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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 16m

I’ll try to do so too…

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

literally everything is better when i’m reading a good book

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 18m

Happiness on a lead. 🥰

Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1h

It is!

Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1h

I am hearing you, Chris… ❤️

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 5h

I’m halfway through this standalone thriller by Abir Mukherjee. Hunted is slightly more commercially-geared than his Wyndham & Banerjee series, but Mukherjee’s heart and skill as applied to exposing prejudice is bang on.
Best wishes for the reading!

An hourglass against a yellow background, holding a lone figure walking in sand in the top half, and a cityscape in the lower half.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 9h

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Employees by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

alt text in images please

white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 5h

My husband so enjoys Bob Mortimer. Good luck!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 5h

You did it!
I still haven’t!
x

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 5h

Hurrah!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s go new week let’s mark some good pages!! #booksky

(Very late for #5amwritersclub!)

Bookmark with cameo image of Charlotte Brontë x

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 1d

Every book we publish begins with belief – in writers, in stories, in readers like you. 🌊

We’re raising funds to bring more voices into the world, to keep indie publishing alive and thriving. Please help. 💙

#IndiePress #Writers #Books #SupportIndie #KeepBooksAlive

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

gofund.me

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 20h

‘I am not a writer of escape. I am a writer of the people who cannot escape.’

John Steinbeck

#booksky

❤️‍🔥

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 23h

💝

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Cue Teflon Tony, continuing a policy of colonialism by another name that began in Palestine in 1917, having a terrible track record on such dealings and yet named by the latest British PM to HELP Gaza alongside Trump.

Balfour to Blair www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair

By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

If I tried to represent all the years I’ve spent reading short stories, I’d loosely suggest a hodgepodge of anything by Alice Munro, George Saunders, Raymond Carver, Lucia Berlin, Anton Chekhov, Petina Gappah, Helen Simpson, and Romesh Gunesekera. Have a lovely Sunday 😅

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds wonderful!!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

I saw, it’s a beauty!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn’t heard of a McGuffin since I studied Hitchcock while in college… 😅

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Wow!

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Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social · 1d

How would you define a writing mindset, and what are your strategies for achieving and maintaining it? We'll be discussing questions like these Thursday 16 October at 6pm BST on #WomenWritersNet. Just follow the hashtag! We're excited to hear what you think. #WritingCommunity

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Mr. Jj 🇺🇸 @newyorkerjj.bsky.social · 1d

#photography #IPhoneAir #eastcoastkin #blueskykin #bluesky #LI #NY #monochrome #B&W

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StrongLines @stronglines.bsky.social · 6d

Architecture of movement
#b&wphotography #architecture #vatican

Black-and-white photo looking down a grand spiral Bramante staircase, in the Vatican museum. People descend in winding motion through multiple levels, their figures growing smaller toward the center. Soft light reflects on marble walls, emphasizing the geometry and rhythm of the spiral.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

‘General elections are not referendums. They aren’t even referendums on whether to have a referendum. The referendums we get are the ones the system has been reduced to by its failure to handle the matter on its own.’

Because sometimes it just needs to be said… (usually by David Runciman)

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘Farage ending up in Downing Street would be of a piece with the confusion, complacency and contradictory political behaviour that led Britain first to stumble into Europe and then to stumble out again.’

David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem

From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Painfully brilliant, this.