Jenny Hamilton
@readingtheend.bsky.social
she/her. southern geek feminist and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
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As January draws to a close, I offer this reminder to all of Romancelandia: next month, you don’t have to read any essays or takes on Romance from people who don’t read it. You could go have a cookie instead.
January 30, 2026 at 1:07 PM
As January draws to a close, I offer this reminder to all of Romancelandia: next month, you don’t have to read any essays or takes on Romance from people who don’t read it. You could go have a cookie instead.
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
Intergalactic Mixtape #38
Hey! This week there are essays about the future of science fiction, how to define science fiction, and some criticism. I did not acquire any books because I...
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
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Always fun, but double fun when IGMX has several books with multiple reviews. Love to triangulate around opinions on a thing.
Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
Intergalactic Mixtape #38
Hey! This week there are essays about the future of science fiction, how to define science fiction, and some criticism. I did not acquire any books because I...
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Always fun, but double fun when IGMX has several books with multiple reviews. Love to triangulate around opinions on a thing.
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In a rum world, the Intergalactic Mixtape is a balm of books and genre links. @renay.bsky.social does great work in putting this together every week
Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
Intergalactic Mixtape #38
Hey! This week there are essays about the future of science fiction, how to define science fiction, and some criticism. I did not acquire any books because I...
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
In a rum world, the Intergalactic Mixtape is a balm of books and genre links. @renay.bsky.social does great work in putting this together every week
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After a long week get this in your life and the SF article it mentions is worth reading and think upon! As is everything else!
Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
Intergalactic Mixtape #38
Hey! This week there are essays about the future of science fiction, how to define science fiction, and some criticism. I did not acquire any books because I...
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
After a long week get this in your life and the SF article it mentions is worth reading and think upon! As is everything else!
*starts crying softly* I love thinking about the affordances of medium and genre
January 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
*starts crying softly* I love thinking about the affordances of medium and genre
omg y'all! enter this if you can! this book whips!
Publisher giveaway! US residents, enter on Instagram for a chance to win a copy of my latest book, THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU. Three generations of magical women and a town in danger!
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January 30, 2026 at 3:14 PM
omg y'all! enter this if you can! this book whips!
hey
psst
do you love genre
is the world getting you down
would you like to feel a little bit better every Friday morning
have I got a newsletter for you
psst
do you love genre
is the world getting you down
would you like to feel a little bit better every Friday morning
have I got a newsletter for you
Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of criticism recs, review recs, and book recs! It’s recs all the way down. 📚🪐💙
Intergalactic Mixtape #38
Hey! This week there are essays about the future of science fiction, how to define science fiction, and some criticism. I did not acquire any books because I...
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM
hey
psst
do you love genre
is the world getting you down
would you like to feel a little bit better every Friday morning
have I got a newsletter for you
psst
do you love genre
is the world getting you down
would you like to feel a little bit better every Friday morning
have I got a newsletter for you
tag yourself I'm KEEP CLEAR OF ME
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
tag yourself I'm KEEP CLEAR OF ME
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I found the first half of #Bridgerton Season 4 to be surprisingly charming: Yerin Ha is phenomenal, they’ve made Benedict much less of a jerk than he is in the source material, and I kind of love the show’s attempt to acknowledge that the working class exists. My review at @reactorsff.bsky.social:
Bridgerton Season 4 Gives Class Struggle a Cinderella Sheen - Reactor
It's still Bridgerton, but questions of class division power its fourth season
reactormag.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I found the first half of #Bridgerton Season 4 to be surprisingly charming: Yerin Ha is phenomenal, they’ve made Benedict much less of a jerk than he is in the source material, and I kind of love the show’s attempt to acknowledge that the working class exists. My review at @reactorsff.bsky.social:
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I really really dig these first four episodes! but it’s not because Bridgerton finally figured out how to be romance, it’s because Bridgerton finally figured out how to be tv
www.vulture.com/article/brid...
www.vulture.com/article/brid...
Bridgerton Finally Gets It Together
In its first half at least, season four is pulling off something the series has never managed before: subplots that don’t undermine the main action.
www.vulture.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I really really dig these first four episodes! but it’s not because Bridgerton finally figured out how to be romance, it’s because Bridgerton finally figured out how to be tv
www.vulture.com/article/brid...
www.vulture.com/article/brid...
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And if your senators or representative are GOP, well, you can make them fear for their jobs. As they fucking should.
January 29, 2026 at 11:44 PM
And if your senators or representative are GOP, well, you can make them fear for their jobs. As they fucking should.
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And please remember that the best case scenario is not ICE/CBP/etc getting defunded right now. That is not physically possible because the GOP controls all three branches of government. But if you have Dem representation, you can make it clear what's expected of them when they get the majority.
January 29, 2026 at 11:43 PM
And please remember that the best case scenario is not ICE/CBP/etc getting defunded right now. That is not physically possible because the GOP controls all three branches of government. But if you have Dem representation, you can make it clear what's expected of them when they get the majority.
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Dems managed to get a 2-week delay on the DHS bill, so CALL YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 14 DAYS. Tell them you want ICE, CBP and all the rest of it defunded and dismantled. Tell them you will be voting against anyone who doesn't do this. This is our chance.
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Dems managed to get a 2-week delay on the DHS bill, so CALL YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 14 DAYS. Tell them you want ICE, CBP and all the rest of it defunded and dismantled. Tell them you will be voting against anyone who doesn't do this. This is our chance.
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Kamilah Cole's transition to adult fantasy is a fast-paced takedown of dark academia (with a little romance on the side). @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews her follow-up to So Let Them Burn; come share your thoughts on An Arcane Inheritance!
Navigating an Oppressive System in An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole - Reactor
Alex Brown reviews a dark academia romantasy that's "perfect for a rainy day binge."
reactormag.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Kamilah Cole's transition to adult fantasy is a fast-paced takedown of dark academia (with a little romance on the side). @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews her follow-up to So Let Them Burn; come share your thoughts on An Arcane Inheritance!
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Happy day! 🥳🦎🦎
January 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy day! 🥳🦎🦎
everyone say thank you Legally Blonde for ridding us of the "not like other girls" brainrot
it was SO confusing. it was like, wait, stop, I've been told in no uncertain terms that it is embarrassing gender business to enjoy pink. Legally Blonde was a real turning point.
January 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
everyone say thank you Legally Blonde for ridding us of the "not like other girls" brainrot
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This all day long, this this this.
I want to read books that could only have been written by *that* author, because of their perspective, their sense of humor, their pet peeves, their experiences, their niche interests. I want to read books flavored by the author as a human, not by tropes on repeat.
And that's how I want to write.
And that's how I want to write.
January 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This all day long, this this this.
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I want to read books that could only have been written by *that* author, because of their perspective, their sense of humor, their pet peeves, their experiences, their niche interests. I want to read books flavored by the author as a human, not by tropes on repeat.
And that's how I want to write.
And that's how I want to write.
January 29, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I want to read books that could only have been written by *that* author, because of their perspective, their sense of humor, their pet peeves, their experiences, their niche interests. I want to read books flavored by the author as a human, not by tropes on repeat.
And that's how I want to write.
And that's how I want to write.
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please consider this your one (1) small reminder that the deadline for registration is saturday!!!!!!!
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
please consider this your one (1) small reminder that the deadline for registration is saturday!!!!!!!
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Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss Press
A time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova!
"An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders
www.littlepuss.net
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
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Ok friends, I want to know: what's a book that you read many years ago that will stay in your brain forever? I want to hear about the ones you read more than 10 years ago and haven't forgotten.
Top of my list is Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. That one will probably haunt me til the day I day.
Top of my list is Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. That one will probably haunt me til the day I day.
January 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Ok friends, I want to know: what's a book that you read many years ago that will stay in your brain forever? I want to hear about the ones you read more than 10 years ago and haven't forgotten.
Top of my list is Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. That one will probably haunt me til the day I day.
Top of my list is Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. That one will probably haunt me til the day I day.
incidentally, happy Threshold day to those who celebrate
this is correct. also, for the thing to transcend its genre and become elevated, it must refuse to be in conversation with the rest of the genre. lie down with dogs (SF), get up with fleas (that episode of Star Trek Party Bus where they become space lizards).
If you take the conventions of the genre and make everything 40% more glum, aimless and boring, then you have made it Good.
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
incidentally, happy Threshold day to those who celebrate
I had no idea this existed so of course it's on Apple TV
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I had no idea this existed so of course it's on Apple TV
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"This should really be a wakeup call for studio executives who believe that love stories can’t succeed on their own," @gavia.bsky.social writes. "If Jacob Tierney can strike gold by adapting a tried-and-tested romantic formula, then other showrunners can surely do the same."
The Success of Heated Rivalry Should Not Be a Surprise — Fansplaining
Romancelandia understands why the show is a hit. Why is it so hard for Hollywood to get the message?
www.fansplaining.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"This should really be a wakeup call for studio executives who believe that love stories can’t succeed on their own," @gavia.bsky.social writes. "If Jacob Tierney can strike gold by adapting a tried-and-tested romantic formula, then other showrunners can surely do the same."