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Buy my book, keep me off the streets: http://bit.ly/JMgibbons

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did not expect this to be so like the old WILLIAM books, except with way more racism and handjobs

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Gimme Magritte, boys, and free my soul / Ceci n’est pas une rock ‘n’ roll / Green apple face

See, some might say it's NOT a John le Carré Novel, given John le Carré didn't write it.

Unfortunate author/title combo, or inscrutable life advice?

EXCUSE ME THEY'RE GREAT DOGS NOT JUST STANDARD DOGS

How is this perfect cover for Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL not actually a cover for Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL?

Just watched the amazing Indonesian film 'Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts', and am once again begging Australian (pop 30 million) publishers/distributors to make available more Indonesian (pop 275 million, RIGHT NEXT DOOR) stuff here!

the whole "magically exchanging money for books" thing happened again

Not sure how this happened, but doomed British PM Rishi Sunak has somehow got exactly the same facial profile as John Updike.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of "All the Americans posting simultaneously about the exact same thing".

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How it feels to use an em dash

Dear God please let me never hear about JK fucking Rowling in any capacity ever again in my whole long life.

Rich people who promise to match all the donations given to a charity over a certain period of time... How about you just GIVE THEM THE FUCKING MONEY AND NOT GAMIFY IT YOU SELF-AGGRANDISING MOTHERFUCKERS

Somehow I had failed to know this has been available in English for 6 years. Translated by Bart Smet.

Make your own papercraft DUEL for your desk (ideally on company time): papermodel.jp/peterbilt281...

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Seriously academics get genuinely excited about this, it is often the best email they will get all month. I once had a professor send me not just the paper I requested but six more that he'd written that related to the topic he was so happy someone outside academia wanted to read his work

Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!

Yeah, I'll get right on that

Maybe stop calling this shit "manslaughter" and start calling it "murder"?

WRONG DONALD, GOD

From the excellent index to ‘The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse’:

When reading a book, you know who I'd like to hear from even less than Roxane Gay? A chatbot simulacrum of Roxane Gay.

This crappy fake Greens flyer from Senator "I'm a shithead who loves it when Israel murders Australian citizens" Birmingham is a pathetic piece of work that is simply threatening me with a great time. These policies all sound brilliant. Bring it on, motherfucker.

If you'd like a near-as-damnit perfect little novel you can read in one go, might I suggest this?

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

Kids are losing their formative years to long COVID. They want you to know they're not lyingwww.abc.net.au They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and ...

Films that helpfully explain themselves as part of the opening credits, in case you were planning on being an idiot and misunderstanding them. (Avalanche, 1937)

Saw these in a shop, thought I’d better get them in case there was some book-mad person out there who might be tempted to buy them and send themselves into penury.

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I love it when the svreen is put to thrilling use.

Latest acquisitions: DOOM, poetry, stories, DOOM