David Hughes
@davhug.bsky.social
Books of 2025. Music, movies, nature, secondhand bookshop lover. Lanarkshire, Scotland.
What a beauty, an all-time fave.
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What a beauty, an all-time fave.
On both counts, cheers! 🥃
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On both counts, cheers! 🥃
Fantastic selection (ie, not too far off my own!), and brilliantly eloquent on art, connection and expression👏
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Fantastic selection (ie, not too far off my own!), and brilliantly eloquent on art, connection and expression👏
Loved this; great outdoor reading!
October 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Loved this; great outdoor reading!
It's mesmeric. It has the dazzling shots and camera work of Cuba, but serving (I think) a more engaging and affecting drama, with some of the acting lifting it to a different level. Such a great YouTube copy as well!
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's mesmeric. It has the dazzling shots and camera work of Cuba, but serving (I think) a more engaging and affecting drama, with some of the acting lifting it to a different level. Such a great YouTube copy as well!
Astonishing and ravishing movie, and the YouTube copy looks superb 😍
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Astonishing and ravishing movie, and the YouTube copy looks superb 😍
Incredible movie, beautiful🎥❤️
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Incredible movie, beautiful🎥❤️
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Scotland 1477. Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini closes the 8-book Niccolo series. Truly atonishing, I've deeply loved it. In the end, a love story about identity & connection, and the search for harmony and meaning. A melancholy book full of death and loss...and emergence. Out of turmoil, a testimony...
September 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Scotland 1477. Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini closes the 8-book Niccolo series. Truly atonishing, I've deeply loved it. In the end, a love story about identity & connection, and the search for harmony and meaning. A melancholy book full of death and loss...and emergence. Out of turmoil, a testimony...
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A recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social. Perfectly controlled pacing: onward and inward journey, past infusing present, emergence of heroine's agency, quiet and subtle and powerful. #spinsterseptember
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social. Perfectly controlled pacing: onward and inward journey, past infusing present, emergence of heroine's agency, quiet and subtle and powerful. #spinsterseptember
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Anthony Price: hard-to-find, always rewarding. Butler's pov, and first meeting with future spymaster Audley, as young men caught in ww2 crosscurrents. Singular narrative drive, gripping action, physical & emotional dislocation, and an intense sense of the blasted mud, wood & waters of rural France.
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Anthony Price: hard-to-find, always rewarding. Butler's pov, and first meeting with future spymaster Audley, as young men caught in ww2 crosscurrents. Singular narrative drive, gripping action, physical & emotional dislocation, and an intense sense of the blasted mud, wood & waters of rural France.
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My favourite reads of August 2025, in order: Gemini (Dorothy Dunnett), Rhine Journey (Ann Schlee), The 44 Vintage (Anthony Price) and Pieces of Modesty (Peter O'Donnell). Journeys outward and inward, emotions subtle and intense, high adventure and great enjoyment.
September 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My favourite reads of August 2025, in order: Gemini (Dorothy Dunnett), Rhine Journey (Ann Schlee), The 44 Vintage (Anthony Price) and Pieces of Modesty (Peter O'Donnell). Journeys outward and inward, emotions subtle and intense, high adventure and great enjoyment.
Yes, I remembered your description when I spotted the book in the shop, and planned it for summer reading in the highlands; thanks!😊
September 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yes, I remembered your description when I spotted the book in the shop, and planned it for summer reading in the highlands; thanks!😊
Scotland 1477. Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini closes the 8-book Niccolo series. Truly atonishing, I've deeply loved it. In the end, a love story about identity & connection, and the search for harmony and meaning. A melancholy book full of death and loss...and emergence. Out of turmoil, a testimony...
September 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Scotland 1477. Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini closes the 8-book Niccolo series. Truly atonishing, I've deeply loved it. In the end, a love story about identity & connection, and the search for harmony and meaning. A melancholy book full of death and loss...and emergence. Out of turmoil, a testimony...
A recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social. Perfectly controlled pacing: onward and inward journey, past infusing present, emergence of heroine's agency, quiet and subtle and powerful. #spinsterseptember
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social. Perfectly controlled pacing: onward and inward journey, past infusing present, emergence of heroine's agency, quiet and subtle and powerful. #spinsterseptember
Anthony Price: hard-to-find, always rewarding. Butler's pov, and first meeting with future spymaster Audley, as young men caught in ww2 crosscurrents. Singular narrative drive, gripping action, physical & emotional dislocation, and an intense sense of the blasted mud, wood & waters of rural France.
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Anthony Price: hard-to-find, always rewarding. Butler's pov, and first meeting with future spymaster Audley, as young men caught in ww2 crosscurrents. Singular narrative drive, gripping action, physical & emotional dislocation, and an intense sense of the blasted mud, wood & waters of rural France.