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I finished reading nine books this month, five by women/POC (this time all women), five for my Hugo awards monthly theme, one in Portuguese, and none in German (one longish short story collection in progress). I tried to read all … Continue reading →

A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett, is not quite like any other book I’ve read: “cosy fantasy horror crime” is the closest I can come to describing the genre. If I hadn’t been reading for the Hugo awards, … Continue reading →

I finished eight books this month, five for my monthly theme (Spain), four by women/POC, and one each in German and Portuguese. The Spanish theme was something of an accident: I started with Living Things, and decided to continue from … Continue reading →

I finished nine books this month, four as part of my “Nordic septologies” theme, seven by women/POC, and two in German. Starting with the Scandinavians, I read volumes three and four of Über die Berechnung des Rauminhalts (On the Calculation … Continue reading →

I finished eight books in April, four from the International Booker longlist (plus one former); four by women/POC and a feeble one in German. Lichtspiel was one of the best longlisted novels for me (along with the Shida Bazyar). There’s … Continue reading →

I finished 8 books in March: 5 for my month’s topic of South America, 2 for my failed topic of 1983 BYBN, 5 by women/PoC, and one each in German and Portuguese. Accidentally, five of the books were also re-reads, … Continue reading →

I finished 6 books this month, all of which fit more or less into my month’s theme of favourite writers, four by women/POC, and two in German. Portuguese might restart in March. The choice of theme was mainly because I’d … Continue reading →

I finished a very modest five books this month, three by women/PoC (again = women), four for my “Dorothy Richardson and environs” theme; one German, and none in Portuguese (I’m doing some listening instead). Starting with the inevitable, Pointed Roofs … Continue reading →