Author Buzz | Toni McHadden | Group Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/tonimchadden/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Toni McHadden is a member. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:07:31 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 1a5fb1433187e046dba346d1ec4820cc Sam Smith wrote a new blog post What book do you wish you could read again for the first time? in the group Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/books/what-book-do-you-wish-you-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0100 5598e5bee51a8082538f331c18348120 Jane Smith started the topic Yesterday, I read How the Grinch Stole Christmas to two happy children in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/yesterday-i-read-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-to-two-happy-children/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:45:26 +0100 I loved reading Dr Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas when I was small, and I got to read it again yesterday evening when I read it to my friend’s two kiddies.

]]> c0651f554843a5dc80489fe7417fe743 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Did Baroness Benjamin just classify forums as social media? in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/reflections/law-and-legality/did-baroness-benjamin-just-classify-forums-as-social-media/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:33:53 +0100 Did Baroness Benjamin just classify forums as social media? It is entirely possible that Baroness Benjamin has placed Author Buzz UK on the chopping block without meaning to. I grew up watching Floella Benjamin […]

]]> afdc2f7ca5cc3fc4ce31610f9d21f500 Blog: Sentinel, Anthony J. Melchiorri from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Sentinel__Anthony_J__Melchiorri.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:05:00 +0100 2021 military SF, first of a series. Cole Shaw signed up because the
alternative was waiting to die on his failing colony planet. Now he
drives a mech.

]]> 0 dbfc0c21c62c446e23fa0a8fb6263013 Blog: All the Wrong Moves by Anthony Scaramucci review – confessions of an ex-Trumper from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/15/all-the-wrong-moves-by-anthony-scaramucci-review-confessions-of-an-ex-trumper Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:31 +0100 The president’s former press secretary has learned all the right lessons, but how come it took him so long?The most interesting chapter in Anthony Scaramucci’s All […]

]]> 0 70a1b0f62a125ce0cfa9f8c7a01e9f2b Blog: The Rouse by China Miéville review – a mighty achievement from the ‘new weird’ author from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/15/the-rouse-by-china-mieville-review-a-mighty-achievement-from-the-new-weird-author Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:29 +0100 Twenty years in the writing, this paranormal epic of cold war espionage and family tragedy is a quantum leap in terms of ambition and moral seriousnessChina […]

]]> 0 bfdd7975545e1296bf7b69e7ec89f8cc Matthew Brown replied to the topic The Player of Games by Iain M Banks in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/the-player-of-games-by-iain-m-banks/?view=all#post-5316 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:24:41 +0100 The Player of Games was my first Iain M Banks book. It got me hooked on the Culture as a whole; it was by far the best one. Jernau Morat Gurgeh’s journey was a compelling one but I liked how Banks never shies away from what it cost him, as well as what it gave him.

The game playing went so many levels deeper that’s more obviouse on a second reading.

]]> 9a64ba899a461c86abc99042e8ad994b Sam Smith replied to the topic The Player of Games by Iain M Banks in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/the-player-of-games-by-iain-m-banks/#post-5314 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:24:04 +0100 I loved that book.

]]> 2552a4c47496c8c28bde95c6ca0d53af Acorn Boi started the topic I downloaded The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/i-downloaded-the-wheels-of-chance-by-h-g-wells/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:18:53 +0100 I downloaded The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells from Standard Ebooks. They’re a project to make good-looking free ebooks from public domain works.

https://standardebooks.org/

]]> 7eab3ef4ad57bf8cc0f91902747bf3de Blog: Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Violet_Thistlewaite_Is_Not_a_Villain_Anymore__Emily_Krempholtz.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2025 fantasy. The Evil Mage has been killed, and presumably his
minions too. And there’s no reason for anyone to link Violet, the
newcomer in town who just wants to […]

]]> 0 9ac784118189d234ca9de3a18007b1d4 Blog: Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks review – conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/14/farewell-to-eden-by-sebastian-faulks-review-conflict-and-compromise-from-a-veteran-of-the-genre Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:26 +0100 A returning British soldier is haunted by his time in Palestine in this panoramic epic set after the second world warSebastian Faulks’s latest book focuses on the m […]

]]> 0 99410a5d4553510449ab4e82ac53f223 Blog: End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/14/end-times-fascism-by-naomi-klein-and-astra-taylor-review-the-fightback-starts-here Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:00:25 +0100 A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing itThe more power the radical rightwing nationalists of our […]

]]> 0 837a6eabaeed098561598c3d58e33dfd Blog: Tom Gauld on a new case for Hercule Poirot – cartoon from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2026/sep/13/tom-gauld-on-a-new-case-for-hercule-poirot-cartoon Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:00:05 +0100 Continue reading…

]]> 0 920ccaa58879ac94b5eca0575448ea83 Blog: Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/13/emily-st-john-mandel-when-half-the-electorate-disagrees-on-basic-reality-how-do-you-come-back-from-that Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:00:03 +0100 Her hit novel Station Eleven seemed to predict the pandemic, now the novelist is tackling the future of the US. She talks about chance, world-building and […]

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]]> 0 dfb56a835ed33a44acea216ffe16d9f3 Blog: Julia Donaldson: ‘Am I the Gruffalo Granny? Not really. I’m the mouse’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/julia-donaldson-am-i-the-gruffalo-granny-not-really-im-the-mouse Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:32 +0100 As she introduces the latest member of her Gruffalo family, Julia Donaldson talks about storytelling, loss and the worries that come with being Britain’s all-time b […]

]]> 0 86d25431c55d1576d91ee3348b5bce97 Blog: Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:28 +0100 She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on c […]

]]> 0 f91d76604d0322391902f394af4dbd94 Blog: Midlife in Gretna Green, Linzi Day from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Midlife_in_Gretna_Green__Linzi_Day.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2022 modern fantasy, first of a series. Niki McKnight has been widowed
for a year when her witchy grandmother dies and leaves her her house
on the Scottish borders. […]

]]> 0 145fe15419b24301535e71ca09328f09 Blog: Exclusive Extract: From Baby Surprise to Snowbound by Susan Meier from Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans https://s28434.pcdn.co/2026/09/11/exclusive-extract-from-baby-surprise-to-snowbound-by-susan-meier/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:54:43 +0100 If you love feel-good winter romance with festive charm, a swoony second-chance connection and the kind of forced proximity that … Continued

]]> 0 5e9970257cc21aea52c457809ae287e9 Blog: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/11/the-best-recent-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-review-roundup Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:06 +0100 Massif by Garth Nix; Revolution in the Heart: Stories Inspired By Ursula K Le Guin edited by Jonathan Strahan; An Immaculate Deception by Isabela Livino; Serenity […]

]]> 0 3b140e9b656fbc5941c98a3db0a576e3 Jane Smith replied to the topic I'm reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (no spoilers please) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-no-spoilers-please/#post-5310 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:19:16 +0100 Good so far

]]> f2595b3ba017250b0e5a5de9f83f0e2e Charles Maxwell started the topic The Player of Games by Iain M Banks in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/the-player-of-games-by-iain-m-banks/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:16:42 +0100 I’m halfway through The Player of Games. Not sure if Gurgeh was written to be likeable. I am hooked on him anyway. Such a rich setting and the game… Oh, boy: WOW!

Anyone know if this is a series? I want more.

]]> acf7eab8b7ced53342b2c15039212234 Charles Maxwell joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19032/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:13:29 +0100 0 6b7c8e7ea76a9d7f12d40520bcb633d7 jeffjohns joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19031/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:04:41 +0100 0 b9f8b37fae54ad05e4d1689100e5c125 Toni McHadden joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19030/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:53:46 +0100 0 ea35f69401c89d9b4c646daa075bac41 Acorn Boi started the topic I'm reading "How to be a writer" in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-how-to-be-a-writer/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:50:12 +0100 It is a little yellow pocket sized book.

So far, so good. Lots of helpful tips.

]]> 8772b2f13fbc84d3dce26923056f40e2 Acorn Boi joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19028/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:47:31 +0100 0 3562350bf24c82c75144fd1e5c7bbfeb Arves Corral started the topic His pet peeve about writing in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/brandon-sanderson-fans/forum/topic/his-pet-peeve-about-writing/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:40:05 +0100

]]> 45cb05da69072f420f32e8b058336dbd Blog: Beneath These Stones, Ann Granger from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Beneath_These_Stones__Ann_Granger.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:04:00 +0100 1999 mystery, twelfth of Granger’s novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby
and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The wife of a local farmer is
found stabbed to death […]

]]> 0 9cc262c2982ac54adb09ffaf55de9569 Blog: A Thought Without Collision by Adrian Duncan review – a brilliant interrogation of philosophy and wonder from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/11/a-thought-without-collision-by-adrian-duncan-review-a-brilliant-interrogation-of-philosophy-and-wonder Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:00:02 +0100 With a character inspired by Wittgenstein, this exploration of the mysteries of the universe draws on multiple philosophical traditionsFor several years I ran […]

]]> 0 b8154a69e1bf6a3736021bdfa4ea7a02 Blog: Taipei Story by Rebecca F Kuang review – the torture and hilarity of learning Chinese from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/11/taipei-story-by-rebecca-f-kuang-review-the-torture-and-hilarity-of-learning-chinese Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:24:43 +0100 An American Chinese student studies Mandarin in Taiwan, in this heartfelt journey of self-discovery and family secretsWhat is Taiwan? A former Japanese colony? A […]

]]> 0 f6667df1712abb789775c47a80ed96bf Blog: The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – stories with levity and laughter from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/10/the-eleventh-hour-by-salman-rushdie-audiobook-review-stories-with-levity-and-laughter Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:38 +0100 The author explores themes of legacy, mortality and loneliness in the first work of fiction since his near-fatal attackFive short stories and five readers make up […]

]]> 0 4c531910b1ec9f4dec74941ff3f1d1d6 Matthew Brown replied to the topic I've just finished Project Hail Mary in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/ive-just-finished-project-hail-mary/#post-5303 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:09:49 +0100 I read the book first. The movie was good, but the book had more depth, for sure.

As an adaptation, the film was reasonable.

]]> 412a76e96d4dabf636bfc2a8bf99139b Matthew Brown started the topic I'm reading the entire Stormlight Archive (spolier free) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-the-entire-stormlight-archive-spolier-free/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:06:40 +0100 I’m very many books into the Stormlight Archive.

I bounced right off the first book on my initial reading attempt, but I found myself with time to kill and gave it another go. Book 1, Volume 1 has five or six first chapters, and you need to steam past all of that to get into the story. Many of those introductions do not entirely pay off in the…Read more

]]> ec31802a38b6e5dab386ccf66c46b42a Bob Bobson started the topic Sanderson on getting famous in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/brandon-sanderson-fans/forum/topic/sanderson-on-getting-famous/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:41:37 +0100  

]]> 52d400c6b5abba3465c701c84a361b95 Sam Smith replied to the topic I'm reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (no spoilers please) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-no-spoilers-please/#post-5300 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:20:11 +0100 I was put off by all the negative reviews

When you finish, you’ll have to let me know if I should read it

]]> 3f439e2f2c7964cd6430e893588e5ecd Sam Smith replied to the topic What are you reading? (Start a thread if you wanna chat about it) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/what-are-you-reading-start-a-thread-if-you-wanna-chat-about-it/#post-5299 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:18:10 +0100 Eeek, lol – that’s my post. 🙂

 

]]> a9901f8981ccab61faef31e5535bed4f Sam Smith joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19013/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:17:36 +0100 0 6a0218efb48e0b63397684e7ba910d6d Matthew Brown joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19012/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:16:43 +0100 0 6a259f96cb61c92b93faea9f890f7235 Jason Latnar started the topic I've just finished Project Hail Mary in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/ive-just-finished-project-hail-mary/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:15:32 +0100 I tots loved the movie, but the book has loads more in it. Yeah, I get ya, “the book was better” is tired, but it was loads better. The movie was good; the book is great.

Do you think he’ll still be around for second contact?

]]> e577697e03d440dba4e4cbb754f51cf3 Jason Latnar joined the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19010/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:12:28 +0100 0 c9e274bdcb719bf95c2e2155bdff7d45 Jane Smith started the topic I'm reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (no spoilers please) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-no-spoilers-please/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:10:53 +0100 I picked up Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. I’m about ten pages in.

NO SPOILERS, please.

Beautiful Ugly is off to a slow start.

]]> 8c98221d8e3e988beff4f652b3a3ab0e Charles Maxwell replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5296 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:03:43 +0100 Phone call done. I’m very glad that’s over with.

Thanks for chatting with me.

]]> a587d7f1a586af439374ff15224c282a Matthew Brown replied to the topic What are you reading? (Start a thread if you wanna chat about it) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/what-are-you-reading-start-a-thread-if-you-wanna-chat-about-it/#post-5294 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:59:07 +0100 What a good idea. I love it.

There’s a chat blog post with the same question: Great minds and all that.

What are you reading?

]]> 10d37683ec16cb3312a25d73d2cbc243 Jane Smith started the topic What are you reading? (Start a thread if you wanna chat about it) in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/what-are-you-reading-start-a-thread-if-you-wanna-chat-about-it/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:14:52 +0100 I hope it is okay to make a new group. This one is for talking about what you are reading. All threads answer the question, “What are you reading?”

 

]]> 54d8edd981c29451b1a99fe35b995b84 Jane Smith created the group What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19005/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:13:22 +0100 0 f8cff5e98c8c310fb7275203cdc47eb7 Matthew Brown replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5290 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:04:10 +0100 I get it. It happens to me like that sometimes.

]]> d3348e2cd7e41d83a37995914608e180 Jason Latnar joined the group Beans in Dungeons https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18993/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:01:12 +0100 0 1c828dfb11fa24b3c235e91ba39f8eda Charles Maxwell replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5289 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:59:51 +0100 My doctor. Nothing scary just have a question to ask.

I can never do anything when I’m waiting for a call. My brain gets blocked by the waiting. Probably an ADHD thing TBH. Thing is, I got The Martian on my table half read but I have no ability to can.

]]> fad2dbb7ce47934c310cf1a4e2760923 Matthew Brown replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5288 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:52:01 +0100 I’m online, what’s the phone cll you are waiting for?

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