Lady Business

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. STET by Sarah Gailey [Jump]


2. The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker [Jump]


3. The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society by T. Kingfisher [Jump]


4. The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander [Jump]


5. The Evaluators by N. K. Jemisin [Jump]


6. Your Slaughterhouse, Your Killing Floor by Sunny Moraine [Jump]


7. Which Super Little Dead Girl^TM Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out! by Nino Cipri [Jump]


8. Abandonware by Genevieve Valentine [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 54/200 (8 new this post) Prose: 18/100 (8 new this post) Short fiction: 16/18 (8 new this post) Nonfiction: 2/12
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 18/100 (0 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 19/75 (new this post)

Okay, SLOWLY wrapping up my reading from 2018! This is the last of the short fiction I read, and I think I managed to luck out into finding some pretty good ones! (If you have any recs for short fiction that you love: PLEASE PLEASE SEND ME LINKS, I am always here for more!)

1. The King in the Cathedral by Rich Larson [Jump]


2. Stone Hunger by N. K. Jemisin [Jump]


3. On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts by Richard Park [Jump]


4. The Fisherman and the Pig by Kameron Hurley [Jump]


5. The Steadfast Tin Automaton by Alex Singer [Jump]


6. What to Do When It's Nothing But Static by Cassandra Khaw [Jump]


7. Valedictorian by N. K. Jemisin [Jump]


8. The Trojan Girl by N. K. Jemisin [Jump]

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Reading Goals

Reading goal: 174/180 (8 new this post) Prose: 96/90 (8 new this post, 60/97 short fiction) Nonfiction: 6/12 (0 new this post)
#getouttamydamnhouse: 24/50 (0 gone this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 64/50 (2 new this post; The King in the Cathedral, The Steadfast Tin Automaton)

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.)