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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ah, Universe, you do come through occasionally.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 03/03/2025

I know it sounds like the ultimate editor-nerd-Stephi thing to have a favorite typo, but...

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Chapter 8: Beethoven's
Later Years
In the years after Napoleon's rise and fall as Emperor of France, Beethoven was in a flurry of musical writing. Being dead did not stop him in the slightest from recovering quickly and going on with his music. Sure, it was much harder. But he got through it.
He even fell in love many times. Some people

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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"Have you said thank you even once?"

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I read this column every week, hoping for two people to find joy in each other and this one doesn’t disappoint. Swoons ☺️

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

An evergreen Black Friday/Holiday shopping tip 😉

From Clay Sanger

Reverse #Black Friday idea go pick an author you know or follow someone who isn't a chart topper on every bestsellers list — and snag one of their books today. Toss a coin to your Witcher and whatnot. Make their day. Put some feathered dinosaur on their table.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Inching towards the end of my work week with expert help

A black and white cat curled up on a desk, Obscuring a laptop keyboard

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Victoria - ByYourBedside @byyourbedside.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is an absolutely thrilling read. @annamazz.bsky.social has really embraced the thriller genre and it stands up to all I've read before. You all really need to get this on your 2025 reading list. Notes on a Drowning, out in January @orionbooks.bsky.social

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I met a woman on the bus tonight who lives round the corner. She asked how long I’d lived in my street and I was a bit surprised to answer 20 years. She’s lived in her house all her life - her parents bought it four years before she was born, and she’s 72. But then she mentioned her neighbour …

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 18/11/2024

Starter Pack here for Writers Who Love Make-Up. Yes, it’s niche and yes, we love both. Welcome all.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now 1. Rare books seller 2. Catering wench on national express coaches 3. Web developer 4. Jumper hawker in the Burtons concession of a Debenhams 5. Waitress

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Amazingly, Jane Austen lived at a Pizza Express for four months.

A Pizza Express with a blue plaque saying Jane Austen lived there for four months.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Would now like this for all the words, thank you.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I downloaded my archive from Twitter yesterday and deactivated my account, finally. The stream on here has become a river… The feed I shared below is lovely, and I realise I like the whole concept of feeds.

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Johann Huntera @chattwjonathan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky has gotten LOUD! That's not a bad thing, but I've been here a year and a half and I'm getting used to the changes. Here's a feed I love. It finds the quieter posters from your follows to display only. These are often your friends or deliberate follows. Give it a try!

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Cats just be eating bubblewrap like I don't spend a hundred quid a month on their fancy no added carbs diet.

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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

And! Elly has started a cultural highlights Advent Calendar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/advent-calen... First up, the brilliant Clare Pollard on 90s nostalgia, novels and the big, big cultural event of the year...

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ADVENT CALENDAR (December 1): Clare Pollard — Galley Beggar Press

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

This is very good: 'he's ill-suited for any role above that of a regional manager for a third-tier domestic company' is exactly how many of us felt.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

An exchange in the life of interlibrary loans in 2023: -please find this article for me. -We can’t find it, please provide more information. -I’ve given you everything. What more can I tell you? Oh maybe that you asked an AI for a list of articles without knowing it just makes shit up.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Spent some time writing the bit with the pig this morning, and heard from my husband that the pig they had as a child would undo the latch on the gate to get out. Or you know, just leap the fence. I dunno - they just don’t look like a leaping kind of animal, but apparently I’m wrong.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The other thing about the scene was the necessary presence of thousands of pigeons, which is not the case today, because the square is patrolled by Harris hawks. This deters the pigeons because they think there's a predator. (picture from effectivebirdcontrol.co.uk/projects/tra... )

A picture of a Harris hawk in Trafalgar Square

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

When I moved to London in the late 90s I crossed that road to get to work every day, exiting from the Bakerloo line on the corner of Trafalgar Square. I was so excited to be in *London*, working in a *bookshop*. So now that little flood of nostalgia is just one more reason to love The Core.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Eager to share this joy with my teenager, I pressed him to marvel at the special science font they use for locations, the computers with many randomly opening windows, the dead clown (blink and you miss it) - but then I got transfixed by the view of the National Gallery with traffic in front of it.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The reason you marry someone can sometimes only become obvious quarter of a century down the line: "Jo, guess which film is on Netflix now - it's got Aaron Eckhart in it-" "The Core!" <grabs remote, stabs at buttons> "What? I deliberately didn't mention Stanley Tucci..."

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Went to Crete. Love Crete. Also love ancient pottery figurines that prove not everyone who made things out of clay was a brilliant artist. Angry owl? Fine. Wonky eyes? No problem. What is this thing? Who cares, it’s fantastic.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Just remembering how in the beginning of the internet people had blogs and just wrote about their lives and stuff they were interested in and they were these great rangy get to know other minds affairs, and you’d comment and get into a conversation and the whole feeling was one of connection.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Took a walk through a cemetery. Need Buffy.

A picture of a stone sepulchre with the lid pushed open

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I am achieving fuck all today.

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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I thought this woman was f*cking staring at me for 5 minutes until I realised it was the magazine she was reading 😂😂

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

The internet is for cats in jackets, obviously. I’m finding the camo suit much cuter than the lampshade, and he doesn’t look so much like a weird predator to his brother which is nice. It also looks like he’ll live, which is tremendous news.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/07/2023

Every day I try to be a real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Since I’m sitting on the sofa with one arm claimed by the recuperating cat I can’t play Starfield. This is a shame because I’ve come to love my character, a middle aged, grey haired woman, who drinks wine in order to persuade people to do things they don’t want to.

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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

This was supposed to go out on the front porch but she’s decided it’s her new best friend and won’t let it out of her sight. Fuck.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Our co-director Sam Jordison in the Guardian today, with this wonderful appreciation of Terry Pratchett: '[Pratchett] was never a critical darling. “He’s a complete amateur,” the poet Tom Paulin famously declared. “He doesn’t even write in chapters.”' www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

The kitten is home and doing really well, after major surgery on Thursday. We still have to wait a few days before he’s out of the woods but the signs are good so far.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Unperturbed by the sudden disappearance of his brother, Lyric has simply claimed the top spot for himself. Given they used to sleep curled up together this is ruthless behaviour.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This cat is at the vet for the second day in a row. Easier to work, harder to concentrate.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

One of the tbr piles around the house. And I’m reading a lot on kindle when I commute because that’s easier when you’re hanging on to a train trying not to fall in people’s laps, so I have no business buying actual books anyway. What tf is wrong with me?

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I squeezed in 200 words before the day job this morning. I haven't been this happy writing for a long time. And I mean looong. Maybe I even mean loooooong. I think I've finally absorbed Nicola Barker's writing advice: 'have some fucking fun'.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

We all have a slightly shit film that somehow you’ve watched more times than is reasonable or sane, for whatever reason. There’s a tipping point where they become more comfort blanket than torture. My personal favourite is The Core. It’s terrible and I love it.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I listened to the @ukpageone.bsky.social podcast with @rjbarker.bsky.social today. Aside from feeling better about how many copies of Skyrim we have (a mere 4), I found out I *do* know what the best dinosaur is. It’s a lovely episode, & RJ is generous and funny.

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Joanne Leonard @joleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

When I decided to abandon the historical novel I thought I’d be leaving research behind. But no. There’s the afternoon lost to Victorian cycling bloomers.

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