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Sarah Dent

@thebookhide.bsky.social

Reader, blogger and book hoarder | MA Literature of the Romantic Period 1775-1832 from @york.ac.uk 📚 Lives in #Manchester 🐝 thebookhide.wordpress.com

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Orenda Books@orendabooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thank you for this FANTASTIC review of #Catherine: A Retelling of #WutheringHeights by @essiefox.bsky.social 😍😍💙💙 "I was enthralled by the writing, I wept through the last few chapters and was left in awe by the end." Order yours TODAY!💙 Hardback: 🔗 geni.us/hdV1 Ebook: 🔗 geni.us/79FJv #TeamOrenda

Sarah Dent@thebookhide.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I was blown away by 'Catherine', @essiefox.bsky.social's powerful retelling of #WutheringHeights. Read my review here thebookhide.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/r... @orendabooks.bsky.social

Sarah Dent@thebookhide.bsky.social · last yr.

I recently finished Jenni Fagan's extraordinary memoir 'Ootlin' which was unlike anything else I've read. Full review on my blog - thebookhide.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/r... #booksky #bookreview #reading #nonfiction

Review: ‘Ootlin’ by Jenni Fagan

I recently finished Scottish poet and novelist Jenni Fagan’s extraordinary memoir Ootlin which was unlike anything I’ve read before. Jenni spent the first 16 years of her life in care, being passed…

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Susie Dent@susiedentwords.bsky.social · last yr.

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

Sarah Dent@thebookhide.bsky.social · last yr.

"Greatness, Shelley taught, lies not in the power a person may snatch for personal glory. It lies rather in caring for one another and for nature, from which alone a universal quality of life can spring. That message is as true for our times as it was for his." 🌿

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last yr.

#OnThisDay 1811, humanist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for publishing his pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, which argued 'If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?' heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe...