The October Daye Reread: A Killing Frost
Senior editor @Joe continues his Seanan McGuire re-read at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/06/the-october-daye-reread-killing-frost.html
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A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
Stockholm Central Station plays a pivotal role as the story moves towards its climax. This modern image shows a mural in the station formed from a large photograph of it in 1943, at the time it is visited by the two central characters.
Find out more:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/index.html
#WordWeavers 10/6: How many POV characters? Is that your preferred approach?
Let’s see:
Book 1: 2 POVs
Bk 2: 2 POVs (same as previous)
Bk 3: 2 POVs (1 same, 1 new)
Bk 4: 4 POVs (3 new)
Bk 5: 2 POVs (both new)
Bk 6 (out in August): 1 POV (new)… except for the framing bits
Bk 7 (in preparation): 3 POVs (2 new)
Most of my other writing also features multiple POVs. And I’ve often enjoyed multi-POV books as a reader too, going back at least to Arthur Ransome.
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#writerscoffeeclub 10/6: Where is the line between between homage and theft?
It’s tough to say precisely where the line is, but there is one. It can get a bit fuzzy at times, but I think we mostly know when something is on the wrong side. Like the whole ‘LLM’ model.
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On the @fictionable #podcast we talk magic, illness and weather as Susanna Clarke returns to the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/susanna-clarke-bishop-durham-city-jonathan-strange-norrell or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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“All of us as #FirstNations people were wanting to find the people that we lost and those that are just gone. And for me as a journalist, it's what I have been doing... I've been doing that for over two-and-a-half decades. I feel like my mom gave me my greatest assignment.”
If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
The Poison Book Project tested books and drew up a list of titles which are potentially harmful to humans.
By Pauline McLean
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no
Poison Book Project:
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/
‘Do you know what we should do
what turns over in my mind?
Begin to sing old songs!
Lend voice to our runes.’
Reading the Kalevala
By Lyonel Perabo
https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/reading-the-kalevala.html
Kalevala at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186
Why H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” Is a Timely Warning to the World
Wells turned the future around in his novel.
https://www.thecollector.com/hg-wells-time-machine-eternal-timeliness/
Books by H. G. Wells at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy at PG
You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.
The beach at Oldshoremore in Sutherland is one of the most magnificent beaches anywhere. It is close to the home of one of the central characters and serves as a backdrop to the story as it develops. The beach also appears on the cover of the book.
Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/atw/index.html
#WordWeavers 9/6: MC POV: Whose advice do you value the most?
Jerya: the first person I looked to as a mentor was Tutor Yanil, when I arrived in the College of the Dawnsingers. I see her very rarely now, but still value her advice. However, the person whose advice I’ve relied on for longest is Railu. We’ve been through so much together. And of course there’s Hedric.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/6: Have you ever done timed writing sprints?
Nope, and it sounds like a really horrible idea to me.
I can work fast, and in the past I’ve worked to tight deadlines. Why add pressure when there’s no need?
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New on my #blog: "Reading about the reading life: June 8, 2025 edition."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/06/reading-about-reading-life-june-8-2025.html
Libro?
Looking for a non-Amazon audiobook app. This supports local bookshops and appears to have a good selection.
Anyone used it?