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Jo Monk

@jomary10.bsky.social

Seeker after beauty, joy and hope. Lover of cats, coffee, comedy, and small beauties. Easily distracted by sparkly things.

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Jason Scott-Warren@jes1003.bsky.social · 11h ago

22,000 signatures so far for our petition against the corrupt UK media. Please sign at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... and then share the hell out of it.

Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

petition.parliament.uk

Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: Another one for 'a character you identify with.' Magrat from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Never quite sure what she's doing, idealistic & sometimes a bit ridiculous. Uncontrollable frizzy hair. But when the going gets tough, discovers some backbone!

Cosplayer dressed as Magrat Garlick. Young woman with fair frizzy hair with flowers braided into it, and a green cottagecore dress with lots of brightly coloured bead necklaces.
Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: 22. A character you can relate to: Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch. Wanting to do the right thing, getting too intense about it, making some wrong decisions, realising we don't need to do big things: small kindnesses in our immediate circle are OK.

Pen and ink drawing of a young woman in a dark-coloured 1840s style dress, with her dark hair braided up, sitting at a desk holding a quill pen and thinking.
Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: 21. A book that makes yu cry. The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne. The ending is so sad. Christopher Robin goes off to bearding school and the enchanted days in the 100 Acre Wood are over forever. The end of childhood.

Silhouette of a child and a teddy bear hand in hand skipping off into the distance. Text reads: So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: 20. First novel you remember reading. The first that wasn't for children or young adults was Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Still a firm favourite: Miss Havisham, the Pocket family, Mr Wopsle's theatrical antics, Wemmick and the Aged P...

Pen and ink illustration of Miss Havisham by Charles Green. A thin old lady with white hair in a Regency bridal gown and veil sitting at a untidy dressing table with clothes strewn around her. She has her chin on her hand and is looking sad/angry.
Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: 19. Favourite romance book. Not all that keen on romance as a genre, although many of my favourites have romatic aspects to them. I think I'd go for Jane Austen's Emma. I like the ironic humour, the twisty-turny plot and the very imperfect characters.

Book cover of Emma by Jane Austen. Painting of a young woman with her dark hair up, wearing a high-waisted white Regency style dress with a frilled collar.
Jo Monk@jomary10.bsky.social · 3w ago

#bookchallenge #booksky 30 Day Book Challenge: 15. Favourite male character. Another difficult choice. I think it's between Rev Farebrother in Middlemarch, Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey and the Count in Amor Towles' A Gentleman in Moscow. All gentle, humorous and kindly characters.

A man in a dark suit and trilby is looking out over a hotel balcony. We can see his back.J J Feild as Henry Tilney in Northanger AbbeyBook cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot: mauve cover with a purple and gold flower.