Kristin Carao
@mikaelakristin.bsky.social
Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
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We had a wonderful evening in conversation with the Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted authors at Southbank Centre last night. (1/3)
Image credits: David Parry
Image credits: David Parry
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We had a wonderful evening in conversation with the Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted authors at Southbank Centre last night. (1/3)
Image credits: David Parry
Image credits: David Parry
Congratulations to David Szalay for winning the #BookerPrize2025! A brief study of masculinity, trauma & disaffected youth.
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
David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025 with Flesh | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Congratulations to David Szalay for winning the #BookerPrize2025! A brief study of masculinity, trauma & disaffected youth.
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Every single one of the choices made by the remake of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE is inferior to the original, but I kind of found myself intrigued by as an intellectual exercise. Both feature the defining styles of their era. Takes its IP and just goes in a very different direction at all times.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Every single one of the choices made by the remake of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE is inferior to the original, but I kind of found myself intrigued by as an intellectual exercise. Both feature the defining styles of their era. Takes its IP and just goes in a very different direction at all times.
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‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Creature Rises
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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From late next month, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia will begin to cease operations and transform to become Adelaide University. But as the clock ticks, some students and staff are feeling the pressure.
Students, teaching staff face challenges amid Adelaide University merger
From late next month, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia will begin to cease operations and transform to become Adelaide University. But as the clock ticks, some students and staff are feeling the pressure.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
From late next month, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia will begin to cease operations and transform to become Adelaide University. But as the clock ticks, some students and staff are feeling the pressure.
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Thankfully some states were faster and rushed to issue the full November SNAP payment already.
This doesn’t change the fact that SCOTUS should be fired into the sun.
This doesn’t change the fact that SCOTUS should be fired into the sun.
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thankfully some states were faster and rushed to issue the full November SNAP payment already.
This doesn’t change the fact that SCOTUS should be fired into the sun.
This doesn’t change the fact that SCOTUS should be fired into the sun.
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Am plugging NEW ZEALAND TODAY again (S1 and 2 on Netflix), because it's too funny to miss.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Am plugging NEW ZEALAND TODAY again (S1 and 2 on Netflix), because it's too funny to miss.
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Typhoon Kalmaegi left hundreds dead and as Filipinos are bracing for more extreme conditions as they mourn their loved ones and pick up the pieces.
Phillippines braces for another typhoon amid devastation of Kalmaegi
Typhoon Kalmaegi left hundreds dead and as Filipinos are bracing for more extreme conditions as they mourn their loved ones and pick up the pieces.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Typhoon Kalmaegi left hundreds dead and as Filipinos are bracing for more extreme conditions as they mourn their loved ones and pick up the pieces.
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Tomorrow on the pod, @shaneharris.bsky.social talks to @mattfulton.net about his recent reporting trip to Europe and how the rest of NATO is preparing to confront Russia, if necessary, without US support.
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tomorrow on the pod, @shaneharris.bsky.social talks to @mattfulton.net about his recent reporting trip to Europe and how the rest of NATO is preparing to confront Russia, if necessary, without US support.
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We're tuning into BBC Two for #Empire with davidolusoga.bsky.social starting now! 📺
If you want more from David, THE WORLD'S WAR is his ground-breaking history about the forgotten soldiers of the empire in WWI.
Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4okb4Hc
If you want more from David, THE WORLD'S WAR is his ground-breaking history about the forgotten soldiers of the empire in WWI.
Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4okb4Hc
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We're tuning into BBC Two for #Empire with davidolusoga.bsky.social starting now! 📺
If you want more from David, THE WORLD'S WAR is his ground-breaking history about the forgotten soldiers of the empire in WWI.
Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4okb4Hc
If you want more from David, THE WORLD'S WAR is his ground-breaking history about the forgotten soldiers of the empire in WWI.
Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4okb4Hc
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NBCC member Paul Wilner interviewed Julian Brave NoiseCat about "We Survived The Night" for the Nob Hill Gazette:
Julian Brave Noisecat’s Literary Debut Makes a Striking Statement
“What any writer of nonfiction wants is to influence the world, which seems so immovable these days,” says Julian Brave NoiseCat, whose new book, We Survived the Night, comes to grips with his Native…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NBCC member Paul Wilner interviewed Julian Brave NoiseCat about "We Survived The Night" for the Nob Hill Gazette:
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Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
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Details from Frans Francken’s Hexenversammlung (A Coven), 1607, at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen and Hieronymus Bosch, Francken’s highly imaginative work depicts a number of women engaged in various acts of witchcraft accompanied by distinctly Muppety demons
Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen and Hieronymus Bosch, Francken’s highly imaginative work depicts a number of women engaged in various acts of witchcraft accompanied by distinctly Muppety demons
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Details from Frans Francken’s Hexenversammlung (A Coven), 1607, at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen and Hieronymus Bosch, Francken’s highly imaginative work depicts a number of women engaged in various acts of witchcraft accompanied by distinctly Muppety demons
Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen and Hieronymus Bosch, Francken’s highly imaginative work depicts a number of women engaged in various acts of witchcraft accompanied by distinctly Muppety demons
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The James Bond Book Club this week features Brian Baker in the ejector seat of our SAAB turbo 900 for John Gardner’s Licence Renewed podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The James Bond Book Club this week features Brian Baker in the ejector seat of our SAAB turbo 900 for John Gardner’s Licence Renewed podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...
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Celebrate International Turd On A Mantelpiece Day by downloading Quite Ugly One Morning for only 99p, as it's today's Kindle Daily Deal.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Celebrate International Turd On A Mantelpiece Day by downloading Quite Ugly One Morning for only 99p, as it's today's Kindle Daily Deal.
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The Ides of November: two Dismissal screenings at ACMI—
John Hughes, Andrew Scollo and Peter Kennedy’s November Eleven (1979): coup counter-reading in Dadaist montage
Paul Davies, Carolyn Howard and Pat Laughren’s Exits (1980): wandering Melbourne's streets on the day
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...
John Hughes, Andrew Scollo and Peter Kennedy’s November Eleven (1979): coup counter-reading in Dadaist montage
Paul Davies, Carolyn Howard and Pat Laughren’s Exits (1980): wandering Melbourne's streets on the day
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...
The Ides of November - 12 Nov 2025 The Melbourne Cinémathèque
This program brings together two key works reflecting on the lasting trauma of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government on November 11, 1975.
www.acmi.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The Ides of November: two Dismissal screenings at ACMI—
John Hughes, Andrew Scollo and Peter Kennedy’s November Eleven (1979): coup counter-reading in Dadaist montage
Paul Davies, Carolyn Howard and Pat Laughren’s Exits (1980): wandering Melbourne's streets on the day
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...
John Hughes, Andrew Scollo and Peter Kennedy’s November Eleven (1979): coup counter-reading in Dadaist montage
Paul Davies, Carolyn Howard and Pat Laughren’s Exits (1980): wandering Melbourne's streets on the day
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...
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Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd
Peter Hujar’s Day review: A lost tape is rediscovered by a mesmerising Ben Whishaw in Ira Sachs’ ode to friendship
Rebecca Hall completes a captivating two-handed about artistic struggle
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November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd
Started a temporary job as a paralegal doing doc review last week and just got overwhelmingly positive feedback from supervising lawyer & other team members. Yay! More motivation to apply for jobs. Writing responses to KSCs is hard. 😢 Please help!
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Started a temporary job as a paralegal doing doc review last week and just got overwhelmingly positive feedback from supervising lawyer & other team members. Yay! More motivation to apply for jobs. Writing responses to KSCs is hard. 😢 Please help!
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My upcoming release My Usual and You (Cafe Titas #2) is featured on a bookstagram tour by the BookLoverTitas group! I'll share links to their posts here too:
1) bookrystine
www.instagram.com/p/DQdQ43GEim...
1) bookrystine
www.instagram.com/p/DQdQ43GEim...
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
My upcoming release My Usual and You (Cafe Titas #2) is featured on a bookstagram tour by the BookLoverTitas group! I'll share links to their posts here too:
1) bookrystine
www.instagram.com/p/DQdQ43GEim...
1) bookrystine
www.instagram.com/p/DQdQ43GEim...
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I interrupt the usual dog focussed programming with a quick PSA that The Puppet Master is currently 99p on Kindle! So if you like your serial killers creepy and manipulative, now’s the time.
Link here: amzn.eu/d/fMJrkrI
Link here: amzn.eu/d/fMJrkrI
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I interrupt the usual dog focussed programming with a quick PSA that The Puppet Master is currently 99p on Kindle! So if you like your serial killers creepy and manipulative, now’s the time.
Link here: amzn.eu/d/fMJrkrI
Link here: amzn.eu/d/fMJrkrI
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New S&A Episode! Lindsay & @gingerdome81.bsky.social climb the mountain and dive into the deep waters of Renny Harlin. A Double of Cliffhanger & Deep Blue Sea. The explosions are going to be huge!
Schlock & Awe episodes can found in the account profile
Schlock & Awe episodes can found in the account profile
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New S&A Episode! Lindsay & @gingerdome81.bsky.social climb the mountain and dive into the deep waters of Renny Harlin. A Double of Cliffhanger & Deep Blue Sea. The explosions are going to be huge!
Schlock & Awe episodes can found in the account profile
Schlock & Awe episodes can found in the account profile
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Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for November: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma.
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more.
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/uzdip01gdk
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more.
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/uzdip01gdk
Monthly Spotlight | The Booker Prizes
Discover our ‘Monthly Spotlight’ series – a month-long celebration of a hand-picked selection of nominated titles from the Booker Library
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November 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for November: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma.
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more.
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/uzdip01gdk
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more.
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/uzdip01gdk
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TODAY: Don't BOO... VOTE! ✅
CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back!
NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅
VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅
GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅
Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!
CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back!
NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅
VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅
GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅
Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
TODAY: Don't BOO... VOTE! ✅
CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back!
NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅
VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅
GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅
Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!
CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back!
NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅
VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅
GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅
Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!