- Wed, 12:56: RT @chattlibrary: Difficult to believe, and yet it’s true! Check us out at https://t.co/JdpiX3HO3d and visit @nathanwpyle for more otherw…
- Wed, 14:41: RT @Pavel99_B: @hopeformaybe Facts from @QasimRashid Benghazi: •GOP: 33 hearings & investigations over 5 years. Hillary’s emails: •GOP:…
- Wed, 15:02: The Star Factory, by Ciaran Carson For anyone like me who knows and loves Belfast, it’s a quick and pleasant read, where we can share our memories with the author. #nwbooks https://t.co/E5XaLAlEXl https://t.co/k7yAeIcQSa https://t.co/OrHPiTcKZh
- Wed, 15:13: Year’s Best SF 10, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer Enjoyed G Grant “Burning Day”, N Asher “Strood”, J Stoddard “Battle of York”, J-C Dunyach “Time, as it Evaporates” & P Sargent “Venus Flowers at Midnight”. #nwbooks https://t.co/iyM2X5aH4N https://t.co/uk8h5JokMm https://t.co/l2lJymu0ZQ
- Wed, 15:24: The Tin Drum, by G�nter Grass The liminal identities of what is now northwestern Poland are vividly brought to life; and the growth of Nazism, and the consequences of it, told descriptively. #nwbooks https://t.co/hIXQsaXjNH https://t.co/wKQlEN85Nb https://t.co/EY4876DyRc
- Wed, 15:35: Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson Although this is billed as one of the hardest of sf books, it’s really a story about the I relationships between the crew members rather than about the technology. #nwbooks https://t.co/ubAPKm8ziE https://t.co/TtBbTS8XBD https://t.co/6M5kuUtwwf
- Wed, 15:46: To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski Lots of interesting stuff about why mistakes happen – the Tacoma Narrows bridge, the Kansas City Hyatt Regency, etc. A bit repetitive. #nwbooks https://t.co/7gyr0x1sTs https://t.co/Gov0IQ9IKR https://t.co/iBcMmAJ1eZ
- Wed, 15:57: From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the 1916 Easter Rising, by Brian Barton This is an interesting book about an important set of documents, but it does not give us a full picture. #nwbooks https://t.co/im0yekHv5N https://t.co/Osm6Sro54a
- Wed, 16:05: RT @anitaleirfall: On the Streets Where They Lived | History Today ‘When you know places to be ancient, they become powerfully imbued with…
- Wed, 16:08: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence There is I think precisely one woman character, who Lawrence rescues from a train that he blew up. There are several other memorable female personalities, but they are all camels. #nwbooks https://t.co/82ucIDcti8 https://t.co/mePD3FeMKu https://t.co/wPBLxMqBpd
- Wed, 16:19: Cyprus, by Alain Blondy 40 pages to Richard the Lion Heart. Then 35 pages on 300 years of francophone rule; 80 years of rule by Venice in 4 pages; and then 30 pages cover 400 years under Ottomans and British. #nwbooks https://t.co/8QF5PdCHu6 https://t.co/aX6lF6LcRj https://t.co/xAMd6ALJDm
- Wed, 16:30: The Turing Test, by Chris Beckett Very good. Particular gems here include “Monsters”, “Karel’s Prayer”, and “The Marriage of Sky and Sea” whose protagonist gets what he asks for. #nwbooks https://t.co/64RMXYBCdm https://t.co/bdaIj7Vdbt https://t.co/Q6GP6nuLMq
- Wed, 16:41: Let It Bleed, by Ian Rankin Three bizarre suicides unlock a festering mess of corruption and evil within the Edinburgh political scene. Memorably horrible moments as well involving the Scottish weather, and a cat. #nwbooks https://t.co/2xCIOyZLnJ https://t.co/opVfHBXq2O https://t.co/4LVqpdQlXU
- Wed, 16:52: Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century, by Jane Ohlmeyer The turbulent seventeenth century in Ireland through the people who saw themselves as its natural leaders – the resident peerage. #nwbooks https://t.co/mGjpue4fzh https://t.co/N0vIf4vHDs https://t.co/4V8E42DTHL
- Wed, 17:03: Faces in the Pool, by Jonathan Gash Lovejoy turns out to have a son who has inherited his gift of divvying; long-suffering apprentice Lydia develops a sudden burst of characterisation, not that it does her much good. #nwbooks https://t.co/MCQT2jgn6A https://t.co/IpUkEFhaVq https://t.co/uxCy5Hhqib
- Wed, 17:14: Challenges for EU foreign policy in 2013 ed. Giovanni Grevi and Daniel Keohane It is a good global review of the situation in various parts of the world, with some ideas for how Europe could deal with them. #nwbooks https://t.co/Kf4BuoPlcS https://t.co/NavcsZ25vj https://t.co/Y84vEiaVro
- Wed, 17:25: British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, eds Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer A collection of essays mainly concentrating on the first half of the 17th century. Lots of fascinating bits of research here #nwbooks https://t.co/K9VpPBWLKV https://t.co/kkIn8rCkct https://t.co/pPxnsPWE7x
- Wed, 17:36: Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho Zen Cho turns a lot of standard tropes sideways, and then injects a dose of Faerie and smart young woman with dragons as well. I really liked this. #nwbooks https://t.co/5x3VmpUEr5 https://t.co/5oWeSQ7cdQ https://t.co/4LuPLh19Dc
- Wed, 17:47: See How Much I Love You, by Luis Leante (Rightly) sympathetic to the plight of the Saharawis, promised self-determination by the International Court and denied it by Spain, Morocco, and the indifferent great powers. #nwbooks https://t.co/QRFfRl4wrl https://t.co/tWEfw5W8U8 https://t.co/E51MvtdfNq
- Wed, 17:58: Blue Box Boy, by Matthew Waterhouse It’s particularly interesting because Waterhouse was a huge fan of the programme before he joined the cast, and also because he did almost no other screen acting afterwards. #nwbooks https://t.co/bmrte4WL0W https://t.co/5YxtAw9d81 https://t.co/3MUch6KPps
- Wed, 17:59: RT @RainbowWar71: @nwbrux I used to keep the equation over my desk at work. Great book.
- Wed, 17:59: RT @ciarantracey: @nwbrux Always planned to read but haven’t – is it worth the time?
- Wed, 18:05: RT @tobyvogel: @nwbrux @ciarantracey I prefer the major motion picture version.
- Wed, 18:20: At Childhood’s End, by Sophie Aldred https://t.co/kW5C9iPLpz
- Wed, 19:25: RT @Saraita101: the thing about the NI Protocol is, what is the alternative? If your answer is a hard border between north and south, you n…
- Wed, 20:41: RT @RainbowWar71: @nwbrux Andrew Smith did an interview in DWM and commented that there were certain things Waterhouse said in the book did…
- Wed, 20:48: RT @Tom_deWaal: After his Czech-born father suffered a stroke in Oxford in the 1980s, Colin Wels opened a black box full of photographs, le…
- Wed, 21:33: RT @TheOnion: Citizens Pay $55 Million Each To Be Part Of Commercial Space Crew Visiting ISS #WhatDoYouThink? https://t.co/asFr3gamTq https…
- Thu, 08:29: The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships It’s grim, and there’s no harm in admitting it. https://t.co/OLJDDeLasa
- Thu, 09:30: Whoniversaries 28 January: NUZZINK IN ZE VURLD CAN STOP ME NOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/LY9uEqHPiL
- Thu, 10:45: Review of UK workers’ rights post-Brexit is axed in sudden U-turn https://t.co/ioKBbkPNrl Good. (Kwarteng was on the Trinity College Cambridge team that beat us from QUB in University Challenge back in 1994.)
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