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30 days

Favourite books I read this year so far 📚 #booktwt

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Inspired by my reading of ‘All Fours’ by @Miranda_July last week, I had a look through my shelves for books centering women in middle age (some I read, some on my tbr), all facing important changes in their lives #booktwt

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Possibilities for #WITMonth 📚 #BookTwitter

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The Last Bookshop in Dublin ❤️📚 #BookTwitter

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2 months

‘This - this - is what it feels like to be undead. And this is what it felt like to be alive’ 💀 (Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and then it’s Over)

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Books on the menu this week 📚 #spanishportugueselitmonth #booktwt

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Older women in books: a selection of female characters who are in their 60s and beyond 📚 #booktwt

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3 months

The books I got in London last week 📚 #booktwt

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6 months

Books lately 📚 #booktwt #savage2024

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3 months

Very excited to see that @PersephoneBooks have made their festival talks available online for free for a month! Looking fwd to listening to their talk on spinsters and so many others! 🩶

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11 months

Birthday trip in book town Hay-on-Wye, Day 1 #happyasapiginmuck

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1 year

Some of my favourite Summer reads across the years 🌞 #BookTwitter

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5 months

Out today! Barbara Comyns truly comes alive on the pages of this wonderful biography. From a childhood in a crumbling mansion, via Bohemian London to slumming it in Spain, her life was a wild ride but very much emblematic of the hidden struggles of women in the 20th c. 1/2

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4 months

Bookshops and cherry-blossoms, a Spring day in Dublin 🌸 #lovedublin

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1 year

My baby virago collection 🍎 #BookTwitter

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7 months

My 10 favourite books I read in 2023 📚 (in no order, not pictured: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au and Mr Fox by Barbara Comyns as they were library copies) #booktwt

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11 months

Final day in Hay-on-Wye: the perfect Sunday with a countryside walk and revisiting my favourite bookshops one last time before leaving. Book count of the day: 5 📚 #booktwitter

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4 months

This little novella infused with dark magic had me completely spellbound. Concerned with the erasure of women’s voices in history, the interconnectedness of women’s lives, the way we incarnate our favourite books…it ticked so many of my boxes!🖤 #booktwt #waferthinbook

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3 months

The books I want to read in May 📚 #booktwt

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4 months

London Day 1 📮 started the day with some excellent vegan waffles in Bethnal Green then off to explore the book-shopping scene in East Ldn. Jambala, Brick Lane, Libreria, Common Press. Pitstop in Kings X for Word on Water 🚤 Finished the day in Angel. Book count: 5 📚

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10 months

Best 4 books read in 2023… i think… maybe… #booktwitter

Dorian Stuber

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My four book of 2023 (yes, embarrassingly late to this, but, hey, it's High Holidays time)

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1 year

May TBR #BookTwitter

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3 months

I’ve had a gap of a few days with no group read commitments and no pressing library deadlines, it’s been so nice to pick whatever books my brain is craving. Just started Great Granny Webster 🖤

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6 months

Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries feels like a living puzzle where the pieces magically join together. How odd to suddenly witness clusters of grief, anger, confusion or horniness assemble on the page like a murmuration of starlings. Out on February 6 with @FitzcarraldoEds 🤍

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1 year

August TBR 📚 #BookTwitter

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11 months

My pile of possibilities for #spinsterseptember #booktwitter

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1 year

As it’s mandatory in April, a quote from Mrs von Arnim: ‘She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light.’

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1 year

London Book Haul 📚 #BookTwitter

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11 months

Books that are set or start in September 🍂 #BookTwitter

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10 months

Dublin in the Autumn and a current read 📖🍁 #lovedublin

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12 days

Sorry William but any friends of Barbara Comyns is a friend of mine. Vote Carrington! 🎺

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12 days

Semifinals matchup 2: Please don't kill each other

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1 year

Halfway through my #summerofcomyns 🌞 #booktwitter

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6 months

The books I read in January (only reread The Dead in Dubliners + not pictured 📱 Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti - out on Feb 6 - 🎧 Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa) 📚 #booktwt #booklovers

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Possibilities for July 💭 #booktwitter

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2 months

I only read ‘Not a River’ on the Booker Prize Intl shortlist but I loved being caught in its current. It’s about our relationship to nature, violence against it and amongst men, unprocessed grief. A murky stream mixing past & present, dream & reality, the living & the dead 🩵

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1 year

July reading wrap-up ✨ #BookTwitter

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4 months

#nyrbwomen24 [Aloeswood Incense] I’m mesmerised by Chang’s luscious descriptions but I especially love it when they slither into something a little dangerous and threatening. Lines that act like an exotic frog, colourful and seductive but equally poisonous 🐸

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1 year

Belfast book haul #BookTwitter

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10 months

A selection of books for the #1962club @kaggsy59 @stuck_inabook #booktwitter

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3 months

The books I read in April (not pictured: 📱This Little Art by Kate Briggs; La Préparation du Roman by Roland Barthes) 🌷📚 #savage2024 #nyrbwomen24 #katebriggs24 #booktwt

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Hay-on-Wye Book haul 📚

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7 months

Celebrating #MaeveBrennan ‘s 107th birthday today with the reveal of her plaque at her childhood home. Lovely speech by @sineadgleeson on her life, themes in her writing and what she gained as a woman writer by leaving Dublin behind. Great to see such a good turnout too!

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The books I read in March 📚 (Dubliners is a reread & not pictured 🎧 Nora, A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce by Nuala O’Connor) #booktwt

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9 months

Bought these at a book sale last weekend 📚 #booktwt

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2 months

Books read in May (not pictured: 📖 A Month by the Sea, Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy, 📖 Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and 🎧 A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride) 📚 #nyrbwomen24 #booktwt

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7 months

December book haul (the christmas presents + some review copies: Barbara Comyns, A Savage Innocence, out in March by @ManchesterUP , War Among Ladies and Stories For Winter out now by @BL_Publishing ) #booktwt

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1 year

Novels that start (or are set) in August 🌾 #BookTwitter

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11 months

Theme: Spinsters as side characters ✨ The Morkan Sisters and niece (The Dead) Mrs Danvers (Rebecca), Miss Spanner(Chatterton Square), Muriel (Mr. Skeffington), Miss Kilman (Mrs Daloway), Rachel & Sid, Miss Millicent (The Light Years) #spinsterseptember #booktwitter

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10 months

‘In October, as regularly as the leaves fell, she began the winter habit of reading her favourite novels for an hour before dinner, finding in Trollope, Miss Yonge, Miss Austen, and Mrs Gaskell friends so dear and familiar that they peopled her loneliness.’ #spinsterseptember

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3 months

This was a brill ‘Lost Ladies of Lit’ ep on Barbara Comyns with biographer @avrilhorner1 on the similarities between her life and Our Spoons as well as the uniqueness of The Vet’s Daughter in the lit landscape. Love that Avril still has facts on Comyns that will make me go 😮

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11 months

August wrap up 📚 #booktwitter

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4 books that are set or start in October 🍁 #BookTwitter

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4 months

In the mail today, a sweet little present from my bf ♥️ who knew I was patiently waiting for this paperback release #bookmail

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1 year

Big Belfast Book haul 📚 #booktwitter

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3 months

Back from the loveliest Spring walk along the Grand Canal, listening to the latest ep of the @mookse & the gripes on Rediscovered Gems with super guest @JacquiWine - fave pod ✔️ fave guest ✔️ fave topic ✔️ What a treat! (Had to pull from my shelves some of the tiles mentioned!)

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7 months

Current reads + #katebriggs24 💭

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From a visit to the Women Impressionists exhibition at the @NGIreland last week 🖼️ #lovedublin

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Books on the menu this week 📚 #booktwt

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23 days

Should I? #barbaracomyns

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1 year

Summer reading sorted for the #20booksofsummer23 challenge organised by @cathy746books (there are 14 books here but I plan to borrow 6 Barbara Comyns from the library in preparation for her biography release in the Autumn) 👒 #BookTwitter

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11 months

Soggy Day 2 in Hay-on-Wye meant a deep dive in Richard Booth & Addyman, desperately looking for the ‘Celias’ in Murder & Mayhem (no luck), book count today: +3 #BookTwitter

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1 year

Floral designs on book covers is my jam 🌸💕 #BookTwitter

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1 year

Some books that start in July 🌻 #booktwitter

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10 months

Same tbh #nyrbwomen23

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8 months

Finally caught up with the #nyrbwomen23 page count for Good Behaviour by Molly Keane for the day. Some random thoughts. Aroon as a child reminds me of Janet from O Caledonia and Midge Carne from South Riding. 1/2

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2 months

Celebrating my local indie bookshops for #indiebookshopweek 💓 #choosebookshops

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4 months

Little #katebriggs24 joy of the day: Barthes with his anecdote on parrots as the “original tape recorders”reminded me of one of my favourite details in one of my favourite books, O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker. Janet’s grandfather saw his own parrot as History’s “true archivist”.

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The books I read in June 📚 (not pictured 📖 The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft) #booktwt

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10 months

October TBR 🎃 #nyrbwomen23 #BookTwitter

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Little @chaptersbooks haul (read a library copy of the Tuttle earlier this year, *needed* to have it on my shelves and was bookfluenced by @behindatticwall for The Wall) #booktwt

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7 months

A little stack of possibilities for #januaryinjapan 🌸 #booktwt

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Listened to this 👌 ep of @BacklistedPod last night & wow i wont rest til i get my hands on Gaining Ground, the story of a woman who leaves her family to become a hermit. Feels in the same vein as favourites: The Awakening, Lolly Willowes, Illyrian Spring & recently All Fours.

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New episode up now. Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with guest Rose Ruane @RegretteRuane in conversation with @i_am_mill_i_am @johnmitchinson and @birchos .

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1 year

I had planned to read My Cousin Rachel for #ddmreadingweek but I am quite behind with my reading so will read The Birds this time!

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The books I read in November (not pictured: So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman Perkins) 📚 #novnov23 #booktwt

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1 year

@neglectedbooks I get the sense that you find flowers and photography frivolous. Fair enough, but accept that they might mean something for someone else. There’s a scene in one of these books where a woman has a profound revelation about herself while looking at flowers in a flowershop.

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1 year

April TBR (with the huge caveat that i’m reading my library reserves for the women’s prize as they come) #booktwitter

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London Day 2 📮 met the wonderful @JacquiWine in Daunt Books, was so absorbed in the chats that I forgot to take a pic 🤦🏻‍♀️ here’s the books I got instead. Then off to Kentish Town, the Owl Bookshop & the gorgeous Walden Books 🍇 the day ended in the Garden Museum. Book count: 3

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1 year

July tbr #BookTwitter

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3 months

A visit to the Dublin Botanic Gardens and a current read 🌺📖 #booktwt

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1 year

June TBR 📚 #BookTwitter

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8 months

I seem to have landed in #bookpost heaven this week 😭 thank you @gpwigglesworth @BL_Publishing for these wonderful books from the #womenwriters series. And thank you @ManchesterUP for the proof copy of A Savage Innocence. Grateful doesn’t half cover it 💕

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September TBR 📚 #spinsterseptember #BookTwitter

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🍂 September reading wrap-up #spinsterseptember #BookTwitter

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9 months

October wrap up ✨ (not pictured: The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns, Lady into Fox by David Garnett and Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu) #nyrbwomen23 #BookTwitter

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2 months

#nyrbwomen24 🏔️🦁 the shocking lesson of first grief: life just goes on

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Novels that start in November 📚 #seasonalreading #booktwt

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#nyrbwomen24 wow her cleaning woman, huh! (Also just found out that Jean Stafford was Robert Lowell’s first wife before Elizabeth Hardwick & Caroline Blackwood 👀)

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Very few new releases have caught my eye for the 2nd part of the year but this shot up at number one. This sounds extraordinary! 🖤

And Other Stories

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We’re honoured to announce the forthcoming publication of THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by the Palestinian writer Ibtisam Azem. Translated by Sinan Antoon, and praised by Kamila Shamsie and Richard Ford, amongst others, Azem’s novel reaches bookshops on August 1st.

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“I think of the crocuses springing up from beneath the snow, yellow, purple and blue. Think of my days in the provinces, of the friends I’ve never seen again. Of my body melting into his when making love. A shiver goes through me. How beautiful to be wet. 1/2

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August book haul 📚 with huge thanks to @gpwigglesworth @BL_Publishing for the gorgeous review copy of Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim (release date: Sep 14) 🌹 #BookTwitter

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1 year

Photos from my mini trip in #Belfast , most of it second-hand book-shopping 📚🤎 #BookTwitter

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Beautiful books that are set (or start) in June 👒 #BookTwitter

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Also finally got to see in real life ‘Girl Going by Trinity in the Rain’ by Una Watters, which is just astonishing 😍

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May #bookhaul #BookTwitter

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1 year

Happy #dallowayday bought myself flowers 🌸 #booktwitter #virginiawoolf

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#nyrbwomen24 🏔️🦁 Ralph thought of how, before he had seen the birth of the calf, he had been like Molly, savagely refusing the knowledge of such things, but now, bad as he knew it all to be, it sometimes gave him a warm feeling like cocoa on a cold night. (p.126)

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Gosh it’s been a parade of outstanding podcast episodes the past few days! Can’t keep up! Adding to my queue the new ‘Lost Ladies of Lit’ ep on Rhine Journey with @LucyScholes and @SNFSchlee 😍

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11 months

What a treat to chat all things Spinster lit with Trevor & Paul, and now i’ve got so many great recommendations to try out as an added bonus 📚 #spinsterseptember #BookTwitter ▶️

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This week @bibliopaul and I are delighted to be joined by Nora ( @pearjelly_ ) to discuss Spinster Lit! Thank you Nora for the great topic idea and conversation!

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1 year

Just wonderful, i’m so happy this exists ✨

BBC Archive

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1 year

#OnThisDay 1961: Novelist and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark explores the cemetery at Emily Brontë's home in Howarth. "Life, death and eternity. These are Emily's great themes."

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November TBR ✨ #BookTwitter

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