1179 is not a date, but the size of my TBR.🤔🤫 It is not coming down anytime soon.

Morning Womble. Just finished Black Doe by Cleland Smith. It's a beautiful blend of Scottish history and mythology, revenge, sacrifice and motherhood, all told with wonderful authenticity and *beautiful* prose. (The pine marten is the star!) One of the best Scottish fantasies I've ever read.

Black Doe is now live for ARC downloads on Booksirens. If you love #historicalfantasy featuring female assassins, fierce mothers, warlords, clan politics, kelpies, and bloodythirsty faerie pine martens, go have a look and read a sample now! 📚 🖤 booksirens.com/book/I033FFT....

@thecromcast.bsky.social Joining you from across the pond.

Books are expensive. I recently bought a 320 page hardback, produced by @gollancz.bsky.social it was £25. For me that is about 6 hours of entertainment. Even paperbacks are entering the £11 to £13 range, with new eBooks similar.

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and close to finishing the very enjoyable fantasy The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott. What are you reading at the moment? Also bonus question as it’s the last of 2025 - what was your favourite read this year?

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and highly enjoying Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anton for some epic fantasy back in my life. What are you reading at the moment?

Babymetal New Model Army Lazuli Soft Play Obey Robots Echo and the Bunnymen Terrorvision Faith No More This was really hard! I also listen to loads of goth, prog, metal, folk and indie. A ninth would be Pop Will Eat Itself.

Bloody hard to just choose 8... ZZ Top Tool Steven Wilson Pink Floyd Arch Enemy Black Sabbath Pat Metheny Judas Priest

Good evening. Just finished Dahl's Matilda narrated by Kate Winslet. An absolute joy and quite profound. Halfway through Cujo which I am struggling a bit with and just started Baldacci's A Calamity of Souls, which is turning into a great read.

I heard that Chelsea Quinn Yarbro had died this week. This was sad news. I really enjoyed her Chronicles of Count St. Germain. They follow a vampire through the last 2000 years. Often painted as romances these are great historical novels from ancient Rome to modern America. Worth your attention. RIP

Sad, the people moaning about Live Aid. It was a great and well intentioned event. We have seen nothing like it since. It was enjoyable and unifying.

Once more, dear friends, once more to the Star of Kings in King's Cross to sell books for the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social ! This month's title is The Gryphon King - debut novel by Sarah Omer #books #sci-fi #fantasy #fiction

Both Aliya Whitely and Oliver K Longmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social are reading - and they have bought props!

Rather than one author at a time, both authors up with the book they co-wrote, City of All Seasons. @allgoodbookshop.co.uk @srfantasyclub.bsky.social @oliverklangmead.bsky.social

An @srfantasyclub.bsky.social evening @starofkings near Kings Cross .

Back again at the Star of Kings, selling books for the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social. Today's authors are Aliya Whiteley, and @oliverklangmead.bsky.social

I have to say my experience of fantasy is much the same. Hambly, Lee and Cherryh all featured on my shelf.

For #InternationalWomensDay here's a shelf of my books from the 80s: Anne McCaffrey, Jennifer Roberson, Carole Nelson Douglas, Barbara Hambly, R A McAvoy. I can't remember a time when my Science Fiction and Fantasy reading wasn't around 50% women authors -- who have, to be clear, always been here.

Time for a bit of reality - a thread. Sales in the shop are doing well, but we're reliant on sales on the website to help pay the bills. The website is reliant on social media, particularly twitter. Since September, we've seen a big decline in people seeing our tweets.

@runalongwomble.bsky.social I have just come across your 2025 challenge thanks to @liwella.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12... It is a bit serious, but I shall have a try. Probably holistically rather than month by month. Anyone else joining in?

VV James kicks off the evening with a reading from the brand new sequel to her hit Sanctuary, Bittershore!

@srfantasyclub.bsky.social tonight with @vvjames.bsky.social and StuartTurton. 30 of us here tonght and Viv kicks us off.

Pet hate in books. I have read a few novels where the internet seems to persist post-collapse. It would last a day or two at most given its huge power and maintenance requirements. Some local networks may persist,but the world wide bit would not. Moan over, have a nice day.

My TBR stands at over 1200 books in a variety of formats. Sort of good and sort of bad. I shall try and bring it down over the next year. If someone would like to remind me of this next January......it might be appreciated!

In Portugal today where Nazaré is a bit damp. Must not complain as weather has been great.

Going for a reread. Suggested by an author friend who had a need to do the same.

Today I will help you 😇

@runalongwomble.bsky.social Good morning Matthew. Will 'What are you reading?' Appear here? Social media highlight of the week.

Slowly starting to connect with people on here. It starts to make the platform so much more worthwhile. Time to share nook joy.

Trump & co

Ooh a place like olde twitter. Fingers crossed.