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Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer

November 18, 2021 by Zannah 2 Comments

Started: 11/18/21
Finished: 11/18/21

If only this were a true story! Link: https://www.tor.com/2020/04/08/little-free-library-naomi-kritzer/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, short story, source: trusted author

Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson

November 18, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/17/21
Finished: 11/18/21

What do you do when you’re about to have a baby but the zombies are attracted to the smell of blood? Isolate and hope you survive! Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/badass-moms-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, SF, short story, source: Hugo Awards, zombies

Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker

November 17, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/17/21
Finished: 11/17/21

Creepy and interesting, like many of her short stories. Link: https://www.tor.com/2020/06/17/two-truths-and-a-lie-sarah-pinsker/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, short story, source: Hugo Awards

Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell

November 17, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/17/21
Finished: 11/17/21

Aw, even haunted houses want to be loved. Cute story. Link: https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-64a-open-house-on-haunted-hill-by-john-wiswell/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, horror, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, short story, source: Hugo Awards

Metal Like Blood in the Dark by T. Kingfisher

November 17, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/17/21
Finished: 11/17/21

A retelling of Hansel and Gretel where the kids are sentient machines in space, and the witch is a larger sentient machine. Fascinatingly weird, like the author (whose Hugo winner speech was about slime molds).

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, SF, source: trusted author, space

Helicopter Story by Isabel Fall

November 17, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/16/21
Finished: 11/17/21

A really interesting take on the trans experience, using a meme to start with and providing a nuanced view of it. Not my favorite short story, but still a good one. (The internet exploded on the author, and the internet was wrong, from what I can tell.)

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, SF, short story, source: Hugo Awards

Monster by Naomi Kritzer

November 16, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/16/21
Finished: 11/16/21

Cool, calculating, GOOD. She writes GOOD stories. I haven’t read one of hers yet that I didn’t love. Here’s the link: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_20/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, SF, short story, source: Hugo Awards

The Pill by Meg Elison

November 16, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/15/21
Finished: 11/16/21

This story knocked me down. It was SO good, about a future where there’s a miracle “cure” for obesity, and it’s dark and real and really good.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, novelette, SF, source: Hugo Awards

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

November 15, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/14/21
Finished: 11/15/21

I like good stories about someone realizing they had underestimated someone, or completely misunderstood who they were in the first place. Particularly when EVERYONE was wrong. Good stuff.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, novella, source: Hugo Awards

Finna by Nino Cipri

November 14, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/12/21
Finished: 11/14/21

Maybe I just don’t like stories set in Ikea-like stores. I almost put this one down, but it’s a Hugo-nominated novella, so I powered through. And it was interesting – aftermath of a failed relationship, alternate universes – but something about the fake Ikea setting put me off. I gave up on the only other book I’ve read with a similar setting, too.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, novella, SF, source: Hugo Awards

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

November 12, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/8/21
Finished: 11/12/21

Next in the Wayward Children series, nominated for a Hugo like all the others because, well, it’s good. This wasn’t my favorite, but I’m happy to see the series move forward. I like the installments that serve as backstories to characters we’ve met, too, but knowing there’s a big picture arc is satisfying to me.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, source: trusted author, Wayward Children

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

November 7, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/28/21
Finished: 11/7/21

First in a series, YA, some of it was predictable, and some of it was very not predictable, and I liked it a lot.

The only thing I wasn’t crazy about it a thing that a lot of YA books do: the characters, teenagers all, never act like teenagers. Or, not never, but even kids faced with a ton of responsibility are still going to act like kids sometimes. I don’t think these kids did. So I was occasionally taken out of the story when I remembered that, hey, this character who said he made a super-serious decision “years ago” is only 18 right now, and then it turns out he made this super-serious decision when he was 12. Uh huh.

That aside, I really liked it, and I LOVED where it took the plot.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, King Arthur, Legendborn series, source: Tor.com

The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal

October 28, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/28/21
Finished: 10/28/21

I read this one several years ago, cried, emailed the author. I read it again, cried, almost emailed the author. Good story, and I love that she was inspired to write the Lady Astronaut series.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, Re-read, SF, short story, source: trusted author, space

A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

October 27, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/27/21
Finished: 10/27/21

Ah, laughs, action, love, all in a short story about robots. I should read short stories other than just the Hugo-nominated ones. I like them.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, robots, SF, short story, source: Hugo Awards

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

October 27, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/26/21
Gave up: 10/27/21

I really liked the short story I read of his last year set in Cairo with a possessed tram car, and there’s a whole series there I’m excited to read, so I was bummed when I couldn’t get into this one. Mashing up Jim Crow and Klansmen with Lovecraftian monsters is a brilliant idea, but I’m a little leery of Lovecraft-related stories, and this one didn’t land for me.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, gave up, Hugo nominee, Lovecraftian, novella, source: trusted author

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

October 24, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/20/21
Finished: 10/24/21

Slow start, but that’s based more on the formatting than the story/writing. It’s not .mobi, so the formatting isn’t perfect. Annoying!

SO EASY to get past the formatting after just a bit. Really good story, totally sucked me in, and I’m looking forward to the sequel.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, magic, Raybearer, source: Hugo Awards, source: Tor.com, YA

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

October 16, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/30/21
Finished: 10/16/21

New fantasy series! It took me a little bit to get into it, then I was hooked, then I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it, and then I got hooked again. I can’t say whether this was just about my frame of mind or about slow parts in the book. Could be either, but the vast majority of it had my full attention, and I’m still thinking about it, and I’m excited about the next book, which – ugh – isn’t out yet.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, library, magic, source: Tor.com, The Serpent Gates

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

September 30, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/22/21
Finished: 9/30/21

By the time I started this one, I didn’t remember anything about it except that it was highly recommended by Jo Walton, and I’m hit or miss on her recommendations. I was expecting something literary or dense, but I was pleasantly surprised to find somewhat hard SF with beautiful imagery. Totally literary, totally genre, and really good. The core story, which takes a bit to get to, is emotional and riveting. Good stuff.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, family, Hugo nominee, library, SF, source: Jo Walton, space, spaceships

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

September 19, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/9/21
Finished: 9/19/21

I LOVE Naomi Novik. There’s only one book of hers I haven’t read that’s out right now, and I haven’t read it for the same reason I haven’t read that one last book of Robin McKinley’s: I don’t want to have read everything she has written.

That said, I almost quit on A Deadly Education. Wizard school (yay!) by an author I love (double yay!), but it started out so…unpleasant. So hard to understand. So not your typical wizard school book. I didn’t quit (because Naomi Novik has earned my trust), which is great because this totally weird book turned out to be awfully wonderful and I loved it and I can’t wait for the next one.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, Hugo nominee, magic, physical, source: trusted author, The Scholomance, wizard school

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

September 9, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/6/21
Finished: 9/9/21

My biggest complaint about novellas is that I usually want more. I really enjoyed the story, but there is so much hinted at in the rest of the world here, and I want those stories, too.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: Hugo nominee, novella, physical, source: trusted author, western
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