Chris Lovegrove 💙📚
@calmgrove.bsky.social
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Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
https://CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com
Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
https://CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com
My review of the #PhilipPullman title 'The Rose Field', the finale of #TheBookOfDust, read for #DoorstoppersInDecember wp.me/sezD85-trf
“Ne had her compasse lost”: #DoorstoppersInDecember
Hermaphrodite figure with egg from 16th-century alchemical text ‘Splendor Solis’ by Salomon Trismosin. The Rose Field:The Book of Dust, Volume Three by Philip Pullman, illustrated by Ch…
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December 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My review of the #PhilipPullman title 'The Rose Field', the finale of #TheBookOfDust, read for #DoorstoppersInDecember wp.me/sezD85-trf
My review of 'The Beasts of Clawstone Castle' (2005) by Eva Ibbotson, the 100th anniversary of whose birth this year is. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/3...
Ghostly goings-on
© C A Lovegrove. The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson. Macmillan Children’s Books, 2014 (2005). This is a story about two youngsters who go to stay for a few months with two elderly…
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December 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
My review of 'The Beasts of Clawstone Castle' (2005) by Eva Ibbotson, the 100th anniversary of whose birth this year is. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/3...
Some thoughts on Macbeth's Three Witches and #PhilipPullman's 'The Rose Field' in #TheBookOfDust. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-alep
“To Aleppo gone”
Basawan: ‘Young men being carried off by a Simurgh’, circa 1590. The first anniversary of Aleppo’s liberation from the rule of dethroned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has just t…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Some thoughts on Macbeth's Three Witches and #PhilipPullman's 'The Rose Field' in #TheBookOfDust. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-alep
My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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Slander, lies and guilt: #GermanLitMonth
Untitled image by Czech artist Jaromír Funke from the ‘Cyklu Cas Trva’ / ‘Time Persists’ series (1932). The Trial by Franz Kafka. Der Prozess (1925) translated and with an introduction by Idris Pa…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... "Suspect arrested over pipe bombs placed ahead of 6 January Capitol riot."
Somebody else for Trump to pardon if in due course they're found guilty.
Somebody else for Trump to pardon if in due course they're found guilty.
Suspect arrested over pipe bombs placed ahead of 6 January Capitol riot - follow live
The devices, which did not detonate, were placed outside Republican and Democratic offices in Washington DC.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... "Suspect arrested over pipe bombs placed ahead of 6 January Capitol riot."
Somebody else for Trump to pardon if in due course they're found guilty.
Somebody else for Trump to pardon if in due course they're found guilty.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Thinking critically in the age of Artificial Intelligence and Human Stupidity: #logophile wp.me/pezD85-SS
Thinking critically: #logophile
Brain maze: way out? It may be a reflection on state education in the UK that I, as a music specialist in a high school, was from the 1980s onwards not only called on to teach European Studies and …
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December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thinking critically in the age of Artificial Intelligence and Human Stupidity: #logophile wp.me/pezD85-SS
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#FridayFun: Palaces in Brandenburg Region findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/f...
#FridayFun: Palaces in Brandenburg Region
It’s getting a little too cold to explore all of the little (and not so little) palaces in the Brandenburg region around Berlin (and a little further afield), so I’ll start off by doing…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#FridayFun: Palaces in Brandenburg Region findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/f...
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
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November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi: last two #book #reviews and recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/27/s...
#Blakecrouch and #AndyWeir
#Blakecrouch and #AndyWeir
#SciFiMonth 2025: last two reviews and recap
#scifimonth 2025 has been a blast! Let me present two last scifi I read, and then we’ll look at all that happened this month: 📚 Summer Frost, by Blake Crouch Science-fiction novella 2019 85 p…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
#scifimonth #scifimonth2025 #scifi: last two #book #reviews and recap wordsandpeace.com/2025/11/27/s...
#Blakecrouch and #AndyWeir
#Blakecrouch and #AndyWeir
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Have you heard about our rediscovered dystopian classic? It was written 90 years ago and set in London in 1985 following a deadly global pandemic…
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - introduced by Graham Norton and illustrated to perfection by @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - introduced by Graham Norton and illustrated to perfection by @tomgauld.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Have you heard about our rediscovered dystopian classic? It was written 90 years ago and set in London in 1985 following a deadly global pandemic…
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - introduced by Graham Norton and illustrated to perfection by @tomgauld.bsky.social
manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - introduced by Graham Norton and illustrated to perfection by @tomgauld.bsky.social
manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive
My review of 'We the People. The Revolution of ’89, witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin & Prague' (1990) by Timothy Garton Ash for #NonficNov. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/1...
A witness to history: #NonficNov
Revolutionary flag (photo: Soman). We the People. The Revolution of ’89, witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin & Prague by Timothy Garton Ash. Granta Books in association with Penguin Boo…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My review of 'We the People. The Revolution of ’89, witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin & Prague' (1990) by Timothy Garton Ash for #NonficNov. #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/1...
My review of 'The Courage to be Happy' (Shiawase Ni Naru Yuuki, 2016) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. #NonficNov #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-hap
Life tasks: #NonficNov
© C A Lovegrove. The Courage to be Happy (Shiawase Ni Naru Yuuki, 2016) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Allen & Unwin, 2019. The essence of happiness is the feeling of contribution. The fo…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My review of 'The Courage to be Happy' (Shiawase Ni Naru Yuuki, 2016) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. #NonficNov #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-hap
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Science-Fiction A-Z: speculative fiction titles I've read over the years in alphabetical order, posted for #SciFiMonth 2025. Have you read these? #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/s...
Science-Fiction A-Z #SciFiMonth 2025
At the urging of Emma @ Words & Peace (here), and as a contribution to #SciFiMonth, I have cobbled together a list of science-leaning speculative fiction titles I’ve read over the years t…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Science-Fiction A-Z: speculative fiction titles I've read over the years in alphabetical order, posted for #SciFiMonth 2025. Have you read these? #Booksky calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/s...
My review of 'Another Part of the Wood' (1968/79) by Beryl Bainbridge, for #NovNov25 #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-apw
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My review of 'Another Part of the Wood' (1968/79) by Beryl Bainbridge, for #NovNov25 #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-apw
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Well this is DEPRESSING
So—hang on—the BBC DG and head of News have resigned over an internal complaint about coverage of Trump raised by one adviser who appears to have been pursuing a right-wing agenda?
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November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Well this is DEPRESSING
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Absolutely fascinating article!
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
The ‘real’ Northanger Abbey? #ReadingAusten2025
The Sham Castle, Claverton Down, Bath, from an old postcard. High upon Claverton Down to the east of Bath is positioned the eye-catching façade of the Sham Castle: commissioned in the mid 18th cent…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Absolutely fascinating article!
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
The ‘real’ Northanger Abbey? #ReadingAusten2025
The Sham Castle, Claverton Down, Bath, from an old postcard. High upon Claverton Down to the east of Bath is positioned the eye-catching façade of the Sham Castle: commissioned in the mid 18th cent…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The 'real' Northanger Abbey? Which building(s) may have inspired Austen? #Booksky #ReadingAusten2025 wp.me/sezD85-hngr
My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian
Light and dark: #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25
Photo: C A Lovegrove. Demian by Hermann Hesse. Demian: Die Geschichte einer Jugen von Emil Sinclair (1919) translated by W J Strachan (1958). Penguin Modern Classics, 2017. “The bird is …
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November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian
A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey
“Born to be an heroine”: #ReadingAusten2025
William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796 to 1813, demolished 1845. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, in Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, introduction by R Bromley Johnson. J M Dent…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey
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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October 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My review ‘The Princess’ (1925), a novelette by D H Lawrence, for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-dhl
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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October 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Restoring Britain’s first language and forgotten identity. nation.cymru/feature/rest...
