Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Heartwood - A Mythago Wood Anthology edited by Dan Coxon and never having read that book I’m still enjoying it! What are you reading at the moment?
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I’m rereading A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony, because I need a break for all the horrible things around us!
jun 8, 2025, 8:36 am • 3 1 • view
Doing a lot of flitting between books this week, nothing's sticking. But I think next week will have more reading time! (And I'm gonna say it again, read Mythago Wood!!)
jun 8, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! I'm reading I Crossed the Minch by Louis McNeice - a 1937 account of a visit to the Western Isles which is a delightfully eclectic mix of travelogue, poetry and imagination.
jun 8, 2025, 8:00 am • 3 1 • view
Just finished Darkly by Marisha Pessel (and yes its as good as her others), now started The Stranger Times.
jun 8, 2025, 11:14 am • 3 1 • view
Morning Womble, I am switching between Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane and Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba. I've got Heartwood and must get to that before too long, as I loved the Mythago series.
jun 8, 2025, 7:56 am • 2 1 • view
I'm finally reading The Fifth Season. It's compelling :)
jun 8, 2025, 8:01 am • 11 1 • view
A brilliant book!
jun 8, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Good morning! I’m reading To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose and Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit
jun 8, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 1 • view
evening! just started In the Shadow of the Fall by the wonderful author @tobiogundiran.com a Nigerian fantasy novella involving Orisha and acolytes!
jun 8, 2025, 6:48 pm • 3 1 • view
Good morning! I’m currently reading Summer Of The Monsters by David Sodergren and The Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.
jun 8, 2025, 11:32 am • 4 1 • view
Good morning Womble, I'm just getting into Saint Death's Herald from CSE Cooney and it's really lovely to be back with these characters. Listening to Written On The Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay and it has been as beautiful, thoughtful and elegantly written as ever. A master at work.
jun 8, 2025, 9:39 am • 1 1 • view
I just finished Written On The Dark and my immediate impression is that it's as good as anything I've read. Kay is one of the best writers around and this sits among the top tier of his work.
jun 8, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 1 • view
I’m re-reading Phoenix by SF Said for my podcast and Limbo Lodge by Joan Aiken for a Super Secret Project
jun 8, 2025, 8:32 am • 5 1 • view
Morning! Just about to start Where the Ace Is Buried by Ray Nayler with the tagline, a cybernetic novel of political intrigue
jun 8, 2025, 8:32 am • 6 1 • view
that should read Where the Axe Is Buried
jun 8, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 1 • view
Part way through it myself. Highly recommend!
jun 8, 2025, 10:05 am • 2 1 • view
Just finished this one! I thought it was excellent.
jun 8, 2025, 11:08 am • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! Currently reading The Magic Circle by @barryryerson.bsky.social and having a great time.
jun 8, 2025, 9:08 am • 2 2 • view
Thank you! And, if anyone else fancies a book in a post-apocalyptic future with magic, laser drones, shapeshifters, and LGBTQIA+ rep and romance, then you can get it on KU, ebook, print, or Audible audiobook. www.linktr.ee/bryerson
jun 8, 2025, 10:28 am • 3 2 • view
I'm mostly buried in research, but still reading "Once Was Willem" by Mike Carey. Enjoyable so far.
jun 8, 2025, 10:51 am • 3 1 • view
I’m on Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinneman. Help me, I’m addicted! 😂
jun 8, 2025, 8:33 am • 13 1 • view
It's so good. I had no experience with LitRPG before this, started the first book somewhat doubtfully and have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. Such incredibly empathetic, witty writing.
jun 8, 2025, 12:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I liked Liches Get Stitches too. That series was really good. I love the constant action.
jun 8, 2025, 3:28 pm • 3 0 • view
I _adored_ Litches get Stitches!! Lovely books.
jun 8, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m reading Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid. A c21 retelling of the Austen novel. Excellent use of the Twilight novels as teenage gothic fantasy. Also continuing to reread Target novelisations for a talk I’m doing in July. And some non-fic.
jun 8, 2025, 8:20 am • 4 1 • view
Hello Womble! I'm reading Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce, and it may be somehow the most English fiction I have read since The Dark Is Rising series. Fewer pre-teen adventurers, though.
jun 8, 2025, 10:51 am • 2 1 • view
"The Outcast Mage" "The Emperor's Edge" "Kimmy" Just finished the latest Dorley Hall chapter...
jun 8, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 1 • view
Hullo, Womble! I’m reading a small supplement to the RPG Heart: The City Beneath called “Sanctum”, as well as Jon Peterson’s magisterial Playing at the World 2e, Vol 1: the History of D&D. Also on the docket is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open Wounds, hot on my reread of the City of last Chances
jun 8, 2025, 12:31 pm • 3 1 • view
Good morning. I'm about to start A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim. I hope it's as good as the previous book of hers I read. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
jun 8, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 1 • view
Morning Womble. This week I read More Than Just A Dog by Simon Wooler (@sociabledog.bsky.social) - a wonderful book for anyone who has or is about to have a dog in their life. Now started The Night House by Jo Nesbo.
jun 8, 2025, 8:56 am • 4 1 • view
Happy Sunday, Womble! I'm on the road with @ebbband.bsky.social and my #gigreads are William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade (as well written as his Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride) and Bethany Jacobs On Vicious Worlds. SO good. I've preordered book three already.
jun 8, 2025, 12:33 pm • 6 2 • view
Morning Womble, just in after a lovely long walk. I've just started Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark after reading a review of the latest biography that's just out.
jun 8, 2025, 11:06 am • 1 1 • view
Morning. I’ll be listening to Redshirts written by John Scalzi and read by Wil Wheaton.
jun 8, 2025, 7:46 am • 9 1 • view
I’m still reading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Have been back at work this week, so much less time for reading ☹️ I’m about halfway through now.
jun 8, 2025, 11:12 am • 2 1 • view
I'm reading Black British Lives Matter, and it's giving me lots to think about.
jun 8, 2025, 10:06 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning Womble. Nominally, I'm reading Ania Ahlborn's "The Shuddering" (chilly horror in remote wilderness retreat), but right now I'm on a booklet called "Theremin selber bauen" as I struggle once more to assemble this daft instrument.
jun 8, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
Evening! I've just finished the oldest physical book on my 'to read' mountain: Christopher Priest's The Islanders (11 years!) I mainly enjoyed it - more than I expected, to be honest - but I feel that it didn't quite stick the landing.
jun 8, 2025, 7:14 pm • 5 1 • view
I just finished ODYSSEY by Stephen Fry which is a retelling of Odysseus's story in Homer's THE ODYSSEY...and more.
jun 8, 2025, 12:12 pm • 4 1 • view
Is it any good? I've read Heroes and liked that, but not gotten around to any of his others.
jun 8, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Working on a review of it this morning in fact. Short answer is yes. I've enjoyed the entire set of four
jun 8, 2025, 2:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks, that's good to know.
jun 8, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Good morning Womble, still on The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Midnight Tides now (book 5). The mechanics of the storybuilding in each book are much more apparent when you read them back to back like this. I'm still hooked and even more in awe of this series!
jun 8, 2025, 9:17 am • 4 1 • view
To celebrate its optioning by James Cameron, I'm re-listening to The Devils by @joeabercrombie.com (Gwendoline Christie to play Vigga)
jun 8, 2025, 10:53 am • 1 1 • view
Morning Womble! Reading Will Carver’s Kill Them with Kindness. Love his ability to anthropomorphise moral senses and feelings.
jun 8, 2025, 8:55 am • 4 1 • view
Morning Womble! I am currently re - reading Paved With Good Intentions by Peter McLean which is due out later this month. Whilst on audio I am listening to The Man Who Mistook his Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks, which a series of case histories of strange neurological conditions.
jun 8, 2025, 4:02 pm • 2 1 • view
Listening to the Music the Machines Make by Richard Evans
jun 8, 2025, 9:45 am • 1 1 • view
Happy Sunday Womble! I'm rereading one of my own books (well, I'm the translator) as it's being launched next week. The True Way Out, by Patrik Banga, a memoir of growing up Roma in 🇨🇿 in the 1990s. Gritty & hardhitting. And faintly weird... don't think I've ever reread a book I translated before!
jun 8, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 1 • view
For anyone who's in Prague on Thursday, details of the launch are here: bsky.app/profile/isab...
jun 8, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Morning Womble hope alls well! I’m reading Rhiannon Garth Jones’ All Roads Lead to Rome. It’s really good!
jun 8, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning! I am about half-way through Ben Aaronovitch's Masquerades of Spring. It's very entertaining.
jun 8, 2025, 9:20 am • 2 1 • view
Just finished Midnight and Blue by Rankin, the latest Rebus, and reading Cleeves' Rising Tide, in a bit of a mystery mood, I guess. Also still reading Hastings' Secret War and Rackham's Trees and Woodland. Reread parts of Barker's King of Assassins earlier this week, too.
jun 8, 2025, 11:49 am • 3 1 • view
Morning Womble! I'm most of the way through Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller which is enormous fun, and just starting in on Food for Thought by Alton Brown which is excellent so far. This week's graphic novel is Rare Flavours by Ram V and Filipe Andrade and it's GREAT
jun 8, 2025, 9:23 am • 5 1 • view
Morning Womble, I have just started Will Carver's 'Kill Them With Kindness,' a story about a manufactured pandemic and a cure that makes everybody nice to each other!
jun 8, 2025, 8:20 am • 3 1 • view
Book hopping between Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race, Malice by John Gwynne, Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson and Wrong Women by Caroline West
jun 8, 2025, 9:13 am • 1 1 • view
Morning ToberMoriarty 😆 In the eyes: Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone In the ears: The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare
jun 8, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning! I’m reading and enjoying Usurpation, the surprise third book in Sue Burke’s Semiosis series
jun 8, 2025, 11:19 am • 3 1 • view
Good Day! Work was very stressful last week so I'm trying a sci-fi heist novel, The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei Also reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman because I kept seeing it on tiktok, and I'm not sure how I feel about it
jun 8, 2025, 11:17 am • 2 1 • view
'Morning, Womble. I'm reading The Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore & it's very good so far!
jun 8, 2025, 8:11 am • 3 1 • view
Currently reading volume 2 of The Expanse: Dragon Tooth graphic series. And just started A Crow Named Torment by Silas A. Bischoff
jun 8, 2025, 8:37 am • 4 2 • view
Bore da, Womble! This morning I'm reading How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin, which has been sitting in my Kindle app for way too long and is pretty wonderful. Forgot how much I loved cosy mysteries with a paranomal element 👀
jun 8, 2025, 10:10 am • 3 1 • view
Good morning and happy sunny Sunday! Just finished Lee Welch's Salt Magic, Skin Magic, now reading Stephanie Bretherton's Bone Lines.
jun 8, 2025, 8:08 am • 2 1 • view
Happy Sunday Womble! Very stiff after a 20 mile walk yesterday, and very little reading progress this week so my two remain: 🐀 The Red Wolf Conspiracy - Robert VS Redick 👄 The Centre - Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
jun 8, 2025, 8:48 am • 2 1 • view
I'm reading The Voyage Home by Pat Barker!
jun 8, 2025, 7:48 am • 3 1 • view
Morning, Womble! I am trying to reduce my To Read Pile and have just started THE INTERNATIONALISTS AND THEIR PLAN TO OUTLAW WAR by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, which is about the Paris Peace Pact 1928 which shifted opinion on when war is justified. Not too academic and very interesting.
jun 8, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 1 • view
Emma Lathen’s When in Greece
jun 8, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 1 • view
i’m reading this WW2 strategic decision fighting fantasy book - good historical notes
jun 8, 2025, 9:22 am • 3 1 • view
I’m reading The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith. It’s an Arkady Renko novel from 2019. 👍
jun 8, 2025, 3:07 pm • 2 1 • view
Good Morning Womble I'm currently reading Extremophile by Ian Green. Not that far in yet but very much enjoying the energy and vibes so far.
jun 8, 2025, 8:47 am • 2 1 • view
Good morning! Current fiction: Reread of The Disposessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. The non-SFF member of our podcasting team asked for an SFF rec, and we’re planning an episode to see what she thought. Non-fiction: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, which is delightful and thought provoking.
jun 8, 2025, 12:28 pm • 7 2 • view
Oh now on my TBR
jun 8, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I loved The Dispossessed. I need to read it again as well really - it's such a nuanced book I'm sure there's so much more to experience than you can get from a single readthrough.
jun 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Morning Womble. I'm listening to part two of Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Final Architecture series, 'Eyes of the Void'. I'm on holiday this week though so also have Robert Harris' 'V2' with me to finish (started 6 months ago and then kind of stalled) and Ben Aaronovitch's 'What Abigail did that Summer'
jun 8, 2025, 8:29 am • 9 1 • view
So good!
jun 8, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed. I really enjoyed Shards of Earth, great set of characters and world/universe building. Eyes of the Void has had a good start re-establishing them all and where they are now, I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
jun 8, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Greetings, Womble! I'm finally getting into Tchaikovsky's Days of Shattered Faith, and starting T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead and Jendia Gammon's Atacama. Not as far along as I'd like on any of them, as Real Life stuff has had the unmitigated gall to intrude on my reading time. 😐
jun 8, 2025, 2:28 pm • 3 1 • view
Happy Sunday! Last night I finished The Lamb by Lucy Rose, which was dark and wonderful. Today I will dig into Daddy's Boy by Michael David Wilson and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
jun 8, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 1 • view
Good evening ☺️ I'm about to finish The survivor wants to die at the end by Adam Silvera
jun 8, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 1 • view
Oh my goodness I just read the prequel and as with the first book I need a lot of time before reading the next one. It's heavy stuff! Worth it though.
jun 8, 2025, 3:41 pm • 2 1 • view
This one is particularly heavy, too
jun 8, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
I'll pencil it in for 7 months time. I do love how the protagonists of these books talk about how they feel. Such great books for teenagers to have available, especially, but not only, queer ones.
jun 8, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 0 • view
The love story in Survivor is really cute and special 🫶
jun 8, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm reading an advance copy of MERCUTIO by Kate Heartfield and having just THE TIME OF MY LIFE omg it is so far up my alley that it's living in my bedroom
jun 8, 2025, 4:04 pm • 7 1 • view
ooo, jealous of the Heartfield.
jun 8, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It's so so good oh my gosh I am actually ENJOYING MYSELF hugely
jun 8, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Mornin Womble! My current hard copy read is Miraculous Abundance: 1/4 acre, 2 french farmers & enough food to feed the world. E copy is still Stories of Hope & Wonder anthology & audiobook ive gone through Pompeii: My Story & A Forever Home at Honey Bee Croft & am onto A day of Fire :D
jun 8, 2025, 9:36 am • 1 1 • view
Good evening, Womble. I’m reading Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis. I wondered if you, or any of your followers, had suggestions for similar coming-of-age stories set in 1970s/80s UK?
jun 8, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 1 • view
This week I started Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher, first book by this author (I know it’s a pseudonym used by Ursula Vernon).
jun 8, 2025, 7:53 am • 6 1 • view
Good morning Womble. I’m in the final chapters of the new Stephen King “Never Flinch” and in French I’m halfway through the 🇨🇦thriller “L’Affaire Mélodie Cormier” by Guillaume Morissette.
jun 8, 2025, 8:47 am • 6 1 • view
Some good authors in that, or so I hear.
jun 8, 2025, 8:00 am • 2 0 • view
I liked the one by JR Rekrab a lot
jun 8, 2025, 8:06 am • 4 0 • view
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jun 8, 2025, 8:07 am • 3 0 • view
Morning Womble, I'm still reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab. In comics I've just finished the excellent Judge Dredd epic Necropolis. I've slowly been reading the Case Files and the increased depth in scope, narrative and character has been impressive as I head into the 90's.
jun 8, 2025, 10:39 am • 3 1 • view
Morning Womble! I’m rereading A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson on my kobo because I love it so much! and also about to start my library book The Cats Table by Michael Ondaatje .
jun 8, 2025, 7:52 am • 4 1 • view
Good morning! I've recently finished Labyrinth's Heart, the final book in the Rook and Rose series by M. A. Carrick. I absolutely loved the whole series. I've just started The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson and I'm really enjoying it so far.
jun 8, 2025, 8:23 am • 4 1 • view
Just finished The Decagon House by Ajatsuji. Not bad but not as satisfying as Higashino’s work
jun 8, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! I've just started 'A Psalm For The Wild Built' by Becky Chambers.
jun 8, 2025, 8:16 am • 5 1 • view
Good morning! I finished Never Flinch by Stephen King last night and I'm just about to start Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Can't wait!
jun 8, 2025, 11:15 am • 9 1 • view
Fabulous cover!
jun 8, 2025, 12:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Agreed!
jun 8, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Time poor week, but I'm still reading Alex White’s August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, which is really about giant robots from space. It’s a fine balance to give it emotional weight and not just make it a lot of fighting. It’s managing it so far. And The Devils is still in my ears.
jun 8, 2025, 10:09 am • 2 2 • view
Hello! Finished Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky last night to put an end to Hugo Best Novel reading (...not my favourite shortlist ever...) and now finishing off Lodestar with the unexpectedly chonky Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao.
jun 8, 2025, 11:12 am • 7 1 • view
Oh, I loved Alien Clay so much!
jun 8, 2025, 12:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Currently rereading the Well of Ascension by Mr Sanderson. Read this a while ago and never got round to the 2nd era books so going to go all 7! May take me a while!!
jun 8, 2025, 10:25 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning Wambo, though not for the country. Truly sad. I am reading – and thoroughly enjoying – 'Love and Need: the Life of Robert Frost's Poetry,' a new analysis of Frost's poetry by Adam Plunkett. This excellent article by Maggie Doherty sold me on it: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
jun 8, 2025, 9:05 am • 3 1 • view
Finished Rolling in the Deep (Mira Grant) on audio which really grew on me. Looking for a good audio book to follow it.
jun 8, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! Reading T Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes To Call and really enjoying it. Thoroughly recommend :)
jun 8, 2025, 7:47 am • 9 1 • view
She's great
jun 8, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Hello all. A re-read of Iain Banks' 'The Steep Approach to Garbadale' (not his very best, but still entertaining) and a re-read of Malcolm Bradbury's 'The History Man' (very much of its time).
jun 8, 2025, 9:18 am • 5 1 • view
Morning Wombler! I am now wading in He Who Drowned the World by @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social fantastic reading.
jun 8, 2025, 8:20 am • 4 1 • view
Dragon Keeper, by Robin Hobb. The first of 4 novels in the series Rain Wild Chronicles. It's probably my 5th or 6th time to read the entire series, The Realm of the Elderlings. I love it! #RobinHobb
jun 9, 2025, 12:36 am • 3 1 • view
I’m loving my time in the rich world and characters that @jannywurts.bsky.social has created in the form of The Curse of the Mistwraiths.
jun 8, 2025, 8:11 am • 7 2 • view
Just finished Jen Williams' The Sleepless which I really enjoyed. Just started Martha Wells' The Witch King
jun 8, 2025, 8:12 am • 5 1 • view
Good Morning Womble - I’m supposed to be reading Mrs S. by K Patrick, but I’ve mislaid it, so am on The Longer Bodies by Gladys Mitchell. Also, I’d give Mythago Wood a punt, if you have time. It’s a classic for a reason.
jun 8, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 1 • view
Morning Womble, I'm reading The Coin by Yasmin Zaher. Hope you have a good day 🌳🌻
jun 8, 2025, 8:41 am • 3 1 • view
Hi Womble! I’ve just started Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts, and so far I’m hooked. A masterclass in writing sharp dialogue, for one thing.
jun 8, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 1 • view
The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net, a paper city for a change. It's rather good.
jun 8, 2025, 12:31 pm • 3 1 • view
Afternoon! I've just started this which is my book group's current read.
jun 8, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 2 • view
Afternoon, Womble! I'm currently reading Katherine Burdekin's The End of this Day's Business, written in 1935 but first published in 1989.
jun 8, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 1 • view
Just finished The Chase by Ava Glass - fantastic! I think @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social recommended it - if so thank you. About to re-read Bad Company by Jack Higgins
jun 8, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 1 • view
Morning, lovely Womble! There is a lot of sports on this weekend, but in between I have been reading Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch, and remain on the fence about the series in general.
jun 8, 2025, 9:47 am • 6 1 • view
It’s been so long since I read the start of the series. But just reading the end of that book again, I’d say if you’re not invested, I don’t think you’d like the rest - the lore grows, but the cast remains. Though I hope you read eight more to get to one of my favourite novellas. 😅
jun 8, 2025, 10:04 am • 2 0 • view
The lore I like - I really like the rivers and their politics, for example. But I find the male gaze a bit too uncomfortable - the main character's voice grates at times.
jun 8, 2025, 10:30 am • 4 0 • view
Deleted that because your comment could equally apply to "Mythago Wood", which I thought you meant.
jun 8, 2025, 10:53 am • 2 0 • view
Ahh. Yes, actually, it could apply to both 😂 Just goes to show that the reason for 'she breasted boobily down the stairs' is because we don't have a lone complaint when it comes to male gaze in writing!
jun 8, 2025, 10:56 am • 4 0 • view
Got you. I ‘think’ that improves with the series. The politics and the rivers deepens. I listened to Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’s narration. so I have his version of Peter in my ears of I read it.
jun 8, 2025, 10:37 am • 1 0 • view
As long as the sex scenes stop - Moon Over Soho's sex scenes left me feeling exceptionally cold!
jun 8, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
I think it definitely improves and the series goes on. I feel like Aaronovitch realises there’s more depth as he goes on: the way Peter learns more about himself, his family, his values
jun 8, 2025, 10:43 am • 2 0 • view
Ah interesting that you are also reading Rivers of London. I've been reading the first book and I thought I was the last person in the world to get to this series.
jun 8, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 1 • view
I read the first one ages ago when it was first released and never moved on to the next, but I thought I would give the series a go now that there are a few, but I'm not sure about it, honestly.
jun 8, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
I reread the first one after 4 or 5 years but i ended up enjoying it more the second time round. I rather enjoy the clash between whimsical fantasy and hard core acronym Met life procedurals.
jun 8, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I got to about 5 books and I’ve a few to catch up on
jun 8, 2025, 11:07 am • 2 0 • view
I'm enjoying it, but it does feel a bit... dated, I think? I definitely think about the Met Police, for instance, differently now than I did when the book was first published. So it reads like another era.
jun 8, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 0 • view
Good morning! I'm reading All Systems Red, by Martha Wells, and really loving it!
jun 8, 2025, 12:26 pm • 16 2 • view
Great cover!
jun 8, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
For real! This is the artist's instagram: www.instagram.com/lam_buja?igs...
jun 8, 2025, 1:03 pm • 2 0 • view
They do some great work!
jun 9, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey Womble! I'm reading Small Boat, which explores the banality of evil in terms of Europe's response to migrants coming over the Mediterranean. It's really good and grim. Also audiobook'ing Threads of Life (nonfic about embroidery) while playing a video game haha, not paying 100% attention
jun 8, 2025, 9:57 am • 4 1 • view
Threads of life sounds awesome.
jun 8, 2025, 10:25 am • 2 0 • view
(ah oops it's about sewing in general not just embroidery) Histories of textiles are my niche comfort genre 🙂 Here's a few more I enjoyed: bsky.app/profile/sche...
jun 8, 2025, 11:09 am • 3 0 • view
When I was a teenager, I found a book at the library on Victorian embroidery. It was so beautiful and inspiring. Im really into traditional crafts.
jun 8, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Good morning Womble. Today I’m reading a book by Steve McHugh - Those Who Dwell in Darkness. It really sinks its teeth in you…
jun 8, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 1 • view
Afternoon, Womble. I've started City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Only a few chapters in but it feels gothic, inventive, sparkling, witty, chewy. Also the hardback coincidentally weighs the same as a richly-imagined fantasy city.
jun 8, 2025, 11:43 am • 10 1 • view
Have you by any chance read Gareth Hanrahan’s The Gutter Prayer? I suspect that it might appeal in similar ways to Tchaikovsky’s brilliant work here.
jun 8, 2025, 12:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Finished Killtopia series, on to Nano Jams. Also finished Existential Physics, so about to start on Dead Souls.
jun 8, 2025, 11:26 am • 2 1 • view
Good noon! I just finished Megan Bannen's newest (The Undercutting of Rosie and Frank), which was exactly as charming as the previous two in the series. Now about to fall into Robin Hobb's Fool's Errand, which puts me exactly at the halfway mark of my Realm of the Elderlings reread.
jun 8, 2025, 11:18 am • 2 1 • view
Heyo Womble! Just started reading fiction again after wrapping up a couple of very hectic months at work; currently enjoying the very well-written Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw.
jun 8, 2025, 9:08 am • 1 1 • view
I read This is How You Lose the Time War & had to stop myself from reading it all over again. The sheer level of imagination on display is fantastic. The characters are clear & relatable. And I've not come across a book with such a laser focused lyricism running through it. Loved it.
jun 8, 2025, 9:08 am • 13 1 • view
It's so beautiful..
jun 8, 2025, 12:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I just finished The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar last week, I had picked it up based on my adoration of Time War. It is also absolutely wonderful, I think she's turned into an automatic preorder writer for me
jun 8, 2025, 11:26 am • 10 2 • view
It's just the most beautiful book
jun 8, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
It is. I'm a sucker for retold or restructured fairy tales to begin with, add the strong sister relationship a d the gorgeous writing and it's a contender for my favorite book this year.
jun 8, 2025, 12:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll add it to the teetering fiction to read list.
jun 8, 2025, 11:39 am • 2 0 • view
I also just recently read The River Has Roots and absolutely loved it. I also recommend Travel Light, the book mentioned in This Is How You Lose the Time War. Here’s El-Mohtar’s review of it, which led to her meeting Gladstone and their writing together. www.npr.org/2014/01/01/2...
jun 8, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Ooh, thanks, I'll see if .you library has it!
jun 8, 2025, 12:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Rereading Cartmel's Ashram Assassin. Next up is I Want That Twink Obliterated! - an LGBTQ+ SFF anthology that I came across at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club, and again at Comicon.
jun 8, 2025, 1:15 pm • 6 1 • view
Good to hear you were @srfantasyclub.bsky.social Follow them for more great author events.
jun 8, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Good morning, Womble! I'm reading Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record by Eileen M. Murphy (non-fiction) for research and just finished Paladin's Grace (Saint of Steel #1) by T. Kingfisher and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. I haven't picked new fiction yet.
jun 8, 2025, 11:34 am • 4 1 • view
I’ve been eyeing Paladin’s Grace at my local bookstore! How did you enjoy it?
jun 8, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Very much! Just the perfect mix of light and dark.
jun 8, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Promising, thank you!
jun 8, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Good day, Womble! I am blissfully meandering my way through There are Rivers in the Sky.
jun 8, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 1 • view
Today I am starting Andrew Cartmel’s Victory Disc, the third Vinyl Detective mystery. More fiction set in my bit of London.
jun 8, 2025, 11:37 am • 6 1 • view
I like those. I'm rereading the Paperback Sleuth series by him, set in the same universe
jun 8, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I understand that it’s the same one as Rivers of London, as there are characters in common…
jun 8, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
One fleeting character appearance, someone leaving an office as someone arrives. But yes, that links the universe. And given that Cartmel has written Rivers of London with Aaronovitch, not surprising.
jun 8, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
As I live just down the Upper Richmond Road from the Detective it’s nice to have stories set in this bit of London…
jun 8, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
What's your local river? :)
jun 8, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The Wandle, but we can get to Beverly by bus
jun 8, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Beverly Brook?
jun 8, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Love this series, I’ve just finished the 8th one.
jun 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
I must look out the next one, this is the last on my TBR.
jun 8, 2025, 12:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Because I needed some humor in the midst of the current parade of horrible. app.thestorygraph.com/books/3cee16...
jun 8, 2025, 12:30 pm • 2 1 • view
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, which is brilliant so far but/and shares all my anxieties. So it's not exactly a FUN read, but a bit comforting to know I'm not alone in all this angst.
jun 8, 2025, 10:54 am • 2 1 • view
Hello Womble and company. I have just finished Erasue by Percival Everett which was good. Halfway through The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett,which I am really enjoying.
jun 8, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 1 • view
Getting my non-fiction fix with Between Two Hells : The Irish Civil War, and my fiction jollies with Q by the mysterious group of Italian writers: Luther Blissett. Although the latter is a novel, I’m learning a lot about Thomas Müntzer, his opposition to Luther, and the disastrous peasant’s revolt.
jun 8, 2025, 11:45 am • 1 1 • view
Q has been on my TBR list for a long time. Thanks for reminding me
jun 8, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Enjoying a lot, but the endless backwards and forwards of the timeline is relentless.
jun 8, 2025, 5:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Happy Sunday, Womble! I’m reading Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman, which so far has been a fun fantasy murder mystery
jun 8, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 1 • view
Morning Womble. I’m taking a brief detour from genre to read Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. It’s been a while since I’ve read some Homer, and it’s so nice to come back.
jun 8, 2025, 10:55 am • 3 1 • view
Ooh, that looks interesting!
jun 8, 2025, 11:39 am • 3 0 • view
Hi Womble, happy Sunday! I'm absolutely galloping through The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (clever, subtle, enormously readable, I'll be having the rest oh yes). Next up on digital I'll be starting Saltblood by Francesca de Torres, which I've been looking forward to since it came out.
jun 8, 2025, 7:54 am • 8 1 • view
Good morning Womble! I have started listening to a new audiobook - MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, written and read by Gordon Corera
jun 8, 2025, 7:46 am • 3 1 • view
Continuing reads: Luna Station Quarterly June 2024 The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison Mother Rebel Misfit Sleuth by Lisa Nicholas
jun 8, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 1 • view
Hello! The Four Sisters Overlooking The Sea by Naomi Kritzer for Hugos Also I have a hardcover of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros from the library but my body has forgotten the muscle memory for reading something that huge! (I'm nearly always ebooks these days) Wish me luck
jun 8, 2025, 8:28 am • 3 1 • view
Good afternoon! I've gone back to Bloody Rose after a break to read Jessica Lewis's Nav's Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love which was great, even though I don't usually read YA romcoms! If you want a cute sapphic romance I recommend it.
jun 8, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
Hi Womble! Today, I am mostly enjoying a good old-fashioned mystery - 'Some Must Watch' by Ethel Lina White
jun 8, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning! I finally finished James S.A. Corey's Tiamat's Wrath and started the last Expanse novel (😢) Leviathan Wakes. Glad there's another novella after this one. Nearly finished Jeff Vandermeer's wonderful Wonderbook (revised and expanded edition). Will revisit a lot, I think. 💙📚🪐
jun 8, 2025, 8:07 am • 10 1 • view
Morning Womble, I'm reading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. Not sure what I think of it yet.
jun 8, 2025, 8:21 am • 8 1 • view
And now I've finished it, and it's a very strong finish. Ended up liking it quite a bit!
jun 8, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view