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Posts by James McKay

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New directory page up on the Indie Publisher website, this time Ylva Publishing, a sapphic romance publisher.

That makes 48 directory pages and 1184 on the lists

#BookSky 💙📚 #IndiePublisher #Publisher #Publishing

www.indiepublishers.co.uk/2025/02/22/y...

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My thoughts and prayers are with you through this harrowing ordeal! 😂

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I’d be gazing out over Auckland’s skyline, lost in thought about love, family, and awkward social interactions.

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How about “I think it was blue?” Monday. Go into your nearest bookshop, tell a bookseller you’ve forgotten the title, but it’s a really good book and you think the cover is blue. Buy the first book they suggest. Bookseller feels great, whatever they picked will be great. Everyone wins!

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Repost if your profile is LGBTQ+ safe!!🥰🌈🌈🌈

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Book 15 of 2025:Twelfth Night is a playful yet poignant exploration of love, identity, and the blur between reality and performance. The wit sparkles, and themes feel modern, but pacing issues and caricatured moments hold it back. Still, it’s a vibrant, layered classic worth revisiting. 4 stars.

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Book 14 of 2025: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a whimsical mix of romance, chaos, and humour, with Shakespeare’s lyrical language drawing you into its enchanted world. The characters are compelling, though the pacing can feel chaotic, and some tropes predictable. A playful, poignant classic. 4 stars.

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Book 13 of 2025: Great Expectations showcases Dickens talent for vivid characters and social critique, but its pacing drags, the prose is overly elaborate, and the sentimentality is forced. Though rich and thematically ambitious, it’s inconsistent and underwhelming. A respectable but flawed 2.75/5.

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Book 12 of 2025: Jane Eyre is a powerful, atmospheric tale with a fiercely compelling heroine. The prose is lush, the gothic vibes are gripping, and its themes of feel timeless. While the pacing drags in places and it edges into melodrama, it’s a richly rewarding classic. 4 stars.

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Greta and Valdin by Rebecca Reilly

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Hey congrats! I’m doing BA English Literature (q66)!

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My latest article for @neunion.bsky.social Educate magazine.

Society is changing and what constitutes reading is also changing. Schools need to try and keep up.

Link here: neu.org.uk/latest/union...

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January is not the month for resolutions. We’re all sick, exhausted, cold, broke, depressed and back at work against our will. January *is* the month for outrageous Victorian self-care rituals, because who needs a new gym membership when you can just take a good turn about the room for your agonies.

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Ahh noted! I’ve had Lenovos through work myself and I must say they were total garbage!

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Ahh, I only ask as I’m thinking of getting a new laptop myself (I’m currently journeying through a BA in English Literature)

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What laptop do you have?

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You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

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“I agree with myself” is my new rhetorical power tool for 2025.

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Couldn’t agree more!

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I wish they would just stop reporting what he says. It's utterly irrelevant and only encourages him.

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In January news, an enormous pink dick is moving ever closer to the White House

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“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

#JRRTolkien #botd
January 3, 1892-
September 2, 1973
#English #writer #artist #scholar #linguist #philologist #fantasy #LOTR #quote #courage

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Thanks! It’s on the tbr 😊

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To be fair some of them I read in 2024 but am reviewing now

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Hats off to The StoryGraph . The year end wrap up feature is pretty fab.

#booksky💙📚

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