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Hopefully my return journey will be a bit better. Otherwise, I can hear my hammock calling me from the garden at home 😁#hammockreads

Today’s tube read is cancelled due to overcrowding 😔 #booksky #tubereads

Today’s holiday read. Unashamed fantasy! The lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. A darker homage to Fritz Leiber’s Grey Mouser. A rattling good swashbuckling yarn. #fantasybooks #booksky

Brilliant! I revel in Tsundoku.

I was thinking, there must be a Japanese word for it!

Is there a word for the joy of introducing someone to a favourite book and them loving it too? I feel we have too few words describing the pleasures of books. Either that or I need educating in them! #booksky

Look forward to it. I must get the rest of the series on order!

No tube book today but a holiday book. Hoorah!
Haven’t been able to put it down - Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Beautifully written fantasy, reads like a classic novel and a page turner to boot. #holidayreads #fantasybooks #booksky

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Today’s tube read; a truly great author. Read this back to back with Cannery Row to see why. ‘All human life is here’
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Today’s tube read. On a lovely sunny day in London, what better than a bucolic H.E.Bates tale. #Booksky #tubereads

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Please take a few minutes to fill it out if you can, and ask them to keep doing everything they do well.

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IMHO one of the greatest sword and sorcery books ever. Fantastical yet realistic, comical yet with a dark brooding menace. How wizards should be!
#booksky #swordsandsorcery

Planning (and buying) my ‘holiday reads’. First on the list is a book I’ve always wanted to read but never got round to it. Love a bit of swords and sorcery 😁 #booksky #holidayreads

Today’s tube read. Magnificent and terrifying. One of the best books I’ve read about the human psyche #booksky

Today’s tube read. The British version of Machiavelli’s The Prince or Sun Tzu’s TheArt of War. A comic classic.
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Today’s tube read. Love this book. It’s up there with Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. #booksky #tuberead

It’s the toxic ‘no smoke without fire’, ‘why wouldn’t you allow your house/car/body to be searched if you’ve nothing to hide’ mindset

Hi America, is this still a thing? Asking for a few friends.

Today’s tube read. Love a bit of Hornblower ❤️
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So pleased with yesterday’s purchase from The Keel Row Books. 6 replace books I used to have but gave away. 2 new reads. Happy place 😁

Which would you read first? #booksky

It is. Nothing like sitting in the old comfy chairs in front of the fire with a few books ❤️

Back home for a weekend. Barter books at Alnwick get all the press but I also love Keel Row Books at Whitley Bay ❤️ #booksky

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

Today’s tube read - beautifully grotesque #booksky

Our time. #wedontdoquiet YouTube video by Newcastle United

Football’s gannin’ hyem 😍

'It's a wrecking ball!' Bridget Phillipson's education reforms torn apart by shadow secretary: 'They are damaging' The Education Secretary has promised to 'breathe new life' into what she describes as an 'outdated curriculum'

I can't be the only one who wants to scream StFU every time I hear a #COnservative bemoaning what the current government is doing.

Do these people have no respect? Do these people not remeber the ruin that they caused to this country?

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The richest 3 people have more money than the poorest 4 billion.

But the problem (according to those richest people) is the poor people.

The right-wing press pushed a false narrative against ending the private school tax break…  
 
Will they now issue a correction…?
 
They run the same narrative against a wealth tax... it’s equally false.