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Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]
Good morning, afternoon, evening, night, depending on your longitude! Try to allow some reading time this weekend if you can! #booksky
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Good morning, afternoon, evening, night, depending on your longitude! Try to allow some reading time this weekend if you can! #booksky
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
So excited that the Gavle goat is going up again! www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat just a pity their privacy laws require all the pixillation! Yule is soon here!
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So excited that the Gavle goat is going up again! www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat just a pity their privacy laws require all the pixillation! Yule is soon here!
Just got this which will be read along side all the other partly read books! Ramesses the Great Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson, another Yale Ancient Lives book #bluesky 💡📚
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just got this which will be read along side all the other partly read books! Ramesses the Great Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson, another Yale Ancient Lives book #bluesky 💡📚
Started Vanished Ocean: How the Tethys reshaped the world by Dorrik Stow
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Started Vanished Ocean: How the Tethys reshaped the world by Dorrik Stow
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
This is very good - about 1/3 in... (read papers yesterday!)
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is very good - about 1/3 in... (read papers yesterday!)
Finished reading King of the Monsters yesterday & watched the film last night. The book adds a fair bit more background & a fleshes it out more than the first book
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Finished reading King of the Monsters yesterday & watched the film last night. The book adds a fair bit more background & a fleshes it out more than the first book
Got these second hand the other day...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Got these second hand the other day...
I've shared some of these before, but this one I just made...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I've shared some of these before, but this one I just made...
...& off bits of paper, sometimes my head [the open book placed on my head as hands occupied] but recently started making bookmarks from bits of card based on the book cover. You don't have to be artistic, just get some nice pens & maybe do less wonky lettering than I have!
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
...& off bits of paper, sometimes my head [the open book placed on my head as hands occupied] but recently started making bookmarks from bits of card based on the book cover. You don't have to be artistic, just get some nice pens & maybe do less wonky lettering than I have!
Still the daft bedtime book - maybe only one page, sometimes a chapter, the novelisation of the second Godzilla - King of the Monsters - this by Greg Keyes. More or less exactly as the film, but of course some added internal 'thought' from the characters, however you describe that? #booksky 💙📚
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Still the daft bedtime book - maybe only one page, sometimes a chapter, the novelisation of the second Godzilla - King of the Monsters - this by Greg Keyes. More or less exactly as the film, but of course some added internal 'thought' from the characters, however you describe that? #booksky 💙📚
Just started Donald J Robertson's Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Emperor 💙📚 #booksky 💡📚 in the excellent Yale Ancient Lives series which will be an accompaniment to my weekend! along with the cricket & Sunday papers! Could not start until I'd made my bookmark, as I've started doing regularly now.
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Just started Donald J Robertson's Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Emperor 💙📚 #booksky 💡📚 in the excellent Yale Ancient Lives series which will be an accompaniment to my weekend! along with the cricket & Sunday papers! Could not start until I'd made my bookmark, as I've started doing regularly now.
"All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven."
Sir Thomas Browne, in Norwich
Sir Thomas Browne, in Norwich
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven."
Sir Thomas Browne, in Norwich
Sir Thomas Browne, in Norwich
Stephen Powers really is a top writer... 108 pages into Playground...
I messed up the line of my lettering! Never mind - these are just bookmarks to amuse me while I read the book. I'll send on to some friend when I have read it. #booksky
I messed up the line of my lettering! Never mind - these are just bookmarks to amuse me while I read the book. I'll send on to some friend when I have read it. #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Stephen Powers really is a top writer... 108 pages into Playground...
I messed up the line of my lettering! Never mind - these are just bookmarks to amuse me while I read the book. I'll send on to some friend when I have read it. #booksky
I messed up the line of my lettering! Never mind - these are just bookmarks to amuse me while I read the book. I'll send on to some friend when I have read it. #booksky
Banville's Doctor Copernicus, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant £3 each, [Oxfam] & Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country £4.99 from a reduced price bookshop... Think I may have read the Banville decades ago, unless I read his Kepler. I gave away a lot of fiction in the last 6-7 years...
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Banville's Doctor Copernicus, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant £3 each, [Oxfam] & Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country £4.99 from a reduced price bookshop... Think I may have read the Banville decades ago, unless I read his Kepler. I gave away a lot of fiction in the last 6-7 years...
The UK cover was prettier m.media-amazon.com/images/I/819...
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The UK cover was prettier m.media-amazon.com/images/I/819...
Just started Cat Jarman's The Bone Chests, about the remains of some early kings & queens in Winchester Cathedral - such as survived the Cromwellian vandals... again made a bookmark based on the cover!
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just started Cat Jarman's The Bone Chests, about the remains of some early kings & queens in Winchester Cathedral - such as survived the Cromwellian vandals... again made a bookmark based on the cover!
... or all day! No county cricket I reckon...
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
... or all day! No county cricket I reckon...
I prefer the UK edition cover [not read]
September 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I prefer the UK edition cover [not read]
Also reading Marlen Haushofer, The Wall, a strange dystopian novel from 1968, translated 1990, & republished 2022. Not sure what I think of it yet... #booksky 🪐📚
September 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Also reading Marlen Haushofer, The Wall, a strange dystopian novel from 1968, translated 1990, & republished 2022. Not sure what I think of it yet... #booksky 🪐📚
The other book I am about 1/3 through... Started making my own bookmarks themed on the book cover instead of old receipts & odd bits of card torn from boxes!
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The other book I am about 1/3 through... Started making my own bookmarks themed on the book cover instead of old receipts & odd bits of card torn from boxes!
Walking today from Blickling to Itteringham, glimpse of Wolterton Hall (brother used to live/work there when the late Lord walpole still owned it)
August 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Walking today from Blickling to Itteringham, glimpse of Wolterton Hall (brother used to live/work there when the late Lord walpole still owned it)
Lasius flavus yellow meadow ants emerging yesterday to fly & mate... #flyingants
August 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Lasius flavus yellow meadow ants emerging yesterday to fly & mate... #flyingants