- Tue, 12:33: RT @jmlw1: @nwbrux Yes. ‘sovereignty’. Is the opposition’s best plan to abstain, do you think? Or vote against? Voting ‘for’ seems to be…
- Tue, 12:56: James Tiptree Jr. and Joanna Russ: Sci-Fi Pen Pals https://t.co/p5uvDLVdPK Actually sounds like only one side is well preserved (Sheldon to Russ), but it will do!
- Tue, 13:48: RT @jmlw1: @nwbrux I’d have agreed with you too. I can see SNP and NI MPs position too, possibly Plaid Cymru. I’m not clear that the other…
- Tue, 14:11: RT @MarkyGoodrich: @jmlw1 @nwbrux For the Labour Party, abstention looks the best policy as @jonworth said ages ago. Rare misstep by Keir…
- Tue, 15:00: Unfinished Tales, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien Taken on its own merits, there are some excellent bits here. The first half of the book is especially good. #nwbooks https://t.co/OdfcDW2Acp https://t.co/LBlfefbvRo https://t.co/0YWBKew7Bn
- Tue, 15:18: The Genius of Shakespeare, by Jonathan Bate Bate's thesis: a) Shakespeare v good at relatable characters, b) an actor, good at technical stage writing, c) lived in a time & place his works were preserved & propagated. #nwbooks https://t.co/yyQlgph6tR https://t.co/aavKe3iAi4 https://t.co/3vrrwjhNX2
- Tue, 15:23: RT @arrroberts: @nwbrux You'd never heard of William Empson? Really?
- Tue, 15:24: RT @arrroberts: @nwbrux (Not trying to Empshame you, by the way. I suppose there's no reason why you would. It's just that he's such an imp…
- Tue, 15:36: As You Like It, by William Shakespeare Once Shakespeare has got them all to the forest, we just watch the characters interact, and it is fun. Is "William" the country lad an ironic self-portrait? Do the brothers echo his own relationships? #nwbooks https://t.co/euXVccND1y https://t.co/yKJK6zIc1o
- Tue, 15:54: Geschiedenis van het Nederlands, by Marijke van der Wal and Cor van Bree A very approachable introduction to the history of the Dutch language for undergraduates. Much more controversy and politics than I had realised. #nwbooks https://t.co/eAqrrnrD5m https://t.co/Kph798lmme https://t.co/VRLtp9XgI5
- Tue, 16:05: Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work? https://t.co/oN4TDdvMh0 Actually he was procrastinating on both counts.
- Tue, 16:12: Het Boek Van Alle Dingen / The Book of Everything, by Guus Kuijer For children. Kuijer gives a very strong sense of a repressed Dutch society of the early 1950s, still coming to terms with the recent war and occupation. #nwbooks https://t.co/xZaI2cIWMd https://t.co/pmSMpRykda https://t.co/8NfolXYuVq
- Tue, 16:30: Last Exit to Babylon, by Roger Zelazny The later 1970s were a productive and fertile time for Zelazny's imagination; the one problem with this volume, 4th of 6 collecting his short fiction, is I have read it all before. #nwbooks https://t.co/yv603MeA9Q https://t.co/KVS5m4nNw0 https://t.co/oFkbqS4CPa
- Tue, 16:48: The Listener, by Tove Jansson & Christmas Days, by Jeanette Winterson Two short story collections by two different lesbian authors. Very different, of course. #nwbooks https://t.co/G32FkVkWJj https://t.co/moRv4BXnOa https://t.co/1BkXyblM5p https://t.co/6EbjfbS0p1
- Tue, 17:06: Ali�nor: La L�gende Noire, vols 3 and 4, Delalande, Mogavino & Gomez From Eleanor's first pregnancy in 1144 to her second marriage in 1152. Vol 3 mainly Second Crusade; Vol 4 the Plantagenets. #nwbooks https://t.co/lJPKyELEkM https://t.co/zqxQktYOnI https://t.co/oHu1082DC1 https://t.co/BpNebwmJ6k
- Tue, 17:18: RT @OECD: [#Bestof2020] Top 5 OECD countries with the highest levels of life satisfaction: 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇳🇴 Norway 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇳🇱…
- Tue, 17:24: The Autumnlands, Vol. 1: Tooth and Claw, by Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey Wizards summon an ancient hero who (unlike them) is a human & outwits the enemy due to his superior human intellect. #nwbooks https://t.co/hQ64rhBmO0 https://t.co/hQ64rhBmO0 https://t.co/CV9dYtFptE https://t.co/q17qailOAs
- Tue, 17:42: Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust The last volume is very approachable - we still have endless parties, but the author has grown up and is working through what this means for life. #nwbooks https://t.co/JXOQDZfCsW https://t.co/TLmNDyr9OR https://t.co/KTQHFEe9yp
- Tue, 18:00: Really good. A story in three parts. 1) Gert throws a party but Robbie doesn't show. 2) Robbie works his charm on lonely Noemie. 3) Gert catches up with Robbie. Extraordinarily expressive watercolour art. Recommended. #nwbooks https://t.co/VUteCowAGu https://t.co/Q6UEpCGWae https://t.co/rHg4bALO2B
- Tue, 18:14: A frozen musician is revived... A man hunts robots in Los Angeles, later filmed as Blade Runner... Can the leader of a space colony abandon his planet? (Spoiler: no.) 2021 as seen by twentieth century science fiction: https://t.co/jJjSB9msme
- Tue, 18:25: The Anything Box, by Zenna Henderson https://t.co/EYTXv5K1O1
- Tue, 19:10: July 2009 books https://t.co/Zb2XzqE7i3
- Tue, 21:26: RT @sierrakim: @nwbrux I loved The People stories . Don’t know how I missed this and her other work!
- Tue, 21:37: RT @RobotArchie: @nwbrux I’ve always felt that “Home is the Hangman” is up there with “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” as a story which doe…
- Wed, 00:36: RT @hayward_katy: "Cut-out-and-keep" ✂️📌 A 4-tweet thread for every person living in N.Ireland who might well wonder what #Brexit means in…
- Wed, 09:30: Whoniversaries 30 December: two weddings, Enemy of the World #2, Three Doctors #1, Power of Kroll #2 https://t.co/0VtldlsG7k
- Wed, 11:11: New issue of the fanzine Journey Planet, for free - special theme on the Soviet/Russian space programme - pages 92-94 are by ME so it's very important. https://t.co/eSrqPbinjs
- Wed, 11:58: This is completely untrue. Regulation No 1 lists the EU’s official languages; it has not been changed and nobody is talking about changing it. https://t.co/hEUoxD5n9F Also the first national language of Ireland is Irish not Gaelic. https://t.co/6okEw4SeOi
