Chris Lovegrove 💙📚
@calmgrove.bsky.social
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Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
https://CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com
Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
https://CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com
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Absolutely fascinating article!
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
The ‘real’ Northanger Abbey? #ReadingAusten2025
The Sham Castle, Claverton Down, Bath, from an old postcard. High upon Claverton Down to the east of Bath is positioned the eye-catching façade of the Sham Castle: commissioned in the mid 18th cent…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Absolutely fascinating article!
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
The ‘real’ Northanger Abbey? #ReadingAusten2025
The Sham Castle, Claverton Down, Bath, from an old postcard. High upon Claverton Down to the east of Bath is positioned the eye-catching façade of the Sham Castle: commissioned in the mid 18th cent…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian
Light and dark: #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25
Photo: C A Lovegrove. Demian by Hermann Hesse. Demian: Die Geschichte einer Jugen von Emil Sinclair (1919) translated by W J Strachan (1958). Penguin Modern Classics, 2017. “The bird is …
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November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian
A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey
“Born to be an heroine”: #ReadingAusten2025
William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796 to 1813, demolished 1845. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, in Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, introduction by R Bromley Johnson. J M Dent…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey
My review ‘The Princess’ (1925), a novelette by D H Lawrence, for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-dhl
The changeling’s daemon: #1925Club
Phoenix design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (1960) for Penguin. ‘The Princess’ (1925) by D H Lawrence, in The Princess and Other Stories edited by Keith Sagar.Penguin Books, 1971. “O…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My review ‘The Princess’ (1925), a novelette by D H Lawrence, for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-dhl
Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity. nation.cymru/feature/rest...
Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity
Thomas Steres, Founder, Linguistic Legacies Initiative As historical revelations about the British past emerge, the most compelling seems to be the heavily British nature of the population. In short, ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity. nation.cymru/feature/rest...
'The Old Straight Track' (1925) by Alfred Watkins, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky
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The ley of the land: #1925Club
Beech wood © C A Lovegrove. The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins. Methuen & Co, third edition 1945 (1925). ‘What really matters in this book is whether it is a humanly designed fact, …
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October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
'The Old Straight Track' (1925) by Alfred Watkins, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky
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I wrote a #poem of eight lines:
each line eight syllables comprised.
Each poet then a scheme assigns
to written poems of eight lines;
each #triolet true rhymes combines,
a tricky task. Don’t be surprised
I wrote a poem of eight lines!
Eight syllables each line comprised.
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each line eight syllables comprised.
Each poet then a scheme assigns
to written poems of eight lines;
each #triolet true rhymes combines,
a tricky task. Don’t be surprised
I wrote a poem of eight lines!
Eight syllables each line comprised.
wp.me/p4H9zI-AC
Surprise, surprise!
I wrote a poem of eight lines:each line eight syllables comprised.Each poet then a scheme assignsto written poems of eight lines; each triolet true rhymes combines,a tricky task. Don’t be sur…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I wrote a #poem of eight lines:
each line eight syllables comprised.
Each poet then a scheme assigns
to written poems of eight lines;
each #triolet true rhymes combines,
a tricky task. Don’t be surprised
I wrote a poem of eight lines!
Eight syllables each line comprised.
wp.me/p4H9zI-AC
each line eight syllables comprised.
Each poet then a scheme assigns
to written poems of eight lines;
each #triolet true rhymes combines,
a tricky task. Don’t be surprised
I wrote a poem of eight lines!
Eight syllables each line comprised.
wp.me/p4H9zI-AC
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Dreamed cities: comparing and contrasting short stories by Angela Carter and HP Lovecraft, not such a strange pairing of authors. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-MP
Dreamed cities: #RIPxx
‘Another World’ by M C Escher (1947): Escher Foundation. ‘Celephaïs’ (1922) by H P Lovecraft, in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S T Joshi. Penguin Tw…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Dreamed cities: comparing and contrasting short stories by Angela Carter and HP Lovecraft, not such a strange pairing of authors. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-MP
'Climate conferencing': a satiric #poem on hypocrisy. zenrinji.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Climate conferencing
© C A Lovegrove. From Katmandu to Casablanca,racing back to yesterday,or heading off to reach tomorrow— Kazakhstan to old Cathay —crossing and crisscrossing oceans— Carlisle to Kalamazoo, then Cana…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'Climate conferencing': a satiric #poem on hypocrisy. zenrinji.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
#Booksky. Today's buy: 'Evelina' by Frances Burney, one of Austen's favourite authors, for #NationalBookshopDay and #ReadingAusten2025.
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#Booksky. Today's buy: 'Evelina' by Frances Burney, one of Austen's favourite authors, for #NationalBookshopDay and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Short thoughts on what I've been reading recently: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f... #ripxx #booksky
Five 60-Second Reviews, Some Of Which Are #RIPXX
Work is very busy at the moment, so I decided to do some quick-fire reviews: Kate Folk, Sky Daddy. Yep, it’s the novel about the woman who is sexually attracted to planes! I was a big fan of …
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October 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Short thoughts on what I've been reading recently: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f... #ripxx #booksky
A review of 'Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes' (1913) by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Edward Ardizzone (1946): a belated acknowledgement of #NationalPoetryDay. #Booksky
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Stolen away by magic
Detail from Jan Brueghel the Elder’s ‘The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste’ (1620), Prado Museum. Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Edward Ardizzone (194…
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October 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A review of 'Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes' (1913) by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Edward Ardizzone (1946): a belated acknowledgement of #NationalPoetryDay. #Booksky
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For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is good news, but Trump and his ilk are trying to undo these gains.
We’ve got to get Democrats in charge of Congress again.
We’ve got to get Democrats in charge of Congress again.
For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is good news, but Trump and his ilk are trying to undo these gains.
We’ve got to get Democrats in charge of Congress again.
We’ve got to get Democrats in charge of Congress again.
An extremely important thread here which in the current rise of #populist entities we would do well to heed.
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
An extremely important thread here which in the current rise of #populist entities we would do well to heed.
#Logophile ruminations on the literary applications of a term American English speakers coyly substitute the word 'rooster' for.
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Fair or fowl? #logophile
Cocquecigrue. Many mornings, when going for a constitutional which might take us by the local canal, we hear one or two cockerels giving vent in their customary fashion. One is a full-throated adul…
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October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#Logophile ruminations on the literary applications of a term American English speakers coyly substitute the word 'rooster' for.
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'The Driver’s Seat', the disturbing 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, reviewed for #RIPxx. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lise
Inconceivable sorrow: #RIPxx
Muriel Spark. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1970). ‘Oh,’ she says, ‘the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you’…
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October 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'The Driver’s Seat', the disturbing 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, reviewed for #RIPxx. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lise
My view of 'Austen’s Women: Lady Susan' performed by Rebecca Vaughan and directed by Andrew Margerison for
@dyadproductions.bsky.social #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lsue
@dyadproductions.bsky.social #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lsue
A most accomplished coquette: #ReadingAusten2025
Rebecca Vaughan in the Dyad Production of ‘Austen’s Women: Lady Susan’. Austen’s Women: Lady Susan. Performed by Rebecca Vaughan, directed by Andrew Margerison, Dyad Product…
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October 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My view of 'Austen’s Women: Lady Susan' performed by Rebecca Vaughan and directed by Andrew Margerison for
@dyadproductions.bsky.social #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lsue
@dyadproductions.bsky.social #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lsue