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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. I completely forgot I should have posted a Valentine’s themed photo yesterday♂️. Here is a #biography of my old favourite #maryshelley the author of #frankenstein.
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🎈Happy Thursday! Have you discovered the magic of podcasts? Do you have a favourite podcast? I loved listening to Brighton Book Club @btnbooklub podcast today, where Anna talks to three local #bookbloggers/#Bookstagrammers: @theroamingreader, @alw
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💚 Today I wanted to talk about one of the most memorable literary characters in 2019. #auntLydia first made an appearance in #MargaretAtwood's novel The Handmaid’s Tale and was portrayed as a villain. In #thetestaments her intentions become cl
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“We live in fictitious times.” . Aren’t all times fictitious? . I haven’t posted on Instagram for 5 days and didn’t mean to post anything today. But then I got carried away and took this photo in the library. I’m currently reading #thebluesteye by #tonimo
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I just finished #yourenotlistening by #katemurphy, published by @vintagebooks. Do you know anyone who fail to notice when you walk away from the phone, meaning that they carry on talking? I have known some people like that. It took me longer than I expect
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“Language is wine upon the lips.” Virginia Woolf. . A little late with my #virginiawoolf birthday post but better late than never. Her birthday was on 25th January 138 years ago. As every Wednesday is #woolfwednesday I would love you to show me your Woolf
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☀️ Did you noticed how suddenly the weather changed today? Yay! How is the weather where you live? The sun suddenly came out and I couldn’t continue reading my book. I used the 5 minutes (exactly 5) I had before I had to leave the house to take this
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🐉 What were your favourite childhood books? What does your favourite childhood book say about you? . 🐉 #franklinsflyingbookshop by @jenvcampbell was my daughter Sigrid’s pick in the library last week. She is 3 tomorrow and she loves dragons.
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I read #howtobeautistic by @smallreprieves last year. I was very lucky to attend the book launch and hear the author’s fantastic speech. It’s a very well written childhood autobiography of an autistic girl. Published by @myriad_editions. Not that it is to
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Happy #shelfiesunday! How was your Sunday? ♀️ Did you do anything exciting? I felt hopeless in the morning♂️ but by 3pm I had achieved more😁 than I’d planned. I took so many photos🙈 that I won’t have to worry about what to post on Insta
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🚂 What are you reading this weekend? Are you watching Wisting tonight? I’m about to finish #lostchildrenarchive by #valerialuiselli. #partner @aaknopf. . This book is such a treat, every page has something new to offer. It’s fiction but f
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How do you get along with libraries? I feel like libraries could do more to keep them in business. Our local one doesn’t even seem to have a book club.♂️ . I would love to borrow books but I don’t want to pay the high fines. Someone told me to borrow on
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🌹 Happy Birthday to my favourite feminist existentialist Simone de Beauvoir! Is there an emoji for feminism? Which emoji is the best to describe a feminist or feminism? . “Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” . “Few t
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☕️ Here am I, sitting and drinking a cappuccino made by my caring and thoughtful better half while somewhere in Baghdad life is not as safe or simple. I am sad and anxious about events in Baghdad. I read a beautiful piece online today by an Iranian
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#toberead I picked out some of the books I’m planning to read in 2020. #partner. Which one in this pile would you read next? I haven’t made a decision yet. I’m planning to read at least one book a week this year, that means minimum 52 books in 2020. I jus
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🐦 Happy New Year! What’s the first book you are reading in 2020? The first book I finished this year was #griefisthethingwithfeathers by #maxporter. Can you spot it in my photo? I wish all my reads will be as good as this one this year even it wasn’t
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🎄Did you do anything untraditional this Christmas? I spent Christmas in Estonia and planned to be posting on Instagram every day. Somehow I completely forgot about my Instagram feed. It always happens when I’m travelling. This photo is take
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Happy Christmas 🎅🎅 Not a very Christmassy photo but this is where I was yesterday. It’s the Soviet building for writers in Tallinn. Several famous writers lived here, among them Nobel Prize nominee Jaan Kross and his wife (children’s author) E
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Are you travelling anywhere this Christmas? We are in Tallinn and staying in an Airbnb close to a few of my favourite bookshops. I will seriously try to avoid buying any books though! Thinking of what to do today, should we visit the KGB prisons or anothe
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What is your favourite Christmas colour and why? Red, blue, green, black or white? I keep my colourful Christmas books in a separate pile and take them out in December. #christmaswithdullpeople #achristmascarol #analmostperfectchristmas #fatherchristmasan
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‘The Medusa was a woman who was both very powerful and very upset. It was a peculiar myth about a woman who returns the male gaze instead of looking away, and it ends with her cruel beheading, the separating of the head of a woman (the mind, subjectivity)
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves,
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I visited Bristol in October and I have now added some photos to my blog. If you are interested in visiting Bristol too, the link is in my bio. I was pleased to be invited by @VisitEngland as part of their #myMicroGap campaign because I have been curious
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“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” 🏡 #JaneAusten, #PrideandPrejudice Happy Birthday Jane Austen. I love my pastel coloured Austen collections (@acturusbooks @barnesandnoble) and toda
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“Occasionally Fate can pull itself together again.” 🌟 “And Time is always waiting.” #thestarlesssea #currentlyreading I’m about to change the office side of my library and have new shelves installed where the computer is. Then I’m planning to do a b
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“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.” #tovejansson #moomins What are your plans for this Sunday? I am still reading The Starless Sea. At the moment I’m really gripped, reading about the mysterious trip to
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“Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.” Leo Tolstoy. How do you steal time for reading? How can you concentrate when there are millions of other thoughts coming into your head? I’m spending the evening checking out my #leotolstoy book
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“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.” #johnsteinbeck #eastofeden. Who’s your most memorable literary character of 2019? East of Eden introduced me to my most memorable c
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Can you believe in just 11 days, on 22nd December, days will start getting longer again! Are you affected by the lack of light at the moment? Luckily this autumn has gone very fast for me, but I can’t wait to get past January and February. #tenonmytbr Her
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” Groucho Marx What is the most peculiar bookshop you know? Inspired by @whatshotblog’s latest Hay-on-Wye trip, I dug out one of my pictures from Hay during @bookstagram
