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Dark Pastoral
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Music, photography, introversion, dark beers, red wine, hypervigilance, Oxford commas, and an avid reader of short novels and novellas (and, occasionally, short story collections). All Dark Pastoral photos © Justin Avery. 🍉
Not me. I will only submit to Cher’s Ear Law.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia #photosky #photography #landscape
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia.
#photosky #photography #landscape
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September 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love.’ One of the greatest albums of all time, let alone the 80s. #katebush #houndsoflove
September 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
August 2025 reading #Booksky #reading #books

Natural Histories - Guadalupe Nettel
Claimed! - Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Her Body & Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
In The Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami
September 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
July reading inadvertently turned into blue book month #booksky #books #reading #blue

What I’d Rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma
Brian - Jeremy Cooper
People With No Charisma - Jente Posthuma
Walter Benjamin Stares at The Sea - C.D. Rose
July 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If Bondi claims the Epstein files don’t exist, what were in these binders she and others were holding aloft so triumphantly then?
July 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Point Lonsdale, Victoria. #photography #photosky #landscape
July 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
June reading #booksky #reading #books

‘The Governesses’ - Anne Serre
‘Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories’ - Guadalupe Nettel
‘On The Calculation of Volume (II)’ - Solvej Balle
‘Mary and The Rabbit Dream’ - Noémi Kiss-Deáki
July 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Apparently it is ok for Israel to defend itself by killing desperate hungry Palestinians who are just trying to get food and aid for themselves and their families. This is a war crime. This is a genocidal act.
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May Reading #BookSky #Reading #Books

‘Hunchback’ - Saou Ichikawa
‘The Accidentals’ - Guadalupe Nettel
‘A Leopard-Skin Hat’ - Anne Serre
‘Under the Eye of the Big Bird’ - Hiromi Kawakami
‘Idle Grounds’ - Krystelle Bamford
‘There’s a Monster Behind the Door’ - Gaëlle Bélem
June 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize). #booksky #reading #books
No no no (*throws book across the room).
May 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A few additional words on ‘The Accidentals’ by Guadalupe Nettel (added bonus that it has appeared in Fitzcarraldo-fiction blue). #BookSky #books #reading
May 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
‘The Accidentals’ by Guadalupe Nettel. A sublime series of stories that shift between the everyday & the uncanny, featuring a beautifully-rendered cast of ‘vagrant albatrosses.’ It’s rare that I love each story in a collection. Translation by Rosalind Harvey @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #BookSky
May 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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