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Winding Up the Week #464
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This week I seek out books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Shakespeare Week and the birth of Welsh poet R. S. Thomas), look forward to Wyrd & Wonder ’26, revisit past posts deserving rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet. #bookstodon #ShakespeareWeek #WyrdAndWonder #Booklovers #AmReading
Winding Up the Week #464

This week I seek out books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Shakespeare Week and…

Book Jotter

Woohoo, Wordpress got a Bluesky plug-in! Better late than never, I revisit my #WyrdAndWonder piratical reads: The Vengeance (Emma Newman) and The Lies We Tell Ourselves (LK Kitney)

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Double review: damned pirates

Wyrd & Wonder got away from me thanks to some unforecast life complications, so today I’m playing catch up with all vibes reviews of two piratical fantasies that I read in May. The Vengean…

I cannot get a transphobic person to STOP commenting on my Wordpress. There is no way to ban someone, only to send their comments straight to the bin.

I think I may need to pull out of doing events like #WyrdAndWonder and possibly linkups too, because they join that kind of thing...

My review of 'The Winchester Codex' by Frances Spurrier, for #WyrdAndWonder.
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Promises to keep: #WyrdAndWonder

© C A Lovegrove. The Winchester Codex by Frances Spurrier, illustrated by Charlie Spurrier. Matador Books / Troubadour Publishing, 2024. ‘But I have promises to keep,   And miles to…

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Tall men in tall ships, three times three - or well, just the tall ships today and ten of them for a #WyrdAndWonder challenge x #TopTenTuesday crossover

http://onemore.org/2025/05/20/tall-ships/

Tall ships

I’m dedicating the next four Tuesdays to the Wyrd & Wonder challenge to celebrate fantasy cover art. Because Top Ten Tuesday is a hard habit to break, I’ll aim to share ten each week. Today’s W…

I got lost at sea, swept away by a badly timed work trip to Croatia. Better late than never - time for the second half of the #WyrdAndWonder Quest Log for the first 10 days of May… come find the reviews, read-along posts and random treasure the crew have shared so far

http://onemore.org/2025/05/14/quest-log-the-first-2/

Quest Log the First

As our crew sail in search of fantastical adventures, co-captain Lisa and I pick up the port reports to compile weekly logs of the Wyrd & Wonder voyages. Or in other words, read on for the firs…

It’s Sunday, when your #WyrdAndWonder captains consider our Fantastic Fives. This week’s theme is shipwrecks, and I’m considering my favourite sea monsters as a fabulous trope, and regular cause of shipwrecks to boot…

http://onemore.org/2025/05/11/fantastic-fives-shipwreck/

Fantastic Fives: Shipwreck

Each Sunday, your Wyrd & Wonder hosts settle in with a weekly topic to share some Fantastic Fives. This week, co-captain Annemieke has invited us to share nautical tropes we love to see; I’m go…

On today’s cruise through the bite-size islands of #WyrdAndWonder I’ll be visiting Lorraine Wilson’s haunting The Last To Drown and Joanne Harris’s The Blue Salt Road, a reimagining of selkie lore

http://onemore.org/2025/05/09/bite-sized-islands-novellas/

Bite-sized islands: novellas

Tomorrow’s Wyrd & Wonder challenge prompt is bite-size islands, and I’m getting in a day early to share reviews of two novellas I’ve read recently and recommend a bunch more that I’ve enjoyed i…

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Under lock and key: a review of Minor Arcana (1996) by Diana Wynne Jones, including novella 'The True State of Affairs'.
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Under lock and key: #WyrdAndWonder

© C A Lovegrove. Minor Arcana by Diana Wynne Jones. Vista, 1998 (1996). I am still not sure how I came to be locked up here, but things are coming clearer. I shall find out in the end. — ‘The…

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