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Usually somewhere else, reading a book.

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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The public safety film about the dangers of messing about on railways. There was a railway just beyond our school playground, so the police regularly visited for a talk. I was 4 when I stood up and screamed in assembly, ‘No Robbie, DON’T!’ as our protagonist started to cross the railway line.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s a very lovely thing that, in my birthday month, there are so many fabulous new books I can justify buying. The TBR pile screams for attention and yet… I need to fortify my supplies for winter. Yep, that’s it.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Did not open Bluesky this morning expecting to see a poster from my teenage bedroom 😊 Would absolutely read the book.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🧵 Seeing posts about the Papal conclave is really tiresome. Yes, we know you watched the movie & that, actually, your knowledge of Roman Catholicism is suspect. Worse are the journos ‘predicting’ the next Pope. The self-described ‘Catholic’ ones are far right fundamentalist [1]
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What with it being Independent Bookshop Day, a big shout out to @portalbookshop.bsky.social in York. Run by lovely people, stocked with excellent books, and there’s a cafe upstairs. What more could you possibly want 😊 (I don’t get home to York as much as I’d like but this is an essential stop off.)
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
An excellent and clear-eyed article from Séamus.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
They're not "protecting women". They're little servants of patriarchy and fascism that think they've a right to harass and attack anyone who doesn't fit their narrow, conservative view of womanhood and are delusional if they think the same gowls they're doing the legwork for won't come for them next
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It’s either the re-kindling of an old hobby or a one-off for another number of years. Fougasse and bread shots from Richard Bertinet’s ‘Dough’. (His YouTube tutorials are excellent.)
Some home-baked bread - fougasse and little ‘bread shots’ containing olives or cheese.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Deleted Instagram last Friday. Missed it for a couple of days but that passed. Off to do other common sense things to help get my brain back, like just put the goddamn phone down and go touch some grass.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Not so much Sunday shuffling as staying hunkered down under blankets and moving as little as possible while the wind and rain returns. A big mug of tea, biscuits that my kids didn’t know about (bwah ha ha) and A Sorcerer Comes To Call by T Kingfisher to read.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The Sunday shuffle has featured reading Three Eight One by Aliya Whitely and walking for my stupid mental health to the audio book of Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. Autocorrect nearly changed ‘River’ to ‘Ricer’ but that would probably be quite a different story.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The Sunday shuffle has featured many cups of tea, reading The Very Best of Caitlin R Kiernan and then, for balance, listening to Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession as I putter around.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 30/11/2024
The Rubery Prize - international book award seeking the best books by indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses. Please share
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The International Rubery Book Award
A prestigious award accepting self-published books and entries from independent presses. We are the independent and self publishers' answer to the Booker and Costa Prize.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hustled into Mullingar to pick up new reading glasses and then fell into Just Books, where I celebrated my sharper sight by buying The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan. Fabulous independent book shop 💫📚💫
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The small, judgemental queen of this abode has joined me. Yes, yes - I’ll put the phone down now…
A cat with bright yellow eyes stares imperiously directly into the camera.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This week’s Sunday Shuffle includes baking oatmeal-raisin cookies, reading Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (new to me) and listening to The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood-Hargrave when out walking later. (The Mercies by KM-H was superb - highly recommend.)
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Sunday shuffle started with a strong cuppa, mushrooms on toast and Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner on audiobook (read by Kushner) is going to be accompanying any puttering around later. Aiming for total distraction from everything.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Shuffling through Sunday, reading A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea by Ursula K Le Guin. If in doubt, read Le Guin.
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Shuffling into Sunday, unable to deal with a 1-hr clock change. FFS. Tea, toast and Claimed! by Gertrude Barrows Bennet to read. Cosmic horror/weird fiction - tis the season etc. There will be a nap later because see first sentence above.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Long piece in Esquire about Absolution and the Forgotten Coast. And don't worry, there are answers in Ab. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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Jeff VanderMeer's Nightmare Fuel
The author took Esquire on a hike through the uncanny landscapes that inspired the surprise fourth installment of his Southern Reach books, from Florida's Forgotten Coast to a room full of "dead thing...
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Sunday shuffling… tea, leftover birthday cake and listening to the wind start to pick up. Tis the season and all that. Reading Habitat by Caitriona Shine and just finished The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson on audiobook.
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