Josi 🇿🇦
@josirose.bsky.social
curious cat in a cabinet of curiosities
cares for two cats, dog, cockatoo
reads, feasts, gardens, travels in dreams
#BookSky #FilmSky #ArtSky
cares for two cats, dog, cockatoo
reads, feasts, gardens, travels in dreams
#BookSky #FilmSky #ArtSky
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The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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The Last of its Kind by Ed Yong
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
re: Endling, by Maria Reva #bookskyky 📚💙
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
October 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Last of its Kind by Ed Yong
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
re: Endling, by Maria Reva #bookskyky 📚💙
How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents lithub.com/how-one-snail-…
re: Endling by Maria Reva, longlisted fo#BookerPrize20252#bookskyky 📚💙
re: Endling by Maria Reva, longlisted fo#BookerPrize20252#bookskyky 📚💙
https://lithub.com/how-one-snail-…
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents lithub.com/how-one-snail-…
re: Endling by Maria Reva, longlisted fo#BookerPrize20252#bookskyky 📚💙
re: Endling by Maria Reva, longlisted fo#BookerPrize20252#bookskyky 📚💙
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I have just discovered the existence of Silent Companions: wooden cut-outs of people painted to look real and ...keep you company? Georgian or older. They're giving haunted/uncanny and making me think about AI companions etc. Some sort of ever-present need. holtantiquefurniture.com/products/a-p...
A Pair of George III Period English Antique Dummy Boards / Silent Comp
A pair of delightful George III Period English antique wooden dummy boards. Also known as "silent companions." The pair depicts a boy with a spaniel and a girl with a basket of flowers. Each is portra...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have just discovered the existence of Silent Companions: wooden cut-outs of people painted to look real and ...keep you company? Georgian or older. They're giving haunted/uncanny and making me think about AI companions etc. Some sort of ever-present need. holtantiquefurniture.com/products/a-p...
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When I go to graveyards I try to find a grave where the person died on the date I was born. I've been doing this for years but not found a single one. The search continues.
August 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
When I go to graveyards I try to find a grave where the person died on the date I was born. I've been doing this for years but not found a single one. The search continues.
Superb!
About to start a novel I’ve wanted to read ever since i read the history of Faber in which TS Eliot is quoted as saying of it “My feeling is that this book is very likely to be the last big thing to be done in our time.”
August 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Superb!
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Most anticipated upcoming releases announced for 2026:
So excited for a new Gabriel Tallent and Kathryn Stockett Novel. I know I'm gonna love the new Meg Shaffer. Wasn't planning on reading more Klune, but that synopsis is just too good.
Also hoping for a Donna Tartt announcement 🤞
#booksky
So excited for a new Gabriel Tallent and Kathryn Stockett Novel. I know I'm gonna love the new Meg Shaffer. Wasn't planning on reading more Klune, but that synopsis is just too good.
Also hoping for a Donna Tartt announcement 🤞
#booksky
July 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most anticipated upcoming releases announced for 2026:
So excited for a new Gabriel Tallent and Kathryn Stockett Novel. I know I'm gonna love the new Meg Shaffer. Wasn't planning on reading more Klune, but that synopsis is just too good.
Also hoping for a Donna Tartt announcement 🤞
#booksky
So excited for a new Gabriel Tallent and Kathryn Stockett Novel. I know I'm gonna love the new Meg Shaffer. Wasn't planning on reading more Klune, but that synopsis is just too good.
Also hoping for a Donna Tartt announcement 🤞
#booksky
I believe it!
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I believe it!
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You may have heard a rumor that the forest will swallow you whole and spit out your bones.
This is not true.
The forest will also devour your bones, as they are quite delicious.
This is not true.
The forest will also devour your bones, as they are quite delicious.
July 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
You may have heard a rumor that the forest will swallow you whole and spit out your bones.
This is not true.
The forest will also devour your bones, as they are quite delicious.
This is not true.
The forest will also devour your bones, as they are quite delicious.
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Wow #BookSky 📚💙
From fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here's everything you need to know about this year's longlist.
thebookerprizes.com/everything-y...
thebookerprizes.com/everything-y...
Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist | The Booker Prizes
From a vast range of global experiences to books brimming with long-held secrets, from fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist
thebookerprizes.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wow #BookSky 📚💙
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In times of strife, it's good to remember that you're not alone.
There are many other fog goblins, twig witches, dark fairies, and other moss draped horrors out here shambling along as best we can.
Take comfort in that.
There are many other fog goblins, twig witches, dark fairies, and other moss draped horrors out here shambling along as best we can.
Take comfort in that.
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In times of strife, it's good to remember that you're not alone.
There are many other fog goblins, twig witches, dark fairies, and other moss draped horrors out here shambling along as best we can.
Take comfort in that.
There are many other fog goblins, twig witches, dark fairies, and other moss draped horrors out here shambling along as best we can.
Take comfort in that.
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This used to be Serebrianskyi forest. It is the frontline now.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
July 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This used to be Serebrianskyi forest. It is the frontline now.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.
It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.
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"What a lot of books! Are they all different?"
- Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), Ball of Fire, 1941
- Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), Ball of Fire, 1941
July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"What a lot of books! Are they all different?"
- Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), Ball of Fire, 1941
- Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), Ball of Fire, 1941
📚💙 #BookSky
That's an extremely savvy and incisive take, that is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 But yeah, i'm all for eating the rich and sacking off all traditional concepts of gender etc 😱
Have you read this, speaking of which......Astoundingly radical by traditional measures but spot on.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/dyspho...
Have you read this, speaking of which......Astoundingly radical by traditional measures but spot on.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/dyspho...
Dysphoria Mundi | Fitzcarraldo Editions
In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolat...
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📚💙 #BookSky
Found this astonishing book posted by IG twicesoldtales
Holy shitballs !! ☠️
morbidly fascinating, seems life in early London was a gungy grisly abomination 📚💙 #BookSky
Holy shitballs !! ☠️
morbidly fascinating, seems life in early London was a gungy grisly abomination 📚💙 #BookSky
July 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Found this astonishing book posted by IG twicesoldtales
Holy shitballs !! ☠️
morbidly fascinating, seems life in early London was a gungy grisly abomination 📚💙 #BookSky
Holy shitballs !! ☠️
morbidly fascinating, seems life in early London was a gungy grisly abomination 📚💙 #BookSky
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I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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It gets funnier the longer you look at it.
April 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It gets funnier the longer you look at it.