Readintotemptation
🌻Contemporary, translated & literary fiction reader & reviewer
🌻 2nd hand/charity shop book lover
🥐 I can usually be found anywhere there's pastries📍Manchester, UK
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- So far, May's reading has been decidedly meh! Not wowed by any - a few, including Chopping Onions on My Heart and Mary Barton were pretty good. I'm waiting for that knock out work. #booksky #lovereading #Mayreads
- Did a little happy dance when I stumbled on one of Susan Abulhawa's novels I've not read in Oxfam today. Mornings in Jenin and Against the Loveless World were just brilliant so I have high hopes for this. #booksky #palestinianliterature #bookcommunity #readersofbooksky
- Considering we've had half -term in April, I managed to read far more than I was expecting. Admittedly, some of them were pretty short, snappy reads I could fit in around trips to the park. #booksky #reading
- Today's reading spot by the lake. I'm very much enjoying Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. What is everyone else up to today? #booksky #bookcommunity
- Reposted by ReadintotemptationHello––my book Underland has been adapted into a feature film & the world premiere is at Tribeca in June. It's taken 4.5 years––& the team’s created something astonishing. A documentary that's groundbreaking in form, voice & tone. I hope you might see it one day. Full account on IG (@robgmacfarlane)
- I also FINALLY got my arse round to reviewing Saba Sam's Gunk. Now I have to make a start on her debut short story collection @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.instagram.com/readintotemp...
- My review of the Palestinian-American writer, Etaf Rum's novel, Evil Eye that I read almost a year ago now. www.instagram.com/readintotemp... #booksky #palestinianliterature #Palestinianbooks #ukbookreviewer #bookcommunity
- My weekend secondhand charity shop book finds. Both were in a practically new condition. I've already jumped right into The House in the Cerulean Sea. #booksky #charityshopbooks #thriftedbooks
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- Such an eclectic taste in books probably sums up my reading so far this month. How would you sum up yours? #booksky #bookcommunity #lovereading
- I managed to finish the last few pages of Lucy Rose's, The Lamb this morning just in time for the author talk I'm going to tonight @serenitybookshop.bsky.social that includes Susan Barker author of Old Soul. #indiebookshop #horrorbooks
- It's the book everyone's talking about and for once I resisted the temptation to buy it....and instead talked my boyfriend into buying it so I could read it after him😆. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #CarelessPeople #Meta #nonfiction
- Just finished Mrs Caliban and it's exactly my kinda weird. Feminist magical realism are it's best. Now to finish Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis. #booksky
- Today's reading plans involved a bucket of coffee and Lucy Rose's new novel The Lamb. #TheLamb #BookSky #BookCommunity @wnbooks.bsky.social
- Some pretty fab bookish merchandise arrived a few days ago that I thought I'd share. It's from the literary emporium & this was part of their lucky dip sale. My favourite has to be the Maya Angelou pin badge. £12 for the whole box I thought was pretty good. #booksky
- Two very different books but I'm really into both. HhhH is my local bookclub read for this month. Then I'm reading A Language of Limbs as part of a book tour & it's usually through these that I discover some of the most amazing books. #ukbookreviewer #ukbooklover #bookcommunity
- Managed to squeeze in an hour of reading outside, only for a killer migraine to hit. This always happens when the sun comes out. #booksky #booklover
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- A few book recommendations for #internationalwomensday by authors such as Roxane Gay, Alice Walker, Mikki Kendall, Angela Davis, Helena Kennedy, Cordelia Fine & Elinor Gleghorn What book would you recommend on International Women's Day? #booksky
- Last night I finished The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara & whilst I process that one i thought I'd try & pick up where I left off with Anthony Doerr's, Cloud Cuckoo Land. Any excuse to get outside to read & I'm on it. #booksky #reading #readingoutdoors
- How was everyone's reading month? Any standout reads? Here are my reading stats, I'm such a geek for these kind of things #readingwrapup #booklovers
- Look what I picked up yesterday from @waterstones.bsky.social My preorder of Fundamentally by Nussainah Younis. I've been so excited for this one. #booksky #bookcommunity @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
- I'm reading a book, Culture is Bad, that reinforces this. Sad but unsurprising & it definitely chimes with my own experiences #workingclassvoices #workingclassart #workingclasscreatives
- The stand out books so far this month have been Susan Abulhawa's, Against the Loveless World and Octavia Butler's, Parable of the Sower. I also finished Gunk by Saba Sams yesterday & loved that too. #booksky #bookcommunity
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- Finishing Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa today hopefully then I've got less than 100 pages of Parable of Sower. What is everyone reading this weekend? #booksky #bookcommunity
- My 3 current reads because I have & will always be a book juggler. Unfortunately, I cannot be faithful to one book at a time😆 Any other jugglers out there? #booksky #booklovers #bookcommunity
- I took myself off to the park on my lunch break yesterday to finish Julia Kelly's, The Fisherman's Gift. What a beautifully devastating book. Thanks to @vintagebooks.bsky.social for this copy, which is due out in March.
- This is a call to head to your local libraries this week especially (any week is a good week to visit a library so pop in) #childrensmentalhealthweek #readingwell
- I'm really looking forward to attending this event in March It's been too long since I've been to a bookish talk & here is a double helping 📖@serenitybookshop.bsky.social #TheLamb #OldSoul #Booksky #authortalk @wnbooks.bsky.social
- I'll also be supporting this fantastic campaign throughoilut February. Let's get more children reading #ReadItForward @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
- Also, thought I'd share my recent secondhand book finds, The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner & We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman. #secondhandbooks #charityshopfinds #thriftedbooks
- My competition win arrived over the weekend & I'm so excited to start reading this proof copy of Gurnaik Johal's Saraswati, voted by the Observer as one of the best new novelists of 2025 #serpentstail #bestnewnovelists #bookskye
- Reposted by ReadintotemptationDorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
- This was pretty much how i spent much of my Sunday, in my xmas pjs drinking tea & reading a proof of The Fisherman's Gift by Julia Kelly #harvillsecker #2025bookreleases #2025books
- Out out for the first time in soooooo long to see Now That's What I Call a Musical at The Opera House in Manchester. Bring on the 80s music
- This sounds like an incredibly worthy charity. Books really are amazing #bookcommunity #readers
- I'm taking part in a year long read along of The Count of Monte Cristo & I'm only 50 pages in but I can't stop reading, it's brilliant. It's size is intimidating but it's not as difficult a read as I was expecting. #booksky #bookcommunity
