Hello Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a scary take of changelings in Stay In The Light by AM Shine. What are you reading at the moment?
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Morning Womble! Unusually for me I'm reading two things at once - @tansyrr.bsky.social's novelette Bonnets at Dawn because my brain needed something easy and fun after too much peopling, and Amy Liptrot's The Outrun once I can focus a bit more.
Hi Womble, sorry I'd not managed to catch up with you IRL @ FantasyCon. I'd just finished Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (for @dtdiscworld.bsky.social no surprise) and am now reading the new issue of Positive News. Too many choices for what to read next thanks to the con.
After replying last week, I read A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers* by Xiaolu Guo - and haven't read anything since, although I intend to pick up Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen next
* Interesting and well done, but I won't be reading again
Hi Womble!
Paper: Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee; interesting interstitials
eARC: The Improvisers by Nicole Glover (1930s black pilot tries to find who's placing curses; reminds me of Redwood and Wildfire, or Steel Blues)
Audio: Someone to Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (living up to the raves)
I'm reading this year's Hugo winning novel, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. Not too far into it, real life issues interfering, but liking it so far.
I am finally getting around to Juliet McKenna's The Cleaving, which I bought a long time ago and somehow forgot I had. It's off to a good start but I can tell it's going to be tense reading.
I’m finishing Monsters of Rookhaven by the astonishing Padraig Kenny. It’s a thoughtful book about family and the nature of monstrosity, beautifully written. Perfect for people aged 8+!
Good morning. I am reading the long awaited Not till we are lost, the 4th book in the Bobiverse trilogy by Dennis E Taylor. Good so far. I love his books so much it's like wrapping myself in a comfort blanket.
Good morning Womble. They say conflict is the essence of drama, so I had high hopes of Jeff Abugov's "Zombies versus Aliens versus Vampires versus Dinosaurs"... hopes which, sadly, have not yet been realized.
Hello Womble! I am reading Alchemy of the Word: Dreams and Transformations, a forthcoming collection of essays on books and reading and more from @almaalexander.bsky.social
Morning Womble. I finished Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I feel is either fifty pages too short, or fifty pages too long. I suspect the latter.
Today I will listen to Kazuo Ichiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
Reading @markstay.bsky.social's The Crow Folk, which is an enjoyable light folk-fantasy (folk-fantasy just occurred to me as a brilliant descriptor of a sub-genre; will it catch on?), with creepy scarecrows; obviously someone else found Doctor Who's scarecrows terrifying back in the day.
Hello, Womble. Currently following up my earlier Lois M. Bujold reads with A Civil Campaign, which is fun but not quite as compelling (so far) as the others. Also on Invincible Compendium 1(Kirkman, et al), and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Vol 2, by Marc Cushman & Mark Alfred.
Morning Womble
Just started listening to Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Otherwise reading through What Moves the Dead/What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher. Good cozy/gently creepy horror
Morning Womble. Finished up The Bird King by @gwillow.me (fascinating historical fantasy--loved it and the characters) yesterday and started Strange Practice by @ceruleancynic.bsky.social
Happy Sunday Womble! I'm looking forward to a quiet domestic day today, and then curling up with the final act of Gorse by Sam K Horton. Audio read is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (fabulously read by Michael Page)
Afternoon, Darth Tobermoriarty Womble. Hope spooky season I keeping you entertained. I am half way through OF JADE AND DRAGONS by Amber Chen, which is a YA fantasy with a bit of a Milan vibe as a teenage girl seeks to join a Guild of Engineers to solve her father’s murder.
Hello Womble! Airplane read today is Slow River by Nicola Griffith which i cannot believe I have not read yet. It's brilliant, of course. She makes muck poetic.
I’ve got two on the go atm! I’m reading an ARC of The Redstone Rescue by the lovely @glenatron.bsky.social and a long tbr list member, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Good late afternoon/evening! Today I am mostly reading Phil Williams' Drown Deep, which I had to take a break from over the last couple of weeks, not due to lack of quality but due to other commitments. It's an excellent book.
I JUST finished the most recently available volume of "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun" last night, so I guess today I'll be starting volume 2 of "Ballad of Sword and Wine".
Morning! E copy is Bitch by Lucy Cook. Hard Copy is Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii by Wilhelmina Jashemski & Audio is Anything you can Imagine by Ian Nathan & Andy Serkis
Morning, Womble. As predicted last night, this morning I am reading *Promise of Blood* by Brian McClellan. Contrary to your expectations of me, I did not read it all in one night. 😜
Afternoon, Womble. I'm currently continuing my re-read of Stephen King with The Long Walk. Not as good as I remember it from my teens, but even not good King is still readable King for me.
Sup Womble, I just finished Stay In The Light. Not convinced I enjoyed it as much as The Watchers, feel like it's certainly a series heading down an action route with how it ended. Have you finished it? How'd you like it?
Good morning Skylarks. Books are on their shelves and I found my Kindle 🥳. Still too stressed to read a full novel, so I dipped into the old Stephen King short stories. I forgot how good they are. Bring it on!
Hello and see you soon 😁 I'm reading my now signed copy of LONG LIVE EVIL by Sarah Rees Brennan and I presciently brought now-BFA winning Talonsister by Jen Williams if I finish it before we go!
I am on a non-fiction kick right now and I am about halfway through "Spillover" by David Quammen... and it's scary, enthralling, and completely commanding but it's a slow read because you brain (and your heart) get quickly filled to overflowing and you have to stop to take a break and recover..
Morning all. A re-read of Clarke's 'The Fountains of Paradise' (his best novel?) and @nicholasroyle.bsky.social's collection of Uncanny stories, 'The Dummy'.
Just finished Fear The Reaper by @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social an angel demands you return to a realm beyond your world on an unspecified quest. I loved this very much and now don't trust angels as much. Started The Last Good Man by @lindanagata.bsky.social .
I started The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itaranta a couple of days ago. Took me a little while to settle into its mood, but it's quietly haunting me after I put it down. An immense sense of space and dark wistfulness that stays with you.
I enjoyed Stay in the Light so much, but at the moment I am reading the second book in Phil Williams’ Bloo Scouts books called Drown Deep. It’s epic fantasy based in a World War hellscape.
Morning Womble !
I'm half way through my re-read of Gideon the Ninth and enjoying it hugely. I'm reading some of the online discussions as I go this time, so I can finish Nona with a bit more of an idea what the hell is going on !
Morning, Womble! I have finally managed to get back to my read through of Ken MacLeod and am currently on Dark Light. Also still reading Maureen Duffy's The Erotic World of Faery.
Taking a break from the Wool trilogy (Book 2, Shift, was unbearably sad) to dive back into the happy contents of @tkingfisher.com’s Saint of Steel series with Paladin’s Strength. Loving the strong woman lead and the (organic) focus on consent by the male lead!
I've been reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. What a brilliant bit of understated sci fi!
Smart. Funny. Emotional. The characters stay with you when you close the book, the ideas are so clear, the writing is expressive & relatable.
I can't wait to see what Kaliane writes next.
I'd read so many intriguing reviews of it that I'd started to worry I'd been swept up I'm hype, but all of you were right.
In fact, it might be one of my favourite books I've read in ages.
It feels like a story I've been waiting to experience for a long time, if that makes sense.
I missed FantasyCon this year. Hope you had a good time.
Still reading @rjbarker.bsky.social 's Warlords of Wyrdwood (and hoping for another RJ Dark book). And started Kristen Hersh's book "The Future of Songwriting"
Good evening from Jersey, where I am helping my mother after a fall. I’m also starting the third of Andrew Cartmell’s Vinyl Detective novels, Victory Disc.
Happy Sunday, Womble! We’re in the thick of our Spooky Month reading, so I’m finally picking up a collection of Lovecraft. Not for me (both the genre and his extreme and overt racism) but interesting to read nonetheless
Morning, Womble! On digital, I am currently 74% into The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, which is a lot of fun. On paper, after 40-odd pages of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, I'm honestly struggling to engage with the very mannered prose and narratorial voice. Might not be for me.
Circe by Madeline Miller, a Greek myth retelling that puts Circe (the witch from The Odyssey who turns men into pigs) front and centre in her own story
Very weird having recently watched Kaos on Netflix and seen Hadestown in the West End, so many different versions of the same material
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After replying last week, I read A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers* by Xiaolu Guo - and haven't read anything since, although I intend to pick up Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen next
* Interesting and well done, but I won't be reading again
Paper: Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee; interesting interstitials
eARC: The Improvisers by Nicole Glover (1930s black pilot tries to find who's placing curses; reminds me of Redwood and Wildfire, or Steel Blues)
Audio: Someone to Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (living up to the raves)
And Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac, part of my British Library Crime Classics subscription.
Today I will listen to Kazuo Ichiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
In the eyes: Day One by Abigail Dean
In the ears: Ironclads by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Just started listening to Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Otherwise reading through What Moves the Dead/What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher. Good cozy/gently creepy horror
Slowly ploughing through this rather large book, got to the point where the USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
Thanks!
I'm half way through my re-read of Gideon the Ninth and enjoying it hugely. I'm reading some of the online discussions as I go this time, so I can finish Nona with a bit more of an idea what the hell is going on !
Smart. Funny. Emotional. The characters stay with you when you close the book, the ideas are so clear, the writing is expressive & relatable.
I can't wait to see what Kaliane writes next.
In fact, it might be one of my favourite books I've read in ages.
It feels like a story I've been waiting to experience for a long time, if that makes sense.
Still reading @rjbarker.bsky.social 's Warlords of Wyrdwood (and hoping for another RJ Dark book). And started Kristen Hersh's book "The Future of Songwriting"
Circe by Madeline Miller, a Greek myth retelling that puts Circe (the witch from The Odyssey who turns men into pigs) front and centre in her own story
Very weird having recently watched Kaos on Netflix and seen Hadestown in the West End, so many different versions of the same material