Month in Review
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What I read in February 2022
I’m back after a short break from reviewing! In February I checked out Issue 1 of Archive of the Odd. The magazine presents itself as an archive of found documents, and all the stories within are some form of realistic artifact, be that notes on a PhD dissertation, text logs, NDAS, forums, or scientific reports…
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What I read in October 2021
I had such high hopes for my reading this month, even foolishly tweeting out my book plans for all to see. I read exactly one book in October, and it was absolutely none of the ones pictured above. But not all was lost! While I didn’t quite read as many books as I wanted this…
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What I read in September 2021
This month I took a break to chill out and read some Star Trek novels. I also read at turns gripping and charming short stories at Lit Up, Starward Shadows Quarterly, and Flash Point Science Fiction. I am switching up my formatting for this post so the short stories come first. I read some great…
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What I read in August 2021
I read a lot of great genre fiction this month, truly a fantastic August! Dragons, robots, and stellar phenomena abound! Books: The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories by Charles Payseur – I first encountered Payseur’s work with The Death of Paul Bunyan in Lightspeed Magazine. I remember listening to the audio version of the…
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What I read in July 2021
I read a lot of stories about climate this month. Stories that are hopeful, mournful, and rageful in turn. I also read stories about the joy of looking at and being a part of nature, and of looking up towards the wide open sky and all its stars. I’ve been trying to read outside more,…
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What I read in June 2021
I was sent a book by a friend this month (a great recommend on his part), and also read through the first issue of Black Cat Magazine.
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What I read in May 2021
A little late because I had a holiday on the 31st, and we all deserve rest. In May I read a fantastic novella, and several short stories of a mournful, and sometimes bitterly triumphant, nature.
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What I read in April 2021
I wanted to have some fun weekend reading this month, so I only read novellas and novelettes in the book department. Had some nice weekends sitting on the patio and reading a whole book all at once. I also read a nice mix of mournful sci-fi and dread-inducing horror short stories this month.
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What I read in March 2021
March was a month for dinosaurs. I read two books about fossil law (and what could be described as heists, depending on who you believe), re-read a childhood favorite, and read a book I never got around to in childhood. I also read some museum-based poetry, a short story about growing pains as a young…
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What I read January 2021
Books: When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo – A cleric must tell a story to three tiger sisters. Chih has the length of a night to tell the story of the famed tiger Ho Thi Thao and her human scholar lover, with the threat of being eaten looming over a bad…
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