Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a really interesting fantastical tale The Lady, The Tiger and The Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall. What are you reading at the moment?
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a really interesting fantastical tale The Lady, The Tiger and The Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall. What are you reading at the moment?
Just finished An absolutely remarkable thing by Hank Green, which was excellent, and Sacrilege: Curse of the Mbirwi by Nyasha Hatendi, which was fantastic. I read in audio form, and go through books super fast. Going to start The Alchemist of Riddle and Ruin by Gigi Pandian (returning to a series).
Hope you are well.
A present: Justin Hopper's The Old, Weird Albion. A psychographic walk of the South Downs Way linking present, history, prehistory and family history. Beautifully written and very enjoyable.
Good morning, Womble! I'm reading Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan which is an absolute delight so far.
Good afternoon! I've just started The Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders.
Morning, Womble! I have made it to the end of Whirlwind Romance by Sam Thompson and am digesting it a bit more before moving on. He's very good, I'm just not sure all the stores hit me... comfortably is the wrong word, seeing as there's a lean to horror and dark but. Yeah
Morning! Started They Bloom at Night, the new horror by Trang Thanh Tran. The writing is excellently atmospheric and the story captivating!
Ah, I just picked this up on kindle. I was already excited about it, but this just pushed it over the edge to the top of my tbr.
Oh cool!
Hello! I’m just starting Our Dark Duet, the 2nd book in The Monsters of Verity duology by Victoria Schwab, and I’m very close to finishing The Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.
Good afternoon Womble, I'm reading Lucy Holland's Song Of The Huntress and listening to Lord's Of Uncreation, the final book in the Final Architecture trilogy. People of my greying generation will generally agree the reading on these books is ace.
Morning Womble! Just finished Genevieve Cogman's Damned, good conclusion to the trilogy. Now started Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. Still Murderbot Diaries on audio repeat for commute and to keep me company through the day. 😁
I'm reading In Winter I Get Up At Night by Canadian author Jane Urqhart.
Evening, Womble. I’m really engrossed in Stuart Turton’s most recent book. I’m now three for three on this guy’s books.
Morning, realised I'd never read The Island of Dr Moreau so that's my next read
Morning Womble. I have finally got round to book 2 of Murderbot and I'm enjoying it mightily.
I am currently reading A Pagan Place by Edna O’Brian, and when not reading that, I’m listening to Ulysses by James Joyce. Happy #Bloomsday Eve!
Morning, Womble! I started 'Salt' by @adamroberts.bsky.social last night: an ex-library Gollancz hardback that I found in a charity shop. Assuming the donor read it after the library deacessioned it (i.e., the library didn't donate it directly), I'm the seventh person to read this copy. 😄
Hello Womble! Currently about 4/5 of the way through Going Postal as part of the #pratchettproject. Moist is an interesting character.
Just did the bit with Boris the horse earlier. Couldn't steer him with a hammer 😂
Someone suggested it as a “first” Pratchett and I see why. I did enjoy it and will be back for more
Going morning Womble. I'm currently reading this. I love Ian Rankin's books.
Good morning! I'm reading Zone One by Colson Whitehead, feels fairly standard zombie post apocalypse so far but it's running along smoothly
Morning Womble. This week I read Beware the Past by Joy Ellis. Now reading The Promised Queen by Kate Johnson.
Morning, Womble! I'm rereading the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells to tide me over until Friday for another TV ep 😅
The only series that I've read, listened to and watch repeatedly. Love love love it.
It's so good!!
I discovered them recently. What a joy! Network Effect up next. I am loving the TV series too.
Making it So, the autobiography of Patrick Stewart. He's about the same age as my mum, so his memories of growing up in poverty in Yorkshire are very familiar to me.
I really enjoyed that one as an audiobook
Afternoon. I’ll be listening to Grave Peril written by Jim Butcher and read by James Marsters.
Country of the Blind, Christopher Brookmyre. In spite of him being a fellow countryman, and prolific writer, this is my first foray into his work.
Afternoon Womble I'm reading A Head full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Good morning Womble. Just finished Thomas Olde Heuvelt's "Oracle" - pretty decent horror-thriller, but I'm not certain about the translation (by Moishe Gilula). E.g. at one point, a character's breathing is described as sounding like something was blocking her jugular.
Now, I'm thinking to myself, is it more likely that Olde Heuvelt thinks you breathe through your jugular vein, or that Gilula mistranslated some Dutch anatomical term? Of course, the person in question is in the middle of an extreme body-horror transformation, so....
I did not know he has a new one! Have Hex and Echo. Oracle is now in my sights!
I am at a con this weekend, but I have started AUDITIONING FOR THE FOX by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social
Ah! I hope you enjoy your time with Nesi and the Fox and the rest of the divine family ;)
Mornin Womble! I have just finished reading The God of Broken Things by Cameron Johnston. I have also got Dark Ride from Image comics going on as well.
Good morning Womble. I'm reading The Devils in hardback and some Murder Most Unladylike in paperback.
The Devils in Hardback struck me as a book title at first. The Devil's in Hardback (and God's writing the Guardian review).
The Devils in Hardback is an espionage thriller set amongst international book fairs during the Cold War in the 1980s.
Ooh, I would read that.
Morning Womble, hope alls well! Have got two books in the go - the fascinating The Dream Factory by Daniel Swift about the first playhouse Shakespeare worked at; and a set of Horus Heresy short stories Legacies of betrayal
Morning Womble! Currently reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, nearly finished and thoroughly enjoying!
I have that one sitting on my shelves, heard so much good about it
I'm reading NightBitch by Rachel Yoder. It's my book club choice. It's unusual. ☺️
Morning, Womble! I'm reading The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey. I found a nice copy at the used book store this week and it's not one of hers I've read before. I'm enjoying it.
Morning Womble! I’m reading There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak. Just superb.
Invader (Cherryh) on audio, though I browsed through the hardcover and read a few favourite bits before bed last night to unwind, not being able to remember if they finally & fatally get rid of Hanks in this one or in Inheritor. Still reading Rackham on Woodland and Hastings' The Secret War.
My stack of mostly recent TBR non-fiction Is piling up! I need more reading time.
Good morning, Womble! The Women by Kristin Hannah. Just started! 📖
The AI Con. Interesting, deeply researched. Everything that’s problematic about the current “AI” hype: ethics, exploitation, corporate greed, climate effects etc. Plus possible solutions.
Me, too! Really fascinating and engaging read.
Morning Womble! I'm about half way through @petemc666.bsky.social's forthcoming "Paved With Good Intentions" and it's so good to be able to return to the world of Rose Throne again.
Hello Womble! This morning I read The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag. I have about 150 pages left of Malice by John Gwynne and I'm listening to Nicola Coughlan's excellent narration of Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Morning ToberMoriarty 😆 In the eyes: King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist In the ears: The Last Mortal Bond By Brian Staveley
Morning, I’m reading The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
'Morning, Womble. I'm on Smoke & Iron by Rachel Caine. It's several years since I read the previous book in this set but it's coming back to me!
Good morning! Imm currently reading This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter and slightly grudging having to work today as I’m close to finishing it. It’s excellent, as expected from Karin Slaughter
Morning! About a third the way through A Crow Named Torment by Silas A. Bischoff and halfway through Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
How is the Bee Speaker?
It's good, but it's taken a while for me to get into, a lot of POVs, but it's settling into an interesting story.
Good morning, Womble. I've finally gotten around to reading Babel by @rfkuang.bsky.social Still early in the book, but I got a kick out of the "Here's how I tried to make Oxford historically correct, but if you've got an issue, remember I'm writing fiction here." forward.
I loved this!
That book hit really hard in the end. Hope you like it
Re-reading Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, plus first-time reads of A Suitable Consort for the King and His Husband by R. Cooper and Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn.
ey Womble! I've spent the weekend barrelling through "The Raven Scholar," by Antonia Hodgson
Thanks for pointing it out. Sounds like a lot of fun.
It is! I am really trying to remember where I first saw it recommended, because it was something that grabbed me immediately as a fun and clever read
Good morning and happy Sunday! Just finished Cynthia Eden's Angel Betrayed and started José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt which is just perfect so far - lovely sense of creeping dread. Although not sure I need to read something for that right now.
Happy Sunday Womble! I’ve just started MK Hardy’s The Needfire which is serving up all the dreich Scottish Gothic vibes I oddly need at midsummer 🔥 Still being intrigued by The Centre (Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi) on audio.
Good morning! I have literally just finished Thursbitch by Alan Garner, yes I found dialect dialogue difficult but it is truly a magical book, the intertwined past and present, each with their own heartbreak. I am now on indie writer Marie Anne Cole's Bonds, a supernatural, occult tale.
Happy Sunday afternoon, Darth Tobermoriarty Womble. I continue to follow your lead and am clearing my To Read Pile with WITCHSIGN by Den Patrick. It’s the first in a Norse/Russian inspired fantasy trilogy. I can see what it is trying to do but the execution is not working for me.
Morning, Womble! I'm currently reading C. S. E. Cooney's Saint Death's Herald and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe Is Buried.
Bookclub for Troublesome Women
Good Morning Womble! Currently reading A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. Something very reassuringly familiar about opening up the book and going "Yep that's T. Kingfisher prose right there."
Good morning Womble 😊 I'm currently reading Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. I love the way his books really immerse you into historic landscapes and cultures
Morning, Womble! I'm editing today (I was out protesting all day yesterday!) but I'll be starting Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs tonight.
Good afternoon from sunny Yorkshire (we desperately need some rain)! I'm reading The Mab Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. Needed something light-hearted. It's hilarious. Really hope Osman writes his own books. I'm a bit sceptical of celebrities who write books. But I think Osman is not just a celeb.
Good morning! Current fiction: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell, episode to follow shortly! Non-fiction: Just finished The AI Con. A broad look at everything wrong with current “AI”, covering both social and tech aspects. A highlight is the discussion of how humans make meaning from language.
Volume 4 of Ballad of Sword and Wine. This continues to be my favorite of all the series of its ilk that I have read. bsky.app/profile/sara...
Started "Angels before Man" by Rafael Nicolas today. Very poetic so far
Ay up, Womble. I am just starting Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson. It’s a while since I read the first two books in the series so I only have half an idea what the story so far is.
Such a good series. I really need to read them again
Just started Bioshock:Rapture by John Shirley, set in the Bioshock universe it’s a prequel to story told in the 2007 game.
Good morning Womble. I'm still savouring Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shroud slowly, and in parallel I'm reading the first Dave Robicheaux thriller The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke, and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Trafalgar.
Good morning! We’re enjoying @guygavrielkay.bsky.social ‘s latest😁😼
Good morning Womble! This week I read the plant horror books "Overgrowth" by Mira Grant (alien plant people invasion) and "Inhospitable" by Ali Seay (plant monster rural horror). They're very different yet make an excellent duo!
Good morning. I am reading The Patient Assassin by Anita Anand but I also do need to start soon on Orbit 7 for review.
Morning. Just started both Butter by Asako Yuzuki and inventing the renaissance by Ada Palmer.
Both amazing but extremely different authors 😅
Good morning. This week, I've finished The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson and read The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor. I'm just about to start The Fates by Rosie Garland.
Morning! I'm reading The Maiden by Kate Foster - it's a quick read but I still haven't decided whether I'm sufficiently pulled in.
Good morning Womble! I'm reading The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow. Scarily way too on point for our time in the US, but an important read nonetheless.
You catch me ploughing through The Secret Hours by Mick Herron. He is just such a wonderful author
Excellent read! Review to come next up Vianne by Joanne Harris
I saw this on the table at the bookshop and didn't pick it up. You know that tempting thing you mentioned earlier…
Morning Womble! I've Abercrombie's The Devils going on audiobook and I'm about to dive into Doug Johnstone's The Transcendent Tide.
Finished Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb. I'm gonna have to read the Live Ship series some time, and Bee, what a character. About to start The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. R. Parry.
Morning! I finished Alex White’s August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, which is a queer love story mixed with deadly giant robots from space. Now reading The Undetectables by Courtney Smith which is living up to its ‘Be Gay. Solve Crimes. Take Naps’ tag line. Am curious where it’s going.
Hi Womble! Finally finished the Count of Monte Cristo, and I'm currently devouring 'Future's Edge' by @garethlpowell.bsky.social , which I'm loving.
Good morning. On audio there's Written on the Dark (GGKay), one of his definite hits. About to start Stone (Roberts), a fortunate charity shop find.
Morning Womble! Wound up with multiple books on the go, so: Cunning Folk, Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster And H G Wells' The Invisible man on audiobook, because earphones are easier for long bus journeys!
Cunning Folk is fascinating!
Morning Womble, hope you are well? Finished He Drowned the World by @shelleyparkerchan last night, awesome. Started first few pages of Service Model by @aptshadow.
Catherynne M. Valente's Orphan's Tales, Steve Aylett's Heart of the Original & Penelope Fitzgerald's The Means of Escape.
I am still reading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. I'm enjoying it, but I seem to read paper more slowly than Kindle. Bedtime story is Witch Week by DWJ, which is worrying me a bit as too dark for my daughter, but she may not have noticed the bone-fires.
Hello! I'm reading this which I'm really enjoying. It's made me want to find out more about Cyprus and its history. Shamefully I didn't even really know where it was or that it used to be some kind of British colony. I will also definitely be reading more by Elif Shafak.
Morning Womble! Currently reading THE GILDED CROWN. Imagine Sabriel, but she's manipulated into being the royal family's personal resurrectionist in a fantasy Venice setting. And bringing folk back to life costs her parts of her body.
Good morning I’m enjoying being in lost in all the amazing #fanfic shared by all of the talented writers. So I never have to leave the loving world of #bridgerton and #polin.
Morning, lovely Womble. I needed something completely different from work reads so went with Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah and really resented having to put it down to sleep last night. Gripping.
Did you see this article? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Hope you have a wonderful day so far. Today, I’m reading a book by R.S. Moule - The Fury of Kings
Morning Womble! I'm in the middle of (and very much enjoying) The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso, and have also just started the audiobook of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky to continue my Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist reading 😊
The service model is so entertaining, I thought. How do you like it?
I've only just started it, but hoping I'll enjoy it!
Im on Rogue Protocol, the third Murderbot novel. Fascinating to think about the adaption changes on the current TV show.
Good morning from sunny Norway! I started The Wager, but just couldn’t focus. Fantastic reviews, so I’ll save it for later. Currently chuckling my way through Book Lovers.
Evening Womble. I've had a run of good books this week. Today's book is The Book of Doors by @garethjohnbrown.bsky.social
Hello. I am reading There There by Tommy Orange. I saw him interviewed by Dua Lipa and was enthused. Very good so far.
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen. It has issues, but the writing is excellent and the narrative has great intensity.
Morning Womble! I’m currently reading One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun (tr. Jung Yewon), which I’m hoping to finish shortly, and then I’ll be on to Extremophile by Ian Green.
Good morning! I am just starting The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. I am also trying (and largely failing) to read Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale in the original, as I have The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks on order.
Hi Womble! I am currently halfway through the excellent Hild by Nicola Griffith and loving it. Such elegant, almost otherworldly prose.
I read Hild last year and I agree, it is beautifully written. I keep meaning to order the second book from the library.
Good morning Womble! I recently realised that, while I am very familiar with Chekhov’s famous dictum about the gun, I had never actually read any of his works. I am amending this now, and you’ll be pleased to hear that the first play in this collection does indeed feature a Chekhov’s gun.
I’m also still reading: Audio: MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera Kindle: The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
Hello! Onyx Court, the third book in the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros The fantasy worldbuilding is a little thin and obvious, but the star crossed romance and plucky heroine / brooding hero vibes are top notch, and it's a genuine page turner
Morning Womble! I'm (still) reading A Place of Greater Safety and loving every minute, but also started Berg by Ann Quin and BLOODY HELL what a book