Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner

Green Dot - Madeleine Gray had dinner with a friend halfway through reading this today and mostly what I can think is that she probably shouldn't read this, it will be too upsetting for her. funny (what a voice) but also such a slow moving tragedy.

Book of Love - Kelly Link a day of rest, mostly reading this. it makes me think of those Neil Gaiman books set in the real world but magic is real. except those are always somehow about how the magic is cooler and more meaningful than the world. about a single special kid. this is the opposite.

Faggots - Larry Kramer hey I read a book in small pieces over an extended period of time! to the end! I never do that. anyway, yes, a rich book written in and about a time and place now several layers of history removed. with a layer of satire and fantasy which if anything evokes it better.

My Usual and You - Mina V Esguerra What a sweet book! And hot, too, and what a good dynamic they have. In my headcanon they stay open, or at least that she still has the occasional hookup. Though tbh it doesn't seem completely implausible that they go unicorn hunting at some point.

There Is No Antimemetics Division - QNTM Have read the original stories, have read the self pubbed version, now read the Official non-SCP version. Still bangs! And the new version is more focused - there's a love story in there that's been excavated and polished to a high shine.

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. short and intense. The flip thing to say is, huh, yeah, I guess this is a book about the importance of safety mechanisms in larp. Good nature writing, light, heat, bodies, shame, fear.

A Theory of Haunting by Sarah Monette Read mostly at my Dad's over Christmas when I was feeling fatiguey - I was also reading Glorious Exploits but that was too strong to binge. Well done but I don't really like haunted house books, I read this because I love the Grief of Stones series so much.