iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Oh yeah that absolutely works.

Or tell us so we know how much weight to give what you're about to say -_- when you say an author has a new book out -_- that definitely exists -_-

120

Which is, like, half the Circus novels!

This is SO GOOD. Kinda the Circus in Bas-Lag, to give you some idea of what it is; but also a great, smart, heart-filled romp of a novel, but also very much gutting in a way a romp isn't. It is so much and so good.

1112

(It is also possible I'll turn around and reread it again in, like, a few days to try to grapple with it a bit better. And also to try to review it properly...)

000

It is not what I expected at all - it's much quieter and much less a horror novella than most of their work (arguably, it's lit fic aside from the very start). And oh my is it... recognisable in difficult ways. I'm gonna struggle with this one, I think.

100

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've just read the new @casskhaw.bsky.social, Find Me Where It Ends, and whoof. It gets to sit next to Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce as "books I will almost certainly read exactly once, despite their brilliance". And I say this as someone who has reread a lot of Cassandra's work a lot.

100

We have a remainders section at work. I wasn't allowed to use this poem as a header for it.

020

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is why I think it's great for hedge fund management and running a Fortune 500 company

072

Reposted by D Franklin

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

*raises voice very slightly* TODAY SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY FOR PEOPLE TO READ THIS BLOG POST, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

621655

Reposted by D Franklin

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

155164425547

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One day I'll manage to get her to do a bookshop event in Glasgow... one day...

020

Reposted by D Franklin

jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions

17431

Reposted by D Franklin

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.

2407109

Reposted by D Franklin

Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all.

421380160

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Massively so, it is *brilliant*. Like, no one is surprised you're great, but this feels next level.

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wildly reductive description, perhaps, but @premeemohamed.com's Wickhills is a the Circus in Bas-Lag, and absolutely incredible. A really amazing achievement and a stunning novel.

1142

D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People can conceive of it. We just also think it's fundamentally an amoral, ahistorical take that treats actions as divorced from intent or consequence, in a way that is both profoundly shallow and unserious.

0841

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, Le Carré, obviously and iconically.

120

Reposted by D Franklin

Louise Erdrich is so good, it’s easy to take for granted how good she is. By which I mean great, of course.

The cover of Louise Erdrich’s book of stories, Python’s Kids. The cover shows the book’s title and the author’s name in green ink. A gold and blue python-like design flows over a black background.

A small gnome figurine sits on a desktop, reading a book of its own.

0264

Reposted by D Franklin

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

eugenics, all just eugenics

0225

Today I do not want to be at work doing the job I enjoy of selling books, I want to be at home reading more Wickhills because @premeemohamed.com has written *even by her standards* an amazing novel. Sadly, capitalism. 😂

2302

Community solidarity rules though bsky.app/profile/mxth...