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Angry Algonquin
@angryalgonquin.bsky.social
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Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 190+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Museums. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI.
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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 7d
1/ My day on the blog tour for "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen, who turns a seemingly mundane cross-country furniture delivery into a darkly humorous thriller which was SO much fun to read! @orendabooks.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social

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Blog tour poster for "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen Cover of "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen. An antique couch surrounded by large antlers. Font in red and black.
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Prompted by @greenleejw.bsky.social I wrote a leetle eel ditty.
angryalgonquin.bsky.social Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 18h
🎶 My feet are both vibrating from the thunder of the eels!
And the slithering of their bodies really gives me all the feels,
I don't mind that I'm falling on the slippery onion peels,
The eels go thundering on! 🎶

From: Glory, glory halleeelja!
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Oates v Musk: One person enters. Their target slinks away to direct his minions to post that he ALREADY READS 10 BOOKS A DAY and LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE.
Post from author Joyce Carol Oates: "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone else appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact, he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than "the most wealthy person in the world."
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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@banditelli.org
above96th.bsky.social @Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 23h
Now that's what I call a RED-tailed Hawk! What a beauty! Seen zipping over Central Park's Harlem Meer. 🥰🥰🥰 #Hawks #CentralPark #birding
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Eels are frequently active during thunder storms...a fact that the premodern English used extensively as a metaphor!

In 1604 John Hanson used the image of eels roused by thunder to describe Catholic priests coming out of their slimy caves to spread their heresy in the world.
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Meme. Painting of Pope Benedict XIV. He's wearing sumptuous red, trimmed with white ermine, and his stole is brocaded as fuck. His body is facing to his left, but his face is turned towards you. His eyebrows make two arched bridges over the squinty, conniving gateways to his soul. He's rocking a 5 o'clock shadow, and his nose is arrow straight. His expression says that he knows something about you from the secret Vatican archives, and he's not going to tell you. But he might whisper it to your mother, just to watch her face crumble. His left hand is raised, fingers outstretched as if giving a blessing. It also makes him look like he's raising his hand in class. If his facial expression were worried, then this sort of hand-raising would look like he's guessing at the answer. As it is, it just looks like he's a grad student about to jump all over an undergrad's reading of Hamlet. He's gonna talk about Foucault. Meme text reads: "The thunder of eels is my walkup music"
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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#NordicNoir #IcelandNoir
loopyk.bsky.social Caroline G 📚 @loopyk.bsky.social · 19h
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jónasson
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A very satisfying read that I enjoyed immensely. 🔍
See my review on goodreads.com/loopykaz
#TheMysteriousCaseOfTheMissingCrimeWriter
#RagnarJónasson
#BookSky 📚💙
#⚡📚
#Books
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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booksky.club
Current list of all the ad free #BookSky feeds! 🫡

📚 main BookSky
🔥 trending BookSky
📖 Fiction Mega Feed
📗 BookSky Genre Aggregator
🪐 SciFi / Fantasy / SpecFic / WeirdFic
September 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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booksfromscotland.bsky.social
The Scottish Christmas Book Fair is coming! Come one come all to the New Town Church on 21 and 22 November!

#bookweekscotland
publishingscotland.bsky.social Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social · 21h
Scottish Christmas Book Fair
George Street, Edinburgh
Fri 21 & Sat 22 Nov

* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping

* All your favourite genres for adults & children

* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors

www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#Tomorrow! @robinince.bsky.social at Runaway Brewery and Taproom in Stockport. In conjunction with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social
serenitybookshop.bsky.social Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social · 20h
Very excited for our event with @robinince.bsky.social at Runaway Brewery and Taproom in Stockport tomorrow. He’ll be reading from his debut poetry collection ICE CREAM FOR A BROKEN TOOTH.

Tues 11 Nov | 6.30 | £5.00

Tickets via link below 👇🏻
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I’m delighted that ‘Silence of the Gods’ is one of
@universitypress.cambridge.org's Books of the Year! Currently on display at @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social, and on special offer online too: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/sal... 📚
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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1/ The brave and persistent Georgia high school students who organized to overturn the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl book ban. #booksky 📚 💙

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Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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If you happen to be in Edinburgh...stop by @mcnaughtans.co.uk if you can!
mcnaughtans.co.uk McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 20h
Some lovely vintage Penguin paperbacks currently in available in our shop.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. The Case of the Baited Hook by Erle Stanley Gardner. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Baby Gertie is growing up so fast! She and her best friend Eloise arrived here back in March and it has been pure joy watching these happy, curious girls grow up together!
Photo of an adorable fuzzy grey and black spotted piglet standing in mud, looking up at the camera.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Just finished Careless People (👀) by Sarah Wynn Williams and am now into The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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bluewillowbooks.bsky.social
Your indie bookshop wishes you a wonderful week! 🌟
A close-up photo of the front door of a bookshop and the wooden sign that hands from the ceiling in front of the door. The sign is hand-carved and painted white and blue. It reads, "Blue Willow Bookshop." There is a fall wreath on the door.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#writing opportunity
jenee.bsky.social Jenée Desmond-Harris @jenee.bsky.social · 20h
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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@ianrankin1.bsky.social
damianbarr.bsky.social Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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@muppybean.bsky.social SOMETHING is suss
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#authors #Anthropic
societyofauthors.bsky.social The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 23h
Do you have questions about the action brought by a number of authors in the U.S. against Anthropic?

What does the settlement mean for UK authors?
What are the implications of the settlement for the other actions being brought in the U.S. against AI companies?

#AnthropicSettlement
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
angryalgonquin.bsky.social
No that's Porthos. Caucus is disagreeably harsh or strident, hoarse.
dapowell.bsky.social D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 23h
No that's Baucus. Caucus is one of the Three Musketeers.
briankspears.bsky.social Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d
No that’s crocus. Caucus is the Roman god of getting drunk and having orgies.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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BIG TIME
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters.

The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.

And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
Study: Rents for low-wage Atlantans rose 9 times faster than for high earners
Rents for suburban workforce housing in the metro Atlanta region increased by almost 20%, while rents for luxury units increased by 2%, a study said.
www.ajc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Even the lawns at the Radcliffe Camera have stories to tell. 👏

This new pattern, designed by University Parks team leader James, transforms one of Oxford’s most iconic spaces into a work of art.

📸 | @jimigk13 (instagram)
View of a weathered 'Please Keep Off the Grass' sign in the foreground with St Mary's Church in the background. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera, a circular building with a domed roof, surrounded by a symmetrical green lawn in Oxford. View of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin with its intricate Gothic architecture and spire, situated next to a lush green lawn in Oxford. View of a meticulously maintained lawn with geometric grass patterns at Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, surrounded by historic stone buildings.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#artsky #fashionsky #museums
angryalgonquin.bsky.social Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 1d
A perfect Saturday in #Atlanta. First, the Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Statements show at @highmuseumofart.bsky.social; a stunning example of avant-garde couture as art:
Ombre ruffled gown with NO PHOTOS PLEASE on the front White structured garment in the fashion of Picasso painting. From the Performance of Sculptures Spring/Summer 2016 collection. WHATEVER dress. Green ruffled sleeves, red letters, lavender ruffled waist, elaborately ruffled skirt Wide triangle garment, white with black I'M NOT SHY I JUST DON'T LIKE YOU on the front
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Hey! My favorite room in the house is the library; when two bookworms have been together for 40 years. Of course, not one single book in common.
#booksky 📚💙
OP's husband's shelves. Floor to ceiling, cherry wood, wall to wall. Plenty o books. OP's bookshelves, floor to ceiling, cherry wood, wall to wall. Plenty o books.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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If you're in Seattle and looking for a beautiful conversation dog, have I got a gal for you! Meet Kira! #rescuedog
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM