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The Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast
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🎙️Join Hugo Powell and award winning author Nicholas Binge each month to tackle a new book, discuss what makes it work and write the best book ever.
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🗓️ 27 Nov book: Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho

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We are 10 months into the Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast and we have read 10 great books! But here are my 5 favourite.

@hironennes.bsky.social -Leech @emmanewman.bsky.social - Planetfall
@kshams.bsky.social - Homefire
Samanta Schweblin - Fever Dream
Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
💙📚 #bookish
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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5 things I have learned about writing from the best selling author Nicholas Binge (Ascension, Professor Everywhere, Extremity) @bingewriting.bsky.social

🚨big announcement!!!🚨

We are joining the STET podcast network with our good friends @ukpageone.bsky.social

💙📚 #writingcomunity #bookish #books
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I was given three choices of book for the next episode. The challenge for @bingewriting.bsky.social - a book where no one dies.
Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social

When he told me the title I instantly knew it was this one! Cannot wait to get my teeth into it!
💙📚 #books
The cover of the romance novel Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho. The cover features a stylish woman with curly black hair wearing a blue blazer, pink top, sunglasses and gold hoopy earrings. Reflected in the sunglasses is the torso of a man in a suit. ‘It’s a very thin line between love and hate…’
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Wait #Warhammer 40k books are good?!

In this episode of the Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast we talk:

🌀 Genre blending and how to get the best out of mixing styles

🌳 Xenobiology

🤦‍♂️ Boy literature and the problem with lacking lady energy

🥂 and we build on the lore of the lithe waiter

💙📚 #books
The cover of Xenia by Dan Abnett. Two burly men is extravagant armor stand side by side with pistols in hand. One is draped in gold and wears a mask that covers his eyes. The other has close cropped brown hair and goatee. Both are very buff and tall. They appear to be in an icy environment. In gold the word ‘Xenos’ is written
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I have discovered why this book was sold by its former owner -Stewart’s Melville College library in Edinburgh

‘Good condition’ my arse. But in all fairness it doesn’t bother me, I quite like it tbh. Gives the book character.

If anyone knows what it says on page 121 lines 19-22 of Xenos thenLMK
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A giant grey splotch in the centre of the page of my book
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Another thing an e-reader can never emulate!

I love buying a second hand book and finding the library tag in the front. In an odd way it makes you feel connected to the many readers of this same copy before you.

So thank you Stewart’s Melville College Library!

💙📚 #circulareconomy #books #library
The inside of a novel where a a library checkout tag can be found with multiple dates stamped inside.
October 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I know what this looks like okay but hear us out!

I wanted to read something @bingewriting.bsky.social hadn’t read!

Turns out, it’s actually pretty good! Join us on the 30th October (day before spooky day) wherever you get your podcasts on the Binge Reading Bookclub.
💙📚 #writingcommunity #books
The cover of the book Xenos by Dan Abnett. Two menacing looking soldiers stand fully armoured looking brooding. Xenos is written in gold accross the middle
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I know what this looks like okay but hear us out!

I wanted to read something @bingewriting.bsky.social hadn’t read!

Turns out, it’s actually pretty good! Join us on the 30th October (day before spooky day) wherever you get your podcasts on the Binge Reading Bookclub.
💙📚 #writingcommunity #books
The cover of the book Xenos by Dan Abnett. Two menacing looking soldiers stand fully armoured looking brooding. Xenos is written in gold accross the middle
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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@bingewriting.bsky.social said this novel is based on the Greek play Antigone so I’m intrigued to see how it plays out.

Join us on the 28th sept on the Binge Reading Bookclub where we discuss Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

@kshams.bsky.social
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The cover of Home Fire by Kamila shamsie. Brightly coloured pieces of paper overlap to form a flower pattern
September 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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This is what I imagine the MC of Leech by Hiron Ennes looks like. 💙📚

Maria of the Astral Clocktower. Thought she was such a hard boss, little did I know what awaited me at the end of the fisherman’s village.
A woman dressed in black Victorian clothing. A jaunty tricorn hat, elaborate brooch, bloody neckerchief. She is pale and dead eyed. Maria of the astral clock tower from the Bloodborne game by From Software
September 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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F you tumblr! I didn’t need this thrown directly in my face first thing on a Thursday morning!
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A jumbo jet being pulled by a bicycle. The jet is the story in my head, the bike is my writing skill.
August 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Congrats @bingewriting.bsky.social on the great panel at WorldCon @seattlein2025.org pretty cool to see him next to some fantasy legends @hollyblack.bsky.social, @mattruff.bsky.social, Caitlyn Rozakis and Leigh Bardugo (maybe he can convince some of then to be guests, let’s see…)
WolrdCon 2025 panel members lined up including Nicholas binge, Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black, Matt Ruff, Caitlyn Rosalia.
August 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This #comic strip just makes me happy every time I think of it. A simple man of simple pleasures I am.
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Jules verne writes his fan mail to Edgar Alan Poe. Presented as a teeny bopper fan girl writing letters in their bedroom. Poe reads this letter with great confusion.
August 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Exciting news! The marvelous @sunyidean.com will be joining us on the Binge Reading Boockclub podcast on the 28th August to talk to us about Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social

So follow us here so you forget and do your homework because so far this novel is just incredible! 💙📚 #writingcommunity
August 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I could not agree more funny sticker on a urinal at a music festival!
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A sticker on a metal wall saying ‘Music Sounds Better with Books’
July 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who, who no answers only.
Non other than Flash Gordon! A blond man in a red sleeveless shirt holds a golden sword aloft
July 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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On the 31st July we will talking about Sleeping Giants by @neuvel.net

I have no idea what to expect yet but I am very excited to be reading some more Sci-fi! 💙📚
🪐💙 #writingcommunity
The cover of Sylvain Neuvel’s novel Sleeping Giants. A dark starry background with a diamond in the centre that is filled with a mechanical pattern in the shape of cogs.
July 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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If anyone can help me interpret this statue of Franz Kafka I would greatly appreciate it! 📚💙
Famous statue of Franz Kafka on the outskirts of the Jewish quarters in Prague. Kafka is sat atop a person with no hands or head
June 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My face when I’m told my writing is deeply critical of late 19th century political bureaucracies when really I just applied my lip gloss perfectly today… 📚💙
Nikolai Gogol look well sassy with excellent shadows on his face.
June 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I was intrigued by the ‘historicity’ of A Gentleman in Moscow and thankfully the author has a very handy little page to consult on the Metropol Hotel: www.amortowles.com/moscow-metro...
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Inb4 yes I’m using a stick of gum as a bookmark, I decided to cash in the 1000 yen note I was using for coffee
The Cover of the Novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. It features a man in a suit leaning out of a balcony window and the title in large red font. A packet of gum sticks out the top of the book Amor Towles sitting in room 217 of the Metropol Hotel while writing a Gentleman in Moscow.
June 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Weird Fiction? Magical realism? Is #severance weird fiction or magical realism? I’m trying to wrap my head around this idea properly. I am familiar with 20th century North and South American magical realism but trying to find contemporary examples (other than Fever Dream). 💙📚💬💙
June 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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On to the next monthly #read. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Inb4 yes I use 1000 yen note as a bookmark, I lost my nice fancy one in the desert while on holiday and I refuse to dog ear pages. 📚💙
The cover of the book ‘a gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles.
June 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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At the end of every episode of the #podcast, I add a few sentences to the greatest novel ever written. Normally my efforts are laughably bad but luckily I have @bingewriting.bsky.social on hand to correct me. Here is the latest addition, without corrections. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #bookclub
June 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Thank you Spellbinder #Bookshop in Bishop, CA for having A Gentleman in Moscow in stock while I am road tripping up the eastern Sierras. Always support independent bookshops if you can! I know they deliver all over the world :^ )
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The novel A Gentleman in Moscow held up in from of the window of Spellbinder Books in Bishop CA
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I’m sure you get this question all the time but here goes. @lainitaylor.bsky.social if you were godspawn, what would your godspawn power be? 💙📚 #booksky
#bookclub
#writingcommunity
#podcast
May 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM