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Ali Riley
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Sheffield-based HE Education Developer and Adviser. Interests #ESD and #EntEd. Ex-archaeologist. Bit deaf. Living with Endometriosis. Chapter maggot.
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While I think it is fantastic that #endometriosis is getting more attention and there is less stigma, I can't help feeling that there's a downside to this as I see adverts across Instagram asking me to spend a fortune on 'endo support' products. The products here cost around £70.
Screenshot of an Instagram advert showing endometriosis related products such as a TENS machine and magnesium supplements
September 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Breaking out this trusty old thing. I'm largely paperless at work these days but sometimes I just need to organise my brain on paper!!
A slightly old fashioned and clearly already well used 'Things To Do Today' jotter
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Sebastian Barry's novel 'Days Without End'. The background shows a vast ainted landscape of both woodland and plains, and in the foreground we see a small figure riding and leading horses.
January 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Ferdia Lennon's novel 'Glorious Exploits'. The bacground is a black, Grecian-style urn. Two Greek figures, very small in comparison to the urn, lean against it.
January 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17

#booksky

#books
The book cover of Bret Easton Ellis' novel 'American Psycho' - a somewhat abstract painting of a man in a pinstriped suit and bright yellow tie. The face is darkened, expressionless, like a mask.
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16

#booksky

#books
The book cover for David Mitchell's novel, 'Cloud Atlas'. The background shows a stylised symmetrical illustration of a rising sun, waves/clouds, birds and trees, on a pink background.
January 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Michelle Magorian's children's novel, Goodnight Mr Tom. The cover showd an illustration of a small boy's head and shoulders and in the background there are bombed out buildings, rubble, smoke, and fire wardens.
January 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life. The background is a photograph of a red fox on a snowy backdrop.
January 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13 (had a break for Christmas!)

#booksky

#books
The book cover for John le Carre's novel 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'. The background is a black and white photo which shows the silhouette of the back of a man walking down a pavement in what seems to be a winter city.
January 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12

#booksky

#books
The book cover for 'Cold Earth' by Sarah Moss. Dry, mosslike tendrils are almost growing from the letters of 'Cold Earth'. Behind the title a picture shows a skeleton laying on its side as if in a grave.
December 20, 2024 at 1:23 PM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Amor Towles's novel 'A Gentleman in Moscow'. The background is a black and white photograph of a man in a suit and a hat, leaning out of an open window over an ironwork balustrade, seen from behind.
December 19, 2024 at 9:08 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall. The background is red and the Tudor rose is central.
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9 (belated)

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#books
The book cover for Jenny Odell's nonfiction book, How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy. The title is displayed against a vivid photographic floral background with pinks and greens.
December 18, 2024 at 7:58 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8

#booksky

#books
Book cover for John Steinbeck's novel 'East of Eden'. It is a Penguin edition. Under the title and author is a photograph of what appears to be a church window, taken from outside the building.
December 16, 2024 at 10:13 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Elizabeth Strout's novel 'Olive Kitteridge'. A pale cream background with a black line drawing on a lighthouse on a cliff above the sea.
December 15, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Lauren Groff's 'Matrix'. A pale cream background with a pattern of gd leaves and stylised medieval blue nuns.
December 15, 2024 at 2:01 PM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5

#booksky

#books
Book cover for Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend. The cover depicts a bride and groom and three flower girls, seen from behind. Naples is in the background.
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi'. Against a dark blue background, a faun stands on a column, playing pipes.
December 12, 2024 at 9:47 AM
aliriley.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Anna Burns's novel 'Milkman'. The background is a photo of a sunset over a beach and a solitary figure in silhouette in the distance. The sky is pink and orange.
December 11, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day

#booksky

#books
The book cover for Helen DeWitt's 'The Last Samurai'.
December 10, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1

#booksky

#books
A book cover for Kent Haruf's 'Plainsong'. The cover is a simple black and white landscape with a grassy plain, hills in the background, and a dark and cloudy sky.
December 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM