Alexandra Almond

@alexandraalmond.bsky.social

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Designer, writer, would-be footballer. she/her. On Bunurong land, voted YES. Debut novel THOROUGHLY DISENCHANTED out with HarperCollins AU in Dec 2024.

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I love that my local council is helping bees. Not just providing a place for them, but looking after their marketing.

I read and loved The Shabti by @megaeralwrites.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of The Shabtiwww.goodreads.com Totally adorable. Both the book and the characters. Hermann (dusty old sweet academic) and Dashiel (semi-reformed shifty ex-spiritualist) are thrown together and are remarkably accommodating of the ot...

The local secondhand bookshop had a delivery of Terry Pratchett books. I’ve only ever read Discworld digitally. What was I supposed to do?

I binge read the Marry Me Juliet series by @jodimca.bsky.social and they're all good but the last one is EXCEPTIONAL! This coming from someone who doesn't watch reality TV. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of Not Here to Make Friendswww.goodreads.com Brilliant! Murray and Lily are both devious, scheming, manipulative bastards and I could not tell you why I love them so much but I do. Despite this being the third time we're seeing the same season o...

I read and loved the latest @ajdemas.bsky.social romance The House of the Red Balconies www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of The House of the Red Balconieswww.goodreads.com Another gorgeous alt-hist romance from AJ Demas. Slow moving but emotionally powerful, with an opposites attract pairing of Hylas (shy, gentle, older, inexperienced, incredibly competent engineer) and...

I finally caught up with The Saint of Bright Doors and it's not like anything I've read before. In a good way. I think? www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of The Saint of Bright Doorswww.goodreads.com Quite extraordinary. I didn't understand about half of what was going on, but I was still captured by Fetter and the world he lived in, and the twist at the end was terrific.

This is an extraordinary and beautiful and yes, heartbreaking read from @goddessblade.bsky.social medium.com/@mayrpeterso...

I Did Not Consent To My Bodymedium.com A personal essay about trauma, transition, and transgender autonomy.

Two thirds of the way through 700+ comments in my copy edit, due back on Monday. Fellow authors, is this a normal amount of changes? (PS. I'm not complaining. I like a lot of the suggestions, and several are pointing out plot holes we created with the structural edit so are kind of critical.)

I read and loved You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of You Should Be So Luckywww.goodreads.com This is so lovely, I turned around and read it again the moment I'd finished it. Two people in very bad places in their lives, find each other and figure out a way to live. Eddie is just so sweet and ...

I've been waiting 14 years for this sequel and it did not disappoint. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of Red Side Storywww.goodreads.com Jasper Fforde's imagination is extraordinary and I love it. Like nearly every other reviewer, I've been waiting for this sequel for 14 years and I'm so pleased it's here that I can't do a proper revie...

Hahaha there is hope 😂😆😂 And also, OMG why is everything like this? ☹️😥😞

On the one hand, the forces we are arrayed against are massive and daunting enough to make anyone lose courage. On the other hand, it keeps turning out that the people in charge of almost everything are not very bright.

All right I’m gonna get back on my women’s sport bandwagon. “It's a real-time example playing out on the world stage of how salaries are impacted by structures that were built for men decades before anyone thought to include women.” www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...

Caitlin Clark is this year's number one draft pick in the WNBA. Her salary has sparked outragewww.abc.net.au There is a real-time example playing out on the world stage of how salaries are impacted by structures that were built for men decades before anyone thought to include women.

My kobo delivered me a teaser (35 pages) of @catswrites.bsky.social‘s new book You Should Be So Lucky and I stupidly dived in. Previously I knew it was coming but didn’t spend much mental energy on it. Now I’ll be thinking about it every day for the next three weeks.

I don’t normally read horror, but I trust Jordan L Hawk so maybe I’ll give this a go.

Cover reveal and preorder! Coming in ebook, paperback, and hardcover May 21! Check out the cover and order direct from my site for a discount: jordanlhawk.com/blogs/news/n...

This is a great read from @goddessblade.bsky.social Don't be put off by the title; I didn't know what dialectical feminism was either. But I do now, and am better for it. ko-fi.com/post/Dialect...

I stayed up all night to devour @kjcharleswriter.com latest, and it was worth it. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of Death in the Spireswww.goodreads.com Devoured it in a night, ignoring all other priorities including sleep. Who needs sleep? Knowing how would all play out for Jem was a much bigger priority. He's a delight, so are all the characters, an...

Snow holidays are better with a dog (if only she could snowboard)

I thoroughly enjoyed The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns. #romancelandia www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of The Other Bridgetwww.goodreads.com So much to love about this; I read it over two nights, staying way up past my bedtime, and I don't regret a thing. How many books have you read set in Perth? I love that, also the many many book refer...

Black Magic feels more library-esque than « Attack » but whatever it takes, I guess.

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

I found a loose page ripped from a book on the street, and weirdly recognised it. In The Frame by Dick Francis, 1976. I own the complete works of Dick Francis thanks to a teenage fascination with horseracing & crime. Who in the neighbourhood is my secret book buddy? #coincidence #bookbsky

In France the town I lived in for a few months didn’t sell takeaway coffee anywhere; you had to sit in. I’m trying to get back to that habit.

Am I paying an extra $7 on kobo for the cover? Don't get me wrong, I would, it's a great cover. @scalzi.com

You know the rules #tomholland #umbrella

Now that we have embedded video here, I decided to be the one to start this round:

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Hollandwww.youtube.com Tom Holland no volará en este lipsinqueo, pero si te hará bailar con su versión de "Umbrella" de Rihanna.¡Suscríbete a Comedy Central Latinoamérica y no te p...

I love that my timeline is full of people responding enthusiastically to this grammar provocateur #commasplice #semicolon

Is a comma splice really such a sin? I mean, what am I supposed to do, use a semicolon? Nobody wants that. Nobody wants to see a semicolon.

This is two years of gratitude, collected weekly at our Monday morning checkins at my work. It’s a lovely habit and reading them back today was a joy. I appear to be most grateful for people (friends, family, colleagues), Captain, nature, my house, and football.

Waiting for Paladin's Faith to release, I found some T Kingfisher novels I hadn't read. BEST. WEEK. EVER! @tkingfisher.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of Nine Goblinswww.goodreads.com A masterpiece of storytelling. A commentary on war and the stupidity of people, wrapped up in a package with delightfully down to earth characters and laugh out loud moments. Reminiscent of Terry Prat...

It's hard to tell Captain's sitting from his dancing these days.

100% this.

I don't know about creative temperaments. I do know that the problems of writing a novel (what happens next, how do I get unstuck, why is this plot a disjointed mess, what are the characters even doing) are all solved by writing the book. AKA, the process of writing a book is solving those problems.

I'm a little late to reviewing System Collapse by @marthawells.bsky.social because I had to re-read the entire series first. Note; this was not a hardship. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Alexandra (Australia)’s review of System Collapsewww.goodreads.com I love Murderbot. And I love ART, although I also hate him a little. If you haven't found the series yet, don't start here; this is not the kind of series you can dive in anywhere. If you have already...

"If an Aboriginal boy thinks that it's better to go to New Zealand to play rugby than to stay here in his own country, that is a big message in itself." Great article with my friend and colleague Kristal Kinsela telling some home truths. shorturl.at/iosu2

Kristal feels Rugby Australia doesn't do enough for First Nations players — that's why her family ...shorturl.at Kaylan Morris is a 16-year-old who dreams of representing the Wallabies. But he'll be playing in New Zealand next year, as his mother believes Rugby Australia needs to lift its game in developing Abor...