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Mike
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When I play peekaboo with my son to hide the pain of losing to jordan pickford
Eddie Howe with his hands over his face
May 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Afternoon! Post football celebrations I'm sitting in the sunshine with John Crowley's Ka. Don't always love the non-human perspective but enjoying it so far and seeing where it goes
Ka by John Crowley, standing on a windowsill in the sunshine. A green hardcover with the title in gold letters and an illustration of a crow in flight, Bill open
May 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Good morning! I'm reading Owlish by Dorothy Tse, not sure what to expect yet
Owlish by Dorothy Tse, a fitzcarraldo edition so the cover is plain blue with white text
April 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Good morning! I'm reading Moon Of The Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, enjoying it so far
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, cover shows a an almost entirely white snowscape, with a car stuck in a drift
April 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Morning Womble! Finishing the Cities of the Weft trilogy with Waterblack. One of the best fantasy series of recent memory for me
Cover of Waterblack by Alex Pheby
March 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Lol get 'em Pheby

p27 of Waterblack and we're on the dramatis personae, big things are happening here
Excerpt from the dramatis personae of Waterblack. Ganax. One of the priesthood of the Dumnonii. Priests do but like to admit when they have been wrong, but neither do they like waste. Ganax's dislike of waste superseded his feeling that he couldn't say he'd made a mistake, and so it was that he was happy to turn ash into a ten-summer child. If you do not know what that means, you need only read on. Providing you are not one of those inadequate readers whose eyes skip across the page in search of 'what happens next' you will learn the meanings of the phrases above, and how they are used in context. If you are one of those skipping inadequates, there is little chance you are reading these words in any case, since they do not relate directly to the 'plot'.
March 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Good morning! I'm finishing off Scattered All Over The Earth, then going to start The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain by Sofia Samatar. Really looking forward to that one!
Scattered All Over The Earth by Yoko Tawada and The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain by Sofia Samatar resting on a counter
March 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Afternoon! Getting into Adam Roberts' back catalogue after listening to @mealofthorns.bsky.social episode on The This, currently reading Stone
Stone by Adam Roberts
February 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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B1 asked me to play ludo with him and wouldn't take no for an answer. Sensing some sort of... narrative... dissonance
February 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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The house we stayed in this weekend is pushing for a Time War sequel, not sure about where they're taking it though
Three paintings on the wall above a bed, "the dark blue bird", "the red bird" and "the black bird"
February 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It can be tough to stay up for the super bowl in the UK, especially when there's not much drama. That's why I recommend sharing a room with six beautiful women just in case
Six porcelain statue heads of beautiful women, on top of a mirror surrounded by dancing mice
February 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Finally, thanks to Morag Hood's Runaway Cone and a 1 year old who's decided "Gary" is his new favourite word, I get to experience a taste of living in a Fallout vault. Could've picked worse ones I suppose
Pages from runaway cone, showing a group of traffic cones on a helicopter, looking down at their friend on a roundabout and shouting "Gary!"
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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4-1. To Bournemouth. At home. Chunk.
January 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Saw this earlier and was expecting Miley to have had a full wrestler back from injury, wrestlemania shape transformation. He's still lanky? Tall though.
BBC text comms screenshot saying "I don't know what they've been feeding Lewis Miley while he's been out of the side but he looks about twice as big as the last time I saw him play. A mountain of a lad. He's still only 18."
January 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Flicking back through Rakesfall, remembered this bit and died all over again
January 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Unreasonably worried about which mug to get my mum for Christmas, classic polka dot or something more festive. Yes, I'm TROUBLED OVER BRIDGEWATERS
A polka dot Emma Bridgewater mug An Emma Bridgewater mug with a Christmas trees pattern
December 17, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Yep, this book has the juice
A page from The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams, showing the following: Deep in it's pages, the book features the neologism cyprine. What does it mean? A translator of the book rather tentatively explained the word as "the juice". In the French, cyprine is defined as "le liquide sécrété à l'entrée du vagin de la femme lorsqu'elle est en état d'excitation sexuelle".
December 15, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Always enjoy seeing these signs about town because our kids love topsy and tim, so any time I see a question starting "are you..." it's in their voices.

Relatable to a vanishing few but picture these two grilling you about being a communist
Topsy and Tim, a 5 year old pair of twins
December 15, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Afternoon! Back from a long drive so getting cosy to finish off Gogmagog, then going to start The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
Gogmagog by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard, with The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams, leaning on a travel bag
December 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Flights into Guernsey today look like the latest comedy specials on netflix! Hahaha this is actually really annoying
List of flights into Guernsey today, all showing as cancelled
December 7, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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New 65daysofstatic album is extremely good and naming a song finale then having four more songs is one of my favourite bits
Tracklist from 65daysofstatic album Silent Running, showing the song finale as track 11/15
December 1, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Loving Malcolm Devlin's You Will Grow Into Them, a remarkably consistent collection. Twists strangeness through all the mundane milestones of life, work and family. Tons of reviews asking what the endings mean and what happens to them afterwards tipped me off it'd be good, and I wasn't disappointed
A copy of You Will Grow Into Them by Malcolm Devlin on a coffee table. The cover shows a woman's neatly manicured hands pulling on an older, dirty, hairy hand like a glove
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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The Way Inn
Cover of the Way Inn by Will Wiles, featuring a bland hotel corridor receding into the distance
November 29, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Cover of you're thinking about doughnuts by Michael Rosen, featuring a giant skeleton in a museum telling a small boy he's thinking about doughnuts. The boy is thinking "no I'm not!"
November 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Look I can't have two guys called Adam on the feed doing this same bit. One of you change your name
Screenshot of a post quoting a newspaper headline "trains cancelled after squirrels board and refuse to leave" and rhyming it with "roses are red, vines interweave" Screenshot of another post quoting a newspaper headline "trains cancelled after squirrels board and refuse to leave" and rhyming it with "roses are red, this rhymes with Niamh"
September 18, 2024 at 1:13 PM