Lydia Massiah
@lydiamassiah.bsky.social
Writer, wanderer, wonderer, always curious to learn more. Knows a smattering about much, but not much about anything.
Worried about biodiversity loss. What's happening is one big horror story.
Worried about biodiversity loss. What's happening is one big horror story.
I thought the same!
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I thought the same!
You're tempting me now!
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
You're tempting me now!
That would very festive 🧙♂️🎄
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That would very festive 🧙♂️🎄
I know the Regeneration trilogy which I found very moving but not the other series. That's quite a commitment!
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I know the Regeneration trilogy which I found very moving but not the other series. That's quite a commitment!
That makes perfect sense!
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
That makes perfect sense!
I'll definitely go in uninformed!
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I'll definitely go in uninformed!
I'm not sure I'm up to that atm - I need slightly gentler reads for now.
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I'm not sure I'm up to that atm - I need slightly gentler reads for now.
I read Middlemarch years ago & generally get on with Eliot - & I'm a massive Dickens fan. I've got David Copperfield on the reread atm to compare with Demon Copperhead. Funny what you say about Anna Karenina 😄
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I read Middlemarch years ago & generally get on with Eliot - & I'm a massive Dickens fan. I've got David Copperfield on the reread atm to compare with Demon Copperhead. Funny what you say about Anna Karenina 😄
Hmm, I've never clicked with James as I do with Wharton, but it's been a while since I tried. Thanks fo the recommendation!
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Hmm, I've never clicked with James as I do with Wharton, but it's been a while since I tried. Thanks fo the recommendation!
Ooo, I haven't & I was wondering where to go next - thank you!
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ooo, I haven't & I was wondering where to go next - thank you!
Make it a Christmas treat!
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Make it a Christmas treat!
Although I've read some Mantel novels I've not actually dared to start the Wolf Hall ones. I'm a bit scared of the brutality of those times 😬
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Although I've read some Mantel novels I've not actually dared to start the Wolf Hall ones. I'm a bit scared of the brutality of those times 😬
Gaskell, Trollope & Thackeray are wonderful - I'm definitely a Victorian novel fan. War & Peace I never quite finished though I loved much of it. It was all the battles that lost me... same as with The Lord of the Rings 😄
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Gaskell, Trollope & Thackeray are wonderful - I'm definitely a Victorian novel fan. War & Peace I never quite finished though I loved much of it. It was all the battles that lost me... same as with The Lord of the Rings 😄
I don't know those novels but I know what you mean about a series. So warm & comfortable like favourite old clothes, without the prickly awkwardnes of new books which need time to wear in. The Earthsea novels for me.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I don't know those novels but I know what you mean about a series. So warm & comfortable like favourite old clothes, without the prickly awkwardnes of new books which need time to wear in. The Earthsea novels for me.
I haven't read that one, but I love Edith Wharton's novels.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I haven't read that one, but I love Edith Wharton's novels.
I love that one too! Isn't it fabulous to inhabit another world so completely & for such a long time it's actually a surprise - & rather disappointing - to find out you live here & now 😄
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I love that one too! Isn't it fabulous to inhabit another world so completely & for such a long time it's actually a surprise - & rather disappointing - to find out you live here & now 😄
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8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
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Still thinking of this!
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Still thinking of this!
My husband said the same last night. 'You got to wonder if any of those people lived in those houses 😄'
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My husband said the same last night. 'You got to wonder if any of those people lived in those houses 😄'
I was so pleased that finding these things had made him happy.
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was so pleased that finding these things had made him happy.