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  1. Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' gu.com/p/37pqc/tf 1 minute ago via twitterfeed
  2. Digested read: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel gu.com/p/37qc3/tf about 1 hour ago via twitterfeed
  3. Frederick E Smith gu.com/p/37qd4/tf about 2 hours ago via twitterfeed
  4. Review of Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel bit.ly/JrWA2O #gdnreview #books about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck
  5. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays. Add your suggestions bit.ly/JrWFn6 #books about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck
  6. Week one of Spies by Michael Frayn #reviewbookclub bit.ly/KTpeGt #books about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
  7. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review gu.com/p/37md3/tf about 19 hours ago via twitterfeed
  8. Daljit Nagra reviews Poetry of the Taliban bit.ly/MBUfB5 #gdnreview #poetry #books 11:50 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  9. Will Self's review of Underground, Overground by Andrew Martin bit.ly/JrVQuC #books #gdnreview 8:35 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  10. MT @WelshIrvine: Insightful review of very difficult book. Went to Afgh after fall of Taliban. Would love 2 go back: bit.ly/KIPodx 5:14 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  11. John Banville reviews Canada by Richard Ford bit.ly/JrLzys #books 3:45 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  12. @PD_Smith's review of Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer bit.ly/MBWJPO #books 3:00 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  13. Best examples of plays within plays? Here are John Mullan's list of 10 of the best bit.ly/JrWFn6 #books 2:30 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  14. The Saturday poem this week is Parents' Evening by Rhian Edwards bit.ly/JrXbSd #poetry #books 1:45 AM May 26th via TweetDeck
  15. Strong discussion developing here with @stephenpub of @FaberBooks about the value of legacy publishing gu.com/p/37p4m/tw #books 11:53 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
  16. Anthony Quinn: cricket and the novel gu.com/p/37p2b/tf 3:34 PM May 25th via twitterfeed
  17. PD James: you ask the questions gu.com/p/37ppa/tf 10:28 AM May 25th via twitterfeed
  18. Twitter is a clunky way of delivering fiction gu.com/p/37py2/tf 9:02 AM May 25th via twitterfeed
  19. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun gu.com/p/37pby/tf 6:58 AM May 25th via twitterfeed