Work is full of tangential projects – one of the Big Events is happening so all the people who are normally doing keyboard work are consigned to doing talking to people work, myself included, at weird hours and high intensity for a brief window of time.

Which means that my plans for strenuous reading goals are OUT the window – good luck if I get thru book club and some goofy fiction. Hugo books? Maybe!

What I've Read
Memory Library – Janelle Monae – Okay, turns out this rules. And, excellent book club book! The last three stories really dig into the element of surviving under oppression that is the need for time and space and hope, and how each story handles that is so different and connects so well to each other. Loved “Timebox” and absolutely was destroyed by the selfishness of one of the characters to someone she supposedly loves – center of the book.

What I'm Reading
Hunting Toward Heartstill by Blackkat -about 30% in which is, I think, where I last left it. They are bopping around a dangerous Sith planet and I find this section a little slow but maybe Anakin will experience a consequence!

Rivers of London/Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch – Audiobook is fun, good narrator. Wow, does Ben Aaronovitch hate fat people. Like, it’s a good book but just every so often he’ll just be like, Did I mention this unpleasant character’s body yet? No! Let me fix that! This is not surprising to me, honestly, I read this book before, and bounced, but! I do have a friend who adores them. And claims the fat hatred eases? So, we’ll give this a second chance.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters -Emil Ferris - A comic book I am reading so that I can read the sequel piece for the hugos. Slow going.

The Antarctica Conspiracy by Derin Edala – slightly on hold.

What I'll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
We Called Them Giants
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”

also bought some books – orb of cairado and the foz meadows novella, so stuff to look at there!