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“All deaths requires you to live first”💫 Currently reading 📚Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw ❓Anyone else?! 50% in and my heart is happy 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
I'm a sucker for novels built around cursed films so I was thrilled to add This Movie Doesn't End The Way We Want to that shelf, and it more than earns its place. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4831...
Review by pudseyrecommends - This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want
I'm a sucker for novels built around cursed films, Silver Nitrate, Rogue, Flicker are firm fav...
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Louise O’Neill bares all in A Bigger Life, a raw, funny and deeply honest account of heartbreak, desire and rebuilding yourself from scratch. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d785...
Review by pudseyrecommends - A bigger life
Louise O’Neill bares all in A Bigger Life, a raw, funny and deeply honest account of heartbrea...
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a gripping, powerful, unsettling listen, even if it’s over too soon. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends Huge thanks to Blackstone Publishing and NetGalley for the ALC. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b213...
Review by pudseyrecommends - Something of a Calling
Something of a Calling is eco-horror with teeth, literally. From the first despatch call to a ...
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Dark, dazzling and painfully human, this is a novel about the refuge friendship offers, the secrets that threaten it and what happens when the darkness starts answering back. 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a91a...
Poignant, unsettling and quietly devastating, #Switzy explores dementia, assisted dying, ageing and regret without simplifying any of them. It stayed with me long after I finished reading 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/038f...
Review by pudseyrecommends - Switzy
Switzy by Emma Cline is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling portrait of an ageing man facing t...
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a real honor to have BURY YOUR GAYS as one of the FIVE SFF BOOKS WHERE CAPITALISM IS THE REAL VILLAN from @reactorsff.bsky.social by @marshalljmoore.bsky.social VERY COOL LIST reactormag.com/five-books-w...
Five SFF Books Where Capitalism Is the Real Villain - Reactor
The whole damn system is wrong
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its wild we are so ground down by cultural expectations that its seen as tacky to love yourself. if i was just to post 'I LOVE MYSELF I AM INCREDIBLE' i promise some folks would think 'get a load of this self obsessed buckaroo, what a jerk'. fortunately i dont care and I LOVE MYSELF I AM INCREDIBLE
A new promenade performance retraces Victorian poet Charlotte Mew's family ties to Newport #iwnews #IsleofWight
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A new promenade performance retraces Victorian poet Charlotte Mew's family ties to Newport
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A wonderful moment to celebrate for two remarkable novels 🎉 Congratulations to Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi who have been longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction for their novels Audition and Flashlight! Explore the full longlist: bit.ly/4blwM9A
Compassionate, intelligent, playful and wonderfully accessible, underpinned by an extraordinary amount of research. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a27a...
Review by pudseyrecommends - The Book of Beasts
I loved immersing myself in Elizabeth Sulis Kim’s The Book of Beasts. This is a book about ani...
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Thank you to @ukpageone.bsky.social for hosting our very own @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social to talk all thing HOME SICK and to discuss why horror is having A Moment! Listen here: tr.ee/KWKo_C3b3c or watch below! Buy HOME SICK: geni.us/homesick
Author Rhiannon Grist on why horror is having a moment
Rhiannon Grist is an award-winning Welsh author of Weird, Speculative and Dark fiction, living and writing in beautiful Scotland. Her novella, The Queen of the High Fields (Luna Press), won the…
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So you loved the Odyssey, and you're looking for something EPIC? "the sensibilities of an epic poem" @suyidavies.com "a brilliantly layered story of myth and magic, gods and monsters, warriors and lovers" @premeemohamed.com Try Simon Jimenez's THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER! geni.us/Spearcuts
#TradWife Langan writes with confidence, and the narrative flows through twists and turns that are as emotionally wrenching as they are haunting 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6271...
Review by pudseyrecommends - Trad Wife
A cancelled writer fighting for her comeback finds herself trapped on a very dark, maze-like f...
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second chances, healing and learning that you can be loved without first having to become someone else. It’s funny, steamy and wholesomely heartfelt. 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3e2a...
Chuck Wendig’s The Calamities is a gift for those who like their fantasy contemporary, their horror political, and their family drama laced with dread. 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks Full review 👇🏽 app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d7ab...
Review by pudseyrecommends - The Calamities
Chuck Wendig’s The Calamities takes the old idea of a family empire and makes it monstrous, se...
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This one grabs you by the neck and just does not let go. It's relentless. Proper gut-punch tension from the very start, and it never really lets you breathe. A great summer thriller 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8d34...
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It simply exposes the realities of what is already happening, asks better questions, and in doing so offers something far more valuable: a way to think about AI that feels grounded, ethical and genuinely human. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0d0b...
Review by pudseyrecommends - What If We Got AI Right?
I didn't expect to pick up a work of non-fiction and feel like I was stepping into something a...
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I'm not a reader who reads by the season. I'll happily pick up a ghost story in July or a beach read in December. But there are some ☀️ Books That Scream Summer ☀️ to me, whatever month I'm reading them in. These are five of them: 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks
This week's Queer History 🌈📚 is a bit more edgy...⚔️ Were gay relationships common among the samurai? 👀 This week's Part 1 post dives into Japan's unique queer stories of the past. #BookSky #LGBT #QueerHistory andreamariana.substack.com/p/gay-samura...
Gay Samurai? Queer Japanese History, Pt. I
Relationships among these infamous warriors raise as many questions as answers.
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Currently reading Tatami Time Machine Blues by Tomohiko Morimi 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks
The tender moments between the sisters, like the sacred tradition of braiding each other's hair by the fire until it becomes "glowing rivers in the firelight," provide a beautiful, tragic contrast to the horror outside. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/dfcc...
Review by pudseyrecommends - A Fate Worse Than Drowning
There is something about an isolated, wave-battered lighthouse that makes the perfect canvas f...
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As corporate intrigue gradually intertwines with family grief and questions of borders, migration and technology, the novel becomes increasingly tense without sacrificing its emotional depth. 💙📚 #booksky 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/42a2...
Review by pudseyrecommends - Sublimation
When I first received this book, I expected an inventive diaspora novel. What I found was some...
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Dig deeper into one of the most banned books in America with this annotated edition of Maia Kobabe’s seminal autobiographical work. The annotated Gender Queer was eye-opening to me. #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #GenderQueerTheAnnotatedEdition #Netgalley #ARCReview
Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition by Maia Kobabe #BookReview #OniPress #ARCReview #LGBTQIA #Memoir
It's time to explore my ever-dwindling TBR pile! Dig deeper into one of the most banned books in America with this annotated edition of Maia Kobabe’s seminal autobiographical work. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Bookshop.org) (Librio.fm) (Audiobooks.com) (Booksamillion) (Amazon US) (Kindle Unlimited…
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‘Margaret Busby situates herself in a long line of editors and anthologists tasked not only with bringing the work of Black writers into print but with defining the parameters of Black literature.’ Christine Okoth on the trailblazing Black British publisher. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christine Okoth · How Things Should Go: Margaret Busby’s Books
Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented...
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It's funny, unsettling, emotionally generous, and, by the final pages, genuinely moving. Very much worth the climb. 💙📚 #booksky 🌈📚 #queerbookworm 🐶📚 #pudseyrecommends 📚🌎 #diversebooks app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3789...
Review by pudseyrecommends - The Night Stairs
There is something about the boarding school novel that never quite loses its grip. Perhaps it...
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