Why Criticism Continues to Matter: Book Reviews and Our Literary Community - Chicago Review of Books My neighborhood in Chicago has a delightfully high density of Little Free Libraries. Inside one of these late last year, I stumbled upon a reissue of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence P...

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Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda c. 1900 Photo wikipedia

Penrhy Quarry, Bethesda, c 1900 Photo Wikipedia

My review of 'One Moonlit Night' by Caradog Prichard for #ReadingWales26 set in quarry town Bethesda, North Wales at the beginning of the 20th century. volatilerune.blog/wp-admin/pos...

#InternationalWomensDay: Imagine being behind bars just for being a woman who writes and speaks out. The Belarusian authorities must release #ValeryjaKaściuhova immediately and unconditionally and ensure she has access to medical care while detained. Stand with her today. #IWD26

Today reading Chapter 19 of Anna Karenina as part of @chapteraday.bsky.social "It's impossible to console me. Everything is lost after what's happened, everything is gone!"#tolstoyreadalong

Somehow one ought to dislike Stiva Oblonsky but it's hard because he is a man of his time - and so affable to boot

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Happy New Year. Hope to be on here more in 2026. It's one on my list of resolutions for the New Year. Joining the Readalong of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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I'm desperate to join in #MarchMagics but what with Read Wales and goodness knows what. Plus reviews I still owe people from February! Still I will try :)

Currently taking part in a readalong of Umberto Eco's mad masterpiece, Foucault's Pendulum. Review forthcoming when I've worked out quite what it's about. #UmbertoEco #Foucault'sPendulum #Readalong

Really enjoyed your review and great photos too.

And the 'helpline' is a real person who speaks to you...? I must investigate this strange new technology :)

It's raining and pouring and thunder and lighting in my corner of Blighty but my weather app says its going to stop. Then start again six minutes later...! Thanks weather app for nothing.

Hello it's Frances joining in Moomin Week with @bookjotter.bsky.social and @calmgrove.bsky.social Generally to be found with my nose in a book or trying to write something. Author of blog volatilerune.blog and fantasy novel The Winchester Codex volatilerune.blog/archive/