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arratoon, to books
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Book 27, 2024: Hunter in Huskvarna - Sara Stridsberg
Short-story collection by Swedish writer. I picked this up on a whim in a bookshop’s closing-down sale, and I’m glad I did. Many of the stories are in different styles, demonstrating her versatility. It’s great to discover a new writer whose work you want to explore further. @bookstadon

reginasbread, to random
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English speaking person: pigeon
English speaking person with a Polish accent: pidżon

arratoon,
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@reginasbread Haha. Now do ‘squirrel’! 😉

arratoon, to london
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Went to the Biba exhibition at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles in London. #London #fashion #Biba #clothes #museums

A collection of Biba dresses. Because of tax laws, in the 1960s some dresses were sold as ‘dressing gowns’.
A bright orange top and shorts.
A brightly coloured blouse

arratoon,
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Barbara Hulanicki started life as a fashion illustrator, and her work was really impressive

Illustration of a woman, in white on black paper
Illustration of a woman wearing a black vest top with a long skirt
Illustration of a woman wearing a diaphanous dress, with large sequins on the sleeves

arratoon, to books
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Book 27, 2024: Your Love is Not Good by Johanna Hedva. Best book I’ve read this year, this incendiary novel follows an artist who becomes obsessed with a model, builds a career, fucks up their career, reflects on trauma, whiteness, Berlin, kink, dogs… So good.

@bookstadon

reginasbread, to random
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day 1 of wearing Mitsouko.
right after spraying, it gives rich old woman because the initial powdery notes are similar to Chanel no. 5. they have similar notes, but Mitsouko is much warmer and spicier.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread I was once working in an office in London during a disgustingly hot sticky summer. No air con. I nipped to the loo and sprayed myself with a Penhaligon’s lime cologne. When I got back my colleague sniffed the air, and said, approvingly: “Good idea; insect repellent.”

arratoon, to random
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Me, two drinks in, picking up my phone for an evening on Mastodon

Emathion, to random German
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Sir Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, CBE, FRSA würde heute seinen 103. Geburtstag feiern.

arratoon,
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@NatureMC @Emathion CBE is Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Basically a category of Knighthood, meaning he was Sir Peter.

arratoon,
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@NatureMC @Emathion FRSA means he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

arratoon,
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@NatureMC @Emathion Ustinov was one of the great raconteurs who would often be on UK TV when I was a child, just talking marvellously. Kenneth Williams could be relied upon for that too.

arratoon, to books
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Book 26, 2024: 561 by Katherine Heiny

Turns out this was a short story, and not the novel I took it for when I opened ed it on my phone’s Kindle app. No matter, it’s funny, as you’d expect from the American writer, and deals with a woman helping her husband help his ex-wife move house. Enjoyable. @bookstodon

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I ain't gonna lie 10 mins after waking on a Sunday morning all I wanna do is sleep 😴

arratoon,
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@Jaden3 Sounds like a plan. (I ran for 7km, did lots of cooking, watched two bike races on TV. I think you’ve had the better idea.)

reginasbread, to random
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I have no idea why people are so obsessed with train seats that are like 2 and 2 with a table between them. those are literally the worst, in my opinion. I prefer not to be seated vis a vis strangers and not to arrange my legs between theirs.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread Nor bang your knee on the table leg…

arratoon, to animals
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Someone I know lives in Cape Town. Because of fires, animals’ habitats have been destroyed, meaning they are moving closer to where people live.

The other day her daughter walked into the kitchen to find a baboon sitting on the countertop, happily eating one of her bananas.

arratoon, to books
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Book 25, 2024: When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold - Alia Trabucco Zerán (tr Sophie Hughes)

The writer of The Remainder charts four infamous murders in Chile throughout the 20th Century, looking at the women’s motivations for murder, and how they were treated by the media in a patriarchal country. Another excellent release from the always reliable And Other Stories. @bookstodon

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ughh I just finished All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. I am sad and full of rage.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread Such a good film.

franksting, to books
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How’s your ? @bookstodon

arratoon,
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@franksting @bookstodon Like your pile but x 4

arratoon, to random
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NEW DIRTY THREE ALBUM KLAXON!! https://driftrecords.com/products/dirty-three-love-changes-everything?variant=48224643940636&utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=Tv7D3D-wPlcpBbNNqEojgaD-o2fZyFMj-TeUtaxzMic.YtKK5C

arratoon,
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@iraantlers Listen here https://dirtythree.bandcamp.com/album/love-changes-everything

arratoon,
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@iraantlers Yeah, something different. They’re playing live in Aus. I hope they do London at some point. I’ve seen them a couple of times, and they’re amazing.

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Book 24, 2024: Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler

Another great story by the queen of quotidian lives that are deeper and more moving than first appear. @bookstadon

arratoon, to random
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Watching a French film, and the only person who isn’t smoking in it is the dog.

arratoon, to Lisboa
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Book 23, 2024: Requiem A Hallucination – Antonio Tabucchi

This slim volume by the Italian writer who spent a lot of time in Portugal was written in Portuguese, and features a narrator walking around Lisbon, and other places, looking for memories and ghosts, including Fernando Pessoa. It’s a dreamlike novella, and features a lot of food.

It’s the first of his novels I’ve read, and now I need to go deeper.

#Lisbon #Lisboa #books #reading

@bookstadon

kimlockhartga, to books
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@bookstodon Hey, I love me some Penguin Random House as much as the next reader, but I'm also interested in the indies, which are usually more daring than the Big Five.

Favorite indie publishers? Please add to my list:

Two Dollar Radio
Bluemoose
Unnamed Press
Coffeehouse
Small Beer
Graywolf
Catapult
Driftwood
Black Spot
Future Tense
Copper Canyon
Tin House
Dzanc
Melville House
Quirk
Blackwater
Red Hen
City Lights
Algonquin
Black Rose
Hellbound
Wakefield
Fledgling

arratoon,
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@JimRion @bookstodon @kimlockhartga I love their original small-format books.

reginasbread, to random
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accepting milf recs.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread Bárbara Lennie 😍

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