Reading Roundup Wrapup: July 2022

Pick of the month: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. This was the very last book I read for the Hugo Awards, and it was my favorite. Space aliens running a doughnut shop, demons stealing the souls of violinists! More on it tomorrow, and then next week. The Last Graduate was a very close second here.

All books read:

1. Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
2. The Glorious Dead: Collected Comic Strips from the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Scott Gray, Martin Geraghty, Adrian Salmon, Roger Langridge, et al.
3. JSA by Geoff Johns, Book Three by Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, Stephen Sadowski, Rags Morales, Peter Snejbjerg, et al.
4. Grampa In Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
5. The Future Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
6. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
7. The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by George O’Connor
8. The Last Graduate: Lesson Two of The Scholomance by Naomi Novik
9. The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
10. The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon The Mysteries Of Electricity And The Optimism Of Its Devotees. It Was Written For Boys, But Others May Read It by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Nick Bruel
11. JSA by Geoff Johns, Book Four by Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, Leonard Kirk, Keith Champagne, et al.
12. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
13. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3, Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, et al.
14. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
15. Queen Zixi of Ix; or, the Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Frederick Richardson
16. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 4, Rising Action by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
17. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 

Another good month! Again, mostly Hugo reading, but I squeezed in other stuff: from the reading list (#2), morning comics (#3, 11, 13, 16), and Oz books with my son (#4, 7, 9, 10, 15). 

All books acquired:

1. The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow, illustrated by Frank Kramer
2. The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow, illustrated by Frank Kramer
3. The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
4. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
5. The Runaway in Oz by John R. Neill, illustrated by Eric Shanower
6. The Emerald Wand of Oz by Sherwood Smith, illustrated by William Stout
7. Trouble Under Oz by Sherwood Smith, illustrated by William Stout
8. The Hungry Tiger of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
9. The Gnome King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
10. The Hidden Valley of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, illustrated by Dirk
11. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

You might notice some kind of pattern here! Indeed, of the last seventeen books I have acquired, fourteen of them have been Oz books. #3 and 8-10 were ones I picked up so my son and I could read them; #1-2 and 5-7 were birthday presents... which my son and I will eventually get to, too 

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 688 (down 1)