Booky Things

All about books - especially fantasy, sci-fi, and romance. Main is madscientistnz - check it out if you want humour, art, science, comics and other things I think are fun!

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Witchstone | Author: Henry H. Neff | Publisher: Blackstone Publishing (2024)

[blogbibliophilia]

[nzbookwyrm]

September 2026

[theprofessional-amateur]

Author/illustrator Trung Le Nguyen has been live posting reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time on bluesky and just hit the first proposal. The replies are basically the sickos meme

Thread here

[theprofessional-amateur]

Incredible stuff happening. I want push notifications for every update. I hate push notifications.

[ash-elizabeth-art]

You can never have enough books!

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Mammoths at the Gates | Author: Nghi Vo | Publisher: Tor (2023)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

[urgetocreate]

Frederick Carl Frieseke (American 1874-1939), Blue Girl Reading, 1935, Oil on canvas

[nzbookwyrm]

September 2026

[mabsart]

That’s when it dawned on me that Hostile One was a Combat SecUnit.

Exit Strategy has so many good scenes but this is the one that I can’t get out of my head.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Jean Cocteau at home reading, 1960

[jamesdavisnicoll]

Behind Five Willows by June Hur

Shin Haewon's family falls far short of haughty aristocrat Yu Seojun's very reasonable standards, as he is gracious enough to explain to Haewon. How cruel that fate compels extended proximity between Haewon and Seojun.

[ebookporn]

[thecolorblockcurator]

The Green Book, Harold Knight

[nzbookwyrm]

September 2026

[atlantic-riona]

"the book I like is not popular" simultaneously the worst feeling of all time and a blessing. people could and should be talking about this, but more likely than not they'd be talking about it wrong

[qwertyprophecy]

A tiny informative book about some of my houseplants