Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
New year, new reading challenge starts! Yes, we’re in 2025 already (and I’m posting later than usual so even my west coast friends will not be “so last year!” If you’re anticipating an IWSG post, that’s next week, by order
Happy New Year! Here we are in 2024 and I’m starting a new year of Reading Challenges. As we writers are exhorted to read, and read widely, to improve our own writing skills, I thought it was fair to combine
Another year of Reading Challenges finished. And for once, I’m really relaxed about it. No last minute reading till the new year chimes. I’d even got time to put some non-challenge reading in during December. The trouble has been fitting
September Updates for my Reading Challenges – already? I suppose so. I have been reading a lot of books this year. Overall – my Goodreads Reading Challenge When I set myself the task of reading 52, one a week, to
Books of the Year–well everyone else does it, and with over 60 books read last year, I feel I should tease out some virtual award-winners. But what is coming up in 2022? Well, I already have six books from Netgalley
Spacetimereads is the short name for the Spacetime Reading Challenge. Sign up here to take part in the 2021 Challenge! Spacetimereads The Spacetimereads Challenge is to read fiction books set in space or time… How far you want to go
The SpaceTime Reading Challenge is the main one I need to update, because I run that, and I hope everyone is getting on well with it! I’m falling behind with most of my reading challenges this year. Spacetime Reading Challenge
It’s my reading challenge update for the third quarter – end of September. Three-quarters of the way through the year already. Oh heck. I begin to wonder why I do reading challenges. I know it helps me prioritise what I
TackleTBR 2017 is off and running. If you missed my advance warning in August you can read all about this Readathon there. In May I did the Clean Sweep ARC to get some of those new releases off my shelf.
To Be Read was not a concept I knew about before I started blogging. Or maybe it was before I started writing seriously – if you can call what I do ‘serious writing’. I bought books, I put them on
Firstly, the Midwinter’s Eve Giveaway Hop closes tonight, so click the link on the right and get your entry in. Secondly, I have books on sale tomorrow as part of the New Year, New Reads promotion day for all those
I’m talking reading challenges, of course. There will be many other challenges ahead, including various editing projects, and writing flash fiction to the standard to which you have become accustomed. I’ll do my best! My first choice of formal reading