Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the end of a great series Heart of the Wyrd Wood by RJ Barker. What are you reading at the moment?
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I'm hoping to finish John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion today, which is great, so I will log off now and get back to reading.
jul 6, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 1 • view
Good morning! I’m reading Sugar On The Bones by Joe Lansdale, Bright Dead Star by Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.
jul 6, 2025, 8:41 am • 5 1 • view
Have you read other books by Lansdale in this series and is it okay to start randomly?
jul 6, 2025, 9:33 am • 2 0 • view
I would recommend starting at the beginning with Savage Season. You’ll get so much more out of it because Lansdale has the characters change and actually grow older over the course of the series. And those first bunch of books are real page turners.
jul 6, 2025, 12:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you!
jul 6, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re welcome! Gave it some more thought and I would actually suggest the 2nd book Mucho Mojo as the best starting point. Savage Season is a little rough with Lansdale not quite finding the vibe of the series yet.
jul 6, 2025, 3:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Again, thank you. Am now already on Book 3. Helped me get over "It is far too hot to read something complicated "summer slump". Enjoying myself.
jul 13, 2025, 11:29 am • 2 0 • view
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the books! I just finished his latest in the series and am happy to say the series is still keeping me entertained.
jul 13, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
Just getting started with Outcast Mage, which I think you recommended a while back.
jul 6, 2025, 10:07 am • 3 1 • view
I did!
jul 6, 2025, 10:07 am • 3 0 • view
Hello Womble! I have just finished Viscounts and Villainy by Allie Therin and started Future's Edge by Gareth L. Powell yesterday. And still deep into Murderbot on audio for my commute. 😁 (I can't get enough of those books!)
jul 6, 2025, 12:37 pm • 2 1 • view
Hi @runalongwomble.bsky.social still reading Sorcerer to the Crown by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social and loving it. In my ears, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Warming to it. The genius dog might be overkill, but I'll allow it.
jul 6, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 1 • view
We’re interviewing Bonnie Garmus on PBS Books later this month, hope you’ll check it out!!
jul 12, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Good to know. Thank you!
jul 12, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Morning! I'm reading Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter. It's a second run at a book I didn't get along with first time around - it made me feel like I wasn't intellectually equipped to read it somehow. But enjoying it, thankfully.
jul 6, 2025, 9:01 am • 2 1 • view
Hi, currently reading Craftland by James Fox, all about lost and dying crafts of Britain
jul 6, 2025, 12:17 pm • 2 1 • view
Hello Your Wombleness. I am reading a Golden Age murder mystery that reminds us that not everyone in the Golden Age was any good.
jul 6, 2025, 8:18 am • 4 1 • view
Good morning Womble! I am currently rereading the astonishing Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Definitely hits different the second time round. Also I'm listening to the Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi, first time round.
jul 6, 2025, 9:44 am • 14 1 • view
That book is still with me since I read it years ago. Maybe I need a re-read too
jul 6, 2025, 10:32 am • 2 0 • view
Do! It's timeless. The first time I read it, about 10 years ago, I had no idea when it was set and assumed it was from the 80s until I read the cost of rent in New York 😄. On a reread its now obvious of it's era. It's still an incredible work.
jul 6, 2025, 10:35 am • 3 0 • view
Flowers For Algernon is our Book Group book for September. Heard good things.
jul 6, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
I'm reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Intriguing and enjoyable, though more low key than I was expecting from the blurb.
jul 6, 2025, 9:39 am • 10 1 • view
I've been 'circling' this book for a while but not gone for it yet!
jul 6, 2025, 10:12 am • 3 0 • view
I read the Starless Sea and quite enjoyed it. I might give The Night Circus a go at some point.
jul 6, 2025, 10:49 am • 2 0 • view
I haven't read that one - yet!
jul 6, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 0 • view
Reading The Illiad. Maybe I was supposed to read it in high school 30 yrs ago? The Odyssey next. Don’t tell my English teacher.
jul 6, 2025, 9:40 am • 10 1 • view
I got it read by Stephen Fry right now as his audiobook. It is a great and tragic story
jul 6, 2025, 10:34 am • 3 0 • view
Your homework is due Tuesday morning
jul 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 3 0 • view
On vacation in Greece. Going to need an extension.
jul 6, 2025, 9:50 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah that not happening
jul 6, 2025, 9:58 am • 1 0 • view
Morning Womble, I’m reading about the evolution of Australian mammals by reading Platypus Matters by Jack Ashby.
jul 6, 2025, 8:21 am • 7 1 • view
Morning Womble - from sunny Cascais in Portugal. This week I read Dark Pines by Will Dean. Now reading Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee.
jul 6, 2025, 7:53 am • 3 1 • view
Good morning Womble! I’m on my second read of Mel Brooks’ autobiography All About Me.
jul 6, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 1 • view
Good morning womble! I'm currently listening to Orishas Among Mortals on Netgalley and reading an ARC Bounty Inc by Holcombe!
jul 6, 2025, 9:35 am • 2 1 • view
Good morning Womble. I'm reading Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount still. It makes me angry.
jul 6, 2025, 9:52 am • 3 1 • view
Morning. I'll listening to Old Man's War written by John Scalzi and read by William Dufris.
jul 6, 2025, 7:50 am • 8 1 • view
Morning Womble. I'm currently reading The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
jul 6, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 1 • view
Surprised you can concentrate on reading, what with all the racket going on in Wimbledon. Balls being whacked, people shouting "OUT!", and all the cheering. I suppose the Common is large enough to get away from it though. I'm reading "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner fwiw.
jul 6, 2025, 8:28 am • 8 1 • view
I’d forgotten how great The Owl Service was until we did it for our book group six months ago. Genuinely unsettling and a YA book before YA books existed
jul 6, 2025, 10:53 am • 2 0 • view
There's a 1970s BBC adaptation that was very creepy for a Sunday teatime serial.
jul 6, 2025, 7:43 pm • 3 0 • view
The book was recommended to me by a friend who is a prolific trad published children's author. I'm not far into it yet. See how long I can stay awake with it tonight.
jul 6, 2025, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s a little bit of its time, but 10 year old me was a bit creeped out by it back in 1973.
jul 6, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t know how I missed seeing it.
jul 6, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Good morning Womble. I'm reading "Strange Pictures" by Ukatsu (tr. Jim Rion). Intricately constructed and chilling mystery. Doesn't have the slam-bang action of Kōtarō Isaka's Hitman books, but the meticulous plotting is very similar.
jul 6, 2025, 10:16 am • 5 1 • view
I’m reading The Tapestry of Time by Kate Heartfield.
jul 6, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 1 • view
HEllo Womble. I am reading TWO books called All Roads Lead to Rome at the same time, a non fiction book by @rhigarthjones.bsky.social , and an anthology edited by Hank Davis and David Afsharirad.
jul 6, 2025, 12:02 pm • 4 1 • view
I’m dipping into The Case of Miss Elliot, the second collection of The Old Man In The Corner mysteries by Baroness Orczy as my bath book (the original armchair detective complete with psychological quirk) and racing through the new Rivers of London, Stone and Sky
jul 6, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 1 • view
Hi Womble, just finished TJ Klune's "The Bones Beneath my Skin" and started "BlackTalon", a warhammer novel. Have a great day 😁
jul 6, 2025, 7:49 am • 2 1 • view
Good morning Womble. I’m reading The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen, the 3rd in the series of fantasy, sort of Western, romances which I see in horror is the final one! So I am going a l o w e r and s l o w e r as I don’t want it all to end
jul 6, 2025, 8:11 am • 7 1 • view
Evening Womble. Only just got chance to see this so thought I would put my two Penneth in a bit late today. I am currently reading a horror book called The Uninvited by Johnathan Daniel and finishing The Devil That Wears my Face by David Pepose.
jul 6, 2025, 7:20 pm • 5 1 • view
Good morning! I am re-reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, because I am just in that kind of mood. (And because I love this book!)
jul 6, 2025, 11:39 am • 5 1 • view
Afternoon Womble. I'm working my way through Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy at a softplay just now. Not my usual thing. Picked it up on a recommendation and I've been enjoying it.
jul 6, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! My copy of Adam Roberts' LAKE OF DARKNESS finally came in, putting my other plans on hold till I finish!
jul 6, 2025, 12:20 pm • 5 1 • view
Happy Sunday Womble! I've just finished Richard Osman's We Solve Murders. It was a gift, and I was sceptical... until I read it. Very silly and great fun. Don't yet know what I'm moving onto next, but Mount TBR can be seen from space, so I have plenty of choice! 💙📚
jul 6, 2025, 8:41 am • 4 1 • view
Good morning! I’m just about to start Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
jul 6, 2025, 8:36 am • 6 1 • view
This reads like you're planning a coordinated arson attack against Celeste Ng.
jul 6, 2025, 8:39 am • 2 0 • view
Morning Womble hope alls well! Rushing through The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - it’s really fun!
jul 6, 2025, 8:49 am • 3 1 • view
Late again sorry Womble but I just reread three of Lucius Shepard's The Dragon Griaule novellas. Fabulous in every sense of the word.
jul 6, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 1 • view
Thank you (I think?) for the reminder that I've been wanting to read the Dragon Griaule stories for ages!
jul 6, 2025, 9:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Morning Womble! Reading From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh. Going to be listening to The Incandescent by Emily Tesh.
jul 6, 2025, 10:06 am • 3 1 • view
A gentleman in Moscow
jul 6, 2025, 1:06 pm • 6 1 • view
Good morning, I’m reading this essay collection by the Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola
jul 6, 2025, 8:59 am • 2 1 • view
Morning ToberMoriarty 😆 In the eyes: The Crow Folk by Mark Stay In the ears: Parade by Rachel Cusk
jul 6, 2025, 8:08 am • 2 1 • view
Ah the crow feasting on the many bodies you leave behind assassin
jul 6, 2025, 8:09 am • 2 0 • view
As if I would leave bodies just lying about like that! I mean, IF I was an assassin (I'm not) that's not something I would do.
jul 6, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
Of course…….
jul 6, 2025, 8:12 am • 2 0 • view
Currently reading Andrew Cartmel's "The Run-Out Groove" Book two in his Vinyl Detective series. Very enjoyable.
jul 6, 2025, 10:08 am • 7 1 • view
'Morning, Womble. I've got 2 on the go at the moment. Nonfiction Mining Men by Emily Webber & the very fictional The Stray Spirit by RK Ashwick. I'm enjoying both of them. I read The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong this week & it was so lovely it kind of ruined me for other books, though!
jul 6, 2025, 8:51 am • 2 1 • view
Morning Womble! I'm currently reading You Like It Darker, the recent short story collection by Stephen King. It's unsettling. Maybe I don't like it darker.
jul 6, 2025, 9:35 am • 6 1 • view
Embrace it ;)
jul 6, 2025, 9:40 am • 3 0 • view
Good morning! I'm most of the way through the first of those books and having a good time 😊.
jul 7, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning, Womble. I'm reading Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social Still fairly early in the book, but I think this might be her best one yet.
jul 6, 2025, 4:41 pm • 41 4 • view
It was a very good read!
jul 6, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh! I saw someone else recommend that today. I am convinced!
jul 6, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Morning, Womble. I just tore through @aptshadow.bsky.social's excellent Bee Speaker. About to start the latest by one of my other favourite authors, Maggie Stiefvater. The Listeners is supposedly a romance, not my usual thing, but she is so accomplished, I'm sure I'll enjoy.
jul 6, 2025, 8:08 am • 5 1 • view
Morning Womble! I’m reading Magician by Raymond E Feist. Never read it before, so figured I should probably give it a go. Enjoying it so far.
jul 6, 2025, 11:18 am • 1 1 • view
Good morning and happy Sunday! Just finished Allie Therin's Proper Scoundrels which was great fun, looking forward to the next two books there. Also still rereading the Lymond Chronicles. I'm most of the way through Queen's Play - I'd forgotten nearly all of it so it's like a first read.
jul 6, 2025, 8:00 am • 4 1 • view
Morning! I’m reading The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Webb. It’s a science fiction novel first published in 1827!
jul 6, 2025, 8:23 am • 7 1 • view
Morning, Womble! Reading Paul kirchner: Awaiting the Collapse, Selected Works 1974-2014.
jul 6, 2025, 7:56 am • 5 1 • view
Susan Sontag’s The Volcano 🌋 Lover - and it is just summertime excellence 🤩
jul 6, 2025, 10:19 am • 2 1 • view
In need of something Very Long but Familiar to keep me company with the summer gardening, I've gone for a relisten to Stephen King's Under the Dome. Last listened to whilst running the waterside edges of Stockholm's islands in 2012 - hitting a bit differently this time...
jul 6, 2025, 8:18 am • 5 1 • view
Good morning, Womble! I'm dipping in and out of George Waterhouse and Other Childhood Terrors anthology from @watertowerhill.bsky.social and have also started The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Latter is a rapid read loan from library so have to finish it quick!
jul 6, 2025, 10:08 am • 7 1 • view
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald. Heavy going TBH.
jul 6, 2025, 8:41 pm • 2 1 • view
Wassup, Womble? I am a quarter of the way through Ista Flit And The Impossible Key by Clare Harlow, which is the second in a fantasy trilogy for readers aged 9+. I enjoyed the creativity in book 1 (which was nominated for the Waterstone’s children’s prize) and so far book 2 is keeping me entertained
jul 6, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 1 • view
Silhouettes — A History and Dictionary of Artists by Mrs E Nevill Jackson I’ve read the History and the As
jul 6, 2025, 10:40 am • 4 1 • view
I'm reading Bunny by Mona Awad!
jul 6, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 1 • view
Brak the barbarian: when idols walk - john jakes (north v south) superior sword & sorcery
jul 6, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I just finished reading Caitlin Starling's queer medieval horror The Starving Saints, which I loved, and now I'm reading the first book in the new translation of Fuyumi Ono's The Twelve Kingdoms series, which I loved in anime form.
jul 6, 2025, 3:36 pm • 4 1 • view
Good afternoon, Womble! I really need to get my ebook mojo back as Nicola Griffith's Aud Torvingen series has finally been re-released in the UK. Until then, this week's physio+treadmill audiobook is Witches Abroad, preceded by Maskerade (both Terry Pratchett). Indira Varma continues to delight
jul 6, 2025, 2:25 pm • 3 1 • view
Good Morning Womble I'm hoping to finish off The Mercian Chronicles by Max Adams today, a look at early medieval Britain in that post Bede pre Vikings period. Very enjoyable especially in how it explicitly grapples with the gaps in evidence rather than confidently filling them in.
jul 6, 2025, 8:49 am • 3 1 • view
Good morning Womble, I am good, and hope you are too. After using a reading tracker app I have found I'm reading at least 12 books simultaneously, which explains my lack of progress. So I'm focusing on the Rivers of London re-read now, just reached Broken Homes.
jul 6, 2025, 9:35 am • 4 1 • view
How do you do that? Like keep track of the plots and characters? I can't read more than 1 book at a time.
jul 6, 2025, 9:41 am • 1 0 • view
It's like, I don't want to read this scary bit before I go to bed, I'll read this cozy fantasy. I don't want to read this dense high fantasy bit now I'm too tired, I'll read this simple mystery. Not reading this spicy scene at lunchtime in the office, I'll read this scary one instead!
jul 6, 2025, 9:45 am • 2 0 • view
I tend to be quite strict this book is for morning this is for after work and this is for weekend but 3-4 is my maximum
jul 6, 2025, 9:48 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah I was a bit horrified when I started adding them and realised what it was adding up to. I need to rein in my magpie reading tendencies and focus. 3-4 is reasonable, not sure 12+ is.
jul 6, 2025, 9:50 am • 2 0 • view
One is my maximum. The only way it's ever 2, is if I'm reading an anthology, and I read one story from it in-between novels. But still only one story at a time. My brain needs to focus on one thing at a time.
jul 6, 2025, 9:52 am • 2 0 • view
I'm so the opposite, I have all those excuses for not reading, but I can't start another book till I finish this one & I rarely DNF. So sometimes it's takes weeks/months to finish a book. On the other hand, if I'm enthralled, I can do 800 pages in 3 days.
jul 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 1 0 • view
I also have a thing where I get anxious for the main character and Bad Things happening and it takes a bit to push through that. But I have always had more than one on the go, even if it was "small book to carry to school, big book too big for school bag at home".
jul 6, 2025, 9:55 am • 2 0 • view
Oh, I totally get that. I suffer 2nd hand embarrassment when characters in tv/movies/ books embarass themselves, stops reading. Or if they are just being stupid and not doing the smart thing.
jul 6, 2025, 9:59 am • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah, sometimes they have to go into Time Out because they are too stupid to be read! But also my brain goes ....Something Bad is going to happen to character so you need to stop reading so it doesn't happen. It's really annoying and quite hard to overcome.
jul 6, 2025, 10:18 am • 0 0 • view
I'm reading a David Baldacci thriller, but it's not one of his best. I'm looking forward next to reading more Robert Crais, he's brilliant
jul 6, 2025, 7:59 am • 2 1 • view
Howdy, Sir Womble! Yesterday I started reading Stephen Graham Jones's "The Only Good Indians." Not very far into at the moment, but it seems like it's going to be an interesting one!
jul 6, 2025, 2:33 pm • 5 1 • view
Another scorching Sunday here, Womble! Finally finished the outstanding Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky (🐸 😏) and flew through T. Kingfisher's The Hollow Hills and Jendia Gammon's Atacama - both enjoyable scary. Next up: Future's Edge by Gareth Powell.
jul 6, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 1 • view
A street Cat named Bob. I’ve recently joined a book club at a Cat cafe. Loving it!
jul 6, 2025, 10:28 am • 6 1 • view
Morning ☺️ Currently reading "Bury our bones in the midnight soil" by V.E. Schwab and wow, am I enjoying it
jul 6, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 1 • view
Morning! Im reading The Cautious Travellers Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks. Its really quite good :). A bit snow piercer, a bit west world, a bit of wyrd thrown in
jul 6, 2025, 9:07 am • 4 1 • view
Still reading The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear.
jul 6, 2025, 7:55 am • 5 1 • view
Good Sunday Womble. I’m in the last few pages of the new Michael Connelly Nightshade, reading the Venetian Heretic by Christian Cameron (🇨🇦), and rereading Hyperion by Dan Simmons and a Stephen King novella from Four Past Midnight.
jul 6, 2025, 9:16 am • 4 1 • view
Hi Womble, I’m currently reading Dead Lions by Mick Herron (Slow Horses) and A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg. First Silverberg book I’ve read in around 40 years
jul 6, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 1 • view
Ecstatic to be reading an eARC of A Sword of Gold and Ruins by Anna Smith Spark. She's probably my favourite author so naturally I just had to drop everything to read it.
jul 6, 2025, 8:35 am • 5 1 • view
Hello, this morning I finished Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe and started The House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
jul 6, 2025, 10:50 am • 7 1 • view
An all-timer obnoxious villain is introduced in this one.
jul 6, 2025, 10:08 am • 2 0 • view
Kate Elliott is one of my favourite authors, and an excellent world builder. This whole series is long but worth it.
jul 6, 2025, 9:40 am • 3 0 • view
Good morning. I'm reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey and Death in the Spires by KJ Charles.
jul 6, 2025, 9:47 am • 4 1 • view
Loved Death in the Spires!
jul 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 2 0 • view
and I loved Orbital so near and yet so far
jul 6, 2025, 9:56 am • 2 0 • view
It is on my list :) (obligatory laugh at the size of list)
jul 6, 2025, 9:59 am • 3 0 • view
Hi Womble! YA Heard It Here First's Dark Shores by Danielle L. Jensen is wrapping up on the podcast & Stories from Among the Stars' T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone season has begun!
jul 6, 2025, 9:39 am • 2 1 • view
I've just come across some new to me short stories with Greek mythology (Darkness, Our Mother by Eleanna Castroianni, “Re: Your Stone” by Guan Un & The Names of Women by Natalia Theodoridou) thanks to this article which also mentions some favorite books! 😁 people.com/greek-retell...
jul 6, 2025, 9:42 am • 3 1 • view
Morning Womble! Just finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye, which isn't my favorite Scalzi, but "not my favorite" is miles better than "no Scalzi to read."
jul 6, 2025, 2:08 pm • 5 1 • view
Oh, I'm waiting for that! Just finishing The Magic Ship by Robin Hobb.
jul 6, 2025, 9:13 am • 3 1 • view
Morning! I look forward to your thoughts. I just finished (reviewed)The Stars Too Fondly, a sapphic romance that’s also an unplanned space odyssey. I am also live reflecting on Annie Bot. It’s giving me a lot to think about.
jul 6, 2025, 7:58 am • 7 1 • view
I look forward to those thoughts too!
jul 6, 2025, 8:00 am • 2 0 • view
I’ve just add another one. It’s weird. I don’t think I like where this is going.
jul 6, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
Good morning Skylarks. Currently reading "They bloom at night" by Trang Thanh Tran. Fascinating read but somehow horror doesn't work in summer. So might go next for murder mystery or Sci-Fi.
jul 6, 2025, 9:28 am • 4 1 • view
I'm reading The West Passage by Jared Pechacek and I'm absolutely loving the weird vibes - the intended inspiration is that it's a story populated by medieval marginalia doodles but my brain is also like "what if Steven Universe was a Dark Crystal-era Jim Henson production" and it rocks
jul 6, 2025, 9:05 am • 9 2 • view
Afternoon Womble! I'm just finishing the excellent audiobook of "House of Open Wounds" from @aptshadow.bsky.social (my first ever audiobook). I've also just started reading "Alice With a Why" by @acaseforbooks.bsky.social, which I've been eagerly anticipating for ages!
jul 6, 2025, 11:59 am • 6 1 • view
Good morning Womble! Also reading RJ Barker having just started the Age of Assassins! Looking forward to getting into his work!
jul 6, 2025, 10:11 am • 3 1 • view
'Strange pictures' by Uketsu
jul 6, 2025, 8:13 am • 1 1 • view
Morning! Reading The Siege of Burning Grass (Mohamed) which is highly original and strongly recommended, listening to The Pride of Chanur (Cherryh), a very old favourite but new to me on audio and perfect for getting through the housework.
jul 6, 2025, 8:44 am • 6 1 • view
I love that C J Cherryh series.
jul 6, 2025, 9:22 am • 3 0 • view
Hello all. Bit late to the party this week, but... a re-read of 'The Hobbit' and 'Bringing Colombia Home', about the 2003 shuttle disaster.
jul 8, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 0 • view
Afternoon Womble. I am reading the Legacy of Molly Southbourne by @tadethompson.bsky.social been a while since i read the others, just settling in with this one.
jul 6, 2025, 11:43 am • 8 1 • view
The Templars by Dan Jones
jul 6, 2025, 10:42 am • 2 1 • view
In my TBR mountain. Any good?
jul 6, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
I'm putting off reading the (current) last Murderbot diary as long as I can bear to. Started In Ascension by Martin MacInnes yesterday; slow start getting used to the style but am adjusting, rather like its scientist characters dealing with they-don't-know-what-yet.
jul 6, 2025, 9:21 am • 13 1 • view
Just finished it. Great read. Stick with it.
jul 8, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
In Ascension is a really slow burn but I loved its unsettling tone.
jul 6, 2025, 9:47 am • 1 0 • view
Hello! I'm reading this and it's not great. I don't think Sir Ken will be doing a star-studded adaptation any Christmas soon.
jul 6, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 1 • view
Morning, Womble! I have been reading this week, E.J. Swift's When there are Wolves Again in the mornings and Jeanette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun in the evenings. It doesn't get much better than that.
jul 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 8 1 • view
Excellent picks
jul 6, 2025, 9:59 am • 3 0 • view
Hey lovely Womble! I am currently reading Death in the Spires by @kjcharleswriter.com and having a great time. The character work is exquisite!
jul 6, 2025, 10:53 am • 4 1 • view
Oh yes, she's very good at that!
jul 6, 2025, 11:09 am • 2 0 • view
Sooo good.
jul 6, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
Just finishing No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym.
jul 6, 2025, 9:43 am • 7 1 • view
Fabulous book
jul 6, 2025, 9:53 am • 1 0 • view
I'm halfway through sci-fi thriller The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar, and it's quite a ride! The action is nearly relentless, and as a science nerd I'm delighted with the well-handled explanation for the sci-fi gimmick. Will my fingernails survive the second half? Signs point to no!
jul 6, 2025, 8:15 am • 9 1 • view
That’s the Canadian who just won the Locus? i have it on my TBR — glad to know it’s great!
jul 7, 2025, 12:21 am • 2 0 • view
That’s the guy! Though according to Boldizar’s bio, he took the long way around in getting to Canada. Born in Slovakia, law degree from Harvard, and has since lived/worked in Bali, San Francisco, Prague, Japan, Tennessee, the Sahara, the High Arctic, New York, Jakarta, Singapore, and now Vancouver!😵💫
jul 7, 2025, 12:33 am • 3 0 • view
Ohhhhhh....
jul 6, 2025, 9:30 am • 2 0 • view
I'm reading Tusk Love with a couple friends 😂 It's a Critical Role tie-in book! It leans into the romance book clichés (only! one! bed!!!!) in a cute, funny way. We're enjoying giggling about it together 🥰
jul 6, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 1 • view
Vanessa Vida Kelly's When the Tides Held the Moon. It's the novel equivalent of a shirley temple ice cream float with cotton candy on top, but sometimes you want something extremely indulgent
jul 6, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 1 • view
Good morning Womble. I’m reading - The Three-Body Problem by CIXIN LIU - Translated by KEN LIU.
jul 6, 2025, 8:04 am • 18 3 • view
That is next on my TBR. Looking forward to it
jul 6, 2025, 10:35 am • 2 0 • view
That’s awesome to know. Hope you’ll like it
jul 6, 2025, 10:36 am • 2 0 • view
I tried listening to this but no can do! Maybe I’ll try reading it, instead. Are you enjoying it?
jul 6, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
I struggled a bit, the first time I tried it. But I went back to it, after some time. It’s a much easier read now. And I enjoy it more now, I have to say.
jul 6, 2025, 8:26 am • 2 0 • view
Good morning, Womble! Here's a blue sky and the book I brought with me for my short holidays: "The Incandescent", by Emily Tesh. Loving it so far, the first chapter alone is impressive. (The blue sky and the ocean are from the Portuguese island of Madeira, a place I can't recommend enough)
jul 6, 2025, 12:11 pm • 6 1 • view
Morning Womble! I’m reading Heart of Darkness, a long unread copy from my shelves. Desperate to finish so that I can read the new Rivers of London!
jul 6, 2025, 9:49 am • 8 1 • view
Picked this up the other day; that cover is *gorgeous*.
jul 6, 2025, 10:59 am • 2 0 • view
Morning Womble. After getting interrupted I'm still slooowly reading City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which is rich with characters and places and I'm really enjoying it.
jul 6, 2025, 9:32 am • 6 1 • view
Fascinating series awaits you
jul 6, 2025, 9:34 am • 2 0 • view
my first time reading Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb! as a fantasy fan it’s been a GLARING gap in my reading for a long time, but i’m loving it
jul 6, 2025, 1:35 pm • 12 1 • view
Good morning Womble! Started The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge this week. I expect the series will consume the rest of my summer reading schedule...
jul 6, 2025, 3:18 pm • 4 1 • view
Went back to Mick Herron's Slough House. I've only read two so far, but these books are proving to be a fast paced combination of sleight of hand & juggling. Strong archetype characters. A smart use of the genre that allows for mistakes. Great twists. It all keeps you reading. Roll on book 3.
jul 6, 2025, 10:33 am • 14 1 • view
I'm just getting going on Book 5. London Rules. Aside from great thriller plots, there's sharp political digs and they're very funny without being comedy way.
jul 6, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Good morning! I have begun The Invisible Life of Addie Larue.
jul 6, 2025, 10:59 am • 2 1 • view
The Chosen Twelve by James Breakwell - a delightful far-future story where the last of humanity are being prepared for recolonization efforts. They are all twelve. They have been twelve for the last fifty years. rebellionpublishing.com/product/the_...
jul 6, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 1 • view
Morning Womble. Finished The Survivors and now listening to Case Histories (Kate Atkinson). Hardcopy is still Q by Luther Blissett, which promised much, but is actually not quite as great as I’d hoped.
jul 6, 2025, 9:25 am • 3 1 • view
By Terry Nation?
jul 6, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
No, the Jane Harper one.
jul 6, 2025, 10:02 am • 2 0 • view
Happy Sunday, Womble! I’ll be starting The Tombs of Atuan today!
jul 6, 2025, 3:38 pm • 7 1 • view
Morning Womble! I’ve just started Audition for the Fox by Marty Cahill. I’ve started a bunch of other books recently but nothing seems to be sticking at the moment.
jul 6, 2025, 9:46 am • 5 1 • view
Morning Womble! I'm reading an early Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind. A medieval detective novel told backwards. Picking up pace as we get deeper into the mud, the water and the odd Shrovetide rituals. 💙📚
jul 6, 2025, 8:07 am • 12 3 • view
That is a lovely cover!
jul 6, 2025, 8:12 am • 4 0 • view
That sounds fascinating
jul 6, 2025, 8:59 am • 4 0 • view
It does. Colour me intrigued.
jul 6, 2025, 10:52 am • 2 0 • view
Is the writing anywhere near as amazing as in “Orbital”?
jul 6, 2025, 8:24 am • 3 0 • view
The Western Wind is a completely different subject, genre and form from Orbital, and it's literary fiction. It's very good so far.
jul 6, 2025, 9:10 am • 2 0 • view
Good morning Womble! I am currently reading the Booker Prize winning novel set aboard the international space station, Orbital:
jul 6, 2025, 7:55 am • 6 1 • view
I’m also reading: Kindle: The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier Audio: A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
jul 6, 2025, 7:57 am • 4 1 • view
Hello! Ocean's Godori by Elaine U Cho, sort of a Korean diaspora cyberpunk space opera, very fun
jul 6, 2025, 7:51 am • 5 1 • view
Morning! Currently reading Saltblood by Francesca de Tores, The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods and The Expanse: Dragon Tooth volume 3 graphic series.
jul 6, 2025, 7:57 am • 4 1 • view
Nearly finished A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistiry..enjoying it sounds wrong due to some harrowing content but it's beautifully written
jul 7, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view
Good morning, Womble! I only have a few chapters and a novella to read before I finish James S. A. Corey’s the Expanse series. I will miss that universe.
jul 6, 2025, 7:55 am • 8 1 • view
Morning Womble! I'm (still) reading A Place of Greater Safety (so good) but also re-reading @caspargeon.bsky.social's The Immeasurable Heaven in prep for the launch event! Properly weird science fiction
jul 6, 2025, 9:24 am • 7 1 • view
@runalongwomble.bsky.social I too am just finishing the brilliant Ten Low, and dipping back into the Books of Earthsea because they’re always lovely summer reading.
jul 6, 2025, 11:14 am • 3 1 • view
I liked A Place Of Greater Safety, but it was ages ago. Finished the Wolf Hall trilogy a couple of weeks ago (wow, gosh, crikey), so maybe the time is right to reread that one.
jul 6, 2025, 10:51 am • 2 0 • view