Sheenagh Pugh
@sheenaghpugh.bsky.social
Lefty, writer, crazy cat lady
Review of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024. Meet the monkey paraders and the mini-Naploeons... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/171255.html
Review of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024
“This book is […] an attempt to take the temperature of the nation as it emerged from a century when it had dominated the world and was beginning – whether it knew it or not – a long process of declin...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Review of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024. Meet the monkey paraders and the mini-Naploeons... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/171255.html
New blog review: "A history of the Viking Age with the ordinary humans left in". New blog review: Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough, pub. Profile Books 2024. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170594.html
Review of Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough
(Pub: Profile Books 2024; LJ doesn't give enough room for long book titles) This is a history of the Viking Age with the ordinary humans left in. This is an attempt to look at what we generally and in...
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February 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New blog review: "A history of the Viking Age with the ordinary humans left in". New blog review: Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough, pub. Profile Books 2024. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170594.html
"I heard again
In my precipitous city beaten bells
Winnow the keen sea wind."
New blog review up: Alistair Moffat's "Edinburgh: A New History". Discover "The Beast" and how Joseph Smith's drum controlled it... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170407.html
In my precipitous city beaten bells
Winnow the keen sea wind."
New blog review up: Alistair Moffat's "Edinburgh: A New History". Discover "The Beast" and how Joseph Smith's drum controlled it... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170407.html
Review of Edinburgh: A New History, by Alistair Moffat, pub. Birlinn 2024
I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. (Poem found in the unfinished manuscript of Weir of Hermi...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"I heard again
In my precipitous city beaten bells
Winnow the keen sea wind."
New blog review up: Alistair Moffat's "Edinburgh: A New History". Discover "The Beast" and how Joseph Smith's drum controlled it... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170407.html
In my precipitous city beaten bells
Winnow the keen sea wind."
New blog review up: Alistair Moffat's "Edinburgh: A New History". Discover "The Beast" and how Joseph Smith's drum controlled it... sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170407.html
So tired of the over-used word "robust".
January 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
So tired of the over-used word "robust".
New blog review, of Claire Crowther's poetry collection "Real Lear" (a new & selected) sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170186.html
Review of Real Lear: New & Selected Poems by Claire Crowther, pub. Shearsman 2024
it was as easy to make them laugh as to find a vein. (Mine, Then) If I were looking for a single word to describe Claire Crowther’s work, “edgy” might do. There is a pervasive sense of unease, a...
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January 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New blog review, of Claire Crowther's poetry collection "Real Lear" (a new & selected) sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/170186.html
Latest blog review, - the fifth and last volume of a truly monumental history. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169740.html
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January 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Latest blog review, - the fifth and last volume of a truly monumental history. sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169740.html
Blog review of Jen Stout's "Night Train to Odesa" sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169193.html
Review of Night Train To Odesa by Jen Stout, pub. Polygon 2024
When Nikolai told them how the family had had to hide in the cellar for a month, the man in command replied “Why were you hiding? We came to liberate you!” And at that, Nikolai had snapped a little. ...
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December 16, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Blog review of Jen Stout's "Night Train to Odesa" sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/169193.html
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November 18, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Hello. I'd only been here three days before finding out how to do a post...