Steven Gomzi
@stevengomzi.bsky.social
Reader, cat butler, dog lover, and book collector. Fantasy, weird fiction, horror, comics, crime fiction and film. Husband, and father of two awesome kids. Can usually be found lost in a forest or lost in the stacks at some used bookstore.📚📚📚
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#82
R.F. Kuang invokes some great atmospheric dread here (you just know this isn’t going to end well), but this definitely would have benefited from a bit more fleshing out of the characters and a lot more page length. Still enjoyed it though.
#82
R.F. Kuang invokes some great atmospheric dread here (you just know this isn’t going to end well), but this definitely would have benefited from a bit more fleshing out of the characters and a lot more page length. Still enjoyed it though.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#82
R.F. Kuang invokes some great atmospheric dread here (you just know this isn’t going to end well), but this definitely would have benefited from a bit more fleshing out of the characters and a lot more page length. Still enjoyed it though.
#82
R.F. Kuang invokes some great atmospheric dread here (you just know this isn’t going to end well), but this definitely would have benefited from a bit more fleshing out of the characters and a lot more page length. Still enjoyed it though.
#BooksRead2025
#81
Terrifying in how close this hits to home right now. Set in the near future, imagine the people in charge of the US right now, and the billionaires and racists who exist in their orbit, armed with time travel technology. Now imagine how they would use this tech.
#81
Terrifying in how close this hits to home right now. Set in the near future, imagine the people in charge of the US right now, and the billionaires and racists who exist in their orbit, armed with time travel technology. Now imagine how they would use this tech.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#81
Terrifying in how close this hits to home right now. Set in the near future, imagine the people in charge of the US right now, and the billionaires and racists who exist in their orbit, armed with time travel technology. Now imagine how they would use this tech.
#81
Terrifying in how close this hits to home right now. Set in the near future, imagine the people in charge of the US right now, and the billionaires and racists who exist in their orbit, armed with time travel technology. Now imagine how they would use this tech.
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#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
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Pic is upside down intentionally because this is how it makes you feel while reading it!
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Pic is upside down intentionally because this is how it makes you feel while reading it!
This album has become essential daily listening for me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This album has become essential daily listening for me.
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Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today after being a little unwell I am planning to finish the excellent The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson. What Are you reading at the moment?
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today after being a little unwell I am planning to finish the excellent The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson. What Are you reading at the moment?
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Sagan felt that the dumbing down of America was most evident in the rejection of science and the growing ignorance of history, art, literature, music and the humanities. If we're to reserve course, we need to revive mass education and literacy.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sagan felt that the dumbing down of America was most evident in the rejection of science and the growing ignorance of history, art, literature, music and the humanities. If we're to reserve course, we need to revive mass education and literacy.
Pic is upside down intentionally because this is how it makes you feel while reading it!
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Pic is upside down intentionally because this is how it makes you feel while reading it!
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Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
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Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
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#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#BooksRead2025
#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
#80
A Douglas Adams book I just recently became aware of. Part travelogue, part love letter to the unsung heroes working very hard to keep a lot of awesome creatures from extinction. Funny, informative, entertaining, and heartbreaking. The dodo chapter made we want to cry. 😢
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I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away
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It’s the weekend and you need some reviews and one line articles you read? Fear not Wombling Along is here to settle back with a nice cuppa and the you may just possibly need a book? www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Wombling along — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! Welcome to Wombling Along which is where I use the weekend to share the online reviews and other book adjacent things I think people may enjoy as they out their feet up with a cuppa. I hard...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It’s the weekend and you need some reviews and one line articles you read? Fear not Wombling Along is here to settle back with a nice cuppa and the you may just possibly need a book? www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Vince Gilligan looks to have another winner on his hands. Episode one of Pluribus was a hell of a ride, and Rhea Seehorn was brilliant as always. Can’t wait to see more!
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Vince Gilligan looks to have another winner on his hands. Episode one of Pluribus was a hell of a ride, and Rhea Seehorn was brilliant as always. Can’t wait to see more!
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Indulged in some much needed retail therapy today. Damn, this book is heavy!
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Indulged in some much needed retail therapy today. Damn, this book is heavy!
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#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
Indulged in some much needed retail therapy today. Damn, this book is heavy!
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Indulged in some much needed retail therapy today. Damn, this book is heavy!
#BooksRead2025
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#BooksRead2025
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
#79
I love Carl and Donut so much, and will follow them to the end! Fantastic sequel! Hilarious and surprisingly poignant, this series is a blast, and Jeff Hays’ audio narration is absolutely bonkers. Definitely in this to the end.
#booksky 📚📚📚
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We need no more evidence that he's a dead-eyed, dead-hearted sociopath, but we can at least add this photo to the mountainous heap of it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We need no more evidence that he's a dead-eyed, dead-hearted sociopath, but we can at least add this photo to the mountainous heap of it.
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Dr. Oz is a pickled scum-nut kook by choice but at least he moved immediately to assist; RFK Jr. hightailing it like he just saw an angry ghost is probably only the fourteenth most insane thing he's done this week.
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Dr. Oz is a pickled scum-nut kook by choice but at least he moved immediately to assist; RFK Jr. hightailing it like he just saw an angry ghost is probably only the fourteenth most insane thing he's done this week.
Hell yeah!!! 1264 pages!
ICYMI: Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011 and be published in September 2026 👇 #BookSky
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
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November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Hell yeah!!! 1264 pages!
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What a night. From VA to NJ to PA to NYC. You love to see it. Good job everybody. Good trouble.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What a night. From VA to NJ to PA to NYC. You love to see it. Good job everybody. Good trouble.
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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And now we go live to New Yorkers hearing news that a pack of their city's rich, festering ass wounds are threatening to move if their sex pest muppet loses for mayor
a man in a suit stands in front of a crowd and says anyway
ALT: a man in a suit stands in front of a crowd and says anyway
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And now we go live to New Yorkers hearing news that a pack of their city's rich, festering ass wounds are threatening to move if their sex pest muppet loses for mayor