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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 1h

My other opinion about books is that this poem by Fiona Benson is magnificent. 'Haunted little veterans'!

Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 1h

My principal opinion about books as objects is you should read this book about books as objects

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 4h

Books read in 2025: Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford. Increasingly of the opinion that Spufford is in my top tier of favourite writers. He just doesn't miss. Ritual Aztec murder; the Klan, tommy guns, alternate history, Reacher-esque violence, yeah it's all here.

Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 1d

I must mention Simon Russell Beale's new reading of the Smiley books. He just brings so much love and care to all the characters but with hardly any look-at-me accent work. His Connie!

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 1d

annoyed about this all over again. you just hear them going 'Bill Nighy! Trebles all round!' and not 'is this actually going to work? Like, at all?'

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 26

Crazy idea, but for the cost of getting Bill Nighy to read the footnotes, could surely have taken the time to properly format Sian Clifford's script so there aren't moments where you can essentially *hear* the fact there was a pagebreak?

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 1d

The occam's razor answer is: they agree with her.

Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I sought that out cos I hated the UK cover.

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 2d

Books I swam through in 2025: The Mountain in The Sea, Ray Nayler. Brilliant BioFi (?) about trying to understand AIs – alien intelligences, right here in the ocean.

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 4d

Feel slightly bad for Maria Corina Machado. Every post about her win is really about someone else.

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 6d

Books read in a suspended moment, 2025: Mothering Sunday, Graham Swift. Not sure why it took me so long to get round to this, since I've every other book of his. One fateful day, observed from the inside, and from decades into the future. Beautiful.

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 7d

Books shivered through in 2025: We Do Not Part, Han Kang. This novel is to snow as M John Harrison’s The Sunken Land… is to water. And if anything more powerful.

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 7d

Would love to care about anything as much as British blueskiers care about who runs CBS News.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 7d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 7d

Oh that was so good, thank you. Probably gauche to say that one other reason that he struggles to play 'normal' people is that he doesn't *look* normal himself. Handsome af

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