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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · 2h

4 of 5 stars to North Woods by Daniel Mason.

A beautiful, moving tapestry of a novel

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Helen's review of North Woods

4/5: An evocative, funny, and moving novel chronicling centuries of human and natural history centred on a house and its surrounding land in Massachusetts. From the 17th century to the present, and t...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11h

It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · 3d

4 of 5 stars to All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

Probably won't be re-reading this one, but it did make me want to re-read Jackdaw and Think of England

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Helen's review of All of Us Murderers

4/5: I know KJC can write the heck out of a second chance romance (Jackdaw is probably my favourite of hers) so I was excited to pick this book up. However, I was a bit disappointed. Four stars becau...

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 8d

First time Cat has made a wrong move all series #CelebrityTraitors

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · 8d

When, from the pov character's point of view, the LI's expression "goes blank" or they can't read their expression.

Ties into my love of repressed characters in romance

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Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social · 25d

Register free now for next Sunday's virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.

We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 25d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 27d

This Sunday (October 5) at 12 noon EST/ 5pm UK time, I'm talking with @alexandravasti.bsky.social and @felicityniven.bsky.social about all things Gothic Romance!

Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...

Flyer for Gothic Romance Extravaganza with KJ Charles, Alexandra Vasti and Felicity Niven running the conversation. With images of Ladies in Hating by Alexandra and All Of Us Murderers by KJ.

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Carly / Sapphic Swoon @sapphicswoon.bsky.social · Sep 17

The Romance Reading Group is back with our first session of the new academic year! Join us from 6-7pm (BST) on Monday 29th September to (finally!) discuss Laura Steven’s queer reincarnation romance, Our Infinite Fates. We can’t wait to see you! 💕📚

The book cover for Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven. The cover features a male and female figure embracing against a star-filled night sky, with colours of red peach, orange and pink exploding above them. The book’s title is in cursive black font at the top of the cover, and the author’s name is in bold yellow font at the bottom.

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · Aug 21

3 of 5 stars to Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession

There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.

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Helen's review of Leonard and Hungry Paul

3/5: Gently humourous book about kind, quiet people living ordinary lives. I wasn't particularly engaged (hence 3 stars) and the whimsy was a bit much for me at times, but I would recommend it to anyo...

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · Aug 3

I finished a book! Compelling but brutal read.

4 of 5 stars to There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Helen's review of There There

4/5: Book club pick that I admired, but found tough to read. It's about Native people in an urban setting (Oakland, California), identity, family, generational trauma, and what it's like to live in a ...

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · Jul 13

I'm in my biggest reading slump in ages, but I did finish a very good nonfiction book about the history of gender nonconformity.

4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda…

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ruck seeing Melanthe for the first time in For My Lady’s Heart is pretty memorable.

Also Zylar the alien meeting Beyrl in Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 10

Oh yay, they announced it!!

SeaWitch1031 🎃👻🧙 @seawitch1031.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ma'am. I am so happy right now! Congratulations! Now can we get H. Jon Benjamin for ART?

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‘Murderbot’ Starring Alexander Skarsgård Gets Season 2 Renewal at Apple TV+

The series created and showrun by Oscar nominees Chris and Paul Weitz airs its Season 1 finale on Friday with star Alexander Skarsgård.

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · Jun 26

A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.

Book cover: text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES, IONA DATT SHARMA, on illustration of grim South Asian woman with greying hair, orange hair scarf and shoulder tattoo of a violet, holding a floating Earth

Blurb text: It is not a sin, to love a wild thing…

A witch falls out of the sky; a dragon joins the resistance; a smuggler of magical trifles loves a girl she can’t have. A spaceship lights up for Diwali; an arch in the woods leads to wonders; and in a small community in lunar orbit, for no reason understandable by normal people, romance has been abolished.

Here are nine more stories, of hope and passion, grief and bureaucracy, and how you can’t go home again but it doesn’t mean you’ll never be found.

(In a white room, full of ghosts, a woman cries and will never be found.)

You Are Here is a follow-up to the author’s first collection of short fiction, Not For Use In Navigation (2019). This new volume collects eight more stories, plus an exclusive previously unpublished novella, Wish You Were Here. Published 1 January 2025.

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · Jun 2

My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · May 29

Might be time to issue my yearly reminder of a possibly more useful test than the Bechel test:

1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?

Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · May 28

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · May 22

sometimes cinema is all about letting us know who is the most beautiful woman in the world. and this month it's hayley atwell.

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · May 8

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Owls in Towels @owlsintowels.org · May 2

Bath time for ruru at BirdCare Aotearoa #owlsintowels
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Closeup of a Ruru Morepork wrapped in a beige towel, with yellow eyes so wide they're practically bulging from their sockets. The owl's face feathers are clotted with sticky residue from the seeds of a Parapara tree, giving this poor owl a look that is extra dishevelled.

This is one of a pair of owls that were admitted to the clinic, both for Papapara treatment (aka the "birdcatcher" tree). According to BCA, "after carefully removing all of the seed pods, our dedicated team has been working tirelessly to restore their feathers to their former glory—a delicate process that takes time and patience.
This includes specialised baths designed to help restore the waterproofing properties of their feathers—an essential step for any bird returning to the wild. It won’t be long now until this duo is ready to soar free once again."

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Mar 27

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Seventeenth century river bridge portal.

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Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · May 1

My April reads. In a bit of a slump. Although I didn't record my re-reads of the first 4 Murderbot novellas because I read via audio while doing other things so I felt like it didn't count (I know!)

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover. Two stars
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Three stars
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda. Three stars.
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre. Three stars.

Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social · Apr 15

This was so weird, but once I accepted it was a dark fairytale, I had a much better time.

3 of 5 stars to Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda

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Helen's review of Death in Spring

3/5: A dark, twisted fairytale (and perhaps an allegory about the death of empathy under facism??). Took me a while to get into because it's so weird, and there's a distinct lack of emotion from the n...

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · Apr 9

HELLO 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Apr 9

Storm has acquired the book, film and television rights to Fall Into You and two other queer romantic comedy novels from fan fiction writer Dylan Morrison. 👇 #BookSky

Storm Publishing makes three-book deal with fan-fiction writer Dylan Morrison

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The Girl With the Green Ribbon (aka Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · Apr 7

"The show-within-a-show stars John Cho, Jack McBrayer, Clark Gregg, and DeWanda Wise, sporting outrageous hairstyles and costumes that make the stylings of A Flock of Seagulls look like business casual." oh my God they're doing Sanctuary Moon, say thank you Apple TV+

‘Murderbot’ Would Hate You—But That’s Why You’ll Love It

A first look at Alexander Skarsgård’s sci-fi comedy series from ‘About a Boy’ filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz.

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