The knee injury I wrote about last month turned out to be rather worse than I (or my GP) had anticipated. I hadn't just torn cartilage, ...

 ...To announce, with some regret, that this blog will be on a bit of a hiatus for a period yet to be determined. Somehow, in the midst of a...

The second book I mentioned in my previous post about words is   Ring Shout , the latest from P. Djèlí Clark. This book was actually strang...

The ongoing lockdown and overall pandemic plague depression mean I'm still not doing any writing.* I am managing to keep myself busy, th...

As if I hadn't already droned on at great length on this subject... Somebody asked me how much of my 2020 reading was science fiction or...

One of this week's books-to-be-read was Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire  (winner of the 2020 Best Novel Hugo). It reminded m...

Was having a long (and most interesting) chat the other day with a friend who happens to be an internationally respected book collector and ...

Okay, the title of the post bears only the most tangential relationship to the subject matter. I just like the quote . And the post is  abou...