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WhyAlice24
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Just a left leaning girl who likes ,theatre, books, cats and justice for all
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What are you reading this weekend? Here is my current book. The 2nd in Marc Almonds biographies discovers his youth in various cities. #Booksky #booksattheweekend
Cover of book showing author's name marc almond in red. The title in search of the pleasure palace in white. A photo of Marc Almond dressed as an undertaker eith a black top hat and duot. Vague skull like figures in the background and a bottle of alcohol in front of him
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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What's your read this weekend? Started on this as was drawn to it after finding it mentioned in another book. Dark, compelling, almost evil. The uncertainty of the character Emerence draws you in. Would make a great horror film if there isn't one already #Booksky
The cover of the book The Door by Magda Szabo showing a dark, elaborately carved door
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Merging #Booksky with #Caturday here is my current read, along with one of my cats. What are you reading this weekend? #books #cats
Holding a copy of Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh which has a black cover with white/silver tree trunks. In the background a tortoiseshell cat looks on bemused
October 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Saturday is #Caturday and here is Kitcat blissfully watching the Last Night of the Proms #catsofbluesky
Ginger and white cat lying on sofa curled up with his head on his paws
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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What are you reading this weekend? I am reading Blue Self Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre. A strange tale of a woman's musings about her obsession with Schoenberg, and also her romantic dalliance with a composer #Booksky #strangebooks
Black cover of book with title Blue Self-Portrait in white and name of author Noémi Lefebvre in blue. Also has translated by Sophie Leiws in Blue below title Self Portrait of the composer Schoenberg. Face of a man who is balding,distinctive features, all in blue, on an orange background. Paiting is entitled Blue Self-Portrait
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Today is National Read A Book Day. What book are you reading? I am reading the Housing Lark by Sam Selvon. Extremely funny, about West Indian migrants in Brixton clubbing together to buy a house...or not #Booksky #classicbooks
A bland white photo of a barbershop in Sourh London. A Trinidadian is sitting in the barber's chair with a towel round his front. 2 men sitting in background, one reading a newspaper, one lighting a cigarette. A barber has his back to us to the forefront
September 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ginger cat looking up at the camera
September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Today is Ginger Cat Appreciation Day. Here's my Kitcat who is the first tomcat I have owned, and is slightly bonkers #CatsofBluesky #gingercatappreciationday #cats
A ginger cat in a zipped black bag A ginger cat in a green plastic bag A ginger cat in a big blue plastic shopping bag A ginger cat sitting on a sofa with his tail curled round his front paws
September 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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So it seems cat posts are more popular than book posts! So I am now onto my next book 'Too Loud A Solitude' which is about trashing and pulping books but I have added some art and cat photos for your enjoyment #Booksky ##catsofbluesky #art
Cover of book Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. Black and white photo of an arched covering with glimpses of a street scene, vans and cars through the arched openings A painting on an orange background of a girl with large yellow round sunglasses, and orange hair with a straight mouth. She is wearing a dark orange jumper. She is cartoonist. Above her head is the expression Can't Stop Thinking About It Two cats on a black sofa with red cushions. One tortoiseshell, one ginger and white. The ginger cat is lying on the tortoiseshell side, cuddled up to her A clear vase of yellow sunflowers
August 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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What are people reading this weekend. I am reading McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh. A seafaring drunken journey through the mind of a 19th century sailor who may have killed his best friend. Compulsive reading although disturbing #Booksky #alternativebooks
The book cover of McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh. A man's tattooed arm showing a tattoo of an anchor and the name MCGLUE under it
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Saturday is #Caturday
Both mine relaxing 🙂
Two cats on a sofa one on the left is a tortoiseshell with her paw outstretched, the one on the right is a ginger/ white with his paws tucked u der him. Both looking at the camera A ginger and white cat with his right paw poking out from under him A head shot of a tortoiseshell cat with her left paw stretched out
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Percival Everett has been brought to people's attention by his recent book James. I really urge people to read his back catalogue. Currently reading his first novel Suder. Hard hitting, direct, frank and open reference to everyday racism. In short, brilliant #Booksky
Cover of Percival Everett's book Suder. Arches of purple red and orange with the silhouette of a man in one, a birds wing in another, a window with a grate across it and a yellow baseball on a red background in the centre
August 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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What are people reading this weekend? I am reading this gem of a book about a young Japanese girl who is employed to speak to Venus in Latin, when the museum is closed and falls in love with her. Beautifully written #Booksky #japanesefiction
Book cover. Title of the book is in pink writing 'When The Museum Is Closed' in an enclosed box with white background in lower left of book along with author's name Emi Yagi in black. Cover has the back of a blue statue of Venus looking towards a young Japanese girl, who is wearing a loose red jacket and red trousers and looking back at the statue . There is a sign hanging on the yellow wall written in Japanese
August 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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What are you reading this week? I am reading this book, which is more a coming of age book, even though it starts with someone strangling themselves while the main character watches #Booksky
Cover of book, 'Heatwave'in blue at top. A scene of a beach, two deckchairs, a beach umbrella in various shades of orange, and a pink life-size bunny rabbit.
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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What you reading this weekend? After finishing the craziest book ever, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Karkov, now settling for a bit of a murder mystery, The Unfinished Painting, which includes lots of references to the pre Raphaelites #Booksky
A red book cover with the title The Unfinishrd painting in bold white and the author Mercedes Aguirre in finer script in yellow below it
July 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Reading this as I like the title #Booksky
Cover of book Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov. Cover background is blue, there is a yellow guitar and title first part Jimi Hrndrix in blue olive in Lviv in yellow
July 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Had an amazing long weekend in Bath. was excited to visit @toppingsbath.bsky.social and @mrbsemporium.bsky.social on my little bookshop crawl as well as Skoobs and Oxfam bookshop. Managed to limit myself to 7 books but could have bought do many more #booksky #books
Front of Topings bookshop in Bath. A grand white building with 2 pillars and stairs leading up to it. Posters and information at bottom with blue surrounds Inside Toppings books in Bath with shelves and shelves of books and people perusing them The front of Mr B's Emporium of Books in Bath. Long building with white facade and windowsills and Mr B's Emporium across the top in red. You can see book displays through the windoe
July 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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What are you reading in this heat? I'm starting on the Fitzcarraldo edition of Brian by Jeremy Cooper. Plain cover. Simple title. This is going to be phenomenal #Booksky #FitzcarraldoEditions
Deep blue cover of book with the title Brian, author, Jeremy Cooper and Fitzcarraldo editions in white
July 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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What's everyone reading? I am currently reading this. It is written in a different way and I am learning a lot about Hinduism. It is really funny as well #Booksky #bookswithstrangetitles
Cover of the book The Cauliflowrr by Nicola Barker. Pink background with orange edges at the corner. A green outline of a cauliflower edged with yellow. Title The Cauliflower in bold pink in centre on a white background and authors name in black underneath with 'An imaginative tour de force....She really is a genius' written in black underneath
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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What are you reading this weekend? I am onto this gem. At 72 pages I may finish it quickly! Part of the Penguin Lines series. This time the Northern Line, which is probably the line I have used the most. #Booksky #London #tubelines
Cover of the book A Northern Line Minute by William Leith eith title and author in black on a white background. Also a very blurred roundel, a red circle with a dark blue stripe, with the words Camden Town just about made out in white
June 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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So 7 bookshops visited, 11 books bought. Happy Independent Bookshop Week #Booksky #IndependentBookshopWeek #books
Pile of books sitting on table. From bottom to top A Good House For Children by Kate Collins Balham and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Grief is The Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Brian by Jeremy Coopet Too cloud A Solitue by Bohumil Hrabal Pile of books in table from bottom to top The Question Mark by Muriel Jarger The Paper Chase by Marcel Theroux Jimmy Hendrix Live in zlviv by Andrey Kurkov McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
June 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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What are you reading this weekend. Here's mine. How can you not be tempted by 'Something strange happened to me yesterday, and it swept me back to that time I thought I'd left behind forever.... '
Book over of Madonna in A Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali. 2 black and white photos. The top one is a woman with hair tied up in buns at the side looking at the camera and leaning on a man's forehead. The man is looking to the side. The bottom photo is the same man kissing the woman on the lips. The woman seems reluctant
June 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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In this hot weather, it's too hot for cats, but mine insist on lying outside, getting the most of sunshine and shade. #catsofbluesky
Ginger and white cat curled up and sitting in the sun Tortoiseshell cat lying on decking in the sunshine with dappled shadows of jasmine shading her
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Hello, Peanut from Crunchie
Tortoiseshell cat looking directly at camera
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Onto my next book this weekend. Found a gem of a book written by Joanne Harris, pre Chocolat fame. Looking forward to reading it #Booksky #joannechocolat
Book cover of Sleep, Pale Sister showing a young girl eith her eyes closed and flaxrn hair. She is dressed in an elaborate Victorian style dress, which is of fine silky material, with a green inlay at the front, and a pink flower at the front. The top is of a fine peachy lacey material and sleeves are pale peach satin. She has her arms outstretched
June 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM