bobbygw
Love books, feminism, human rights, culture. Occasional book/film reviewer (bobbygw.com). Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Ahem. A curator of feminism, writers & books at scoop.it/u/bobbygw
- Reposted by bobbygwToni Morrison considers Blackness in the literary canon and what Flannery O’Connor’s fiction reveals about race in America.
- #Trump #Noem #ICE U.S. District Judge Fred Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo #Ramos and his father from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. His three-page opinion is fiery, scathing, & brilliant (see second link below). www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/u... bit.ly/4c37T3e
- #booksky for #horrorfiction #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 More fat than meat: The Lamb, a gristly debut literary horror novel by Lucy Rose. bobbygw.com/2026/01/30/s...
- #booksky for #literaryfiction #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙 27 new books out in February. Previously unpublished nonfiction by Toni Morrison; fiction by Tayari Jones, Lauren Groff and Mario Vargas Llosa; Gavin Newsom’s memoir; and more. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
- #booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Five great historical fictions by modern novelists. Excellent choices by Virginia Feito, author of the acclaimed novels Victorian Psycho (my mini review further below), and Mrs March. bit.ly/49ZXL8W
- #booksky highly recommended for #shortstories #literaryfiction #ClassicStories #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 “A National Art Form” John Stauffer on Rediscovering the 19th-Century American Short Story, from Poe to Wharton. bit.ly/3Z9tCiu
- #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Brownshirts #StormTroopers #Trump Fascism in Action: Videos Showing Aggressive #ICE Tactics in #Minnesota Fuel Backlash. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- #booksky recommended for #booklovers 📚💙 The world’s most influential book critic? Jack Edwards, 27 years old, shapes the online world’s reading habits using #BookTok & #BookTube, with 809k & 1.57m followers respectively. But can he handle his success? Profile by George Monaghan. bit.ly/3ZuPo0d
- #booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 📚💙 Obituary: Bestselling Latvian author Nora Ikstena has died aged 56. Her novel Soviet Milk was translated into 25 languages & longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It won the Latvian Literature Award. www.peirenepress.com/nora-ikstena...
- #CivilRights #activism #feminism The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops. By Gary Younge, author and journalist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- #health #habits #aging #wellbeing #LivingWell Six daily habits to slow aging, from a Harvard brain expert. Harvard scientist Rudolph Tanzi shares his plan for brain health and aging well, including habits for sleep, stress and social interaction. wapo.st/4bI41o8
- #booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #literarycriticism #booklovers 📚💙 A superb, insightful essay and appreciation of four major novels by Nobel prizewinner László Krasznahorkai: Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, & Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming. bit.ly/462ObRp
- #booksky highly recommended for #nonfiction #fiction #history #booklovers 📚💙 Great new paperbacks out this month in American history (two outstanding titles), literary history and more. wapo.st/4qrhchQ
- #booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 🖋️📚💙 Seven by Joanna Kavenna – A madcap novel on the limits of philosophy. With its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality – even as it slips from our intellectual grasp. bit.ly/3NyUztf
- #booklovers #comics 📚💙 Obituary: Scott Adams, bestselling Dilbert comic strip creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68. His comic strip was once published in 2,000+ newspapers. Publishers cut ties with Mr. Adams after he made racist comments on a YouTube live stream. wapo.st/4jHmeV4
- #CivilRights #activism #feminism Obituary: Claudette Colvin, unsung civil rights pioneer, dies at 86. Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery. She became a star witness in a civil rights case. wapo.st/4qXLlp6
- Journalist Laura Jedeed was hired by #ICE after just one six-minute interview. ICE appears to have done zero background checks on her. youtube.com/shorts/XwJtg...
- #booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #AnneTyler #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Profile: At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel (Her 25th, Published in 2025). She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...
- #booksky for #womenwriters #artists #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Molly Parkin has died, aged 93. She was an artist, writer, fashion editor and raconteur whose bohemian lifestyle inspired her bonkbuster novels. sco.lt/6i25bM
- #booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #winter #booklovers 📚💙 The perfect little book to get you through winter's doldrums. In Winter: The Story of the Season, the prolific mystery writer Val McDermid offers a warm look at a dark time. wapo.st/4jwCiJ4
- #Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #Minneapolis #Maduro Maduro in Minneapolis: A compelling, important article by Timothy Snyder, the award-winning historian, author, and authority on tyranny and dictatorships. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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- #booksky highly recommended for #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Highly anticipated nonfiction out in 2026, inc Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, Namwali Serpell's study of Toni Morrison's oeuvre, novelist Jayne Anne Phillips' memoir of Appalachia, & Rebecca Solnit essays. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
- #booksky highly recommended for the reality of US #DrugTreatment #DrugAddiction #DrugRehabilitation #booklovers 📚💙
- #booksky for #health #HeartHealth 🫀⚕️📚💙 Eric Topol*, cardiologist & author: ‘I'm a cardiologist. Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.’ wapo.st/4suCEnK
- #booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Margaret Atwood settles old scores. The novelist explains she holds grudges – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading. Review by Frances Wilson, award-winning biographer. spectator.com/article/marg...
- #booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #biographies 📚💙 19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham. wapo.st/4jnbfQl
- #booksky for #booksellers #booklovers 📚💙 PBS News Hour (YouTube): How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy. youtu.be/Z9kOIcNUMnQ?...
- #booksky recommended for #memoirs #feminism #history #biographies #film #booklovers 📚💙 A look back at some great books from 2025. A history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a biog of Joan Crawford, the making of Mary Poppins, the civil rights activist/leader Audley Moore, & more. wapo.st/44UDArn
- #booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙 A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher. www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
- #Obituaries: Over the past 12 months, the world said goodbye to a groundbreaking naturalist and a prizefighter, a movie director, actors and environmentalists, singers, whistleblowers, reporters and activists. wapo.st/3LgfGjc
- Highly recommended for #HelpingOthers #GivingGrace Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives. www.cnn.com/us/donations...
- #booksky fun for #JaneAusten #Janeites #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- #censorship Bari Weiss, Paramount's/Ellison's corporate shill, has spiked 60 Minutes story* of the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's notorious max-security prison. (*Cleared by CBS attorneys & CBS Standards & Practices.) www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
- #booksky recommended for #nonfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living with the Amish, Dies at 91. Plain and Simple, her bestselling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
