Currently reading #books #recommended

#nowplaying #recommended
Beastie Boys - Something's Got To Give
https://youtube.com/watch?v=teQqelBTw7g

A slightly less expensive take on the touch-less model, the Espresso Lite 15 makes a WFH screen a work-from-anywhere screen, too. https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2026/espresso-lite-15 #reviews #visual #australiantechnology #espresso #monitor #recommended #typec #wfh

Just started In the Woods, by Tana French, recommended by a friend in a #mystery reading group. First in a series. A detective in a Dublin murder squad gets a new case: a young girl’s been murdered. It happened where 2 friends of his had disappeared & never found 20 years before when he was a kid. Never solved, that case appears to him in flashbacks as he works on the new one. Are they connected?🤷🏽 We’ll see. Riveting. #recommended #bookstodon

Things I enjoyed in 2026 (Part 1)

Short Stories

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death” by Charlotte Stant (2025): On-point Shirley Jackson fanfic.

Novellas

The Carrying Capacity of Paradise by Deborah L. Davitt (2025): If you told me before reading that I would find the lead characters (an ex-cop and ex-hard-partying-trust-fund-celebrity) sympathetic before reading, I might have believed you. More surprising was finding the murder victim, by virtue of remaining in the background but with flaws fully centered, a touch more than a caricature of a billionaire with a God complex. But Davitt pulls it off. (Also, I love the idea of tigers playing in low gravity.)

The Drowned Heir by Jennifer R. Donohue (2022): The premise is straight-up horror: a society that downs excess offspring to offer a host body for more important dead. Donohue matter-of-factly embeds this in a place that feels real, inhabited by regular people with normal relationships; this isn’t played to up the horror ante, but grounds the story. There’s also an imprisoned sea monster, a secret child, and an inhuman lover to move the plot along and offer a sketch of the world beyond the narrator’s home village.

Media

28 Years Later (2025): That was a movie. On the one hand, I was pretty convinced by the small island community’s success. I was less keen when Army of the Dead broke out (or were they going for I Am Legend? Either way, thumbs down). Not too keen on some of the Jacksonesque decisions, like Temu Aragorn and the Dark Skinned Savage™. And it’s ironic that the original movie was pretty progressive, but this one was just a Madonna/Whore retread.

Wonder Man (2026): I mostly ignore MCU stuff by default nowadays, but I checked this one out because people said it was a fun, small-scale story. It is, I enjoyed it, and I loved that everyone involved was clearly having a fantastic time.

#recommended #recommended2025

I know people don’t normally like my talking videos but I felt like posting this anyway #fyp #recommended #trending #relatable #nightshift https://www.tiktok.com/@queenmariaan/video/7622734883818851597?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Not every charging stand is created equal. While they're all designed to charge, the Journey Summit brings a little more including a bedside light. https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2026/journey-summit-ultra-stand #accessories #powerbankschargers #reviews #australiantechnology #batterycharger #gadgetstands #journey #magnets #magsafe #qi #qi2 #recommended

Bonedread & Pendle

Pendle Bonedread here and I am your expert on all things Grimhold and beyond. Welcome back. Today, I’m going to take to to a small village just outside Grimhold Marketplace. Pendle is a small village about two miles from the marketplace, past Ubbin Falls on the coast of Howling Cove. When you first get to the village, it doesn’t look like much, but if you know where to go, like I do, you’re in for a treat. A little Pendle history… I used to do a bit of trade when Pendle used to […]

https://kathycyrwriter.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/bonedread-pendle/

I found an excellent account for #scifi / #fantasy fans for really short stories:
https://mstdn.social/@MicroSFF@mastodon.art #recommended #reading 👍🏻❤️