Michael Cattigan

avid reader 📚 | #bookblogger | husband | teacher of English | writer | baker | father of a #autistic daughter

#bookreviews:

[Michael Cattigan @CattiganMichael]

Welcome to 2022, and to a slightly revamped and redesigned blog!

A blog full of book reviews of crime, fantasy, YA, historical, gothic, literary and almost any other fiction!

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[Michael Cattigan @CattiganMichael]

@CaroleAnn1982 @bertsbooks Really enjoyed that one! Best Read of the Women's Prize Shortlist...

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@CaffeinatedLiha Hello there

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@MissAHadley No one else would have me...

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#autistic daughter always wants a special-imterest-pumpkin... this year, we are into wolves...

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@MrHtheteacher Hello! English Teacher, Italian student, avid reader and occasional tweeter... father to an autistic daughter

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@Ria1984 Barrister

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@LauraPAuthor 11 year old.daughter... Skandar series got her attention - some of the descriptions of wild unicorns can be grim, Goosebumps, Michelle Harrison's Pinch of Magic series...

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@dave_mcpartlin And at age 5, 6, 7... horrific

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@dave_mcpartlin AWFUL....
And the inconsistency is striking - why does the same member of staff deliver different punishments for (apparently) the same behaviour?

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@YorkshireBook48 @WhittyAuthor My favourite modern crime author is Tana French... love The Hunter and the Searcher but adore the more police procedural Dublin Murder Squad

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@RhiMacG If you have a Kate Atkinson book, read a Kate Atkinson book!

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@LauraPAuthor Sto imparando l'italiano, ma non sono molto bravo... mi piacerebbe tornaci!

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@LauraPAuthor A couple of novels, a notepad, guidebook and phrase book depending on how familiar you are with Italy...

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

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@Headteacherchat Love that your CEO disapproved of that n your office; our HT disapproved of anything personal in my classroom on my desk and told me to take down a picture of my daughter. I enlarged it.

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Moving house and I seem to have packed nothing but books ... rediscovered old friends in the process...

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His last lucid words were on Tuesday, seeing me and my brother with him - and my mum - and he said, "Oh my boys. I love you," as a tear rolled down his cheek...

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My dad passed away peacefully at about 0230 this morning...
A long fight with metastatic prostate cancer and a suddenly crash on Thursday / Friday.

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I'm not sure this translation is quite what La Repubblica intended to say...

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Question... why advertise a flat for sale with an asking price of £150,000 but refuse £150,000 because you actually want £160,000...?