Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Dr Andrew McInnes
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Bound is 30! (But doesn’t seem to be showing in the North West?) ((I am old))
Reading Wagner’s Ring has been fun and fascinating-I thought a lot about @nathankhensley.bsky.social’s Action without Hope (which comes to characterise Wotan’s behaviour thru the cycle)-as it’s about extraction of the Rhinegold, breaches of contract, & violence against women, ending in apocalypse
Historical Fictions Research Conference 2027 – Power and Politics in Historical Fictions. Host and dates: University of Amsterdam | 4 & 5 February 2027. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...
Uh, I bought another book, obviously
A show called WRITING IMPOSSIBLE that follows someone each week as they try to make deadline. They sit at the computer, check a citation, doomscroll, organize their closet, eat a whole bag of Doritos, write a footnote, then at the end of the episode email their editor to ask for more time. Eh??
To try and spark my students' interests in reading (ANYTHING), I made a point of bringing the fiction book I was reading into class every week and talking about it briefly.
Anyway a student just emailed me to ask me for reading recs for fiction for the summer.
You guys: it's happening!!!
Utterly thrilled that Radio 3 is sending its morning presenter to North Norfolk to do on-air lifeboat training next week. What could be more Alan Partridge, and on his own patch?
