November 2024

[muninnhuginn]

Read:

Fiction:

• The Black Loch by Peter May (K)
• Well of Darkness by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (K)
• The Green Man's War by Juliet E McKenna (K)

 

Shorts:

• ELLEN’S EULOGY by Meg Artley (https://everydayfiction.com/ellens-eulogy-meg-artley/)
• The Only Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors by Aimee Picchi (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-only-writing-advice-youll-ever-need-to-survive-eldritch-horrors/)
• Shtetl Days by Harry Turtledove (https://reactormag.com/shtetl-days/)
• “Residual Suspension; or, Life After Debt” by Jeffrey Palms (https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2024/residual-suspension-or-life-after-debt-by-jeffrey-palms/)
• The Angel Was Outside the Lunar Module Again by Aure Vives (https://crowcrosskeys.com/2024/11/30/the-angel-was-outside-the-lunar-module-again-aure-vives/)

 

Non-fiction:

• Has poppymania gone too far? by Samira Shackle (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/05/has-poppymania-gone-too-far)
• A reporter down the rabbit hole: Gabriel Gatehouse on edgelords, conspiracy theories and Trump’s America by Steve Rose (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/08/gabriel-gatehouse-coming-storm-conspiracy-theories-trump-america)
• Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test by Jon Ungoed-Thomas (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/nine-in-ten-honey-samples-from-uk-retailers-fail-authenticity-test)
• J. Lincoln Fenn on What Draws Writers to Islands (https://crimereads.com/j-lincoln-fenn-on-what-draws-writers-to-islands/?_gl=1*ey7i2p*_ga*MTMzMjYzMjI5MC4xNzMwODU4NzM2*_ga_D1BK1MK547*MTczMDg1ODczNS4xLjEuMTczMDg1ODc0Mi41My4wLjA)
• Blame the gerbils by Tom Shippey (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n21/tom-shippey/blame-the-gerbils)
• How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy by Kathleen McAuliffe (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/)
• My epic, 40-year Dungeons & Dragons odyssey by Tim Harford (https://timharford.com/2024/11/my-epic-40-year-dungeons-dragons-odyssey/)

 

Poetry:

• “After” by Sandi Leibowitz (https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/autumn-2018/after-by-sandi-leibowitz/)

Comments

[blogcutter]

I'm always interested to know what people are reading. That Peter May book is one I keep looking at in our bookshops and wondering whether to buy. He's certainly a prolific author and .I've read and enjoyed a number of his other books And that article on how your cat is making you crazy sounds intriguing as well.

[muninnhuginn]

I've only read May's "Lewis trilogy" novels, none of his other works. If you like crime fiction set on remote islands, it's not bad. I'd start at the beginning of the series tho'. I think Ann Cleeves' Shetland novels, similar setting and themes, are better written.

The cat article is somewhat scary.