Sharon Keely
@sharonkeely.bsky.social
Fiction aficionado and fictionist.
So the Hamptons and NYC night scene haven't changed in 40 years. Great read, TY Rob Franklin.
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So the Hamptons and NYC night scene haven't changed in 40 years. Great read, TY Rob Franklin.
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
Dylan Moran: ‘You are coming to me, Barry, asking me for a chronology of my emotional history? Is that what you really want?’
Do people have a skewed idea of who Dylan Moran actually is?
www.independent.ie
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
Thank you @jackielynam.bsky.social for your excellent chat with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan at Write By The Sea today. The perfect light but firm, well-informed touch!
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thank you @jackielynam.bsky.social for your excellent chat with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan at Write By The Sea today. The perfect light but firm, well-informed touch!
The power of the novel... I'd read/heard plenty about Ireland's 'mother and baby home' genocides, but it took this book for me to really feel the enormity of it.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
September 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The power of the novel... I'd read/heard plenty about Ireland's 'mother and baby home' genocides, but it took this book for me to really feel the enormity of it.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'We had more children ... so as not to have to spend so much time together. Had we liked each other less we'd have had four, five. There's nothing like love's dilution to keep things in proportion.'
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
'We had more children ... so as not to have to spend so much time together. Had we liked each other less we'd have had four, five. There's nothing like love's dilution to keep things in proportion.'
I couldn't put this down... I first heard about American nurses in the Vietnam War from a really sweet lady (a volunteer at my local library) who served there. In awe that she lived through such horror and somehow regained her lovely disposition in the years since.
September 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I couldn't put this down... I first heard about American nurses in the Vietnam War from a really sweet lady (a volunteer at my local library) who served there. In awe that she lived through such horror and somehow regained her lovely disposition in the years since.
I feel like I know this pub...
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I feel like I know this pub...
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
Reposted by Sharon Keely
Drone by Solmaz Sharif
www.divasofverse.com/2019/02/dron...
www.divasofverse.com/2019/02/dron...
Drone by Solmaz Sharif
Drone : somewhere I did not learn mow down or mop up : somewhere I wouldn’t hear your father must come...
www.divasofverse.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Drone by Solmaz Sharif
www.divasofverse.com/2019/02/dron...
www.divasofverse.com/2019/02/dron...
I had a theory on who Liadan might be... less certain after reading this, they come across as much more polite than the writer I had in mind. Great stories, the gut-wrenching devastation, quietly told, stays with you.
If you're looking for some Sunday reading . . .
“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”
New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
August 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I had a theory on who Liadan might be... less certain after reading this, they come across as much more polite than the writer I had in mind. Great stories, the gut-wrenching devastation, quietly told, stays with you.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
July 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Taking a little break from Wimbledon
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Taking a little break from Wimbledon
But no session moths spotted??
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
But no session moths spotted??
'He took off his hat and hung it on a peg in her entrance-hall which was the shape and size of a small kitchen table, and from the ceiling of which hung a crystal chandelier.'
May 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
'He took off his hat and hung it on a peg in her entrance-hall which was the shape and size of a small kitchen table, and from the ceiling of which hung a crystal chandelier.'
Pulled this off my shelf a couple of nights ago. Lovely, sweet stories, set in Cumbria's becks and fells, perfect antidote to the daily news. Thank you Jane Gardam, may you rest in peace.
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pulled this off my shelf a couple of nights ago. Lovely, sweet stories, set in Cumbria's becks and fells, perfect antidote to the daily news. Thank you Jane Gardam, may you rest in peace.
Delighted to have a piece in Issue 23 here, at p.43
www.thewellsstreetjournal.com/past-issues-1
www.thewellsstreetjournal.com/past-issues-1
May 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Delighted to have a piece in Issue 23 here, at p.43
www.thewellsstreetjournal.com/past-issues-1
www.thewellsstreetjournal.com/past-issues-1
'Cynics see social problems, but [no] solutions. [I]f you think our problems [are] who we are, why do anything about it? So cynics end up voting less often ... protesting less often ... people who benefit from a population that doesn't trust itself are often autocrats and authoritarians.'
Ouch!
Ouch!
May 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
'Cynics see social problems, but [no] solutions. [I]f you think our problems [are] who we are, why do anything about it? So cynics end up voting less often ... protesting less often ... people who benefit from a population that doesn't trust itself are often autocrats and authoritarians.'
Ouch!
Ouch!
'the philosophers were wrong and the meaning of life is not that it ends but that your one job on earth is to make everyone as miserable as your own sad self.' - a piece on our current leadership??
No - it's from Aria Aber's lyrical novel, anyone who was a wild child will love this, set in Berlin:
No - it's from Aria Aber's lyrical novel, anyone who was a wild child will love this, set in Berlin:
April 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'the philosophers were wrong and the meaning of life is not that it ends but that your one job on earth is to make everyone as miserable as your own sad self.' - a piece on our current leadership??
No - it's from Aria Aber's lyrical novel, anyone who was a wild child will love this, set in Berlin:
No - it's from Aria Aber's lyrical novel, anyone who was a wild child will love this, set in Berlin:
We need you now more than ever, Tracy
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman: ‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’
The novelist was just 12 when the ex-busker stunned a mammoth crowd at the Free Nelson Mandela concert – and sent everyone racing to Woolworths for her astonishing debut album. Its simple, honest, per...
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We need you now more than ever, Tracy
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Before the amazing Belfast writers now on the scene, there was the brilliant Robert McLiam Wilson. Keep a dictionary handy when reading Ripley Bogle. The erudition is way beyond mine - but that doesn't stop it being a great read.
March 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Before the amazing Belfast writers now on the scene, there was the brilliant Robert McLiam Wilson. Keep a dictionary handy when reading Ripley Bogle. The erudition is way beyond mine - but that doesn't stop it being a great read.
Picked this up with no expectations, and find I can't put it down! Pure serendipity that it centers on a topic of great interest to me: a life derailed by an out-of-character moment, particularly in our age of cyber-bullying
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Picked this up with no expectations, and find I can't put it down! Pure serendipity that it centers on a topic of great interest to me: a life derailed by an out-of-character moment, particularly in our age of cyber-bullying
Looking forward to reading @UGMAN
Nothing like a wonderful and generous blurb from @maudnewton.bsky.social for my upcoming novel @UGMAN to fortify me for the week ahead!
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Looking forward to reading @UGMAN
'These are sudden times' says a character.
To which I can only reply, 'No kiddin'!'
To which I can only reply, 'No kiddin'!'
March 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
'These are sudden times' says a character.
To which I can only reply, 'No kiddin'!'
To which I can only reply, 'No kiddin'!'
Skelliging Day was still 'celebrated' in my hometown when I was a schoolgirl - it meant dodging posses of schoolboys looking for victims to tie to poles and throw eggs at. Never did buy that 'schooldays are the best days of your life' line...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Skelliging Day was still 'celebrated' in my hometown when I was a schoolgirl - it meant dodging posses of schoolboys looking for victims to tie to poles and throw eggs at. Never did buy that 'schooldays are the best days of your life' line...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Reposted by Sharon Keely
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.