Monthly Story Time

I read 12 books in January:

  • The Carter of La Providence by Georges Simenon
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing with David Naimon
  • Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker
  • Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
  • Elevation by Stephen King
  • The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
  • Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
  • Absolute Batman Vol 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder et al.
  • Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
  • Time and Again by Jack Finney
  • The Flash: Book One by Mark Waid et al.

I read 39 short stories in January. These were my favorites:

  • “The Sun Globe” by Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw (PodCastle)
  • “Give a Dog a Bone” by Richard E. Dansky (PseudoPod)
  • “The Versions of Yourself That You’re Better Off Without” by Aimee Ogden (Nightmare)
  • “Body? Glass” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Nightmare)
  • “Stairs for Mermaids” by MM Schreier (Flash Fiction Online)
  • “The Doorkeepers” by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny)
  • “Sing” by Jules Bly (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
  • “Mother’s Hip” by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff (Lightspeed)
  • “The Orchard Village Catalog” by Parker Peevyhouse (Strange Horizons)
  • “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly” by Samatha Murray (Clarkesworld)
  • “Speaking for Those With Obsidian Tongues” by Wendy Nikel (Small Wonders)
  • “The Spindle of Necessity” by B. Pladek (Strange Horizons)
  • “Symbiote” by Diana T. Chiu-Chu (kh?ré?)
  • “Baron Quits the Payloaders” by Renan Bernardo (Escape Pod)
  • “The Peculiarities of Hunger” by Woody Dismukes (kh?ré?)
  • “Joiner and Rust” by Lavie Tidhar (Reactor)

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