Clinton Huxley
clintonhuxley.bsky.social
Clinton Huxley
@clintonhuxley.bsky.social
Blunderer. Have resting “aghast” face.
At this point every US Cabinet meeting might as well be this
October 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Upon occasion I daydream about writing a novel but then recall my lack of ability, initiative, dedication and time.

If you are in the market for handy hints and tips, or if you just want to be a better reader, I found this a useful guide.

Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas

#booksky
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Be kind to everyone you meet, for they are fighting a hard battle. Except this dog. This dog is not fighting a hard battle. This dog is relaxing its ass off.

#blueskydogs
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This was an enjoyable and sometimes eye-opening read. Paradise of Cities by John Julius Norwich, written with learning and wit, depicting the lives of artists who, in the 19th Century, made Venice their home.

The chapter on “Baron Corvo” is an eye-opener.

#booksky
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Time to go book-fishing

#booksky
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed Restless by William Boyd, an espionage thriller about the activities of the British Security Co-ordination office in New York in the 1940s, which deployed means fair and devious to coax the USA to join WWII.

A real page-turner. Robert Harris meets le Carré.

#booksky
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You should watch this in preparation
August 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
August 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.
August 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Very much enjoyed this, a romp through the history of mathematics and how it underpins the modern world. Quite a few equations but don’t let that put you off.

Michael Brooks: The Art Of More.
August 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Enjoyed The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wasteland by Sarah Brooks. The tale of an armoured train traversing an increasingly bewildering landscape. Agatha Christie meets Jeff VanderMeer, with a whiff of Lovecraft.

#booksky
August 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
July 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pint?

#pint
June 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I mostly enjoyed A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Perhaps the nerd humour started to drag a little but the arguments were sound. A bracing antidote to the shallow, boosterish techno-optimism of the fascist-adjacent billionaire-bro space groupies.
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This was a terrific read, about a particularly rambunctious period of English history, when we could have gone in any direction, politically-speaking, from absolute monarchy to proto-communism and anything in between.

💙📚 #booksky
May 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💙📚 An enjoyable read about one of humanity’s favourite things: borders. The world would probably be a better place if the British had been forbidden rulers. #booksky
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just staring at me through the office window. I’m sure it’s fine.

#birds
April 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
1066 has a lot to answer for. Infuriating, informative and inspiring, Guy Shrubsole’s book about land ownership in the UK skewers the pretensions of the self-declared stewards of the countryside and charts a path for us plebs to take back control. #booksky
March 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Class. Well played, Starmer.
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Do yourself a favour
Be a liquor saver
Liquor save!
Liquor save at Kwik-Save!”

#Starmer
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The “CR” stands for Christopher Robin. Not many people know that.
February 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The End of The World? LOL, that couldn’t happen!

This was good. Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey. A tour of some of the different ways that different times have imagined the end of the world. Pertinent.

#booksky.
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A thought-provoking read. Steven Mithen synthesises the evidence, palaelogical, anthropological, zoological, anatomical, neurological, linguistic and genetic, to show how, why and when our species lost the ability to ever shut the hell up.
February 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
There is a crumb of comfort to be had from the fact that the scumbags in charge are also, by and large, utter berks.
February 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Stop this madness!
February 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM