Lady Business

1. Bodies to Die For: Negotiating the Ideal Female Body in Cozy Mystery novels by Katharina Vester [Jump]


2. Complex Age Volumes 1-6 by Yui Sakuma [Jump]


3. Princess Jellyfish Omnibus 2 by Akiko Higashimura [Jump]


4. Mushishi Volume 1 by Yuki Urushibara, translated by William Flanagan [Jump]


5. In/Spectre Volume 1 by by Kyo Shirodaira and Chashiba Katase [Jump]


6. Whyborne & Griffin 1-4 by Jordan L. Hawk (Widdershins, Threshold, Stormhaven, Eidolon (1.5), Necropolis, Carousel (3.4)) [Jump]


7. Scales & Scoundrels Volume 2 by Sebastian Girner [Jump]


8. Band Sinister by KJ Charles [Jump]


9. SPECTR Series 1 by Jordan L. Hawk (Hunter of Demons, Master of Ghouls, Reaper of Souls, Destroyer of Worlds, Eater of Lives, Summoner of Storms) [Jump]


10. Sweet Blue Flowers Volume 1 by Takako Shimura [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 141/180 (25 new this post(?!)) Prose: 85/90 (14 new this post, 52/85 short fiction) Nonfiction: 5/12 (1 new this post)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 24/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 58/50 (14 new this post; Whyborne & Griffin 1-4, Band Sinister, SPECTR Series 1, Sweet Blue Flowers Volume 1)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Friends, enemies, people just passing through: 2018 is gone and I could not be happier with this fact. I took December off reading (I know) which seems to have sent me into a frantic binge of manga and graphic novels, so that's something to look forward to! In the meantime, I figured I might as well catch up on the reviews that I've started for what I read last year, and then I can yell about my reading goals in a couple of weeks when I've finally figured out what I read last year!

1. Jem & The Holograms Volume 1 by Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell [Jump]


2. Kiss of the Rose Princess by Aya Shouoto [Jump]


3. Rat Queens Volume 1 [Jump]


4. Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Volume 1 by CLAMP [Jump]


5. My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 1 by Nagata Kabi [Jump]


6. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximel by KJ Charles [Jump]


7. Mail Volumes 1-3 by Housui Yamazaki [Jump]


8. His Sweet Restraint by Chifumi Ochi [Jump]


9. Sweet Whispers of Night by Chifumi Ochi [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 107/180 (9 new this post) Prose: 62/90 (1 new this post) Nonfiction: 4/12 (0 new this post)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 24/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 41/50 (6 new this post; Jem & The Holograms, Rat Queens, My Solo Exchange Diary, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximel, His Sweet Restraint, Sweet Whispers of Night.)

1. The Year of Silent Birds by Siobhan Carroll [Jump]


2. 50 Ways to Leave Your Fairy Lover by Aimee Picchi [Jump]


3. Five Functions of Your Bionosaur by Rachael K. Jones [Jump]


4. Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse by S. B. Divya [Jump]


5. Flow by Marissa Lingen [Jump]


6. A Very Large Number of Moons by Kai Stewart [Jump]


7. Graffiti Guardians by A. T. Greenblatt [Jump]


8. The Outlaw Tree by Alex Singer and Mildred Louis [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 90/180 (8 new this post) Prose: 57/90 (8 new this post) Nonfiction: 2/12 (0 new this post)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 23/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 30/50 (3 new this post)

Hello my darlings! I think I mentioned a million years ago that I'd read enough short fiction that I could start separating it out from my other reviews, and lo! Four months and shiny new treatment for my anxiety disorder later: here we are!

1. Wild Ones by Vanessa Fogg [Jump]


2. Mrs Peak and the Dragon [Jump]


3. Riddle by Ogbewe Amadin [Jump]


4. Have This Wish I Wish Tonight by Katherine Kellig [Jump]


5. My Pet Tiger by Jessica Dylan Miele [Jump]


6. Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim [Jump]


7. The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata [Jump]


8. Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand by Fran Wilde [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 74/180 (8 new this post) Prose: 46/90 (8 new this post) Short Fiction: 33/46 (8 new this post) Nonfiction: 1/12 (0 new this post)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 20/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 22/50 (0 new this post, although Have This Wish I Wish Tonight might count depending on how you read the All-Concealing I.)

A thing that's different about this instalment of Eight Book Minimum: I've started tracking my short fiction reading as a specific thing, rather than just going "Ah yes, prose!" Not because it doesn't count towards my prose goal, just because I want to know. (Unsurprisingly, most of my prose reading has been short fiction. I know, you're all shocked.) ... I think I've honestly got enough short fiction socked away for this column that I could make it it's own specific part of the schedule, but I am all out of punny names for a regular set of posts. If anyone has any ideas, HIT ME UP.

1. The Date by R. K. Kalaw [Jump]


2. The Future We Wanted by Leigh Alexander [Jump]


3. The Witches of Athens by Lara Elena Donnelly [Jump]


4. And Yet by A. T. Greenblatt [Jump]


5. When the Letter Comes by Sarah Fox [Jump]


6. Waiting on a Bright Moon by J. Y. Yang [Jump]


7. Across Pack Ice, A Fire by Marissa Lingen [Jump]


8. Out of the Rose Hills by Marissa Lingen [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 66/180 (8 new this post) Prose: 38/90, Short Fiction 25/38, Nonfiction: 1/12
#getouttamydamnhouse: 20/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 22/50 (4 new this post; The Date, The Witches of Athens, When the Letter Comes, Waiting on a Bright Moon)