Togetherness that’s on the side of suffocating, history that won’t stay put or past, and nature that doesn’t just exist, benignly, but watches and waits….Folk horror deals in dissonance, drea…

This month has been so full I've already misremembered most of the highlights as having happened earlier in the year! I started the month on a mini-holiday on the Fife coast, before diving into the Inverness Film Festival (reviews coming soon) and finally settling into SF reads for ScifiMonth. I also started new meds to try and settle my migraines back down, so here's hoping that makes 2026 manageable in spite of what will be an exciting but relentless year at work.

Teaser The Arcology is a utopian state, based not in the physical world, but in information space. But when the Arcology disappears, it falls to a few scattered survivors in the physical world to s…

It is the finale of our ScifiMonth read-along of this modern classic. Fair to say we have relished the read and the discussions, as it was an almost unanimous YAY when the question was asked about continuing the trilogy in the new year. Consequently this isn't the last week of the Radch read-along - just the last for now...

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Today is the tenth anniversary of me becoming a book blogger and launching There's Always Room For One More. TEN YEARS. There's a lot of Grosse Point Blank vibes today, without the assassinations. I copied across a lot of older reviews from LiveJournal and LibraryThing, but this is the big day for this blog. I'm surprised and delighted and proud to still be here, however inconsistently, and hugely grateful to my regular readers and bookfriends who have made this such a rewarding hobby.

We got a big plot reveal and a devastating development at the start of this week, which puts Breq's actions in clear context. With Seivarden stepping out of her sulk to start developing as a character, there's lots building up as we approach next week's climax. Read on for discussion, expect spoilers!

We promised a casual ScifiMonth this year, but that doesn't mean we're not monitoring comms and standing by to boost the signal. Lisa and I will be doing 2 logs this month: today, we're revisiting the posts from the first two weeks and we'll be back at the end of the month with a final round up.

Week two saw me go from half a chapter at bedtime to mainlining chapters to find out what happened (I've zoomed halfway through week three's chapters now) and realising I was going to need to write notes to keep track of what thing happened on what planet. Dammit, when did I stop just absorbing that sort of detail like oxygen?

This year, we're returning to Ann Leckie's much-awarded debut for our ScifiMonth read-along. The Justice of Toren is a Radchaai troop carrier, bringing her cargo of ancillaries - once-human soldiers, now mere bodies slaved to her consciousness - to its new conquests. Trouble is stirring at the empire's edges that will one day lead to sole ancillary leaving the Radch in search of a weapon that can kill its millennia-long leader Anaander Mianaai.