Book jockeyhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3my6bflug4k23Throw away your Complete Works of Shakespeare, folks: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/18/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other18 Oct 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3my6bflug4k23https://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3my5cijc3ls23Aquatic fowl, or tech startups?18 Oct 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5cijc3ls23https://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3my3fn3emss2vSoft Cell's 'Sex Dwarf' [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3fn3emss2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3my2wozf6zk2j"It’s a measure of the transformative power of Paramaditha’s writing that, despite the horrors in the book, the overall feeling is of exuberance, of energy and of life." Me on Intan Paramaditha's Night of a Thousand Hells, about a family of suicide bombers and the mess they leave behind: https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/intan-paramadithas-suicide-bomber-sister-act17 Oct 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3my2wozf6zk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxwitxaoik2oDoes Sebastian Faulks know what TikTokers are?15 Oct 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwitxaoik2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxugb74ufs2f“For every The Remains of the Day (good book, good film), there’s a Scarlet Letter (good, bad), The Exorcist (bad, good) or The Da Vinci Code (double-bad, even worse).” Me on Louise Willder’s entertaining compendium of book-to-film disasters (and delights), The Book Was Better: https://www.ft.com/content/47475c60-e5c5-41e6-bff0-6fe245dcddea?shareType=nongift14 Oct 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxugb74ufs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxugb74ufs2f“For every The Remains of the Day (good book, good film), there’s a Scarlet Letter (good, bad), The Exorcist (bad, good) or The Da Vinci Code (double-bad, even worse).” Me on Louise Willder’s entertaining compendium of book-to-film disasters (and delights), The Book Was Better: https://www.ft.com/content/47475c60-e5c5-41e6-bff0-6fe245dcddea?shareType=nongift14 Oct 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxugb74ufs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxqx6p7iwc2sI completed my ‘Booker decades’ overview by writing about ten of the best long- and shortlisted novels from the 2010s - featuring memories from shortlisted authors and judges from the decade, inc Tan Twan Eng, Sunjeev Sahota and Robin Robertson: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-in-the-2010s13 Oct 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqx6p7iwc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxroz7mkis27It's a measure of how bad I am at this game that I've just today discovered there's a special animation if you get them all right with no mistakes. #Keywords > 13 October 2026 🎉 I found all 5 words - perfectly! 🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ keywords.bagpuss.org13 Oct 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxroz7mkis27https://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxqx6p7iwc2sI completed my ‘Booker decades’ overview by writing about ten of the best long- and shortlisted novels from the 2010s - featuring memories from shortlisted authors and judges from the decade, inc Tan Twan Eng, Sunjeev Sahota and Robin Robertson: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-in-the-2010s13 Oct 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqx6p7iwc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxqgs52y5223Incredible softening and qualification ("suggest", "perception", "many", "might", "hoped") here by Chris Mason of poll results which consistently and clearly show - to quote the actual question - that a majority think it was wrong to leave the EU.13 Oct 2026 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqgs52y5223