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I love reading nature and travel books. I have a blog where I leave my reviews felcherman.wordpress.com happy to receive books to review. Also happy to review Whisky but reviews will be less conhearenet..cohearrent...readable like.

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 2h

New Album review up on me blog: Somewhere to Begin by Wrex felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/a... Epic metal album, limited pressing I think so grab one before they are all gone. #metalreview

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Album Review: Somewhere To Begin by Wrex

Band: Wrex Album: Somewhere To Begin Format: Vinyl No. of Tracks: 11 Track Listing: Take A Walk Heavens Gate This Hell Goes A Long Way Down S.A.D. Shallow The End Paranoia 111 Consume The No…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My review of Slow Trains Around Britain by @tchesshyre.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/s... an entertaining exploration of the British railway, highly recommended. @summersdalebooks.bsky.social #books

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Slow Trains Around Britain by Tom Chesshyre

What Da Cover Says: Join travel writer and self-confessed “train nut” Tom Chesshyre as he celebrates 200 years of passenger railways on a zigzagging tour around the UK – where tra…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My review of Crux by Jesi Bender felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/c... A real powerful play, highly recommended #bookreview

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Crux by Jesi Bender

What Da Cover Says: Does blood grease the wheel of history? Or does it simply dry to dust and flake away? Jesi Bender’s play Crux takes place inside Northern Ireland’s HM Prison Maze where, in 1981…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My review of The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/t... #bookreview

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The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor

What Da Cover Says: The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever its flames spread. Now, guided by the incorruptible Fire Court, the city is slowly rebuilding, b…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My review of Hekate by Nikita Gill felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/h... A most excellent read. #bookreview

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Hekate by Nikita Gill

What Da Cover Says: Born into a world on fire, Godling Hekate has never known safety. After her parents are on the losing side of the war between the ruling Titans and new Olympian Gods, Hekate is …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My review of Sorry, I Broke Your Promise by Bardsley Rosenbridge felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books

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Sorry, I Broke Your Promise by Bardsley Rosenbridge

What Da Cover Says: Sorry, I Broke Your Promise is a text-cosmos entwined in its own birth and decay, suffering both obscurities of erasure and, amidst the resulting caverns of darkness, twinkling …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My review of My Body is a Meadow by Bethany Handley felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/m... a very important book that should be read by all. Available from @headlinebooks.bsky.social #BookRecommendation

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My Body is a Meadow: Finding Freedom in the Outdoors By Bethany Handley

What Da Cover Says: Since childhood, Bethany Handley has always felt most at home out in the wilds of the Welsh countryside. This all changed when Bethany became a full-time wheelchair user in her …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My review of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/f... third time reading it and I like it more each time. #books

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

What Da Cover Says: Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched crea…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My review of The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain by Alistair Moffat felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/t... loved this book, easy 5 stars #bookreview @canongate.co.uk

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The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain by Alistair Moffat

What Da Cover Says: In The North Sea, renowned historian Alistair Moffat spends a year travelling its shores to better understand our relationship to the sea. He takes us on an epic, sweeping …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My review of Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/o... Another cracking book by this author. #bookreview

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Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins

What Da Cover Says: Piper “Pip” Screed remembers nothing about her mother’s mysterious death or the strange episode that left her in a deep, unexplained sleep. All she knows is that her father upro…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My Review of While Visiting Babette by Kate Meads felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/w... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #bookreview

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While Visiting Babette by Kate Meads

What Da Cover Says: Ina adores Babette and visits her cousin regularly in whichever facility Babette currently resides. She trusts Babette’s take on all things and has since childhood (“orpha…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My Review of The Waterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea by @steverutt.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/t... @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview

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The Waterlands Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea by Stephen Rutt

What Da Cover Says: The Waterlands is a new story of water, revealing its natural rhythms and miraculous power. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse river sources in the upland moors; salt…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

My review of The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/t... Loved it, proper epic piece of work @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books

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The Coast Of Everything by Guillermo Stitch

What Da Cover Says: “To find the center, begin at the edge . . . A daughter’s devotion parts her from her father. A dutiful soldier sentences his child to a loveless exile and her mother to madnes…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

My Review of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a... nice collection of poems #poetry

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A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What Da Cover Says: The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s “Into the Night Life” and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

my review of Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes by Max Carocci felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s... available from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

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Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes by Max Carocci

What Da Cover Says: Around the world, shamanic traditions dating back thousands of years are being revived, recovered, and reinvented. Many people are increasingly turning to shamanic practices and…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My review of Otherless by Ferris Wheel Fox felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/o... an interesting story that was well written.

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Otherless by Ferris Wheel Fox

What Da Cover Says: Marcia Gordon, a future cult leader, starts an arts and crafts club at her high school. What I Says: I was tidying up at work and found a print out of this book, no idea where I…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My review of Get Sad by @therestlesscoast.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/a... First ever music review on me blog and starting with a fantastic album. #musicreview

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Album review: Get Sad by The Restless Coast

Band: The Restless Coast Album: Get Sad Format: Vinyl No. of Tracks: 11 Track Listing: Everything’s Tragic Carry On Complaining Sigh, Sigh My Darling Just Shoot Me Succeedophobe Sleepless In …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My review of The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine and Rundell illustrated by Tayla Baldwin felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t... Lovely book, get yourself a copy and a second one as a gift. #books

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The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure by Katherine and Rundell illustrated by Tayla Baldwin

What Da Cover Says: A pangolin’s tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get t…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My review of Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t... available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books

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Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder

What Da Cover Says: Three of Europe’s greatest rivers share the same geological one fertile patch of Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. Coursing down through the peaks, …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My review of We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w... #books

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We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe

What Da Cover Says: Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, David Banning embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of harbours and the sea. In a post-…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books

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Wrongful by Lee Upton

What Da Cover Says: When the famous novelist Mira Wallacz goes missing at the festival devoted to celebrating her work, the attendees assume the worst—and some hope for the worst. Ten years after t…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My review of Vanished Wales: Places lost in living memory by Carwyn Jones felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/v... well worth a read. Available from @serenbooks.bsky.social #books

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Vanish Wales: Places Lost In Living Memory by Carwyn Jones

What Da Cover Says: Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory is the book to accompany one of ITV Cymru Wales’ most popular shows. It explores the fascinating stories of lost landmarks: pla…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My review of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m... Very interesting topic. #bookreview available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social

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Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver

What Da Cover Says: Reginald Mitchell is one of the greatest names in aviation history. A visionary engineer with a passion for speed, his legacy is the most iconic fighter aircraft of all the Spit…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My review of Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c... Fantastic exploration of London's dark heart. #bookreview

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Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan

What Da Cover Says: WELCOME TO THE CRIMINAL HEART OF LONDON. Meet the coppers who do things their own way, street gangs on the rampage, traditional villains, sightseeing hitmen, dedicated smash and…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

my review of TIDBITS volume 1 by @jackcjstark.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t... Highly recommend you read this quirky collection of poems #Bookreview

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TIDBITS Volume 1 by CJ Stark

What Da Cover Says: A menace.A tech savvy frog.A demon that cleans.Parks.And a suspicious number of ducks. A collection of humorous and absurd poems (one even rhymes!) from Jack CJ Stark. What I Sa…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books

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Descanso by Jay Spencer Green

What Da Cover Says: Drug-dealer, brothelkeeper, devoted sibling, spy, Manuel Estímulo expected his retirement on a remote desert island in the Atlantic to be one long, well-deserved rest, a descans…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

My review of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t... got my copy from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social #naturewriting

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The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

What Da Cover Says: A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Dai…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My review of The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... this was a fun read. Thanks to @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BookReview

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The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio

What Da Cover Says: Air is a graffiti artist and self-described street hermit who spends his nights in urban encampments and days in public libraries, reading up on physics and ancient philosophy, …

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay, and we're reading @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Wainwright longlisted book, #TheCompanyOfOwls... ‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk #Owls

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My review of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... Fantastic book this un from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview

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Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece By Julian Hoffman

What Da Cover Says: A story of shelter, generosity and welcome. A story of searching for home in the mountains and lakes of northern Greece. In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

My review of the Road by Cormac McCarthy felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t... Not as many laughs as I expected. #books

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

What Da Cover Says: In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscap…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j... Fantastic novel this un. #bookreview

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

What Da Cover Says: Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. …

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

My review of A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a... good book this un. available from @canongate.co.uk

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A Ballet Of Lepers by Leonard Cohen

What Da Cover Says: Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he’d settled on Greece’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection o…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Horror Movie time: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (only 7 more Draculas to complete the challenge) #HorrorMovies

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My review of Bee Quest by @davegoulson.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/b... Got a huge amount from this fascinating book @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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Bee Quest by Dave Goulson

What Da Cover Says: A hunt for the world’s most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Salisbury plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumbleb…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My review of Left on Read by G.C.Mckay felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/l... Highly traumatic reading. fun #books

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Left on Read by g. c. mckay

What Da Cover Says: Love in the age of screenshots, nudes and getting ghosted Whether you’re doomscrolling at midnight, checking out who viewed your story (for 56th time in an hour) or wonder…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

My review of Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/n... Well good this book. available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books

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Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by Hannah Bourne-Taylor

What Da Cover Says: Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is …

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

My review of Spine by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social incredibly funny book

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Spine by John Patrick Higgins

What Da Cover Says: John Patrick Higgins has been told he’s spineless for as long as he can remember. But if that’s true, why is he obliged to leave an armchair with the nervous trepidation of some…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My review of The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/t... Part of the quarterbound editions from @vintagebooks.bsky.social now I need another one please. #books

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

What Da Cover Says: A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter’s feminist retelling of fairy tales – masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends – …

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Currently playing, not watched this in many many years, loved it the first time I saw it. #HorrorMovie

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Now watching this cute little monkey movie. #HorrorMovies

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My review of The Bridge Between Worlds by Gavin Francis felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/t... Thought provoking read. #books available from @canongate.co.uk

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The Bridge Between Worlds by Gavin Francis

What Da Cover Says: In The Bridge Between Worlds, Gavin Francis explores bridges old and new, man-made or natural, musing on the view from the bridge through history, geopolitics, psychology and li…

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My review of 91 Day Sanction by @georgeveckauthor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/9... Tough subject matter, well written. #Books

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91 Day Sanction by George Veck

What Da Cover Says: Gwynedd, 2024. Sadistic work coach James Burgess has finally bagged his dream job after three years of trying, two hundred miles from home in rural North Wales. But with promoti…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Now Playing: 1408, saw this when it first came out and I think I liked it...time to test that memory. #HorrorMovies

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My review of Tabitha, Get up by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/t... A charming, nutty book crammed great characters and a wicked sense of humour available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BooksWorthReading

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Tabitha, Get Up by Lee Upton

What Da Cover Says: Tabitha is a lonely fifty-year-old biographer who, in order to restore her self-respect and pay her rent, attempts to write two biographies one about an actor so famous his face…

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Now Playing: Mom and Dad. One of the many Nicky Cage movies I never got around to watching. #HorrorMovies

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Now playing: Brides of Dracula. Latest in a long line of Dracula movies...how cool is this poster! #HorrorMovies

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Now Playing: Companion looks a tad creepy #horrormovie

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Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Now playing: Winchester, a random find, never heard of this un. #horrormovie

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My review of Raising Hare by @chloedalton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/r... loved every page. Available from Canongate

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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

What Da Cover Says: A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wi…

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