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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 1d

Last time I posted a Penelope Fitzgerald book, people on here pretty much recommended them all, so now I just buy them when I see them. As for the Spark, it was a bit of an arbitrary decision, but I’m glad I chose well!

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 1d

Just some Canadian novel I’ve heard good things about (can’t remember exactly where…)

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 1d

New arrivals

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 18d

“You got Rush Limbaugh on your side, but I got Ricky Tomlinson on mine”- Chumbawamba, “I’m Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun”

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 25d

Yes, it got me a few times too, shamefully, although once I had just commented on the fact that a publisher had used the name Fanny Burney, so it felt rather unjust!

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 26d

One thing I miss about Twitter is the Burney-bot that would scold you (in first person!) if you used the name Fanny Burney in a tweet (even in the context of “don’t call her Fanny Burney”).

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 26d

This edition of the play takes the “non-monstrous” approach to the extreme.

Cover of Dick’s Standard Plays edition of Peake’s Frankenstein adaptation, featuring a well-proportioned “monster” posing seductively in a toga.

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 27d

Leigh Hunt’s political commentary from 1807 still seems relevant somehow (from Prospectus to the Examiner)

“Yet all history may convince us, that he, who resolutely professes himself attached to any party, is in danger of yielding to every extreme for the mere reputation of his opinion: he will argue for the most manifest errors of this or that statesman, because he has hitherto agreed with him— an obstinacy as stupid, as if a pedestrian were to express his satisfaction with a tempest at night, because he had enjoyed sunshine in the morning.”

Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 27d

Sheep don’t always fare so well either.

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 27d

I am definitely going to!

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 29d

Great book. Not sure that’s the cover image I would have chosen.

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · 29d

One of my favourite albums.

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Nat Leach @gnatleech.bsky.social · Sep 14

And the title indicates that it is also derivative of Peake’s theatrical adaptation of 1824.

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