore! I think I could've spent all day in there... #Booksky

So great to see those original manuscript pages of James Baldwin's writing at the New York Public Library exhibit. Particulary this scene from Giovanni's Room which his editor told him to cut and Baldwin said no! #Booksky