𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

Book sniffing weirdo who's slowly efflorescing into a scholar of Victorian, Edwardian, and early modernist literature. Diarist. Lettered. Adores Proust. Fife, Scotland Joined May 2007

Tweets

50K
Followers

6K
Following

2K
Likes

1

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

6 years ago

Dear folks, most important for me to pass on word of this, not only because a new book which focusses on the legend that is Martha Gellhorn is long overdue, but also because I know that Janet has poured heart and soul into this, and every ounce of ability.

Firefly Books @FireflyBooks

6 years ago

0 5 3 0 0

0 1 2 0 0

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

6 years ago

Only part way through @Dan_Zep's OUTPOST, but already it's the gift that keeps on giving. Not only has it led me to @LaviniaGreenlaw's divine QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, but it's also introduced me to @sigurros' sublime docu, HEIMA. Heaven only knows what other delights lie ahead :)

1 0 4 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

In response to France's call for ideas for the #NotreDame replacement spire, I propose this (albeit using less combustible materials, of course):

0 0 0 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

On this day in 1998 a literary legend did pass, as an 89-year-old Martha Gellhorn - near blind and riddled with incurable disease - did as she had always done in taking full control of her life, by taking herself into death at her London flat 😪

0 0 3 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

Roses are red And so is a book Once wedded to words You'll never unhook #valentinesday

0 0 1 0 0

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

A lot of love going around this evening and quite rightly so for #IDanielBlake, but can I also humbly recommend the French film, 'The Measure of a Man' which is very much in a similar vein. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=SlLUzv…

0 0 4 0 0

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

Software update 1950s style i.e. ribbon change.

1 1 2 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

What a glorious way to present short stories. Western publishers please take note 🙂

1 7 10 0 0

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

"Gellhorn rolled 10 lives’ worth of experience into her war correspondent’s portmanteau, and Travels with Myself and Another is one of the finest books I’ve read. I am grateful for her stories." #MarthaGellhorn irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

0 0 1 0 0

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

Born on this day in 1871, the man who opened my eyes like no other to the pleasure and wonderment of all that surrounds us. I salute you M. Proust, and my heart and soul applaud you. ❤️

0 0 6 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

"Desire makes all things blossom, while possession makes them wither." ~ Marcel Proust [photo credit: Vivian Maier, 1957]

0 0 1 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

#NewReadingChair ❤️

0 0 4 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

"For a writer who has been working, to read is like getting into a carriage after a toilsome walk." ~ Jules Renard. April, 1899. [image: Pierre August Renoir, Claude Monet (The Reader) 1874]

0 0 5 0 0

Download Image

Wallow in Wodehouse @TinkertyTonk

7 years ago

Behold! London-based cartoonist Roger Langridge's comic adaptation of 'Leave it to Jeeves.' Topper stuff: hotelfred.blogspot.com/2018/06/wodeho…

0 4 14 0 0

Download Image

𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚔 @RobAroundBooks

7 years ago

Sight of the #edbookfest ticket queue every year, restores my faith that dedicated literary lovers are far from a dying breed ❤️. Tickets sales open online NOW, folks.

Edinburgh International Book Festival @edbookfest

7 years ago

Sight of the #edbookfest ticket queue every year, restores my faith that dedicated literary lovers are far from a dying breed ❤️. Tickets sales open online NOW, folks.