Given the quality of T. Kingfisher's other work that I've enjoyed, I'm 100% sure that this horror novel is amazing.
I'm also 100% sure that:
1. It is not for me (pure horror on this scale is way too much for me)
2. I should not (and will not) look up _any_ screwworm pictures
I wrote a rather cranky blog post about that author's guild survey that's been going around: rznicolet.com/2026/06/10/y...
TLDR, implying "nobody's buying books because libraries, and now authors are poor" is ridiculous, not least because there's a complete lack of longitudinal data.
#libraries
A recent #book for me: If Wishes Were Retail, by Auston Habershaw. Quick, clever, doesn't overstay its welcome. Loved the gnomes. (I have questions about the gnomes.) Has the expected warm fuzzy ending, though...
#amreading #fantasy #urbanfantasy 💙📚🪐
Look what came in the mail yesterday! We finally got the hard copy of @alexries.com 's gorgeous art book Other Worlds, and I'm looking forward to going through the whole thing before deciding where to put it in the bookshelf.
The Mariners are the only MLB team that has never even _appeared_ in the World Series, ever.
So. That one.
as with some other books, I dislike the implication that humans need outside help to fix themselves.
Then again, happy, content people wouldn't have a lot of wishes for a jinn, so...