Eight Book Minimum: Brought to you by Short Business

[spindizzy]

This issue of Eight Book Minimum is brought to you at least partially by bookgazing and her short story recs! I finally got around to reading and rereading a bunch of short stories, and they've shown up here.

(Reminder; an asterisk means that the story contains sexual assault or rape. To my recollection, The Lion and the Crow is the only one where it's explicit and the other all have it implied, but better safe than sorry.)

1. Spectred Isle by KJ Charles [Jump]


2. The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian [Jump]


3. Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner [Jump] *


4. The Lion and the Crow by Eli Easton [Jump] *


5. Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher [Jump]


6. Space Battle Lunchtime Volume 1: Lights, Camera, Snacktion! by Natalie Reiss [Jump]


7. The Joy of Baking by Holly Lyn Walrath [Jump]


8. Cardinal Orchard by Alex Singer [Jump]


9. If We Live To Be Giants by Alison Mulder [Jump]


10. Frozen Heart, Melting Kiss by Ellie Darkins [Jump]


11. The House That Made The Sixteen Loops of Time by Tamsin Muir [Jump]


12. Selkie Stories Are For Losers by Sofia Samatar [Jump]


13. A Recipe For Magic by Kat Howard and Fran Wilde [Jump]


14. Ida & Beezle by Alex Singer and Sarah Magelky [Jump]


15. Breaking the Spell by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz [Jump]


16. The Wolf and the Tower by Kelly Sandoval [Jump]


17. The Auntie by Alyssa Wong and Wendy Xu [Jump]


18. The Selkie Wives by Kendra Fortmeyer [Jump] *


19. The House That Creaks by Elaine Cuyegkeng [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 128/150 (19 new this post) Prose: 71/50 (17 new this post)
New-to-me female authors: 36/50 (12 new this post; Rose Lerner, Eli Easton, Natalie Reis, Holly Lyn Walrath, Ellie Darkins, Tamsin Muir, Kat Howard, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Kelly Sandoval, Wendy Xu, Kendra Fortmeyer, Elaine Cuyegkeng)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 38/80 (1 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerasfuckbookclub: 43/128 (Spectred Isle, The Ruin of a Rake, The Lion and the Crow, Space Battle Lunchtime Volume 1, The Joy of Baking, Selkie Stories Are For Losers, Breaking the Spell)

The YA Agenda – December 2017

[helloladies]

It’s December, the season for me to badger all my friends into letting me pick out gifts for them to buy their friends. To break up the tedium of me shoving Starfish at everybody this holiday season, I’ve asked some brilliant YA people to tell me what one YA (or YA-ish) book they’re giving as a gift this year. Let the gift ideas commence!

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( What's out in December? )