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Firstly, very excited to read this. And secondly, thanks for recommending Alan Furst in the Locus interview, best new (to me) writer discovery of the year! Hope you have a most excellent Christmas!
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Firstly, very excited to read this. And secondly, thanks for recommending Alan Furst in the Locus interview, best new (to me) writer discovery of the year! Hope you have a most excellent Christmas!
My plans are often scuppered!
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My plans are often scuppered!
Nicola Griffith's Spear is my favourite recent take on it - nicolagriffith.com/books/spear/
Spear
Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize Image description: A book, Spear by Nicola Griffith. On the cover, the background is charcoal, shading to bla…
nicolagriffith.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Nicola Griffith's Spear is my favourite recent take on it - nicolagriffith.com/books/spear/
I finished this just the other evening, so good, so weird, I wish this wasn't their only novel!
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I finished this just the other evening, so good, so weird, I wish this wasn't their only novel!
Those tourist-trap American Candy stores are actually money-laundering fronts - www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ox...
The sour truth of Oxford Street’s candy shop curse
Garish sweet stores have been blighting the capital’s famous shopping centre in recent years, but with business rates unpaid, illegal goods seized and money laundering exposed, authorities are fightin...
www.standard.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Those tourist-trap American Candy stores are actually money-laundering fronts - www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ox...
Absolutely. Also, Inventing the Renaissance is an awesome read!
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Absolutely. Also, Inventing the Renaissance is an awesome read!
I not so long ago read Fridtjof Nansen's Farthest North, and felt much the same
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I not so long ago read Fridtjof Nansen's Farthest North, and felt much the same
I managed to bypass the weird site and grab the induction pdf if you want me to send it your way?
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I managed to bypass the weird site and grab the induction pdf if you want me to send it your way?
It was horrifying
August 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It was horrifying
I once threw a roach out of a 3rd floor window, and it *hovered* and stared at me before buzzing off & returning the next day with 5 of its mates.
August 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I once threw a roach out of a 3rd floor window, and it *hovered* and stared at me before buzzing off & returning the next day with 5 of its mates.
I think it has something to do with arches, where the column starts to veer from the vertical towards the apex?
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I think it has something to do with arches, where the column starts to veer from the vertical towards the apex?
It was! Instapaper is a pretty great replacement if you're looking for one
May 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It was! Instapaper is a pretty great replacement if you're looking for one
Do you ever impulsively long press an unfamiliar word to get the definition, and then have a moment of puzzlement before realising you're reading on paper?
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Do you ever impulsively long press an unfamiliar word to get the definition, and then have a moment of puzzlement before realising you're reading on paper?
There's a Vietnam memoir of a C-130 pilot called, IIRC, One Trip Too Many, which might help.
May 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There's a Vietnam memoir of a C-130 pilot called, IIRC, One Trip Too Many, which might help.
As a teacher I don't usually say this but I think it will be a good idea for you to do that now and then we can go on our way.
May 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As a teacher I don't usually say this but I think it will be a good idea for you to do that now and then we can go on our way.
It's been right there for 45 years and I never saw it until your tweet. Wow indeed.
November 26, 2024 at 1:41 AM
It's been right there for 45 years and I never saw it until your tweet. Wow indeed.
There's a far filthier, far more demeaning joke to be made here, but I'm not going to make it
November 25, 2024 at 11:21 PM
There's a far filthier, far more demeaning joke to be made here, but I'm not going to make it
That was entirely my day too, until 5pm when desperation toast appeared, as if by magic.
November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
That was entirely my day too, until 5pm when desperation toast appeared, as if by magic.
Not sure if you've already seen this, from the UK's satirical Private Eye magazine
August 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Not sure if you've already seen this, from the UK's satirical Private Eye magazine