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Recommended Reading List: December, 2013
I read a lot in December, too much of it forgettable. I read a Christmas novel by one of my favorite romance authors, a reissue that I had missed, and was pretty disturbed by the behavior of the male...
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Recommended Reading List: January, 2014
I started the year reading a super big book, the first in a trilogy. I couldn’t put the damn thing down—and then, suddenly, I had slowed to a crawl. I think the problem was me: the front part of the...
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Recommended Reading List: February 2014
I read 250 manuscripts by professional writers this month. All of the stories were good. Some fit anthologies better than others. We held a writing workshop where six of us edited for Fiction River....
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Recommended Reading List: March, 2014
While I was reading the Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel book listed below, I was also reading a recent issue of RT Book Reviews. I noticed something that surprised me. Almost all of the novels in their...
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Recommended Reading List: April 2014
This is late because of me, which I’ll explain in a moment, and because we’ve changed the website. (Let me know if you’re having issues or if you like the changes.) However, I was already late when the...
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Recommended Reading List: May, 2014
I finally read the New Yorker piece on Amazon that so many of you asked me about. Oh, boy. The company rag in the company town has no idea what it just did. George Packer couldn’t interview anyone from...
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Recommended Reading List: June, 2014
Wow. It took me forever to finish this list. I made a bunch of notes throughout June, but I’m deep in the Retrieval Artist, plus life was kicking me in the butt, so I didn’t have time to write...
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Recommended Reading List: November, 2014
Finished the Linda Fairstein binge. I am now caught up. Yay! The last time I did this was with Lee Child. Before that, Michael Connelly—but that was in the days before Kindle, so I had to haunt used...
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Recommended Reading List: December, 2014
Not quite as many books, articles, or stories to recommend from my December reading as I found in my November reading, but I read just as much. One of my favorite novelists disappointed me greatly with...
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Recommended Reading List: January, 2015
Wow, when I get behind, I get behind. I ran out of time to write about books as I finished them, and figured I could do it in February. Yeah, right. With two workshops, and a bunch of deadlines,...
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Recommended Reading List: February, 2015
I spent all of February reading manuscripts for the anthology workshop at the end of the month. One of the students counting up the reading and determined we all read one-million words of unpublished...
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Recommended Reading List: March, 2015
I had such hopes for March. We held the anthology workshop during the first week, so all of my reading that week was review. Afterwards, I had to line edit two volumes of Fiction River, so that took...
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Recommended Reading List: April, 2015
Nearly missed getting this up in May. What a busy spring. Unexpectedly busy. I did a lot of reading in April, even though it doesn’t look like it from the list below. Much of my reading was for the...
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Recommended Reading List: May, 2015
I started the major reading for the women in science fiction project I’m editing for Baen Books this month. Most of what I’m reading is stuff I should have read in the past. I’m also rereading stories...
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Recommended Reading List: June 2015
I’m behind in posting on my June reading. Worse, I got behind writing much of it up. So I simply put titles in my file and moved along. The problem was when I finally got to this, I couldn’t remember...
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Special Holiday Recommended Reading List 2015
I have been unable to get to the recommended reading list for the last part of 2015. I have a solution for that, which I’ll announce in the next week or so, but until then, here’s the holiday list. I...
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Recommended Reading List: November, 2017
November flew by for reasons I have yet to figure out. Almost all of my reading was wonderful, and I really had to work to find time to list everything. I started some of my holiday reading early, not...
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Recommended Reading List: December 2017
My special holiday reading continued until December 18 when, to my surprise, I found I couldn’t read yet another story about any holiday ever, thank you very much. I even switched to very bloody...
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Recommended Reading List: January, 2018
Well…I’m writing this on January 26, 2018, and at the moment of this writing, I have nothing to recommend. That’s not because I’ve had a terrible reading month. I’ve had a terrible recommending month....
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Recommended Reading List: February 2018
I’d like to say I had no time for leisure reading this month, and while that’s mostly true, it doesn’t feel true. I spent most of the month reading for the anthology workshop. 1.2 million words of...
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