I’m enjoying it so far, but only about halfway through!
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I’m enjoying it so far, but only about halfway through!
This week’s #FridayReads is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy 💙📚
My eyes enjoyed this.
Is it just me or are US covers a little more arty (in a good way)?
Haha same!
What's everyone reading this weekend?
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry
Glad to hear it - I’ve reserved a copy at my local library!
This week’s #FridayReads is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which has been threatening to make me late for bed all week 💙📚
good morning! new from me in @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, a review of Alexandra McCollum's Into the Midnight Wood, in which I vent some frustrations with the current state of the cozy romcom fantasy novel
(I liked this one tho!)
Reposted with alt text 💙📚
Book “Bad Influence” by Will Carver. A 3d hash sign, from which hang lights and CCTV cameras. Two figures reach down through the central square. Below, a single blue pill.
Final #Bookpost for tonight is by @willcarver.bsky.social (I’ve missed his world of moral noir). Bad Influence is out in June from @orendabooks.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚
February reads 💙📚
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi (4⭐️)
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (4⭐️)
My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney (4⭐️)
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (t. Michael Hofmann) (4⭐️)
Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann (t. H. T. Lowe-Porter) (4⭐️)
This week’s #FridayReads is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 💙📚
I’m not familiar with the film adaptation- thanks for the rec!
I don’t mind dark and disturbing! I did consider his “Collected Stories” rather than “Death in Venice and Other Stories”, but decided against it…
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again (completist edition):
Which authors have sizable bodies of work that you’ve read the *entirety* of (or very nearly so)?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
A hand holding a (shiny library) hardback copy of Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann (tr. H. T. Lowe-Porter).
Continuing the trend of loving everything I’ve read by Thomas Mann 💙📚
Since we are losing review space left, right and centre, and Goodreads is making that worse, I'm now going to be doing regular romance review roundups on my blog. Get recs here! Share your own!
kjcharleswriter.com/2026/02/25/r...
A hand holding a (shiny library) paperback of Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka. It’s a Penguin Modern Classics edition, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Came to find out what happened to the man who turned into an insect, stayed for the brief but haunting stories that accompany this tale 💙📚
International Booker 2026 longlist with alt text.
#BookSky #LiteratureSky 💙📚🌎
Wunmi Mosaku wins Supporting Actress | BAFTA Film Awards 2026 | BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - BBC youtube.com/watch?v=MXxT...
You asked, we listened 🤭
Take Your Seats for our free YouTube premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest on 12 March at 7pm.
Accessible worldwide, with British Sign Language, Audio Description and Closed Caption versions available.
Find out more here 👇
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/take-your-se...
This week’s #FridayReads is My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney 💙📚
Ooh good to hear! I’ve loved all the Thomas Mann I’ve read so far
A hand holding a stack of (shiny) library books against a white wall: Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka.
Picking out my holiday reads 💙📚
My annual (and often wildly wrong) International Booker Prize predictions:
@thebookerprizes.com
1streading.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/i...
This week’s #FridayReads is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders 💙📚
Alt:
There are a handful of authors who I count as auto-read. KJ Charles is one of them. All Of Us Murderers is fucking great, obvi.
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The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright 💙📚