🇨🇦 Janet Somerville
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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville
@janetsomerville.bsky.social
#Gellhorn enthusiast. Dog lover. Anti-fascist. Writer for hire.

HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024)

YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019)

Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.

https://janetsomervillewriter.com
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The fearless, indefatigable, singular MARTHA #GELLHORN was #BOTD in St. Louis. (b. 8 Nov 1908)

I wrote a book about her.
@prhaudio.bsky.social

Ask for it at your library or treat yourself to a copy & learn more about how timeless her words are:

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679091...
Yours, For Probably Always by Janet Somerville: 9780593455845 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives an...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
David Hare, on #TomStoppard, his confrère: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘Tom Stoppard redefined Britishness as something freedom-loving’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My #HistoricalFiction roundup includes titles by 4 Canadian women novelists: Donna Jones Alward, @annykchoi.bsky.social, @cestima.bsky.social & Natalie Jenner.

Find your next fab read among them. #ReadWomen #Kafka #Austen #Titanic #Korea #1920s
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Oh my goodness. One of the very, very best. I twice acted in school productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (as both Hamlet and Gertrude), and the wit, wisdom and rhythm of his lines are such a joy. Thank you for so much delight #TomStoppard
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My #HistoricalFiction roundup includes titles by 4 Canadian women novelists: Donna Jones Alward, @annykchoi.bsky.social, @cestima.bsky.social & Natalie Jenner.

Find your next fab read among them. #ReadWomen #Kafka #Austen #Titanic #Korea #1920s
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Exact the penalty.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My friend Richard died of glioblastoma #OTD 18 years ago. He was a lot of fun & I miss him.

My little #memoir HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT is about him & our days teaching teenaged boys.

bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This morning in #Toronto with Puck & Martha, wavy water enthusiasts. #dogsky
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That grifting convicted felon is a fucking moron.
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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No one did it better than Chaucer.
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Oh yes he is! Kiefer Sutherland dives into the world of panto
Oh yes he is! Kiefer Sutherland dives into the world of panto
Hollywood megastars hit Leeds this year to make Tinsel Town, a feelgood festive comedy about panto. The 24 star, Rebel Wilson and more talk about their addiction to Greggs sausage rolls – and epic brawls with Danny Dyer
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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maybe it'll happen tonight
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Blue!💙
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Be kind. Do something nice. To others and to yourself. These are difficult times. And difficult times call for empathy, humility, and community. — Happy Thanksgiving, may better days lie ahead.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band.
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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He is risen
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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To prison with her; and away with him.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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How Can We Hold the Criminal Trump Regime Accountable?

Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Hard to believe. Then again, this play warps time, so I have no idea what time it is at any given point.
godotbroadway.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM