Sarah Matthews

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Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.

Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos

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I’ve written a few thoughts on Agatha Christie’s Endless Night, 1967, one of her standalone novels from her later years and it’s another excellent read! 💙📚 #audiobook #Storygraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/64f6cb4a-f082-4c27-8ecc-04b08cc58072

Review by sarahmatthews - Endless Nightapp.thestorygraph.com Endless Night by Agatha Christie Read on audioNarrator: Hugh FraserHarpercollins Pub. 1967, 2...

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“A ‘love for books’ does not have to mean a choice between weird parasociality and excruciating dryness.” So true. Which is why I choose both. www.currentaffairs.org/news/new-yor...

The NYT Book Review Is Everything Book Criticism Shouldn't Bewww.currentaffairs.org The Review is famous as an arbiter of taste and quality. But the publication utterly fails to seriously engage with books and the publishing industry.

Got up for breakfast but going back to bed with my Braille book, A View of the Harbour, 1947, by Elizabeth Taylor. It’s only my 2nd by her which is surprising really as she’s a contemporary & friend of Barbara Pym. She’s not as popular I guess, as RNIB only had 1 hardcopy Braille book to offer me 💙📚

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I loved her and she loved me... in our own way, of course. It's always in our own way. This book has undone me

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About the only good thing in this world is that there seems to be no end to the supply of great mid-century women writers. (Admittedly often sadly neglected, but they're there to be found.)

Reading a bit of Sally Rooney in the #NewYorker while the boys watch the football this evening 💙📚 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/opening-theory-fiction-sally-rooney?utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter

“Opening Theory,” by Sally Rooneywww.newyorker.com Looking over at her, he starts to smile again—revising, she thinks, the presumption of failure.

Woke up at 4am and was swept away by election fever so it’ll be a sedate swim this morning! 🥱 #GE2024 #GTTO #UKGE

I’ve written a few thoughts on Casting Off, 1997, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, the 4th in the Cazalet Chronicles series, in which the family adjust to peacetime living in a changed England 💙📚 https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fc02b491-e86c-413f-80e5-bc6f932ddd4a

Review by sarahmatthews - Casting Offapp.thestorygraph.com Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard Read in Braille Simon & Schuster Pub. 1997, 496pp ...

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For Disability Pride Month I’m once again begging for more artists to start considering accessibility and add alt text to your images. It helps low/no vision folks, neurodivergent folks, and more. Plus alt text shows up in searches! There’s a toggle in settings so you won’t forget. 👇

Reading this one ahead of the @backlisted.bsky.social podcast event this month at Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road… never been to a live podcast recording before so it’s very exciting! And for one of my favourite authors too 💙📚

Just started Endless Night by Agatha Christie on audio and Hugh Fraser is narrating it - I see why he’s so rated, very nice to listen to and a change from some of the recent incredibly old audio I’ve been listening to from the RNIB with crackling and words being tripped over etc 🤣 #BookSky 💙📚

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New episode up now. Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with guest Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social in conversation with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bksy.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

I’ve just read Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers which continues the relationship of Lord Peter & Harriet Vane… looking forward to the 3rd in their story arc, Gaudy Night next 💙📚 https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f523b774-16a7-4c34-96a5-a460aaf07686

Review by sarahmatthews - Have His Carcaseapp.thestorygraph.com Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers Read on audio Narrator: Stephen Jack for RNIB Pub. 193...

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"The cycle begins again: a doleful, lethargic day when I’m unable to do anything creative. Then the waiting returns, the desire, and the suffering, because in the type of relationship we have, I’m at the mercy of his phone calls." #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/g...

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer)jacquiwine.wordpress.com The Nobel Prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux has risen in prominence in recent years, partly due to Fitzcarraldo Editions’ support for her books. She writes, with remarkable candour, clarity and...

Off to The Horniman Museum today for this exhibition about my favourite drink! Been meaning to go for ages and it’s now or never as it closes very soon🫖 #tea #museums https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/cha-chai-tea/#content

茶, चाय, Tea (Chá, Chai, Tea) - Horniman Museum and Gardenswww.horniman.ac.uk What’s in a cup of tea? 茶, चाय, Tea explores the many stories of Britain’s national drink, spanning millennia and connecting communities across the world.

Being treated to a very angelic rendition of Too Sweet by Hozier this morning as our 12 year old gets ready for school! 🎶

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I’ve written some thoughts on Blind Spot by Maud Rowell, a short book that packs a punch! These essays are so insightful, writing about issues close to my heart in a far more eloquent way than I could ever mamage 💙📚 ♿️ https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/84af5c9d-cede-4358-9941-9651cc1497c9

Review by sarahmatthews - Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindnessapp.thestorygraph.com Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell Read in Braille 404 Inkling...

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“The wild briar rose and elder are the flowers which most distinctly speak of June and midsummer” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe writer: EL Grant Watson

I Really want to visit Lee Miller’s house now after reading about it in this article, and the film sounds good too #art #surrealism https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/jun/22/footsteps-of-lee-miller-and-surrealists-tour-arty-sussex-retreat?utm_source=press.coop

In the footsteps of Lee Miller and the surrealists: a tour of her arty Sussex retreatwww.theguardian.com A film about the war photographer and model Lee Miller will be released this year. Her son is our guide for a trip to Farleys, her art-filled Sussex home

Review by sarahmatthews - Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindnessapp.thestorygraph.com Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell Read in Braille 404 Inkling...

Finally writing my review of Blind Spot by Maud Rowell this morning - it’s always so hard to write about the books you most adore isn’t it?! Could be a long one 😆 💙📚

Having one of those weeks where I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday! 😣

Here are a few thoughts on my trip to The Royal Academy of Arts printmaking workshop today, a great event that helped me get creative again #Disability #blind ♿️ https://tweesecake.social/@sarahmatthews/112616533105916812 Sarah Matthews

Sarah Matthews (@[email protected])tweesecake.social I went to the Make and Connect: Textured Printmaking workshop this morning at The Royal Academy of Arts in central London. This was a new experience for me as all the art events I’ve been to since bec...

Off to an art workshop at The Royal Academy of Art tomorrow & I’m getting nervous! It’s about the urban landscape and will involve printmaking so it’s just my thing, but as it’s for people with any type of disability I’m not sure quite how easy it’ll be for me to join in as a totally blind person 🤞

Been to Stockholm to celebrate our nephew’s college graduation, Studenten. He had a fab day, starting with a champagne breakfast then Each class came rushing out to their chosen music. They put on boiler suits, got on open topped trucks & travelled around the city spraying beer at each other!

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‘Swallows’ (1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Birds and how they Live, 1966)

Still using Twitter for very random things, mostly searching… I just typed in “Andy Miller my Riley” in a bid to find a book Andy from Backlisted podcast has been going on about and it worked a treat haha! It’s so odd which fragments of info my brain chooses to remember! 💙📚

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Ladybird artist Bernard Robinson was a native of Croydon. Here - in all its unapologetically concrete, 1970s glory - is an illustration from ‘Road Sense’. (The models here are his children)

Starting Blind Spot by Maud Rowell - essays by a blind writer, part of the Inklings series. At just 100pp it’s the right size for a book about being blind as they quite rightly detail the ways in which the world is not accessible to us for sighted readers, & for me that can get quite depressing! 💙📚