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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love cdramas they're so extra

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I loved this book! Review coming soon for Ancillary Review of Books

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hello, Just started Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, prequel to Hunger Games I haven't revisited that series in a while so I'm interested to see how it holds up My 13 year old niece loves it so that's an endorsement!

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The setting is also clever and dark, and it's probably the first SFF book I've read to address the COVID pandemic head on I could have done with the ending having a bit more time to shake out, but it did all come together

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The exam geas means they can't talk to others about it. So they have to solve it together as well as getting through exam week It's very tightly plotted, with all of these at the same time: - the murder mystery - a medical mystery - each of their five stories - politics - the group dynamics

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also shout out to Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske It's a magic medical school's final exam week, and you get randomly put into groups of five, the whole group passes or fails together Except this group finds the body of one of their classmates - suicide, accident, or murder - in the exam room

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no sorry! I've just started The Wolf and His King by Finn Longmann, which will be the second medieval/early modern gay werewolf book this year (after The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan, fun but flawed)

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith Like a KJ Charles book without the sex, if you can imagine that, the same historical texture and drive for justice

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You are correct, also I'd worry about taking my cats with me

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I reviewed it for Ancillary Review of Books and really enjoyed it!

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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ancillary Review is looking for more editors! Message me if you're interested in copy-editing, dev editing, or graphics creation for a Hugo finalist magazine of spec fic criticism! It's volunteer-based and fits with your schedule <3

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Westie @westie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

big win for vaginas today

New Canonicals

The following concepts have been made new canonical tags:

Authority Kink
Characters Haunting the Narrative
Doomed by the Narrative
Kissing Scars
Liminal Spaces
Medium Burn
Non-Consensual Fingering
Wound Fingering
Overpowered Characters
Platonic Fluff
Power Couples
Toxic Yaoi
Toxic Yuri
Vaginas

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And my newest review for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org This is a great book, you should read it

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello! I've just started an ARC of The Queen's Witch by Nancy Kress. A rural cunning woman has just started a quest which will take her to cross paths with Anne Boleyn Her work I know the best is the Hugo and Nebula winning Beggars In Spain, from 1983, so I'm interested to see her fantasy writing

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Disappointed I'm not a Christian, not living the Christian housewife dream Impressed with the personal and professional success, the house full of books and cats and art, the number of friends and social life, and the volunteering Basically I have everything she thought she wasn't allowed to want

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I got one like that I panicked, but it turned out I was meant to open the capsule and mix the powder into food

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And my second review for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org is up! Really enjoying the process of writing and the editing conversations

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hello! I'm reading Song Of The Six Realms by Judy L Lin, which is a romantic fantasy in xianxia style Xue was indentured as a child to train as a musician. But she receives an offer from a patron which is too good to be true, to buy out her contract after a year at his remote estate

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have one of those too So pretty but nothing between the ears

Fluffy black and white cat lounging on a purple cushion

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Amazing news, loving forward to reading it!

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I already had it, but I moved it up the TBR It is a very good and interesting book, but I have to disagree in that it isn't about vampires Incubus or succubus would be closer I think

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hello! Die For Me by Shirlene Obuobi We know it's a vampire story, but at half way through the protag doesn't. She's a successful surgeon with no patience for mind games, surprised to find herself falling for a (seemingly) younger man. But she's very tired and having weird dreams. Intriguing

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am the chief book tempter in my family!

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also you may want to see what my father wanted for his birthday, along with a litter picking kit Apparently this is an old people trend now, and he's enjoying it

Florescent yellow tabard marked "Great Uncle Bulgaria" and "Be More Womble"

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hello! Currently about 2/3 through Daggerbound by T Kingfisher, an m/m fantasy romance set in her world of the White Rat Not earth shattering but lots of fun and some entertaining characters, one of which is really original Enjoying the ride

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some of the ones I like with this have WWX as a girl, and therefore not a threat (not competition to Jiang Cheng as sect heir, nor to Yanli the feminine daughter, but actually a warrior woman like Madam Yu)

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also shout out to the other book I read this week, The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan Not perfect but entertaining, a braided narrative of chasing The Beast in pre revolutionary France

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hello! Currently reading an ARC of The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo. Set in 19th century New York where a mixed race adventuress is bribed to stand in for a white debutante, with a white face literally sewn on top of her own. She has to join their deadly games to win the prize Very creepy and gripping

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hello! A Study in Sparkling by Jodi McAlister, an intelligent and lovely romance. I love that she's always writing adults (not YA/NA) and her characters always respect each other and meet as equals I needed it as a palate cleanser as apparently I am way too much of a wimp to read a Cassandra Khaw

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Interesting how they're more mainstream 'genre' SF earlier and more literary now I adore Bold as Love and Children of Time in particular which makes it hard to choose a decade

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Morning! City of All Seasons by Oliver Langmead & Aliya Whiteley, in which half the population of Fairharbour are stuck in eternal winter, and a parallel city is stuck in eternal summer. But two cousins connect across the universes This is for Fantasy Book Club www.meetup.com/london-fanta...

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Fantasy Book Club - City of All Seasons by Oliver Langmead & Aliya Whiteley, Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Come and join us to talk about this fascinating book! **A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds – the resplendent and verdant summe

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thread for International #Cat Day, cats were a favourite of Chinese scholars and artists through history, here's some of the most famous painters of 狸奴 línú, as they were affectionately known. 刘奎龄 Liu Kuiling, grandmaster of modern art, expert in painting animals, especially fur and feathers. 1/

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1. I am feel uncomfortable if it's not about me 2. Torment Nexus 3. Dril candles 4. Miette

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It does go to some dark places but I think it was well written Depends on your tastes I guess

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And my second reply today as I've started a new book: On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish I've heard a lot about this one! It starts on day #121 of the time loop

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Kate @katepreach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've just finished it now, lots to say about parents, children, domestic violence, cycles of violence, and the human mind

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