in the past month I've read
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle (bit of a disappointment after how much I liked book 2)
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (short story collections are often a little hit or miss for me, but there were a few really good ones in here)
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (I've liked this series, though I think I would have liked it better if I didn't read the first one immediately after The Works of Vermin; I did like this one better than the first in the series)
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman (DCC is SUCH a fun junk food series and this one pretty much lived up exactly to expectations)
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (liked this one! short and evocative, the ended wasn't my favorite but really great vibes and a one-sitting read)
Neveryóna by Samuel Delany (I'm on a real Delany kick and I liked the continuous through-line here a little more than the short story format of Tales of Nevèrÿon — I'm also about to start Flight from Nevèrÿon which I've been extremely looking forward to)
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh (this one was a birthday gift from a friend and the vibes were immaculate, repressed yearning with an undercurrent of sinister mystery)
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera (loved this one though I'll have to give it another read or three before I feel like I really grasp what it's doing, I think the audiobook was a mistake because it had a great narrator but I feel like I missed a lot by listening to it on the subway)
Strange Houses by Uketsu (I hated this, what a letdown)
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (this was gorgeous, highly recommend)
and I'm currently reading
The Haar by David Sodergren (I'm not super far in but great vibes so far, and I'm listening to the audiobook which has a really good narrator)
The Clock House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (just started this this morning, looking forward to it — I loved Decagon House Murders but I found Labyrinth House Murders fucking preposterous so I'm interested to see which direction this one leans, I've been on a real Japanese locked room mystery kick over the past year or so between Ayatsuji's work and a bunch of Seishi Yokomizo's Kosuke Kindaichi novels)
up on the to-read list after this are Flight from Nevèrÿon, a book of Ursula K Le Guin essays, On the Calculation of Volume IV (finally first in line on the library holds lists lol), some Silvia Moreno Garcia, and Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake, and also my roommate and I are doing a summer-long book club of Dhalgren (again, very much on a Delany kick right now)
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