From the Heart of Europe

• Mon, 12:56: The Meteorite Hunters Who Descended on the Carancas Fall https://t.co/mAfbMJCS9B or, “The Mad Scramble to Claim the… https://t.co/gG254DlvHr
• Mon, 13:24: RT @irishwol: @nwbrux But you know, Big Ben is really the name of the ... ok, maybe not go there.
• Mon, 15:54: RT @BBCPolitics: Former WTO director general Pascal Lamy does not look impressed with Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith talking #Brexit #politicsl…
• Mon, 16:05: Hunting the Lynx with the Old Believers https://t.co/v9qRG1PW3X Great piece of writing.
• Mon, 17:11: Borderline Nationality Disorder https://t.co/5lRZa8IIut About the Drummully Polyp.
• Mon, 17:29: A reminder: "Brexit as seen from Brussels", featuring me, at @UlsterUni Belfast on Wed 1 May, 6pm. https://t.co/tZg7xLtqxt @EventbriteUK
• Mon, 18:19: Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot https://t.co/7BdtIf6hIW
• Mon, 19:06: Former WTO director mimicks a unicorn behind Brexiteer's back on BBC News - I had always thought “Sign of the Unico… https://t.co/MSkPnjHUbw
• Mon, 19:35: RT @njj4: @nwbrux An attempted coup by a small faction within the ruling class, whose quest for power and obsession with magic risks destro…
• Mon, 20:48: RT @Freedland: This extraordinary interview shows great courage by Tony Slattery and huge empathy and gentleness from @HadleyFreeman https:…

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Books finished in the last week
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, ed. Catherine McIlwaine
The Weather on Versimmon, by Matthew Griffiths
Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage, by Luuk van Middelaar

April Books

Non-fiction: 7 (YTD 14)
Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance, by Adam Roberts
Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson and Sam Witwer
On the Waterfront, by Malcolm Johnson
The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
Doctor Who Episode Guide, by Mark Campbell
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, ed. Catherine McIlwaine
Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage, by Luuk van Middelaar


Fiction (non-sf): 2 (YTD 9)
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot


sf (non-Who): 7 (YTD 22)
Time Was, by Ian McDonald
The Land of Somewhere Safe, by Hal Duncan
Embers of War, by Gareth Powell
Phosphorus, by Liz Williams
Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland


Doctor Who, etc: 3 (YTD 7)
Combat Magicks, by Steve Cole
The Day She Saved the Doctor, by Jacqueline Rayner, Jenny T. Colgan, Susan Calman and Dorothy Koomson
The Weather on Versimmon, by Matthew Griffiths


Comics 3 (YTD 5)
On A Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden
Troll Bridge, by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
De Terugkeer van de Wespendief, by Aimée de Jongh


6,700 pages (YTD 17,700)
11/22 (YTD 23/58) by non-male writers (McIlwaine, Yanagihara, “Eliot”, Williams, Wells, Novik, Ireland, Rayner et al, Walden, Doran, de Jongh)
3/22 (YTD 7/58) by PoC (Yanagihara, Ireland, Koomson)
0 rereads (YTD 2/58)

Reading now
Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones
A Sunless Sea by Anne Perry
The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
The Good Doctor, by Juno Dawson

Coming soon (perhaps):
Feersum Endjinn, by Iain M Banks
The Ginger Man, by J. P. Donleavy
Bland Ambition, by Steve Tally
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, ed. Kevin J. Anderson
Sovereign by R.M. Meluch
Will Supervillains Be On The Final?, by Naomi Novik, art by Yishan Li
Five Women Who Loved Love, by Ihara Saikaku
The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters
In Another Light, by Andrew Greig
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O'Driscoll
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
“Goat Song”, by Poul Anderson
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham
1913: The World before the Great War, by Charles Emmerson
The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement, by Paul Bew
Better Than Sex, by Hunter S. Thompson
Het Amusement, by Brecht Evens
Grimm Tales, by Philip Pullman
The Ghosts of Heaven, by Marcus Sedgwick
The Slender-fingered Cats of Bubastis, by Xanna Eve Chown