Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Listened to my friend today when she told me 9/10 new pain was not normal even for me and I should seek help .rang 111 and ended up being taken to A and E by ambulance and spending the evening there .they think may have slipped a neck disc strong painkillers helped and mri is booked home now 011
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pretty sure something bad is happening in my neck I’m in so much pain .i thought my shoulder pain was awful but i had forgotten the absolute hell that is neck nerve pain .life is so unfair sometimes I’mfeeling v sorry 4 myself .retiring back to bed 100
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Horrendous new pain in my neck woke up with it on Wednesday and it has got much worse today .my alarmist brain is catastrophising I’ve slipped another disc in my neck as it’s the worst pain I’ve had for ages 100
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anyone else use social media like a journal ? I’m not sure how interesting my posts are to other people though .i loved it in the very early days when posting sent your words into the ether with no one at the other end reading them 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like the tin man this morning. I’m so stiff got a new pain in my neck which I haven’t had for years so that’s fun but at least it’s not raining so I can read my book in the garden all  wrapped up. 030
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 30/09/202640 years ago today I sat on the stairs at a party with a cute boy we are still together and as we didn’t get married for at least 10 years we celebrated this date for years he’s still cute in my view 211
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When u realise too late that you somehow missed the 2 lines in the play that explained the twist at the end …hmm something’s not great about a play when if you as audience are not concentrating for 2 lines you may fail to understand it .but then I did mess up ugh don’t do it again. 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A much younger female friend gave me the best compliment this week she said she loved my cropped jeans and said she wanted to see all my clothes as they were so distinctive and she thought I always looked great .how lovely was that I’m still thinking about it . 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Eek eek I no sooner discover that the sequel to the time travellers wife by Audrey Niffenwgerr is about to be published then @netgalleyuk approves me to read it .its gone straight to the top of my to be read list 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Really had to push myself to get up and go to the booked swim I had in the Lido this morning b it’s the last swim before the Heating goes off. Very glad I made it my hips hurt just as much but I feel happier. 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Booker shortlist has 4 of my favourites on but also a 2 star and a 3 star for me May We Feed The King John of John The Disappearers The End of Everything Black Bag The Things We Never Say 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Flu jab family putting all booked very organised thank you NHS 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Diving into Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel which came out this week .I’m chasing the love I had for station eleven which I adored ,this one is speculative fiction set in a post collapse America with city states and militia and perhaps something even weirder going on 110
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Is there anything more petrifying than a momentary blank when you are acting on stage .last nights first night for Wyrd sisters and it happened to me the same place it had happened in the dress luckily fellow witch quickly picked it up and I managed to move on and not dwell on it 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My 2026 Booker shortlist in order of favourite . I rarely get it right but I’ll stand by my opinions 1.john of John Douglas Stuart 2.The disappearers Marlon James 3 The Things we never say Elizabeth Strout 4 Switzy Emma Cline 5. May we feed the king Rebecca Perry What are your votes ? 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Grr guitar teacher didn’t turn up granted he didn’t know how much of a block I have to picking it up after 5 years but it was all tuned and I was all ready to try again 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Family party this weekend I don’t t do parties as a rule but it was important to my sister so I broke my rule. it took my entire social battery to not shut myself in a room and hide. today I’m basking in my solitary heaven in my garden with a bookhide.today 020
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just won a rather surprising part in A Christmas Carol this December.not the one I went for but a challenge I’m definitely up for and I’m delighted that the director thinks I’ll do the part justice .#### the patriarchy #genderblindcasting 100
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Fab swim at Woburn lido in the rain this morning luckily the water was lovely and warm at 28 degrees .went on my own but got chatting about books afterwards and if u know me you know books are my specialist subject .pretty sure I didn’t bore anyone 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Finished the Booker long list a a mixed bag this year quite a lot of 3 star reads my favourite by a long way was John of John by Douglas Stuart 5 stars but Switzy ,All them dogs and The things we never say and May we feed the king got 4 stars .Ive parked one and one not out Yet 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Some days are painkillers to get out of bed days most are wait until mid afternoon and then the rare wonderful beautiful day with no pain comes along out of the blue 020
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I read 90% of the books that I read on my Kindle, but I’m actually reading a physical book today. The font is so small and it’s not the smallest I’ve seen but it reminds me why Kindle is such an accessible way of reading. 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A good friend who is autistic and has autistic kids and who has very similar health issues to me posted last week how difficult it had been for her family without their paddling pool in the heat .i was so pleased to share her potential hose pipe ban exemption with her 110
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Listening to the found festival Spotify play list for this year .we are in for so many treats roll on August bank holiday I can’t wait 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What the heck is happening on uk rail services 2 derailments and a fatal crash in such quick succession is very worrying 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Finally a day with nothing planned apart from reading in the garden .This introvert really needs alone time my social battery has been depleted by a very full couple of months .Breathe and read 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A great teacher you remember forever what I remember because he taught me how to sing the start of the periodic table in chemistry and my school friend and I did it together over lunch last week 100
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Quick panic this morning when I went to download tickets I had bought for today for Alex’s birthday trip to the bridge theatre to see the Oristeia and the theatre web site had no record of me .discovered I’d inadvertently bought from a ticket seller luckily they appear legit 100
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Day 1 of The Good Things in life in no particular order #thegoodthingsinlife ;The potential of a handful of seed packets 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It always surprises me how few reviews some of the books that are long listed for the book of prize have already when I read them despite some of them being published for many months they may have 20 or so reviews 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Eek, I just got accepted on NetGalley to Read immediately Eligf Shafiq next novel One Brief moment in eternity it’s going to be first on my reading list once I’ve completed the booker long list I absolutely adore this author @netgalleyuk 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My Disability means that I need to take black cabs when I’m in London rather than using the tube. Yesterday I took some friends along with me ,one of them said it made her feel like she was the queen so you see there are some advantages to Disability. Queen Sarah over and out. 120
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Day 6 of The Good Things in life in no particular order #thegoodthingsinlife Children Giggling 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Need a word for that feeling of utter relief when that task you have been putting off for far too long finally gets done 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans . Winner of the women’s prize for fiction 2026 a novel written in the form of letters written over the years by an elderly lady lots of discussions about reading authors and books4⭐️ @MichaelJBooks bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/t...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comThe Correspondent by Virginia Evens4 star 7/10 This book won the women’s prize of 2026 I was not aware of it pre-publication so I’ve purchased this copy. I did enjoy this novel which looks at the life of Sybil who we meet initially … 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli after her marriage breaks down the narrator, tries to make sense of her life by writing a semi autobiographical novel about a woman writing a novel.4⭐️ @4thEstateBooks bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/b...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comBeginning Middle Endby Valeria Luiselli4 star 6.5/10 In this novel, the main narrator who a writer of novels travels with her young daughter to Sicily during a modern heat wave summer . Her marriage has just broken up and sh… 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of Little Spark by Jess Kidd an intricate Gothic story blending magic and reality perfectly as orphan Bodkin moves through life as a Victorian parlour act harnessing internal electricity.Gothic and inventive 4⭐️ @canongatebooks bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/l...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comLittle Spark by Jess Kidd4 star 7/10 I very much enjoyed this novel which is set in Victorian times the main character is an orphan who has some strange slightly magical skills of being able to command the strength of elec… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of Hollow bones by Jodi Picoult out in November this one’s sure to be a best seller the story of a woman orphaned by the 911 terrorist attacks. I’m a big Jodi Picoult fan and this one is fantastic five stars. bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/h...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comHollow Bones by Jodi Picoult5 stars 8/10 How excited am I to start this book? I haven’t read a new Jodi Picoult for such a long time so I was delighted to be approved on that netGalley or to read this one and obviously Read. … 020
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I had a wonderful opportunity today to attend the end of course show for a group of young people who have spent the week on a music course .These kids who all had significant disabilities produced a version of The tempest which allowed each student to shine @EmbraceCharity 110
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/20267 book reviews written 6 to go you would have thought I would learn from previous mistakes but every time I finish another, I am seduced by the next one and start reading it immediately so I end up with a big backlog  010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/i...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comI Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder3 star 5.5/10 This is the big story of two small lives in very up-to-date London in the First chapter a boy meets a girl in nightclub. chuck’s in his mid 30s. Working for an advertising agenc… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of Smallie by Eden Mckenzie-Goddard the Windrush generation story of Lucinda who arrived in the 60s on a ship from Barbados but 50 years later is told she must be deported 4⭐️ bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comSmallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard4 star 6/10 This is the story of lucinda Brown who travels on a ship in 1961 from Barbados to reunite with her boyfriend in the UK. We follow her through the years as she marries and has a fa… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My Review of the Gripping The Golden Child by Lucinda Berry the story of teenaged siblings and their involvement in a traffic accident that kills .Very exciting 5⭐️ bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/t...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comThe Golden Child by Lucinda Berry5 star 8/10 The family have two children both in their teenage years one night the daughter accidentally runs over one of her school friends with her car. She rings her brother who comes to her Res… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of The fabulous Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Stirritt A unlikely friendship between 2 very different men forges a lifelong business relationship and ultimately love and respect .i adored this book 5⭐️ @_SwiftPress bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/d...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comDrayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt5 star 9.5/10 I’ve been saving this book up since I requested it on netGalley UK and it sat in my to be read pile for a while. I had a feeling that it was going to be rather splendid. The Story fol… 010
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of The Glass Key by Amanda Geard A mother abandons her small child her granddaughter travels to a remote Norwegian island to discover a complex war time mystery 3⭐️ @headlinepg @NetGalley_UK bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/t...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comThe Glass Key by Amanda Geard3 star 5/10 When Irish Maggie’s mother leaves her when she’s a small child, she never knows why until she discovers a letter to her mother asking her to take in a baby. Investigating the back… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My review of the truly lovely The Trouble with Sister Francis by Matt Coyne a group of boys join a summer club run by a chain smoking nun set in the 80s a joy of a book a favourite read this year 5⭐️@headlinepg @NetGalley_UK @mattcoyney 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My As We Fall Through Time by Claire North probably the most complicated clever time travel novel I’ve ever read. @LittleBrownUK 4⭐️ bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/a...bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.comAs We Fall Through Time by Claire North4 star 6.5/10 I’m a big Big fan of a time travel novel so when I saw this one on NetGalley UK I requested and it quickly went to the top of my to read pile I have not read any of the au… 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Day 6 of The Good Things in life in no particular order #thegoodthingsinlife The innocence of the very young 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Day 5 of The Good Things in life in no particular order #thegoodthingsinlife ice cream .who am I kidding whilst ice cream is clearly essential today when it’s over 30 degrees it is a delight any day Note to self you are eating too much ice cream your treat has become a daily habit 000
Bionic Sarah @bionicsarah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026@TheBookerPrizes long list downloaded on to a good start as the one I’ve already read John of John by @Doug_D_Stuart was a 5 star read .its going to be a great month of reading 020