- Tue, 12:56: Blocked. https://t.co/QfhD9SgBIQ
- Tue, 13:45: RT @Tom_deWaal: The Lachin Corridor opens
- Tue, 13:51: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged: One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. https://t.co/c1tBODKl6f
- Tue, 14:44: Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey Supposedly one of the Great Australian Novels. I was engaged by it pleasantly enough, but the eventual tragic ending seemed to me just a little far-fetched. #nwbooks https://t.co/XGz3y7Sgs2 https://t.co/nYt0wfeBNG https://t.co/e0kZs6Z1hT
- Tue, 15:07: Alias vol 4: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones, by Brian Michael Bendis et al There are so many pages here where Bendis and the artists achieve statements that couldn’t be made in any other medium. #nwbooks https://t.co/csJikCz51E https://t.co/9XdOilFYcc https://t.co/o156rRkhne
- Tue, 15:30: The Treason of Isengard, by J.R.R. Tolkien Do you pronounce the ‘o’s differently in ‘Lord’ and ‘Moria’? I don’t, but Tolkien evidently did, going by his first drafts. #nwbooks https://t.co/dP012FAz49 https://t.co/rw9HYlfShK https://t.co/P1odc81VcM
- Tue, 15:53: The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland The book closes with a historical Who’s Who of 700 individuals; 50-ish are women, 40-ish Irish, none Irishwomen. Surely a bit outdated even in 1985. #nwbooks https://t.co/sYEHa8WnVm https://t.co/XLNwJUF02t https://t.co/3wGFxKUS4K
- Tue, 16:05: Classic TV reportage! https://t.co/SIDd9HOUOc
- Tue, 16:16: Revise the World, by Brenda W. Clough Revived Captain Lawrence Oates endures culture shock at the gender and ethnic emancipation of the twenty-first century, falls in love and rescues his lover from an alien planet. @nwbooks https://t.co/xQS8r4fizD https://t.co/yYtTAKjO0c https://t.co/71zKhBiJQw
- Tue, 16:39: The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, by Stephen Alford The Queen’s advisors, determined to preserve her rule at all costs, much more ruthless than she would have been and also more anti-Catholic. #nwbooks https://t.co/hCbBBBEUo6 https://t.co/k9Pgirfui4 https://t.co/hZYFRZEScK
- Tue, 17:02: Isaac Asimov: A Life of the Grand Master of Science Fiction, by Michael White A pretty pedestrian biography, not probing very deeply into what Asimov thought he was doing, why he was doing it, or why it worked. #nwbooks https://t.co/eS4KCfsJzM https://t.co/68gNcEpQYW https://t.co/07WhdiVgap
- Tue, 17:11: A UK-EU deal is needed for Northern Ireland https://t.co/ehTt0fU8qS by @JulianBKing, former British Ambassador in Dublin, head of the Northern Ireland Office, and the last British Commissioner in Brussels.
- Tue, 17:25: Reading the Oxford English Dictionary, by Ammon Shea I’m sympathetic to mildly absurd reading projects, and discovering your eyesight is not as good as you thought, and to philology, and this book ticks all those boxes. #nwbrux https://t.co/lAAqcHcf6S https://t.co/Ixhhw9fZgt https://t.co/MsAOK4eu4w
- Tue, 17:48: The Summer Before the Dark, by Doris Lessing A woman in her mid-40s gets an opportunity to break away, and grabs it. I found the descriptions excellent, and Kate’s journey to freedom rather exhilarating. #nwbooks https://t.co/wk3Qr5WxLD https://t.co/4LE2ZpEnjm https://t.co/gjULh3E7CG
- Tue, 18:33: December 2008 books, and 2008 roundup https://t.co/i7uhKbS7HO
- Tue, 20:48: How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970 https://t.co/bcYg8kN7A5 Fascinating. Strom Thurmond killed off the initiative. (Would have had a runoff round if winners of popular vote had less than 40% of it.)
- Tue, 22:37: RT @SOFIAtelescope: We detected water on the Moon’s sunlit surface. Understanding the Moon’s water helps piece together the history of…
- Wed, 09:30: Whoniversaries 18 November: Steven Moffat! Ice Warriors #2, Stones of Blood #4, Kerblam! https://t.co/8uDLKn8ar7
- Wed, 10:46: RT @pmdfoster: Those Downing St “Save the Union” units in full…h/t @alexwickham @POLITICOEurope playbook https://t.co/Jwl1bRvmV6
- Wed, 11:37: RT @eastmed_NRG: This event looks interesting I’ll be singing up here https://t.co/ofu8MAG4pt @IdoAharoni @nml777 @AMavroyiannis @Concord…
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