One of the things I miss the most about editing is the opportunity to share the exciting things I’ve read. When you edit a fiction magazine, you can point out the great new authors, or the marvelous short story by a master of the form. I lost that platform when I gave up editing to concentrate on my writing.
Of course, the difference here is that I’m not limited to short fiction or fiction at all. What you’ll find under each month’s heading are the stories, articles, essays, novels and non-fiction books that impressed me in the preceding four weeks. I’ll try to provide links whenever possible.
What you won’t find here will be critical commentary or negative reviews. There are too many good things to read in this world; I generally don’t finish something I don’t enjoy.
So anything I list here, with or without commentary, is something I enjoyed. I hope you will too.
It took me a long time to finish this list, and I did start it in July, like usual. There’s just a lot to recommend from what I was reading. And a few things I’m not going to recommend, mentioned below. A good reading month, all in all. Read a recently published history of 1929. I […]
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This rather short list makes it look like I didn’t read much in June, but I did. I had some misfires (as you can see), and I read quite a few things that I didn’t think were worth recommending. And then there’s Kelley Armstrong… I binged the Kelley Armstrong Rockton/Haven’s Rock series until I caught […]
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With school over (as of the first week of May), I have more time to read. I occasionally binged a novel. I’ve had some down days as the chronic health issues flared and on one lovely day, I read two entire novels, something I hadn’t done since the damn dental surgeries of 2023. It was […]
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I had a good reading month. Lots of fun things, although a couple of the novels read slowly. (Meaning I had to savor every word. Oh, woe is me!) I did finish a crappy mystery anthology. It was the one I was reading at UNLV during lunch, although a number of students ended up co-opting […]
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Technically, the first thing I finished reading was Anton Chekov’s The Seagull for my theatre history class. I’d read both the play and the short story the first time I was in college 100,000 years ago, and didn’t like them then. I decided to give the dang thing a chance again. Still didn’t like it, […]
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I had a lovely February of reading. Lots more time than I expected, which is fun. As regular readers of this feature know, I don’t recommend everything nor should I, considering I’ve also been reading 300-year-old plays for my Theatre History class. But there’s lots of good here, including a nonfiction book that everyone in […]
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The final “old” list! I finally got here. I had books stacked all over the condo, magazines falling off tables, because I got so far behind. September’s list is the final one to catch up on, and after that, I’m current. If you’d like to see the most recent list (December’s), click here. In the […]
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Well, this posted early. Because I’m an airhead. So I’m just going to add to it as the rest of the month goes on. Whoops! I took 8 days of my leisure reading time to watch Season Five of Stranger Things, and now I regret it. The show’s always been a tough watch for me–children in […]
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As I mentioned in previous posts, I really got behind on my recommended reading lists. But I stored the books and articles, knowing I could catch up. I didn’t expect to get nearly seven months behind, but then I didn’t expect the last few years either. I’ve put out most of the old lists. Now, […]
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Hah! The first Recommended Reading List that’s been on time in months (years?). I finished it in December, and am putting it up as soon as I can. Feels good. All of this, except for this little part, was written in December as I finished my reading. Now onto finishing the last 2 from 2025…and […]
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