From the Heart of Europe

• Sat, 12:56: RT @jeannette_ng: Whenever someone disses Mary Sues, I think about how Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried under their middle earth OC na…
• Sat, 14:18: RT @richardpbacon: I honestly think Radio 4 should have a moratorium on interviewing Ian Duncan Smith and David Davis about Brexit. They mi…
• Sat, 14:21: RT @pmdfoster: So @tconnellyRTE has written some top things about #Brexit and Ireland, but none better than this...John Bercow should print…
• Sat, 14:40: RT @NellJenda: It was great fun altogether. We even got a bit of spring sunshine! https://t.co/jY1rL1DXFE
• Sat, 14:48: This is glorious. @Andy_Wilson1 and @AndyParkWilson take note! https://t.co/Ec2x9k4vGS
• Sat, 17:50: RT @Dublin2019: The Dublin Access team has an important message to anyone with access needs, specifically those requiring mobility scooter…
• Sat, 19:17: RT @kevinhorourke: This is the kind of headline that Varadkar should never have allowed to emerge. It is potentially toxic but unsurprising…
• Sat, 20:00: My week on Twitter 🎉: 62 Mentions, 11.5K Mention Reach, 445 Likes, 124 Retweets, 464K Retweet Reach. See yours with… https://t.co/qT2uRhmUkZ
• Sat, 20:48: No comment. https://t.co/OP0yV9wHgE
• Sat, 23:40: Hahahhahah https://t.co/7Ni9zNZIQ1

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Given the Hugos, and the fact that I’m in the middle of two very long books, this has been a sparse month...

Plays: 1 (YTD 1)
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sf (non-Who): 3 (YTD 15)
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Doctor Who, etc: 1 (YTD 4)
Present Danger, ed. Eddie Robson


1,500 pages (YTD 11,000)
1/5 (YTD 12/36) by non-male writers (μ1)
2/5 (YTD 4/36) by PoC (ι1, κ1)
0 rereads (YTD 2/36)

Reading now
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
Combat Magicks, by Steve Cole

Coming soon (perhaps):
Troll Bridge, by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
De Terugkeer van de Wespendief, by Aimee de Jongh
Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones
A Sunless Sea by Anne Perry
Feersum Endjinn, by Iain M Banks
The Ginger Man, by J. P. Donleavy
Bland Ambition, by Steve Tally
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, ed. Kevin J. Anderson
In Another Light, by Andrew Greig
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O'Driscoll
“Goat Song”, by Poul Anderson
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham
1913: The World before the Great War, by Charles Emmerson
The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement, by Paul Bew
Sovereign by R.M. Meluch
The Weather on Versimmon, by Matthew Griffiths