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There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

~P.G. Wodehouse

Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:

✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
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There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

~P.G. Wodehouse

Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:

✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

~P.G. Wodehouse

Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:

✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thank you for your kind notes! #BookologyThursday will be returning on November 13th! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!
Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.

art by Timothy Adam Matthews
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂

BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.

art by Timothy Adam Matthews
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Please sign this petition if you haven’t already. It’s takes less than a minute and it’s so important. Hares are magical and beautiful; what a tragedy it would be if their population declined any further than it has already.
🖼️ Hugo Mühlig
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
September 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2011, Ep 10 (of 10) of Drama 📻 “THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL” -“Startling Intelligences” directed by David Hunter

Anne Brontë’s 1848 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce

🌟 Robert Lonsdale, Hattie Morahan, Leo Bill, Carl Prekopp

#BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday
September 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2008, Ep 4 (of 5)📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway” - “The Affair of the Birmingham Bank”

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch

👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday
September 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

📖 “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893

#BookchatWeekly #FictionFriday

📺 “A Good Read” with Mike Read
4:15pm @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

~E.M. Forster
art by John Atkinson Grimshaw
#PhantomsFriday #bookchatweekly
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer.

Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline.

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The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer
Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation. “The Golden Road” by William Dalrymple

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The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation
Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, thanks to its major role in global trade between AD300 and 600, it’s India, rath...
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#bookwormsat
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN 🚂
"Stick to it, everything has an end, and you get to it if you keep trying..:

Edith Nesbit
..the central message, is to encourage resilence, and perseverance, during difficult times, and the intrepid three, have their own challenges to face..
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September 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"This led to his famous experiment with the Smokehorse, this familiar horror of the nursery.... He found that he could produce the Smokehorse... as a waking hallucination, in his own consciousness and that of the children on whom he experimented."
- C. S. Lewis, "The Dark Tower"
#BookWormSat
September 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more

🖊️ John Betjemen

#BookWormSat

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🎨 JMW Turner
September 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”

📖 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

#BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat

📺 “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, 2002
9pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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11:32am TODAY on ⁦‪@bbcworldservice‬⁩

Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
Trending

BBC Trending investigates how negative ‘pre-read’ and pre-publication Goodreads ratings are leaving writers - and readers - mystified.

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BBC World Service - Trending, BBC Trending: Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
How ‘unfair’ Goodreads ratings are leaving writers - and readers - mystified.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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12:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2008, omnibus 📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway”

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch

📻 @BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#BookchatWeekly
September 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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From her children's book 'The Enchanted Forest' by Ida Outhwaite (1921), which she both wrote and illustrated.
#fairy #fairies #faerie #bat #marsh #illustration #womensart #BookChatWeekly
September 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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"On an apple-ripe September morning
Through the mist-chill fields I went ..."

Patrick Kavanagh (this poem was composed on September 27, 1943 and is repeated in his novel 'Tarry Flynn') 🎨 John Elwyn (1916-1997)

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#poetry
#Autumn
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September 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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2:45pm TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4‬⁩

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Opening Lines

John Yorke looks at the background to 📖 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and assesses the appeal of this worldwide bestseller.

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BBC Radio 4 - Opening Lines, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
John Yorke looks at the worldwide bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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3pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4

Ep 1 (of 2) #Comedy Drama📻 “A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian” directed by Kate Guelke

Adapted by Tanika Gupta from the 2005 novel📖 by Marina Lewycka

🌟Bogdana Kalantay, Istan Rozumny, Christina Kowalchuk, Rebecca Front

#BookchatWeekly
September 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.

~Alfred Tennyson

The White Owl
William James Webbe (1853-1878)
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2008, Ep 4 (of 5) 📻 “Thrilling Stories of the Railway” - “The Stolen Necklace”

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch’s 1912 #Crime novel📖 adapted by Fiona Kelcher & read by Benedict Cumberbatch

📻@BBCSounds👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#BookchatWeekly
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2011, Ep 9 (of 10) of Drama 📻 “THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL” -“Reconciliation” directed by David Hunter

Anne Brontë’s 1848 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce

🌟 Robert Lonsdale, Hattie Morahan, Leo Bill, Carl Prekopp, Samuel Bridger

#BookchatWeekly
September 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2015, Ep 5 (of 5) of 📻 “The Railways: Nation, Network and People” - “Trainspotting”

Simon Bradley’s 2015 book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by Stephen Tompkinson

📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#BookchatWeekly #Railway200
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM