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Blog: The Glass Room, Ann Cleeves from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 days, 18 hours ago2012 contemporary police mystery, fifth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
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The time I used diagramming for success in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 days, 18 hours agoThe time I used diagramming for success
I had a project idea in my head that seemed too complex to work on until I tried diagramming it. The idea was a multipurpose CRM-like action/account […] -
Blog: Seven by Joanna Kavenna review – a madcap journey to the limits of philosophy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 days, 20 hours agoWith its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality – even as it slips from our intellectual graspJoanna K […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on performative reading – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 days, 11 hours agoContinue reading…
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Blog: Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 days, 15 hours agoForget puritanical self-discipline – the way to really make a new habit stick is to lace it with instant gratificationLike many people, I spent New Year’s Eve mak […]
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Blog: My Books of the Year 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 5 days, 7 hours agoThe 2025 debut novels which will stay with me are Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell about an emotionally abusive marriage and We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown a […]
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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah in the group Outside News: 5 days, 17 hours agoAdelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Blog: Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 days, 18 hours agoFrom Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their […]
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Blog: Week in Review #2 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 5 days, 23 hours agoThis week I read SEVEN books. (I’m shocked too!!!) At Operation Actually Read Bible, I reviewed a delightful Christian romance–historical set in Canada–titled The […]
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Blog: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 6 days, 15 hours agoGodfall by Van Jensen; The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier; The Poet Empress by Shen Tao; A Hole in the Sky by Peter F Hamilton; Hello Earth, Are You There? by Brian […]
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Horror Writing Prompts (a slowly updated thread) in the forum Writing prompts and insperations 6 days, 17 hours agoI’m making this thread for horror writing prompts. Feel free to add to it, ignore it, or use it. In fact, do as you will.
First up: Wedding Day Secrets
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Blog: Sarah Moss: ‘I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 6 days, 17 hours agoThe author on the trouble with the Brönte novels, what she gained from reading John Updike and Martin Amis – and the brilliance of Barbara Pym My earliest re […]
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New Year… Again in the group Writing prompts and insperations: 6 days, 17 hours agoNew Year… Again
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Do you use writing prompts? in the forum Writing prompts and insperations 6 days, 17 hours agoMe, me!! I do. I love writing prompts.
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Acorn Boi replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat 6 days, 18 hours ago
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Sam Smith replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat 6 days, 18 hours ago
Oh no, my condolences.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat 6 days, 18 hours ago
I’m currently doing the Death in the Family DLC. Not recommended.
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Blog: Notes From Small Planets, Nate Crowley from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 6 days, 18 hours ago2018 comedy, a guide your travels in the worlds of bad speculative
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Blog: Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan review – a tender tale of love beyond borders from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 6 days, 20 hours agoThis poignant debut about two strangers who fall in love offers a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain“Love is not an easy thing … It’ […]
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Blog: 4. Anne of Ingleside from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 week ago4. Anne of Ingleside. L.M. Montgomery. 1939. 274 pages. [Source: Bought] [3 stars, audio book, classic]First sentence: “How white the moonlight is tonight!” said […]
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Blog: The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer audiobook review – typically quirky cosy crime from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week agoSurreal humour and sharp performances from Diane Morgan and Arabella Weir alongside the comedian himself bring his tale of an unemployed bathroom salesman to […]
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Blog: Dylan Thomas was ‘serial plagiarist’ as a schoolboy, publisher claims from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 week agoWelsh poet is alleged to have stolen work of other authors wholesale while at school in Swansea
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Blog: 3. Into the Fire (Westfallen #2) from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 week ago3. Westfallen #2: Into the Fire. Ann and Ben Brashares. 2025. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars, series book, mg speculative fiction]First sentence: IF at first […]
