This sounds great!

Amazing! Legend was my first David Gemmell book and I have since read almost everything he’s written, some multiple times. With his books you are always guaranteed at least one absolutely epic scene that you’ll want to relive again and again.

I can’t wait to see you what your novel becomes.

The Alexeandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell is wonderful.

Bonus poem, To go to Lvov by Adam Zagajewski, about the hold a city can have on those exiled from it.

I loved these two! All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt and A Ghost the The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. They both turned out to be autofiction novels by poets so maybe I just have a type.

Hi Matt, thanks for setting this up. I’d love to be added.

Wendell Berry is such a joy.

@anthonyryan.bsky.social has a new book out, A Tide of Black Steel. Great characters, fantastic story, grimdark and it was just published in September.

Yes, we can have the writers, journalists, artists, academics and librarians here. The other site can keep the rest 😬

The librarians are here at least! But official accounts take time. Again it’s the issue of wanting to engage but needing to be sure there are the resources available to consistently engage.

Nice, I’ve got a copy of Intermezzo on hold but my tbr list is so long already. Reading The Sound and the Fury, and also Victoria Psycho by Virginia Feito. I’m loving both.

I’m currently building a My Little Pony Tribal deck for my daughter and a Rat Tribal deck for my son. They’re very different people but Christmas table magic should be lots of fun.

I saw this last night and considered asking you to be my life coach.

But instead I ended up reading about dirtbag medievalism. I’m not sure if I’m getting it but I think A Knight’s Tale with Heath Ledger is and Lauren Groff’s Matrix isn’t.

Let’s just all have a collective cringe for thinking the bookseller thought we were cool for buying Nietzsche and then move forward with reading anything we want.

I’m enjoying reading a lot more now that I read what interests me instead of ticking off top 100 lists.

It’s so lovely. I can open the app and read something interesting or get a nice book recommendation and then log off without any sense of dread, anger or despair. Feels nice.

When you wanted to study English but your parents forced you into Medicine. At least they seem to have made the best of it.