We welcome @lrlam.bsky.social on the Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast! We read The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social. A marvellous fantasy that combines love, nation building, tragedy and time travel! L also breaks down how Harrow utilises the time travel trope to best serve the plot. 💙📚

A busy week of shows with some brilliant guests! @ukpageone.bsky.social @theconversation.bsky.social @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social

Is it just me or… Una Everlasting and Owen Malory? @lrlam.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social

Just started season 2 - they find the One Piece this season right? Right?

I must say, I used to fully addicted (maybe still am) to doom scrolling. But reading regularly and with purpose has massively remedied this. Even after just a couple of hours of reading a proper physical paper book, I feel calmer and my mood lifted. I wonder if anyone else feels this way 🤔 💙📚

Delighted to be having *draws deep breath* USA Today and Sunday Times Bestselling award-winning author L.R. Lam on the podcast next week! Lam will be dissecting The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow, and how it can help us improve our writing craft. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #podcast @lrlam.bsky.social

Questions of the day - in these bizarre and trying times, how can fiction be any weirder than reality? Best selling author @bingewriting.bsky.social breaks down HBO’s The Chair Company to help us understand if it’s weird fiction! linktr.ee/stetpodcasts #qotd 💙📚 #writingcomunity #television

Ayoooooooo we watched The Chair Company (HBO, 2025, Tim Robinson) The latest episode of our new spin off Speed Binges is out now! Honestly this gif sums up exactly how I felt watching this show Wherever you get your #podcasts linktr.ee/stetpodcasts #hbo #comedy #writingcommunity

Lots of different types of episodes for you this week from @theconversation.bsky.social, @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social and @ukpageone.bsky.social

I feel like this quote is particularly poignant in this climate of uncertainty. 💙📚

‘Water? Never touch the stuff. Fish **** in it…’

My Banksian spaceship name generator: 1. Take the first function word from the James Bond film released nearest your birthday 2. Take 3 initials of the first street you lived on 3. 1st= any word related to manufacturing 4. 2nd= any verb 5. 3rd= grab a book, first word starting with this initial 💙📚

Want to level up your writing? Well that’s exactly what this podcast is here for, you silly goose! Authors Nicholas Binge and David Goodman help us understand how to implement paratext correctly using Excession by Iain M Banks as the gold standard! ⬇️podcast link⬇️ linktr.ee/stetpodcasts

🚨New episode ‼️ Brilliant author David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social takes us on a paratextual tour of Excession by Iain M Banks! linktr.ee/stetpodcasts Dave helps us understand why paratext is sometimes the best tool for conveying intricate relationships in a novel. 💙📚 #podcasts

A day late, but here is this week's schedule, with some great episodes lined up! @theconversation.bsky.social @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social @ukpageone.bsky.social

Dave Goodman (guest on the next show coming Thursday) has decided to torture me with an incredibly long and complicated book. While I thought I had the capacity to enjoy any and all sci-fi, this one is a struggle. @davegoodman.bsky.social why did you pick Excession for the bookclub? 💙📚

Currently reading sci fi classic Excession by Ian M banks and I definitely feel I could do with an expurgated version… 💙📚

4. I’ve read a few far-far future dystopian SF/fantasy novels lately, even tho it’s not a favorite subgenre. But Jemisin’s vision of feared born earth manipulators & deadly weather events is fascinating. I had trouble keeping the POV characters straight, but there’s a good reason for that. #booksky

🚨Introducing Speed Binges🚨 Quick episodes all about story telling but not strictly about books. Favorite Films, TV Shows, and albums are on the table! For this first episode Nicholas INSISTED we do his own book which he has been harping on about all Year! Wherever you get podcasts or in comments💙📚

Introducing Speed Binges!!! Because once a month was not quite enough, we are introducing mini interstitial episodes where we share our favorite films, TV shows, albums, or novellas! Starting off with a book - Extremity by Our very own Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social 💙📚

You and me both, Kazuo, you and me both 💙📚

How much dignity do you have? A question we strive to answer in the latest episode of the Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast! linktr.ee/stetpodcasts Best selling author Nicholas Binge tells us all about psychological realism in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 💙📚 #podcast #writingcommunity

Repost reminder! Really looking for peoples theories on the end of Extremity by Nicholas Binge!

To your diaries folks. Make your commutes/runs/downtime that little bit more fun and interesting :^ )

🚨Calling all fans of Sci-fi and headcannon🚨 Have you read Extremity by Nicholas Binge? We will be talking about the ending and we want to hear YOUR theories as to what it means or might imply! Share your theories below so i can present them to him on the show @bingewriting.bsky.social 💙📚

Only a Brit could write a romance novel completely devoid of affection! I guess it goes part and parcel with the ‘ol’ stiff upper lip wot wot?’ Attitude that a gentleman should not show any affection I also can’t imagine the adaptation of Remains of the day could possibly catch the subtelties 💙📚

It’s recording day! So far we have read sci-fi, horror, thrillers, and fantasy and yet Remains of the Day is the novel that has baffled me the most. I cannot wait to hear what @bingewriting.bsky.social has to say about it because it feels illegal to tell so little plot with so many words! 💙📚

Not normally one for reposting this type of material but I had to just for hilarious comment section! And we do read Xenos for the pod so it’s kind of linked :^ )

First author to win the Hugo Award three times in a row and first African-American author to win a Hugo award. Best selling author Nicholas binge @bingewriting.bsky.social dissects how N.K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social crafts a beautiful narrative in The Fifth Season tr.ee/HacUTvKRRW 💙📚

Am I this easy to buy gifts for? Has a book podcast and plays TT games? I suppose I can’t really complain can I! #TTRPG 💙📚

Hello booksky chat! I need some tips or recommendations. What are your favorite East and/or South East Asian novels? And I mean in translation, not authors from the region who write in English. 📚💬 💙📚

The best gift you can get an indie author? ✨️buy/read their book(s) (duh) ✨️review/rate their book(s) ✨️share/recommend their book(s) ✨️pray to the writer gods to give them more time to write their book(s) Happy Holidays to you all 🎄🎁 #booksky #writersky

Ooohoooo I don’t even need to make my own posts anymore! We talk narrative twists, Nick’s arch rivalry with @yumewrites.bsky.social , allegories, and we have the first annual HUGOs AWARDS (not the Hugo Awards - you must pronounce the S)

Well well well what a wonderful early Christmas present from @sunyidean.com Perfect for the winter break! 💙📚

I really struggled with The Fifth Season by N.k. Jemisin. Today is recording day of the #podcast and I am reaaaally looking forward to hearing what Nicholas Binge has to say to help me understand it better. I do quite enjoy the idea that sequels may involve an MC Majora’s Mask-ing the world! 💙📚

Just us or has this episode of Love, Death and Robots become an absolute Christmas classic in your household too?

For some reason my book club decided to read my arch rival @bingewriting.bsky.social new book DISSOLUTION this month and unfortunately I’m really enjoying it.

Currently reading The 5th Season by N.K. Jemisin but there is something I’m struggling with. 1/3 of the story is written in 2nd person - essentially placing you, the reader, in the story which I find really hard to digest and engage with. Any tips on how to approach this type of reading? 💙📚 💬💙

Word of the day: Bibliosmia - a love of the odour of books. Invented word of the day: Tabliosmia - the smell that emanates from a tablet or e-reader after your stinky nephew gets his mucky paws on it and smears jam and marmite on it cause he was having toast while using it. 💙📚

A fun daily pleasure: Coming across a narrow protrusion you can walk and balance on when you’re out and about. A low wall or a raised sidewalk divider will do nicely. I think about this a lot and always try to balance on them for their entire length

If you are reading this, congratulations, you are safe from Krampus’ grip… Keep celebrations weird! Struhlepeter for Christmas, druids for the Solstices, real witches for Halloween. What’s your favorite weird holiday book, ritual, tradition, story (not only winter holidays)? 💙📚

Interesting insights from our fellow podcast from the STET Network @stetpodcasts.bsky.social Time to adjust course in the style you are writing to try and hit it big? Well that’s where we could help you :^ ) *shameless plug disengaged*

Well looky here! This months book is on offer! So if you’re reading along from the USA then this is perfect!

Episode 11 - Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social Bestselling author Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social breaks down how Cho creates compelling conflict without killing anyone! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6xV0... 💙📚

Past guessed Sunyi dean with the cover reveal of her next novel. Seems a bit unfair that she can taunt us with the novel when it doesn’t come out until May next year because the premise sounds amazing! Congrats! 💙📚

I don’t normally post memes but Tolkien understood that logistics trumps all. And as someone who worked with the Global Logistics Cluster and loves reading, this is sooo spot on hahahah 📚💙

The challenge for Nick was to pick a book where no one dies! This is our first Romance novel and it was great fun! Made me laugh out loud several times and was very fun to read. Join us Thursday where we breakdown what made this novel tick

One of the benefits of living in a francophone region is you get cool comic exhibits not purely limited to Manga or American stylings (not hating, just stating) Looking forward to attending the Töpffer Prize in a few weeks #prixtopffer 💙📚 #comic #comicbooks

Peekaboo @bingewriting.bsky.social it arrived. Finally time to find out whether I am learning the craft of writing from a good writer or not. 💙📚

Just a quick reminder, I have been curating a playlist of music to read to. Lots of ambience and textures to help you focus: open.spotify.com/playlist/4nG... 💙📚