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I can bear anything as long as there are books - Jo Walton
Happy Tuesday, everyone. Grab a book and make it better. - Michael
Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a book-filled cottage at the edge of the forest and solving minor mysteries in your village with the aid of a curious ghost cat.
We are looking at a stone mullioned window with an ogee stone frame. On either side you can see small brackets painted in layers of limewash. The window is diamond glazing with a section that used to open.
Morning early birds.
Fancy a nutritious fact to go with your cereal?
The window in this atmospheric photo was built around 1358. The glazing is much newer and replaced shutters (you can just see the fixings for them on either side of the frame).
It's hard to believe that just 15 years ago, this was virtually empty space, with none of the native trees, epiphytic mosses, yellow flag, reed buntings, bullfinches, or other life now present, and increasing in diversity year on year.
Rewilding is how we reverse nature loss in Ireland.
Please read this eloquent expression of the fury so many of us feel.
We discuss Elvissey in the piece about how pacing affects whether something is SF!
The Arno river, with some clouds, Florence on both sides, framed by one of the arches of the Vasari corridor
#SomethingBeautiful clouds over the Arno in the early morning
Cover to the just-released NONESUCH, by Francis Spufford
BABOOM.
We are looking at a flower bed in front of the stone medieval chapel at the Hall. It has bright yellow narcissi and various shades of pink cyclamen.
Just some spring flowers and medieval stonework for your delectation and delight.
We do love a daffodil. 💛
This demonstrates the importance for time travellers of having a change purse with clearly marked compartments for different currencies. (Pick one up any year after 1893)
SQUEEEEEEE!!!!
Oooooooh... this sounds *great*! 😀
Ooh, Goodreads Giveaway for my forthcoming novel Everybody's Perfect! 50 copies available!
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You want to read this, I promise you.
So excited for the collection to come out! It’s amazing how much richer vi-authored work becomes as we traded pieces back and forth.
Two weeks from today, Trace Elements by @adapalmer.bsky.social and me will be out in the world.
Here are my author copies! Contains the history of SF publishing from Lucian of Samosata on, why I read, an examination of why SF and fantasy might be disguised as each other, lots and lots more!
Thank you.
Thank you. Good to know.
A duck-like bird perched on a stone wall, with yellow stone pillars in the background. The bird is a vibrant brown with white underwings and a white head, with a red beak and feet.
#SomethingBeautiful a bird by the Ponte Vecchio. Maybe some kind of duck?
The mosaic is a large square divided into four strips of scenes featuring men and animals, bordered by a chain-style frame. The top two sections depict intense hunting scenes: a shepherd fighting a lion, a soldier fighting a lioness, and two horseback hunters defeating a bear and a wild boar. The lower scenes are pastoral but with a hint of the exotic: a shepherd watching his goat and sheep graze in the shade of trees; an ostrich on a leash held by a dark-skinned man; and a boy holding the leashes of a zebra and a spotted animal that looks very much like a camel but might be meant to represent a giraffe.
#MonsaicMonday - 6th-century AD mosaic in the Diakonikon-Baptistery of the Moses Memorial Church in Mount Nebo, Jordan, depicting a hunting-and-herding scene, interspersed with various animals.
My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.
Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Cover of Trade Me, a white man holding an Asian Woman. Text: "Milan knocks it so far out of the park that it's 200 miles away." - Fresh Fiction
"What a fantastic book. I don't know where to even start with the raving." -Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/...
Nook: http://www.barnesand...
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#ContemporaryRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #CycloneSeries
Generally speaking all pre-orders are equal. Publishers note where the preorders are coming from, but mostly for their own information. That said, remember you can also pre-order books at your local bookstores! It's not just an online thing. Pre-ordering locally helps the bookstore and the author!
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
I became a historian because of sf/f: LEST DARKNESS FALL. Then, when I couldn't make a living at it, I poured what I'd learned back into sf/f. The river of branching and intersecting streams...
A Burrowing Owl wears a bright green towel or towel-adjacent fabric like a headscarf. His eyes are wide and yellow, with oval pupils reflecting a trio of ceiling lights. Feathers are brown and white, with a thatch of tan across the chest. His rictal bristles around his pale yellow beak are damp and pink, presumably from his latest meal, but due to lack of time / awareness / shame / napkins he has been unable to clean himself for the photoshoot.
Burrowing Owl 'Marathon' in Arizona received laser treatment for a leg injury when one of the volunteers snapped this cute picture. Want to donate to Wild At Heart Raptors? wildatheartraptors.org/donate/?refe... Source: fb.com/526080430065... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
I illustrated these in scratchboard, (with digital colour) and they were such a joy to read and illustrate.
The corner of the Baptistery with the facade of the Duomo and Giotto's belltower visible behind
#SomethingBeautiful but here's the reason why, awesome as it is, you don't see it celebrated much. It's literally overshadowed by the Duomo
The slices of the white roof, among the red tiles rooftops of the city
#SomethingBeautiful the roof of the Baptistery seen from the Palazzo Vecchio, looking like a white tent. This is also the only view that shows you how close it is to San Lorenzo. And you can see that it is big.