September wasn't just about reading findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/s...

September Round-Up

This has felt like a very long month, because I’ve been to so many different places and done so many varied things. I’ve already shared my month of reading with very brief reviews last …

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Reviewing three spooky books for spooky season - monsters in an Irish bog, Gothic noir short stories or a demonic mother, anyone? drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/r...#ripxix#booksky 😱

RIP XIX: September

My first batch of RIP reviews have arrived to haunt you… The Wilding by Ian McDonald: Lough Carrow is a rewilding project on the site of a peat bog in the depths of rural Ireland. Lisa, a ran…

New Review - a powerful novella offering a nightmarish place of no escape and carefully exploring mental illness. I highly recommend Coup De Grace by Sofia Arjam - out tomorrow! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/9/...

Coup de Grace by Sofia Arjam — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank Titan Books for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Titan Published – 1st October Price – £10.99 hardback £8.99 Kindle ...

An utterly unplanned but delightful new read: an Englishman walking the length of Japan from N to S

Es gibt in jeder Gesellschaft einen Teil von Leuten, den man für das politische System nicht gewinnen kann. Diese Tatsache müssen wir akzeptieren, ob uns das gefällt oder nicht. Die Politik muss sich um die übrigen 75 bis 80 Prozent kümmern und diesen Menschen Angebote machen

A soothing blog post to end the week on and rest my aching limbs findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/f...

Friday Fun: Spa-Like Bathrooms

It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish AI generated interior design imagery, but I hope all of the below are real, soothing and escapist though they may be. It’s been a tiring mo…

"Lange empfanden wir...die heutigen Miet­skla­v*in­nen eurer Immobilien, materiellen Wohlstand für unser Lebensglück nicht als notwendig...Das Mittelstandsleben, aus dem wir gekrabbelt sind, war für uns so selbstverständlich und gleichzeitig klaustrophobisch, dass wir darüber hinausgeträumt haben."

Klassengesellschaft im Midlife: Aliens mit Arschgeweih

Eben saß man noch zusammen bei Spaghetti in der WG-Küche. Jetzt sind viele Idea­lis­t*in­nen aus dem Mittelstand abgestiegen und die anderen reich.

Latest newsletter up on Substack, another rambling read from me about the last fortnight open.substack.com/pub/bigbeard...

Big Bearded Bookseller #124

currently reading 'Lockett & Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries: The Ghosts of the Manor' by Lucy Strange and Pam Smy

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