Book Review: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace @SpanishSpy has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-these-fragile-graces-this.html
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A more positive #blog today. I did a #review of Pluto, an excellent short anime about robots. At a time when all we hear is how AI will either drown us in slop, or take over the world (or both), it's quite nice to engage with an #anime that takes a more old-fashioned approach to robots, while still exploring some fundamental philosophical themes.
It's eight emotionally gut-punching episodes, and I'd certainly recommend it.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/pluto-teaching-a-robot-to-hate
Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
My review of @charliejane 's book at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular #horror #books far and wide.
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is both a stunning, unique epistolary novel and a subversive, sly nod to the most famous one. Stephen Graham Jones again shows his mastery as a storyteller by crafting a genuine modern Classic filled with Horror, Tragedy, Truth, and Blood. It should be required reading.
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Book Review: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
Playing with language, tone and contrast to make something that feels familiar and new at the same time.
@chloroform_tea has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-harmattan-season-by-tochi.html
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THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is filled with fantastic frights, fables, and fascinations; Craig Wallwork's talent ensures that it applies to both sides of this collection: the dark and the light. That deftness is impressive- even more so with the amount of heart also contained within. (Underbelly Books)
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A nice older review of my fantasy story The Last Philosopher from a non-fantasy reader 😊
Free ebook in comments.
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A cosmic horror coming-of-age story that is equally terrifying and touching, GOOD BOY is a perfect blend of mystery, monsters, love, and loyalty that is earnest, emotional, & eerie. Neil McRobert has written a truly satisfying, stellar novella filled with Horror AND Heart. (Wild Hunt Books)
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MageGee MK-Box 65% Mechanical Wired Computer Keyboard Review
A comprehensive review of the MageGee MK-Box mechanical computer keyboard covering overview, keycaps, switches, specifications, shortcuts and more.
This reviewer on Audible knows the way to an audiobook narrator's heart! 🥰
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Okay Mastodon, do your thing!
I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁
Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,
The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.
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THE WRITHING, VERDANT END compiles 6 uniquely intense, memorable stories of eco-horror. Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, and Eric Raglin all contribute eerie, haunting tales where human nature and the natural world clash & fight for survival. Lush writing about terrifying, strange nature(s). (Cursed Morsels)
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Book Review: Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
A tale of two men pulled off the ledge.
@spanishspy.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
Content warning: this piece deals with both suicide in fiction and disclosure of a real suicide attempt
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/08/book-review-coup-de-grace-by-sofia-ajram.html
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My latest read was The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It is surreal. It is confronting. It is harrowing.
It is always tricky to engage with a novel that itself so clearly engages with a different society and its problems (in this case, misogyny in South Korea), but I felt the writing was very well maintained in translation. The novel certainly packed a punch in English.
Full #review on the #blog here: https://write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable
I just finished The Last Dragonslayer series by Jasper Fforde.
The internal logic was sometimes a bit lacking but the fun and interesting ideas were not, and that's just as good 😁
I was a little disapointed in the fantasy writer whose best idea for the big bad was galactic domination 😂
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