2022 Books

Posted on 26 December, 2022

According to my Books page, I’ve read 46 books this year. I started adding star ratings as tags so can give a list of 5 star books (weight by my enjoyment ) using the lovely display posts plugin.

seven steeples 21/11/2022
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig 09/10/2022
The Glass Hotel 11/09/2022
Small Things Like These 09/09/2022
The family Chao 07/08/2022
Islands of Abandonment 04/07/2022
Blank Pages 22/04/2022
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 06/02/2022
O Caledonia 07/01/2022

Posted on 23 December, 2022

john

Read: The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ★★★★☆ 📚
Hot sweaty, feverish & confusing, unreliable narrators & characters, pickled by heat and rum.

Posted on 23 December, 2022

john

Bookmarked https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/.

Both fascinating & depressing

ScotEduBlogs is now on Mastodon

Posted on 23 December, 2022

john

I’ve just set up a mastodon account for ScotEduBlogs at @scotedublogs@mastodon.scot.

I’ve used IFTT following this post: How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – K²R

If it has worked this post should flow through to mastodon after it appears on SEB.

My mind is on ScotEdublogs after reading:How a return to blogs and wikis could benefit teachers | Tes. A great post I hope to return to presently.

Posted on 17 December, 2022

john

Read: A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore ★★★★☆ 📚
Broken characters crumble with the house. Lyrical countryside. The young ones grow wild. Relationships are awkward or too intense. The first world war appears out of nowhere.

Posted on 13 December, 2022

john

Frosty Plants in the playground today.

Posted on 30 November, 2022

john

Read: The High Window by Raymond Chandler ★★★★☆ 📚
One of a few comfort re-reads. Always enjoy Chandler despite some dated attitudes. This one has the usual slick chat, lots of smoking and a tangled web.

Moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones

Posted on 25 November, 2022

john

In reply to https://social.ds106.us/@jimgroom/109403596054474654.

@jimgroom Posting from my blog to social.ds106.us is working fine. Now replying with the indieblocks plugin & brid.gy.

Posted on 25 November, 2022

john

Listened to this episode of the ATP pocdcast as they were talking about mastodon. They talked about the problems of scaling, large instances and what would happen when celebrities arrive. Personally I don’t want to follow celebrities or even slightly famous people who I can’t engage with. I love the idea of small instances of quite like minded folk combined with the ability to interact with other groups.