2025 Book Log

Fiction:
1. Faust, First Part, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. Wolf's Path, Joyce Chng
3. The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman
4. The Downloaded II: Ghosts In the Machine, Robert J. Sawyer
5. Who We Are In Real Life, Victoria Koops
6. Faust, Second Part, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era, Nick Mamatas (ed.)
8. School of Shards, Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko
9. Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk (ed.)
10. May Our Joy Endure, Kev Lambert
11. Demon Engine, Marten Norr
12. Slow Horses, Mick Herron
13. Together We Rise, Richie Billing
14. Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
15. The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed
16. The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui
17. Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
18. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar
19. The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo
20. The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler
21. Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell
22. The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
23. Bad Cree, Jessica Johns
24. What Feasts At Night, T. Kingfisher
25. real ones, Katherena Vermette
26. The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed
27. Withered, A.G.A. Wilmot
28. Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky
29. A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher

Non-Fiction:
1. Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption, Tucker Lieberman
2. Orwell's Roses, Rebecca Solnit
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
4. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
5. How To Write a Fantasy Battle, Suzannah Rowntree

Poetry:
1. The Book of Questions, Pablo Neruda, William O'Daly (Translator)
2. UpRising, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back (ed.)

Plays:
1. William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling, Cliff Cardinal
2. Too Good To Be True, Cliff Cardinal
3. Huff & Stitch, Cliff Cardinal
4. Cottagers and Indians, Drew Hayden Taylor

Books With Pictures In 'Em:
1. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island, Kent Monkman
2. Ghost Ghost, Crooked Little Town, and The Same Water, Richard Fairgay
3. Spotlight on Labour History, Cy Morris
4. Dakwäkãda Warriors, Cole Pauls

Short Things:
1. The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea, Naomi Kritzer

Dear Americans

Always remember that if they had the money to bomb Iran, they had the money for universal healthcare, affordable housing, USAID, even egg subsidies if y'all* were so hell-bent on cheap eggs that you'd elect a fascist.

( cut for some impolite thoughts )

* Not you, obviously. Or you wouldn't be reading my blog, which has beaten the "don't invade other countries" drum since the early 2000s when I started it.