Things I've Read Recently
- Uncanny Magazine, 49 - not completely finished, so will be reading the remaining stories this month.
- BBC History Magazine, October 2022 - some articles only
- North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell (Clare Wille, narrator)
- Still ongoing listening while crafting. Next big crafting binge is scheduled for Saturday, so hoping to get this mostly (if not completely) finished by the end of the week. Unfortunately that also means that it will count under December not November.
- Prudence and the Dragon / Zen Cho
- Nice short, losely related to the Sorcerer to the King series but in a modern London.
- The House of Aunts / Zen Cho
- Hauntingly interesting. Longer than a short, so took me two sittings due to time constraints this month.
- Unterminator / Zen Cho
- Sometimes flash fiction can be great, like a snack when you have the munchies. This was was more like only having a biscuit but when you start reading you realise you actually want dinner. Unsatisfying. The premise was good, but the whole just didn't do it for me.
- The Guest / Zen Cho
- This was a lovely short, with intriguing characters. I would like to meet them all again, if possible, so hoping the author writes a novel in this world.
- Дом с мезонином / Чехов
- Just read as part of my Russian course.
I'm now working on what books I can reasonably expect to finish over Christmas, and then splitting my plans for 2023 into Short and Long lists. I need to remember to leave space for any books I'm given for Christmas as they will become priority reads.
My shortlist is things I can reasonably expect to read within 2023, and the longlist is for items that I'm either less likely to read (e.g. access reasons), or are "would like to read soon" vs "really want to read now" - the latter going onto my shortlist. Books which I need to reserve and collect from the library, as well as books which aren't in the library and I'd need to buy, go into the Longlist, but would get moved to the shortlist if I get them.
