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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social

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?

jun 15, 2025, 7:45 am • 78 10

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Slightly Howling @slightlyhowling.bsky.social

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).

jun 15, 2025, 10:21 am • 3 1 • view
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Slightly Howling @slightlyhowling.bsky.social

Hope you are well.

jun 15, 2025, 10:22 am • 1 0 • view
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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com

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.

A Journey INTO THE Heart OF THE English South Justin Hopper The OLD WEIRD ALBION Penned in the Margins Back of book: A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the Sun in a circle of trees. A dowsing rod turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps. The Old Weird Albion is conceived as a series of movements across the South Downs of Hampshire and Sussex; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the English South. Justin Hopper traces memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head, joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles, ancient chalk figures and eerie suburbs: the ruins of prehistoric pasts and utopian futures. Hopper casts himself as the outsider an American initiate searching for an English heritage and mixes doubt with desire in pursuit of mystical encounters in the Downs.
jun 15, 2025, 2:16 pm • 2 1 • view
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social

Good morning, Womble! I'm reading Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan which is an absolute delight so far.

jun 15, 2025, 8:11 am • 6 1 • view
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DC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social

Good afternoon! I've just started The Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders.

jun 15, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 1 • view
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Jo M Thomas @journeymouse.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 10:12 am • 3 1 • view
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ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social

Morning! Started They Bloom at Night, the new horror by Trang Thanh Tran. The writing is excellently atmospheric and the story captivating!

Book cover with an underwater Vietnamese woman with flowing hair looking terrifying
jun 15, 2025, 8:25 am • 13 2 • view
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 0 • view
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ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social

Oh cool!

jun 15, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steven Gomzi @stevengomzi.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:00 pm • 5 1 • view
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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 12:17 pm • 5 1 • view
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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social

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. 😁

jun 15, 2025, 10:44 am • 4 1 • view
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Farmhouse reader @mary-rutter.bsky.social

I'm reading In Winter I Get Up At Night by Canadian author Jane Urqhart.

jun 15, 2025, 11:28 am • 5 1 • view
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Aardvarkian Blues @jamesmcshane.bsky.social

Evening, Womble. I’m really engrossed in Stuart Turton’s most recent book. I’m now three for three on this guy’s books.

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jun 15, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 1 • view
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Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com

Morning, realised I'd never read The Island of Dr Moreau so that's my next read

jun 15, 2025, 7:57 am • 8 1 • view
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ChefMagenta @magentakoru.bsky.social

Morning Womble. I have finally got round to book 2 of Murderbot and I'm enjoying it mightily.

jun 15, 2025, 12:23 pm • 7 1 • view
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Savo @thelordsavo.bsky.social

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!

jun 15, 2025, 10:44 am • 3 1 • view
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Steve O'Gorman @steveeditor.bsky.social

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. 😄

jun 15, 2025, 8:20 am • 7 1 • view
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rotheche @rotheche.bsky.social

Hello Womble! Currently about 4/5 of the way through Going Postal as part of the #pratchettproject. Moist is an interesting character.

jun 15, 2025, 11:14 am • 4 1 • view
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luvlysmiler.bsky.social @luvlysmiler.bsky.social

Just did the bit with Boris the horse earlier. Couldn't steer him with a hammer 😂

jun 15, 2025, 7:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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Testaroscia @testaroscia.bsky.social

Someone suggested it as a “first” Pratchett and I see why. I did enjoy it and will be back for more

jun 15, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social

Going morning Womble. I'm currently reading this. I love Ian Rankin's books.

Image of the paperback of Ian Rankin's Set in Darkness.
jun 15, 2025, 10:55 am • 3 1 • view
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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social

Good morning! I'm reading Zone One by Colson Whitehead, feels fairly standard zombie post apocalypse so far but it's running along smoothly

jun 15, 2025, 8:11 am • 4 1 • view
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GMBanks @gmbanks.bsky.social

Morning Womble. This week I read Beware the Past by Joy Ellis. Now reading The Promised Queen by Kate Johnson.

jun 15, 2025, 7:55 am • 3 1 • view
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social

Morning, Womble! I'm rereading the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells to tide me over until Friday for another TV ep 😅

jun 15, 2025, 11:16 am • 9 1 • view
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Falconet @falconet.bsky.social

The only series that I've read, listened to and watch repeatedly. Love love love it.

jun 15, 2025, 12:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social

It's so good!!

jun 15, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kathryn Faulkner @kathrynhf.bsky.social

I discovered them recently. What a joy! Network Effect up next. I am loving the TV series too.

jun 16, 2025, 6:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Eigon @eigon03.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 7:54 am • 7 1 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

I really enjoyed that one as an audiobook

jun 15, 2025, 10:56 am • 2 0 • view
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Christian Ellingsen @mrellingsen.bsky.social

Afternoon. I’ll be listening to Grave Peril written by Jim Butcher and read by James Marsters.

jun 15, 2025, 11:49 am • 11 2 • view
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Fiona and Joe @fcc12.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:46 am • 4 1 • view
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Paul Starkey @starkers.bsky.social

Afternoon Womble I'm reading A Head full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

jun 15, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 1 • view
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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 10:14 am • 5 1 • view
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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social

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....

jun 15, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social

I did not know he has a new one! Have Hex and Echo. Oracle is now in my sights!

jun 15, 2025, 10:45 am • 3 0 • view
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com

I am at a con this weekend, but I have started AUDITIONING FOR THE FOX by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social

jun 15, 2025, 11:22 am • 6 1 • view
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social

Ah! I hope you enjoy your time with Nesi and the Fox and the rest of the divine family ;)

jun 15, 2025, 12:49 pm • 3 0 • view
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Fantasy Book Nerd @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:11 am • 6 1 • view
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Ed Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social

Good morning Womble. I'm reading The Devils in hardback and some Murder Most Unladylike in paperback.

jun 15, 2025, 10:53 am • 7 1 • view
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social

The Devils in Hardback struck me as a book title at first. The Devil's in Hardback (and God's writing the Guardian review).

jun 15, 2025, 11:41 am • 4 0 • view
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Ed Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social

The Devils in Hardback is an espionage thriller set amongst international book fairs during the Cold War in the 1980s.

jun 15, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social

Ooh, I would read that.

jun 16, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 8:19 am • 3 1 • view
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The Spectacular Spider-Malk @spider-malk.bsky.social

Morning Womble! Currently reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, nearly finished and thoroughly enjoying!

jun 15, 2025, 8:27 am • 4 1 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

I have that one sitting on my shelves, heard so much good about it

jun 15, 2025, 10:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Fiona @mumsyface.bsky.social

I'm reading NightBitch by Rachel Yoder. It's my book club choice. It's unusual. ☺️

jun 15, 2025, 7:49 am • 4 1 • view
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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 11:21 am • 9 1 • view
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Jen @jenlucy.bsky.social

Morning Womble! I’m reading There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak. Just superb.

jun 15, 2025, 8:23 am • 4 1 • view
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 11:47 am • 2 1 • view
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social

My stack of mostly recent TBR non-fiction Is piling up! I need more reading time.

jun 15, 2025, 11:47 am • 1 0 • view
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Dylan Kussman @dylankussman.bsky.social

Good morning, Womble! The Women by Kristin Hannah. Just started! 📖

jun 15, 2025, 11:44 am • 3 1 • view
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social

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.

Book cover: THE AI CON by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. ‘How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want’
jun 15, 2025, 10:21 am • 7 1 • view
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Lisa @ Narrated Podcast @lisajune.bsky.social

Me, too! Really fascinating and engaging read.

jun 15, 2025, 11:50 am • 2 0 • view
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inthebookgarden.bsky.social @inthebookgarden.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:08 am • 3 1 • view
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Annette J @annettej.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 11:02 am • 4 1 • view
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ScottishKat @scottishkat.bsky.social

Morning ToberMoriarty 😆 In the eyes: King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist In the ears: The Last Mortal Bond By Brian Staveley

jun 15, 2025, 9:47 am • 2 1 • view
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Emma @emmagiverny.bsky.social

Morning, I’m reading The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

jun 15, 2025, 8:25 am • 4 1 • view
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Law Geek @lawgeek.bsky.social

'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!

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jun 15, 2025, 8:32 am • 4 1 • view
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Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 10:43 am • 4 1 • view
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CraigBookwyrm 📖🐉🪐 @craigbookwyrm.bsky.social

Morning! About a third the way through A Crow Named Torment by Silas A. Bischoff and halfway through Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

jun 15, 2025, 9:37 am • 3 1 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

How is the Bee Speaker?

jun 15, 2025, 10:54 am • 1 0 • view
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CraigBookwyrm 📖🐉🪐 @craigbookwyrm.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Brian Minsker @bminsker.bsky.social

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.

The cover of Babel by R F Kuang. A black-and-white drawing of a tower circled by birds amid 17th century London. The title is in gold with An Arcane History as the subtitle.
jun 15, 2025, 10:16 am • 17 1 • view
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social

I loved this!

jun 15, 2025, 10:34 am • 4 0 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

That book hit really hard in the end. Hope you like it

jun 15, 2025, 10:51 am • 3 0 • view
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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com

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.

jun 15, 2025, 7:44 pm • 4 1 • view
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Ziv W @quitevague.bsky.social

ey Womble! I've spent the weekend barrelling through "The Raven Scholar," by Antonia Hodgson

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jun 15, 2025, 11:04 am • 5 1 • view
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Testaroscia @testaroscia.bsky.social

Thanks for pointing it out. Sounds like a lot of fun.

jun 15, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ziv W @quitevague.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:01 am • 2 1 • view
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imyril @imyril.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:36 pm • 4 1 • view
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 10:42 am • 4 1 • view
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 1 • view
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Paladin Jane @paladinjane.bsky.social

Morning, Womble! I'm currently reading C. S. E. Cooney's Saint Death's Herald and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe Is Buried.

jun 15, 2025, 11:48 am • 3 1 • view
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jkr34.bsky.social @jkr34.bsky.social

Bookclub for Troublesome Women

jun 15, 2025, 8:27 am • 2 1 • view
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Ed Morland @edmorland.bsky.social

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."

jun 15, 2025, 8:12 am • 10 1 • view
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Rachel @womblingfree.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 10:08 am • 6 1 • view
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Misty Massey @mistymassey.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 10:55 am • 5 1 • view
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Falconet @falconet.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 12:15 pm • 8 2 • view
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Lisa @ Narrated Podcast @lisajune.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 1 • view
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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social

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...

jun 15, 2025, 9:03 am • 3 1 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

Started "Angels before Man" by Rafael Nicolas today. Very poetic so far

The cover of Angels before Man showing two beautiful beings, one light skinned and one brown skinned embracing each other and surrounded by flowers
jun 15, 2025, 10:53 am • 1 1 • view
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Andy Hunt @wellpossibly.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 10:23 am • 8 1 • view
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Mr_Eos @mreos.bsky.social

Such a good series. I really need to read them again

jun 15, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
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Vanamonde_Dpan @vanamonde.bsky.social

Just started Bioshock:Rapture by John Shirley, set in the Bioshock universe it’s a prequel to story told in the 2007 game.

jun 15, 2025, 7:49 am • 4 1 • view
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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:17 am • 4 1 • view
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Jason -in Solidarity with 🇵🇸 @comradedantes.bsky.social

Good morning! We’re enjoying @guygavrielkay.bsky.social ‘s latest😁😼

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jun 15, 2025, 2:34 pm • 6 2 • view
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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social

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!

jun 15, 2025, 9:30 am • 3 1 • view
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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social

Good morning. I am reading The Patient Assassin by Anita Anand but I also do need to start soon on Orbit 7 for review.

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jun 15, 2025, 9:00 am • 3 1 • view
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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com

Morning. Just started both Butter by Asako Yuzuki and inventing the renaissance by Ada Palmer.

jun 15, 2025, 8:19 am • 7 1 • view
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social

Both amazing but extremely different authors 😅

jun 15, 2025, 12:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jax @itsjax.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:17 am • 8 1 • view
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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 1 • view
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HawksMeade @cameroda.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 1 • view
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Testaroscia @testaroscia.bsky.social

You catch me ploughing through The Secret Hours by Mick Herron. He is just such a wonderful author

jun 15, 2025, 2:13 pm • 4 1 • view
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social

Excellent read! Review to come next up Vianne by Joanne Harris

jun 15, 2025, 7:29 pm • 4 0 • view
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk

I saw this on the table at the bookshop and didn't pick it up. You know that tempting thing you mentioned earlier…

jun 15, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Morning Womble! I've Abercrombie's The Devils going on audiobook and I'm about to dive into Doug Johnstone's The Transcendent Tide.

jun 15, 2025, 8:47 am • 7 1 • view
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fayb.bsky.social @fayb.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 10:10 am • 6 1 • view
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:10 am • 4 2 • view
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Andy Leask @andyleask.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 4:26 pm • 3 1 • view
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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:37 am • 3 1 • view
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social

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!

jun 15, 2025, 7:55 am • 8 1 • view
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social

Cunning Folk is fascinating!

jun 15, 2025, 8:03 am • 4 0 • view
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TheStainlessSteelRat @llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:15 am • 4 1 • view
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Nelson Stanley @notasentence.bsky.social

Catherynne M. Valente's Orphan's Tales, Steve Aylett's Heart of the Original & Penelope Fitzgerald's The Means of Escape.

jun 15, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 1 • view
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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 8:49 am • 6 1 • view
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Mandy Hill @msmandyhill.bsky.social

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.

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
jun 15, 2025, 12:48 pm • 3 1 • view
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Rhiannon A Grist @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social

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.

A paperback copy of THE GILDED CROWN by Marianne Gordon. The cover features two crowns, a bright lively one above decorated with fresh roses, and a tarnished weathered one below surrounded by withered roses. The tagline reads: Every life comes at a price.
jun 15, 2025, 8:05 am • 5 1 • view
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Katie Lennon @polin24.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 11:37 am • 3 1 • view
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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:00 am • 3 1 • view
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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social

Did you see this article? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

jun 18, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social @thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social

Hope you have a wonderful day so far. Today, I’m reading a book by R.S. Moule - The Fury of Kings

Cover of a book by R.S. Moule - The Fury of Kings
jun 15, 2025, 12:52 pm • 2 1 • view
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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social

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 😊

jun 15, 2025, 9:25 am • 5 1 • view
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Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social

The service model is so entertaining, I thought. How do you like it?

jun 15, 2025, 10:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social

I've only just started it, but hoping I'll enjoy it!

jun 15, 2025, 11:50 am • 2 0 • view
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social

Im on Rogue Protocol, the third Murderbot novel. Fascinating to think about the adaption changes on the current TV show.

jun 15, 2025, 8:27 am • 10 1 • view
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Knitpurlgurl @knitpurlgurl.bsky.social

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.

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jun 15, 2025, 9:13 am • 5 1 • view
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Raindrops_on_Roses @kateraindrops.bsky.social

Evening Womble. I've had a run of good books this week. Today's book is The Book of Doors by @garethjohnbrown.bsky.social

jun 15, 2025, 8:39 am • 3 1 • view
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Phil On The Hill @philonthehill.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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:24 am • 5 1 • view
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LaticsExile @laticsexile.bsky.social

Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen. It has issues, but the writing is excellent and the narrative has great intensity.

jun 15, 2025, 11:59 am • 2 1 • view
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social

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.

jun 15, 2025, 9:06 am • 4 2 • view
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Kathryn Faulkner @kathrynhf.bsky.social

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.

jun 16, 2025, 7:03 am • 2 1 • view
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Elspeth Cooper @elspethcooper.bsky.social

Hi Womble! I am currently halfway through the excellent Hild by Nicola Griffith and loving it. Such elegant, almost otherworldly prose.

jun 15, 2025, 8:34 am • 11 1 • view
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Kathryn Faulkner @kathrynhf.bsky.social

I read Hild last year and I agree, it is beautifully written. I keep meaning to order the second book from the library.

jun 16, 2025, 6:58 am • 2 0 • view
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Hesper Leveret 🐇 🏳️‍⚧️ @hesper.bsky.social

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.

The cover of “The Major Plays” by Anton Chekhov. It features a painting of a rural scene
jun 15, 2025, 8:17 am • 5 1 • view
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Hesper Leveret 🐇 🏳️‍⚧️ @hesper.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 8:21 am • 4 1 • view
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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 11:47 am • 1 1 • view
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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social

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

jun 15, 2025, 10:45 am • 6 1 • view