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Today’s gaming comes from behind the ramparts of bromance and boats.

Reading The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho and just absolutely delighted by the narrator’s voice. Instantly funny and clever and wry in a way that makes me grin. Also the story starts with her writing a authoring review of a lauded author’s book. So lots to appeal.

Our Lord of the Rings close read continues, and it's all getting a bit epic now. I go a little quote-mad, and get a bit too into Denethor, in this episode.

A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 18 – Bangers AkimboThis is the closest I could find to the image I had in my head of the Púkel-men It continues. This time, we covered III – The Muster of Rohan and IV – The Siege of Gondor. Seems pretty …readerofelse.wordpress.com

Today’s book post goes straight onto the Le Guin reading stack.

I don't get awfully invested in the stats on my blog, but there's one thing that I cannot stop wondering about: why is the top viewed post consistently my review of Red Rising? I wrote that review in 2017, and it's not especially good or interesting. It's just variations on the theme of "godawful".

Gonna be on some virtual panels at worldcon. Gonna talk about some criticism. Aww yeah.

I should possibly lay off the sass about my cat being an orange idiot; the other orange idiot in the flat just scalded herself opening a ready meal immediately after it came out of the oven. One of us at least can consume their meals without injury, and Pellinore should be respected accordingly.

Separate sections for prose fiction (all of it), graphic novels/comics, poetry and drama and non-fiction, plus a separate book case for all the classics books (in the Romans-and-Greeks sense). Every section ordered by author surname. And a separate pile (piles now) for TBR.

Like just about everyone else, I have opinions about Nolan’s Odyssey. Read all about it if you’re not Odysseyed out.

The people* yearn for pronunciation guides in the front of their fantasy books. *It’s me, I’m people

My tip for keeping cool on a hot day: reading and discussing The Siege of Minas Tirith from Return of the King, and getting shivers from all the doom and banger lines being thrown about.

I normally think about (and sometimes even succeed at) reading at least one Booker long- or shortlist novel per year. This year's longlist is making me tempted to do rather more; so many of them look so /interesting/.

The Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker PrizesThe longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners and three debut noveliststhebookerprizes.com

Discourse or no, I am quite enjoying it being a Hot Classics Summer.

It’s entirely unexpected to be 2/3 of the way into a production of the Oresteia and to be sympathising with the Agamemnon character, of all people.

Thinking about novellas, I've just realised I've read all but one of the Ignyte novella shortlist now (which was not true when the list dropped). Maybe I do a roundup of those as well. All novellas all the time (no one can stop me).

I read all the Hugo novella nominees; I was, I’m afraid, a little disappointed. He’s my roundup talking about why.