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Caroline Hooton

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · Mar 3

This is a thread of the books I've read and enjoyed in 2025. Reviews of every book I've reviewed in 2025 can be found on my blog, I Read, Therefore I Blog here: ireadthereforeiblog.com

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 5h

Capaldi Villain: “If you even think about mutineering against me, son, I will grease the yard arm with your gonads and shove the mainsail up your arse.”

Statham Hero: “Challenge accepted.”

: round house kicks Capaldi is the stomach and the game is fucking on :

Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 7h

It’s a sign that I spend far too much time on social media that I desperately want Peter Capaldi to be the villain in this.

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like there is no drag panto scheduled for this year (oh yes there is! Oh no there bloody isn’t) but Charing Cross Theatre is doing an 18+ panto that I am reliably informed is a hoot (and if there is anything a Hooton likes, it’s a good hoot) so have booked a ticket.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 1d

LISTEN 🎧: Michael Séance receives a call from a vampire upset at his treatment at the Blood Bank

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 8h

Should have buried it at sea. Could have weighed it down with some Anchor.

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 8h

The promoters are cowards if they fail to use The Hues Corporation on the trailer soundtrack.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 19h

Hope you have a great trip, rocogirl! Osaka’s pancakes are amazing.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2d

New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...

Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams - Writer Beware

I’ve published a couple of posts now about the tidal wave of AI-driven marketing scams from Nigeria that has swept over the writing world in the past year or so. A hallmark of these scams has been how...

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Paula Harrison @paulabooks.bsky.social · 2d

Signed Kitty books, Fairytale Ninjas and Rescue Princesses at Waterstones Gower Street

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 2d

Back home from a few days away with my parents. Much as it is great to go away, it is always better to come home.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2d

Braquage! #Louvre

Feathers McGraw wanted poster - ‘have you seen this chicken?’ Translated into school French “recherché - avez vous vu ce poulet?” [spoiler- we know the ‘chicken’ is really a penguin with a rubber glove on its head in disguise]

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 21d

★★★★ A fun and fact-filled trip through Eighties pop: Justin Lewis: Into the Groove is a welcome follow up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/justin...

Justin Lewis: Into the Groove review - fun and fact-filled trip through Eighties pop

Into the Groove is Justin Lewis’s follow-up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music, in which he traced 40 years of pop history by offering bite-sized facts for every day from January 1st to December 31st, jum...

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 2d

NUCLEAR FOLLY: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS by Serhii Plokhy is a gripping account of the Cuban Missile Crisis that draws on book draws on KGB files to add insight to the Russian position and response - bit.ly/3KSIcqV #bookreview #serhiiplokhy #cubanmissilecrisis #historybooks

The book cover for Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy is an Advance Readers Copy and is a plain cover, orange on the bottom and white on the top with the title in black font cantered in the white section together with the author’s name in an orange font underneath it.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d

I think there are still tickets available for this: I will be talking to the great @quantick.bsky.social about my #IntoTheGroove book and 80s pop history at Waterstones Hastings, this Wednesday at 5pm. www.waterstones.com/events/justi...

Pics of me, David Quantick and the cover of my book
Into The Groove: The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History.

Waterstones Hastings
Wed 22 Oct 2025 at 5pm
Tickets £3 in advance

Ticket redeemable against cost of the book. Purchase in store or email hastings@waterstones.com to reserve your spot.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman

Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 4d

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.

news.sky.com

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 4d

Has True by Spandau Ballet made an appearance yet?

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 5d

great joke from @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on the news quiz this week: “statistics are like comedians at the riyadh comedy festival: treat them right and they can be made to say whatever you want them to say”

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5d

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect - thank you.

Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 6d

I did the M&S “which Christmas sandwich is your perfect match?” quiz and it is the laziest piece of shit survey I have ever wasted my time on. Also I got pigs in blankets because I said I liked pigs in blankets. x.wayin.com/display/cont...

Product Match Quiz

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yeah you are! That woman was a badass.

Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 6d

Question: I caught a guy on my dashcam who swerved across 3 lanes of traffic on the M25 to take the exit. He narrowly missed another car by a few centimetres and honestly I thought I was going to witness a nasty accident. Is it worth reporting to BTP or a local service and if so where and how?

Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 6d

I keep thinking about the elderly couple who got on my Tube this morning. They sat together and the woman took a book out and started reading. After a few minutes the man started to speak to her and she said “No. I have heard all your thoughts and want a story I have never heard before”.