Read: Havoc by Rebecca Wait ★★★★☆📚
Collapsing girls boarding school, where the buildings and most of the characters are broken. Illness, hysteria & comedy ensue. Mostly through the eyes of the most normal mistress & Ida, new 6th year fleeing from a Scottish islands scandal. I raced through.
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi again
Re-Read: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi ★★★★☆ I’ve read this 5 years ago, complete forgot even as I read!
Read The Unwilding by Mariana Kemp ★★★★★📚
An excellent artist as monster, but looking at the fallout for other characters more than the monster himself. Two main narrators, the possibility of some unreliability, time & location change make for a captivating read.
Social media is a river. Your post there might get a lot of eyeballs but it’s very quickly lost in the ceaseless flow. In contrast, a blog post like this one is smaller and slower, but more enduring.
bog thawPaul Chambers
the slow lift
of frogspawn
...
heather slope
a skylark vanishes
into its note
Better Search & Replace
I’ve noticed that the old edutalk.cc domain is broken on Radio Edutalk. I had a a couple of hundred or so links on this site to the .cc domain. Just used Better Search Replace – WordPress plugin to change edutalk.cc to edutalk.info which reported:
During the search/replace, 1 tables were searched, with 435 cells changed in 260 updates.
. Seems to have done the trick, I limited the search to the post content. Very much appreciate the plugin authors.
#silentSunday
Read: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ 📚
Back reading Elizabeth Strout after a couple of years break. She brings together lots of characters from different books. Olive is still my favourite. The first half of this was a bit too diffuse & simple, but somehow pulled it together so that the second half felt very much in the Olive vein.
@manton is offering free blog hosting for teachers & nurses on micro.blog. Micro blog is fully featured, should be especially interesting to teachers who want to own the content they share on social media. Micro.blogs cross posting is peerless. Of course for Scot’s teachers I’d recommend Glow.
