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What was the last book that inspired you?

We started going to a "Beginner's French" evening class recently. Just back from week 3. It is tres jolie. Masculine/feminine words, and vowel pronunciation were this week's topics. Week 4 will hopefully be the cheese week.

The royal family’s complicity with the press is not temporary and it is not accidental. To think of it as a family is to ignore the poison that courses through the whole thing. Andrew O’Hagan reads Prince Harry’s memoir: https://t.co/rSG44Bi3v3 https://t.co/W7CvqOtLlU

For nearly 50 years, bell hooks was an influential thinker, theorist, and cultural critic. Here’s where to start with the work of this trailblazing Black Feminist. https://t.co/n46JrSBHYe

Are you ready for the book that EVERYONE is talking about? #WrongPlaceWrongTime by @GillianMAuthor is landing in paperback on 2nd March. If you didn't get a chance to read this extraordinary genre-bending thriller last year, now is your chance⏱️⬇️ https://t.co/jxpBSRgQun https://t.co/Y1Ljss0XP6

Tom is just happy to be on his holidays #loveisland

‘If ever a project has demonstrated the futility of conservation divorced from any concern with planning or social good, this is it. Who wants this Tate Modern for philistines, this Senate House for illiterates, this Berghain for people who can’t dance?’ https://t.co/YU2NXK0uba https://t.co/H2JhFgsgA0

"At its core, I believe that D&D is a storytelling game over everything else." https://t.co/tWHj5dnazM

New Jersey Becomes First State to Mandate K–12 Information Literacy Curricular Standards https://t.co/2A5jJI5fd1 https://t.co/rdTzHYfwLp

An epic London proof tour with Katie and #TheSecretsOfHartwoodHall today! Lovely to meet South East London booksellers @BooksGreenwich @booksblackheath @theryebookshop @chenerbooks & @reviewbookshop 📚📚📚 https://t.co/wzbqe3wseM

‘50 years after an Oxford professor declared that there was no African history to teach, only the “history of Europeans in Africa”, many in the West would still fail to name a single pre-colonial African kingdom if asked.’ @TOladinni on The Woman King: https://t.co/YGA8S1Uxqx

I can't tell the difference between Ellie and Lana #loveisland

The opening of 'Parade' at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1998 marked both the Broadway premiere of the work of Jason Robert Brown and the final Broadway musical with an entirely new score directed by Harold Prince. https://t.co/DiGa1gfXSq

“Everyone discusses art and pretends / to understand, as if it were necessary / to understand, when it is simply necessary / to love.” https://t.co/PAZ1m5z0wB

For anyone wondering what to preorder from the @BNBuzz sale, we have a few (okay, 100+) ideas. https://t.co/XGZVTpUwFR