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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 6h

Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.

Copy of the Best American Short Stories 2025, edited by Celeste Ng

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 8h

Finished Sally Carson's CROOKED CROSS. A wonderful, sad novel that will definitely find a place on my Best of the Year list. Another winner from Persephone.

CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson. Persephone Books.

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 8h

I agree

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 1d

Salmon farming is just wrong...
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Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy – why this may cause lasting damage

Scientists warn escaped farmed salmon could interbreed with wild fish, further endangering Scotland’s fragile populations.

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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 2d

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Planning Ahead for Novellas in November

A recent post by Cathy @746 Books listing the various novellas she is considering for Novellas in November inspired me to create a list of all the unread novellas on my TBR shelves. Every year, eve…

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 3d

So pleased to see that Daniel Day Lewis has been singing the praises of Kent Haruf, and especially Plainsong and Eventide – two of the greatest novels ever written.

Seriously, if you have yet to read them, I think they are essential.

Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A

LFF runs until Oct 19.

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 7d

Let's hear it for ivy! The last flower of the year is one of the best for pollinators, vital for a last feed for butterflies such as the red admiral. Learn a little more...
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Best Plants for Bees: Ivy!

YouTube video by Dave Goulson

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 6d

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about migration. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: Eyes to the skies for autumn’s mass migration | Lev Parikian

Hampstead, London: Spring has the dawn chorus, autumn has ‘vismig’, the changing of the guard of millions of birds – an early start for me, then, to try and glimpse this remarkable phenomenon

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 7d

Damn right! This is the TRUTH nobody wants to admit!

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 7d

The music was very similar

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 7d

I remember that

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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 8d

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Planning my options for Novellas in November #NovNov25

With just a few weeks to go until this year’s Novellas in November hosted by myself and Rebecca at Bookish Beck, it’s time to start planning what I’m going to read! In recent years, novellas h…

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 8d

Fake cobwebs like these may look spooky – but what's really scary about them is that they can trap & injure wildlife, including birds, insects & small mammals. And fake webs aren't recyclable – so will end up in landfill for many years.
More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-i...
#Halloween

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe Dustin Hoffman he's getting on a bit

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10d

For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.

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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 12d

A Golden-bloomed, Grey Longhorn beetle (I think) #InsectThursday #nature #wildlife

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 12d

One of the best names

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 13d

Good to see Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling on the Govt to ban hunting asap!

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 13d

Happy birthday. I hope to be out birdwatching on Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire on Sunday. With luck we will see a few migrants.

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 14d

I sometimes miss it when reminiscing about pub culture but then think in horror about smoking in the office or in non-smoking people's homes & cars. I still fear that it will get me in the end but so far so good.

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Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social · 14d

Who can remember when cigarettes were really glamorous? What could beat a night in the pub with a few fags and pints of beer?

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 14d

A landscape with a toxic past gives wildlife a chance to thrive in today's @theguardian.com country diary.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Country diary: The unlikely success of wildlife in lead country | Mark Cocker

Bonsall, Derbyshire: It was, in fact, the poison in the ground that prevented this patch from becoming cattle country – then nature took care of itself

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 14d

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A long read

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 15d

My new blog post on Russell Hoban’s wonderfully unusual novel, TURTLE DIARY, about two lonely protagonists who partner up to rescue a trio of sea turtles from the zoo. Loved it and it's sure to feature in my year-end highlights.
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Turtle Diary – Russell Hoban

Even if it’s October, Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban is my entry for #SpinsterSeptember, and I’m so glad to have discovered this novel thanks to the lovely Nora (@pear_jelly on Insta and Bluesky), w…

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 17d

An atmospheric @theguardian.com country diary today from the inimitable Phil Gates.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Country diary: Ragged butterflies, comatose bees – these are the last of the summer sights | Phil Gates

Blanchland, Northumberland: Today’s perfect autumn day captures the dying embers of a memorable summer

www.theguardian.com

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