Posting early because there is zero chance I get to read anything else this month. March always sucks for me. Note that February’s post didn’t get to go up till tonight either. I’m stealing time from sleep to do this.…
Ignore that it’s basically April and I didn’t otherwise write a blurb for this. I am in three book clubs lately: A fantasy bookclub that a friend and I accidentally hijacked from a passive organizer, who seems quietly devastated to…
Man, doing this is suddenly a pain in the ass. It’s not just that I read a lot this month— I’m also logging more essays and articles than I usually bother to. But I don’t want to lose or bookmark…
I suspect this might be a short list. Or maybe it's that my memory is in shambles. Looking over what I read this year... Books Leech by Hiron Ennes was a fun, gothic, post-apocalyptic sci fi. The supporting characters were…
Yay happy new year. I don’t like my brain chemistry lately. I have an anxiety disorder that means I do very well when kept desperately busy, but slide into malaise once the pressure lets up. On the plus side, I…
Ughhhhhh sick. Just gonna post this without a “diary entry” preamble, or else it’ll never happen. Short Stories and Essays “Malfunctioning Sex Robot” by Patricia Lockwood A roast of John Updike that’s laugh-out-loud funny at times. It needed to be,…
This is the month I read about 200 stories for the upcoming issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge. But I can’t talk about any of that yet. Short stories “Changeling” by William Alexander A robots-as-people story about mail fraud and theater…
I read a crap ton this month, but it was 90% stuff I can’t talk about. I joined the team going through slush for Translunar Travelers Lounge. TTL is a speculative fiction magazine focused on “fun” stories. Lest ye sin,…
This month I decided fuck it: If I’ve read a nonfiction piece over a certain wordcount, it may go in the diary, depending on whether my left leg itches or Mars is in the fifth spleen. I’m on a nonfiction…
This month was made memorable by my workload reaching a low ebb. Unfortunately, this also happened for everyone else in my office, so they are bugging me all day always constantly!!! If I could get ten freaking uninterrupted minutes of…