Abigail reviews Kara Storti's coming of age fantasy THE ELECTRIC LIFE OF LAVENDER LEWIS: "Storti's storytelling is seamless" Read more: tinyurl.com/f7vwvvsm @abby614.bsky.social

why bother watching Americans and Brits argue over who has the best food when I could simply watch two bald men fighting over a comb instead

File under "if you trust my taste in books at all, read this immediately"

Episode 50?! We live in a terrifying interregnum, and yet: we find ourselves clocking in to work again. @garethwatkins.bsky.social talks us through Dempow Torishima's fascinating SISYPHEAN:

Hello Lunchtime Crowd off to Iceland today!

Doppelganger horror that actually delivers. Annie Neugebauer's The Other asks what happens when the person who knows you best starts to look wrong. Spoiler: you won't sleep the same @unstablebooks.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/the-other-by...

New Review - today I start a tour with other great bloggers looking at this Icelandic procedural Stop Dead by Stop Dead by Katrin Juliusdottir translated by Larissa Kyzer www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

“Straws,” I said. “Why straws?” Feeding the Choke-Tree by R.J. Gerard Narrator: Bob Eccles Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2026/05/15/p... This story is a PseudoPod original

New Review - today I start a tour with other great bloggers looking at this Icelandic procedural Stop Dead by Stop Dead by Katrin Juliusdottir translated by Larissa Kyzer www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

Happy Sunday! Today's Blog Plans? Sunday's TBR Updates (up now), Blog Tour for Sore Like an Eagle by Marc Jedel (after/4.40pm CEST). #BookBloggers #Blogging #BlogPlans twirlingbookprincess.com

This was a very fun conversation and a great followup to our panel at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social last year, talking about what it means for fiction to be considered "didactic"

Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss Believing the Ship is the whole universe is just common sense. So believe the people in it, but they are not the orphans of the sky they believe themselves to be. jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/relen...

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR @bookdatereads #SundayPost @caffienatedreviewer #SundaySalon @debnance I’m #reading #WhereTheresSmoke #BloodRustandSteel #TheWolfandHisWitch Learn more at Book’d Out bookdout.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/i...

Way to combine my interests! (They’re talking about Vonda McIntyre.)

Does leaning into short fiction mean I’m short on followers nostalgic for chunky epic fantasy? I hope not, because Covenants by Lorna Freeman is a really fun one www.tarvolon.com/2026/05/17/f...

When I talk about #wuxia I’m often told people have a hard time understanding it, yet my geeky friends go on a lot about old Republics, the Jedi, shadow organisations of #StarWars. Western nerds, you've been enjoying Wuxia stories, for nearly 50 years. #fantasy snowpavilion.co.uk/the-legend-o...

I wrote a review for the first time in ages. It’s not an in-depth review, but it’s a great book. Looking forward to the next in their series, The Unfathomable Curse.

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel. https://gnofhorror.com/the-nest-book-review-kenneth-oppel/

New Lord of the Rings post up, in which we will not comment on how many words I have spent talking about Faramir.

The Republic of Memory x Mahmud El Sayed

I finished Christopher Fowler’s ‘The Foot on the Crown’ today and now have to pick one of the books I received as birthday presents last week.

I just finished Hopeless Necromantic and absolutely loved it. It was funny, cute, emotional, and just a superb read. Now reading The in between worlds b&b and it's a whole different vibe but cute so far too.

Morning! I’m soaking in Hawaii aloha and enjoying a proper beach read recommended by my son: Dungeon Crawler Carl by @mattdinniman.bsky.social. Definitely a chortle sort of read, but I seriously underestimated its depth. That’s on me.

I am trying to make a v simple wordpress website where I have a static homepage but a separate page where I can post blog entries and...it is surprisingly difficult. I have configured it the way it SHOULD work, but none of the blog entries are showing up on the page set as the 'posts' page.

As always the Womble will have more for you soon

A little treat of other people’s Booktempting

Surprising trips to the past

This week we had short fiction!

Working my way through "Preaching To The Perverted" by James Bennett this week, generally reading a short every day or so. It's very good indeed.

These days I'm reading Open Sorcery by Rob Sheely.

Hello all. Looking forward to reading the Noon. I'm currently re-reading Stephen Baxter's 'Moonseed'.

Ann Leckie's Radiant Star. Is good.

Scarfing down Platform Decay, Martha Wells's latest Murderbot book. I also loved the show, but I'm grateful that it hasn't changed the way the books look or sound in my head (if that makes any sense.) For now, they are separate things.

Audio: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke (a comfort read) EPUB: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez Physical book: The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Omzen (translated by Nicholas Glastonbury)

Happily stuck into the second book of the Wolfsangel trilogy (dystopian YA fiction in which Belgium becomes a fascist dictatorship.) The library has all 3 volumes so I’m going to sag volume 3 before someone else does.

Just in general, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social is doing PHENOMENAL work and publishing incredible fiction — plus Scott's promo/marketing game is *chef kiss*! Just SO much fun! www.patreon.com/posts/storie...

A River Red With Blood by John Connelly. Just sublime.

Enjoying this from @benaaronovitch.bsky.social a delightful novella in the Rivers of London series. I suspect he has read a lot of PG Wodehouse in his life.

Hello, Mr Wombly Chap. I am completing McNeill's Adeptus Mechanicus trilogy. Love some 40k codswallop. Just started The Buffallo Hunter Hunter. Reading at a slower and more engaging pace. Only 20 or so pages in.

Good afternoon, Womble! I just finished The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean. I loved the setting and it was such an excellent exploration of vengeance and forgiveness.

I don't mind saying that I was very pleased with myself when I came up with the KSR link in this review locusmag.com/review/on-th...

Happy Sunday! Today I am reading Watchmen by Alan Moore with my eyes and They Thirst by Robert McCammon with my ears 💙📚

Just started it.

Firsty Duelist joined me for an in-depth interview where I asked hard-hitting questions like what his pirate name would be. Come learn about Firsty Duelist! #bookblogger #booksky

Good Morning Womble! I'm reading Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill (from the library) and Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (which has been on my physical TBR since 2018). Still less than 100 pages into each!

Hi, Womble. Delighted to be reading this charity horror anthology. (Full disclosure, I'm on the top so hardly impartial) 😅. Particularly enjoyed The Second Shining Orb by Lawrencd Harding, which is an elegant and original take on Death personified.

I am reading both The Diplomacy of the Knife by C.M. Caplan and also The Black Echo by Michael Connolly

Nothing at the moment; haven't decided what will be next, but last night I finished Platform Decay, the latest Murderbot. It's an ok story, but nothing really new, with the narration repetitive once again.

Happy Sunday, Womble! I’ve been having the worst time concentrating and keep bouncing off of everything (through no fault of the books) so I’m in between reads at the moment and not sure what I want to pick up next

Hola, Womble. I'm lucky to be reading @annasmithspark.bsky.social's The Court of Broken Knives. About halfway, I'd say.