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https://lovebooksreadbooks.com/
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https://lovebooksreadbooks.com/
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To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup
Visit our website for the full list:
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Award Winners | Stanford University Press
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December 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup
Visit our website for the full list:
Visit our website for the full list:
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Please do. Please. The only way any of us who work in translation or copy, making products people use for both necessity and enjoyment, are going to keep our jobs (and users aren't going to get pummelled by slop) is if the people who pay for the products stop buying and the companies know why.
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Please do. Please. The only way any of us who work in translation or copy, making products people use for both necessity and enjoyment, are going to keep our jobs (and users aren't going to get pummelled by slop) is if the people who pay for the products stop buying and the companies know why.
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
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Rory spends nearly all of every weekday in a fluffy bed on Stacey’s desk, “working.”
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Rory spends nearly all of every weekday in a fluffy bed on Stacey’s desk, “working.”
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
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Terence Davies' The House of Mirth is very impressive, if wholly deliberate. It is built on a beautifully modulated Gillian Anderson performance, that is understated, brittle and ultimately devastating. Her performance is the film and the film is her performance.
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Terence Davies' The House of Mirth is very impressive, if wholly deliberate. It is built on a beautifully modulated Gillian Anderson performance, that is understated, brittle and ultimately devastating. Her performance is the film and the film is her performance.
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With its beautiful twilight mists, inky black shadows, hypnotic, glowing, grates and a story that skillfully ramps up an atmosphere of dread inevitability, THE SIGNALMAN is an artful chronicle of melancholy loneliness…and of death foretold. My review on Letterboxd... #FilmSky
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boxd.it/c6xUKF
A ★★★★★ review of The Signalman (1976)
"Denholm (Elliot) was so wonderful in that role, like a tightly coiled spring. There was such tension in the character: he was always only a step away from insanity." - Lawrence Gordon Clark Whistle, ...
boxd.it
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
With its beautiful twilight mists, inky black shadows, hypnotic, glowing, grates and a story that skillfully ramps up an atmosphere of dread inevitability, THE SIGNALMAN is an artful chronicle of melancholy loneliness…and of death foretold. My review on Letterboxd... #FilmSky
boxd.it/c6xUKF
boxd.it/c6xUKF
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Little bit of bedtime reading ... The Hemingway Review
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Little bit of bedtime reading ... The Hemingway Review
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For those unfamiliar with Jólabókaflóð, or Jólabókaflóðið (Christmas Book Flood), it is an Icelandic tradition that books are given as gifts, opened on 24 Dec and everyone reads the books straight away, often while drinking hot chocolate or alcohol-free Christmas ale called jólabland.
December 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
For those unfamiliar with Jólabókaflóð, or Jólabókaflóðið (Christmas Book Flood), it is an Icelandic tradition that books are given as gifts, opened on 24 Dec and everyone reads the books straight away, often while drinking hot chocolate or alcohol-free Christmas ale called jólabland.
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A huge, roaring thank you to everyone who contributed to the successful crowdfunding of @arachnepress.bsky.social’s UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance! Whether you claimed a reward or liked or shared a post your support has meant so much! More news of covers & contributors & tours in the New Year!
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A huge, roaring thank you to everyone who contributed to the successful crowdfunding of @arachnepress.bsky.social’s UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance! Whether you claimed a reward or liked or shared a post your support has meant so much! More news of covers & contributors & tours in the New Year!
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Monday, we announced The Eights as our Bert’s Books Book of the Year - today, @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social has popped in to sign a few copies!
Get yourself a signed copy bertsbooks.co.uk/the-eights
Get yourself a signed copy bertsbooks.co.uk/the-eights
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Monday, we announced The Eights as our Bert’s Books Book of the Year - today, @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social has popped in to sign a few copies!
Get yourself a signed copy bertsbooks.co.uk/the-eights
Get yourself a signed copy bertsbooks.co.uk/the-eights
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Dr. Lydia Roy has read and reviewed every Martin Beck novel in 2025...
open.substack.com/pub/lydiajan...
Personal favourite of the books: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
#booksky
open.substack.com/pub/lydiajan...
Personal favourite of the books: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
#booksky
TOP TEN NOVELS I READ IN 2025
10.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Dr. Lydia Roy has read and reviewed every Martin Beck novel in 2025...
open.substack.com/pub/lydiajan...
Personal favourite of the books: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
#booksky
open.substack.com/pub/lydiajan...
Personal favourite of the books: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
#booksky
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On the sixth day of bookmas, 2025 gave to me... a small press novella.
It's No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly.
It's No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly.
December 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
On the sixth day of bookmas, 2025 gave to me... a small press novella.
It's No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly.
It's No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly.
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My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My Book 4 and the Month's Book 27 - Dorothy Lambert's highly entertaining "Much Dithering" #DeanStreetDecember2025 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/r... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
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Delighted to reveal the cover of:
THE LIGHTNING by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social .
We publish his debut on 28th May 2026 at
No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast.
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
THE LIGHTNING by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social .
We publish his debut on 28th May 2026 at
No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast.
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Delighted to reveal the cover of:
THE LIGHTNING by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social .
We publish his debut on 28th May 2026 at
No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast.
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
THE LIGHTNING by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social .
We publish his debut on 28th May 2026 at
No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast.
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
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I know sweet FA about Amanda Seyfried except, now, that if she doesn’t star in a Joni Mitchell biopic then someone has a screw loose. #GalCanSING
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know sweet FA about Amanda Seyfried except, now, that if she doesn’t star in a Joni Mitchell biopic then someone has a screw loose. #GalCanSING
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Happy Hannukah! During this week, we want to take a moment to celebrate the works of some of our recent Jewish authors. Be sure to purchase their books at weslpress.org and use our code QGIFT25 to save 40% on all Wesleyan University Press books!
#happyhannukah #holidayseason #holidaygifts
#happyhannukah #holidayseason #holidaygifts
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy Hannukah! During this week, we want to take a moment to celebrate the works of some of our recent Jewish authors. Be sure to purchase their books at weslpress.org and use our code QGIFT25 to save 40% on all Wesleyan University Press books!
#happyhannukah #holidayseason #holidaygifts
#happyhannukah #holidayseason #holidaygifts
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Check out these diverse voices and more from the University of Nevada Press!
#UniversityOfNevadaPress #Books #HolidayGuide #Holidays #DiverseVoices
#UniversityOfNevadaPress #Books #HolidayGuide #Holidays #DiverseVoices
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Check out these diverse voices and more from the University of Nevada Press!
#UniversityOfNevadaPress #Books #HolidayGuide #Holidays #DiverseVoices
#UniversityOfNevadaPress #Books #HolidayGuide #Holidays #DiverseVoices
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I won't be able to see this show, so reading this review will be as close as I get to a performance.
Happily, it contains so much joyful description, reading it was a good alternative.
Happily, it contains so much joyful description, reading it was a good alternative.
The new revival of The Wiz is a true joy and the perfect escape into a vividly drawn world. It's easily in my top five musicals I've ever seen. Here's my review (gift link):"
Review: ‘The Wiz’ revival at the Orpheum is a must-see delight
It’s probably not a coincidence that “The Wiz” reemerged at a time when Oz is front and center of pop culture.
www.twincities.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I won't be able to see this show, so reading this review will be as close as I get to a performance.
Happily, it contains so much joyful description, reading it was a good alternative.
Happily, it contains so much joyful description, reading it was a good alternative.
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I bought cashew nuts and apples at lunchtime. I'm sure my grandparents watching from heaven thought I was buying their Christmas presents.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I bought cashew nuts and apples at lunchtime. I'm sure my grandparents watching from heaven thought I was buying their Christmas presents.
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
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#Hanukkah #ThrowbackThursday re-up of the short story I wrote for @npr.org, read by the late, great Susan Stamberg. n.pr/uTGInb
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#Hanukkah #ThrowbackThursday re-up of the short story I wrote for @npr.org, read by the late, great Susan Stamberg. n.pr/uTGInb
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@chrispower.bsky.social wrote a bittersweet review of Soraya Antonius's The Lord: a rich picture of Mandatory Palestine, its independence movement, the consequences and follies of empire, and the unfortunate circular nature of history. It's worth reading.
Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius
A welcome return to print for this sophisticated, still-relevant story of Palestine's struggle for independence
observer.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@chrispower.bsky.social wrote a bittersweet review of Soraya Antonius's The Lord: a rich picture of Mandatory Palestine, its independence movement, the consequences and follies of empire, and the unfortunate circular nature of history. It's worth reading.
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'There’s terrific historical detail – and Upson’s twisted tale resonates today.'
Val McDermid picks The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson as one of her five best Christmas crime reads of all time for @theipaper.com 🎄
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Val McDermid picks The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson as one of her five best Christmas crime reads of all time for @theipaper.com 🎄
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'There’s terrific historical detail – and Upson’s twisted tale resonates today.'
Val McDermid picks The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson as one of her five best Christmas crime reads of all time for @theipaper.com 🎄
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Val McDermid picks The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson as one of her five best Christmas crime reads of all time for @theipaper.com 🎄
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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*NEW BLOG POST*
My review of #InTheBlinkOfAnEye by Jo Callaghan is live on #damppebbles!
An engaging, pacy police procedural with a great twist. If you're looking for something a bit different, this is it!
Check out my review..
➡️ buff.ly/H91fFg3
@simonschusteruk.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians
My review of #InTheBlinkOfAnEye by Jo Callaghan is live on #damppebbles!
An engaging, pacy police procedural with a great twist. If you're looking for something a bit different, this is it!
Check out my review..
➡️ buff.ly/H91fFg3
@simonschusteruk.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
*NEW BLOG POST*
My review of #InTheBlinkOfAnEye by Jo Callaghan is live on #damppebbles!
An engaging, pacy police procedural with a great twist. If you're looking for something a bit different, this is it!
Check out my review..
➡️ buff.ly/H91fFg3
@simonschusteruk.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians
My review of #InTheBlinkOfAnEye by Jo Callaghan is live on #damppebbles!
An engaging, pacy police procedural with a great twist. If you're looking for something a bit different, this is it!
Check out my review..
➡️ buff.ly/H91fFg3
@simonschusteruk.bsky.social
#BookSky #skybrarians