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Ben Aaronovitch
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
Author of the Rivers of London Series
Continuing my trip through films that I used to watch on afternoon TV when I was young...
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There’s nothing like a crisp November morning….
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I love the bit in Mr Hulot’s Holiday where the lunch bell goes and the whole beach empties.
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 935
I cab't believe I was 13 when I read this book back in REDACTED.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A REDACTED character has gone all modernist on me. If I wanted to stream of consiousness I'd wouldn't have to employ a copyeditor. Characters ha!
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yesterday's Word Count = 1,202
Moving on to Donaldson book 2.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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What is it about bloody "amateur" thaqt I can never spell it correctly first time. I once wrote it by hand twenty times in the hope that it would stik but no... ameter, ammauter...etc etc
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 537
This was the leading edge of the fantasy boom of the late seventies.
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Research - does Navada count as the south west US?
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 684
Moorcock had such a way with titles...
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Aha - another Penric and Desdemona novella by Bujold - just in time to save me from doing any further work today 😀
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 595
How about a little bit more psychodelia, oh yeah, grooovy 🙃
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 931
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Also I'm at the London Museum of Water and Steam this weekend - hooray - details below...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hallo - somebody is sending out fake emails to fellow writers that purportedly from me but I never send unsolicited emaisl directly to people. Please ignore like that. Thank you for you attention on this matter. 😀
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Yesterday's Word Count = 1,101
I thinkI skipped his one by mistake...
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
RESEARCH: Nerd Culture: would it be fair to refer to AO3 as the premiere Fanfiction sharing site in 2020 or has the ever protean internet mutated while I wasn't looking.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 785
And now we're caught up with my re-read...
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Sometimes the story takes you somewhere so beautiful and terrifying that you ask yourself - do I want really want to go there and what will the readers think. So in about two years - don't say I didn't warn you 😝
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yesterday's Word Count = 533
Moving on...
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Ah ha! A REMARKABLE PLACE TO DIE tricked me - she IS the wayward daughter,
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m heading out to….
youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fi...
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM