Yes, yes; I am rereading Little, Big.
Again.
There’s always time.
There’s only time.
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This is the kind of challenge we like around here 😁
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Five stars:
365 Days to the Wedding, Volume 1 by Tamiki Wakaki (2020) was adapted for anime recently. A pair of single employees at a travel agency decide to announce a fake engagement to avoid being forced to transfer to the Siberian office.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/365_days_to_the_wedding_1.html
My email-only newsletter, The Sawdust, is going out tomorrow. It's a weekly diary of my little literary life, by a human (me) and for humans (you all). It's a double issue this week!
The Sawdust is part of the Wingback Workshop, my main bookish newsletter, which goes out less often and also posts to the website. All powered by Ghost, all free, subscriptions and one-time donations available to support my work.
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It's #SilentSunday now you know what to do 😁
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If you have a Goodreads account, you can really help out an indie author by adding their book to your "Want to Read" shelf. It garners attention, and allows a wider readership to consider the book, or at the very least, to have heard of it.
Book Nanoreviews: Heaven's Graveyard, The Infinite State, and The Demon Star
@DrEddieClark has our three of short reviews today at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/book-nanoreviews-heavens-graveyard.html
Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, if the men paid at all any spec of attention to the consent happening in those novels, the world would be a far better place. “is this comfortable? Can I touch you here? I need your full consent before we do this. Does that feel good? How do you feel?”
You can find all those empowering questions, and more, in Romance novels everyone hates so much.
How I usually find Romances is below.
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I've finished: Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
I accidentally entered Gladstone's Craft universe through the wrong door. Starting with: Dead Country, The Craft Wars #1. I decided to go back to the beginning of the Craft Sequence.
Thee Parts Dead was a delight. So many neat ideas, such a rich world.
It is a perfect mix: of the ancient and modern, of the magical and scientific, of old tropes and new.
I love the glimpses we get of a wider world and a deeper history. Hinting at a bigger universe beyond the limits of this novel.
It is both a light read and a complex tapestry of original twists on old tropes and new ideas that will peak the interest of an experienced fantasy reader.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/320caeca-00f8-4312-a2ba-7c04f7a5405a
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Four stars
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune with AJ Bridel and Jack Copland (Narrators) (2026) is a romance that only gets a chance after Frankie is left at the altar by her mathematician fiancé. After some heavy coaxing by friends and family, she agrees to take her long time BFF, George, with her to Tofino. There she realizes she has feeling for him if she can only wrap her head around the prospect that he might have feelings for her too!
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/our_perfect_storm.html
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Sad to hear of the death of the author and essayist, John Crowley.
I picked up a second hand copy of his extraordinary novel Little, Big in paperback some time in the mid-80s, seduced at first by the Ursula K. LeGuin endorsement: "a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy." But I’d say it’s even more than that.
I’d never encountered anything like it and it’s one of those books which immediately altered the course of my reading life, very likely for the better.
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Book Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
Meat is murder says @DrEddieClark in his review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/book-review-trade-of-blood-by-robert.html
#AmReading All Roads Lead to Austen, a memoir/travelogue about an American English teacher who decides to spend a year in Latin America and see if Austen hits the same way in translation. She's also exploring recommendations for local literature. Very engaging, especially for an Austen fan.
What are you reading currently? #IAmReading
I'm currently reading The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt. It is a funny and clever cowboy noir. Definitely recommend. Thank you Mike and Ellen!
And what do you have on hold?
I'm only listing the newest additions to my hold list:
MISERY'S WIFE, Joan Tierney. Queer, climate fiction, based on a folktake, with a trans protagonist. 
FISHBONE CINDERELLA, Elizabeth Lim. Historical, heart wrenching, w/ magic.
BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, Annie Jacobson
HEART THE LOVER, Lily King. Sequel to WRITERS AND LOVERS.
WILD DARK SHORE, Charlotte McConaghy. I will read anything she writes.
YESTERYEAR, Caro Claire Burke. Because everyone else is reading this.
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What are you reading currently? #IAmReading
Nearing the end of Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg.
2/3 advice on writing.
1/3 advice on life.
Brilliantly, at the same time.
Just started Death With Interruptions by José Saramago.
And what do you have on hold?
Several books by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Because I’d like to write like him when I grow up.
The first Science of Discworld book gets 4/5 stars... I think, wait let me check my math.The Science parts got 3 and the Wizard parts got 5 so if you add 'em up carry the 1, always carry the one, divide by two you get 4... I think.Unless we take into account that the Science chapters were longer than the Wizard chapters, wigheted data-points and all that, but a little lying to children is to be expected, it is #Discworld after all, the narrativum has to go somewhere.
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As a big fan of both Trek and Discworld, I support the flawless logic of this crossover 😜😂
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What happens when the grammar police inevitably gets corrupted? 🤔 Is that where slang comes from? 😁
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Edited 96d ago
Begebe mich zum 1.Mal in die Welten des Brandon Sanderson mit "Splitter der Dämmerung" und hoffe, es lohnt sich.
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My review of Cormac Mac Art: Isle of Swords by Matthew John just went up at Grimdark Magazine!
A fast-paced and gritty adventure involving one of Conan creator Robert E. Howard’s more underutilized characters.
(As always, boosts are appreciated!)
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-cormac-mac-art-isle-of-swords-by-matthew-john/
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It’s both #Caturday and the birthday of M.R. James (born #OTD in 1862), perhaps the finest author of ghost stories we’ve ever known. This makes it a very good day indeed.
(Donnie, on the right, was born in 2020 but he can be as supernatural as the next cat.)
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Palaces of the Crow. Ray Nayler.
You are children of different nationalities, when fighting at the start of WWII sends you deep into the Lithuanian woods where your survival may depend on understanding an evolved crow society you find there.
4 of 5 library cats 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛.
I pre-ordered a couple books, and the seller said to pick out a free book as well, so I chose the most topical and maybe too resonant: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells. Yes, nothing like some apocalyptic future nonfiction as light reading 😂