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Nov 4, 2022

~it grows because you tend it~ (my definitely monthly but almost certainly more) newsletter can be found here: melindasalisbury.substack.com and my Instagram here: instagram.com/melindasalisbu I hope I see you on at least one of them soon xx

Yearning for one of those niche collectible magazines that are 99p for the first month and £500 for each subsequent issue, and comes with a build-a-collection of 'free' stuff before vanishing from the shops by June

The problem is, if Colin Farrell wins an Oscar, it makes him even more unlikely to want to marry me. So I'm torn

Just to keep you all appraised of my citrus situation, I've now moved on from clementines to blood oranges, and I think the God of Blood Oranges loves me, too

Here is my favourite thing about writing: the little breadcrumbs you unknowingly leave for yourself, so when you get to a sticky part, and you think 'oh no, now this needs...' you've already laid the trail; you just have to go back and follow it

It seems Twitter is no longer showing me dms, and I just found a whole bunch when I went to send one, so that's a little surprise treat I probably could have lived without

Jan 23

So, if you like joy, and warm, gentle, heartfelt things, and beautifully shot and scripted TV shows about food, friendships, and love, then watch The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House on Netflix. And if you don't like those things, get help x

Jan 23

Hard to imagine anything is going to be better televisually this year than watching Momoko training the maiko to be zombies in episode eight of The Makanai

It is PERFECT

Leslie J. Anderson

@inkhat

Jan 11

I wanted to write something fun about Mothman.

Mothman Goes to Therapy
Leslie J. Anderson

It’s hard when no one believes in you
or they do, but they need you
to mean something bigger than what you are –
when they want you to be hidden and not hiding,
a secret but not secretive.

They need me to be part of something bigger
so they can be part of something bigger.
But I’m just me, soft and white.
My eyes red as summer raspberries.
My heart a little flickering flame.

I feel bad sometimes, that I can’t be what they need.
I feel guilty that my abs look nothing like the statue.
I wish I was silver and beautiful.
I wish I was powerful and haunting.
I wish I could skulk. It’s probably fun to skulk.

I am trying to meet myself where I am,
huge and fabulous and bumping contentedly
against the lit lamp of this life.

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Jan 23

I can't eat my soup yet due to a crumpet incident which occurred on the long walk I went on so I wouldn't hover over the soup

First time cooking with my new toy! All being well, in four hours I'll have a perfect butterbean, lemon and tarragon soup! Thanks so much to

@JackieMorrisArt

and

@karincelestine

for putting me onto this absolute magic!

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Sigurd the Mighty

@MightySigurd

Jan 21

I am so tired of living like it's the 1600s. Can I afford eggs at the market? Are my friends gonna die in the plague? Puritans coming for my sinful lifestyle. I want some modern problems. Modern Problems

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Jan 22

I started watching The Makanai on Netflix while I was cooking, and it is the nicest, warmest, sweetest show, but it also made me desperate to visit Japan, so now I'm manifesting a Japanese book deal in the hope they invite me over, and I can explore

Jan 22

This poor lad out here thinking I'm haunting Waterstones because I don't know about Netflix yet

Why is it so hard for some people to believe that others just enjoy reading? Babe, we know movies exist. We still like books anyway

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Gaurav Munjal

@gauravmunjal

Jan 21

Imagine if every Book is converted into an Animated Book and made 10x more engaging. AI will do this. Huge opportunity here to disrupt Kindle and Audible.

It was children who taught me every swear word I know, so?

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CNN

@CNN

Jan 20

Bestselling author Emma Straub had two book events canceled in Texas schools, after some discovered she used profanity on social media cnn.it/3QSVnqy

Jan 21

Alternating hot vimto and hot ribena because I'm home alone and no one can stop me

Jan 20

Quietly celebrating eight years of

@moirafowley

's writing having me in a chokehold 🌿

Jan 19

There should be one month a year when no new books are published, so people have chance to catch up with themselves. I think August would be the best choice

Jan 18

I tell you what, I am very slutty for unnecessary commas, and it is not becoming

I slept with my best friend's boyfriend, and she wished me dead, which would be bad enough, except I think she might be the Queen of Hades, and oh, guess where I ended up...

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Miriam

@chamomeriam

pitch your book BUT NOT from the protagonist’s pov. Any other perspective. Just not the protagonist

How else do you explain how every single clementine I've eaten since November (and it's a lot) has been perfectly, dreamily sweet and juicy, even the ones I put in the fridge while I was away for a month in the hope they'd still be edible when I got back?

The God of Clementines is in love with me

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Big Daddy "Mr. Carbonara" Satan, PhD.

@storasatan1

A girl who's all goofed up on giggle juice is not wife material, my friend. You need a woman of the bogs, a tragic lady cursed with visions and omens.

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Netflix

@netflix

Jun 14, 2017

Replying to @HouseOfSense8 and @sense8

We don’t like leaving a story unfinished. We learned a lot from Sense and we’re going to try not to do this in the future.

I have never been so jealous of a book before. My teenage dream was to go to New Orleans, smoke clove cigarettes, drink red wine,and talk to ghosts

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Lisa Hamm

@hammllc

Replying to @MESalisbury

Enjoying the book in New Orleans. Took Corey out for a snack and a pint at Cafe Maspero.

This is just beautiful

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Tom Mustill

@tommustill

Dec 13, 2022

I wrote about orcas with salmon hats and cultures in the sea for this wonderful issue of @Perspective_tw ,alongside beautiful words from @mslucycooke @PhilipPullman @GeorgeMonbiot and more perspectivemag.co.uk/talking-to-ani

Dr Alice Tarbuck

@atarbuck

Jan 16

and I wish to be precisely all the things I was never, and wanted to be, and also simply to be the same but lauded for it, and to have written my next book without having to write it, and to be funny and brave and six feet tall, and to have wings, and a sense of perspective.

Film of The Cripple of Inishmaan WHEN?

Film of The Lieutenant of Inishmore when?

Friends fear she's watching The Banshees of Inisherin for the third time in as many days

That was the last time I was carefree. My last ~technically normal day I had was probably March 14th, at my book launch in London. Me and my friends got drinks after, but the specter of Covid was there, and it wasn't normal at all. It felt like the end of the world

February 29th. I was determined to make the most of Leap Day, so I went on a 36-hour trip to Brussels. I ate crepes, drank beer, took photos - all the usual tourist things. It was on the train home, reading the news, I realized I probably wouldn't get to travel again for a while

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William B. Fuckley

@opinonhaver

asked this before, but it's something I find interesting: what do you consider last "normal day" in 2020 before the pandemic really started impacting you personally? what did you do?

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Jan 16

Auguries and portents: I just found an UNTOUCHED, UNMARKED PAGE in my copyedits, and if I rummage around in the entrails of what that means, I predict a beautiful week full of magic and good things

I am ready to marry Colin Farrell now

I despise Airbnb for this reason and haven't stayed in a whole or sole-house one since 2017. All the ire that landlords get should be heaped 10-fold on people who buy properties solely to rent them out as holiday lets, especially those who own multiple ones

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Dr Rebecca Tidy

@DrRebeccaTidy

Jan 14

I live in a Cornish seaside village + one local guy owns many @AirBnBs starting from £200 a night. Yet there's a single mum – who works full-time – living in a tent behind the churchyard, while her 3 kids stay at their grandparents' 1-bedroom council flat.

WigtownBookFestival

@WigtownBookFest

She's best known for her four

@CarnegieMedals

nominations, her fabulous fiction and for instigating a wild transatlantic discussion about frowning: