Any chance you would drop the titles? Lots of interesting sounding stuff but I'm bad at guessing what they are :)

Sobs in school librarian.

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

I think criticism is for talking & exploring (& sometimes what you're exploring is a work's holes) to come to a better understanding of things. I think that's what we've lost a lot of. It's been overwhelmed by weighing up judgement & cheering on (both of which are fine in balance).

4 shelves of books: Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December.

I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky.

One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat!

UK only.

We have 5 PAIRS of the THRILLING #ThievesGambit series by @KayvionLewis to #WIN!
In #HeistRoyale Ross must compete against Devroe in a fight for her life. Loyalties will be tested, backs stabbed & hearts broken. May the best thief win!
Repost &Folllow by Dec 27 to enter
@simonYAbooks #WRDMagComp

Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that

Hi everyone as Bluesky doesn't have private accounts & I work in a school this account is mostly so I don't lose track of you all.

Feel free to ask to follow me on my locked down Instagram (gazingatbooks) for actual content.

View of three rows of shelves full of old, leather bound books. Taken at the Bodleian Library.

Mentally I am here: