Gnome Appreciation Society
@gnomelord.bsky.social
I love reading nature and travel books. I have a blog where I leave my reviews felcherman.wordpress.com happy to receive books to review. Also happy to review Whisky but reviews will be less conhearenet..cohearrent...readable like.
My review of The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/t... Loved it, proper epic piece of work @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
The Coast Of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
What Da Cover Says: “To find the center, begin at the edge . . . A daughter’s devotion parts her from her father. A dutiful soldier sentences his child to a loveless exile and her mother to madnes…
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February 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
My review of The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/t... Loved it, proper epic piece of work @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
My Review of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a... nice collection of poems #poetry
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
What Da Cover Says: The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s “Into the Night Life” and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them…
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February 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
My Review of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a... nice collection of poems #poetry
my review of Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes by Max Carocci felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s... available from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes by Max Carocci
What Da Cover Says: Around the world, shamanic traditions dating back thousands of years are being revived, recovered, and reinvented. Many people are increasingly turning to shamanic practices and…
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February 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
my review of Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes by Max Carocci felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s... available from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
My review of Otherless by Ferris Wheel Fox felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/o... an interesting story that was well written.
Otherless by Ferris Wheel Fox
What Da Cover Says: Marcia Gordon, a future cult leader, starts an arts and crafts club at her high school. What I Says: I was tidying up at work and found a print out of this book, no idea where I…
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January 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
My review of Otherless by Ferris Wheel Fox felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/o... an interesting story that was well written.
My review of Get Sad by @therestlesscoast.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/a... First ever music review on me blog and starting with a fantastic album. #musicreview
Album review: Get Sad by The Restless Coast
Band: The Restless Coast Album: Get Sad Format: Vinyl No. of Tracks: 11 Track Listing: Everything’s Tragic Carry On Complaining Sigh, Sigh My Darling Just Shoot Me Succeedophobe Sleepless In …
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January 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
My review of Get Sad by @therestlesscoast.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/a... First ever music review on me blog and starting with a fantastic album. #musicreview
My review of The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine and Rundell illustrated by Tayla Baldwin felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... Lovely book, get yourself a copy and a second one as a gift. #books
The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine and Rundell illustrated by Tayla Baldwin
What Da Cover Says: A pangolin’s tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get t…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
My review of The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine and Rundell illustrated by Tayla Baldwin felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... Lovely book, get yourself a copy and a second one as a gift. #books
My review of Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t... available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books
Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder
What Da Cover Says: Three of Europe’s greatest rivers share the same geological one fertile patch of Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. Coursing down through the peaks, …
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December 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My review of Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t... available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books
My review of We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w... #books
We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe
What Da Cover Says: Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, David Banning embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of harbours and the sea. In a post-…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My review of We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w... #books
My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
Wrongful by Lee Upton
What Da Cover Says: When the famous novelist Mira Wallacz goes missing at the festival devoted to celebrating her work, the attendees assume the worst—and some hope for the worst. Ten years after t…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
My review of Vanished Wales: Places lost in living memory by Carwyn Jones felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/v... well worth a read. Available from @serenbooks.bsky.social #books
Vanish Wales: Places Lost In Living Memory by Carwyn Jones
What Da Cover Says: Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory is the book to accompany one of ITV Cymru Wales’ most popular shows. It explores the fascinating stories of lost landmarks: pla…
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October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My review of Vanished Wales: Places lost in living memory by Carwyn Jones felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/v... well worth a read. Available from @serenbooks.bsky.social #books
My review of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m... Very interesting topic. #bookreview available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social
Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver
What Da Cover Says: Reginald Mitchell is one of the greatest names in aviation history. A visionary engineer with a passion for speed, his legacy is the most iconic fighter aircraft of all the Spit…
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October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My review of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m... Very interesting topic. #bookreview available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social
My review of Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c... Fantastic exploration of London's dark heart. #bookreview
Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan
What Da Cover Says: WELCOME TO THE CRIMINAL HEART OF LONDON. Meet the coppers who do things their own way, street gangs on the rampage, traditional villains, sightseeing hitmen, dedicated smash and…
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October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My review of Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c... Fantastic exploration of London's dark heart. #bookreview
my review of TIDBITS volume 1 by @jackcjstark.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t... Highly recommend you read this quirky collection of poems #Bookreview
TIDBITS Volume 1 by CJ Stark
What Da Cover Says: A menace.A tech savvy frog.A demon that cleans.Parks.And a suspicious number of ducks. A collection of humorous and absurd poems (one even rhymes!) from Jack CJ Stark. What I Sa…
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September 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
my review of TIDBITS volume 1 by @jackcjstark.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t... Highly recommend you read this quirky collection of poems #Bookreview
My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books
Descanso by Jay Spencer Green
What Da Cover Says: Drug-dealer, brothelkeeper, devoted sibling, spy, Manuel Estímulo expected his retirement on a remote desert island in the Atlantic to be one long, well-deserved rest, a descans…
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September 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books
My review of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t... got my copy from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social #naturewriting
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
What Da Cover Says: A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Dai…
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August 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My review of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t... got my copy from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social #naturewriting
My review of The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... this was a fun read. Thanks to @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BookReview
The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio
What Da Cover Says: Air is a graffiti artist and self-described street hermit who spends his nights in urban encampments and days in public libraries, reading up on physics and ancient philosophy, …
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August 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My review of The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... this was a fun read. Thanks to @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BookReview
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Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay, and we're reading @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Wainwright longlisted book, #TheCompanyOfOwls...
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
August 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay, and we're reading @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Wainwright longlisted book, #TheCompanyOfOwls...
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
My review of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... Fantastic book this un from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview
Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece By Julian Hoffman
What Da Cover Says: A story of shelter, generosity and welcome. A story of searching for home in the mountains and lakes of northern Greece. In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia…
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August 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My review of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... Fantastic book this un from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview
My review of the Road by Cormac McCarthy felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t... Not as many laughs as I expected. #books
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
What Da Cover Says: In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscap…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My review of the Road by Cormac McCarthy felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t... Not as many laughs as I expected. #books
My review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j... Fantastic novel this un. #bookreview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
What Da Cover Says: Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. …
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July 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j... Fantastic novel this un. #bookreview
My review of A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a... good book this un. available from @canongate.co.uk
A Ballet Of Lepers by Leonard Cohen
What Da Cover Says: Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he’d settled on Greece’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection o…
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June 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My review of A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a... good book this un. available from @canongate.co.uk
Horror Movie time: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (only 7 more Draculas to complete the challenge) #HorrorMovies
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Horror Movie time: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (only 7 more Draculas to complete the challenge) #HorrorMovies
My review of Bee Quest by @davegoulson.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/b... Got a huge amount from this fascinating book @vintagebooks.bsky.social
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
What Da Cover Says: A hunt for the world’s most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Salisbury plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumbleb…
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June 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My review of Bee Quest by @davegoulson.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/b... Got a huge amount from this fascinating book @vintagebooks.bsky.social
My review of Left on Read by G.C.Mckay felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/l... Highly traumatic reading. fun #books
Left on Read by g. c. mckay
What Da Cover Says: Love in the age of screenshots, nudes and getting ghosted Whether you’re doomscrolling at midnight, checking out who viewed your story (for 56th time in an hour) or wonder…
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June 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My review of Left on Read by G.C.Mckay felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/l... Highly traumatic reading. fun #books
My review of Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/n... Well good this book. available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books
Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
What Da Cover Says: Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is …
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May 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My review of Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/n... Well good this book. available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books