Currently reading: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 📚

Heart Lamp becomes the first short-story collection to win the world’s most influential award for translated fiction. The £50,000 prize is split 50:50 between author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi, giving each equal recognition. Booker Prize 2025 📚

My first reblog on Micro.blog 🤔 by @JohnPhilpin

💬 content = slop. END OF. But if you present me an essay, book, article, video, pithy comment, observation, slice of humour .. that broadens my mind, my thinking or entertains me .. I’m all over it. Cannot wait for the filters to arrive. To allow me to train my AI to throw content into the trash.

Currently reading: The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson 📚

Currently reading: Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux 📚

Currently reading: The Club by Ellery Lloyd 📚

Finished reading: The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One) by Suzanne Collins. I started it to ensure it was suitable for my son. I did not expect to enjoy it so much 📚

Currently reading: Bright Shiny Things by Barbara Nadel 📚

I am very conflicted on this. I understand that from a Publisher’s perspective, they want to ensure continuous readership. Where do you draw the line, though? Historic movies and books about war could all be censored. However, modern music continues to be using language that is difficult to keep young ones away from. I do not have the answer. Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’ - Roald Dahl - The Guardian

For those who have read The Kite Runner. Is this is a fair statement ? 📚

Finished reading: The Maid by Nita Prose. Amazing storytelling, a shame it mirrors reality too much. If you are different, people will try and use you and abuse you. Nevertheless, this is well written and worth reading or listening. 📚

I was waiting for A Murder at the Castleto be released and so found another book in the interim, in the form of The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. I did not expect it to be this gripping📚.

/cc.@help Could not find the first book on Epilogue

Finished reading: The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith. A bit long in the story and an abrupt ending. I think I might be over critical due to the recent outbursts from J. K. Rowling. 📚

Whilst in Rhodes, I am reading : Triangle at Rhodes by Agatha Christie 📚

This is fiction and still amazes me, what powerful men will try and do to support their own business and financial gain. This snippet is just a glimpse of what still goes on in the world. For full context. A father wants his daughter to latch on to a specific man. 🤷🏽‍♂️

The books I am using as part of my laptop stand. I feel like this was a big thing in lockdown. I will continue it 📚