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Katheryn97T
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · Nov 26
I fell down a research rabbit hole when I discovered that brides in early modern England wore knives (!) and ended up writing an entire article about it #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Project MUSE - Knives and Femininity on the Early Modern Stage
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 6h
First Season Of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Now Streaming For Free In UK##StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #uk
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First Season Of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Now Streaming For Free In UK
The ad-supported service ITVX added the the Paramount+ original series on Sunday.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 12h
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
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I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice? "You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 1d
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 1d
Finished, and unfortunately still have mixed feelings - some parts took my breath away, others felt like a bit of a drag…
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d
I think mostly the dense descriptive passages, which I struggle to visualise
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d
I’m feeling quite mixed so far …
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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 2d
Currently reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy but may have to pause to read a book club book for a meeting next week and a library hold that just came in. #FridayReads 💙📚
katheryn97t.bsky.social Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d
This week’s #FridayReads is A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai (tr. Ottilie Mulzet) 💙📚
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 2d
Nice write-up of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show which is on iPlayer now-ish (I don't have access to the iPlayer so not sure) and which is on BBC Northern Ireland tonight at 9pm; BBC 2 on Monday.

Hope you enjoy it.
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d
This week’s #FridayReads is A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai (tr. Ottilie Mulzet) 💙📚
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d
My thoughts on Futility by Nuzo Onoh (4⭐️) - a book I can’t stop thinking about 💙📚
The cover of Futility by Nuzo Onoh, which is a kind of turquoise green and features ingredients including raw meat and eyeballs falling into a dish of red liquid. The tagline reads: Murder. Revenge. Soup. Chia and Claire are both disappointed with the way their lives have turned out, both frustrated by the way they are perceived by society, and both harbouring a dark secret. And after a chance encounter in Chia's restaurant, their lives become entwined, as both women will stop at nothing in their pursuit of revenge... Revenge is not a new topic for fiction, but Futility manages to make it feel fresh. I have deliberately not given much away in my plot summary, because one of my favourite things about this book was its capacity to surprise me. What I initially assumed was another book about a woman getting revenge on men (which I love as a subgenre, but am growing a little tired of) soon reveals itself to be so much more, and Futility uses its Nigerian setting to bring a supernatural element to the story that is brilliant and bonkers and genuinely dread inducing. I also loved the way Futility pulls you into the story, making you care about characters that do terrible things and that terrible things happen to, and part of the book's horror comes from watching events play out that you're powerless to stop. I loved the complexity of this book's protagonists, and fellow fans of unlikable women won't be disappointed. Futility wasn't quite a five-star read for me, and I did find it took a little while to get into as the opening chapters set up the different storylines, but I found it a compulsive read that I can't stop thinking about.
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 4d
A magical tale of queer romance and found family - I have a few minor quibbles about this one, but I loved the story too much to care about them (5⭐️)

Into the Midnight Wood is out in January! #netgalley 💙📚
The cover of Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum, which is dark blue and framed by the silhouettes of trees. At the bottom of the cover are the silhouettes of two people and a small dog, walking out of the wood and towards a house whose windows are all lit up.
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 6d
An epic coming of age story you can lose yourself in, although not quite a 5⭐️ read for me 💙📚

Booker longlist ✅
A hand holding a (shiny library) hardback copy of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai against a white wall. It is tilted to show how chunky the spine is.
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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 8d
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‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies
With the US release of Rose Byrne’s anxiety-inducing motherhood spiral If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writers relive their most uncomfortable movie watches
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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 9d
My #FridayReads is Midnight Black (Gray Man #14) by Mark Greaney. 💙📚
katheryn97t.bsky.social Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 9d
Finally got my hands on the last of the Booker longlist - this week’s #FridayReads is The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 💙📚
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 9d
Not one I’ve read (yet) either - enjoy!
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 9d
Finally got my hands on the last of the Booker longlist - this week’s #FridayReads is The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai 💙📚
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 11d
I’m gonna share some of my favourite books from 2022 to now for absolutely no reason:

- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis trans. by Anne Milano Appel
- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
- ‘salem’s Lot by Stephen King
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 12d
I've been saying for years one of the streamers should pick up Moonlighting. Bit random that it's STV Player, but I'm not complaining, especially as it turns out my TV has their app already built in.
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 12d
Happy publication day to All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles - one of my favourite reads of the year 💙📚
The cover of All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. In full 1970s Gothic style, down to the curly 70s font in yellow and the blue/green colour palette. It shows a scary house on the moors with looming turrets and evil lighting, and two men running from it. The front one is extremely dishevelled with messy hair and skew-wiff tie. The back one is ginger, neater. Both clearly afraid. the tagline is 'Love. Hate. Secrets. It's in the blood.' Zeb Wyckham's first glimpse of Wynn's remote Gothic manor is enough to make him regret his decision to accept his cousin's invitation to visit. By the time the guests (who include the rest of Zeb's contemptible family, not to mention his bitter ex-lover) start reporting ghostly sightings, the Dartmoor mist has rolled in and it is too late to leave... All of Us Murderers somehow manages to recreate the feel of a classic Gothic novel for the modern reader. There is a Gothic manor lit by flickering gas lamps that create shadows in every corner, atmospheric grounds thick with fog and isolated from the moor beyond by imposing walls, and stories of a family curse and hauntings that resemble events in Walter Wyckham's sensationalist novels. But the romance at its heart is delightfully queer, and the morals of our villains are gloriously called out. For all the dread of the story, this is a genuinely joyous book. I loved the sweet and spicy scenes between Zeb and Gideon, the complexity to Elise's character, and the ADHD representation from our protagonist. This genre-bending book manages to make playful allusions to its literary forebears without ever detracting from the world it creates. I loved the characters as much as the setting, and the fresh and funny writing had me hooked from the opening page. The plot does get a little carried away, but that is the point of a Gothic novel after all. I would give All of Us Murderers six stars if I could.
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📚 MoominReadsaLot 📚 @moominreadsalot.bsky.social · 18d
I thought as it's #Spooktober I'd share my A-Z* of Stephen King books.

Feel free to comment with your own favourites for each letter 😀

*I might need to get a bit creative with some of the letters!

🩸📚💙 #BookSky #Books #Readers #A-Z #StephenKing #Horror #SpookySeason

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Two shelves containing a selection of Stephen King books
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L the Girl in Black @girlinblack.bsky.social · 13d
The good link is
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 13d
It is excellent and if you're in the UK you don't even need Netflix, it's all on iPlayer. (It is on Netflix here too.)
seantcollins.com Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 14d
Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. One of the best literary adaptations in the history of television, it takes all the source material's strengths and transmogrifies all its weaknesses, like The Terror. Cruel, disgusting, sexy as fuck. Plus: Eric Bogosian! Do not walk, RUN.
Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis in Interview with the Vampire
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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 13d
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This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench
From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups
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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 14d
A medium and the ghost of her childhood best friend use their unique skills to solve a murder 💙📚

I loved the premise, but something about the story just didn’t click for me (3⭐️)
The cover of Grave Expectations by Alice Bell.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16d
Rye Lane is on BBC2 tonight 9pm. The lovely escape you need from real life
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BBC Two - Rye Lane
Two youngsters, reeling from bad breakups, connect over an eventful day in south London.
www.bbc.co.uk
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