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Liberty Hardy
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Raised by wolves who watched Reading Rainbow. Reader to the nth degree.📚 She/her. https://linktr.ee/LibertyHardy
I just got the e-galley and I am looking forward to it!
February 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
January 1 3— "The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson" by Sarah Monette (Katherine Addison)

The narrator's colleague is attracting unwanted attention.

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January 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
January 12 — “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson

A woman buys a traveling magic act in which monkeys climb into a bathtub and disappear, then reappear hours later, and no one knows where they go.

(Story available in AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES: STORIES bookshop.org/a/86661/9781...)
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories a book by Kij Johnson
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, ...
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January 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
January 11 — “Ascension” by Samantha Schoech

A teen girl's mercurial mother wakes up with angel wings, but it takes a lot more than that to impress a teenager.

(Story available in MY MOTHER'S BOYFRIENDS, out 1/21 bookshop.org/a/86661/9798...)

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My Mother's Boyfriends a book by Samantha Schoech
A daughter witnesses her mother grow angels' wings. A mistress begins writing letters to her lover's wife. Thanks to a genealogy test, a middle-aged woman meets a sister she's never known, and they're...
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January 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
January 10 — “A Love Story" by Samantha Hunt

New motherhood, multiple realities, and maybe a coyote.

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January 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
January 9 — “Maintenance, Hvidovre" by Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (translator)

A woman has an eerie experience at the hospital after giving birth to her third child.

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January 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
January 8 — “The Answer Is No" by Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma (translator)

Hell is other people.

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January 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
January 7 — “The Six Deaths of the Saint" by Alix E. Harrow

“Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.”

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January 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
January 6 — “The Promise of a Portal" by Debbie Urbanski

The grass is always greener on the other side of the portal.

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January 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
January 5 — “Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler

A mother meets her teen daughter's vampire boyfriend.

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January 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank you for suggesting it! I read this collection when it came out (how has it been ten years how how how) and it was fun to revisit it. \m/\m/
January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
January 4 — “Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim

"Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing / she won't let you fly but she might let you sing."

(Story available in MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS smallbeerpress.com/books/2014/0...)

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Monstrous Affections | Small Beer Press
World Fantasy Award winner
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January 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
January 3 — “U.F.O. in Kushiro” by Haruki Murakami

A man takes a trip after his wife leaves him. (*David Mills voice* "What's in the box???")

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January 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
January 2 — “Toad Words” by T. Kingfisher

'Frog in your throat,' but mean it literally.

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January 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you!
December 28, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Holy cats, what an amazing selection, thank you! I have read a couple of these, and am furiously scribbling down the rest.

Unrelated: Did you see that The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas is being reissued in March? (If I remember correctly, you are the only other fan of it that I have met.)
December 28, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Thank you. :)
December 28, 2024 at 10:49 PM
We will fend together! Also, have you read Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh? It's one of my favorite collections of the year (and so deliciously effed up.)
December 28, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Thank you!
December 28, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Coming from you, this is high praise! I can't wait to check them out. Thank you!
December 28, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Thank you!!!
December 28, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Thank you. :)
December 28, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Thank you. :)
December 28, 2024 at 10:26 PM