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Jane Casey

@janecasey.bsky.social

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Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 2h

Galore is an Anglo version of ‘go leor’ which is Irish for lots. Loan words! English is so greedy.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 9h

Only a matter of time…

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 9h

😳

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 9h

I read the Wikipedia summary of the plot and thought, 'nope.'

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 9h

Surely the market for cosy thrillers by reasonably likeable famous people is saturated by now.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 13h

Iago is the first men's rights advocate in literature and the reason Coleridge couldn't discern a motive for him was because he actually liked women, not because there isn't one.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 15h

Maddening!

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 16h

I will never understand why you have 30 days to start watching something you've rented and 48 hours to finish it. So arbitrary and annoying.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I do not live in America. No coyotes. Very few cats are indoor cats here.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

😱 I wish I could not imagine that.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Very handy for the local dump, in so many ways.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

The best thing about a lot of loud foxes at the front of the house at 3am was the mad barking it provoked from the very loud spaniel who shares my life. Second-best: the cat was out in the thick of it. My nerves.