Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

Books I read this year:
#5. ELEVEN LIARS by Robert Gold (Bob Harper #2) 4*
An interesting mystery in which the solution doesn’t necessarily leads to justice and this book doesn’t provide all the answers or explanations.

Books I read this year:
#4. SO LATE IN THE DAY by Claire Keegan (5*)
Only 47 pages but this story throws a punch. Featuring a rather unsympathetic MC, the French title ‘Misogynie’ seems like a better fit.

Books I read this year:
#3. SEMICOLON by Cecelia Watson (4*)
Interesting reflections on the use of punctuation and the semicolon in particular. For a book titled Semicolon it could have focused on that particular quotation mark a bit more.

Books I read this year:
#2. RANDOM IN DEATH by J.D. Robb (In Death #58) (5*)
As good as always. It says something about Nora Roberts if 58 books into a series she still manages to keep me engrossed in a story.

Books I read this year here, but I'm going to try.
#1. MURDER ON THE CHRISTMAS EXPRESS by Alexandra Benedict (3.5*)
I'm disappointed. This could and should have been a captivating page-turner and didn't live up to expectations (as set by the author in the blurb).

I apologize for dropping this bomb here / het spijt me dat ik dit zo moet aankondigen.

The cover of my creative writing resource, Feel the Change, produced in association with Poetry Ireland and Green-Schools. The is dominated by a teenage boy and girl in the centre. In front is a brown-skinned girl wearing a white top and jeans. She's holding a notebook and pen. The boy behind her is white and blond, and is wearing a red shirt. He's holding up an SLR camera. The rest of the cover is a montage of different scenes from the stories in the book. There are some ruined stone walls in the background, and around the bottom half are: a boy leaping off some shattered wooden planking, a BMW SUV, a shy-looking fox cub and a girl with spike black hair holding a big yellow and red water pistol.

Here's a short intro video for my creative writing resource, Feel the Change. It's a way of exploring the basic concepts of climate change through storytelling, and is free to download. Produced in association with @PoetryIreland and @GreenSchoolsIre.
greenschoolsireland.org/feel-the-cha...

The cover of Feel the Change, a creative writing resource the explores climate change through storytelling. It shows two teenagers, a blond white boy in a red shirt holding a camera, and in front of him, a brown-skinned girl with long dark hair wearing a white top and jeans. She's holding a notebook and pen. In the background are the sandstone-coloured ruins of some ancient building. There is a montage of images around them, taken from different stories in the resource; a boy jumping of some wrecked planking, a BMW SUV, a shy-looking fox in the bottom left corner an, in the bottom right, a black girl with spiked black hair holding a large yellow and red water rifle.

Please Share! This is a FREE creative writing resource using stories and cartoons to teach writing on the theme of climate change. Based on years of school residencies in primary and secondary, the aim is emotional engagement rather than delivering facts.

antaisceeeu.sharepoint.com/sites/CAPTea...

Coincidence. My bookclub will be discussing The Witches of Vardo Tuesday week... On Halloween, how appropriate is that?

Food for thought from @oisinmcgann.bsky.social

Enjoy. They're a lovely crowd there.

I do, but didn't start until 12.30 today. Maybe next time.

We almost met today. You'd just left the building when I arrived to start my shift. Such a shame.

Welkom!!!
Bluesky is nog een beetje beperkt vergeleken met Twitter maar het is ook een stuk vriendelijker!

Happy Release Day, @tommeadauthor.bsky.social

Congratulations on another amazing story. The Murder Wheel is spectacular!

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Author? Book publicity person? Festival programmer?

Hi 🙂

I'm a broadcaster in Ireland, former presenter of RTE's The Book Show (when it still existed), run a book club with 40,000 members, talk about new books I'm liking on my socials and on radio, curate and interview at book festivals,

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Impressive. And exactly as it should be!

That reminds me I should really take a day to make my own batch of 'erwtensoep'.

#journorequest looking to talk to people in Ireland who are huge fans of Christmas. Maybe you start planning at Easter, have presents bought and tree up by November and/or go crazy with decorating. Get in touch if any thoughts. Shares appreciated.

My thoughts about The Murder Wheel by @tommeadauthor.bsky.social
In one sentence: Nothing short of spectacular!

Starting my festive reading shockingly early and aiming for one story per day.

I do this every now and then.

This is Domino. He's one of the dogs that has been the longest at the DSPCA.

Liz and I brought him out for a walk up to the Hellfire Club recently and he is a sweetheart...

What about adopting him?

www.dspca.ie/dimo-17590

A share would help too...

I distinctly remember how, about 50 odd years ago, my younger brother (aged 7 at the time) told the rest of us to be quiet because on the radio someone said 'nu komt de aap uit de mouw'. He wanted to hear that monkey emerging. :)

That was immensely helpful. Thank you!

Delighted to be supporting Children in Read - bid for #SomethingTerribleHappenedLastNight (& I'll pop something extra into the parcel) here

www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre...

Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Go go go, it's for a great cause!

Wait...What?

Honestly, is the eejit trying to (completely) kill X?

@tommeadauthor.bsky.social WOW! Congratulations are in order. The Murder Wheel is nothing short of spectacular. Loved it. Review to follow.

I honestly don't care about length as such. However, I tend not to finish books that fail to provide me with all the information I need and/or books that have clearly been padded just to add pages. A story should be as long as the story needs to be. No?