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Here mostly to follow my favourite authors. Reading and baking, not always in that order.
@hironennes.bsky.social's Works of Vermin is easily one of the best books I've read in 2025. Weird, dark, artful, and rich with drippingly gorgeous prose. Felt like the first time I read Perdido Street Station - simply transported and enveloped.
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@hironennes.bsky.social's Works of Vermin is easily one of the best books I've read in 2025. Weird, dark, artful, and rich with drippingly gorgeous prose. Felt like the first time I read Perdido Street Station - simply transported and enveloped.
My copy of @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons arrived in the UK and it’s every bit as good as Premee said.
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My copy of @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons arrived in the UK and it’s every bit as good as Premee said.
Saw the Royal Shakespeare Company production of My Neighbour Totoro last night and it was so good. People just straight up gasped at how good some of the set design and puppetry was.
August 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Saw the Royal Shakespeare Company production of My Neighbour Totoro last night and it was so good. People just straight up gasped at how good some of the set design and puppetry was.
Not enough apples for crumble, so made apple cinnamon rolls. Matchsticked pink lady apple into the cinnamon. Glazed with apricot jam after baking. Made cream cheese icing with half the usual sugar to keep it runny. Cut a comically large hole in a plastic bag to pipe the icing.
#baking #breadsky
#baking #breadsky
August 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My signed edition of @caitlinstarling.com's Starving Saints has arrived in the UK, along with the book launch enamel pin by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and I'm in the best mood. Can't stop smiling.
I really loved this book. Also, every book should come with a pin.
I really loved this book. Also, every book should come with a pin.
August 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My signed edition of @caitlinstarling.com's Starving Saints has arrived in the UK, along with the book launch enamel pin by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and I'm in the best mood. Can't stop smiling.
I really loved this book. Also, every book should come with a pin.
I really loved this book. Also, every book should come with a pin.
Happy 1st book anniversary to @kerstinhall.bsky.social’s ASUNDER. This book sunk its teeth in me one year ago and hasn’t entirely let go.
Of all the dangling narrative threads, I think I love Rasko most. Untied threads can be better than a finished edge. A mystery can be better than an answer.
Of all the dangling narrative threads, I think I love Rasko most. Untied threads can be better than a finished edge. A mystery can be better than an answer.
August 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy 1st book anniversary to @kerstinhall.bsky.social’s ASUNDER. This book sunk its teeth in me one year ago and hasn’t entirely let go.
Of all the dangling narrative threads, I think I love Rasko most. Untied threads can be better than a finished edge. A mystery can be better than an answer.
Of all the dangling narrative threads, I think I love Rasko most. Untied threads can be better than a finished edge. A mystery can be better than an answer.
Made a quiche. Shortbread dough rolled and blind baked. Quiche recipe is from Chef John but I subbed a light aged cheddar for Gruyère because it’s what I had on hand.
#baking
#baking
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Made a quiche. Shortbread dough rolled and blind baked. Quiche recipe is from Chef John but I subbed a light aged cheddar for Gruyère because it’s what I had on hand.
#baking
#baking
Pre-ordered a copy of @ldlewiswrites.com’s Year of the Mer as a gift to my future self
August 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Pre-ordered a copy of @ldlewiswrites.com’s Year of the Mer as a gift to my future self
Really happy with this one. Three malt grain flours cut with plain strong white to lighten it. Toasted sunflower seeds on top with an egg wash. The nuttiness of the sunflower with the slight sweetness of the malt is a great balance. Dough rose well and was easy to shape.
#breadsky #baking
#breadsky #baking
August 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hey @kerstinhall.bsky.social, I look forward to your newsletters. They're interesting, informative, open, and enjoyable (even when sometimes the subject is not uplifting). Enjoying that at least with its current audience you feel free to be less guarded, long may it continue. The best one I receive
July 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey @kerstinhall.bsky.social, I look forward to your newsletters. They're interesting, informative, open, and enjoyable (even when sometimes the subject is not uplifting). Enjoying that at least with its current audience you feel free to be less guarded, long may it continue. The best one I receive
How is it that The Witch Roads is the first book I've read by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social? Better late than never I guess. Absolutely tore through this, and happily the follow-up is coming quick on its heels. Just a pleasure from cover to cover.
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How is it that The Witch Roads is the first book I've read by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social? Better late than never I guess. Absolutely tore through this, and happily the follow-up is coming quick on its heels. Just a pleasure from cover to cover.
Nigella Lawson’s Guinness chocolate cake recipe is the closest to perfect I’ve ever tasted. Rich, moist, light, deep chocolate with a perfect mouth feel - if consumed on the day of baking.
#baking
#baking
June 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Nigella Lawson’s Guinness chocolate cake recipe is the closest to perfect I’ve ever tasted. Rich, moist, light, deep chocolate with a perfect mouth feel - if consumed on the day of baking.
#baking
#baking
This was my favourite fantasy novel of 2024, and definitely in want of a sequel. The best things about it are subtle, like the cultural and political dynamics created by "gods" that are merely manifest representatives of their source power, and inconsistently involved. Couldn't love this book more.
Buy Asunder! some people thought it was good! i want to write the sequel!
Asunder
Check out Asunder - <p>"<b>There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today.</b><b>"—Isabel Cañas, <i>USA Today </i>Bestselling author of<i> V...
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June 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This was my favourite fantasy novel of 2024, and definitely in want of a sequel. The best things about it are subtle, like the cultural and political dynamics created by "gods" that are merely manifest representatives of their source power, and inconsistently involved. Couldn't love this book more.
Made an apple pie and a quiche. Not the most attractive cosmetically (I slightly underestimated the quantity of dough to reserve for the lattice and had to roll it too thin, and butchered the crimping in the process) but delicious.
#baking
#baking
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Made an apple pie and a quiche. Not the most attractive cosmetically (I slightly underestimated the quantity of dough to reserve for the lattice and had to roll it too thin, and butchered the crimping in the process) but delicious.
#baking
#baking
Love my Sabriel print by @tommyarnoldart.com, the print on cotton paper is gorgeous in a way I just can't capture with a photo - something in the texture. Seeing the process for creating this image described at www.muddycolors.com/2022/03/illu... only makes it more special ❤️
June 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Love my Sabriel print by @tommyarnoldart.com, the print on cotton paper is gorgeous in a way I just can't capture with a photo - something in the texture. Seeing the process for creating this image described at www.muddycolors.com/2022/03/illu... only makes it more special ❤️
Hi @aimeeogdenwrites.com, not sure if this is a question for you or Psychopomp but if I pre-order Starstruck in the UK will the paperback be print-on-demand? I hate that this is rarely made clear, but understand that's on publishers not authors. If it's going to be POD I would just get the ebook.
June 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Hi @aimeeogdenwrites.com, not sure if this is a question for you or Psychopomp but if I pre-order Starstruck in the UK will the paperback be print-on-demand? I hate that this is rarely made clear, but understand that's on publishers not authors. If it's going to be POD I would just get the ebook.
@garethlpowell.bsky.social's excellent Future's Edge is currently £1.99 on Kindle (UK), I have the hardcover but couldn't resist getting a second copy on ebook
June 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@garethlpowell.bsky.social's excellent Future's Edge is currently £1.99 on Kindle (UK), I have the hardcover but couldn't resist getting a second copy on ebook