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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 2d

Almost two-thirds of the way through a re-read of Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' and finding much new of note that escaped me the first time around!

Engraving of Regency Bath and its Abbey.

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 2d

My review ‘The Princess’ (1925), a novelette by D H Lawrence, for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-dhl

The changeling’s daemon: #1925Club

Phoenix design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (1960) for Penguin. ‘The Princess’ (1925) by D H Lawrence, in The Princess and Other Stories edited by Keith Sagar.Penguin Books, 1971. “O…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh, I still haven't read my copy of this, hmm, why've I delayed...

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 5d

Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity. nation.cymru/feature/rest...

Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity

Thomas Steres, Founder, Linguistic Legacies Initiative As historical revelations about the British past emerge, the most compelling seems to be the heavily British nature of the population. In short, ...

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 5d

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

Fear no more: #1925Club

Virginia Woolf in 1927, aged 45. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: The Definitive Edition, edited by G Patton Wright, introduction by Angelica Garnett. Vintage Books, 1992 (1925). Oh! thought Cl…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 8d

'The Old Straight Track' (1925) by Alfred Watkins, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky
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The ley of the land: #1925Club

Beech wood © C A Lovegrove. The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins. Methuen & Co, third edition 1945 (1925). ‘What really matters in this book is whether it is a humanly designed fact, …

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote a #poem of eight lines:
each line eight syllables comprised.
Each poet then a scheme assigns
to written poems of eight lines;
each #triolet true rhymes combines,
a tricky task. Don’t be surprised
I wrote a poem of eight lines!
Eight syllables each line comprised.

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Surprise, surprise!

I wrote a poem of eight lines:each line eight syllables comprised.Each poet then a scheme assignsto written poems of eight lines; each triolet true rhymes combines,a tricky task. Don’t be sur…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 11d

Authors' intellectual property, copyright, and #AI and #Meta. ihttps://wp.me/p5jC7U-Ru

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 11d

Dreamed cities: comparing and contrasting short stories by Angela Carter and HP Lovecraft, not such a strange pairing of authors. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-MP

Dreamed cities: #RIPxx

‘Another World’ by M C Escher (1947): Escher Foundation. ‘Celephaïs’ (1922) by H P Lovecraft, in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S T Joshi. Penguin Tw…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 12d

'Climate conferencing': a satiric #poem on hypocrisy. zenrinji.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

Climate conferencing

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 14d

My review of 'Katabasis' by R F Kuang for #RIPxx. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-kata

Hell is other scholars: #RIPxx

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University, circa 1870. Katabasis by R F Kuang. HarperVoyager, 2025. “[It] started as this cute, silly adventure novel about like, ‘Haha, academia…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 16d

Overview of 'The Cornish Trilogy' by Robertson Davies (1991). #Booksky
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Games of Let’s pretend: #ReadingRobertsonDavies

Robertson Davies, 1913–1995. The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies. Penguin Books, 2011 (1991). ‘Be not another, if you can be yourself.’ — Epigram by Paracelsus. Consisting of three …

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 16d

Entirely apt! The arquebus, followed by the musket, had been around since the 15th century, and gunpowder and rudimentary cannons appeared in Europe from the mid 13th. And Don Quixote appeared a couple years after the Gunpowder Plot.

Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 17d

#Booksky. Today's buy: 'Evelina' by Frances Burney, one of Austen's favourite authors, for #NationalBookshopDay and #ReadingAusten2025.

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely. I felt I could've quoted half the poems in this anthology, they were so evocative or affective.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 18d

Short thoughts on what I've been reading recently: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f... #ripxx #booksky

Five 60-Second Reviews, Some Of Which Are #RIPXX

Work is very busy at the moment, so I decided to do some quick-fire reviews: Kate Folk, Sky Daddy. Yep, it’s the novel about the woman who is sexually attracted to planes! I was a big fan of …

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 18d

A review of 'Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes' (1913) by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Edward Ardizzone (1946): a belated acknowledgement of #NationalPoetryDay. #Booksky
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Stolen away by magic

Detail from Jan Brueghel the Elder’s ‘The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste’ (1620), Prado Museum. Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes by Walter de la Mare, drawings by Edward Ardizzone (194…

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

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Nicole Snark @nicokow.bsky.social · 19d

This is good news, but Trump and his ilk are trying to undo these gains.

We’ve got to get Democrats in charge of Congress again.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 19d

An extremely important thread here which in the current rise of #populist entities we would do well to heed.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 20d

#Logophile ruminations on the literary applications of a term American English speakers coyly substitute the word 'rooster' for.
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Fair or fowl? #logophile

Cocquecigrue. Many mornings, when going for a constitutional which might take us by the local canal, we hear one or two cockerels giving vent in their customary fashion. One is a full-throated adul…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 23d

'The Driver’s Seat', the disturbing 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, reviewed for #RIPxx. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lise

Inconceivable sorrow: #RIPxx

Muriel Spark. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1970). ‘Oh,’ she says, ‘the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you&#8217…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 25d

My view of 'Austen’s Women: Lady Susan' performed by Rebecca Vaughan and directed by Andrew Margerison for
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A most accomplished coquette: #ReadingAusten2025

Rebecca Vaughan in the Dyad Production of ‘Austen’s Women: Lady Susan’. Austen’s Women: Lady Susan. Performed by Rebecca Vaughan, directed by Andrew Margerison, Dyad Product…

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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks! I don't seek out queer titles per se (nor romances as a genre) but am perfectly prepared to take them on their own merits as good storytelling, so thanks for the suggestion. Sadly, I can't manage ebooks, however 🙁

Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social · Sep 27

'Codename Villanelle' by Luke Jennings reviewed for #RIPxx #Booksky. wp.me/sezD85-oxana

Tosca’s kisses: #RIPxx

‘Nemesis (The Great Fortune)’ by Albrecht Dürer, 1501-2. Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings. John Murray, 2018 (2017). Compiled from four serial ebook novellas appearing between 2014 …

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