I did not know that BlueSky did not like gifs! So this is kind of what it looked like around here at lunchtime. sites.google.com/view/bdr-sus...
Five For Friday #23 | Bibliothèque des Refusés (bibref.blogspot.com) On this, the *real* New Year, we have cover versions of songs, a first for this Winter, a mismatch between budget and bibliophilia, and Doug Muir on an truly inspirational adventurer.
I'm finishing Lispector's Hour of the Star; Jacob Polley's Talk of the Town is next.
Rain, an absurdist novel in Irish, Neil Gaiman's impetus to start writing, a bit of folklore, and how to shoehorn your WIP into a post about visual perspective - it's this week's Five for Friday! Five For Friday #22 | Bibliothèque des Refusés (bibref.blogspot.com)
www.alicecourtley.com/waiting-for-... Look - Beckett for tinies! I might just have to buy my inner-absurdist-child a present...
Waiting for Froggo is the second author-illustrated children's picture book by Alice Courtley
To prove that I do things besides writing, today's Five for Friday has on smallholding! The photo below was taken in the wee small hours of a chill November morning before the farmers' market. The things I do for writing-content... Five For Friday #21 | Bibliothèque des Refusés (bibref.blogspot.com)
Also at @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social@eleanorhooker.bsky.social) which I have wanted for a while, and Tokyo Express (Matsumoto) because, having enjoyed Kōbō Abe's The Ruined Map so much, an 'enigmatic, thrillingly weird' Tokyo crime tale seemed perfect.
The left side seems to be the authorly favourite - on the left, the launch of Good Red Herring at Hodges Figgis bookshop, on the right, today at Sheelagh na Gig.
A jaunt over to the ever-great @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social bookshop in Cloughjordan - amongst their excellent stock, both And the Wildness and Good Red Herring! Mollie provided both pen and camera, and voila! A photo opportunity is born.