Roseanna Pendlebury
@chloroformtea.bsky.social
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Penultimate discussion from our close reading of The Fellowship of the Ring is now up, in which it's all elves, all the time, for good and for ill, as we head into Lothlórien.
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 7 – Mirrors and Islands
The penultimate episode of our close reading brings us out of Moria, and into Lothlórien, with Chapter VI – Lothlórien and Chapter VII – The Mirror of Galadriel, with a sharp contrast a…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Penultimate discussion from our close reading of The Fellowship of the Ring is now up, in which it's all elves, all the time, for good and for ill, as we head into Lothlórien.
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Contributor Profile: Meet Maya Barbara
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Contributor Profile: Maya Barbara
NAME: Maya Barbara SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: Nestled somewhere between two major cities in West and Middle Tennessee NERD SPECIALIZATI...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Contributor Profile: Meet Maya Barbara
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Pre-orders are great because sometimes a parcel turns up from Waterstones and I have no idea what it is. Present from past me.
Especially nice as today's is the conclusion to a trilogy I've been very much enjoying.
Especially nice as today's is the conclusion to a trilogy I've been very much enjoying.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Pre-orders are great because sometimes a parcel turns up from Waterstones and I have no idea what it is. Present from past me.
Especially nice as today's is the conclusion to a trilogy I've been very much enjoying.
Especially nice as today's is the conclusion to a trilogy I've been very much enjoying.
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I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: here’s @davidheb.bsky.social on the incomparable Nina Allan’s latest, A Granite Silence:
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
In her latest novel, Allan steps in a different direction again.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: here’s @davidheb.bsky.social on the incomparable Nina Allan’s latest, A Granite Silence:
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
Just found out the orchestral performance of the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack is coming to London and this has made my fucking day.
It is only with great restraint that the office isn't getting full "COOOOOULLEEEEEUURSS EMBRASÉEEEESSSSS" from me.
It is only with great restraint that the office isn't getting full "COOOOOULLEEEEEUURSS EMBRASÉEEEESSSSS" from me.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just found out the orchestral performance of the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack is coming to London and this has made my fucking day.
It is only with great restraint that the office isn't getting full "COOOOOULLEEEEEUURSS EMBRASÉEEEESSSSS" from me.
It is only with great restraint that the office isn't getting full "COOOOOULLEEEEEUURSS EMBRASÉEEEESSSSS" from me.
Yay this great review of an excellent book.
Boo this pun.
Boo this pun.
Never-Ebbing Story: @casella.bsky.social reviews Eva Meijer's SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo (@catransitnerd.bsky.social)
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Never-Ebbing Story: Review of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now
Jake Casella Brookins Under Review:Sea Now. Eva Meijer, translated by Anne Thompson Melo. Two Lines Press, October 2025. Ironically, it’s the very dry humor of Eva Meijer’s Sea Now—a story entirely…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yay this great review of an excellent book.
Boo this pun.
Boo this pun.
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Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker (
@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
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@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
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Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker
NAME : Christine D. Baker SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION : Vancouver, B.C. (Oops, I disclosed my location. Feel free to say hi if you’re local...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker (
@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
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@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/cont...
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Film Review: Wicked: For Good
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social
has our review at the Blog
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Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social
has our review at the Blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Film Review: Wicked: For Good
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical Those who have seen the long-running stage musical Wicked already...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Film Review: Wicked: For Good
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social
has our review at the Blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social
has our review at the Blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
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Penultimate chat about Fellowship of the Ring done. Writing it up aside, there's just three more chapters before we reach the end of this close read, and honestly it's been fucking great. Extremely recommend as an experience.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Penultimate chat about Fellowship of the Ring done. Writing it up aside, there's just three more chapters before we reach the end of this close read, and honestly it's been fucking great. Extremely recommend as an experience.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
We now got the penultimate section of the Fellowship as we come to the second of the two islands of Elvendom in the book.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We now got the penultimate section of the Fellowship as we come to the second of the two islands of Elvendom in the book.
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“SEA NOW is not a novel without hope, but it is a novel in which hope is tempered.” @niallharrison reviews new work from Eva Meijer
Sea Now by Eva Meijer: Review by Niall Harrison
Sea Now, Eva Meijer (Two Lines 978-1-94964-185-1, $18.00, 180pp, tp) October 2025. One of the few Northern European countries not visited in Yoko Tawada’s trilogy is the Netherlands, so it was brie…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“SEA NOW is not a novel without hope, but it is a novel in which hope is tempered.” @niallharrison reviews new work from Eva Meijer
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Book Review: Alien: Cult, by Gavin G Smith
The Alien: Earth series we should have got.
One of our new flock members, @stewarthotston.com , has our review at the blog:
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The Alien: Earth series we should have got.
One of our new flock members, @stewarthotston.com , has our review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
Book Review: Alien: Cult, by Gavin G Smith
The Alien: Earth series we should have got. cover artist: Marco Turini and Julia Lloyd We've been spoilt with new Alien content in the la...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Book Review: Alien: Cult, by Gavin G Smith
The Alien: Earth series we should have got.
One of our new flock members, @stewarthotston.com , has our review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
The Alien: Earth series we should have got.
One of our new flock members, @stewarthotston.com , has our review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
I said this and then read two extremely sad chapters of LotR because I’m a fool
Ok whatever I'm planning to read next, it's not going to be clifi and it's absolutely not going to make me cry. Two of those in two months is quite enough thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I said this and then read two extremely sad chapters of LotR because I’m a fool
Reading Lothlórien/The Mirror of Galadriel and hoo boy do he love him some elves. Like, I knew this, but still.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reading Lothlórien/The Mirror of Galadriel and hoo boy do he love him some elves. Like, I knew this, but still.
Apparently I’m incapable of reading LOTR without a cup of tea on hand. It just feels wrong somehow.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Apparently I’m incapable of reading LOTR without a cup of tea on hand. It just feels wrong somehow.
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We Choose Every Day: Hebe Stanton reviews Claire North's SLOW GODS (@orbitbooks.bsky.social)
We Choose Every Day: Review of Slow Gods by Claire North
Hebe Stanton Under Review:Slow Gods. Claire North. Orbit, November 2025. What does it mean? This oldest of questions is the one Claire North sets out to answer in their newest novel Slow Gods. Our …
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November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We Choose Every Day: Hebe Stanton reviews Claire North's SLOW GODS (@orbitbooks.bsky.social)
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Film Review: Keeper
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness
@cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has the review at the blog
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A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness
@cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has the review at the blog
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Film Review: Keeper
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness I'm continuing a trend this year where I go into movies absolutely bl...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Film Review: Keeper
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness
@cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has the review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness
@cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has the review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Torn between "eheeheheh listen now yesss" and "maybe I could speed read the book again first..."
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Torn between "eheeheheh listen now yesss" and "maybe I could speed read the book again first..."
Ok whatever I'm planning to read next, it's not going to be clifi and it's absolutely not going to make me cry. Two of those in two months is quite enough thank you.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ok whatever I'm planning to read next, it's not going to be clifi and it's absolutely not going to make me cry. Two of those in two months is quite enough thank you.
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And I look at ten books and one anti-book choice that made me the reader I am these days www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Ten Books A Reading Journey — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! This has been on my to do list for quite a few weeks. Earlier this year reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury did a blog on the ten fantasy books that took them on their reading journey. I wondered ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
And I look at ten books and one anti-book choice that made me the reader I am these days www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
In delightful new experiences - cleaning up after a cat who vomited while running at full speed across the living room.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In delightful new experiences - cleaning up after a cat who vomited while running at full speed across the living room.
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It's got history, it's got vampires, it's got...sort of a baffling absence of theory on either topic! Scholar, editor, & comrade @guynes.bsky.social is on to talk about Elizabeth Kostova's THE HISTORIAN.
A Meal of Thorns 37 – THE HISTORIAN with Sean Guynes
Vampire scholar, science fiction studies editor, and ARB co-founder Sean Guynes joins to discuss Kostova’s 2005 historical vampire thriller. We both have fairly negative opinions of the book, but i…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's got history, it's got vampires, it's got...sort of a baffling absence of theory on either topic! Scholar, editor, & comrade @guynes.bsky.social is on to talk about Elizabeth Kostova's THE HISTORIAN.
Just sat here, on a Friday afternoon, definitely working hard and not staring sadly into space thinking about the Iliad. That would be a totally normal thing to be doing.
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just sat here, on a Friday afternoon, definitely working hard and not staring sadly into space thinking about the Iliad. That would be a totally normal thing to be doing.
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6 Books with @stewarthotston.com
Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com asks Stew, who also is joining the NOAF team, about his six books, focused on his new novel Project Hanuman, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
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Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com asks Stew, who also is joining the NOAF team, about his six books, focused on his new novel Project Hanuman, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
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6 Books with Stew Hotston
With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart Hotston is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant l...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
6 Books with @stewarthotston.com
Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com asks Stew, who also is joining the NOAF team, about his six books, focused on his new novel Project Hanuman, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/six-...
Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com asks Stew, who also is joining the NOAF team, about his six books, focused on his new novel Project Hanuman, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/six-...