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Jenny Hamilton

@readingtheend.bsky.social

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she/her. southern geek feminist and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 42m

I have a new column up at ARB, looking at The Place of Shells and honestly this was one of my favourite reads so far this year. Absolute perfection of atmosphere and thematic journey. Hard to explain; great to experience.

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 55m

Pilgrims of Time, Pilgrims of Memory: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at boundaries of life, death, format, and language in and around Mai Ishizawa's THE PLACE OF SHELLS, translated by Polly Barton (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social/@ndbooks.bsky.social)

Small Press Dispatch: Pilgrims of Time, Pilgrims of Memory

Roseanna Pendlebury The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa, translated by Polly Barton, is about not one, but several journeys. Or, no perhaps not even that. It is about travel, in all of the senses—t…

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 10m

oh back in the day we called the bad immortals "Kimmies" because all their names began with K.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 35m

oh yeah, I can see that. INTERESTING, I am going to think about this some more.

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 36m

yeah, wow, I can't believe how wrong I was.

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 39m

tell me all his good qualities

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 39m

FINDING THE FOURTH, and this has really shaken me: this whole time, I thought "Highlander" was the thing there could only be one of. like, I thought the immortals were CALLED Highlanders. nope!! Duncan is the Highlander, in that he was born in the Scottish Highlands. my world is rocked.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 44m

awwww that is really sweet.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 44m

FINDING THE THIRD: our two main guys are both immortal. Methos, who is the world's oldest man, and Duncan, who is a mere 400 years old

me: why aren't they trying to kill each other
friend: raw sexual chemistry

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 45m

can we just take a moment that I said "you know, the other one" and my friend had "The Sentinel" all ready to go? what a pal. what a bro. friendship is magic.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 46m

FINDING THE SECOND: the TV show was super gay.

friend: so these immortals. living among us.
me: with their dearest closest homosocial friends
friend: correct
me: oh, actually?
friend: yep.
me: it's one of those like Due South and uh
me: uh
me: uh
me: help. the other one.
friend: The Sentinel. Yes.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 48m

FINDING THE FIRST: There are all these immortals. A lot of them believe that only one immortal can ultimately survive and will thereby win The Game, so they go around killing other immortals and absorbing their, I guess, life force? Hence "there can be only one."

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 50m

I am forcing my friend, whose mom was in Highlander fandom and wrote Highlander fanfic back in the day, to explain Highlander to me. I will be updating this thread with my findings.

IGN @ign.com · Sep 14

Former Superman actor Henry Cavill was injured while training for the Highlander reboot, delaying the film.

Superman Star Henry Cavill Injured While Training for Highlander, Delaying Production Into 2026

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 52m

ooh say more about this, I am interested

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2h

hahahh Alex, honestly, I'm just so happy for the many years of your life you have spent without this very silly knowledge. sorry that era has come to an end.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2h

THE NOISE I MADE. everyone please get fuckin hyped, because Micaiah Johnson is a treasure, a queen, an icon of the genre, and this book sounds incroyable wow wow wow wow wow

Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 2h

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue.

Text below reads:

THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson
Imprint: Putnam
October 13, 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com
Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h

another excellent candidate!

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 4h

wahhhhhhh

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 22h

aw! that's a good idea, it's been ages since I watched that

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

part of me was also like "I sure hope all their fans can be normal about this"

a group of people are shaking hands and talking to each other .

Alt: the Brooklyn 99 crowd is doing a hands-in chant of "1, 2, 3, be appropriate!"

media.tenor.com

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

shit that is a GREAT point and I also just bought it on DVD

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Who doesn’t love a skinny, tattooed, 56-year-old alcoholic former coke addict with a bad knee and occasional erectile dysfunction? Ren Francis is clearly the ideal book boyfriend. Meet him in my alter ego's latest novella, NOBODY’S BARGAIN.

#romancelandia

Buy links: books2read.com/u/bxD0no

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Nobody's Bargain by Kali Decker

books2read.com

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

ahahaha right? I saw this news and was like "I bet some people are very excited about this but I have no idea what we're talking about"

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

right? like, where am I to go from here? I've been so happy with Agatha All Along, goddammit!

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

I have never seen or heard of Carnivale, please tell me more

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

you know, that is a very good idea. my friend loves Penny Dreadful and would be so excited if I watched it hahahahah

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