{"id":14603,"date":"2026-02-01T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14603"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:33:51","slug":"monthly-story-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14603","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Story Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read 12 books in January:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Carter of La Providence<\/em> by Georges Simenon<\/li>\n<li><em>Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing<\/em> with David Naimon<\/li>\n<li><em>Haunt Sweet Home<\/em> by Sarah Pinsker<\/li>\n<li><em>Three Days in June<\/em> by Anne Tyler<\/li>\n<li><em>Elevation<\/em> by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li><em>The Man Who Japed<\/em> by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><em>Black Moses<\/em> by Alain Mabanckou<\/li>\n<li><em>Absolute Batman Vol 1: The Zoo<\/em> by Scott Snyder et al.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dreamsnake<\/em> by Vonda N. McIntyre<\/li>\n<li><em>What Moves the Dead<\/em> by T. Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li><em>Time and Again<\/em> by Jack Finney<\/li>\n<li><em>The Flash: Book One<\/em> by Mark Waid et al.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read 39 short stories in January. These were my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Sun Globe&#8221; by Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw (PodCastle)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Give a Dog a Bone&#8221; by Richard E. Dansky (PseudoPod)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Versions of Yourself That You&#8217;re Better Off Without&#8221; by Aimee Ogden (Nightmare)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Body? Glass&#8221; by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Nightmare)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Stairs for Mermaids&#8221; by MM Schreier (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Doorkeepers&#8221; by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sing&#8221; by Jules Bly (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Hip&#8221; by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Orchard Village Catalog&#8221; by Parker Peevyhouse (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Stars You Can&#8217;t See by Looking Directly&#8221; by Samatha Murray (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Speaking for Those With Obsidian Tongues&#8221; by Wendy Nikel (Small Wonders)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Spindle of Necessity&#8221; by B. Pladek (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Symbiote&#8221; by Diana T. Chiu-Chu (kh?r\u00e9?)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Baron Quits the Payloaders&#8221; by Renan Bernardo (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Peculiarities of Hunger&#8221; by Woody Dismukes (kh?r\u00e9?)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Joiner and Rust&#8221; by Lavie Tidhar (Reactor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14603\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14604,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603\/revisions\/14604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}