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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 7d

🇳🇴 🎶 Fay Wildhagen and Ane Brun music.apple.com/gb/album/whe...

When I Let Go (Live In Oslo) by Fay Wildhagen & Ane Brun on Apple Music

Song · 2020 · Duration 4:03

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 7d

Watched and enjoyed #Fences a masterclass in acting in this claustrophobic family drama #Film #Movie

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 12d

The Blue Whale by Elizabeth Alexander #Poem #Poetry #Nature whale 🐋

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 17d

After the death of #DianeKeaton I was Inspired to listen to her intimate memoir "Then Again". Simply a beautiful listen especially with her narration #Memoir #Audiobook #Film 📚

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 17d

The Falling of the Leaves by W.B. Yeats #Autumn #poems #Poetry

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 20d

Inspired by watching #Bergmanisland I watched and very much enjoyed The Seventh Seal by #Bergman

Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 22d

So enjoyed #BergmanIsland 🎥 #Film #IngmarBergman #Sweden

The sight and sounds of Sweden and a plot and style that has Bergman’s fingerprints 💜

Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 23d

Gary Snyder is an American #poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. #Essays #EcoLiterature #Books #Wilding

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 24d

William Dampier, ‘Piracy, Turtles & Flying Foxes’ exploits from his travels in 1686 #Travel #Buccaneer #Naturalist

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 26d

Looking forward to unfamiliar poets with this purchase: The Faber Book of 20th CENTURY WOMEN'S POETRY Edited by Fleur Adcock #Poem #Poetry

Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 27d

“Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s literary brilliance shaped Orwell’s work and her practical nous saved his life. But why – and how – was she written out of the story?” About the first wife of #GeorgeOrwell.

Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · 28d

Before Humboldt, Darwin, and inspiring the story of Robinson Crusoe there was the real William Dampier #Naturalist #Explorer #Buccaneer #AmReading

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · Oct 1

2025 will mark another bad year for the Dark Green Frit (grote parelmoer, S aglaja) with numbers comparable to 2023 and 2024 in NL (=low). Once widespread throughout the country, and numbers ten years ago still good, now reasonable numbers only on Vlieland and N-Texel (the islands in the NW).

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Oct 1

🎶💚 Simple Tricks by Angus Lyon & Ruaridh Campbell #Scotland
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Simple Tricks by Angus Lyon & Ruaridh Campbell on Apple Music

Album · 2002 · 13 Songs

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 30

#ÓlafurArnalds Particles 💚🎶

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Particles by Ólafur Arnalds & Nanna on Apple Music

Song · 2016 · Duration 3:58

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 29

Very much enjoyed #PerfectDays #Tokyo #Film #WinWenders 🎥

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 29

Listening to Writers on Walks #Walking #Writing 🚶🏻‍♂️ 🌳 📚

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 29

#JeffBeck Blackbird 🎸 🐦‍⬛ music.apple.com/gb/album/bla...

Blackbird by Jeff Beck on Apple Music

Song · 2000 · Duration 1:27

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 27

💚🎶 #WhiteStripes 🎸 🥁 🤪 music.apple.com/gb/album/bla...

Black Math (Live) by The White Stripes on Apple Music

Song · 2010 · Duration 3:06

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 25

💚🎶 #Prince, Sign o The Times 🎸 #WholeAlbums

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Sign O' The Times by Prince on Apple Music

Album · 1987 · 16 Songs

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 24

💚🎶 This Bitter Earth Dina Washington and Max Richter music.apple.com/gb/album/thi...

This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight by Dinah Washington, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey on Apple Music

Song · 2004 · Duration 6:12

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 20

Quiet Fire by Mammal Hands #Jazz open.spotify.com/track/5hxs6E...

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 18

David Bowie Live at Montreux 2002 🤩🎶

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What In The World - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 18th July, 2002

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 16

“Do go on doing a lot of walking & keep up your love of #nature, for that is the right way to understand art better & better. Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see”
Letter to Theo from Vincent #VanGogh 1874

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Chris Avanti @chris4reading.bsky.social · Sep 16

💚 Kandaiki by #MammalHands #Jazz 🎹 open.spotify.com/track/1jsnIb...

Kandaiki

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