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Jun 19, 2026
I am told on good authority that these books were absolutely beloved by children in the 1980s
Jun 12, 2026
It just goes to show you that things eventually do change for the better, and in the publishing industry, you literally never know what’s about to happen.
Jun 5, 2026
One thing is for certain; you will never look at an onion the same way after reading this book.
May 29, 2026
As a gay, Goth kid in the Nineties, his aesthetic always spoke to me.
May 22, 2026
A kind of science-fictional response to Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
May 15, 2026
I also wrote a concordance of all the characters, locations, and themes for the stories.
May 8, 2026
BTS finds you when you need them most.
May 1, 2026
I’ve spent the best part of my career writing what other people have asked me to write, so I guess I pine for those kinda mystical fjords sometimes.
Apr 24, 2026
The pages are smudged and stained and torn; the cover is on its last legs; it is, in short, perfect.
Apr 17, 2026
It moved me in a way I couldn’t fully name at the time.
Apr 10, 2026
You could say my bookcase is my pride and joy, and I would probably have to agree with you.
Apr 3, 2026
This shelf is a testament to the chaos of my life, and my library.
Mar 27, 2026
The tattered books that made me an avid reader as a child.
Mar 20, 2026
The shelf evolved from housing fake flowers and a retro lunchbox weed stash bookends to what it is now.
Mar 13, 2026
If there's one thing all these books have in common, it's that they are very well-highlighted.
Mar 6, 2026
He told me to change one word (he was right), and we were friends for more than 25 years.
Feb 27, 2026
It’s a story that brings all this very close to home; everyone’s home.
Feb 20, 2026
This book came with me wherever we went each day: the ocean, on a hike, in the pool, through the rain...
Feb 13, 2026
"For me, it was always going to be about love". And my shelves definitely reflect that.
Feb 6, 2026
London is constantly reinventing itself. There’s no end to its stories, or the books that tell them. And, unfortunately, only so much shelf space...
Jan 30, 2026
If I had to give this shelf a name it would be my Irish Hag shelf. Which, coincidentally, is a name I happily give myself: Irish hag.
Jan 23, 2026
I was in mourning for the books that weren’t on the shelves. The ones I have lost along the way.
Jan 16, 2026
A shelf of somewhat mismatched non-fiction items, shoved together with minimal plan or purpose, ranging across many ages of reading, on an old MFI shelf.
Jan 9, 2026
My fiancée and I were both (a.) hungry for book recommendations and (b.) far too wrapped up in doomscrolling about the rise of populism.
Jan 2, 2026
Somewhere along the way, I realized survival isn’t solitary. It’s communal.
