I read Hamnet with only school experience of Shakespeare (15+ years ago) and you don't need any Shakespeare knowledge. An understanding of Hamlet might help towards the end so you could read that but you'd be better off understanding Tudor/Elizabethan society than reading Shakespeare
Four days into my new job and I've already instigated the creation of a little free library in the office and encouraged several colleagues to download @thestorygraph.com
If I become known as the obsessive reader then that's fine by me 💬📚
That's a good way to put it, for me 5*s have to haunt me afterwards. My ratings of audiobooks absolutely can't be trusted lol because I used to listen to them while working in a lab so I'd thoroughly enjoy all of them because it made work bearable
Love seeing the app get better every year! 💙
Exactly! But if a book makes me cry that makes it much more likely to get 5 stars, unless it was terrible in other ways
Happy new year everyone, but especially to me who stayed up after everyone else went to bed to finish reading The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social
A beautiful story with beautiful artwork 🤺👨🏾🏫💮
Managed to exceed my 2025 reading goal of 30 books, but I sure am stingy with my ratings 😂 Only one 5⭐ this year. I always appreciate the @thestorygraph.com wrap-ups
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Lost Whamageddon in my own home because my partner put a generic Spotify Christmas playlist on instead of my curated one #isbreakingupanoverreaction
Spotify wrapped screenshot showing my top 5 albums. The albums, in order, are: The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift, The Life Of A Showgirl by Taylor Swift, Fearless (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift, reputation by Taylor Swift, and Hamilton OBC recording by Lin-Manuel Miranda
My new year's resolution to listen to more diverse music has, once again, failed. It's not even close.
#spotifywrapped
I'd made it to the sofa and fortunately had finished dinner before the shock realisation that the battle of Trafalgar wasn't a bloody land battle in central London 😂
Followed shortly after by my out loud realisation that Trafalgar Square is named after the battle of Trafalgar, and the battle didn't take place there
#scientistnothistorian
Just shouted "spoilers!" when my partner said I had to hurry up and sit down to watch The Rest Is History because Nelson was about to die
My November reading nicely summarised by @thestorygraph.com
Books I read:
Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley
The Ledge by Christian White
Daily Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Book of Days by K. A. Baker
Warehouse Dreams by Theresa Halvorsen
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Finished listening to The Ledge by Christian White and had to immediately grab a copy from the library because how did I miss the hints for a plot twist that huge?! Going to spend the next few evenings rereading the present day chapters to figure it out 💙📚💬
I don't know how my work performance will be affected but damn it's like I've doubled the amount of time in my day!
I've always wondered how people could read more than 2-3 books a month but after finishing a book in less than a week I've discovered it's audiobooks and mindless work tasks. The number of books I read is about to skyrocket
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Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley is such a beautiful book, I loved it! It has frustratingly human characters that are too easy to relate to but what a pleasure it was to journey with them for an in-novel year #booksky
This year I took part in #DailyDracula for the first time and whew, what a ride! A fantastic 6 months of regular reading now over. Such a fun concept, I'd thoroughly recommend for next year #booksky
The carrot cake muffins I made for morning tea at work went down a treat today. Everyone said they were great, but personally I think the cream cheese frosting carried the sponge 😋 #baking
a black and white sonogram of a human baby at 20 weeks. it looks oddly like a dog with two black eyes, a snoot, and a little grin.
a close up of a tan dog with a black snoot and golden brown eyes. he's so close we can see the whiskers on his lip and the grooves in his nose. he looks above the camera with a slightly bewildered expression. the resemblance to the sonogram truly is uncanny.
A pregnant woman was shocked to realize her sonogram resembled her dog's face. Inês Egner went in for her 20-week anatomy scan and left with a photo that looked exactly like her dog, Goulash. She said, "In truth, we do like to jokingly refer to the dog as our son." 14/10 (TT: inesverse)
Today I did a truly awful job of packing my running gear: I took my towel out of my bag (because I wasn't going to spin class so I clearly didn't need it) and I packed my partner's shorts (not the first time I've done this but our waists are similar sizes so it's fine) #running #runningfails
The audiobook cover of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. A yellow car drives up a road to a big white house surrounded by fields and with a hedge and gate at the forefront
I loved listening to The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches ❤️ such a heartwarming and low stakes book with engaging and lovable characters (especially the kids!). I did have a niggling idea of the final plot twist but that just made it better! #booksky #books #reading #audiobooks
#TodaysAffirmation You have the ability to turn a bad morning into a good (or at least a not so bad) day #affirmation #selfcare
Loved making this octopus so much I made it 3 times! The tentacles are super fun to see curl as you go back over the chain. All octopi have gone to their new owners & hopefully will be well loved 🐙 ❤️ Pattern: www.crochet365knittoo.com/crochet-octo... #crochet #yarncraft #craft #octopus #baby #gift
Melbourne's tram system is wild, some 'stations' are just places where the tram stops in the middle of a busy road and you have to hope as you step out you aren't immediately hit by a car
Hey - it's my research group! Have a read of the important science that we do 🧪 🌊
I've spent all this month trying to fix lab equipment that kept coming up with more problems whenever I solved one. It's true that science doesn't get done without lab techs, and now I'm officially counting down to my holiday #science #labtechlife
Found out today that the local intercity cycleway has a solar system model on it 🌞 I've seen and heard of these before but something about finding one in the wild unexpectedly has really tickled me. Absolutely love it
A while ago I thought it was a bit silly going on holiday less than a month after moving into a new house. I'm t-36 hours from moving and wish the holiday was sooner
