Wet Broken Things
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"You're in a world full of colour and you want to see it in black and white."

How do you feel about the final two volumes of Lyra's story?

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Book review – The Secret Commonwealth & The Rose Field
This review may contain spoilers for La Belle Sauvage and His Dark Materials. “You’re in a world full of colour and you want to see it in black and white.” The second and third vo…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"How can knowing something be sinful?"

I enjoyed Malcolm's perspective as much as Lyra's. A very complementary perspective. What did you think?

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Book review – La Belle Sauvage
“How can knowing something be sinful?” This review contains spoilers for the His Dark Materials trilogy. The world and story of Lyra is one of the most profound stories ever told about …
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December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What's your favourite story where we see tech and science as magic through the point of view of primitive protagonists?

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Book review – The Hungry Gods
In his novella, The Hungry Gods, Adrian Tchaikovsky writes another of story in his trademark style, set in the future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster. The world has descended back into…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"'You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?'
'So I'm a misogynist now?'
'It's simply about not giving,' she said."

What stories about sexism have stuck with you?

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Book review – So Late in the Day
“‘You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?”So I’m a misogynist now?”It’s simply about not giving,’ she said.” In her nove…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Simply to endure is to triumph."

What story best represents a child's point of view? This is a heartbreaking one that does very well.

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Book review – Sold
“Simply to endure is to triumph.” Sold appears as a novel, but it is really a young adult novella, if even that, for the story is not long. I read it in one setting. Published in 2006, …
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Sure, hope was too often offered instead of real change, a cheap placeholder for a better day. But it also kept people alive ... You had to believe the land you were on could bear fruit to bother trying. You had to have vision to eat."

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Book review – Guide Me Home
“Sure, hope was too often offered instead of real change, a cheap placeholder for a better day. But it also kept people alive. You couldn’t grow a tomato, a sweet pepper, or a peach without h…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"Sure, hope was too often offered instead of real change, a cheap placeholder for a better day. But it also kept people alive ... You had to believe the land you were on could bear fruit to bother trying. You had to have vision to eat."

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Book review – Guide Me Home
“Sure, hope was too often offered instead of real change, a cheap placeholder for a better day. But it also kept people alive. You couldn’t grow a tomato, a sweet pepper, or a peach without h…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"I am Rose House, entire, and have never been anything else."

What's been your spooky read this Halloween?

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Book review – Rose/House
“I am Rose House, entire, and have never been anything else.” Arkady Martine writes a brilliantly creepy sci-fi novella about a murder that happens in an AI house called Rose House. A d…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"To be a proper man meant to be a strong man, an outdoors man, but also a man of principle. It meant lack of bombast, a repudiation of shallowness and a core of quiet self-belief. It meant being slow to anger, but firm in conviction."

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Book review – The Hallmarked Man
“To be a proper man meant to be a strong man, an outdoors man, but also a man of principle. It meant lack of bombast, a repudiation of shallowness and a core of quiet self-belief. It meant be…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope."

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Book review – The Man in the High Castle
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.” The Man in the High Castle…
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September 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I love how some three quarters of a century after its original publication, Narnia continues to inspire authors, even if it is in answer to it!

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Book review – And Put Away Childish Things
Tchaikovsky delivers a digestible and charming little novella in And Put Away Childish Things, a title that has great resonance for me, coming from St Paul’s epistles. And it fits well with t…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts."

Is Neil Gaiman the weirdest author you've ever read?

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Book review – Neil Gaiman short stories
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.” The first Neil Gaiman I ever read was his short story collection, Fragile Things, whi…
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September 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out."

What's your favorite cozy science fiction?

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Book review – Monk and Robot duology
“I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.” A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy form a duology best described…
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August 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow."

What is your favorite story about growing up?

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Book review – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.” Neil Gaiman&#8217…
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August 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

What is your favourite John Green book?

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Book review – Looking for Alaska
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” Looking for Alaska is getting close to classic …
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August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate."

Do you think there's life on other worlds?

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Book review – To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.” Becky Chambers delivers a tho…
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August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM