2026-07-28T04:14:51+02:00 https://nostr.ae wordybirdy https://nostr.ae/npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/accounts/avatars/114/177/502/549/680/957/original/21515a13a55f4042.jpg https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/accounts/avatars/114/177/502/549/680/957/original/21515a13a55f4042.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdgt36uqzxyq4fhl7cc5klhpnjqlukqcv4x2m2wxtcgllhmrwzcvszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zg7mh3y OK, Albert Entwistle, get the heck outta here; you were rottenly written, dreadfully dialogued, and utterly unbelievable.<br/><br/>Now it&#39;s all up to Vita Sackville-West to put things right, with her 1931 novel, All Passion Spent.<br/><br/>Sackville-West was a hugely popular writer in her day, but is rarely read or even discussed in the present (outside of her much-mulled-over love affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon 2026-04-19T14:49:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd0f3v8p7757907ldq02nxyn5v7pfeskj7t3j2gcf3kftjmf4t77czyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zgnjukc Recommend to me your favourite books that have THE greatest plot twists!<br/><br/>I&#39;m talking about plot twists that made you gasp, made your jaw drop, made you stare off into the middle distance for an hour.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s two of my own favourites:<br/><br/>🔀 The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner<br/>🔀 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane<br/><br/>I wish I could read both of those again for the first time, and be stunned all over again.<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-08-19T12:14:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs06x2ggpfl37y3szkc5dvk7sssqm3addvm385u6ukz6kzep9rk8kgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zp3mmr2 I&#39;m a day late in remembering the writer William Burroughs, b1914, d1997 on 2nd August at 83. <br/><br/>I discovered his work (by way of Queer) in 1987 when I was 17 years old. Burroughs somehow connected with me where other writers failed to. He had an extraordinary wild and dark humour, and a sharp vision of the world and its overwhelming BS.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t read him in a couple of years and need to rectify that.<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/964/123/412/722/308/original/709ad456d91a7116.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-03T11:29:50+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqzs7c392gkqcq8hjm0qxnzcksykqrgdhqw95m830ur07dtu90hjgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zz0ydu6 About to begin a most fascinating book: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World&#39;s Strangest Brains by Helen Thompson. A non-fiction work about how wacky our grey matter can be. <br/><br/>The back of the book says:<br/>&#34;Imagine... Being permanently lost / seeing auras / never forgetting a moment / an endless hallucination / switching personalities / becoming unreal / feeling other people&#39;s pain / waking up dead / turning into a tiger.&#34;<br/><br/>I&#39;m intrigued! 🧠 <br/><br/>#bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/863/240/510/675/075/original/3804f3524b066107.jpg"> <br/> 2025-07-16T15:56:31+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8lp09smatk632jt0mnn25aq6pazgt6wf46cushk0juncvygjehggzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zyek3fc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28d9dl5zdnhlgnqf6c8rkgu34df6gyuwpfhc5aytcwpl7waeu3xsvca7j3'>nevent1q…a7j3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Update on Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, which I&#39;m almost done with (70pp left). <br/><br/>The writing&#39;s engaging, &amp; the situations interesting. The characters, well, uh. The doctor&#39;s ok; the &#34;sportsman&#34; companion is a trigger-happy dickhead, &amp; the young assistant is annoyingly chirpy -- or was. Spoiler. I&#39;m enjoying it enough to give it a *** out of *****. Don&#39;t see that changing. <br/><br/>This isn&#39;t the most popular of Verne&#39;s works, so I&#39;m still excited to read his later novels. <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-07-13T16:05:29+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs28d9dl5zdnhlgnqf6c8rkgu34df6gyuwpfhc5aytcwpl7waeu3xszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zl6r63r It&#39;s up, up and away with my new read, Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, the first in a seven book box set (I&#39;m reading my way through chronologically).<br/><br/>Written in 1863, it &#34;describes the journey undertaken by three British gentlemen across the continent of Africa, from Zanzibar to the French settlement near the Senegal river&#34;.<br/><br/>Adventure time! 🌍 <br/><br/>#books #reading #bookstodon #SciFi <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/772/534/717/552/375/original/70edc9dc21b326a2.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-30T15:26:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqmsn579lwlfcpak40xdwpcef9f7frentmu2xx0pk8fu5htqfef5gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zqfrxyu I have an absolute and sudden craving to read everything by Jules Verne. 🌍 <br/><br/>#reading #books 2025-06-08T14:48:39+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0ck76jq3syd0hmncptw4tn0fmz4yzr2nprkcpp2fgkl066952nvczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zqzxpgd Book haul! I guess I&#39;m on a Jeanette Winterson kick right now. I&#39;ll be starting her memoir as soon as I finish Howards End (which I&#39;m halfway through and having a GLORIOUS time with).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/568/569/378/854/308/original/00a8ed8e92c469b4.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-25T14:57:04+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9n6uj7uka8pwswwhk83kf0rnwyjhzl2ejez5lmunu5zkpgawgp9gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zdgqxyf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx3kpkc43yr77af6n3xvfuv3j4pr7cvegfy8y3rw9rrlfcuahf76g2jtdus'>nevent1q…tdus</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh I&#39;ve heard of that, but not read it. I think I did look for it at one time, but couldn&#39;t find it in print. I&#39;ll have another forage. Thank you! 2025-05-19T12:03:50+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx6httl9v80v0nntqda827uv8as49fjgpa7a8pk6q9cgnwwu9m3dczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zc7235n There&#39;s something about E.M. Forster&#39;s writing that makes me want to read him in the springtime. I read and enjoyed A Room With a View a few weeks ago, and am now about to start on Howards End, the last of the unread Forsters on my bookshelf. <br/><br/>I think Howards End might be his most popular novel? (No, I just checked, and apparently that&#39;s A Passage to India -- which bored the life out of me when I read it years ago, ugh!).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-05-19T11:54:50+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvpp25pwju6lgqmvgy4q9yxvn4au7fp0cl78jt8cl2nfwffurg8qgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zyptgd7 Just finished reading Virginia Woolf&#39;s short story collection, and I stand by my earlier thought that Woolf&#39;s endings are too abrupt and anticlimactic. Left with a feeling of HUH? <br/><br/>Next up: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. Perfect reading for the long holiday weekend!<br/><br/>#books #reading #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-04-15T15:51:50+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgtuqec739ena9043c89vqudgcwjs59xrqpz6chacaeewf4kn9gjgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zrzc0ed Have been whizzing through books this past week! Now about to dive into The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf. If the stories are anywhere near as good as the font is massive (and it&#39;s startlingly massive), I&#39;m in for a treat. 😅 <br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-04-07T13:04:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxnlzx23kj3y7rw3n24e858x07ugc79zcxpqyv7m8lsrwpg50ajrszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zsr8rdj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqgndkqlfftfjsjgy4ud5va8cdzumke40zs8uj4ptpnnl8clwtg6g4zfyz3'>nevent1q…fyz3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I rather enjoyed Birthday by Meredith Russo, it&#39;s a popular one I think, so you may have already read it/heard of it. 2025-03-18T13:28:14+01:00