Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

March has whooshed by as work is stressful and I’ve kept my head down (and sadly not in a book for the most part), with April set to be more of the same. At the risk of wishing my life away, I’m already looking forward to May now…

This Must-Have Monday I am here to inform you about TWENTY-SIX new releases! Incl 📹️ trans Youtuber vs urban legends via @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social! 🖤best place to find an eldritch gf is down a well with Chandra Fisher! 🦕fossil magic + a baby pterodactyl from Jennifer Mandula!

While I don’t feel like I’ve been watching a lot of films recently, I seem to have watched a lot of films recently (as well as rewatching some favourites). Time to look back at the last three months of big picture entertainment, albeit watched on a small screen

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) by @nkjemisin.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and you WILL need a unicorn chaser afterwards. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one.

An unknown number just tried to call me - twice! - which I sent to voicemail, so they texted me instead: who is that? WTF mate it’s 2026, probably shouldn’t be calling the number if you don’t know that already?

It’s #TopTenTuesday and today we’re considering our spring TBRs. I’ve considered where my reading challenges might lead me this spring…

I found the lemon cheesecake Isey skyr. Breakfast should not taste like dessert but 10/10 no notes I have met yoghurt I can’t say no to

Full Moon Rising: Wyrd and Wonder 2026 deargeekplace.com/full-moon-ri... Spring is returning, and so are we! #WyrdAndWonder

With the equinox behind us the sun is now ascendant, but the young moon is showing her face again: a good time to make plans and set intentions. Wyrd & Wonder will be back this May for a month following wherever tales of the moon lead. Will you join us?

With the equinox behind us the sun is now ascendant, but the young moon is showing her face again: a good time to make plans and set intentions. Wyrd & Wonder will be back this May for a month following wherever tales of the moon lead. Will you join us?

Small Prophets has entranced me. I have alternately howled with laughter and tears. What a treasure.

Hey folks! If you're in the mood for a bit of Scottish sea going sci-fi adventure, you can pre-order The Packet now. (You don't even need to read it, just enjoy Vincent Sammy's outstanding cover art!)

Spot the AI pitch email ‘Caught your interview in <stupid name> podcast - really well done!’ It goes on to generically praise what I apparently talked about on this podcast I’ve never heard of Do I have: A) a doppelgänger B) a poor memory C) an AI twin D) a desire to drown sales people

It’s #TopTenTuesday and we’ve been invited to share green books from our shelves. You know I can’t resist a cover art prompt…

I’m considering two novels about the haunting of unlikeable women today: Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola and The Witch In The Well by Camilla Bruce. I liked one of these far more than the other, but which?

Do you have space in your life for a swashbuckling epic fantasy with impossible odds and the most personal stakes (give that girl a hug), told with pizzazz and some very very specific rules about when you can stab people? Hell yes you do.

It’s a #TopTenTuesday genre freebie so I’m indulging my love of archaeology and ancient architecture in science fiction and fantasy. Come for the worldbuilding, never leave because it’s just so interesting.

The journey we began during ScifiMonth has ended: our little crew has completed our read-along of the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. The inevitable confrontation with Anaander Mianaai is at hand. It’s our last read-along discussion …for now.

So I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!) My recs in reply!

February has (almost) disappeared on me - I’m looking back at the month before it’s gone as I won’t finish or buy any more books before Sunday! Book of the month: Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie New obsession: The Captive’s War by James SA Corey

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It’s the penultimate week of our Radch read-along (for now: we’ll be back for the sequels over the summer) and there are desperate plans afoot to defeat Anaander Mianaai.

In the end, don’t we all want the same thing? A haunted cottage of our own on the edge of the mossy forest which is filled to bursting with books that you lend out to ancient creatures and other wild folk of the wood?

I joined the Great Series Read Project 6 years ago - today I’m looking back at how I’ve got on, what series I’m continuing with, and trying to shake the feeling that this list is missing a HEAP of series that I forgot to add along the way…

At the halfway point, I have cooked up a new wild theory about how Ann Leckie can tie all the narrative strands together before book’s end and not talked nearly enough about oysters or shells or how this week is Feelings all the way down. Oh Breq, you idiot.

Ancillary Mercy: week one We’re not pausing for breath before we find out what lies beyond the Ghost Gate. Our read-along barrels straight into Ancillary Mercy this week as Breq returns to Athoek Station. Justice is complicated, propriety is teaching your guests to distinguish fish you eat and…

4.5/5 stars It hits home for East & Southeast Asians (anyone Chinese-passing basically), even for us who don't live in the West due to all the violent news we saw there on social media during c*vid. The true horror isn't the ghosts or gore; it's the white supremacy & racial discrimination. #BookSky

Not interested in sport, but I do enjoy all the owls 🦉

The final week of our read-along, so it’s showdowns and consequences time at Athoek, where we find out where everyone’s loyalties really lie. Let’s talk Ancillary Sword…

I blinked, and February crept up on me. January reading has been entirely SFnal, with the Imperial Radch, sexy fungus, soulful mecha and revolutionary nuns in the spotlight… Bonus: glorious winter walking.

Week three of our Ancillary Sword read-along takes us from Athoek Station to the planet below, and delivers a lot of plot escalation for a notionally quiet mourning retreat…

As it was #BurnsNight at the weekend, now seems like a good time to remind you of our own, rapidly growing, Scottish literary contingent (with more authors who make Scotland their home joining us in the coming months👀)! @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social

Week two of our Ancillary Sword read-along finds us on Athoek Station, coming to understand the nuances of life within the Imperial Radch. Expect politics, worldbuilding and many mirrors to our own flaws. In other words, great SF.

A lovely walk in the woods this afternoon, where there was a lot of hair frost just hanging out being glorious

Screen Sunday: round-up Before I turn my back on 2025, I’m catching up on all the films I saw in the second half of the year (a stack, thanks to the Inverness Film Festival in November). There's 3 new favourites, many films I admired, and a few I appreciated rather than enjoyed and am unlikely to…

🚨 ARCS ARE READY🚨 👀The book everyone's talking about 📕The 5th most requested title on Netgalley ⛏️The psychological horror of the summer @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's HOME SICK! Like, repost, follow & drop a 🐑 in the comments to be in with a chance! US/CAN/UK/IE only https://geni.us/homesick

Me: I shouldn’t request ARCs this year, I’m not reading or reviewing enough. Solaris:

Having been enthralled by our visit to the Imperial Radch during ScifiMonth, we’re continuing our read-along this year with Ancillary Sword because there’s no way we’re waiting for next November to find out what Breq does next. Expect spoilers from the get-go as this is the first of four discussion

I didn’t read a lot in 2025, but I enjoyed what I read. Time for a recap of my favourites featuring: Bat Eater (Kylie Lee Baker), The Unkillable Princess (Taran Hunt), and The Lies We Tell Ourselves (LK Kitney) and more

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

2025 was a tough year. I read far too little, got pulled in too many different directions, had my ass handed to me by perimenopause, and learned to exhaust myself in a good way by walking a really, really long way. Here’s to more books and more walks in 2026.

Happy new year! Tis the season for retrospectives: I’m kicking off by laughing at my reading challenge progress in 2025. Given I read fewer books in 2025 than I have done in years, this was an even bigger challenge than usual…

December has flown by in a whirlwind of real life Stuff that has mostly got in the way of reading and blogging. I’ve squeezed in a few reads and a whole lot more have leapt onto my shelves - I better make some reading-shaped New Year’s resolutions…

What, you thought #ScifiMonth2025 was over with November? Heck no, not until the final mission logs. Sometimes life finds a way, sometimes it gets in the way, so it’s taken a few weeks longer than usual to wrangle these. Grab a cuppa and revisit the fun…

What, you thought #ScifiMonth2025 was over with November? Heck no, not until the final mission logs. Sometimes life finds a way, sometimes it gets in the way, so it’s taken a few weeks longer than usual to wrangle these. Grab a cuppa and revisit the fun…

Happy midwinter from Newgrange! vimeo.com/1148063287?f...

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...