And unhungry.

Tender is the only novel I've read that references No Disco.

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Its a beautiful little exhibition.

Or than Gay of Hormuz.

Did you forge that one in the Smiths of your soul?

Yes, please.

I found Jude Level 1 by @juliangough.bsky.social very funny, and @patrickfreyne.bsky.social's book of essays had many hilarious pages, especially the piece about a summer in Germany.

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Looks great.

Would be very happy to find any of them under Christmas or birthdsy tree - the AE book especially as I finally read Summerfield's biography last year.

A marvellous institution for events.

"He remembers Roxy Music in '72" - Belle and Sebastian

Same problem, though only played about five matches in my entire life.

Surely they've had enough time by now to fabricate pictures.

Absolutely. Once, when we had to remain in hospital with a sick child 24/7, the breakfast person used give whichever of us was "on duty", tea and a slice of toast.

It's a shame it didn't get the attention. (BTW, that was such a comprehensive interview you did with Mary Costello for tge Franco-Irish Literary Festival today- very informative and unrushed.)

Or Trump might rant about US and Ireland having defeated the Brits.

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin's Madame Lazare was such compulsive reading that I managed to read it in Irish without understanding many of the individual words.

Saw him in Sugar Club a few decades ago and I've never seen a performer so happy to entertain.

"Heaney derived from ''part of the folk-lore of where I grew up,'' an
event in which the Protestant paramilitaries killed the four brothers in 1920, as their bodies '' trailed along the
railway lines, over the sleepers as a kind of mutilation.'' (Parker 1993:107)"
iiste.org/Journals/ind...

The Financial Times reports that the US has broadened its war on Iran to the high seas, with a frigate sunk off Sri Lanka. Markets also react to global instability. #TomorrowsPapersToday

Not available in Ireland, it seems. Boris Johnson and Brexit did for us.

One of my favourite books, ever. But, if i remember correctly, only contains one "word".

Just finished it, thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social, and it's superb and captivating, but also very raw. And interesting diversions into Jung and dreams, for example.

This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent

Gold star.

Gold star.

Is this love score business above board?

@brophylevey.bsky.social After almost 45 years in TBR, I read The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy (1956). A very good read - far from quaint and seemingly unrestrained. But those Irish "models" - "rather sad, lumpish and peasant-like." Oh dear:)