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#SundaySentence from 'Child's Play' in the short story collection Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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A chat with Saskatchewan novelist Karin Melberg Schwier about her stunning novel, Small Reckonings

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3 of 5 stars to A Bad Decade for Good People by Joe Bedford
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Marked as did-not-finish: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Friday Reads: Some sucked, some weren’t for me, and some sucked me right in

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#SpinsterSeptember
#Victober
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Nuanced spinsters and other fickle folk: A review of E.H. Young's 1922 novel, The Misses Mallett

#SpinsterSeptember

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Friday Reads: 'The world is full of wonder – pay attention'

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#ShortySeptember
#SpinsterSeptember
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3 of 5 stars to Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Polly Barton (Translator)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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‘A living, breathing thing as much as a memoir’: A chat with Sharon Butala on How to Breathe Water

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Friday Reads: A transformative read—oh, and a novel about sexy black Baptists

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#ShortySeptember
#SpinsterSeptember
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Friday Reads: Scarlett, Read

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#ShortySeptember
#SpinsterSeptember
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How Interesting! I love Rosamond Lehmann’s novels and I’m reading them in chronological order. (I started with The Echoing Grove and then went right back to her debut and forward from there. Loved A Note! About to start The Weather.
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Shawn and Helen chat with Irish writer Gráinne Murphy about her novel, Greener

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5 of 5 stars to Summer Pudding by Susan Scarlett (pseudonym of Noel Streatfeild)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
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4 of 5 stars to You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
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Friday Reads: Specks doing things to specks

#ShortySeptember

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5 of 5 stars to Watching You Without Me by Lynn Coady
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
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My women in translation review column will be in the Irish Times next weekend. Aside from reviewing it was nice to find time to squeeze in a few other #witmmonty reads, eso from Japan.

Nice to see a lot of #witmonth recommendations on Bluesky. with forgiveable damage to my debit card.