bobbygw
@bobbygw.bsky.social
Love books, feminism, human rights, culture. Occasional book reviewer (bobbygw.com). Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Ahem. A curator of feminism, writers & books at https://www.scoop.it/u/bobbygw
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#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 📚💙
Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
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Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
bit.ly/3LFnWt4
#booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #activists #disabilityrights 📚💙
Obituary: Alice Wong dies, aged 51. She was an acclaimed disability rights activist, and memoirist, whose independence and writing inspired others.
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Obituary: Alice Wong dies, aged 51. She was an acclaimed disability rights activist, and memoirist, whose independence and writing inspired others.
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Alice Wong, disability rights activist and writer, dies at 51
Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in San Francisco, a close friend said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #activists #disabilityrights 📚💙
Obituary: Alice Wong dies, aged 51. She was an acclaimed disability rights activist, and memoirist, whose independence and writing inspired others.
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Obituary: Alice Wong dies, aged 51. She was an acclaimed disability rights activist, and memoirist, whose independence and writing inspired others.
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 📚💙
Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
bit.ly/3LFnWt4
Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
bit.ly/3LFnWt4
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 📚💙
Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
bit.ly/3LFnWt4
Obituary: Marina Lewycka, British-Ukrainian author, dies aged 79. The writer, who was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war, won the Wodehouse prize for comic writing for her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
bit.ly/3LFnWt4
#booksky for #horrorfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Joe Hill's new novel, King Sorrow. ‘It’s a tour de force: a horror novel that is above all a paean to the imagination, and to love and friendship.’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Joe Hill's new novel, King Sorrow. ‘It’s a tour de force: a horror novel that is above all a paean to the imagination, and to love and friendship.’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#booksky for #horrorfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Joe Hill's new novel, King Sorrow. ‘It’s a tour de force: a horror novel that is above all a paean to the imagination, and to love and friendship.’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Joe Hill's new novel, King Sorrow. ‘It’s a tour de force: a horror novel that is above all a paean to the imagination, and to love and friendship.’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers 📚💙
On Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts, her strange & stunning new short story collection, translated by Elina Alter. Review by Madeline Schultz.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/n...
On Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts, her strange & stunning new short story collection, translated by Elina Alter. Review by Madeline Schultz.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/n...
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers 📚💙
On Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts, her strange & stunning new short story collection, translated by Elina Alter. Review by Madeline Schultz.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/n...
On Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts, her strange & stunning new short story collection, translated by Elina Alter. Review by Madeline Schultz.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/13/n...
#booksky highly recommended for #sociology #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist & historian of disaster, has died aged 94. He was a beloved teacher, distinguished professor, & the author of influential, award-winning books.
news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
Obituary: Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist & historian of disaster, has died aged 94. He was a beloved teacher, distinguished professor, & the author of influential, award-winning books.
news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #sociology #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist & historian of disaster, has died aged 94. He was a beloved teacher, distinguished professor, & the author of influential, award-winning books.
news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
Obituary: Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist & historian of disaster, has died aged 94. He was a beloved teacher, distinguished professor, & the author of influential, award-winning books.
news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #sciencefiction 📚💙
Great @libraryofamerica.bsky.social event: Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. Discussed by* scholar Imani Perry & novelist Tananarive Due.
Monday 24 November,
6–7pm ET. You must preregister to attend
rebrand.ly/Butler2025
Great @libraryofamerica.bsky.social event: Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. Discussed by* scholar Imani Perry & novelist Tananarive Due.
Monday 24 November,
6–7pm ET. You must preregister to attend
rebrand.ly/Butler2025
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #sciencefiction 📚💙
Great @libraryofamerica.bsky.social event: Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. Discussed by* scholar Imani Perry & novelist Tananarive Due.
Monday 24 November,
6–7pm ET. You must preregister to attend
rebrand.ly/Butler2025
Great @libraryofamerica.bsky.social event: Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. Discussed by* scholar Imani Perry & novelist Tananarive Due.
Monday 24 November,
6–7pm ET. You must preregister to attend
rebrand.ly/Butler2025
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Watch the moment Flesh was announced as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025, and hear what David Szalay said in his acceptance speech.
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
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David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025 with Flesh | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Watch the moment Flesh was announced as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025, and hear what David Szalay said in his acceptance speech.
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
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Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:
www.graywolfpress.org/books?search...
www.graywolfpress.org/books?search...
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:
www.graywolfpress.org/books?search...
www.graywolfpress.org/books?search...
#booksky for #literaryfiction #BookerPrize #booklovers
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Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about the winning novel and its author.
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Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about the winning novel and its author.
open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #BookerPrize #booklovers
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Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about the winning novel and its author.
open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...
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Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about the winning novel and its author.
open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...
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#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
#booksky highly recommended for #IllustratedBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #booklovers 📚💙
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #IllustratedBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #booklovers 📚💙
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #essays #ModernClassics 📚💙
The Essential James Baldwin.
He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Recommendations by Robert Jones Jr., author of the novel The Prophets.
www.nytimes.com/article/jame...
The Essential James Baldwin.
He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Recommendations by Robert Jones Jr., author of the novel The Prophets.
www.nytimes.com/article/jame...
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #essays #ModernClassics 📚💙
The Essential James Baldwin.
He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Recommendations by Robert Jones Jr., author of the novel The Prophets.
www.nytimes.com/article/jame...
The Essential James Baldwin.
He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Recommendations by Robert Jones Jr., author of the novel The Prophets.
www.nytimes.com/article/jame...
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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The Essential Kate Atkinson:
Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British novelist and short story writer has something for everyone.
www.nytimes.com/article/kate...
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The Essential Kate Atkinson:
Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British novelist and short story writer has something for everyone.
www.nytimes.com/article/kate...
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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The Essential Kate Atkinson:
Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British novelist and short story writer has something for everyone.
www.nytimes.com/article/kate...
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The Essential Kate Atkinson:
Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British novelist and short story writer has something for everyone.
www.nytimes.com/article/kate...
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #memoirs #booklovers 📚💙
Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir: In Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.
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Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir: In Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.
wapo.st/4hNsFVz
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #memoirs #booklovers 📚💙
Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir: In Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.
wapo.st/4hNsFVz
Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir: In Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, the author best known for The Handmaid's Tale offers a wise and witty account of the life that shaped her writing.
wapo.st/4hNsFVz
#FeelGood #HumanStories #CommunityMatters #happiness
Loved this: The guy who runs the dump knows the secret to finding meaning at work.
At a time when less than a third of American workers feel engaged in their jobs, we could all learn something from Willie Shanks.
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Loved this: The guy who runs the dump knows the secret to finding meaning at work.
At a time when less than a third of American workers feel engaged in their jobs, we could all learn something from Willie Shanks.
wapo.st/47L8iE0
Column | The guy who runs the dump knows the secret to finding meaning at work
At a time when less than a third of American workers feel engaged in their jobs, we could all learn something from Willie Shanks.
wapo.st
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#FeelGood #HumanStories #CommunityMatters #happiness
Loved this: The guy who runs the dump knows the secret to finding meaning at work.
At a time when less than a third of American workers feel engaged in their jobs, we could all learn something from Willie Shanks.
wapo.st/47L8iE0
Loved this: The guy who runs the dump knows the secret to finding meaning at work.
At a time when less than a third of American workers feel engaged in their jobs, we could all learn something from Willie Shanks.
wapo.st/47L8iE0
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #ModernClassics 📚💙
Neglected Classics: On Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows. By Adela Pinch, Prof. of English & author of The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living.
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-rebe...
Neglected Classics: On Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows. By Adela Pinch, Prof. of English & author of The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living.
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-rebe...
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #ModernClassics 📚💙
Neglected Classics: On Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows. By Adela Pinch, Prof. of English & author of The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living.
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-rebe...
Neglected Classics: On Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows. By Adela Pinch, Prof. of English & author of The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living.
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-rebe...
#booksky for #essays #womenwriters #booklovers
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Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie Smith. From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie Smith. From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#booksky for #essays #womenwriters #booklovers
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Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie Smith. From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie Smith. From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#booksky highly recommended for #essays #womenwriters #literarycriticism #nonfiction
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #essays #womenwriters #literarycriticism #nonfiction
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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50 yrs ago, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike. No cooking, cleaning or childcare. Schools closed. Flights grounded. Men stayed home or took kids to work. Today Iceland has smallest gender pay gap in the world & tough equal pay laws. @josiecox.bsky.social
www.thepersistent.com/50-years-ice...
www.thepersistent.com/50-years-ice...
50 Years Ago, Iceland's Women Went on Strike. It Changed Everything.
They stopped cleaning and cooking; they stopped doing laundry and they stopped looking after their children. They’d had enough.
www.thepersistent.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
50 yrs ago, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike. No cooking, cleaning or childcare. Schools closed. Flights grounded. Men stayed home or took kids to work. Today Iceland has smallest gender pay gap in the world & tough equal pay laws. @josiecox.bsky.social
www.thepersistent.com/50-years-ice...
www.thepersistent.com/50-years-ice...
#booksky recommended for #fantasyfiction #booklovers
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Interview: Bestselling author Philip Pullman on his Dark Materials trilogy, & the recently published The Rose Field, conclusion to his Book of Dust Trilogy.
archive.is/x0scA
Plus two reviews of the novel
bit.ly/4hvk2yH
bit.ly/3JmyDzY
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Interview: Bestselling author Philip Pullman on his Dark Materials trilogy, & the recently published The Rose Field, conclusion to his Book of Dust Trilogy.
archive.is/x0scA
Plus two reviews of the novel
bit.ly/4hvk2yH
bit.ly/3JmyDzY
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
#booksky recommended for #fantasyfiction #booklovers
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Interview: Bestselling author Philip Pullman on his Dark Materials trilogy, & the recently published The Rose Field, conclusion to his Book of Dust Trilogy.
archive.is/x0scA
Plus two reviews of the novel
bit.ly/4hvk2yH
bit.ly/3JmyDzY
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Interview: Bestselling author Philip Pullman on his Dark Materials trilogy, & the recently published The Rose Field, conclusion to his Book of Dust Trilogy.
archive.is/x0scA
Plus two reviews of the novel
bit.ly/4hvk2yH
bit.ly/3JmyDzY
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #shortstories #booklovers
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An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
📚💙
An excellent essay-review in the NYRB of the oeuvre of the superb English novelist & short story writer, Tessa Hadley. By Hillary Kelly.
archive.is/X61Xo
Highly recommended for #wellbeing #eudaemonia #happiness #purpose
A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness.
Results of a study out of Cornell suggest a happiness hack that can lead you toward a life of purpose.
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A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness.
Results of a study out of Cornell suggest a happiness hack that can lead you toward a life of purpose.
wapo.st/4nlKw7c
Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness
How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our cha...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Highly recommended for #wellbeing #eudaemonia #happiness #purpose
A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness.
Results of a study out of Cornell suggest a happiness hack that can lead you toward a life of purpose.
wapo.st/4nlKw7c
A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness.
Results of a study out of Cornell suggest a happiness hack that can lead you toward a life of purpose.
wapo.st/4nlKw7c
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Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is definitely worth exploring!
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#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
#mentalhealth #comfortreads 📚💙
Where to start with Marian Keyes?
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
#mentalhealth #comfortreads 📚💙
Where to start with Marian Keyes?
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
#mentalhealth #comfortreads 📚💙
Where to start with Marian Keyes?
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
#mentalhealth #comfortreads 📚💙
Where to start with Marian Keyes?
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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Where to Start with Margaret Atwood.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
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Where to Start with Margaret Atwood.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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Where to Start with Margaret Atwood.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
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Where to Start with Margaret Atwood.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...