Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a great folk horror The Corpse Road by Sean Hogan.What are you reading at the moment?
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I'm good, ty. I'm listening to Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. I love the way he writes. The language is excellent. I've been frustrated with the repetition and simplification by other authors that feels like a trend. (It may be forced on them). This runs smoothly. I don't feel talked down to.
Having a break from whaling with Moby Dick to read a couple of Mick Heron's excellent Slow Horses books. Currently on Real Tigers. Doesn't have the poetry and ever heightening madness of Moby Dick but it does have its own greasy, farting Captain Ahab.
I remember having to take a few breaks with Moby Dick, and have a palate cleansing read every now and then. There really is only so much information about dissecting a whale you can read in one go!
Morning Womble! Still on The Reformatory, which is going well but I think I'm going to have to find something lighter to read before bed. Fortunately I have a few unread books around here 😁
Morning Womble! I'm reading the short story collection A Phoenix First Must Burn - hopeful YA by Black women/NB writers featuring Black girls as protagonists.
also reading an ARC of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion by @ivygrimes.bsky.social ! its a gothic ghost story bluebeard adaptation and I'm really looking forward to it!
Morning! that sounds cool. I'm reading This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings. its a Black sapphic vampire fantasy set in Harlem Renaissance and its GREAT so far!
Hey Womble! Busy day so just posting this now. About to start reading The Weapon Shops of Isher by AE van Vogt. Which I have been meaning to get around to for probably decades at this point 0.o
Started Austin Grossman's Fight Me last night, and while it shares the humanity of his other works, it's yet to really start motoring. Early days yet, so...
Morning Womble!
I'm currently reading The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes, having just finished The Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed.
Both are good reads.
Good morning! I’m currently reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and the short story collection, How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin. Having a fantastic reading experience with both. Have a great rest of the weekend Womble!
Dreadwood by Jennifer Killick. It's excellent horror for children aged 9-13 year olds; lots of jump scares and some genuinely funny bits, like the best Buffy episodes.
Good morning (evening here)! I’m reading Victories Greater Than Death by @charliejane.bsky.social (ebook) and Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social (audio, narrated by Sophie Aldred). Both are terrific.
In actually looking for a new sci fi to listen to on Audible if anyone has any suggestions. I tend to like classic sci fi as in not fantasy, but from any era. I live discovering new authors.
Morning, hope things calm down for you soon. I've just finished Tan Twan Eng's beautiful & melancholic The House Of Doors, now a change of pace with Cassandra Clare's The Ragpicker King.
Hello Womble! Finished Thief of Time as part of the #pratchettproject, Yellowface and Romancing Mr Bridgerton; reading The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir. Feel like I'm doing okay on the variety front!
Morning Womble.
This week I read The Killing Sense by Sam Blake - a gripping psychological thriller with a great Parisien setting. Now reading Lethal Vengeance by Robert Bryndza.
Hello, Womble! I'm deep into @annamazz.bsky.social's Notes on a Drowning, and the tension has just ratcheted even higher! Inspired to read it after hearing Anna speak compellingly about her work and writing at the recent @baytales.bsky.social crime writing festival at #WhitleyBay. Deffo recommended!
😂🐉 That was obviously the highlight! And you kindly signed your book for my barrister niece's birthday. I'll have to let her down gently about the absence of dragon porn in the story (unless I haven't got to that bit yet... 😉)
Good morning Womble. I'm reading "The Tomb of Dragons" by Katherine Addison, and - as usual - I'm entranced by the story, the characters, and the world-building, and stumbling over the polysyllables.
The hero has just visited Emperor Edrahasivar at the Untheileneleise Court to plead the case of the revethvezvaishor'avar Ithalpherix, so you can see what I'm up against.
I'm currently listening to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
I go back and forth on my opinion on it, but I'm listening to it because someone in the dnd community listed it as a good reference for fairies pulling bogus deals.
I liked the few episodes I saw. I didn't finish it.
The potential problem of the book's style of Victorian prose is that it takes it's time. If you're not digging it after 8 hours you're probably not going to.
I'll stick it out a bit longer. There are plot threads that I'm invested in, but there's a few of them that seem disjointed. Thanks for the heads up about the Victorian prose tho.
Morning captain Womble, captain of the good ship ‘book tempter’. I enjoyed The Corpse Road. I have just started The Price of Everything by John McGoran. I know absolutely nothing about it except that it’s sci - fi.
This weekend I'm reading How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
And I'm having Neuromancer by William Gibson read TO me by my partner; alternating with Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome.
I just finished The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, which was outstanding and have moved on to another of his books Night Boat to Tangier, which is also super good.
I listened to Night Boat to Tangier last year. He plays with what is true and there are multiple sides to every truth. It got into my head. Not tried any of this other works. Ought to...
Happy Sunday Womble! I'm currently reading Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. I'm only a few chapters in but hugely enjoying it (not a surprise, I love Tokarczuk, particularly in Lloyd-Jones's translation!)
Read two excellent books this past week, Hang on St. Christopher and Tomb of Dragons. Now I'm limping slowly through L'affaire Saint-Fiacre by Simenon. I also bought the one-volume Cyteen, as my old mass markets are not in good shape. I think that's next in my Cherryh rereading.
Hi Womble! I finished "The Other People" by C.B. Everett. A riff on "And Then There Were None," it's out next month and was the most compelling page-turner I've read in a long while.
Just started The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, the second of the Giant Novels I set out to read this year (the first was Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, excellent.)
I tend to look at the longer books on my TBR and think *maybe something shorter* so I'm making more of an effort!
Good morning Womble! Currently reading Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves ( thank you @danifinnwrites.bsky.social for putting it on my radar), The Midnight Carousel by Fiza Saeed McLynn, Out on a Limb by Hanna Bonam Young and Of Darkness and Light ,a poetry collection by Despoina Kemeridou
Good afternoon. Trying a bit of Tanith Lee - Vivia - and finding it well written but not, so far, especially gripping. Also reading a BFI book on Barbara Stanwyck, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, and on to volume five of Swamp Thing (Moore et al).
Hello happy Sunday, I think I keep missing these posts. I love folk horror! Recently finished both Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, and Model Home by Rivers Solomon. Both brilliant
Listening to the audiobook of Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, and I also just started One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig as my hard copy, curl up and read book 🙂
Good morning! I am reading Michael Richardson’s enormous history of the (TV) Avengers, Bowler Hats and Kinky Boots. Was looking up a particular reference and got drawn in.
Happy Sunday & I hope this week will be a better one for you. Just finished Dan Howarth's Last Night of Freedom and starting on D.V. Bishop's The Darkest Sin. (2nd in a series that is my new "must read them all right now" obsession)
Me too. It's such a particular pleasure when you fall in love with a series, although occasionally annoying when the gaps between books stretch out too far. I think I read the first one in the Dresden Files but they weren't for me. Good thing to read in lockdown though!
Afternoon, Womble. I've finished the Chronicles of St Mary's series and taking a break before starting the Time Police spin offs by reading Stephen King's Firestarter
Happy Sunday Womble! I’m in bits from too much exercise, so just as well I get to start a new book today and maybe just sit on the sofa and read it. What to read though? Almost certainly The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison.
Currently listening to Network Effect by Martha Wells
I'm currently reading the delightful Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire, and then after that, I'll be picking up Mary Robinette Kowal's The Martian Contingency!
Good morning Womble! My physio journey with T Kingfisher audiobooks continues. Yesterday I finished The Twisted Ones. I forgot how good and how scary that book is.
'Morning, Womble. I'm just finishing Anthony Beevor's 'The Second World War' and am of the opinion that it's the best single-volume history of the conflict yet released. It's unfortunately more relevant in this new age of dictators; there's no glory in here. The stuff of horror and nightmares.
Good morning, Womble! Just finished The House in the Cerulean Sea on Friday, discussed it with book club yesterday, and loved it so much I picked up the sequel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea and started it! Highly recommend both books, just delightful.
Afternoon! I’m trying to make my way through the first lot of Percy Jackson books! Currently halfway through The Lightning Thief! I’m very much enjoying it. :))
On paper: I finished Kindred by Octavia Butler yesterday, now reading The Owl and the Nightingale translated by Simon Armitage.
On audio: The Colour by Rose Tremain.
I’m doing a full Lady Astronaut reread before diving into The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal. I didn’t reread The Fated Sky when Relentless Moon came out. The two follow different characters during the same time period, and reading them back to back really adds to the experience.
Hi Womble, how are you? I'm a bit less than halfway through REPORTS OF HIS DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED by James Goodhand, thanks to a post by @garethjohnbrown.bsky.social !
Morning, Womble! After finishing John Scalzi's "When The Moon Hits Your Eye", I'm on some old-school Fantasy today, not for review. Kate Elliott's King's Dragon. Slow start, but clearly building: and its over halfway through before we get to dragons (or is it?) :)
Having wrapped up a couple of (very good) read-for-cover-quote books, and one for review, I've just started a Lady Astronaut reread with The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Morning! Loooong drive yesterday up north & back to visit my grandma & i had Pod on by Laline Paul. Completed it in the day & its really excellent - and do was the narrator :)
Good afternoon Womble. I'm a few chapters into Fractured Europe 3: Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson, with a few dozen pages left to finish John Le Carré's The Night Manager. A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon might be next, or maybe the novella Charlie Says.
Good morning, Womble! I'm reading "The Predator: Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel" by James A. Moore. It isn't rocking my world so far, but it's a solidly decent military-vs-monsters read.
Good morning. My reading has been particularly poor of late except from some pre-agreed reviews. Worn out from work.
So trying to get back into it by trying to finish off my Doctor Who Virgin reading.
Four from the end now with The Dark Path.
Good morning Womble, I am looking through the thoughts of a being at the moments after a space pod has crashed onto part of the Moon carrying survivors of a commercial expedition that have been studying it
Adrian Tchiakovsky has an enticing way of revealing the unknown elements of Shroud
Morning Womble! I'm reading Engine Summer by John Crowley, I don't know how many times I've read it, but it brings me comfort despite the post-apocalyptic setting and slightly mournful tone.
the Corpse Road is a fantastic modern folk horror tale with beautiful intricate character work - review will come! Next up a collection Great Robots of History by Tim Major
Good day, Womble! I'm reading Fever Season by the always excellent Barbara Hambly, the second Benjamin January historical semi-mystery (not having been able to find the first). Certainly evoking the horrors of its namesake!
Good morning Skylarks. Currently reading "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" by Grady Hendrix. Very engrossing read, one to curl up on a rainy day and let the Sunday pass at its own pace.
I'm reading VARIATIONS by Juliet Jacques for the Trans Rights Readathon and it's WONDERFUL so far: short fiction about trans and gnc folks in UK history based on the glimpses we have from historical archives. It's beautifully written but not asking too much of me as a reader, which suits me well!
Reading the entirety of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & Gray Mouser stories, but in publication order from 1939 onward, rather than the internal chronology that Leiber established in the early 1970s.
Finding it to be a much more enjoyable experience than starting with the “first” book was.
Yay, great to see that people still enjoy Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser! They're like elder gods of the whole sword & sorcery genre now. I have some very fond memories of bonding over them with sff-reading friends at university in the 70s. 😊
Good morning! Reading The Night Manager (le Carre) and listening to Borne (Vandermeer), which I'm finding utterly captivating. This may be the quickest I've ever gone through an audio book - I need to know what's happening next.
Morning! I am following the trail of Red Sonja Consumed by @gailsimone.bsky.social And I am not alone! A Queen and her 'wolf' pack and a bounty hunter are also dogging her footsteps. History also haunts her every step.
Good morning! ☀️ I am reading “Small Town Horror” by Ronald Malfi. It’s so good. I’m finding it hard to put down as I’m almost finished. Read on! 📚📖 Have a wonderful Sunday! 😊💙
Morning lovely Womble. I'm currently reading a novella on Kindle - All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie (in my permanent horse girl habit of reading all the books that feature horses) - and moving on to Dead Lions by Mick Herron in paper form, since I ended up loving Slow Horses.
I’m not far into, but already liking very much, Stephen Graham Jones’s new book Buffalo Hunter Hunter. And since I’m secretly a horror wimp, I’m taking breaks to read Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey—which, despite the title, is really quite fun!
Hope you're having a good Sunday Womble. I _just_ finished The Likeness by Tana French and it's fully taken over my brain - such a juicy, character-driven mystery. Very dark academia, too, in the vein of The Secret History.
Not had much time to read lately but I’m on the last 20-30 pages of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion by Ivy Grimes and enjoying it a lot. Seek Ye Whore by @yvettetan.bsky.social is next
Took another dip into the Discworld this week & read Witches Abroad for the 1st time in a very long time.
It's always fun when Pratchett takes a run at fairy tale logic & this one is another fine example of how much depth he mined into Granny Weatherwax over the years.
A brilliant, breezy read.
I read "The Murder At The End of The World" by Stuart Turton this week. Really good SF post-apocaIpse murder mystery with a countdown. Um, he's not really constrained by genre:) But always really well plotted, and a good story.
Currently finishing the paperbok copy of Bill Moody's Shades of Blue. Not so many murders, more investigation, and the hero learns about his own past. Plus lots of jazz.
Good morrow! Today I am reading Django Wexler’s science fantasy Last Stop. Fighter planes versus giant insects in a romp that reminds me at times of my favourite anime, Last Exile.
Madainn mhath! I'm reading The Penitent's Cry by Mati Ocha, the final book in his Transcendent Green series. Postapocalyptic mythopoetic Gaelic eco-hopepunk, wonderful stuff.
Taking a small breather from the Jack Vance/Hilary Mantel/HP Lovecraft doorstopper trilogy of death to read the Penguin 60 Steinbeck short story collection "The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories". 60 pages of Steinbeck loveliness, although the font is tiny.
Good afternoon Womble!
I have just this morning finished The City and the City by China Mieville, I’m now picking up again this copy of Luna Station Quarterly from June 2023
Hello! Half way through The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar which is a very lyrical and folkloric story of two sisters and the quests they go on and the songs they sing
Also huge shout out to the book I just finished, Pagans by James Alistair Henry
Fascinating and clever alternate universe thriller, in a world where the Norman Conquest never happened and the modern British Isles are a backwater mess of feuding clans patronised by Pan-African first-worlders
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I'm currently reading The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes, having just finished The Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed.
Both are good reads.
Yes the voice is great.
I'm so glad you're enjoying Victories!!! That rocks! <3
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This week I read The Killing Sense by Sam Blake - a gripping psychological thriller with a great Parisien setting. Now reading Lethal Vengeance by Robert Bryndza.
Current bed time audio:
The Silence of Unworthy Gods
Both really good books 😁
Damn autocorrect!
I go back and forth on my opinion on it, but I'm listening to it because someone in the dnd community listed it as a good reference for fairies pulling bogus deals.
I'm 8 hours into the book with 24ish left, it says. It feels like it's still setting up, and I'm ready for it to start moving along.
The potential problem of the book's style of Victorian prose is that it takes it's time. If you're not digging it after 8 hours you're probably not going to.
Oh and I've just started Old Man's War on audio.
And I'm having Neuromancer by William Gibson read TO me by my partner; alternating with Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome.
We're very bookish.
Listening to Frank Herbert’s, Dune
Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth as a re-read
I tend to look at the longer books on my TBR and think *maybe something shorter* so I'm making more of an effort!
In the eyes: Poor Girls by Claire Whitfield
In the ears: Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley
Preparation for foiling your schemes!
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Looking forward to catching up with the crude but very engaging old salt Cady Meade.
[disclaimer: he's a friend]
[did you know: he used to edit 2000AD]
Currently listening to Network Effect by Martha Wells
JJ Connington
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Currently with _The Salt Grows Heavy_, Cassandra Khaw.
On audio: The Colour by Rose Tremain.
So trying to get back into it by trying to finish off my Doctor Who Virgin reading.
Four from the end now with The Dark Path.
Adrian Tchiakovsky has an enticing way of revealing the unknown elements of Shroud
Currently reading 84K by Claire North, and I am adding her name to the list of prophets with Octavia Butler, William Gibson, and Margaret Atwood.
Reading the entirety of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & Gray Mouser stories, but in publication order from 1939 onward, rather than the internal chronology that Leiber established in the early 1970s.
Finding it to be a much more enjoyable experience than starting with the “first” book was.
Very much enjoying both!
The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar, promising to be every bit as good as Time War :)
Now starting Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time.
It's always fun when Pratchett takes a run at fairy tale logic & this one is another fine example of how much depth he mined into Granny Weatherwax over the years.
A brilliant, breezy read.
I have just this morning finished The City and the City by China Mieville, I’m now picking up again this copy of Luna Station Quarterly from June 2023
My preorder of The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal has arrived, so I’ll be listening to that next
Fascinating and clever alternate universe thriller, in a world where the Norman Conquest never happened and the modern British Isles are a backwater mess of feuding clans patronised by Pan-African first-worlders