Womble from Runalong The Shelves has been doing a “Wombling Along” post for the last few weeks, highlighting reviews and other articles that caught their attention over the past week.
This is mostly going to be about books and book-ish things that have come to my attention — and possibly serve as my own public bookmarking system.
Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you’ve managed to get some reading done this week.
I kind of did—and kind of didn’t.
I finished the excellent The Last Hour Between Worlds (The Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso. It sets itself up perfectly for a sequel and absolutely delivered on what I was hoping for. But it also got me thinking about the formula it used to get there.
That’s definitely more of a me problem than a book problem. Maybe writing a review will help get my thoughts in order. I am going to read the sequel, The Last Soul Among Wolves, at some point in the future—by which I mean, when the paperback drops.
I got some train time this week and made more inroads into The Devils and I’m up 6% from last week’s update.
I also picked up Artificial Condition by Martha Wells as my paperback, and I’m enjoying the cosy nature of it.
As a reminder to me, The Murderbot Diaries chronology is:
- “Compulsory”
- All Systems Red [I’ve read this]
- Artificial Condition
- Rogue Protocol
- Exit Strategy
- “Rapport”
- “Home”
- Fugitive Telemetry
- Network Effect
- System Collapse
I’ve just started Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology but from what I’ve read so far the authors are embracing the spirit of the original but putting on their own twists. The bar is now high for the rest of the anthology.
Did you know that Bluesky now has bookmarks?
I just counted—I’ve collected 62 in the last two weeks!
I’m trying to be better about revisiting the bookmarks I’ve saved, periodically going through them and actually using them for their intended purpose: reminding me to check something later.
Reactor has an article on All the New Horror, Romantasy, and Other SFF Crossover Books Arriving in September 2025, and here are a few that stood out to me:
- Moonflow — Bitter Karella (Run For It) *
- The Haunting of William Thorn — Ben Alderson (Angry Robot)*
- House of Idyll — Delilah S. Dawson (Titan)
- Play Nice — Rachel Harrison (TItan)*
- The Macabre — Kosoko Jackson (Harper Voyager)
- You Weren’t Meant to Be Human — Andrew Joseph White (Daphne Press)
- Exiles — Mason Coile, Andrew Pyper (Baskerville)
- Veil — Jonathan Janz (Blackstone)
- Spread Me — Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) *
- Midnight Timetable — Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Dialogue Books)
- What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) — T. Kingfisher (Titan) *
- The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre — Philip Fracassi (Run for It)
Apart from the ones marked with a *, I think the rest will have to wait until I get my physical TBR under control… though, by my calculations, I may need to shorten the time it takes me to finish a book from my current 16-day average to… something a lot shorter.
The author & editor, Trip Galey, shared a link to his appearence on the Trope-ology Podcast:
And Simon of Savidge Reads, shared his September Reading Horizons:
SciFiScavenger has asked a great question about rereading:
My answer was:
I’m at 10% for the year. I re-read two books from the Rivers of London series. I’d love to revisit a few more—there are always plans to do so—but I’ve never made the time.
Finally, I want to share Niall’s stack of books:
He always gives me book envy—his picks are often ones I’d never have considered on my own.
Next week, I’ll talk about my TikTok Bookmarks, which currently stands at 236…
This week’s Wombing Along is here and is a A lovely write-up of their week which includes: A reminder of The Scour by Richard Swan (a prequel novella) Writing The Magic hasn’t been dispatched yet Slow Gods is one to look forward to And an answer to Why Anthologies? Plus lots of other temptations and insights.
This week’s Wombing Along is here—a lovely write-up of their week, which includes:
- A reminder about The Scour by Richard Swan (a prequel novella to An Empire of the Wolf )
- News that Writing The Magic hasn’t been dispatched yet
- Slow Gods is one to look forward to
- An answer to “Why Anthologies?”
- Plus lots of other temptations and insights
Until next week—happy reading!
Gav Reads 
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