Wow, it was hard to select pieces from Clarkesworld’s April Issue! I enjoyed almost every story I read in the April issue and had to force myself to pick only two. It’s always wonderful to read Clarkesworld and issues like these are like jewels in the crown for the magazine. I also really enjoyed the … Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from April 2022
I’m slowly catching up! Here is a selection of excellent short fiction I enjoyed in March 2022. I’ve also decided to include issues that are quarterly or bi-yearly rather than just monthly so some of these may be slightly out of sync. Otherwise, I’d not be fair to `zines that do not publish monthly! It … Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from March 2022
Short and sweet since the reading has been slow, and work has been intense. A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J Maas The Duke and I – Julia Quinn Lud-in-the-Mist — Hope Mirlees The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin Apart from this, I’m also reading a fistful of monographs for my research, and … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 20/04/2022
Hi everyone! I have been tremendously behind on this. I have been really bogged down with work and other things in my life right now. So, I’m going to just post the list of stories without the commentary because that’s better than not posting anything at all! I did read extensively for February 2022, and … Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from February 2022
Seems too numerically lovely a date not to have any blog post! Books I completed reading in January: A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah J Maas (23/01/2022) The Blue Salt Road – Joanne M Harris (18/01/2022) The Fifth Season — N.K Jemisin (17/01/2022) The Eye of the World — Robert Jordan (6/01/2022) Books I’m … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 02/02/2022
I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile. But it seems like whenever I did short fiction lists on twitter, I ran out of steam. I also did year end lists on the main website but those builds crashed. Twice. Ill-fated indeed. So, I’m just going to quietly do these monthly lists for as long … Continue reading Short Fiction I’ve Enjoyed from January 2022
Today’s the last day of my two-week “vacation” at home. Tomorrow, the first working day of the year (`sif I haven’t been working on work stuff at home because academic vacation, amirite) begins, and I thought I’d post in here a little earlier than I’d planned, simply because I have things to share! I’m… a … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 09/01/2022
This is probably my last post here for the year. It’s not been that great of a year for finishing the reading of novels, but I’ve achieved a lot of other stuff. Currently rereading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the course I’m running, The Wheel of Time (Eye of the World) because of … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 05/12/2021
MA/PHD dissertation chapters? Articles I’m peer-reviewing? Other articles I’m adding to my own articles? *droll look* Apart from that, I finished Brian Jacques’s Outcast of Redwall because I was co-writing an article with my PhD student and fell into a Redwall rabbit hole (ha ha). I also read a couple of extremely smutty books by … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 11/10/2021
I figured I should keep to doing this once a month. Mostly I’ve been reading and grading assignments but when I’m not doing that, I’m reading books for articles I am writing/co-writing/revising. I’ve also read some short fiction I really enjoyed, particularly in the August issue of Clarkesworld Magazine (Check out A Thousand Tiny Gods … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 13/08/2021