Tag: reading

• Sunday Summary: 9 Nov 25

  Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system.

  Books Read/Reading This Week.

  Finished:

  • The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 

  Currently Reading: 

  • The Incandescent by Emily Tesh [2025] – edit Now Paused
  • Volative Memory by Seth Hadon [2025]

  Booker-ish Thoughts

  Dan Hartland has a blog post on The Booker Prize 2025 and raises the point and explores that,

  ‘this year’s shortlist, it seems to me, is not making a statement. It is instead asking a question.’

  I am not in any rush to read this year’s selection, though I will get Flesh in paperback, and I keep tempting myself with The Land in Winter.

  But if you want to get an idea of what this year’s offers are and what question Dan believes it’s asking, I’d highly recommend reading his post.
  

  Out This Week-ish in the UK

  1. Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
  2. The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves
  3. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
  4. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
  5. The Strength of the Few by James Islington
  6. Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
  7. The Echo of Crows by Philip Rickman
  8. The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
  9. The Whisper of Stars by Cristin Williams
  10. The Wax Child by Olga Ravn [Trans. Martin Aitken]
  11. The Moon Glow Bookshop by Dongwon Seo [Trans. Shanna Tan]
  12. The Shapeshifter’s Daughter by Sally Magnusson
  13. The Tower of the Tyrant by J. T. Greathouse
  14. Ice by Jacek Dukaj [Trans. Ursula Phillips]
  15. Herculin: A Novel by Grace Byron
  16. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
  17. The Burning Queen by Aparna Verma
  18. The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París [Trans. Christina MacSweeney]

  Books That Others have Tempted Me With:

  1. City of Others (The DEUS Files) by Jared Poon (Jan 26) via Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
  2. The Universe Box by Michael Swanwick (Out Feb 26) via Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
  3. The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui (Out Feb 26) via Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
  4. The Fate of Mary Rose (1981) by Caroline Blackwood via bewareofpity
  5. Definitions by Matte Green via wordgrubber
  6. Mirror Marked by Vida Cruz-Borja via Runalong Womble
  7. The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills via joeevanswriter
  8. The Cold Visitor by Jonathan Butcher via ghostlyreads
  9. Morvern Callar by Alan Warner via clarkeys_bookstuf
  10. Lázár by Nelio Biedermann (Mar. 2026) via quercusbooks
  11. Hallows Hill by Olivia Isaac-Henry via sineadhannacraic
  12. Beings by Ilana Masad via bisexualbookshelf
  13. The Salvage by Anbara Salam lidoffadaffodil

  Cover Reveal(s) of the Week

  

  

  Womble’s Temptation Post:

  This week’s Wombling Along Post has their own mega list of temptation from others including:

  • God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines
  • The Blackfire Blade by James Logan
  • The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson
  • The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
  • Unquiet Guests edited by Dan Coxon
  • Madame Sosostris And The Festival For The Brokenhearted by Ben Okri

  There is also links to:

  • Discussions of dark academia
  • Discussions of werewolves
  • Iago-like charcters in crime books
  • The female gothic

  And more

  They also point me towards Ancillary Reviews of Books’ Wow! Signal: October 2025

  Wow! Signal column collects examples of diverse critical voices from around the web. This isn’t intended to be a comprehensive list, but rather a scattershot snapshot of interesting discussions, hopefully introducing ARB’s readers to new critics, books, topics, and venues.

  Outro

  If you’ve been following my StoryGraph profile, you might have noticed that I’ve paused reading both The Incandescent by Emily Tesh at 40% and The Devils by Joe Abercrombie at 61%. There’s nothing wrong with either of them, apart from the devils.

  I am craving some space, or science fiction, or something murderous. I may have overdone the horror-like fantasy, which surprises me since I have all these haunted houses to see.

  But rather than becoming jaded, I’m taking a break in the hope I’ll return to them refreshed and less jaded.

  Have a good reading week.

  2025.11.09

• Sunday Summary: 26 Oct 25

  Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system.

  Books Read/Reading This Week.

  Finished:

  The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo – I have this 3.75 – there was a lot to like, but ultimately it didn’t fulfil its potential.

  Currently Reading:

  Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good [Loki: A Bad God’s Guide #1] by Louie Stowell – I’ve borrowed this (and the next two) from the library, and I’m really enjoying the mix of silliness and seriousness.

  The Incandescent by Emily Tesh – off to a cracking start in terms of pages read – not sure where this magic/modern world school mix is going, but I keen to find out.

  Paused:

  I am going to read The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed so I can complete half of my challenge but I’m not going to complete the anthologies in time

  I may have to admit to myself that I’m not going to finish reading all the stories contained in the BFA 25 Best Anthology Category before next week’s announcement. I can’t seem to blast through them: Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, ed by Dan Coxon – is deeply impactful and needs room

  — @gavreads (@gavreads.co.uk) 2025-10-24T20:01:58.990Z

  I am struggling to switch between immersive worlds when I start a new story. I think this is a strength of the collections, but it also means that I don’t want to rush just to meet a deadline. I’m taking a break. I’ll carry on after the award announcement. But I do recommend you read all the finalists.

  Newsy Things

  FUNDED!!!

  

  They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) has Funded!! There is still time to back the Kickstarter and help it reach some unannounced stretch goals.

  Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025

  

  https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/womenintranslation/longlist2025/

  The 14 longlisted titles are:

  • Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta)
  • Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press)
  • Fatma Aydemir, Djinns, translated from German (Germany) by Jon Cho-Polizzi (Peirene Press)
  • Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium, translated from Polish (Poland) by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
  • Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon’s Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press)
  • María Bastarós, Hungry for What, translated from Spanish (Spain), by Kevin Gerry Dunn (Daunt Books Publishing)
  • Elsa Morante, Lies and Sorcery, translated from Italian (Italy) by Jenny McPhee (Penguin Press)
  • Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)
  • Kim Hyesoon, Phantom Pain Wings, translated from Korean (South Korea) by Don Mee Choi (And Other Stories)
  • Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK)
  • Laura Wittner, Translation of the Route, translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Juana Adcock (Bloodaxe Books and Poetry Translation Centre)
  • Sara Mesa, Un Amor, translated from Spanish (Spain) by Katie Whittemore (Peirene Press)
  • Lucija Stupica, Vanishing Points, translated from Slovenian (Slovenia) by Andrej Peric (Arc Publications)
  • Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)

  I only planned to read The Empusium. Are there any others you’d recommend?

  Out This Week in the UK – ish

  Too many books are being released, and I can’t keep up or list them all, but these are the ones that stood out.

  • Unquiet Guests ed. Dan Coxon
  • Queen Demon – The Rising World by Martha Wells
  • What Stalks the Deep (The Sworn Soldier Series) by T. Kingfisher
  • Absolute Zero
  • Absolution: by Jeff VanderMeer (Paperback)
  • The Albino’s Secret by Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder
  • The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri comes

  What have you seen coming out that I’ve missed?

  Books That Others have Tempted Me With:

  I do love the thrill of finding interesting books or seeing others discover them. These are some books that have rang a bell along with the person who rang it.

  • The Albino’s Secret by Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder via Reactor’s
  • All the New SFF Crossover Books Arriving in October 2025 post
  • Homebound by Portia Elan via Vintage’s TikTok (May 26)
  • Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely via Realms of My Mind’s TikTok
  • Unseen Gods by Justin Holley via Womble
  • Provenance by Ann Leckie via Reactor’s Six High Tech Heists That Defy the Odds
  • Sunward by Willam Alexander via Reactor’s Six High Tech Heists That Defy the Odds
  • The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summer via W&S_BOOKCLUB‘s review
  • Between Two Fire via Baker.Reads on TikTok
  • Awakened by Laura Elliot via a review by tom.j.atherton on their Instagram account
  • The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson via zoë @nycbookhoe’s quest to find a copy
  • The Midnight Knock by John Fram via a mention by The Dog Eared Book on TikTok, and then this review on Chapter and Charm
  • Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
  • The Plague by Albert Camus via notavantnard on TikTok (I think there are spoilers for Piranesi, which I long managed to avoid).
  • We Dance Upon Demons by Vaishnavi Patel via krystallotuslang and their trip to New York Comic Con (not out until May 2026)

  Finally, Womble’s Temptation Post:

  https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10/19/wombling-along

  • @niallharrison.bsky.social considers Everything Will Swallow You science fiction? – a work of fantastika
  • We’re both tempted by Pyschopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce –
  • to avoid Reactor’s review of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes –
  • Fantast Hive has lots of Halloween Rec
  • And many more things!

  2025.10.26

• Sunday Summary: 19 Oct 25

  Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system.

  Keeping Everything Tracked

  I sought Bluesky’s advice on tracking books, as I am feeling a mix of lost, confused, or overwhelmed due to all the options.

  Do you keep a list of books you want to read/buy? How long is that list? Could you make it ten or less and keep it that long on a constant basis?

  — @gavreads (@gavreads.co.uk) 2025-10-18T18:29:26.657Z

  The following discussion prompted me to compile a spreadsheet of all my pre-orders, clearly showing that I have enough pre-orders to keep me occupied until June.

  Tufty McTavish reminded me of the power of tags in the Story Graph and why it’s good to invest time in adding them.

  I’m also going to try more immediate (the next week or two) reading lists to see if that cuts through the ever-growing physical TBR.

  Newsy Things

  Introducing a new bona new quarterly literary magazine:

  FANTABULOSA!

  

  Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

  & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we’re fully funded for 2026 🤘

  Having enjoyed I Want That Twink Obliterated! I can’t wait to see what this cackle of editors produce!

  Pre-Orders

  The UK’s largest book chain, Waterstones, had a pre-order sale on releases for 2026 this week. Did I fall into the trap and order some books? Yes. Did I also get a bit too invested in what is coming out in 2026? Also, yes.

  I placed orders for various new releases and paperback reprints.

  Thanks to the spreadsheet mentioned above I now know when to look out for post.

  And the offer wasn’t all the books coming out in 2026, but I now expect to stay busy with new releases from January to June.

  But the reason for mentioning it was that I had to sift through many books to decide on those I chose.

  Which is probably why I felt the urge to look at all the books coming out this week… there are a few.

  Out This Week in the UK – ish

  Based on information on blackwells.co.uk’s advanced search.

  1. Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley
  2. It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
  3. Spread Me. by Sarah Gailey
  4. Quantum of Menace – Q Mysteries by Vaseem Khan
  5. Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anson
  6. The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
  7. King Sorrow by Joe Hill
  8. The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Night ed. Undetermined
  9. The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
  10. Secrets of the First School – Edinburgh Nights by T. L. Huchu
  11. Red City by Marie Lu
  12. Bog Queen by Anna North
  13. The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
  14. Lives of Bitter Rain – The Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  15. Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
  16. Fever Dreams: New Horror Short Stories ed. Mark Morris
  17. An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky (tr. Daniel Hahn)
  18. The Forsaken and the Fated – The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines
  19. Sea Now by Eva Meijer (tr. Anne Thompson Melo)
  20. The Witch and the Priest by Hilda Lewis
  21. Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales by Edith Wharton
  22. Moths by Rosalind Ashe
  23. All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of the Circus and Sideshow ed. Edward Parnell
  24. Grave Empire by Richard Swan (paperback release)
  25. The Feeding by A. J. Ryan
  26. Futility by Nuzo Onoh
  27. Dead & Breakfast (A Dead & Breakfast Mystery)by Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor

  And from these, if I had to chose three that I’m most excited for, it would be:

  1. The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
  2. King Sorrow by Joe Hill
  3. Spread Me. by Sarah Gailey

  What would you pick up?

  Books That Others have Tempted Me With:

  • Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins via Roseanna Pendlebury
  • The October Film Haunt by Micheal Wehunt via various including A.C. Wise
  • ST: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire by David Mack via Tobias S. Buckell
  • Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek via Niall Harrison/Dan Hartland
  • The Reformatory by Tananarive Due via Arina
  • Sea Now by Eva Meijer (tr. Anne Thompson Melo) via Roseanna Pendlebury

  Last/Now/Next

  • The last book I’ve read is: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The book I’m currently reading is: The Devil’s by Joe Abercrombie
  • The next book I’m is: The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

  This week’s Wombling Along

  This week includes a TBR in it’s own right:

  • Love for Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The sub-genre of the fantasy of manners
  • Weird fiction short story collections
  • Being impressed by
    • Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek tr. Kasia Pedforf
    • Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot (which I hadn’t heard of until now)
  • Confirmation, I need to read The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
  • I also need to read my copy of Cassandra Khaw’s The Library at Hellebore.
  • The power of Small Press via a Dispatch
  • Two reviews of Futility by Nuzo Onoh
  • And so much more…

  Outro

  Once again, that turned out to be a much longer post than I expected.

  Perhaps next week, I’ll return to my bookmarks.

  Until then — happy reading!

  2025.10.19

• Sunday Summary: 28th Sept 25 Edition

  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.

  Let’s start with this stack of… I’m genuinely not sure what to call it… books?

  

  It was inspired by Roseanna Pendlebury

  Thinking about the things I would love to have read by the end of the year, and pulling together a few piles to drawn from as an aspirational to do list.I will not read all of these. I mean, I possibly theoretically could. But I doubt it. They're just the ones I really want to get in, if I can.

  — Roseanna Pendlebury (@chloroformtea.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T12:44:56.787Z

  and then Niall Harrison

  Right then, excluding review copies, here's my pile of aspiration/despair.

  — Niall Harrison (@niallharrison.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T18:31:44.781Z

  I badged mine as “the stack of books it would be nice to have read by the end of the year.” I added three caveats:

  But since I’ve made the pile with the intention of prompting myself to read them, I’ve started with The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater. One chapter in, I’m intrigued—but also wondering why I haven’t heard much about it from others.

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  I haven’t reviewed my recent reads:

  • The Last Hour Between Worlds (The Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso [2024]
  • Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells [2017]
  • The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis [2025]

  If I get the time, a joint review of The Last Hour Between Worlds and The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association might be fun. Both are excellent, and both explore parenting in a fantasy setting—though in very different ways. Each had great twists and turns, and both had me emotionally gripped. I highly recommend them.

  And if you’re looking for something cosy in an SF setting, The Murderbot Diaries is turning into just that. Nice to see that Martha Wells has the adventures of Murderbot well under control.

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  It’s October this week. The clock is ticking to get my reading in before the World Fantasy Convention 2025 announces the various award winners. I’m seriously going to need to weave in some novellas alongside the anthologies.

  The issue I’m having with Heartwood is that all the stories centre on the mythos at the heart of the wood—and speeding through them would do them a disservice.

  I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

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  The dive into my BookTok bookmarks is going to have to wait until next week.

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  This week’s Wombling along contains:

  • A review of Network Effect by Martha Wells, which I’m going to avoid until I’ve got to it myself.
  • A takedown of The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. I read the last paragraph, as I still hope to finish The Stand and then read the anthology.
  • More praise for Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
  • An older, very serious discussion on the absolute canon to read
  • And so much more!

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  Next week, I may wade into “what’s a reviewer for?”—as that was today’s hot topic on Bluesky.

  Until then, Happy Reading!

  2025.09.28

• Sunday Summary: 21st Sept 25 Edition

  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.

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  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.

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  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:

  1. Moonflow — Bitter Karella (Run For It) *
  2. The Haunting of William Thorn — Ben Alderson (Angry Robot)*
  3. House of Idyll — Delilah S. Dawson (Titan)
  4. Play Nice — Rachel Harrison (TItan)*
  5. The Macabre — Kosoko Jackson (Harper Voyager)
  6. You Weren’t Meant to Be Human — Andrew Joseph White (Daphne Press)
  7. Exiles — Mason Coile, Andrew Pyper (Baskerville)
  8. Veil — Jonathan Janz (Blackstone)
  9. Spread Me — Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) *
  10. Midnight Timetable — Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Dialogue Books)
  11. What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) — T. Kingfisher (Titan) *
  12. 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.

  I do and I don’t like a stat. Added more books to @thestorygraph—my physical TBR is now over 400. Maybe I’ll just do the ’25 releases? Only 48! If I read one every 2.5 days and never sleep again, I could do it? Any bets on me crying on New Year’s Eve, still buried in unread books?

  — @gavreads (@gavreads.co.uk) 2025-09-20T11:57:57.293Z

  The author & editor, Trip Galey, shared a link to his appearence on the Trope-ology Podcast:

  I stopped by the Trope-ology Podcast with @themythofchris.bsky.social to natter on about Goblin Markets! Have a listen if you fancy!Available in the usual places!open.spotify.com/episode/1cfs…

  — Trip Galey (@trip.bsky.social) 2025-09-14T08:01:28.453Z

  And Simon of Savidge Reads, shared his September Reading Horizons:

  #booksky let’s chat about what we’ve all read, are reading and what we may well read next over hereyoutu.be/u_Rg-FvETLk

  — Simon Savidge (@savidgereads.bsky.social) 2025-09-12T17:43:57.242Z

  SciFiScavenger has asked a great question about rereading:

  I was asked earlier how many books I re-read. Answer not v many, much as I'd like to, I have too much exploring to do, too many other books on my shelves, even more not yet acquired. I worked out that my re-read rate this year so far is around 3%.🪐📚 #scifbooks #sciencefiction

  — SciFiScavenger (@scifiscavenger.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T13:53:24.101Z

  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:

  And here it is with some other recent acquisitions

  — Niall Harrison (@niallharrison.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T09:24:41.441Z

  He always gives me book envy—his picks are often ones I’d never have considered on my own.

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  Next week, I’ll talk about my TikTok Bookmarks, which currently stands at 236…

  

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  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

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  Until next week—happy reading!

  2025.09.21