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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And if you're not anywhere near Glasgow, the Kindle edition is only £1.77 at present! #booksky #bskybookclub #fiction #music #girlbands #books

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.' Joseph Conrad, predicting 21st century discourse - from 'A Personal Record' #bksybookclub #bskybooks #booksky

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I consider ‘Days and Nights in the Forest’ not only Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece, but one of the greatest films ever made. I’ve been waiting decades for a restoration – and if you don’t know the film, or have only seen it in one of those ghastly YouTube transfers, I urge you to seek it out. ⬇️

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Still on price promotion (only £1.77) and riding high in the UK Amazon Music chart! #booksky #bskybookclub #bestseller #music #1960s #fiction #biography

Image of the top six books in the UK Amazon Music Chart - the Sweet Pills biography, No Way To Beehive, is at number four.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'Life cannot be forced into a system. Nor can people. Or literature. And it is to systems that men sacrifice reality and truth.' Etty Hillesum, December 1941 #bkybookclub #books #booksky

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'Reading is an experience by which we connect ourselves to what we are, to this magnificent, awful life, in which the same grooves are being scored over and over again in different times and tongues. It is about how you experience community.' Kate Gross, Late Fragments #bskybookclub #books #booksky

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Spacemen Pod @spacemenp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My clever friend @timpieraccini.bsky.social has written a superb book about fictional sixties band The Sweet Pills, which I will probably bang on about some more soon, but I mention it now because the Kindle edition is currently £1.77. Very highly recommended! www.amazon.co.uk/No-Way-Beehi...

Five young women in a band, colourfully dressed in a late 1960s style. They are The Sweet Pills, l-r: Penny, Audrey, Yeşim, Zee, Catherine
[Models: Jessie Bhattacharya, Lizzie Bates, Millie-Lu Lane, Abby Elizabeth, Solomia Tkachivska]

The front cover of No Way To Beehive: The Story of The Sweet Pills by Tim Pieraccini.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"...the language of literature is not an approximate language. it is the most precise language that human beings have yet developed. The spaces it allows are not formless vistas of subjectivity, they are new territories of imagination." Jeanette Winterson #bskbookclub #booksky #literature #books

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Art is not documentary...its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit and of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living." Jeanette Winterson, 'Imagination and Reality', from Art Objects (1995) #booksky #books #art #bookclub #bskybookclub #bskybooks

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

'Fathoming Joyce is fun, if you have that kind of mind, but if you do not have that kind of mind, what is fathoming Joyce for?' Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects #booksky #bksybookclub #jamesjoyce #books #literature #jeanettewinterson #criticism

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Yeşim: [Catherine] said—and I think I remember correctly: “We are going to show these Beatles what they should be doing.” l-r: Penny, Audrey, Yeşim, Zee, Catherine [Models: Jessie Bhattacharya, Lizzie Bates, Millie-Lu Lane, Abby Elizabeth, Solomia Tkachivska] #music #fiction #1960s #girlbands

Five young women in a band, colourfully dressed in a late 1960s style.

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#FilmNoirClub returns next Wed. I’m hosting A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE (1948), in which screenwriter Aldous Huxley wonders: what if the treatment of women in the ‘40s didn’t make them more reserved, or isolated, or even self-reliant? What if it made them – fit to kill? Link: archive.org/details/a-wo...

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Episodes 1 & 3 of “The Daleks’ Master Plan.” Like, holy cow!! 🎉

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The book is out now! For fans of the 60s, fans of rock music, fans of women, fans of character-driven stories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FMX... #bskybookclub #booksky #thesweetpills #outnow #rockmusic #pop #1960s #girlbands #feminism

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No Way To Beehive - Out Now!

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@unamccormack.bsky.social I've stayed away from Backlisted because I really don't need any more book recs right now, so I completely missed the fact you were co-hosting! I was amazed to discover you were a Jake Thackray fan - and then found you weren't, until quite recently!

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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No Way To Beehive - Out Now!

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I left 5 copies of Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark in a little free library yesterday and 3 are already gone. Passing the idea along for anyone else who wants to inspire or support anti-fascist workers but isn’t particularly mobile.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“The first duty of a film critic—the sole qualification, to be honest—is to fall regularly, and pointlessly, in love with the people onscreen. Once this stops happening you might as well give up and get a proper job.” Anthony Lane #films #cinema @letterboxd.social #LetterboxedFriday

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Seems to be a theme today: "School to us meant compulsion, dreary boredom, a place where you had to absorb knowledge of subjects that did not seem worth knowing, sliced into neat portions..." Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday #booksky #books #quotes #bksybookclub

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I remember this feeling: "I was gripped by what I was discovering and resistant to what I was taught and could not connect my intense interest in the world with what was left of my education." Lavinia Greenlaw, The Importance of Music To Girls #booksky #quotes #books #bksybookclub

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you’re in need of a little uplift, or a reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit, read this thread. As the author writes, “What people are doing here [to combat ICE] is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one.”

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Coming in February; the best 60s band you've never heard of. #music #1960s #booksky #books

Five young women, closely grouped, performing as a band; the singer stands in the centre, holding a mic ith her left hand and with her right arm raised, with two guitarists either side and a bassist and drummer half-hidden behind. The background is a pink and purple swirl, giving a 1960s vibe.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Every time I am in a book store, I marvel at the depth and breadth of imagination, intelligence, and creativity on offer. We forget sometimes, that people, in all circumstances, have always been and will always be creative." Roxane Gay substack.com/@roxanegay #booksky #books #bskybookclub

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Roxane Gay | Substack

Writer, editor, cultural critic. I'm a fan of baby elephants, but really, who isn't?

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

We can all use a good laugh these days. So I expanded my essay “THE 10 BEST SCREWBALL COMEDIES“ to 25 entries, with a whole lot of #screwballs that might be new to you. If you love #ClassicFilm, or laughter, I hope you’ll take a look: thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-... #FilmSky #TCMParty 🎥

Ronald Colman & Ginger Rogers in Lucky Partners; Fred MacMurray & Carole Lombard in True Confession; Claudette Colbert & Ray Milland in Arise My Love; Robert Montgomery & Myrna Loy in Petticoat Fever; Laura La Plante & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Man of the Moment; Nancy Kelly & Joel McCrea in He Married His Wife; Ginger Rogers & David Nivens in Bachelor Mother; Maureen O’Sullivan & Lou Ayres in Spring Madness; Herbert Marshall & Margaret Sullavan in The Good Fairy.

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

New #ClassicFilm essay today devoted to BRIAN AHERNE, whose good looks and formidable talent should have assured him of celebrity – had he not fallen prey to self-sabotage and indecision. It’s a great cautionary tale; I hope you’ll take a look. thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com/2025/11/bria... #FilmSky 🎥

Brian Aherne in Beloved Enemy, The Fountain, Sylvia Scarlett, The Great Garrick

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Virginia Mayo #BOTD, 105 years ago. Here's an old collection of clips: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4L...

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VIRGINIA MAYO - a Centenary Celebration

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Day 16 #NoirvemberChallenge Lesser-Known #FilmNoir Everyone Should See THE ACCUSED (1949), a feminist response to the misogyny that overran the film industry in the 1940s. Dazzling performance by Loretta Young as a psychology professor who kills the student who rapes her, then covers up her crime.

Douglas Dick and Loretta Young in The Accused.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

@unamccormack.bsky.social Just back from Felixstowe, visiting family. Went into the bookshop, The Treasure Chest, wondering without much hope if they had any Bujold. They had some Bujold (these, plus three I already had, £2-£2.50 each). I think that's the most I've ever seen in one place!

Six Lois McMaster Bujold novels, garish painted Science Fiction covers from 1990s.

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

@unamccormack.bsky.social I don't know if someone's already pointed you towards this, but in case they haven't - talking about Star Trek United (should start in the right place): youtu.be/Nf-d6YGRmtM?...

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Is Star Trek's Future Under Skydance Still Optimistic?

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"It is difficult to be on equally good terms with God and your body." Etty Hillesum, August 1941 #booksky #quotes

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"And now I am about to take a[n] enormously long nap, which is the beginning of all wisdom." Etty Hillesum, 1941 #booksky #quotes

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"N*zi barbarism evokes the same kind of barbarism in ourselves...We have to reject that barbarism...we must not fan the hatred within us, because if we do, the world will not be able to pull itself one inch further out of the mire." Etty Hillesum, writing in 1941. #booksky #quotes

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Reality does not chime with my imagination, because my imagination tends to run riot." Etty Hillesum #booksky #quotes

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Tim Pieraccini @timpieraccini.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@unamccormack.bsky.social I'm sure you've come across this channel before,but in case you missed it, I thought you might enjoy this discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdJ...

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The Left Hand of Darkness is still a masterpiece

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"I had never been to Bree."

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