#Swift Press

[jenmedsbookreviews]

Haunted Tales by Adam Macqueen

Today Mandie is sharing her thoughts on Haunted Tales, a short story collection by Adam Macqueen @macqueen.adam @_swiftpress @mandie163.mg #books #bookreview #hauntedtales #shortstories

Today it is over to Mandie who is stepping a little away from her normal reading fare to share her thoughts on Haunted Tales by Adam Macqueen. It’s usually me reading the spooky stuff, so I’m as intrigued as everyone else to hear her thoughts. With thanks to publisher Swift Press for the copy via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 24 October 2024Publisher:…

[thegirlwiththelantern]

2024 Historical Fiction Books

Historical fiction hasn’t quite come to me as easily this year as it has in previous. I’ve had to seek out most of these though I am very happy with this selection. The Beholders by Hester Musson | 18 / 01 / 24 – Fourth Estate June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph…

[cherylmmbookblog]

#Blogtour Run To The Western Shore by Tim Pears

It’s a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears. About the Author Tim Pears is a much-admired, prize-winning writer whose prose has been likened to Marquez, Faulkner and Hardy. His recent West Country Trilogy was a critic’s favourite. Born in 1956, Tim grew up in Devon and left school at sixteen. He worked in a wide variety of jobs: welder, librarian,…

[livresgay]

The Shards (de ParisDude)

Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city “A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star…

[lovebooksgroup]

#Bookmail - Auld Acquaintance by Sofia Slater @_SwiftPress #scottishbooktok #booktok #bookstagram #bookbloggers #readers #books #bookpost #read #auldacquaintance #booktwt #bookworm #booktoker #booktube

Auld Acquaintance by Sofia Slater popped through my letterbox and it made me ever so happy. Thank you Swift Press for the gorgeous gifted copy. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and brought to mind? Millie Partridge desperately needs a party. So, when her (handsome and charming) ex-colleague Nick invites her to a Hebridean Island for New Year’s Eve, she books her ticket North. But things go…

[shopwitchvamp]

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[theelastword]

something new about aziraphale that i’m getting emotional over on this fine night (no one is shocked): i cannot stop thinking about the first scene of season 2. specifically i cannot stop thinking about the fact that even then, in a moment where both he and crowley even looked younger due to their innocence / lack of doubt or questioning just yet, aziraphale is already doing somersaults to worry for those around him. he doesn’t even KNOW this angel, and the idea that crowley could get in trouble for asking questions shouldn’t occur to him yet, but he’s still so burdened by anxieties and doubts for other peoples’ well-being and conditioned to protect others at his own expense (not to mention eerily close to seeing through Heaven for what it is). aziraphale is so fundamentally good, worrying about other people and caring about them before the very idea that bad things could happen to a fellow angel SHOULD have ever crossed his mind in the first place. and to me that disproves all notions that aziraphale is naive, because he’s been tragically aware since before the Beginning— and before crowley. which makes moments like the post-Job “what does that make me” scene even sadder because by all accounts, if aziraphale was familiar with what it’s like to doubt and worry before the Fall even happened, before he ever should have known what those things were, then he should have been one of the angels to fall, right? Wondering and doubting and worrying about things leads to a Fall, right? Only he didn’t. In a world in which there’s a line dividing doubtless, brainwashed, “happy” angels from doubtful, too-curious-for-their-own-good demons, aziraphale might just be the loneliest being in existence. he’s quite literally the sole person (that we know of) who stayed an angel but is forced to carry a burden that never should have been his, that NOBODY around him in Heaven has to carry. and he can’t ask about it because now he knows for sure where asking questions leads you, but he probably doesn’t understand why he has to carry that burden in the first place. the one he’s been carrying it since before Earth was even created.

[ohyoufool]

Come one, come all It's happening again The empathetic hunger descends We'll tell no one Except all of our friends But I still don't know How did it end?

How Did It End? - Taylor Swift x OMG Check Please

[onlydylanobrien]

Dylan O'Brien reacts to possibly working with Taylor Swift again in an interview with Access Hollywood during the “Saturday Night” press day at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada. (September 9, 2024)

🎥©: accesshollywood on Instagram

[escapismqueen]

All the non swifties and haters specifically wonder why all of us are so protective of Taylor, but like, that woman is our older sister ! She’s the one who wrote and writes songs about how she felt no matter how many times people told her she shouldn’t. She’s literally the sister that tells their younger sibling ‘don’t take shit from them’ and ‘it’s okay to feel strongly’. Her music is the epitome of girlhood for so many girls, and it hits the same even in adulthood. So when you drag her, we have something to say. Wether you’ve been a swiftie for 10 years or 1 day, you feel the impact of her music and nobody can take that from her or us

[tolerateit]

clink, clink

[alexswift13]

GRAMMYs 2021 vs 2024 AOTY team 🏆

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

On this last Wood Engraving Wednesday of 2023, it seems appropriate to end the year with some engravings by one of the principal revivers of the wood engraving in the early 20th century, Robert Gibbings (1889-1958). Gibbings acquired the Golden Cockerel Press in 1924, and in 1928 the press published this book, Miscellaneous Poems by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) with twelve original wood engravings by Gibbings, printed in Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire in an edition of 375 copies (of which, 150 were distributed in the U. S. by Random House, which had been founded a year earlier).

It also seems appropriate that Gibbings would print and publish a work by Swift as both shared parallels in their biographies: both were writers; both had deep connections to the Anglican Church of Ireland; and both were born in Ireland (Swift to an English family, spending the rest of his life in Ireland; Gibbings to an Irish family, and spending the rest of his life in England). And judging by these engravings, both shared an interest in the whimsical.

Our copy of Miscellaneous Poems is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.

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[zot3-flopped]

https://x.com/eilishdata/status/1793834129928118720

Seeing this real time. You see what they did there. 😂

Excellent!

[preathuswnt]

my worlds colliding <3