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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 19h

thanks, interesting - as were the comments to the blog post.

Gotta love strange tales of any sort!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 20h

congrats on the new book, btw!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Very cool! Looking forward to this! 👏 #histbookchat #sinology

yiizzy.bsky.social @yiizzy.bsky.social · 21h

Many things shocked John and I as we were finishing Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of UFO Encounters & Lore, but the sheer number of classical accounts that match up to anonymous experiences today is wild!

Excerpt from an ancient Chinese UFO account

Waiting for An Encounter (1/3)

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 3d

#sinology #law Talk from Prof Liang Cai on the 15th Oct if you're in HK - doesn't appear to be on Zoom, sadly - and she has her book coming out at the end of the month, £110 also sadly, no sign of a paperback - Convict Politics, #China 221BCE - 23CE #law

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favourite China books! I ought to give it a reread myself one day. Pity we lost Bernstein back in March.

I ought to get around to reading Phil's book as well!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 5d

hope you are feeling a lot better now!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 5d

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival!! Politicizing Business by Ning Leng from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 5d

you should be travelling the world giving talks on al these Australian regiments, Chez!!!🦘

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 5d

I will always remember playing in the old pillboxes (or just AAA emplacements) in Sandwell Valley just outside of Birmingham!!!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Great review by @susanbk.bsky.social of the new novel from Kristen Loesch #fiction #China #BookSky 📚💜

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “The Hong Kong Widow” by Kristen Loesch @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-hong-kon...

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Gosh, amazing that even in the middle of all that suffering they could still look about themselves and marvel at the beauty of nature

seriously humbling

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Gosh, Chez, what a cover!!! I thought I wouldn't like it being just one colour but the more you look at it the more you're drawn in.....

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 11d

It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish wanted some earlyish Pink Floyd, so Obscured by Clouds (1972). This one's a bit of a forgotten album but the fish & I love it & I can always hear echoes (see what I did there) of the famous album to come the very next year(Dark Side of the Moon) 🎵🎶🎵

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 11d

So many biographies of 20thC famous Americans I've read seem to begin on farms and poor smallholdings. It always surprises me how the pioneering frontier days were actual lived experiences for so many - so different to European bios 😂

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 12d

wow! I prefer that cover!! Lots going there!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 12d

despite the natural elegance of his writing. Later editions include the historical corrections but academics still point out little issues with the novel every now and then. And yet, has anyone captured Lincoln any better? Some reviewers mistake the novel for an actual biography!! What a book! 2/2

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 12d

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 Not reading anything new today but thought I would post one of my favourite historical novels: Lincoln by Gore Vidal (1984) - this is a first edition which contains a few errors. Gore Vidal always told people he wrote slowly & carefully but the opposite was true, 1/2

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 12d

This week CrimeReads Crime and the City visited Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan province….here’s 3 spicy reads to get you started…

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 12d

#sinology out today from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 12d

#histbookchat For the #WW2 Japan specialists....

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Today in the ARB: Francis Sempa reviews “Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito’s Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War” by Stephen C Mercado (Pen & Sword) asianreviewofbooks.com/japanese-spy...