It has been well over a year since I returned to blogging at Earl Grey Editing. In that time, I haven’t once written about readathons. There are a variety of reasons for this, one of which is some ongoing health challenges; it takes more spoons than I currently have to track which readathons are on […]
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February was the month of short: two short story collections, a book of short poems and a couple of novellas. Perhaps that’s fitting for a short month. My reading has continued to be slower this year than it used to be. I’m doing my best to roll with it, but it trips up my planning […]
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This week, I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of The Art of Broken Things by Joanne Anderton. It’s a new collection of short stories by one of Australia’s most talented writers of dark speculative fiction.
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Brewing Community is a series of guest posts in which readers, writers, artists and fans are invited to share their experiences of community. Whether online or in person, these groups bring a great deal of support and sometimes stress to their members. The aim of Brewing Community is to share the joy and find ways […]
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February is the month of Valentine’s Day, so I usually like to review some romance novels. But sometimes what I really want is an action-packed space adventure with a grudging friendship at its heart. Rig lives on the fringes of a society carved up by three human factions. Once, she was a brilliant inventor for […]
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My Mt TBR skyrocketed this month, as I got sucked into Kobo’s e-book subscription service. The plan is to stay with it for a couple of months to work through the things I’m interested in reading and then let it go… but we’ll see how that works out. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 […]
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The Rook by Daniel O’Malley had been languishing on my Mt TBR for some time when the TV series was released. I watched the first season, or maybe part of the first season, before eventually wandering off to shinier shows. More recently, I dusted off the book because it fit a prompt for last year’s […]
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Brewing Community is a series of guest posts in which readers, writers, artists and fans are invited to share their experiences of community. Whether online or in person, these groups bring a great deal of support and sometimes stress to their members. The aim of Brewing Community is to share the joy and find ways […]
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This week I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat. It’s a story that brings some shades of grey to the traditional battle between light and dark, walking a fine line between paying homage to classic works of fantasy and generic predictability.
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Happy New Year! I hope those of you celebrating had wonderful holidays. With another year’s reading wrapped up, I find myself pondering the changes to my annual reading totals over time. 2021 was my sixteenth year of gathering data. Prior to 2015 (which was my first full year of running the Earl Grey Editing blog), […]
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