This week I’m reading DK’s Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History alongside Andrea Penrose’s Murder at Somerset House, which means the historian part of my brain is getting fed from two rather different directions. On one side, I’m going all the way back to Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome: The Definitive …
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Currently reading: routes, rivers & the layers of history
This week I’m reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch, and what initially looked like another completely mismatched pair has turned out to have a surprisingly obvious connection: both have me thinking about the ways history accumulates beneath the present. The Silk Roads …
Currently Reading: curses, crowns & catastrophic decisions
This week’s reading is another slightly ridiculous pairing on paper: Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung and The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. Surreal short fiction translated from Korean on one side; several centuries of medieval English monarchy on the other. Honestly, this is exactly the sort of reading week I enjoy. …
What I’m Reading and Thinking About
This week’s reading stack feels very deliberately split between intensity and comfort, which honestly says a lot about where my head is at right now. On one side, I’m continuing with Insurgent. It’s fast-paced and emotionally charged, full of difficult choices and escalating consequences. I’m always struck by how much …
…a soft “here’s where I’m at”
It feels like the reading brain is coming back online, not with a triumphant roar but with the quiet, creaky stretch of a creature emerging from hibernation. And honestly? That’s exactly the pace I want right now. Slow. Curious. A little bewildered. Gentle. Here’s where I’m at this week — …
Currently Reading – A Blend of History, Heart, and a Touch of the Uncanny
This week I’ve settled into two very different but surprisingly complementary reads: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley A time travel novel unlike any I’ve read before—bureaucratic, witty, and threaded with a deeply humane look at displacement, love, and the complicated weight of history. Bradley’s writing is sharp, layered, …
Currently Reading: ticking clocks and code-bound curses
Last week, I had grand plans for Frankenstein and False Value, but my brain waved a white flag. Mental health-wise, I just wasn’t in the headspace for Shelley’s heavy storms or Aaronovitch’s magical noir, so I pivoted to something gentler: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood and A Thousand …
Currently Reading: experiments, ethics, and eldritch code.
Currently Reading: experiments, ethics, and eldritch code. I’ve accidentally themed the week around science gone rogue — one Victorian, one very modern. ⚡ Frankenstein – the original tale of grief, ambition, and what happens when you play god with science. Mary Shelley’s gothic classic is just as devastating and electric …
📚 Books I Borrowed from the Library This Month 📚
aka: I definitely don’t have a problem, I just love options There’s nothing quite like walking into the library and emerging with a stack of books that whisper hope and potential — and maybe a touch of delusion about how much free time I actually have. But listen, it’s not …
📚 Weekend Reads Check-In 📚
It’s one of those weekends where I’ve got a bit of everything on the go — from folklore to horror to werewolves to witchy romance — and I’m loving the variety. ✅ Just finished Mythos by Stephen Fry — smart, funny, beautifully told. I’ll always be a sucker for Greek …