Category Archives: Else

What I Read On My Holiday – 2026

Posted on 11/02/2026 by Roseanna

Reading holiday has once again been and gone in triumph. This year, we booked a cottage in the middle of nowhere in Wales and it was more precipitously in the middle of nowhere than we necessarily bargained for. However, after … Continue reading →

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Eligibility Post – 2025 Edition

Posted on 27/01/2026 by Roseanna

‘Tis the season once again, back on the awards rollercoaster, and back offering up my work from 2025 for your nomination consideration. In 2025 I wrote 43 reviews and 25 review-adjacent objects, totalling 153,540 words because I know neither shame … Continue reading →

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2025 in Books

Posted on 31/12/2025 by Roseanna

I’m writing this a day early, because I have plans for the last day of the year that aren’t sit and home under a blanket thinking about books and stats. Madness. Despite setting myself the slightly more achievable goal of … Continue reading →

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A Granite Silence – Nina Allan

Posted on 27/07/2025 by Roseanna

I don’t always take notes when I read; it’s usually a thing for when I start a book with the intention of reviewing it. But despite having absolutely no such intention with A Granite Silence – I picked it up … Continue reading →

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A Path Through the Landscape: A Journey Into Fantasy

Posted on 20/07/2025 by Roseanna

This is a story of my route through fantasy. It’s not the only story I could tell – there are so many books I’ve read, and so many narratives I could choose to impose on them. But this is the … Continue reading →

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A Path Through the Landscape: My Own Route Through Science Fiction

Posted on 27/04/2025 by Roseanna

I recently did a review for Nerds of a Feather of Paul Kincaid’s new collection, Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction. In the collection, much is made of the multiplicity of the field, its fuzzy boundaries and its many … Continue reading →

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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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Hugo Nominations 2025

Posted on 20/02/2025 by Roseanna

Maybe it’s because I read more books last year than any since records began, but this time around in the Hugo nominations it has been such a dilemma cutting it all down into five per category (mostly, there are some … Continue reading →

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One Fool’s Whistlestop Tour Through 2024’s Speculative Poetry

Posted on 01/02/2025 by Roseanna

There’s a new Hugo Award this year, just for the once, as a special little treat – and it’s for Best Poem! As a long time poetry reader and insufferable snob, I couldn’t be happier about it. Or… well. That … Continue reading →

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Eligibility Post – 2024 Edition

Posted on 27/01/2025 by Roseanna

It is, apparently, that time of year again. It still feels weird to me to write these, but the urge to make a self-deprecating joke has always been at war with the need for self-promo, and I see no reason … Continue reading →

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