Books and That, #5 (January 2023)

  

Things I've Read Recently

• Uncanny Magazine, 49 50
• Apex Magazine, 133 135
  
• BBC History Magazine, November & December 2022 - some articles only

Books - any format

• Legends and Lattes - bookgroup book for Jan 2023
• North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell (Clare Wille, narrator)
• MUST FINISH!
• I admit to not listening to this in depth, but as a southerner living in the industrial North West (Gaskell herself lived in Manchester at one point) I have empathy with Margaret Hale and her mother on ending up in a part of the country quite unlike that which they were used to. I'm finding audiobooks are great for listening to when sewing and crafting as they reduce my need for self-distraction when both my brain and hands are occupied.
• Regent's Park: From Tudor Hunting Ground to the Present / Paul A. Rabbitts
• Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe / John H. Arnold
• Witches and Warriors: 5 Fantasy Novels
• A Kindle freebie multi-book selection which I'd read about 3 stories before getting very irritated by a poorly edited one and putting the thing down. One of the issues of ebooks, for me, is that they are very much out of sight, out of mind once you stop actively reading them...
• The Human Experience: Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry / edited by Georgii Andzhaparidze
• The Resurrectionist of Caligo / Wendy Trimboli
• Got this as an ARC far too long ago, and got stuck at a certain point despite loving the world.
• No Longer a Gentleman (The Lost Lords #4) / Mary Jo Putney
• Was reading this series as a binge while in a low mood insomnia bout, and unintentionally stopped when I started feeling better.
• The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) / N.K. Jemisin
• Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (British Library Tales of the Weird Book 16) / edited by Elizabeth Dearnley
• Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons
• The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways / Wilbert Awdry
• Found on IA during lockdown and again, lost track of when put down.
• The Machine Breaker Convicts from the Proteus and the Eliza / Bruce W. Brown
• The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) / John Scalzi
• Old Peter's Russian Tales / Arthur Ransome
• The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History that created your World – Children's Edition / Peter Frankopan
• The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe #1) / Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) / R.F. Kuang
• Infinity Wars / edited by Jonathan Strahan

SCC on loan books

• Regent's Park : from Tudor hunting ground to the present / Rabbitts, Paul A.,
• Elsewhens / Rawn, Melanie,
• The way of all flesh / Parry, Ambrose,
• The hundred thousand kingdoms / Jemisin, N. K.,
• Thorn / Khanani, Intisar,
• The hunt / Neill, Chloe,
• Children of blood and bone / Adeyemi, Tomi,
• Blood of elves / Sapkowski, Andrzej,
• Redemption's blade : after the war / Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-
• Cursor's fury / Butcher, Jim, 1971-
• Shadow and bone / Bardugo, Leigh,
• In ashes lie / Brennan, Marie,
• The ten thousand doors of January / Harrow, Alix E.,

Bonuses for reading time: A week away at the beginning of January, and a vague possibility of a trip to Leeds in the near future.