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The perfect weather for a cosy Sunday spent indoors with a good book! This one beats everything I read last year! Reserve it via Accessit! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Finally got round to ordering some new fiction for June. Happy reading Year 12!
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To celebrate diversity and inclusivity for "Priday" at CRGS this week, the library's display includes older and more recently published fiction with LGBTQ themes.
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9 Mar 2024
The MASSOLIT Video Essay Competition is officially open! Please spread the word and encourage them to enter. If they need some inspiration the 2023 winner and runners-up can be found on the MASSOLIT YouTube channel: bit.ly/3PehM1Q
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7 Jan 2024
My first @GuardianBooks cartoon for 2024
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Benjamin Zephaniah, British Poet and Author Who ‘Overturned Ideas of Who a Poet Could Be,’ Dies at 65 nyti.ms/3RwkPnD
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📣 1 week to go until #ReadHourUK! And taking part couldn't be easier. All you need to do is spend an hour of your day on the 8th September reading. What could be better?! 😍📖 The official Read Hour will be from 2pm – 3pm, but you can take part at any time... ✨
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Literacy Trust - Please can you create a 2023 version of this poster? Thanks!
There are only two weeks to go until #ReadHourUK. To take part, all you need to do is spend one hour reading on Wednesday 8 September, or join the official Read Hour between 2 – 3pm. nuori.fi/en/read-hour/
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In Budapest, there is a fountain that looks like an open book. At regular intervals, a sheet of water curves to one side to give the illusion of a page being turned 📹 Da Min

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Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Main School and Sixth Form is fundraising for UK for UNHCR. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/clithero…
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Ever fancied being an oceanographer?🌊🐬 Take a journey into the Earth's oceans and discover whether you've got what it takes... Explore ocean depths, currents, temperatures and find out more about the future of our #oceans in this game: open.edu/openlearn/oceanexpl… #WorldOceansDay
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There was, of course, a library at the edge of the universe. fairystoriesandothertales.co… art by Jaguaros
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Mrs Moorby is currently reading The Whispering Muse by @spookypurcell and what a gripping novel it is for fans of gothic mystery!
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‘Books are a uniquely portable magic.’ —Stephen King
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When #revising, there never seem to be enough hours in the day but could you #study while you wait, travel or do chores?🕐 This animation - part of our 'Study skills: one-minute tips' series - explains how to make the most of your daily pockets of time: open.edu/openlearn/education…
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‘Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.’ What's your favourite #DylanThomas quote?
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‘There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.’ George Eliot #WednesdayWisdom
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3 May 2023
Brand new for #EnglishLiterature Dr Daniel Hartley explores Marx’s thinking and its application for literary criticism. Check it out: bit.ly/44rvepo #teamenglish
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'I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.' Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility #WednesdayWisdom
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