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Shrada
@shrada.bsky.social
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slow bibliophile | book pusher | high fiver
Lover of wind turbines, chinooks, and the sea.
🇳🇵🇬🇧 based in Oxfordshire

📚 #CurrentlyReading
📖 #TheCoastRoad
🎧 #TheRebelWitch
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New reads

📖 #TheCoastRoad - Irish storytellers never let me down so I have high hopes for this
🎧 #TheRebelWitch - sequel to the Crimson Moth and so far it’s the escapism I was seeking

What are you reading friends?

#CurrentlyReading #BookSky 📚💙
Paperback copy of the novel The Coast Road by Alan Murrin held up against a grassy field and the sea and sky. The cover of the back features a photo of a woman lying in bed and looking out of the window at a coastal view. Screenshot from audiobook app Libby showing the novel The Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli. The cover features a crimson moth surrounded by white roses.
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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These last few months have been tough. Could be grief, depression or perimenopause. Perhaps all of it, maybe I’m just wired this way but I’ve been feeling so down & negative
Looking for the glimmers to keep me going. Night sky from my garden, solo coffee & cake, flowers blooming despite the frost 💜
Clouds and stars in a night sky A table with a bright red tablecloth with blue paisley patterns. On it, a big latte and a plate with a slice of sour cream and berries cake. White daisy-like flowers and greenery
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Happy Birthday Laura. And while I hated the thought of turning 40 I reckon it turned out to be pretty good! Hope all your birthday wishes come true 🎉🎁🥳🎂🍾
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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You know that @ladyjane.bsky.social she’s a right gem ✨
Thanks for being so darn lovely Janie 😘
Actress Caitríona Balfe dressed in character Claire Fraser in Outlander. The image has been edited so that Caitríona is clasping a big bunch of heart emojis.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I didn’t need it so I didn’t buy it but oh these vintage Arden Shakespeare editions are so beautiful 😍

#Macbeth #BookSky 📚💙
A vintage Arden Shakespeare paperback of Macbeth. The cover features a black and white line illustration with blocks of red with black text.
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Folks, if you get the chance, do go and watch I swear. It’s about Scottish #TouretteSyndrome campaigner John Davidson.
This film is so full of heart and the cast are incredible. I cried pretty much the whole way through but laughed a lot too. My heart feels bigger for seeing it 💙
Poster for the film, I swear about the life of Scottish campaigner John Davidson who has Tourette syndrome. The text is white on a sky blue background and features lead actor Robert Aramayo and 4 other characters from the film.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Wore my new #Joanie jumper today and the pharmacist complimented me 🥰 she also told me her colleague met her husband at a book club, isn’t that lovely?
Im too awkward to join a book club irl. But, I love this jumper. A lot 💜
An Asian female (her face hidden) wearing a red jumper with white lettering saying ‘Book Club’
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Sláinte ☕️
Actors Sam Heughan and David Berry in costume for their characters Jamie Fraser and Lord John Grey in the tv show Outlander
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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@ladyjane.bsky.social I too am seven shades of knackered. Hope you have some good coffee to see you through x
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This close…I was thiiiiiis close! 😭😭😭
Actress Caitríona Balfe smiling.
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I’ve just started All the Colours of the Dark and am enjoying it so far.
A paperback novel is held up against a background of green leaves and hedges. The book is All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whittaker and has white text with an image of pine trees and a body of water with clouds. The colours are mainly purples and sunset.
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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@kris-olandmore.bsky.social HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you lovely. Hope you have loads of lovely celebrations planned and that all your birthday wishes come true 🎉🎁🥳🎂🍾
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Haven’t been to the theatre in an age and man was this an incredible play to break the drought. Intelligent, hilarious, steamy, compelling. And two leads who were breathtaking.
Bravo to everyone involved with #BornWithTeeth 👏🏽💐👏🏽💐👏🏽

#NcutiGatwa #EdwardBluemel
A theatre programme for the play Born With Teeth with actors Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel is held up against the seats and backdrop at the Wyndham Theatre in London.
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Not managed to read a physical book since Dad died but torn through several audiobooks.
Decided to put Emperor of Gladness down & try another time.
Started All the Colours of the Dark. Chapters are short so hoping to see it through.

What are you reading friends? ☺️

#BookSky 📚💙 #CurrentlyReading
A paperback novel is held up against a background of green leaves and hedges. The book is All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whittaker and has white text with an image of pine trees and a body of water with clouds. The colours are mainly purples and sunset.
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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In grim times I love to rewatch beloved stories for comfort and I’ve rewatched 2007 #Persuasion so many times already this year! The Netflix adaptation with Dakota was utterly shocking. And the Ciaran Hindes one is fine but we need something new so please someone make a new and worthy Persuasion 🙏🏽
Actors Rupert Penry-Jones and Sally Hawkins as Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott in the 2007 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Happy Birthday lovely 🥳
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Can someone tell me if I'm meant to root for Nan in #TheBuccaneers because I've just finished S2 and she strikes me as selfish.

And I will never forgive the writers for Dicky - y'know you can have a love without constant drama, you don't have to ruin the only non toxic relationship in the show 😭
Conchita and Richard, characters from the TV show The Buccaneers, dressed in period costume.
September 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Spent the day pottering around Falkland peepin’ like Jamie’s ghost and yearning for blue vases.
I guess you can take the fangirl out of the OL fandom, but you can’t take OL out of the fangirl - to paraphrase it badly 😅
#Outlander #NeverOwnedAVase
A female in a black and white dress with black hair is standing with her back to the camera. She is next to the Bruce fountain in Falkland, Fife and is looking into the distance at the old stone building ahead of her. The Fayre Earth shop in Falkland, Scotland. The shop has a green frontage with people sat at tables outside. The sky is blue with white clouds. There are cars parked in the street and there is a bright red Royal Mail postbox next to the shop.
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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My Dad passed away yesterday.
I want to honour him by telling people about him. Proud of his service as a British officer in the 7th Gurkha Rifles, he was a snappy dresser who loved a few pints at the pub with friends. And when he smiled he lit up the room with a glint in his eye.
We love you Dad 💜
A young Nepali man in British army paratroopers uniform. A Nepali man holding a pint of bar. He is smiling. A young Nepali man wearing a dark suit and tie in 60s London. A pigeon is eating from his outstretched hand and in his other hand he is holding a small cup of bird food A lit candle glowing brightly in a hurricane glass, a small vase of white flowers, offerings of food and drinks and a framed photo of a Nepali man dressed in British army uniform.
August 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I’m really struggling to read at the moment. Eye to brain pathway too full perhaps? Thankfully audiobooks exist! Just started The Rabbit Hutch. So far so good.

#BookSky 💙📚
Screenshot from the audiobook app, Libby. The image is mostly bright pink and features the cover of novel The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty with white and black text and the image of a female in the background.
August 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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hello, hi x
July 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Sharing some floral dopamine from my garden because I’m struggling right now.

If you’re having a rough time I hope these bring you a small ray of light xx
Pink dahlias with green leaves Yellow and red coreopsis flowers in bloom in a pot. A large, yellow, three petaled Tiger flower with red dotted patterns in the centre.
July 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Wait what?? Knowing what you do and how much you read I’m shocked! But there’s no time like the present to start Austen appreciation x
July 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I'm firmly in my grumpy old woman era. Jane Austen remakes that've been remade to death upset me (AHEM give us a DECENT Persuasion & not that Dakota travesty).
And Emma Thompson's Sense & Sensibility was perfection (the honking crying? 😭)
But I WILL be seated for Caitriona & Daisy supremacy 👏🏽👸🏽
Actress, Emma Thompson clapping at an awards ceremony
July 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM