Skip to main content

Spring 2019 Reading Round Up


Happy Thursday!

I don't know where all of your reading adventures have taken you in the last few months, but mine  carried me in a direction I was not expecting (in the best way possible). I signed up for the Daily Science Fiction email list, which has delivered some excellent flash fiction to my inbox every week day ever since.

As is usually the case, this quarter's reading round up is not a complete list - just the highlights.

Links to the last three round ups:

  1. Summer 2018
  2. Fall 2018
  3. Winter 2018/19 


The list of books I've reviewed in the last three months includes a story with one of the best female main characters I've seen in a while (excepting for Dagger from Zombie Playlist - love you, Dagger) , military science fiction, a lot of time travel, and a dip into the alternative history genre. You can read what exactly what I thought of each of them by clicking on the review links below.


As I said above, my reading this spring took an unexpected turn towards shorter stories. Because of that, I've only gotten through one novel this spring I am willing to admit to.

After the Plague - Deirdre Gould 

After reading K.J. Chapman's novella Zombie Playlist, I've taken a bigger interest in zombie stories. When I read the description for Deirdre Gould's After the Plague, the premise immediately reeled me in. I've always had questions when it comes to the zombie apocalypse, and this book (as well as the rest of the series it comes from) looks at one of the potential outcomes.

When I say questions, I mean ones like:
  1. Does humanity come back from a zombie apocalypse? If so, then how?
  2. If the virus zombies come from was engineered by humans, how do you hold the people who created it responsible? 
  3. What if there was another, deadlier version of the virus created that promises to leave no survivors?
After the Plague and its speculation into such matters was a fun read for me because it comes at zombie stories from this angle.


My favorite reading find this quarter has to be the Daily Science Fiction website and the flash fiction stories they email (for free) every week day. This is not a full list of the stories I've read. It's just the ones that got the strongest reactions from me. 

Curious about what books have been added to my TBR list in the last three months? Here you go:
What have you been reading in the last few months? Add anything new to your to-be-read list? Have any recommendations? Let me know in the comments!
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My Writer's Toolbox: Thesauruses I Love

I don't know about the rest of you writers in the crowd, but there are times when I struggle to get the right words to come out onto the page. The debate over using thesauruses amongst authors can be fierce. My personal opinion is that there is definitely a place and time to use them (they've saved me from missing deadlines on a few occasions), so long as a writer is careful not to overuse them. Because I do consider them an essential in my writer's toolbox of resources, I thought I would share the ones I make the most use out of and where you can find them. 1. Webster's New World Thesaurus (credit: @catpollockwrites IG, posted 8/24/2017 ) When you were in grade school, did your teachers ever hand out those monthly or bimonthly Scholastic book catalogs with all the age-appropriate books coming out that they wanted you to buy? That, my friends, is how I got a hold of my thesaurus. It's almost like mid-thirties me traveled back in time and whispered int
Post a Comment
Read more

Metaphors: Candles

I've recently fallen in love with candles. Since coming home from the World Race , I've bought at least one a month. My favorite candles are the ones that come in glass jars - because when they burn out, I can clean the remaining wax out and put the jars to other uses. Right now,  that means they get cleaned out and packed away in anticipation of my move to Flagstaff. But as I was lighting one tonight (vanilla spice... Thanksgiving smells? Yes, please!), I saw a metaphor for writing flickering away in the flame licking at the wick and melting the wax. I suppose it could be a metaphor for life in general, but since the theme of this blog is writing... Well, you do the math.
Post a Comment
Read more

[Five Minute Friday] Purpose

Fiber bars, strewn along the side of the road. There had to be at least a dozen of them, still in their wrappers and completely unopened. No box in sight. Really? That's about the reaction my younger sister and I had when we stumbled on them on our early morning run. Really? along with disgusted sighs about the wastefulness of it. These were the expensive ones, not a generic store brand that kind of tastes and kind of looks the same sometimes. So, when we weren't keeping an eye out for their box, we speculated about what had happened. And wondered how many more we were going to see before the end of our run. "Maybe they took one bite and thought they were gross," my sister said. "So they threw them out because they didn't want them anymore." I let out one of those disgusted sighs and nodded along with her theory. "Yeah, or they got in a huge fight, and threw them out in a fit of rage." "That's a possibility." And
9 comments
Read more