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April[001] Rat Queens Vol 8 The God Dilemma by Ryan Ferrier
[002] Aru Shah and the City of Gold by Roshani Chokshi
[003] Shadow Service Vol. 1 by Cavan Scott
[004] Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
[005] Kill Whitey Donovan by Sydney Duncan
[006] Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
[007] Chaos Rising: A Loki Fantasy Adventure by Lyra Wolf
[008] Mischief Maker: Norse Mythology Reimagined by Bruce Nesmith
[009] Defekt by Nino Cipri
[010] Championess by Tarun Shanker
May
[001] Lumberjanes, Vol. 18: Horticultural Horizons by Shannon Watters
[002] Embodied: An Intersectional Comics Poetry Anthology by Wendy Chin-Tanner
[003] Money Shot Vol. 2 by Tim Seeley
[004] Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
[005] Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
[006] Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire
[007] The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory
[008] Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by Miguel M. Morales
June
[001] Survive the Night by Riley Sager
[002] The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
[003] The Serpent's Fury by Kelley Armstrong
[004] Doctor Who: Legends of Camelot by Jacqueline Rayner
January[001] Outlawed by Anna North
[002] Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
[003] Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert
[004] The Death of Victor Frankenstein by Julian Shrike
[005] Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
[006] Dryad, Vol. 1 by Kurtis J. Wiebe
[007] A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
[008] Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt
[009] The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate
[010] The Bayou by Arden Powell
February
[001] Lumberjanes Vol. 17: Smitten in the Stars by Shannon Watters
[002] A Man Among Ye, Vol. 1 by Stephanie Phillips
[003] The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
[004] Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire
[005] Wonderstruck by Allie Therin
[006] Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer
March
[001] Dry Foot by Jarred Lujan
[002] Sera and the Royal Stars Vol. 2 by Jon Tsuei
[003] Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
[004] When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
[005] Dead Space by Kali Wallace
October[113] Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote
[114] Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
[115] The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
[116] Goth by Otsuichi
[117] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
[118] The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates
[119] Creepy Cat, Vol. 1 by Cotton Valent
[120] A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez
[121] The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
[122] The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector
[123] Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
[124] The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat
[125] The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick D'Arcy
November
[126] Bird Box by Josh Malerman
[127] Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
[128] Girls Against God
[129] An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
[130] Red Thorn, Volume 1: Glasgow Kiss by David Baillie
December
[131] When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán
[132] The Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV
[133] The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner
[134] Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (2019-) #1 by Kami Garcia
[135] Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
[136] Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke
July[077] Thor: The Trials of Loki by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
[078] Lies, Knives, and Apples by Lyra Wolf
[079] You Are Invited by Sarah A. Denzil
[080] Trickster's Law by Sofia Aves
[081] GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle
[082] The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics by Elaine Pagels
[083] Transgender History by Susan Stryker
[084] Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols
[085] Loki's Saga: A Novel of the Norse Gods by J. Foslan
[086] Mischief Maker: Norse Mythology Reimagined by Bruce Nesmith
[087] Man Into Woman: The First Sex Change by Lili Elbe
[088] Loki: A Novel by Mohammed Ghassan Farija
[089] Doctor Strange by Donny Cates, Vol. 1: God of Magic
[090] Inferno by Dante Alighieri
August
[091] Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson
[092] Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt
[093] The Making of a Magician by Jennifer Meinking
[094] The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce by Angie Manfredi
[095] Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
[096] Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture by Per Faxneld
[097] Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
[098] 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School by James Felton
[099] Championess by Tarun Shanker
[100] To Summon Nightmares by J.K. Pendragon
[101] I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane
[102] Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
September
[103] Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
[104] Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier
[105] Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
[106] Stolen Science by Ella Schwartz
[107] The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate
[108] The Lucifer Chord by F.G. Cottam
[109] Halloween Eve by Brandon Montclare
[110] Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
[111] The Bayou by Arden Powell
[112] The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
April[032] Marvel's Thor: Metal Gods by Aaron Stewart-Ahn
[033] Shadow Service Vol. 1 by Cavan Scott
[034] Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
[035] Kill Whitey Donovan by Sydney Duncan
[036] The Hidden Power of F*cking Up by The Try Guys
[037] The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
[038] From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
[039] When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
[040] Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman
[041] I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
[042] Songs For The Dead Vol. 1 by Andrea Fort
[043] Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
May
[044] Embodied: An Intersectional Comics Poetry Anthology by Wendy Chin-Tanner
[045] Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
[046] Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom
[047] The Sorceress of the Strand by L.T. Meade
[048] The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West
[049] The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
[050] Killing Gravity by Corey J. White
[051] Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen
[052] Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker
[053] The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
[054] A week in the future : Catherine Helen Spence's 1888 forecast of life in 1988 by Catherine Helen Spence
[055] Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
[056] Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
[057] The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
[058] Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by Miguel M. Morales
[059] Borderline by Mishell Baker
[060] Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
[061] The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
June
[062] The Demon Lover by Dion Fortune
[063] Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron
[064] It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan
[065] Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
[066] Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs
[067] Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
[068] Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
[069] Salvation Day by Kali Wallace
[070] A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
[071] Stage Fright by Garrett Boatman
[072] Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner
[073] Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
[074] Prometheus Bound & Prometheus Unbound by Aeschylus & Shelley
[075] Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
[076] Loki by Robert Rodi
January[001] A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis
[002] Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 1: Trust Me by Al Ewing
[003] Critical Role – Vox Machina: Origins by Matthew Mercer
[004] Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
[005] Time Was by Ian McDonald
[006] Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
[007] Dame of Owls by A.M. Belrose
[008] Dangerous Dames by Jean Marie Ward
[009] The Last Witness by K.J. Parker
[010] Doctor Who: The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner
[011] Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
[012] White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
[013] Redshirts by John Scalzi
[014] Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
[015] The Death of Victor Frankenstein by Julian Shrike
[016] Night Shadows: Queer Horror by Greg Herren
February
[017] Tam Lin: A Modern, Queer Retelling by T.J. Deschamps
[018] Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
[019] From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees
[020] The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
[021] Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
[022] A Man Among Ye, Vol. 1 by Stephanie Phillips
[023] The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
[024] A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
[025] The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
March
[026] Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
[027] Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
[028] Dry Foot by Jarred Lujan
[029] Paradise Lost by John Milton
[030] Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
[031] The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
2021 Challenges✔ New 2 U Authors 2021
--- 136 books
✔ New Releases 2021
--- 76 books
❒ Never Ending Series [07/31/21 - 10/10/21] [10/10/21 - ??/??/??]
❒ Re-Read Rewind [/02/02/21-??/??/??]
✔ Decades Challenge 2021 [starts FEB 1]
--- 231 books
✔ Cleaning out the TBR Closet 2021
--- 60 books
✔ Decades Challenge 2020 [ends FEB 21]
--- 210 books
✔ Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
--- 27 books this year / 100 books total [DONE]
✔ Never Ending Series [11/20/20-02/02/21]
✔ Never Ending Series [02/02/21-05/29/21] [05/29/21 - 07/31/21]
✔ Re-Read Rewind [10/19/20-02/02/21]
✔ He Said, She Said
✔ Author Alphabet 2021
✔ All About You, Part 1
✔ All About You, Part 2
✔ Color Challenge
✔ Harry Potter Sorting Hat Challenge
✔ A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay
My Year in Books 2021
Goal: Reading: any book added before 2020, and as of 4/21 also any graphic novel or standalone novel added in 2020, and as of May just anything added in 2020 or before. My goal is to basically have my tbr entirely gone by the end of the year!
[001] Critical Role – Vox Machina: Origins by Matthew Mercer
[002] The Brilliant Death by A.R. Capetta
[003] Nobody's Princess by Esther M. Friesner
[004] Dangerous Dames by Jean Marie Ward
[005] White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
[006] Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
[007] Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
[008] The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
[009] Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
[010] Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
[011] Paradise Lost by John Milton
[012] The Dystopia Spell by Brian Olsen
[013] V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
[014] The Cipher by Kathe Koja
[015] Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
[016] The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
[017] Flesh-Colored Horror; 肉色の怪; Niku Iro no Kai by Junji Ito
[018] Marvel's Thor: Metal Gods by Aaron Stewart-Ahn
[019] Hellblazer, Volume 17: Out of Season by Mike Carey
[020] The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
[021] Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman
[022] Blue Bay Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
[023] Silk by Caitlín R. Kiernan
[024] Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
[025] I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
[026] Songs For The Dead Vol. 1 by Andrea Fort
[027] Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
[028] Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
[029] Temper by Nicky Drayden
[030] Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Brite
[031] Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
[032] Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom
[033] The Sorceress of the Strand by L.T. Meade
[034] The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West
[035] The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
[036] Killing Gravity by Corey J. White
[037] Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen
[038] Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker
[039] Jessica Jones, Vol. 1: Uncaged! by Brian Michael Bendis
[040] A week in the future : Catherine Helen Spence's 1888 forecast of life in 1988 by Catherine Helen Spence
[041] Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
[042] Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
[043 [book:The Blazing World|53630026] by Margaret Cavendish
[044] Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
[045] Borderline by Mishell Baker
[046] The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
[047] Jessica Jones: Blind Spot by Kelly Thompson
[048] Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter by Kelly Thompson
[049] The Demon Lover by Dion Fortune
[050] Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron
[051] Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
[052] Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs
[053] Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
[054] A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
[055] Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
[056] Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
[057] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings by L.T. Meade
[058] GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle
[059] Inferno by Dante Alighieri
[060] Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
inferno is actually the oldest book on my tbr right now so i could probably be persuaded to try the whole divine comedy if you decided on that
Doing another one!Start Date: 11/25/20
End Date: 2/2/21
Level: Sequence: 51 + books
01 Drink Down the Moon [Jack of Kinrowan Book 2] by Charles de Lint
02 Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild by Marjorie M. Liu
03 Return of the Thief [Queen's Thief Book 6] by Megan Whalen Turner
04 Pharos [Phaethon Book 2] by Rachel Sharp
05 Saga, Vol. 6 y Brbian K. Vaughan
06 Moonstruck, Vol. 3: Troubled Waters by Grace Ellis
07 The Hostile Hospital [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 8] by Lemony Snicket
08 Saga, Vol. 7 by Brian K. Vaughan
09 Blackout [Cal Leandros Book 6] by Rob Thurman
10 Doubletake [Cal Leandros Book 7] by Rob Thurman
11 Slashback [Cal Leandros Book 7] by Rob Thurman
12 Saga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan
13 Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan
14 The Carnivorous Carnival [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 9] by Lemony Snicket
15 Janes in Love [Plain Janes Vol 2] by Cecil Castellucci
16 Alias, Vol. 3: The Underneath by Brian Michael Bendis
17 Doctor Who: The Forever Trap [New Who Audio Exclusives Book 2] by Dan Abnett
18 The Slippery Slope [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 10] by Lemony Snicket
19 Alias, Vol. 4: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones by Brian Michael Bendis
21 The Grim Grotto [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 11] by Lemony Snicket
22 Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 2: I Cannot Tell a Lie by Al Ewing
23 iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire by Chris Roberson
24 Echo: Atomic Dreams by Terry Moore
25 The Faceless Ones [Skulduggery Pleasant Book 3] by Derek Landy
26 Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 3: Last Days by Al Ewing
27 Echo: Desert Run by Terry Moore
28 Echo: Collider by Terry Moore
29 Echo: Black Hole by Terry Moore
30 The Penultimate Peril [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12] by Lemony Snicket
31 Echo: The Last Day by Terry Moore
32 The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 13] by Lemony Snicket
33 Across the Green Grass Fields [Wayward Children Book 6] by Seanan McGuire
34 Jack of Fables, Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts by Bill Willingham
35 Downfall [Cal Leandros Book 9] by Rob Thurman
36 Wintersmith [Tiffany Aching Book 3] by Terry Pratchett
37 27, Volume 2: Second Set by Charles Soule
38 The Crow: Skinning the Wolves [The Crow Book 2] by James O'Barr
39 The Crow: Curare [The Crow Book 3] by James O'Barr
40 Doctor Who: The Stone Rose [Doctor Who: New Series Adventures Book 7] by Jacqueline Rayner
41 Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned [Doctor Who: New Series Adventures Book 8] by Stephen Cole
42 Chew, Vol. 2: International Flavor by John Layman
43 Tales From the Hinterland [The Hazel Wood] by Melissa Albert
44 I Shall Wear Midnight [Tiffany Aching Book 4] by Terry Pratchett
45 Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop by Simon Guerrier
46 The Shepherd's Crown [Tiffany Aching Book 5] by Terry Pratchett
47 Assassin's Creed: Revelations [AC Book 4] by Oliver Bowden
48 Doctor Who Volume 2: Tesseract by Tony Lee
49 Doctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion [Doctor Who New Series Audio Exclusives Book 3] by David Roden
50 Doctor Who Volume 3: Final Sacrifice by Tony Lee
51 The Last Olympian [Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book 5] by Rick Riordan
Nov 03, 2020 02:17PM
its fine either way i just wasn't sure bc i thought you dropped off before the halfway point even so i wasn't sure if you'd even want to try to finish it. but i'm definitely interested in hearing your thoughts if you read more!i went ahead and read the rest of it yesterday/today bc i just wanted to get it done with at this point
★★☆☆☆ “Singing My Sister Down,” 2005, Margo Lanagan
★★☆☆☆ “The People on the Island,” 2005, T.M. Wright
★★☆☆☆ “The Forest,” 2007, Laird Barron
★★☆☆☆ “Dust Enforcer,” 2008, Reza Negarestani
★★☆☆☆ “Little Lambs,” 2009, Stephen Graham Jones
★★☆☆☆ “Saving the Gleeful Horse,” 2010, K.J. Bishop
we're basically back to the 'what the hell even happened' / 'cannot remember a single detail immediately after reading it' thing with these stories so i don't really have much to say about them. interesting that the stories didn't overall get that much better for me towards the end like i thought they would though. i think the 80s / 90s was probaby the high point of this anthology for me and then it went down a bit again once we got to the 2000s
★★★☆☆ “Flat Diane,” 2004, Daniel Abraham
★★★☆☆ “The Hide,” 2007, Liz Williams
★★★☆☆ “The Familiars,” 2009, Micaela Morrissette
★★★☆☆ “The Portal,” 2010, J. Robert Lennon
these were all pretty enjoyable and had interesting premises that i thought were well executed. there was some eye rolling especially in flat diane and the portal with what i would consider a bit of ~edgy bullshit~ but still thought the stories were good overall.
★★★★☆ “In the Lion’s Den,” 2009, Steve Duffy
really liked this one, definitely my favorite out of this section, just thought it was a really interesting premise and didnt go how i was expecting it to
Nov 02, 2020 08:10AM
not sure if you're planning on trying to finish or just gave up but i'm gonna keep posting just bc i think i'm gonna link to this post in my review★★★☆☆ “The God of Dark Laughter,” 2001, Michael Chabon
ok i don't actually remember what this one was about but i remember liking it while i was reading it #oops lol
★★☆☆☆ “Details,” 2002, China Miéville
i just don't think i'm into china mieville. i thought i didn't like kraken bc i am so sick of lovecraft stuff but i'm starting to think he just doesn't write in a way that makes sense to me.
★★☆☆☆ “The Genius of Assassins,” 2002, Michael Cisco
another one of those that i just couldn't pay attention to. seems like it should have been interesting but my focus just kept glancing off it
X☆☆☆☆ “Feeders and Eaters,” 2002, Neil Gaiman [DNF]
didn't actually read this one past the first few paragraphs because i'm 99% sure i've read it before and that something awful happens to that cat. @neil what do you have against cats in your short stories???
★★☆☆☆ “The Cage,” 2002, Jeff VanderMeer [DNF]
womp womp, not a good sign when you DNF the story by the guy who put the anthology together. if it was shorter i would have finished but at this point if i'm not feeling it and it's longer than 5k i'm just like bleh
★★★☆☆ “The Beautiful Gelreesh,” 2003, Jeffrey Ford
thought this one was really interesting and had a good like dark mood to it, probably could have actually gone up to 4 stars if this had been one of the longer ones
★★★★☆ “The Town Manager,” 2003, Thomas Ligotti
really enjoyed this one and felt like it had a good ending, which a lot of these really seem to lack. definitely a good social commentary kind of thing.
★★★☆☆ “The Brotherhood of Mutilation,” 2003, Brian Evenson [DNF]
this one was actually REALLY good and i possibly would have given it four stars if i had been able to finish it but i think i stopped about a third of the way through bc it all just got to be too much for me. amputation is one of those things that really gets to me but i do think it was a good idea and well written.
★★★★☆ “The White Hands,” 2003, Mark Samuels
really liked this one, again it had a really good like dark gothic kind of mood that i enjoyed.
i feel like i can probably get to level 4 of the full version but i am kind of just reading what i want this year and then adding it if it fits somewhere and then seeing where i end up at the end. i finished the highest level last year and it was such a struggle. i felt like i was spending hours just trying to find books for a few of the years [apparently nothing i want to read was published in 2004 lol] so this year i decided not to stress about it and just see what happens.
Oct 05, 2020 06:35PM
went ahead and got these out of the way since there are apparently seven books coming out tomorrow that are on my tbr lol★★★☆☆ “The Ocean and All Its Devices,” 1994, William Browning Spencer
Still can’t really bring myself to care about anything Lovecraftian that much but it was an interesting story and had good momentum I felt.
★★☆☆☆ “The Delicate,” 1994, Jeffrey Ford
Liked the concept but it lost me somewhere and I felt like it was difficult to follow.
★★★☆☆ “The Man in the Black Suit,” 1994, Stephen King
More of a 2.5 really but I guess I’ll round up. It’s not bad by any means but also how many stories does Stephen King have where small town old timey meet the devil somewhere and then tell a story about it? I was just like ‘devil wears prada groundbreaking .gif’ the whole time.
★★☆☆☆ “The Snow Pavilion,” 1995, Angela Carter
Didn’t really care for this one. I’d read a short story collection by this author before and didn’t care for that either but thought this might be different because those were all fairytale retellings and this one isn’t but i guess this author just isn’t for me
★★★☆☆ “The Meat Garden,” 1996, Craig Padawer
This one did lose me at a few different points but it’s such an interesting idea. I’m not usually one for plant based body horror but this was definitely intriguing.
★★★☆☆ “The Stiff and the Stile,” 1997, Stepan Chapman
Actually really liked this one and it’s nice to have a short funny one for a change, but still a bit too short for me to really round it up to four stars.
★★★★☆ “Yellow and Red,” 1998, Tanith Lee
Really enjoyed this one. I’ve got a few books by this author on my tbr actually so I’m excited for when I finally get to those now
★★★★☆ “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998, Kelly Link
This one was very creepy, good atmosphere and pacing.
★★★☆☆ “A Redress for Andromeda,” 2000, Caitlín R. Kiernan
Generally I really like Kiernan but once again it’s just hard for me to care about Cthulhu stuff. Usually her stories have lesbians in them so that makes up for any Cthulhu stuff like this but alas this seems to be a rare lesbian-less story lol
twenty thousand leagues is on my list but i've been putting it off bc i keep hearing that about it lol i read journey to the center of the earth last year and basically i would say the last 3rd of it is good but yeah you will probably struggle getting to that point. i listened to it on audio though so i could kind of zone out whenever he was like 'i researched this so you have to hear about it even though it doesn't actually matter'
i've deleted way more than i've actually read this year but i do generally read the first chapter just to see if it grabs me [and it usually doesn't lol]
@Alysa yeah i never actually read Fangirl [or any of Rowell's books other than the two Carry On books] because i'm just so uninterested in contemporary YA stuff, but i am a huge harry/draco shipper so i was like well i'll check this out lol. (view spoiler)
Sep 04, 2020 05:26PM
went ahead and did this month's reading today since it was pretty short★★★★☆ “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood,” 1990, Poppy Z. Brite
on the one hand all of brite's stuff is just incredibly tryhard edgy bullshit but also it makes me incredibly nostalgic for all the bad opinions i had when i was 15 so like [shrug] also tbf this short story isn't nearly as messed up as most of his novels that i've read
★★★☆☆ “The End of the Garden,” 1991, Michal Ajvaz
maybe more of a 2.5 but it was interesting and had a coherent plot which is pretty much my 3 star standard for this book at this point. im thinking that i am probably being far more lenient on stuff than i was in the beginning, although maybe it is just getting better as we get to the newer stuff
★★★☆☆ “The Dark,” 1991, Karen Joy Fowler
again this one was really interesting but also i did not really understand how the different parts of the story fit together
★★☆☆☆ “Angels in Love,” 1991, Kathe Koja
idek, all i remember from this one is 'there was a bunch of weird sex'. 2 stars is the pretty standard 'don't actually remember the plot even though i read it 6 hours ago rating' at this point.
★★★☆☆ “The Ice Man,” 1991, Haruki Murakami
interesting and comprehensible, 3 stars lol
★★☆☆☆ “Replacements,” 1992, Lisa Tuttle
um ...i forgot to write any notes for this one so i do not remember what it was about. #oops
★★☆☆☆ “The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio,” 1993, Marc Laidlaw
the notes i have on this one are '???' so clearly i didn't even understand it at the time
★★★☆☆ “The Country Doctor,” 1993, Steven Utley
thought this one was pretty interesting, another one of those that i could definitely see as an episode of the twilight zone
DNF--- “Last Rites and Resurrections,” 1994, Martin Simpson
this one started with an animal death and i just didn't want to deal with that so dnf after the first few paragraphs
alysa i felt basically the same way about carry on. the first part just felt really weird like a lukewarm parody but taken too seriously to me but i really loved the second half
Aug 28, 2020 08:21AM
ok i am gonna have very bad comments on individual stories this month bc i read most of these like last fri/sat and then just totally forgot to come here and say anything lol, but i am caught up!★★☆☆☆ “Bloodchild,” 1984, Octavia Butler
★★★☆☆ “In the Hills, the Cities,” 1984, Clive Barker
★★★★☆ “Tainaron: Mail From Another City,” 1985, Leena Krohn
★★☆☆☆ “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands,” 1987, Garry Kilworth
DNF--- “Shades,” 1987, Lucius Shepard
★★★☆☆ “The Function of Dream Sleep,” 1988, Harlan Ellison
★★★☆☆ “Worlds That Flourish,” 1988, Ben Okri
★★☆☆☆ “The Boy in the Tree,” 1989, Elizabeth Hand
★★☆☆☆ “Family,” 1989, Joyce Carol Oates
from what i remember i didn't read shades bc it seemed like it was going to be very war focused and i don't really like war stories and my attention span was just very off that day. the harlan ellison one was pretty good but im so sick of listening to male authors tell me their deep insights into the minds of silly women so i got very turned off in a few areas of that. the clive barker and ben okri ones had a lot of really good imagery in them. don't really remember a lot about the ones that i gave 2 stars but i think it's probably just more of the bleh it's a story i guess kind of thing. actually really enjoyed tainaron even though i thought i wouldn't bc it was the longest by far but i think there was a lot of really good stuff in there even though it took awhile to get through.
