Liz Bourke
@hawkwinglb.bsky.social
Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
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And here is the one book by an Irish author, Ruth Francis Long's The Lore of Silver, which I am looking forward to reading very much.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
And here is the one book by an Irish author, Ruth Francis Long's The Lore of Silver, which I am looking forward to reading very much.
Here are three from Tor Books (or, well, one is from Bramble): Hell's Heart, Stephanie Burgis's Enchanting the Fae Queen, and Rebecca Thorn's This Gilded Abyss.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here are three from Tor Books (or, well, one is from Bramble): Hell's Heart, Stephanie Burgis's Enchanting the Fae Queen, and Rebecca Thorn's This Gilded Abyss.
Here are the definitely sapphic ones, Tasha Suri's amazing The Isle in the Silver Sea, Rebecca Thorne's This Gilded Abyss, and Alexis Hall's Hell's Heart.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here are the definitely sapphic ones, Tasha Suri's amazing The Isle in the Silver Sea, Rebecca Thorne's This Gilded Abyss, and Alexis Hall's Hell's Heart.
Here are the ones from Orbit, looking really good: I can attest The Isle in the Silver Sea is amazing; The Book of Fallen Leaves is, I believe, a retelling of the Tale of the Heike, and Aicha concerns itself with Aisha Kandicha of Moroccan folklore.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here are the ones from Orbit, looking really good: I can attest The Isle in the Silver Sea is amazing; The Book of Fallen Leaves is, I believe, a retelling of the Tale of the Heike, and Aicha concerns itself with Aisha Kandicha of Moroccan folklore.
Good morning. Let me show you some recently arrived review copies. I have put the definitely sapphic ones beside each other.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Good morning. Let me show you some recently arrived review copies. I have put the definitely sapphic ones beside each other.
My haul from Routledge's 20% off sale. Three of them have the texture of print-on-demand covers, which is always a bit odd, but I'm looking forward to reading them anyway. (Yes, I keep going head-first down the Read More Interesting Research warren.)
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My haul from Routledge's 20% off sale. Three of them have the texture of print-on-demand covers, which is always a bit odd, but I'm looking forward to reading them anyway. (Yes, I keep going head-first down the Read More Interesting Research warren.)
This is what the sky looks like today. The solar app says our array is still meeting more than 40% of our energy consumption from the sun ANYWAY.
September 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This is what the sky looks like today. The solar app says our array is still meeting more than 40% of our energy consumption from the sun ANYWAY.
The solar panel lads have come and installed the solar panels, and gone away again. It took them less than two days. Eir Solar: very easy to work with, very neat, very friendly. We're paying about €11.5K before the grant (€9.6 after) for a ten-panel array.
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The solar panel lads have come and installed the solar panels, and gone away again. It took them less than two days. Eir Solar: very easy to work with, very neat, very friendly. We're paying about €11.5K before the grant (€9.6 after) for a ten-panel array.
Arrived today from @solarisbooks.bsky.social, for which many thanks: CRY VOIDBRINGER by Elaine Ho, which sounds fascinating, THE DOOR ON THE SEA, by Caskey Russell, which also sounds interesting, and THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson, which sounds like fantasy university murder-mystery.
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Arrived today from @solarisbooks.bsky.social, for which many thanks: CRY VOIDBRINGER by Elaine Ho, which sounds fascinating, THE DOOR ON THE SEA, by Caskey Russell, which also sounds interesting, and THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson, which sounds like fantasy university murder-mystery.
Two books I'm really excited to read: Leszek Gardela's Women and Weapons in the Viking World, which I have wanted to read for several years, and Matthew D.C. Larsen & Mark Letteney's Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (which is open access currently I think, and which I heard about on here).
August 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Two books I'm really excited to read: Leszek Gardela's Women and Weapons in the Viking World, which I have wanted to read for several years, and Matthew D.C. Larsen & Mark Letteney's Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (which is open access currently I think, and which I heard about on here).
On a beach with a child, throwing stones in streams.
August 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
On a beach with a child, throwing stones in streams.
So, you have heard of Canadian author Chinaza Bado's Birth of a Dynasty? This is page 15. O the next page the person who'd been stabbed through the heart was still talking. That's me out, then.
harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/bir...
harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/bir...
August 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So, you have heard of Canadian author Chinaza Bado's Birth of a Dynasty? This is page 15. O the next page the person who'd been stabbed through the heart was still talking. That's me out, then.
harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/bir...
harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/bir...
Two exciting "wolf" books arrived today: THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com's THE WOLF AND HIS KING.
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Two exciting "wolf" books arrived today: THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com's THE WOLF AND HIS KING.
Bloody hell, Derrida. Spectres of Marx, pp99-100: "The same media power accuses, produces, and amplifies *at the same time* this incompetence of traditional politicians: on the one hand, it takes away from them the legitimate power they held in the former political space..." (cont'd)
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Bloody hell, Derrida. Spectres of Marx, pp99-100: "The same media power accuses, produces, and amplifies *at the same time* this incompetence of traditional politicians: on the one hand, it takes away from them the legitimate power they held in the former political space..." (cont'd)
And since I had my camera out, when Daniel M. Ford's Advocate and Necrobane came through the door, I took pictures of them too. His "Warden" series is fun fantasy adventure so far.
March 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And since I had my camera out, when Daniel M. Ford's Advocate and Necrobane came through the door, I took pictures of them too. His "Warden" series is fun fantasy adventure so far.
Arrived today, also care of the good people at Orbit UK, the paper editions of some my favourite romantic fantasy adventure novels from the last few years: @tkingfisher.com's Paladin's Grace, Paladin's Strength, Paladin's Hope, and Paladin's Faith. If you haven't read these books, GO GET 'EM.
March 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Arrived today, also care of the good people at Orbit UK, the paper editions of some my favourite romantic fantasy adventure novels from the last few years: @tkingfisher.com's Paladin's Grace, Paladin's Strength, Paladin's Hope, and Paladin's Faith. If you haven't read these books, GO GET 'EM.
Between the good people @torbooks.bsky.social and the good people at Orbit UK (hey @gambit589.bsky.social!) I have two ARCs of The Incandescent, Emily Tesh's stunning next book. The covers definitely share a theme, but they're strikingly different in their colour schemes.
March 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Between the good people @torbooks.bsky.social and the good people at Orbit UK (hey @gambit589.bsky.social!) I have two ARCs of The Incandescent, Emily Tesh's stunning next book. The covers definitely share a theme, but they're strikingly different in their colour schemes.
Through the door today, Sarah E Bond's Strike: Labor, Unions and Resistance in the Roman Empire. I'm looking forward to reading the arguments.
March 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Through the door today, Sarah E Bond's Strike: Labor, Unions and Resistance in the Roman Empire. I'm looking forward to reading the arguments.
Here are some cats. They do not help but are cute?
March 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Here are some cats. They do not help but are cute?
2019. Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda.
His work has been overtaken by events, but it is very valuable historic context for where we are, and this particular passage is useful to think with.
His work has been overtaken by events, but it is very valuable historic context for where we are, and this particular passage is useful to think with.
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
2019. Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda.
His work has been overtaken by events, but it is very valuable historic context for where we are, and this particular passage is useful to think with.
His work has been overtaken by events, but it is very valuable historic context for where we are, and this particular passage is useful to think with.
Esther Eidinow's work is fantastic. I recommend highly.
December 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Esther Eidinow's work is fantastic. I recommend highly.
...because it was an assortment of cheering small items instead.
November 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM
...because it was an assortment of cheering small items instead.
It seems that in ordering direct, my copy of Tadhg O'Keefe's Ireland Encastellated AD 950-1550: Insular Castle Building in its European Context has come with a sizeable chocolate bar. Good heavens, do they do this for everyone's first order?
November 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM
It seems that in ordering direct, my copy of Tadhg O'Keefe's Ireland Encastellated AD 950-1550: Insular Castle Building in its European Context has come with a sizeable chocolate bar. Good heavens, do they do this for everyone's first order?