Robin Bird

This is encouraging!

I recommend The Eighth Life for your next long listen then.

I just finished a 42hr book and thought that was a tough one! Oddly enough my first thought for the next book was Count of Monte Christo until i saw the run time! I went for a novella instead. Maybe CoMC next month.

A fluffy black cat rolling on her side in a grey rug. Her face is looking up at the camera and she has alarmingly large bright yellow eyes. She looks soft and meybe a bit daft.

Day 22 small joy

A conversation with my 8 (9?) yr old neighbours including what type of insect we'd be and where we would visit as that insect, climate change, geopolitics and war, and how fun clouds are.

(Cat picture stunt double)

Thank you so much for this. It's a beautiful way of honouring your mum and your own grief.

TW: abuse

Lovely #Booksky, what books are there out there either fiction or memoir, examining domestic abuse, especially emotional/coercive, that you know about/admire?

Thanks 🙏

How are printers still so bad? Why are they so unreliable? Why do they just sometimes, not print?

Why the fuck are they pushing AI apps as the future when it's been 40yrs and we still can't get a home printer that doesn't induce rage?

Ah usually that's a detail i leave out for a vague sense of privacy, but that's because i am usually posting "daily life" things rather than trips out and about.

Even on my short commute i get moments of glee: cruising down a hill, weaving throgh the park (safely), even blasting through the wind and rain! It's one of the reasons i do it. Rarely get those moments on the bus.

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People visiting my neigbours recognise and know my cat by name.
He's such a tart.

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

If it wasn't so horrific it would be fabulous

I don't know if anybody ever reads my alt text on pictures, but i enjoy writing them and finding ways to describe things.

View over an urban garden surrounded by a crescent of houses. It's night time and the garden path is lit up with small pillar lights. There's a variety of paving, a vegetable patch, trees and shrubs. Some of the houses have lights visible in their windows and in the background is a suggestion of a bright urban street.

Day 21 small joy

Getting home after dark, seeing the lights on in my neigbour's, saying hello to those out walking their dogs or just getting home.

You're pranking us right? Because this is ludicrous

Lies and Legacies: Thomas Wildman’s Curation of Byron’s Life at Newstead Abbey - ONLINE EVENT

I'm going to be doing a talk about Byron and about Thomas Wildman's manipulation of his legacy in a few weeks.

Come and learn about the lies, the disgruntled guests and the myths.

Also, come hear me talk about the 'how' of researching lies!

www.thebyronsociety.com/events/lies-...

What an excellent resource

Is the "relentless promotion of bicycles" in the room with us

On the one hand, there's no hope then! On the other, at least this is a shared experience.

Because i do that with academic writing on every assignment.
Or is this a feature of assignments and the pressure to meet a requirement rather than writing what we want to be writing?
I'm doing that now.
This is an academic tantrum.

I presume that writers of books (fiction and non fiction) get to a stage in editing where they can barely look at their own writing anymore, throw their hands in the air and exclaim "i hate it! I hate it all! I am done!"
Before grudgingly sitting back down and continuing.

Yes! I will make a metal note to start including translator details.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Realised that i haven't actually read Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie.
I kind of assumed i had because my friends had?
And i think i'd conflated "Imperial Radch" with Jeff VanderMeer's "Southern Reach" trilogy. Which i have read.

So that's the new audiobook.

#booksky
#scifi

I'm a fan of Frances Hardinge. Often marketed as YA due to younger protagonists but not really what's currently considered "YA genre"
I also always recommend the Tales of Fenest trilogy by DK Fields to folks.

I often think i need some penguin content in my life

It’s Women’s History Month and we’re celebrating with writer spotlights!! Today’s spotlight is Sarah Winnemucca, the first Native American women to obtain a copyright! #booksky #womenshistory #womenwriters #womenshistorymonth #women #wisdomhousebooks

This series is new to me and might be something to dive into this year

Half way through. I'm nominally doing this for lent despite not being Christian as it stemmed from a conversation with a friend at a pancake party about reflection and "gratitude" as both a wellbeing practice and a spiritual practice.
It's a process i find helpful and gets me through rough times