Tag Archives: Off-Topic

The Death of Stalin

Posted on 30/03/2025 by Roseanna

I don’t normally review films. Hell, I don’t normally watch films. But sometimes, a reason important enough comes along that forces my hand, and that reason is “for the bit”. So here we are. My previous awareness of Armando Ianucci’s … Continue reading →

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Signal Fire Books, or: how I tell if a reviewers tastes match mine, so their reading recommendations are of any relevance to my life and choices

Posted on 18/04/2024 by Roseanna

I consume a lot of reviewer content. Partly because I just like reading reviews, but in no small part because I like books and want people to tell me about books, quite possibly so I can decide if I want … Continue reading →

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Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards

Posted on 11/02/2024 by Roseanna

Awards season is well underway, and once again I am thrilled to be a juror for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. As ever, this will mean several months of fantastic reading, interesting discussions with the other jurors, and of … Continue reading →

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Eligibility Post – Works from 2023

Posted on 27/01/2024 by Roseanna

Awards season rolls around again, despite it feeling like the last one only just ended*. 2023 was an amazing year – as part of the Nerds of a Feather team, I got to experience being a Hugo nominee and, bafflingly, … Continue reading →

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SCKA 2023 – Winners Announced

Posted on 18/09/2023 by Roseanna

This year I got the chance to participate in the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards as a juror! I had a fantastic time, read some amazing books I would never have otherwise picked up, and got to discuss them with … Continue reading →

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Too Much Positivity

Posted on 11/07/2023 by Roseanna

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the need for and place of negatives reviews in the SFF sphere (and bookish sphere more generally), but I want to come at it from a different side today, specifically – when being … Continue reading →

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All the Books I’ll Never Read

Posted on 22/04/2023 by Roseanna

I exist at a weird interstice in the people I know, when it comes to books. On the one hand, I have a lot of friends, even the ones who read, but who for the most part aren’t immersed in … Continue reading →

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A Pair of Contrasting Books, or Trash is REALLY COMPLICATED GUYS

Posted on 25/10/2020 by Roseanna

I talk about books as being “trash” a lot, right? And it’s often not derogatory… I love me some trash sometimes. I suppose a better term for them might be “beach reads”, as a lot of friends call them, but … Continue reading →

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2019 in Books

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Roseanna

A slightly belated annual roundup of the books I read in 2019… but a much happier one than usual – I completed my reading goal! I managed to miss out on my traditional summer reading slump, and so hit my … Continue reading →

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Star Trek Discovery (Spoilers)

Posted on 28/02/2018 by Roseanna

Yes, I know, it’s not a book. But I’ve (finally) finished watching it and I have Thoughts. These Thoughts will contain spoilers.  But tbh I am already late to the party on this, so if you care and you’re still … Continue reading →

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