My review of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's debut novel, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored, is up on The Masters Review. A view into the uncanny valley of a fictional AI tech firm that's both funny and creepy.
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It was such a pleasure to read and write about @ilanaslightly.bsky.social's gorgeous novel, Beings, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. I was also delighted to see it's a finalist for a 2026 Lammy in speculative fiction! 📖📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, @daviddaviddavid.com on the @lambdaliterary.org nominated Beings by Ilana Masad, a novel that presents “an experience any queer reader can instinctually recognise: the fear of recognition alongside the need for it.”
The next feature from Tomm Moore/Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, WolfWalkers) is called Kindred Spirits. Inspired by the below facts, it tells the New York-based story of the friendship between a Choctaw boy & an Irish emigrant child whose family have fled the ravages of the famine
"Mom is a groupie, so when Dad has a gig, no matter how big or small, she forces us to go as a family."
Read "Prodigies," new flash fiction by Drue Denmon. buff.ly/OCjfpYv
My review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's captivating novel, Terry Dactyl, has just gone up at The Masters Review.
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There are loads of great recommendations in @strangehorizons.bsky.social's review of the books of 2025. I was excited to find other reviewers also noted @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and @griffski.bsky.social's Eat the Ones You Love.
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Our reviewers have chimed in with the highlights of their 2025! Catch up and find something new to enjoy in this week's issue!
#bookreviews #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #horror
Some great reads in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org’s notable books of 2025. Next to my pick of @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social’s Somewhere Past the End, I was delighted to see Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide and @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social’s Other Evolutions.
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I had so much fun reading and reviewing @pfracassi.bsky.social's new novel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. A fun, intelligent slasher that, amidst all the - well - slashing, is also surprisingly delicate. 📚📖🗡️
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Today at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, that @daviddaviddavid.com on Philip Fracassi's The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre.
Our senior copyeditor, @jampersand.bsky.social, declared the book one of their favourites of the year - find out why!
In between Bostonian tourist spots and drinking obligatory pints of Samuel Adams, I had a quick peek in the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social bookstores 📚
My theater going in NYC this trip was camp, queer, festive and absurd with Messy White Gays, Bat Boy, Queen of Versailles, Waiting for Godot and the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular! 🎭🏳️🌈🦇🎄
On this trip to New York, I just got one book at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social’s Mark Z. Danielewski event. But at nearly 1250 pages, I feel like this one will contain multitudes.
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“Wonderfully weird”! “Really fun to read”! “Watch out”! (Okay, that last one was pieced out from a larger context…)
Thanks to @daviddaviddavid.com at The Masters Review for this smart, generous look at Tell Me Yours: mastersreview.com/book-review-tell-me-yours-ill-tell-you-mine-by-kristina-ten/
Sixty Stories has been sitting on my bookshelf, unread and staring me down, for ages. I'll have to do something about that.
Over at The Masters Review, you can find my review of @kristinaten.bsky.social's weird and wonderful short story collection: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine 📚📖
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It’s starting off strong!
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday evening 🦌 🏳️⚧️
Easily one of my top audiobooks for this year! Nick Medina’s Sisters of the Lost Nation is brilliant!
A flash story by Nadia Born, about a woman who copes with her own impending death by 3D printing the world.
A flash story about the environmental effects of burning history, by Bernie Jean Schiebeling.
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Quick photo of my ever-growing free bookmark collection! It’s very possible that I spend more energy picking a bookmark for whatever I’m reading than I do picking an outfit for the day. 📚
While in Oklahoma City, I found Bookish bookstore-Caboose Coffee - a really charming used bookstore/coffee shop that hosts regular literary events and sells dangerously nice oatmeal cream pies!
On this trip to Oklahoma, I finally managed to make a stop at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. A great center with a traditional village, dance demonstrations, exhibits and films on Chickasaw history, a restaurant and (of course) a bookshop! 📚
