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Richard Castlemaine

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Author, bibliophile and antiquarian of 1st Edition Books. www.bbrarebooks.com

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Rob Gotobed Books @robgotobedbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three books that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99! This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy! IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'll be signing books today from 9:00 am at Macy’s on 151 West 34th Street, New York. I will be there until I'm forcibly removed by their security.
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Aurora Guitar Music @auroraguitarmusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎸🎶One of my slow romantic guitar improvisations..... youtu.be/k0o-s-bHtgo #romanticguitar #guitar #music
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Slow Ambient Electric Guitar for Late Night Romance
YouTube video by Aurora Guitar Music
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/10/2026
‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium. How this happened remains obscure.’ Pablo Scheffer on the Britons. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
Olives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building...
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/10/2026
‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium.’ Pablo Scheffer on Britain after the Romans left. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
Olives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building...
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I said I wanted to read a thick biography of Poe... Now I'll never have time to read anything else ever again.
Giant doorstop: Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Quinn.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Word! Hell yes I support this💙💛
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026
‘In New York, no one cares that you’re an Ivy League professor; you’re just another resident of a crumbling and glorious city. This is a great check on self-regard, and I found it unimaginably freeing.’ Susan Pedersen on the culture of elite universities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Susan Pedersen · Keep off the grass: Oxbridge Attitudes
Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today’s book post: finished copies of SLEEPERS in hardback, airport paperback and US editions!!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files.
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Todd Blanche Fights Judge’s Order for Unredacted FBI Notes as Deadline Looms
Attorney General Todd Blanche is appealing a federal judge’s latest order in journalist and attorney Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Justice Department’s
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Rob Gotobed Books @robgotobedbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎃 Rob Gotobed's first comedy book, The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed's Overactive Mind, contains the funniest Halloween story you'll ever read! 👻☠️🧛‍♂️🎃 IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think I may have found Harry Potter’s lost umbrella! If it’s yours, Harry, please get in touch and I’ll happily pop it in the post and send it back to you—no magic required!
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026
‘(I never saw a hoopoe – Unless I was alone – Except some interloper Took out their telephone.)’ From ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’ by @aestallings.bsky.social. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026
‘Literary criticism, above all, is about particularities. It's about looking at a poem and saying something about this poem and not another poem. And that means it should be defended as a particularity.’ Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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What’s the point of literary criticism?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 18 September · 37min
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Idea for a double tribute band: the Peep Show Boys.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026
‘The last half-century has seen an unprecedented flurry of legislation to control immigration, until the grand culmination of Brexit and the fresh unfurling of St George flags completed a millennium of pogroms and riots.’ Ferdinand Mount on England and immigration: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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SaturnStarr💫 @saturnstarr68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On fire 🔥
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Virtually everyone in the United States is affected by taxes in some way, so we are all taxpayers. And John Fugelsang is absolutely on the money here. Trump’s lack of constitutional knowledge is alwayson full display.
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I'd settle for every president being a taxpayer who can pass an 8th grade civics exam.
Matt Walsh • @MattWalshBlog • 1h
Every voter should be a taxpayer who can pass an 8th grade civics exam.
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"under the influence of the Elizabethans, particularly Shakespeare, Pavese began to embrace the expressive power of imagery as a narrative nucleus." Max Norman on Cesare Pavese's Hard Labour, translated into English by William Arrowsmith and reissued by us last year. @harpers.bsky.social
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Missing in Action, by Max Norman
The myth of Cesare Pavese
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dash Shaw & Jesse Moynihan continue the Like Swimmers & Forming tour tonight at @atomicbooks.bsky.social in Baltimore. (photo from last night at Desert Island) atomicbooks.com/pages/upcomi...
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Garthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I still haven’t gotten my other checks. Follow for more cartoons!
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night." -Haruki Murakami
Sunset over trees and roof.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/09/2026
‘The US has been running military operations in Somalia since 2003 and launching drone strikes there since 2011. But the current air campaign is larger than at any time during the war on terror.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on why Trump is bombing Somalia, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Tom Stevenson | Why is Trump bombing Somalia?
Over the past twenty months, the US has launched airstrikes in Somalia using MQ-9 Reaper drones and sometimes manned...
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Keep singing.
Even in 3 the dark.
Especially in the dark.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Philip Evergood, American (1901-1973), Classroom History, 1938, oil on canvas, 181.3 x 121.3 cm, private collection
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Author Stephenson & Kitbrick Stop-mo. @authorstephenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Dolphin Inn, 22 Silver Street, Ilminster, Somerset TA19 0DR England. Photo taken some time prior to October 1973. For this photo and all other sales see stephensonholt.com/alamy-sales To view all my photos on alamy.com go to bit.ly/4bHCWRW
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gosh I hate iTunes. Redownloading an album and of course there's one track that won't download. Go to Purchased Albums and the album I PURCHASED isn't there.
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Paul David Gould @pauldavidgould.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Inspiring words about autumn from @katemossewriter.bsky.social on #BBCradio4today. I’ll try to heed Kate’s words — but sorry, spring will always be my most looked-forward-to season.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/09/2026
‘Donald Trump may have described it as “not even a country” but objectively Somalia has been one of the US military’s higher priorities since his return to the White House.’ Why is Trump bombing Somalia? New on the blog from @tomstevenson.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Tom Stevenson | Why is Trump bombing Somalia?
Over the past twenty months, the US has launched airstrikes in Somalia using MQ-9 Reaper drones and sometimes manned...
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🍁 Left Coast Tree Frog 🕊️ @leftcoasttreefrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters. The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice. #cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters
The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/09/2026
‘Many of the passengers aboard the 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 were war veterans, returning to Britain to rebuild what they had fought to defend a few years earlier.’ Colin Douglas on the role of the Caribbean in building Britain’s Blitz spirit, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Colin Douglas | Beyond the Blitz
The story of the Blitz cannot be fully understood as a national story. It was part of a global war. While the Luftwaffe...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/09/2026
‘The distinction between modernity and indigeneity is upended again and again throughout the exhibition.’ Kevin Okoth visits 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵, the Barbican’s exhibition of the art and culture of Pan-Africa. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Kevin Okoth · At the Barbican: Pan-African Art
Project a Black Planet, the Barbican’s exhibition of the art and culture of Pan-Africa, is neither a comprehensive...
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Girls toys were certainly a lot different when I was a kid!
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Big day in NYRB HQ, Diane Williams's new collection, I Liked Rex, is out. If you haven't read her work: it is made up of tiny, coruscating tales which are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature.
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Steve Shilstone @steveshilstone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
💙📚 #booksky Roman woman dreams and schemes among the togas.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026
On our Close Readings subscription podcast, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford read read Browning’s mysterious poem ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ as a rejection of the resources and consolations established by the Romantics. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Narrative Poems: ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ by Robert Browning
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 31 August · 1hr 2min
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you've followed us for a while you'll know we usually have a crazy publishing schedule. Well, we've scaled back this year and kept it to 3 incredible books so far. Exciting news re: the rest of the year coming soon but for now we're gazing lovingly at these incredible reads 😍
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026
‘This biography sets the reading in geology and biology that upended Tennyson’s picture of the world within the homelessness of his own situation. He had been uprooted, emotionally and physically, and felt helpless.’ Peter Howarth on Tennyson’s scientific imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Howarth · Types and Typology: Tennyson’s Scientific Imagination
In February​ 1840, Alfred Tennyson was in a bad way, argumentative and restless. Thomas Carlyle, whose own public...
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Went to the launch of Jake Arnott's brilliant Hastings folk horror novel NETHERWOOD and saw many friends, plus the author performing the Monster Mash.
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Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Bee Gees statue in the Isle of Man appears twice in my novel No Way To Live. I enjoyed seeing the other day that to celebrate Barry Gibbs's 80 birthday, someone bought him a balloon and a sash! #BeeGees #IOM #IsleofMan #books
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Lance Smith 🎨🪶 @lancesmithart.com · 02/09/2026
Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼 #art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #native #nativepride #indigenous #native #nativeamerican #painting #acrylic
16-in elk hide drum hand-painted 775 Plus shipping
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026
‘A thread of light travelled through the bead With the map of the world on it. No one’s keeping the plot I said. The marriage plot, man versus Wilderness plot – there are more, But I forget.’ From ‘The World’, a new poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sex always reminds me of Christmas Day morning because it happens once a year; I usually end up disappointed, and my parents videoed my first time.
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MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🦣 Younger Dryas A spooky town in upstate NY, a missing persons case, a subterranean city. #Detective #Mystery #HollowEarth #Prehistory #Mesolithic #KindleUnlimited #Suspense #Adventure #Utopia 📚💙 www.amazon.com/dp/B0DB2P815W
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M.Y. Hauger @myhauger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... books2read.com/u/baGxxL #books #readers #booklovers #books2read #smashwords
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The Abode Of Affliction
A man gets caught up in a lifestyle that leaves his son unhappy after his family had suffered a tragedy. The boy lives the life of a prisoner while in his room, except for whenever he is visited by so...
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