Lady Business

My local comic store does this comic book of the month thing, where they offer money off whatever they think the best new graphic novel is. I buy them as a way to try out new genres and creators that I might otherwise skip! ... And then I read the ones that are obviously relevant to my interests as soon as I get them, and everything else gets put on a bookcase and immediately forgotten. But my decluttering adventures mean that they've sifted back to the top of my TBR pile, so here's a few that I've tried recently.

1. Grimoire Noir by Vera Greentea and Yana Bogatch [Jump]


2. The Great North Wood by Tim Bird [Jump]


3. Something City by Ellice Weaver [Jump]


4. Livestock by Hannah Berry [Jump]


5. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart [Jump]


6. The Fade Out: Act One by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser [Jump]


7. Why Art? by Eleanor Davis [Jump]


8. The Realist by Asaf Hanuka [Jump]


9. Supercrash by Darryl Cunningham [Jump]


10. The Motherless Oven by Rob Davis [Jump]


11. Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 131/200 (11 new this post) Prose: 39/100 (0 new this post)
Nonfiction: 9/12 (3 new this post; The Realist, Supercrash, and I think The Great North Wood counts?)
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 48/100 (9 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 56/75 (0 new this post)

Hello my darlings! I feel like my Mount TBR has suffered a landslide and buried me under it, but don't worry! I've started digging my way out, and hopefully I'll see daylight by the end of the year. I've realised that the ADHD does in fact affect my reading (like, say, how hard it is for me to be motivated to read prose!), so that's making the bookshelf weeding I'm doing this month into a fun and interesting exercise of "Do I really think I'm going to get around to reading this?" ... Sometimes the answer is no, and it turns out that I'm okay with that! CHARACTER GROWTH!

1. Out of the Ashes by MJ James [Jump]


2. Fuku Fuku Volume 1 by Kanata Konami, Marlaina McElheny (Translator), Ed Chavez (Translator) [Jump]


3. The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles [Jump]


4. Gilded Cage by KJ Charles [Jump]


5. Bobbins by John Allan [Jump]


6. Hellbound Lifestyle by Alabaster Pizzo and Kaeleigh Forsyth [Jump]


7. Stumptown Volume 1 by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth [Jump]


8. Rat Catcher by Andy Diggle and Victor Ibanez [Jump]


9. Apple Cider Slaying by Julie Ann Lindsey [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 107/200 (9 new this post) Prose: 37/100 (4 new this post) (24/37 short stories)
Nonfiction: 5/12 (0 new this post)
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 39/100 (3 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 43/75 (Out of the Ashes, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter, Gilded Cage, Stumptown)

This month Friend of the Business and short fiction expert forestofglory has been hosting a short story reading challenge, Stacking The Stories! I'm taking part, and it's been pretty great for me – I've started cracking through some of the MYRIAD anthologies I've collected, and more of the novellas and novelettes for the Hugos! The thread of what I've been reading is here, and if you want to leave me and/or forestofglory recommendations, please feel free!

(Q: Susan, was this all a cunning ruse to get more people recommending short fiction?
A: I COULDN'T POSSIBLY SAY.)

1. The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander [Jump]


2. The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark [Jump]


3. Ashes to Ashes by Floris M. Kleijne [Jump]


4. The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado [Jump]


5. Thick as Pea Soup by Christopher D. Leonard [Jump]


6. The Words In Frosting by Mary E. Lowd [Jump]


7. Women Making Bees in Public by Alexandra Erin [Jump]


8. The Emperor's New Bird by Mary E. Lowd [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 98/200 (8 new this post) Prose: 39/100 (32/39 short fiction)
Nonfiction: 3/12
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 35/100 (0 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 36/75 (1 new this post; The Husband Stitch)

1. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth by Daryl Gregory [Jump]


2. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly [Jump]


3. The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer [Jump]


4. If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho [Jump]


5. Miss Violet May From the Twelve Thousand Lakes by Tina Connolly [Jump]


6. Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen [Jump]


7. Okay, Glory by Elizabeth Bear [Jump]


8. Truth Plus by Jamie Wahls [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 80/200 (8 new this post) Prose: 26/100 (24/26 short stories) Nonfiction: 2/12
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 34/100 (0 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 27/75 (2 new this post; Nine Last Days on Planet Earth and If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again)

1. Giant Days Volume 1 by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Whitney Cogar [Jump]


2. Lumberjanes Volume 2 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Leonardo Favia, Maarta Laiho, Brooke Allen, and Brooke A. Allen [Jump]


3. House of the Sun Volume 1 by Taamo [Jump]


4. Mushishi Volumes 1-10 by Yuki Urushibara, translated by William Flanagan [Jump]


5. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles [Jump]


6. Hexhunter by Jordan L. Hawke [Jump]


7. Time and Again Volume 1 by JiUn Yun [Jump]


8. Blue Sheep Reverie Volumes 1 and 2 by Makoto Tateno [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 72/200 (18 new this post) Prose: 18/100 (2 new this post) Nonfiction: 2/12
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 34/100 (16 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 25/75 (6 new this post; Giant Days, Lumberjanes, Any Old Diamonds, Hexhunter, Blue Sheep's Reverie)