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Harv@harvsbax· 6d

Followed this chap for a while but first time reading one of his novels. Smaller than I expected but a page turner. Need to get the next one in hopes of getting some actual answers. #reading #amreading 💙📚 #booksky

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The cover features a distorted board covered in flowers and moss with foil replacing some parts of its fur.

Harv@harvsbax· 12d

Holy shit this is my top contender for my favourite book of this year. Every part of this is so well crafted. The characters, their relationships, the culture, and the way problems are approached #reading #amreading #booksky 📚💙 #fantasy #fantasyreaders

Jade City, by Fonda Lee. A green cover featuring two dark silhouettes in a city street projected onto the larger silhouette of a man.

Harv@harvsbax· Jul 11

Pumpkin wasn't happy about being put in a new collar

Pumpkin, a tortoise shell cat looking sad but ever so pretty in an orange corduroy bow.

Harv@harvsbax· Jul 9

Don't read a lot of short stories, but damn these were good. One even brought a tear to my eye. Well played, Timothy Hickson, well played #reading #amreading 💙📚 #booksky

A Catalogue For The End of Humanity by Timothy Hickson. The cover features a smiling woman in a green forest. Her finger reaches out and touches a blue butterfly.

Harv@harvsbax· Jul 8

What a trilogy. I've definitely been reading a lot of the words in this wrong, much to a friend's dismay. But what action and brutality. Gotta love to hate Guðvar, what an arseling #reading #amreading #booksky 💙 📚 #fantasy #fantasyreaders

The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne. The cover features a huge snake with orange eyes dwarfing mountains and looking down down a ship.

Harv@harvsbax· Jun 30

Got my PS2 working on my TV! I thought this was going to be so much harder!

Harv@harvsbax· Jun 20

Henry having a paddle and a lie down

Henry, a red grizzle border terrier having a paddle in some running water, looking grumpily at the camera.

Henry, a red grizzle border terrier in a red harness having a lie down in some rocks.

Harv@harvsbax· Jun 18

My quickest read in a while. Three days totalling maybe three hours of reading time. Read at the behest of a friend who's been obsessed with the audiobooks. Pretty good start to the series, I'll have to dig the rest out of my parents' garage. #reading #amreading #booksky 💙📚 #fantasyreaders

The Dark Tower Volume 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King. The cover features a man in a stetson on a beach looking out on the sun setting over the ocean with a dark tower looming as a shadow.

Harv@harvsbax· Jun 9

My last long one for a little while. But what a trip this series is! I can't wait to get to the next one! But I want to know more about this series' magic!! After 2 books and well over 2000 pages I still know so little! #reading #amreading #booksky 💙📚 #fantasy #fantasyreaders

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. A black leather tome with gold and red embossing.

Two black leatherbound volumes of Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson on a shelf side by side.

Harv@harvsbax· May 15

That's the first half of Words of Radiance! Should have brought the second to work with me! 📚💙 #booksky #reading #amreading #fantasy

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. A leathbound book with black base, a red sword-like symbol embossed in the centre with gold embossing around the edges in a pattern.

Harv@harvsbax· Apr 20

It's taken nearly two years, but I have finally heard all the stories in the dark. Nice chap, that Robert Shearman. He actually followed me on the bird app before it became a Nazi bar. I can only call reading this a venture of masochism. God knows what writing it was like... #reading #amreading 📚💙

We all hear stories in the dark by Robert Shearman. Three volumes featuring a skeleton playing the violin, a barber shaving somebody with two men in coats watching, and a kid with a pumpkin head standing next to another kid in bed with a picture of Jesus on his wall. They are all pencil drawings.

Harv@harvsbax· Mar 3

Bit of a wild card. Got the urge to start reading this again back in September. Then forgot about it and finished it today. Lowkey fucked my reading speed stat on StoryGraph 😭 #reading #amreading #booksky 💙📚 #manga

Death note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The cover is largely black with a pink fog in the shape of a cross. In the centre is a boy in a cream jacket and red tie wielding a scythe. Behind him is a lanky man in black with a big grin.

Harv@harvsbax· Feb 21

Not getting the bus into work is doing wonders for every part of my life other than how many books I read 😂 This is my first step into cozy fantasy and I love it! It can be weird dealing with modern foods or devices in fantasy but Baldree pulls it off nicely #fantasy #booksky 📚💙 #reading #amreading

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree sitting beside a black mug filled with tea on a coffee table.

Harv@harvsbax· Feb 14

Did you know there's a really autistic way to spend Valentine's day? #Pokémon #PlayPokémon #EUIC

Two people sit on a white wooden bench surrounded by pink and white flowers and the Pokémon Luvdisc. One of them has bushy red hair and hold a sign with Regirock and the text "Un Un Un". The other is in a yellow jumper and has a beard.

A person with bushy red hair wearing a blue Psyduck hoodie hugs a giant inflatable Pikachu.

A picture of a theatre. On the stage is a large blue wooden slab with "My Neighbor Totoro" in white squiggly letters.

A haul of Pokémon goodies on a white bed. There's a yellow Pikachu bag, a small plush Torterra, blue and green card sleeves, a mega Charizard Y pin, a box of cards with a gold Mega Lucario, and a play mat featuring Bulbasaur Charmander, and Squirtle battling in black and white comic strips.

Harv@harvsbax· Jan 21

Oh boy, maybe I'm getting the series finished just in time for Winds of Winter! Never know, might be any day now! In all seriousness, still a cracking read and such a shame the TV series couldn't have done this justice in the end #reading #amreading #fantasy #fantasyreaders 📚💙 #booksky #darkfantasy

A Dance With Dragons I: Dreams and Dust by George R.R. Martin. An off-white cover featuring a bronze/gold shield with the likeness of a dragon.

Harv@harvsbax· Jan 17

Here is a bowl of side eye cat

Pumpkin, a tortoise shell cat, curled in the bowl of her cat tree giving a real stinker of a side eye.

Harv@harvsbax· Jan 15

First book slap of 2026! On my very own coffee table! 😎 Also see my Pokémon cards #reading #amreading 💙📚 #booksky #bookslap #fantasy #fantasyreaders

Harv@harvsbax· Jan 5

The last of my signed books from the worldbuilding panel back in October. This time instead of replacing wood with bone Barker has replaced steel with wood but still hasn't made getting wood easy. I rather like an older protagonist, makes a nice change in voice #booksky 📚💙 #reading #fantasy

Gods of The Wyrdwood by RJ Barker. A white cover with roots/branches making an abstract face

A page from God of The Wyrdwood with a bookmark of what I think is a bird skull. Beneath is written "To Harvey" with RJ Barker's autograph and his antlered stamp with his initials.

Harv@harvsbax· Jan 1

This is totally because I'm making mead, right?

Harv@harvsbax· Dec 10

Wowee, I sure do love some non-political science fiction. Yup, nothing here that I found elegantly reflected the real world at all. Just a fun story about a robot looking for work! 😁 #reading #amreading #booksky 💙📚

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A white robotic hand holding a cracked teapot in front of a dark cityscape.

Service Model's cover page, featuring Adrian Tchaikovsky's signature and a doodle of a teacup.

Harv@harvsbax· Dec 2

Surprisingly few fucks in this one, but still plenty to love. Wild west setting and half the book is a cart chase across the plains. And Wragg's usual eccentric characters, of whom Aki was my favourite this time. #reading #amreading #fantasyreaders #booksky 📚💙 #fantasy

The Hunters by David Wragg. It features a white haired woman with an arm around a young girl, a crossbow in one hand and sabre in the other. Her eyes shift between the four figures behind them.

Harv@harvsbax· Nov 28

Post something random or you'll have an awful December

A comic about an alligator warning his elderly alligator parents about AI videos. They question why he's so sceptical and explains it's because they raised him that way.

Harv@harvsbax· Nov 24

The first two books were great. But I feel this is really where things are hitting their stride, as well as Dresden. Like a lot. That man is going to be held together with duct tape if he keeps this shit up. #reading #amreading #booksky 💙📚 #supernatural #fantasy

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. The cover features a dark, foggy graveyard with the silhouette of a man in a trenchcoat and wide brimmed hat carrying a staff.

Harv@harvsbax· Nov 14

Erm, you want thematic depth? Here it is! You want complex characters? Here it is! You want those characters to suffer? Too bad here it is! You want politics! Here it is! #reading #booksky #fantasy #amreading #fantasyreaders 💙📚

Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky on a blue sofa

Harv@harvsbax· Nov 13

I don't know if this is cheating but it would make most of my characters (especially Jamefin) laugh because it's far too easy for them to imagine it working on Lettore despite his insistence he's not that gullible #Novmemeber

Me: Pff, I would never just get into a stranger's van
Kidnapper: Oh yeah?

Below the text is a picture of a van filled with books and lit by fairy lights

Harv@harvsbax· Nov 1

Ren fair squad!

From left to right: a bald and bearded man dressed in leathers and furs wielding a foam hammer and shield. Another man in a shirt pattered to look like chainmail and a coif. A woman with long hair in a green medieval style dress. Another woman in a red tabbard-style dress carrying Sting from lotr. Another woman with a black cape, white face paint and horns. Another women in a green dress and white mask with horns. A man in maroon monk robes with a cord tie.

Harv@harvsbax· Oct 21

If you're ever looking for some nice, simple, straightforward fantasy done well like a gourmet chef making an omelet, this is where you go. Occasional bits that feel slightly like asspulls, but overall it's just such an enjoyable ride! #booksky #reading #amreading #fantasy #books #fantasyreaders 📚💙

Heir of Novron by Michael J. Sullivan. The cover features a man with stubble, leather armour, and a sword on his back.

Harv@harvsbax· Oct 21

This is Henry. He likes to sleep on stray clothes (not pictured) and flip his bowl over when he decides it's time to eat even if he's just been fed.

Henry, a red grizzle border terrier, lays on a sofa with his head resting on a red checkered cushion.

Harv@harvsbax· Oct 21

This is my girlfriend's cat, Pumpkin. She is responsible for many early awakenings, various claw and bite marks, as well as knocked over objects.

A tortie cat named Pumpkin wearing an orange pumpkin bow. She sits on a box behins a window.

Harv@harvsbax· Oct 15

If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon. (Wrong answers only)