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Charlotte
@moose-and-goose.bsky.social
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Humanist mum of 2 & mature student.
NE England.
Interested in Geopolitics, IR & MENA.
Pronouns: She / Her
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moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Just got back from a work trip to London and while I was there I visited a fantastic Chinese book shop called Guanghwa on Shaftesbury Ave. I picked up a copy of Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei as it caught my eye and have not put it down, its such a great read!
August 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
I'm going to be a "mature" student in September, so please give me all of your recommendations on how to make the most of uni while balancing work and family.

I'll be studying politics & IR so welcome any recommendations on books, podcasts, videos etc to consume before I start.
July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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drkevorko.bsky.social
And how could I forget mentioning the dangerous penguins on the McDonald Islands… Exploiters!

www.ndtv.com/world-news/t...
Trump Imposes 10% Tariff On This Island. No One Lives There
When US President Donald Trump turned up at the White House Rose Garden to announce what he described as Liberation Day tariffs, several countries were prepared for some harsh measures.
www.ndtv.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
My mothers day presents yesterday included 4 books and now I'm slightly worried about what my family think about me 😂

The books were:
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
Her Secret Service by Claire Hubbard-Hall
The Umbrella Murder by Ulrik Skotte
March 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
After a 💩 month last month, this month is shaping up to be equally as 💩. I was sick 2 weeks ago to the point that I could not get out of bed, then I had a family bereavement and now I have chicken pox.

Please excuse me while I hibernate until April 😂
March 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Only read 2 books in February due to illness.

The Naz1 Mind by Laurence Rees 4.5*, fantastic read about the rise of the Naz1's.

49 Days by Agnes Lee 4*, really interesting read and gives a quick overview of what Buddhist's believe happens after death.

#booksky
#reading
#readingchallenge
An image showing the books I've read in February, at the top left is the word February. On the right stretching from the top of the page to the bottom is a Cherry blossom tree branch in bloom. On the far left is the cover for "The Naz1 Mind by Laurence Rees", the cover is a spliced photo of a Naz1 in uniform with sections missing where the title is. Next to that image is the image of the book cover for 49 days by Agnes Lee, the cover is a semi circle with 8 people walking across the rounded part.
March 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
🧵tw: mention of cancer

I've not posted much the last few weeks as I've been going through a bit of a health scare but by god am I grateful for the NHS.

3 weeks ago I went for a smear and the nurse noticed something unusual, she did swabs for thrush and stds which both came back negative.
February 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
January Reads (authors in alt text)

International Relations - 3*
Consolata - 3*
Mr Loverman - 4*
Seven Empty Houses - 2.5*
Silence is my Mother Tongue - 3*
The Rainfall Market - 4*
We Had To Remove This Post - 3*

#booksky
#readingaroundtheworld
#Readingaroundtheworldchallenge
#readingchallenge
A blue background with white sparkles in the top left and bottom right corners. The word January is in the middle of the background in white writing. Book covers are dotted around the image, there are 3 in the top row, one in the middle on the right and 3 in the bottom row. In the top left is the book International Relations: A Very Short Introduction by Christian Reus Smit In the top middle is Consolata by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse In the top right is Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo Underneath Mr Loverman is Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schwebiin In the bottom left is Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia In the bottom middle is We have to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets In the bottom right is The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
January 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
This weeks first audiobook is The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees.

#booksky
#readingchallenge
#read
#reading
#nonfictionbooks
The cover of The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees. The cover shows a picture of a man in a Nazi uniform but the picture has been sliced up. The title is in red and is layered over the person. The persons face is missing and is replaced with the word "The" the word "Nazi" is on their left arm and the word "mind" is covering their stomach. The authors name is in the top left in black writing. At the bottom right is the subtitle "12 Warnings from History" in black writing next to the Penguin logo.
January 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Kicking the weekend off with a nonfiction book that I've been debating reading since it came out. I've seen it recommended a lot by people I follow so I'm excited to get stuck in.

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson

#booksky
#reading
#readingchallenge
#nonfictionreads
The cover for Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson. The cover shows a photo of a mushroom cloud with the title in black in the middle of the cloud and the authors name in white at the base of the cloud ( which is orange and black)
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Started reading We had to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets today, really interesting storyline but very graphic in a factual way.

#booksky
#reading
#readingaroundtheworld
#readaroundtheworld
The cover of We had to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets. The cover shows a sprawling cityscape with skyscrapers in the background and smaller buildings in the foreground. The cover is light pink and purple like a sunset. The title is in white writing in the middle of the cover while the authors name is in light pink under the title at the bottom of the cover.
January 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Is there any better way to spend an evening other than with chocolate and a good book?

#booksky
#readingaroundtheworld
#bookchallenge
An image showing a tablet with the book cover for Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kukov. The cover has a yellow and blue background with a picture of a penguin stood on an iceberg shaped like a skull. To the left of the tablet is a packet of malteasers. Under the tablet is a pink desk mat.
January 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
I've just started reading The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang and its just beautifully written. Someone described it as similar to Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli and I totally get that.

#booksky
#readingaroundtheworld
#readingaroundtheworldchallenge
#readdiversebooks
The image shows the cover of The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang. The title is in white at the top of the page and the authors name is in gold at the bottom. The cover artwork shows a street, with a tree on the left, a small red building in the middle and a blue building on the right. Behind the red building are sky scrappers that appear to be far away in the distance. The red and blue buildings have lights on which glow orange and yellow, the red building has a blue canopy. On the pavement walking in front of the red building and walking towards the blue building is a girl with brown hair in the style of a bob. She is wearing a yellow coat and a tan backpack she has black boots on and is looking up to the sky. Behind her is a white cat. Across the cover are rain drops, there are puddles on the ground and there are various trees and flowers that are around the building. There are sparks of orange dotted from the tree on the left to where the girl is.
January 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Totally late with this but here's my December reads.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 5*
Normal Women by Philippa Gregory 5*
Black Ghosts by Noo Sara Wiwa 3.5*
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 4*

#booksky
#readingaroundtheworld
#readingchallenge
An image showing 4 book covers on top of a winter themed background. The background is blurred and has a white layer over the original picture but you can make out a coffee cup on the left, cinnamon sticks on the right and what looks to be snow in the foreground. The book covers are in the four corners of the picture. In the top left is the graphic novel cover for Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, the top right is the audiobook cover for Normal Women by Philippa Gregory. The bottom left is the cover for Black Ghosts by Noo Sara-Wiwa and the bottom right is the cover for Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. In the middle of the image is the word December written in cursive in a woody brown colour.
January 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Charlotte
alchemistmioglasi.bsky.social
Ruaa needs medicine to get better, and of course the cost is high due to the blockade.
Please help as much as you can and share!

gofund.me/4a619aed
December 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Really struggling to get into any actual physical book lately, but have managed to get into this while I travel to and from London for work.

Normal Women by Phillipa Gregory

#booksky
#reading
#historybooks
An image showing a screenshot of audible player, it shows the book cover Normal Women which has a pixelated painting of a white woman with a white bonnet and brown hair wearing a red dress. Under the book cover is the audible app with a slider that shows how long is left of the chapter and options to rewind, pause, fast forward. Under this are options for speed, car mode, time and to clip the section you are listening to.
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Only read two books in October but read 6 in November, my favourites were The 392 (October) and At Night All Blood is Black (November).

Also I highly recommend anyone learning Chinese to buy Chineasy, it really helped solidify certain characters in my mind that I was struggling with.
A cream rectangle with orange autumn leaves in the corners, in the middle is a brown box which contains images of the book covers for: How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her Home The 392 At Night All Blood is Black Free Then underneath these 4 books in brown writing is October & November Underneath this is the other 4 books Nothing to Envy Perfect Days Split Tooth Chineasy
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge
Day 9

Black and British: A forgotten History by David Olusoga
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga. The cover shows a Black and White photograph of a Black man in a top hat and tails, there is white bold text over the photo for the books title and authors name.
December 3, 2024 at 1:51 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge

Day 8
When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope
The cover of When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope, the book cover is white with copper writing on the left of the cover for the title and the authors name. There is blue writing (in between the title and authors name) which reads "Stories of love, loss and hope from an expert in disaster" on the right of the cover is a blue outline that resembles a dust cloud. There are specs of blue dotted throughout the cover.
December 2, 2024 at 2:24 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge
Day 7
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The image shows the cover of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, the top of the cover has a Black lady wearing a white gown, she is looking down. Beneath her are a row of houses with Black men and women outside of them.
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge
Day 6

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
The image shows the cover of All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks the cover has a white box at the top with the authors name and under this is a photo of a little house with an awning over the downstairs window.
December 1, 2024 at 8:58 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge
Day 5
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
The cover for Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. The cover is in red and blue with a Chinese sign at the top of the cover next to what looks like a fence. There is a wall underneath the sign and 3 people are walking past the wall. One, a man, is on the left of the book and is looking directly at the reader. The other two (a small child and a woman) are on the right of the book with their backs to the reader.
December 1, 2024 at 8:53 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚👀
#BookChallenge

Day 4

Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
The book cover for Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa. The book cover is red with yellow text for the title and authors name. Behind the yellow text is a green and red plant, the leaves are on the top of the flower and the red petals are underneath the leaves.
November 28, 2024 at 10:44 PM
moose-and-goose.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚👀
#BookChallenge

Day 3
The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
The book cover for the book The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence. It's a red cover with black tab shapes. The tabs are arranged so they look like the seats of a London Bus, in the top left we have one tab and then in the middle we have a red person (shaped like the signs on toilets) and then to the right of them is another person, this one black, sitting on top of the black tab shape (this is the bus driver). There is then a big black rectangle that mirrors the priority seating zone for wheelchairs and pushchairs, this space holds the yellow writing of the title and also looks similar to the space on the front of the bus that displays the number. The left hand side has 4 black tab shapes, the first one has two people sitting on it. One is blue the other is white. The tab behind has a grey person, no one sits on the tab behind that, the one behind that is an orange person. The right hand side has 4 black tab shapes the first has a dark green person sat on it, the next has a magenta pink person and a yellow person. No one is on the tab seat behind and the one behind that has a dark blue person. Finally there is one long black tab at the bottom of the cover that looks like the long bus seat at the back of the bus, this has the authors name in yellow. There is a purple person and yellow person sat on the left. On the right is a red person and a green person. Down the middle from the top to the bottom is a black line that resembles the aisle of a bus.
November 27, 2024 at 7:16 PM