First lines of first posts in each month (excluding birthday greetings):
What I read Finished Dreams Before the Start of Time, v good.
Am rather tempted by this exhibition Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles, 25th January 2020 - 19th April 2020 (and did get to it, yay)
Bread made during week: brown oatmeal (strong white and wholemeal flour ( Read more... )

Goodness knows I have seen some very weird 'if you bought/liked/read/threw this book across the room, you'll like X other book' suggestions (I may have mentioned, Goodreads actually recs books on the basis that I put Some Other Book on my 'Gave Up' shelf...)
But I'm really honestly not sure that any algorithm would go 'I see you have given My ( Read more... )

I think this possibly fits in with the general pattern of 'Kobo's recommendation algorithm is totally bewildering' - and tends not to flag up forthcoming works by authors I have form for purchasing, how annoying is that? - even more annoying than recommending works that they know perfectly well I have already bought from them, because when I click ( Read more... )

I think I have finally achieved a review that I can send off to the editors of the journal in question that is not too awful - am at the stage of tinkering around with word-choice and ordering, so it's more or less done.
At least it's, more or less, off my conscience now.
New book for review has arrived. As I anticipated, it does not look as if it' ( Read more... )

Oft, dr rdrz, am I boggled at the things that come up as reading recommendations 'because you read/are reading/sometime in the past purchased' etc -
(Possibly the weirdest is Goodreads making recommendations on the basis of works on my Gave Up shelf?)
- but, anyway, just latterly I saw, on Goodreads, because I was reading Somerset Maugham's Liza ( Read more... )