@stillmorebooks.bsky.social
I’m excited to be the first person (I think) to submit a written review to Amazon of @jacobrollinson.bsky.social’s remarkable and weird new novel The Truth of Carcosa. He may think I totally misunderstood his novel, but it will undoubtedly be on my list of favorite 2026 reads. Highly recommended!
January 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I’m excited to be the first person (I think) to submit a written review to Amazon of @jacobrollinson.bsky.social’s remarkable and weird new novel The Truth of Carcosa. He may think I totally misunderstood his novel, but it will undoubtedly be on my list of favorite 2026 reads. Highly recommended!
The Macabre by @kosokojackson.bsky.social is outstanding. A modern fantasy about a search for cursed paintings, secret magical organizations, and family secrets. But it also is about redemption, grief, and courage. Sacrifice, the book deftly argues, is the source of both magic and forgiveness.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Macabre by @kosokojackson.bsky.social is outstanding. A modern fantasy about a search for cursed paintings, secret magical organizations, and family secrets. But it also is about redemption, grief, and courage. Sacrifice, the book deftly argues, is the source of both magic and forgiveness.
Finished @johnchrostek.com's Feast of the Pale Leviathan. What a complete cosmic horror trip of a book. Starts with the protagonist drifting out to sea, asleep on a water park inner tube, and then the surreal horror kicks in. The book manages to be meditative and surreal. Highly recommended.
September 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Finished @johnchrostek.com's Feast of the Pale Leviathan. What a complete cosmic horror trip of a book. Starts with the protagonist drifting out to sea, asleep on a water park inner tube, and then the surreal horror kicks in. The book manages to be meditative and surreal. Highly recommended.
Does anyone know whether @tananarivedue.bsky.social will sign her McSweeny's author card if you send it to her with a stamped return envelope? I thought The Reformatory was one of the best books I've read this year, and I'd love to have a signed copy of her McSweeny's card.
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Does anyone know whether @tananarivedue.bsky.social will sign her McSweeny's author card if you send it to her with a stamped return envelope? I thought The Reformatory was one of the best books I've read this year, and I'd love to have a signed copy of her McSweeny's card.
I'm so happy to support the important work of The Pixel Project! Their Read for Pictures Goodies are, as always, amazing. @premeemohamed.com, I'm hoping the ink will dazzle me with its sparkliness!
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm so happy to support the important work of The Pixel Project! Their Read for Pictures Goodies are, as always, amazing. @premeemohamed.com, I'm hoping the ink will dazzle me with its sparkliness!
I've read a lot of fantasy, but I think The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in The Wind in the Willows may be the finest, most revelatory fantasy short story I have ever read. It is beautiful and profoundly moving. If you haven't read it, please take the time to do so.
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I've read a lot of fantasy, but I think The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in The Wind in the Willows may be the finest, most revelatory fantasy short story I have ever read. It is beautiful and profoundly moving. If you haven't read it, please take the time to do so.
Wall of Fantasy
June 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Wall of Fantasy
From What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), by Budd Schulberg: "You're physically incapable of having friends," I said. "All you can ever have are enemies and stooges."
June 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
From What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), by Budd Schulberg: "You're physically incapable of having friends," I said. "All you can ever have are enemies and stooges."
The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is a terrible and beautiful book about horror, trauma, and the transcendent power of friendship and love. In a time of fragments and shards it is a reminder that power lies in coming together, not in pulling apart. I’m exhausted and exhilarated.
June 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is a terrible and beautiful book about horror, trauma, and the transcendent power of friendship and love. In a time of fragments and shards it is a reminder that power lies in coming together, not in pulling apart. I’m exhausted and exhilarated.
@caitlinstarling.com's The Starving Saints is an evocative, weird, and moving book about a siege, hope, faith, hunger, strong women, ancient evil, and the paradoxical nature of bargains and sacrifices. It is about false comfort and genuine horror. Ineffable, indescribable, and thought-provoking.
June 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@caitlinstarling.com's The Starving Saints is an evocative, weird, and moving book about a siege, hope, faith, hunger, strong women, ancient evil, and the paradoxical nature of bargains and sacrifices. It is about false comfort and genuine horror. Ineffable, indescribable, and thought-provoking.
@longlukearnold.bsky.social's Whisper in the Wind is another wonderful Fetch Phillips novel. What happens when the magic goes away? What to make of and how to live in a diminished world? And what if you caused that diminution? These are entertaining books, but the melancholic rumination hangs...
May 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@longlukearnold.bsky.social's Whisper in the Wind is another wonderful Fetch Phillips novel. What happens when the magic goes away? What to make of and how to live in a diminished world? And what if you caused that diminution? These are entertaining books, but the melancholic rumination hangs...
I need to clear the decks to prepare for the new @longlukearnold.bsky.social book coming out this week. The Fletch Phillips novels are among my favorites right now--a terrific private eye protagonist, fascinating fantasy world building, and characters you care about. Still hoping for hardcovers!
April 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I need to clear the decks to prepare for the new @longlukearnold.bsky.social book coming out this week. The Fletch Phillips novels are among my favorites right now--a terrific private eye protagonist, fascinating fantasy world building, and characters you care about. Still hoping for hardcovers!
Frederick Buechner's short novel, Godric (1980), is a moving mediation on the inner and outer life of a medieval saint. It is spare, lyrical, and incredibly funny. It is hard to write good fiction that also is a serious consideration of the nature of faith, but Buchner pulls it off.
March 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Frederick Buechner's short novel, Godric (1980), is a moving mediation on the inner and outer life of a medieval saint. It is spare, lyrical, and incredibly funny. It is hard to write good fiction that also is a serious consideration of the nature of faith, but Buchner pulls it off.
Finally read @johnlangan.bsky.social's remarkable novel The Fisherman. It's a fishing horror novel, but you can also glimpse Melville, Borges, and Lovecraft. It a profoundly human otherworldly horror novel. Sad, wise, elegiac, and funny. A masterclass in authorial control of narrative voice.
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally read @johnlangan.bsky.social's remarkable novel The Fisherman. It's a fishing horror novel, but you can also glimpse Melville, Borges, and Lovecraft. It a profoundly human otherworldly horror novel. Sad, wise, elegiac, and funny. A masterclass in authorial control of narrative voice.
I’m really not complaining, but I could really do with a new @nicholaseames.bsky.social book right about now. Kings of the Wyld is a book of ferocious humor, memorable characters, and a real, beating heart (that isn’t stabbed by a rusty blade). A book I still get friends as a gift and re-read.
February 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I’m really not complaining, but I could really do with a new @nicholaseames.bsky.social book right about now. Kings of the Wyld is a book of ferocious humor, memorable characters, and a real, beating heart (that isn’t stabbed by a rusty blade). A book I still get friends as a gift and re-read.
Dan Kois's Hampton Heights was in the "Horror" section, but doesn't really belong there. A moving, wistful coming of age story set in the Milwaukee suburbs. It is intensely grounded in a place and yet simultaneously universal. Fairy tale horrors, forged friendships, and growing up. Great book.
February 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Dan Kois's Hampton Heights was in the "Horror" section, but doesn't really belong there. A moving, wistful coming of age story set in the Milwaukee suburbs. It is intensely grounded in a place and yet simultaneously universal. Fairy tale horrors, forged friendships, and growing up. Great book.
"You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
By uproars severed as a flight of fowl
Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body,
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,"
By uproars severed as a flight of fowl
Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body,
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,"
February 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
By uproars severed as a flight of fowl
Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body,
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,"
By uproars severed as a flight of fowl
Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body,
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,"
Submitted my first Hugo ballot. So happy to nominate some absolutely amazing writers.
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Submitted my first Hugo ballot. So happy to nominate some absolutely amazing writers.
Mordant, acerbic, bone dry, funny as heck, and very, very British, Muriel Spark's Memento Mori is a short but surprisingly intricate mediation on death and mortality. A book uniquely focused on a cohort of characters in the twilight of their respective lives. And then the phone rings...
February 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mordant, acerbic, bone dry, funny as heck, and very, very British, Muriel Spark's Memento Mori is a short but surprisingly intricate mediation on death and mortality. A book uniquely focused on a cohort of characters in the twilight of their respective lives. And then the phone rings...
"I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
e.e. cummings, you shall above all things be glad and young
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
e.e. cummings, you shall above all things be glad and young
February 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
e.e. cummings, you shall above all things be glad and young
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
e.e. cummings, you shall above all things be glad and young
Reading Lightfall, you realize Crocker has threaded the needle: he takes his narrative and characters seriously, without taking himself too seriously. He's enjoying telling you his story and he wants you to enjoy it all as well. Lots of questions left open for Book 2 @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reading Lightfall, you realize Crocker has threaded the needle: he takes his narrative and characters seriously, without taking himself too seriously. He's enjoying telling you his story and he wants you to enjoy it all as well. Lots of questions left open for Book 2 @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social
I love big, epic fantasy, but the best writing often is in the quiet spaces--the lacunas. In the sweeping wordscapes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, the last 50 pages of Memories of Ice, I would argue, deserve recognition as some of the finest and most moving passages in the genre.
February 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I love big, epic fantasy, but the best writing often is in the quiet spaces--the lacunas. In the sweeping wordscapes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, the last 50 pages of Memories of Ice, I would argue, deserve recognition as some of the finest and most moving passages in the genre.
Having a shelf of New Windmills and being color blind can be a challenge.
February 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Having a shelf of New Windmills and being color blind can be a challenge.
I'm half way through @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social's Lightfall and really enjoying it. Vampires, wizards, and werewolves (oh my!). The world building is first rate and you enjoy spending time with the primary characters. I worry about starting an unfinished trilogy, but this is well worth the risk.
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm half way through @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social's Lightfall and really enjoying it. Vampires, wizards, and werewolves (oh my!). The world building is first rate and you enjoy spending time with the primary characters. I worry about starting an unfinished trilogy, but this is well worth the risk.
Am I the only person who read Steve Cockayne’s Legends of the Land fantasy trilogy? Unusual, odd, mysterious, elliptic, elegiac, and elusive. If you can track down the books (only available in paperback), it is worth it.
January 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Am I the only person who read Steve Cockayne’s Legends of the Land fantasy trilogy? Unusual, odd, mysterious, elliptic, elegiac, and elusive. If you can track down the books (only available in paperback), it is worth it.