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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

„Reading is about how to be you and how to think about the world […]. Some of these books are not, I think, to make you feel better. They’re going to make you see the world differently.” Amen 🙌🏻 #booksky 💙📚

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Love inspiring advice, especially when it gives me an excuse to buy another book🙏 @sarahlkaufman.bsky.social: ‘Verbs are the engines of meaning (…). Does that woman in sandals float along as though silk runs through her bones? Does the child at her side stumble or trudge?’ #writingcommunity #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Only in the country that gave the world Monty Python 🙌 A Campbell: They're are not going to get better schooling or better healthcare as a result of Wayne Rooney being a summariser on the Eurovision Song Contest. Ct Binface: ɴᴏ, ᴛʜᴇʏ’ʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴏᴜʟꜱ, ᴀʟᴀꜱᴛᴀɪʀ. open.spotify.com/episode/6QT3...

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200. Count Binface: Nigel Farage's Biggest Threat?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Episode

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Chagall wanted to „express his feelings of loss [for his late wife] and nostalgia (…). Bella in bridal dress sweeping into the picture like a comet, Chagall himself turning to embrace her… a crowing cock seems to indicate the passage of time and a recall to reality.” - Bouquet with Flying Lovers 🤍

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

„In here, life is beautiful... the girls are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!” 👯‍♀️♥️ I’ll never tire of Cabaret, partly because of its political timelessness. @thehistoryguy.bsky.social puts it neatly: „In the end it was the economy, stupid […]. Their siren song? Take Back Control.” 📸Brenner

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

G. Saunders on #ThisCulturalLife about being broke and with kids: „So I thought I got to write a book and get us out of this mess. I said to her [my wife]: ‚Don’t worry, we’re sitting on a gold mine.’ She started reading it […], her head in her hands, like, ‚Oh my God, this is so bad.’” #booksky 💙📚

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

From the Ministry of Truth

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Poets see it all: ‘[...] the large leaves and great, welling fruit of a mango tree by moonlight are like gigantic tears’ - ‚Mangoes’ by David Brooks #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #WritingAustralia #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oh no 🖤 I remember watching Persepolis during my first year abroad and falling in love with Satrapi’s family, who kept their heads high during Iran’s Islamic Revolution, no matter the challenges they faced. RIP, Marjane Satrapi. „Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye” 🤍

goodbye.xn--its-so0a

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

After delays and confusing comms, The Marlowe & Christie Novel Prize have just announced their *shortlist* which includes nearly 50% of all the entries (261 out of 533) and they're deleting all negative comments from their forum. Wow #societyofauthors #booksky #writingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Superb talk by @juliahbell.bsky.social: 'AI leaves us with the one thing that was always the point: creativity, which is a self attending to the world, responding to the world from its own territory, from its own space, from its own circumstances, something that cannot be copied by anybody but you.'

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This was in 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐳 - from a boat party ten years ago. We watched dolphins, did deep water soloing, and I dropped tuna steaks into the sand. One of those quietly mind-bending „little did we know” moments

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Found it in a poster shop in Hanoi. Peace for all 🙏

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

‚Let the first lines do the talking’ - my favourite bookstore game 📚💙 #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Brené Brown nails it again: ‚The root of the word courage is cor- the Latin word for heart […]. Courage originally meant „To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.”’ ♥️ #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky 📚

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If you’ve been agonising how to paint your eggs or what should go into your Easter basket, this manual will save you: culture.pl/en/article/p... 🪺🧑‍🎨🐣🇵🇱 Wishing everyone a ‚Joyful Hallelujah’!

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Polish Easter Traditions

Some argue that Easter is more important than Christmas... does the array of Polish Easter traditions and customs support that hypothesis?

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Annie Leibovitz’s teacher said she’d never make it; her mum defended her. My piano tutor insisted I’d be better off laying cobblestones, so I left music school. Later people praised my writing, so here I am: just cut 25k from my Lindisfarne Prize-nominated monster, next one’s at 62k 🫠 #booksky 💙📚

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If you need some beauty in your life right now 🌸

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If I owned a grocer’s called Tuck Shop, I would have not have chosen this font

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The White House & Pentagon updates about the war remind me of the pressers depicted in ‘The Quite American’: ‘The colonel tells you that the enemy has suffered a sharp defeat and severe losses (…). They are shelled all the time by the Air Force.’ #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #booksky 📚🇻🇳

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

After almost a month, my best friends finally made it through customs and arrived in Vietnam! Had to pay over £100 in taxes, but honestly so worth it 🎉 18kg of inspiration, wisdom, and love 💙 #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky 📚

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Wishing you all a smooth ride in the Year of the Horse 🐎 🌼 🐎 🌼 Chúc mừng năm mới!🎇♥️🇻🇳

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It’s Fat Thursday 🥳 Instead of Shrove Tuesday, Poles celebrate #FatThursday by scoffing bucketloads of pączki (donuts, pron. PONCH-kee; singular PONCH-ek). If you don’t have a Polish bakery nearby, you can still honour pączki by replacing one word in a book title with pączek, e.g. War and Pączek

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Moved back to #Vietnam and learnt about the poem “My Dear Poland” (Em ơi… Ba Lan) by revolutionary poet Tố Hữu. Seems solemn: Warsaw, Chopin, Mickiewicz, the Red Army, Auschwitz… Still no decent translation, so leaving you with “Vietnam” by Wisława Szymborska 🇵🇱🇻🇳 #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Harold Pinter said that his stay in #Cornwal during WW2 evacuation turned him into “quite a morose little boy.” I love it here approximately twice a month - when the rain stops 😉 #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Tell me you’re Polish without telling me you’re Polish: two guys in hospital after exploding a WW2 artillery shell in their flat while pissed 😆🇵🇱 What would be an improbable yet entirely plausible twist in the socio-cultural setting of your story? #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

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Two men hospitalised in Poland after drunkenly exploding WWII artillery shell in apartment

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

After two months away, these two marvellous treats greeted me home 🙏 #14magazine #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Sounds like something from Zola’s ‚J’accuse!’ manifesto 😉 #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

‚Come, the sun beckons in exquisite tones.’ - from ‚Midi’ [‚Noon’ - I know! Love the poem though] by Leconte de Lisle #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

‚You can die for it– an idea, or the world. […] But this morning, climbing the familiar hills in the familiar fabric of dawn, I thought of China, and India and Europe, and I thought how the sun blazes for everyone […]’ - from Sunrise by Mary Oliver #booksky #writingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

‚Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here.’ — from ‚Warm Summer Sun’ by Mark Twain #booksky #readingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

„She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.” Nighttime sky from the beach in southern France captured on my phone. I thought it’d just turn out black and yet 🤩✨💫

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

„Till the last ray gleams, I sing.” #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

After nearly eight years at Newcastle Uni, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. I’ve had a terrific time and learned so much, but most importantly, I’ve made friends for life and my heart is full of gratitude. Thank you ♥️♥️♥️ Now taking some time to read & write, write & read 🙏 #writingcommunity

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

After nearly eight years at Newcastle Uni, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. ‘What’s the plan then?’ The plan:

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 05/03/2025

It is indeed happening... Get your calendars out, set your alarms. The #BritishBookAwards Book of the Year shortlists will be revealed on Friday at 9am🤩✒️ #Nibbies

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a man in a suit and tie says oh my god okay it 's happening ..

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says oh my god okay it 's happening ..

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The only movie to watch tonight: A Short Story About Love by Kieslowski 🤍 #valentines #SkyFilm

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🧵1/4 It’s not often that I hoot with laughter while reading!👇🏼 24 December. The plan is to approach a random house and ask if I can come in for dinner. You see, in #Poland there is a tradition of setting an extra place at the table for the Christmas Eve feast in case a stranger [in need] turns up.⤵️

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

First two days of my private writing retreat (aka my ‚annual leave’) not too shabby 🙏📚🩰🌅 Short & extended synopses ✅✅ #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky

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Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oh my lord. RIP David Lynch. You were a master and our teacher of the darker sides of humanity. 🙏🙏🙏

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“Me, begging, tears in my eyes: Please just tell me what the book is about. The plot. Please.” “A book cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep and Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself.” #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #amwriting #booksky

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Ramona @holyramona.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I don’t have a secret hunch about how I’m going to die but I hope my demise is as elegant as Chekhov’s: „He emptied the [champagne] glass slowly and lay down on his left side. A few moments later he stopped breathing.” 🤍 #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amreading #booksky

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