Notices by Nicholas Whyte (nwhyte@wandering.shop), page 2

Redeemer, by C.E. Murphy
A young woman discovers that she is the chosen Redeemer capable of ridding the world of demons, one exorcism at a time.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/redeemer-by-c-e-murphy/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #WriterCeMurphy

I woke up to discover that I have acquired 244 more followers on Bluesky (@nwhyte.bsky.app) overnight. I wonder how they found me!

I was intrigued to learn that E.M. Forster took the title of “A Passage To India” from a poem by Walt Whitman, and hunted the poem down.

Wow. I am not a Whitman fan anyway, but this is even worse doggerel than usual.

“Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God” - well, in my experience it’s often a cold swimming pool that can have that effect.

https://www.poetryverse.com/walt-whitman-poems/passage-india

Horrifying.

Multiple arrests made in death of actor Matthew Perry, California police say https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/aug/15/matthew-perry-arrest-death?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

One Woman’s Abortion: In 1965, eight years before Roe v. Wade, an anonymous woman described the steps she took to terminate an unwanted pregnancy in an article in The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/08/one-womans-abortion/304930/?

July Books
Non-fiction 5
Poetry 2
SF 7
Doctor Who 4
Comics 2
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/july-books-14/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #BookblogMonthly

Brilliant piece of reporting about reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jul/11/old-bailey-dying-art-court-reporter-justice

The best known books set in each country: The Philippines
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, by Hampton Sides
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-best-known-books-set-in-each-country-the-philippines/
#Uncategorized #TopBooksInEachCountry #WorldPhilippines

@kpfssport About even; their vote was actually down from 2019 more often than not.

SF hold Mid Ulster - not surprising.
Alliance take Lagan Valley from DUP - extraordinary.
Two new MPs - Cathal Mallaghan and Sorcha Eastwood. Congrats to both!

Dear heavens, Facebook is going downhill. Just two of the top 25 posts on my feed right now are from actual people who I know - the rest are “suggested” or “sponsored”. A great example of how to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Tuesday reading
Last books finished
Barnstormers
Casting Off
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/tuesday-reading-61/
#Uncategorized #WeeklyReadingBlog

Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time, by Natalie Grueninger
A breezy gazetteer, which assumes that the reader already has knowledge of the Tudor period.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/discovering-tudor-london-a-journey-back-in-time-by-natalie-grueninger/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #TudorHistory

Nice wee video of the King's four children queuing up to vote for the first time today. Elisabeth, the oldest and the heir, is 22 and was just too young to vote last time. Eleonore, the youngest, turned 16 in April; but 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to vote in the European elections this year. (And doesn't Gabriel, in green, look just like his father?)

Am not a royalist but I like the fact that they had to queue along with everyone else.

https://vrtnws.be/p.LKLMpP1BYLp

Brussels square to be named after the Brontë sisters.

https://brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2024/05/another-step-on-bronte-sisters-square.html

Amor and Psyche; with Mercury in the background. (At the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren.)

Why, Amazon? Why?

Er, sorry I forgot to mention this earlier, but I am giving a lecture in Belfast tomorrow evening at Ulster University. Title: “Pushing Boundaries: A century of change in the politics of Belfast.” See you there?

https://tinyurl.com/230423talk

My anatomical peculiarities
Sliding hiatal hernia, pig bronchus, supernumerary renal arteries, dolichocolon, leg length discrepancy
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/my-anatomical-peculiarities/
#Uncategorized #LifeHealth

Very interesting piece on Sibelius’ 7th Symphony. Quotes Simon Rattle on its ending: “It’s the most depressed C major in all of musical literature. There’s no other piece that ends in C major where you feel it’s the end of the world.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2024/02/the-symphony-without-sequel