Sarah Matthews
@sarahmatthews.bsky.social
Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
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Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
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Blurring the boundaries between prose and poetry, THE BOAT IN THE EVENING by Tarjei Vesaas explores the mysteries of the natural world and man's relationship with landscape. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. My new post here:
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November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Blurring the boundaries between prose and poetry, THE BOAT IN THE EVENING by Tarjei Vesaas explores the mysteries of the natural world and man's relationship with landscape. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. My new post here:
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...
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I reviewed Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix tr. Helen Stevenson but mostly just noticed that I interpreted it a little differently that most reading-in-bed.com/2025/11/12/s... #NovNov
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson
Welcome to Novellas in November 2025, in which I try to catch up on reviews by tackling the novellas I’ve read so far this year. This novella stuck with me, not only because it is so good, but bec…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I reviewed Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix tr. Helen Stevenson but mostly just noticed that I interpreted it a little differently that most reading-in-bed.com/2025/11/12/s... #NovNov
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Make your voice heard!
This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make real change happen. The Euan’s Guide Access Survey is the UK’s largest disabled access survey and your voice will help shape a more accessible future.
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This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make real change happen. The Euan’s Guide Access Survey is the UK’s largest disabled access survey and your voice will help shape a more accessible future.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Make your voice heard!
This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make real change happen. The Euan’s Guide Access Survey is the UK’s largest disabled access survey and your voice will help shape a more accessible future.
buff.ly/t338120
This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make real change happen. The Euan’s Guide Access Survey is the UK’s largest disabled access survey and your voice will help shape a more accessible future.
buff.ly/t338120
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Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
Review by sarahmatthews - Frankie & Stankie
Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
Read on audioNarrator: Eva Haddon BBC AudioPub. 2003, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
Review by sarahmatthews - Frankie & Stankie
Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
Read on audioNarrator: Eva Haddon BBC AudioPub. 2003, ...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483
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New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
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'Nature's bounty' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
'Nature's bounty' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt
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The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
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Today on the blog, my first contribution to #NovNov25 “Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/09/s...
“Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas)
I’ve finished at work now and my leaving gift was bookshop.org vouchers (to quote my colleague: “Tell me what you want so you don’t get some rubbish you’ll never use” :-D ) which of course I starte…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Today on the blog, my first contribution to #NovNov25 “Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/09/s...
I’ve got an unexpectedly quiet afternoon as the boys got last minute tickets to see Crystal Palace…so I’m starting on Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark for #NovellasInNovember and it’s very amusing so far! #NovNov25 #bookSky
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I’ve got an unexpectedly quiet afternoon as the boys got last minute tickets to see Crystal Palace…so I’m starting on Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark for #NovellasInNovember and it’s very amusing so far! #NovNov25 #bookSky
Just watched the final episode of the Girlbands Forever doc on #BBC - what an excellent series! I was a pop fan from All Saints onwards (along with Britpop bands) & didn’t quite appreciate what a brutal industry it was when I was dancing around to their brilliant music on nights out with my mates!
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Just watched the final episode of the Girlbands Forever doc on #BBC - what an excellent series! I was a pop fan from All Saints onwards (along with Britpop bands) & didn’t quite appreciate what a brutal industry it was when I was dancing around to their brilliant music on nights out with my mates!
Spent the morning fiddling with a book review and at one point did a typo on my #Braille display and discovered that letter “a” followed by the dollar sign is Australian dollars! Fairly useless but it made me smile haha!
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Spent the morning fiddling with a book review and at one point did a typo on my #Braille display and discovered that letter “a” followed by the dollar sign is Australian dollars! Fairly useless but it made me smile haha!
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Yay the Guyliner blind date review is back - great for a giggle, and with excellent image descriptions!
In the latest Guardian Blind Date: they go out on a Saturday night, and you know what that means. Plus lots of Jonathan Bailey gifs in my review.
Will and Fred
We’re back! Let’s not make a big thing of it. This week drinking from the poisoned chalice of dating doom that is the Guardian Blind date are: Will, 33, a government officer (left, sans…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Yay the Guyliner blind date review is back - great for a giggle, and with excellent image descriptions!
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"May I tempt you?” My review of Transcription by Kate Atkinson #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
Book Review – Transcription by Kate Atkinson
About the Book In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"May I tempt you?” My review of Transcription by Kate Atkinson #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
I’ve just had a book coincidence… I’m reading a novel set in South Africa that references the Boer war of 1899-1902 several times, and another book set in England in 1900 with a character in it who’s returned injured from the same war #Booksky
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I’ve just had a book coincidence… I’m reading a novel set in South Africa that references the Boer war of 1899-1902 several times, and another book set in England in 1900 with a character in it who’s returned injured from the same war #Booksky
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We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist
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We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist
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The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist
The best novels of 2025 – this year's Booker Prize shortlist, as discussed by judge and novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NEW
We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
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Join Sana and Beth, for a sensory workshop at Wellcome Collection exploring food, healing and shared memory.
When - 13 Nov
Where - London
Cost - Free
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When - 13 Nov
Where - London
Cost - Free
disabilityarts.online/events/heali...
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join Sana and Beth, for a sensory workshop at Wellcome Collection exploring food, healing and shared memory.
When - 13 Nov
Where - London
Cost - Free
disabilityarts.online/events/heali...
When - 13 Nov
Where - London
Cost - Free
disabilityarts.online/events/heali...
I took part in this campaign to save the personal Braille transcription service and resulting RNIB consultation and eagerly await the outcome #Braille #transcription #music #literacy #Accessibility #UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ld6b?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
In Touch - The RNIB's Braille Transcription Service - BBC Sounds
The future of RNIB's on request braille transcription service.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I took part in this campaign to save the personal Braille transcription service and resulting RNIB consultation and eagerly await the outcome #Braille #transcription #music #literacy #Accessibility #UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ld6b?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nearly went flying when I got on the bus today (which was being driven like a go kart) & was saved by my leg brace giving me balance, my walking stick, & my PA being in front of me. The outcry from the other passengers helped to halt the bus so I could find a seat, but that was scary! #Disability
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Nearly went flying when I got on the bus today (which was being driven like a go kart) & was saved by my leg brace giving me balance, my walking stick, & my PA being in front of me. The outcry from the other passengers helped to halt the bus so I could find a seat, but that was scary! #Disability
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*NEW BLOG POST*
A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
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#booksky @octopusbooks.ca @selfesteem.music-social.com #randomthingstours
A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/11/04/a...
#booksky @octopusbooks.ca @selfesteem.music-social.com #randomthingstours
A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
“I never could′ve told you anything I long for While I was in the water swimming ‘gainst tides we′re taught to Take it in our stride, laugh it off, take it on the chin just right Don’t …
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November 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
*NEW BLOG POST*
A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/11/04/a...
#booksky @octopusbooks.ca @selfesteem.music-social.com #randomthingstours
A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/11/04/a...
#booksky @octopusbooks.ca @selfesteem.music-social.com #randomthingstours
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I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de
Review by sarahmatthews - The Flight of the Maidens
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem
Read in BrailleChatto & Windus Pub. 2000, 278pp_...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de
Chuffed to have updated my Braille Sense 6 today without any mishaps! 🙌 I was nervous to do it as I haven’t done a big update on it before but all went well and I’ve been enjoying playing around with the new #Braille Practice app which I think will be very useful to use with my learners
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Chuffed to have updated my Braille Sense 6 today without any mishaps! 🙌 I was nervous to do it as I haven’t done a big update on it before but all went well and I’ve been enjoying playing around with the new #Braille Practice app which I think will be very useful to use with my learners