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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Doctor Who Bookathon - The Algebra of Ice by Lloyd Rose a.k.a. How I don’t cope very well when there’s not new Doctor Who on the telly (even if I’m not enjoying it all that much). youtu.be/s5IZWoO5zP8

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Bookathon - The Algebra of Ice by Lloyd Rose

YouTube video by Peter Collins

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Due to @andrewhickey.500songs.com I am now entering my Bee Gees period, after 40ish years of stubbornly resisting…

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THE 2026 @thebookerprizes.com PRIZE SHORTLIST! Fancy dipping your toes in the edifying waters of the six best books of the year but not sure where to start? Welcome to my helpful and heartfelt guide...

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is one of the oddest impulses that men have. I’m obviously not saying I’ve never done it, but as I’ve got older I’m increasingly flabbergasted at how many blokes treat partners/friends/family members this way, and how weird and unpleasant it is. Where does this urge come from?

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There were some lovely moments in The Shadow of the Object, but for the most part I just found it pretty average. A shame, as the good bits were evocative and magical. Oh well… @thebookerprizes.com

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve really enjoyed this - the sentences sparkle, it’s seamless and engaging and the characters sing from the page. I just don’t quite know what it’s for, and I feel a bit dim for saying so… @thebookerprizes.com

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Took ages for this to win me over, but by the end I had found it a very satisfying coherent work. Surprised myself with how much I’ve enjoyed it really. @thebookerprizes.com

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I feel this book is going to continue to grow within me even after finishing it. Gorgeously constructed, so finely balanced, a quiet yet fizzing ball of emotion. Quite something. Kenan Orhan is a real talent, and The Renovation is very deserved of shortlisting, you hear me @thebookerprizes.com?!

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Oh @thebookerprizes.com, this one just didn’t hit for me. Delighted that something sci-fi-ish made the list, but didn’t care enough about the characters, and felt the threat was too vague. Have I missed a metaphor here? My bad maybe, oh well…

My dog and the book The End of Everything by M. John Harrison

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Right just finished Black Bag by @lukekennard.bsky.social and I’m overwhelmed with how insightful and smart and kind and genuinely funny it is. Everytime I thought I’d sussed it out it’d shift and move upwards. Utterly joyous. @thebookerprizes.com, I think it needs shortlisting. Wonderful.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh Elizabeth Strout, what have you just done to me. Quietly devastating. So insightful, to an almost painful extent. Completely snuck up on me toward the end. A wonderful novel. Artie Dam will live long within me. A fabulous @thebookerprizes.com inclusion.

My dog with a copy of Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Said

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank goodness @thebookerprizes.com, back on track. What an intriguing, enigmatic book. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social just keep churning out bangers. I’m delightfully bamboozled, and will be pondering it for weeks to come. Makenna Goodman clearly has the literary chops. Shortlister…?

Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, and my lazy dog in the background.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So I try to be positive in all things, but this has just left me furious. Maybe that’s the point, but All Them Dogs makes no sense as a Booker pick. It’s a good thriller, has some smart turns of phrase, but isn’t literary enough, and is bleak for the sake of it. Very frustrating.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Right, so it’s @thebookerprizes.com season again, let’s do this. John of John I’ve already read and it’s utter class. A proper, proper novel. Would be an absolutely worthy winner.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Oh no! Genuinely gutted. Most important punch in history. X

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I made the time to listen to this today, and it dawned on me quite why 500 Songs is my favourite podcast. I’ve read so much about music history that I broadly know many of the stories, but Andrew makes me see them and feel them differently. I enjoy being challenged - magnificent stuff.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Why Geopolitics is so Exhausting - a tale of two podcasts

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Part of my Y7 lesson intro this week involved talking about a poster that was at Tamworth children’s library when I had a Saturday job. I hated that poster. Couldn’t find it online so had to mock it up. Think I nailed it. Feel free to share obvs.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Greatest World Snooker Championship ever. Utterly wonderful. Wuuuuuuuuu!!!

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Finished Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufia Ahmed… blimey. Intense and moving, fabulously well plotted and thought provoking, superb YA fiction that’s actually for everybody. I have met the author a couple of times - hope I do so again so I can thank her for this book!

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro today. What a novel. Suspected it’d be great, but it utterly blindsided me, and I ended up broken, then had to take a Y7 lesson and pretend I was anything other than a soggy mess! A simply sublime book. So highly recommended.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just finished listening to this via Spotify and immediately bought a copy for my son (will also get a copy for my school library I reckon). Utterly charming, very insightful, highly recommended. Beautifully read too!

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I work in a superb, diverse, inclusive school with supportive management and exemplary staff. As the sole librarian I feel respected and appreciated and valued everyday. This Trumpification of stock selection (and thereby representation) is horrifying. Poor Emily. Poor kids.

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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So in my ongoing quest to inspire/cajole/drag YA to get their Accelerated Reader reading targets I’ve just finished the first Loki book by Louie Stowell, which I’ve recommended to loads of kids based on my son loving them. Yet again I’m utterly delighted.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Am currently reading books from my school library for my biannual “Get 50 Accelerated Reader Points To Cajole/Inspire The Kids To Read”, and I’m utterly stunned by the two ostensibly YA/children’s books I’ve just read.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This has just made me laugh so hard and so long. My goodness.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Finally got around to putting all my Doctor Who book reviews in a playlist. Not even managed to finish putting the Hartnell televised stories in one yet… youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Book Reviews - YouTube

All the books that I've talked about on the channel.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bookathon - Doctor Who: City of Death by Douglas Adams and James Goss and sort of David Fisher a bit probably youtu.be/JMPPBFgGt1E

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Bookathon - City of Death by Douglas Adams and James Goss and sort of David Fisher a bit probably

YouTube video by Peter Collins

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Just finished We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown. I mean, you can’t write something that good and then not have it change the world, if only a bit. Deserves to be massive, ought to be read by anyone who has lead a desperate life, and should be required reading for those that haven’t.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My goodness this has killed me.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

ARTISTFORMALLYKNOWNASPRINCE! Phew - nailed it.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

@fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social guys - what’s the skinny with “the maroon hope” Ep?

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just finished It Comes From The River by Rachel Bower (which I was gifted a signed copy off). Utterly brilliant. Compelling, beautifully written, sharp and sad and hopeful, and so very very human. Very Sheffieldy too which I approve of. Highly recommended, I sincerely hope it finds its audience.

A picture of the book cover for It Comes From The River by Rachel Bower, and a beautiful dog called Dusty

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Watched Saturday’s Doctor Who twice now. Enjoyed it twice. Belinda is going to be brilliant for Ncuti. Thought the pacing way better than last season (still suspect a couple of awkward cuts though). I bloody love Doctor Who.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Mr. Tickle has lied to me. Childhood ruined.

A Mr. Men book box set with a sticker of Mr. Tickle saying “no plastic shrink-wrap”. The sticker is obscured by plastic shrink-wrap.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I find it very amusing that on my silly YouTube channel this video has got 10x the amount of views I usually do, probably because random people feel I have some sort of insider knowledge of will come after Nchuti… Whoathon - The Next Doctor 👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻 🎩 🤖 💃 👑 🎈 youtu.be/IpYMaaCT1hg

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Whoathon - The Next Doctor 👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻 🎩 🤖 💃 👑 🎈

YouTube video by Peter Collins

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just going to come out and say it - American editions of books just feel wrong. Intrinsically wrong. Can’t express this any better. Don’t @ me.

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Petros Pisco @petrospisco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Told a long and rambling story to all my classes today in the library that finished with the punchline “dude, you can’t even spell GTA”… #thisiswhatyourtaxespayfor

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