Merry Christmas, to those who celebrate it.
Kris Kringle: I’m stuck. I’ve been stuck for hours. I’m almost sure someone’s closed the flue on me. I can see morning light. Send help!
Jana: This week I read Laura Bickle’s Nine of Stars, a semi-weird-West-type of fantasy novel involving alchemy, shapeshifters, folklore, and winter in Yellowstone Park. Review to come shortly. I’ve also been (slowly) working on a review of an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, This Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. With twenty-one stories, spanning over a century, the range of themes and authors is quite broad. And I started Pat Frank’s classic Forbidden Area, an interesting Cold War-era novel about nuclear power and its dangers. I haven’t gotten far into it yet; the holiday season descended upon me like a flock of magpies and stole all of my free time. But I do hope everyone’s holidays are enjoyable and full of happiness!
Marion: I finished Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon, which I enjoyed completely, and now I’m about halfway through Infomocracy by Malka Older, which is brilliant. Reviews will follow.
Stuart: Since my family arrived in Hawaii I’ve been in full tourist mode and haven’t had almost any time to read, but have managed to sneak in a few stories from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (English edition 1974) and The Complete Cosmicomics (English edition 1997). Like Borges, Calvino is a fabulist who spins impossible tales with a magic realist touch, but for my money Calvino has a much more playful and entertaining approach that doesn’t require a doctorate in 19th/20th century classical literature and philosophy, so I am enjoying his stories in little bits and pieces. Should be perfect reading material when I spend Christmas Eve and Christmas on the airplane heading back to Tokyo this weekend.
Tim: This week, I listened to Brandon Sanderson‘s Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection. I quite enjoyed it, although I had read several of the included stories before.
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