I'm looking at a TBR pile that has SUnil Amrith's "The Burning Earth", Emily Hering's book on Bergson, The Balkan Kitchen by Irina Janakievska, and Chris La Tray's Becoming Little Shell.
An embarassment of riches that has me a little paralyzed with where to start ...
lol, two of the same categories I’m reading: Nestlings by Nat Cassidy, and The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer while sitting at the window that overlooks our serviceberry! 💚
Reading two! Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman and Sick Girl Screams by @sjtownend.bsky.social (which has already emotionally destroyed me after the first story, haha).
She is in my chapter of HWA. I love that she made it to the finals of the Bram Stoker awards this year. Have you read American Cannibal? It should have won. It was way better than Jordan Peel's anthology.
If you need nature horror, I’d go with Tiffany Morris’s Green Fuse Burning. But I’m currently reading The Consultant by Im Seong-sun! Just started so unsure yet 😂
Kinda both but not exactly either is Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, a novelistic exploration of the lives and work of some of the scientists and mathematicians of the 20th century whose work changed everything. Starts with the guy who invented Zyklon B. Wild stuff.
I just got a book called “rooted: life at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit.” I really love what I’ve read so far. For horror, I’m reading “Never Whistle at Night”, an Indigenous horror anthology. Can’t recommend it enough, I’m reading it slow bc I don’t want it to end!
Because I am habitually a few years behind in my reading, I'm only just now reading Arkady Martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE, which is delightful so far. I love the attention it pays to art and how people communicate.
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An embarassment of riches that has me a little paralyzed with where to start ...
What are you reading today, Wendy?
I love me some Holly Gibney.
I love his writing style, and it's obvious he's found a passionate part of the history of his world to write about.