Month: September 2025

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #30 (Help Me Choose! Wyrd & Wonder Edition)

Posted 21 September 2025 in can't believe haven't read /5 Comments

For this feature, I curate a small list of books that make me think, “I can’t believe I haven’t read that”. Then, you vote on which book I should read next. I hope that I’ll be able to ‘catch up’ on certain books that I ‘should’ have read ages ago and finally be able to discuss those books with my fellow book lovers.

#29’s Result – A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout

I cannot tell you how many times I have checked this book out from the library, sat down to read it, read the jacket copy and flipped through a few pages, then set it back down and gone to do something else. I have given it many chances over the years. Now at last I have removed it from my TBR (where it was added almost exactly 12 years ago). Time to move on!

#30’s Selection – Popular Fantasy

This is another post I planned for Wyrd & Wonder back in May. So the theme for the next edition of “I Can’t Believe” is popular fantasy. (I considered narrowing that to ‘nautical fantasy’, but that felt too limiting.) To choose titles, I sorted my to-read-fantasy Goodreads tag by date added, ascending and selected the first four titles that I’ve seen frequently mentioned around the blogosphere. Hopefully I have better success with one of these! I’ve been feeling disenchanted with most of my reading choices lately. A good fantasy might be what’s needed to get me back into it.

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All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter [Fantasy Review]

14 September 2025 / brief reviews / 4 Comments
All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter [Fantasy Review]

All the Murmuring Bones by A.G Slatter Source: paperback/libraryPublished: Mar 2021Publisher: Titan BooksLength: 366 pages Series: Sourdough universeGenre: FantasyTarget Age: Adult What’s your favourite scifi/fantasy/spec fic novel set at sea?

July and August 2025 Month In Review

5 September 2025 / month in review / 10 Comments
July and August 2025 Month In Review

Hello! It’s September! How are we feeling about that? I am feeling pretty good about it. I did a lot of summer activities and now I am ready for autumn. Also I am moving next month. I bought a place nearby. 😎 Very excited to have a space where I can put up wallpaper and change light fixtures and who knows what else! So I’m trying to get some books […]

Making History by K.J. Parker [Fantasy Review]

2 September 2025 / review / 1 Comment
Making History by K.J. Parker [Fantasy Review]

Making History by K.J. ParkerSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 2 Sept 2025Publisher: Tordotcom (Macmillan) Length: 128 pagesGenre: Historical specficTarget Age: Adult (suitable for +15) Summary 💬 History isn’t truth…it’s propaganda. Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the thrumming masses of the unquestioning world they can begin to think themselves gods. It is extremely rare for this authority to be tested. But a challenge from an idiotic, power-hungry king—that’ll do it. Our […]